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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1925-04-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu) was an American character actor. Kirby had several roles in the long-running series Columbo, most notably as the gullible Sergeant Kramer in six episodes. One of his sons, Bruno Kirby (1949–2006), was also an actor. His other son, John Kirby, is an acting coach. Kirby died at age 95 in Los Angeles.
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Born 1971-04-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Edwin Straver was a Dutch motorcycle racer. Straver was particularly known for his participation in the Dakar Rally. He participated in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2019 he won the classification in the class in which the driver himself must do all the maintenance on the engine; the so-called "Original by Motul". On 16 January, during the eleventh stage of the Dakar 2020 rally in Saudi Arabia, Straver crashed his motorcycle. He was resuscitated on site and then taken to a hospital in Riyadh. It was found here that one of his upper cervical vertebrae was broken. On 22 January, he was transferred to the Netherlands, where he died two days later. He was the son of five-time Dutch road racing champion for motorcycles Anton Straver.
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Born 1930-03-30. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Guy-Clément Cogné is the father of Guy-Michel Cogné (1954-2018) who had taken over his father. He is also the father of Michel Cogné (born in 1957), immunologist and a professor at the University of Limoges.
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Born 1927-05-20. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He created and had been animating the pop club on france inter for more than 40 years. He was also an actor, and had a minor role in Z, a film by Costa-Gavras.
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Born 1935-04-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, several hours after being involved in an accident while shooting his latest film in Athens. The respected filmmaker had been with his crew in the area of Drapetsona, near Piraeus when he was hit by a motorcycle, driven by a special guard of greek police, on Tuesday evening. The accident occurred when Angelopoulos, 76, attempted to cross a busy road. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later.
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Born 1938-02-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 100 television, film and stage roles, among them The Final Countdown, Jesus of Nazareth, and Dynasty. Farentino was arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 23, 1991, after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intercepted a package containing 3.2 grams of cocaine being sent to his hotel room. Farentino was in town filming the TV movie, "Miles From Nowhere". He was charged with cocaine possession and released on bail. Farentino died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a long illness.
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Born 1947-12-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
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Born 1905-03-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
She was a French actress.
She was born in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy. Along with Doris Eaton Travis, Miriam Seegar, Dorothy Janis and Barbara Kent, she was one of the last living silent film actors who had lead roles as an adult. She made her film debut in 1924 with a small role in Raymond Bernard's historical epic Le Miracle des Loups under the stage name "Arlette Genny", which she used until 1927.
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Born 1928-10-31. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Soigné pour un cancer du poumon, il avait traversé l'Atlantique à bord d'un catamaran en 1995, trois mois après un triple pontage coronarien. Il avait également subi en 1997 trois endoprothèses de l'aorte. Homme de droite, Jean-François Deniau était parallèlement chroniqueur au Figaro et éditorialiste à l'Express.
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Born 1965-10-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
In Robert Altman’s ensemble film Short Cuts, Penn played a troubled pool cleaner who is disturbed by his wife’s profession; she is a telephone sex worker who takes calls from clients at home, to which Penn’s character is obliged to listen. The dramatic ending of the film features the climactic response of Penn’s character to this pent-up sexual frustration and feeling of powerlessness.
Penn was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium. Although Penn had used multiple drugs in the past, an autopsy performed by a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner revealed the primary cause of death was "nonspecific cardiomyopathy" (heart disease), with the prescription drug promethazine with codeine and an enlarged heart. Trace amounts of marijuana and cocaine were found in his body. Sean Penn has said that his brother's death was brought on primarily by his weight.
There is conflicting information about Chris Penn’s age at the time of death, with some obituaries giving 1962 as his year of birth. His birthdate has been officially substantiated as October 1965, which would mean he was 40. His mother also gives his date of birth as October 10, 1965, in the book Sean Penn: His Life and Times by Richard T. Kelly (2004).
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Born 1985-12-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Banaz Mahmod (Kurdish: باناز ماهمۆد) was a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman who lived in Mitcham, South London, England. She was murdered on the orders of her family in a so-called honour killing because she ended a violent and abusive forced marriage and started a relationship with someone of her own choosing. Her father, uncle and three cousins were later convicted of her murder. On the morning of 24 January 2006, Banaz's parents left the family home to take their youngest daughter to school and go shopping, leaving Banaz asleep in the lounge. Mohamad Marid Hama, Mohammed Saleh Ali and Omar Hussain arrived at the property shortly thereafter; according to the covert recordings of Hama, made while he was on remand, the trio subjected Banaz to more than two hours of rape and torture before she was strangled with a ligature. Banaz's body was put in a suitcase, transported to a house in Handsworth, West Midlands and buried in the garden.
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Born 1921-03-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
Better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research.
Agnelli stepped down in 1996, but stayed on as honorary chairman until his death. Giovanni Alberto Giovannino Agnelli , the son of Gianni's younger brother, Umberto Agnelli, died of a rare form of cancer in 1997 at age 33 while he was being groomed by his uncle to head the Fiat Group.
Fiat-owned Scuderia Ferrari named their 2003 F1 contender the F2003-GA, in tribute to Agnelli.
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Born 1895-07-13. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Trygve Nagell was a Norwegian mathematician, known for his works on the Diophantine equations within number theory.
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Born 1923-08-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
He was a French writer. He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1973.
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Born 1901-01-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lee Parry (born Mathilde Charlotte Benz) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 48 films between 1919 and 1939.
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Born 1861-09-08. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich, and Exeter College, Oxford. He devoted essentially his whole working life to the four colour theorem and in 1890 he exposed a flaw in Alfred Kempe's proof, that had been considered as valid for 11 years. With the four colour theorem being open again he established the five colour theorem instead. The four colour theorem itself was finally established by a computer-based proof in 1976. Durham University awards an annual Heawood Prize to a student graduating in Mathematics whose performance is outstanding in the final year.
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Born 1884-07-12. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Other
He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis—exacerbated by poverty, overworking, and an excessive use of alcohol and narcotics.