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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1924-12-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Cicely Tyson was an American actress and fashion model. In a career spanning more than seven decades, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson was the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, one Tony Award, an honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award. Tyson first dated jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in the 1960s when he was in the process of divorcing dancer Frances Davis. Davis used a photo of Tyson for his 1967 album, Sorcerer. Davis told the press in 1967 that he intended to marry Tyson in March 1968 after his divorce was finalized, but he married singer Betty Davis that September. Tyson and Davis rekindled their relationship in 1978. They were married on November 26, 1981, in a ceremony conducted by Atlanta mayor Andrew Young at the home of actor Bill Cosby. Their marriage was tumultuous due to Davis' volatile temper and infidelity. Davis credited Tyson with saving his life and helping him overcome his cocaine addiction. They resided in Malibu, California, and New York City, until she filed for divorce in 1988. Their divorce was finalized in 1989, two years before Davis died in 1991.
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Born 1936-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Dyanne Thorne was an American pornographic actress, stage performer and vocalist. She was known for her stage work in Las Vegas and as the lead actress in the Ilsa film franchise which began with Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975).
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Born 1924-01-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Muhammadu Bello Abubahkar Masaba Bida also known as Mohammed Bello Abubakar was born in Nigeria. Masaba is known for having stirred up controversy in his hometown Bida, Niger State due to his extensive polygamy, and for being outspoken, he was uncharged under Sharia law and sent to prison in 2008 for refusing to divorce 82 of his wives. Islam limits the number of wives a Muslim man can have to four, mandating they must be all treated equally. He married 120 wives, divorced 10, and fathered 203 children. At the time of his death in 2017, some of his wives were believed to be pregnant.
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Born 1944-02-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a British musician and keyboardist, and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, until 2004. Nicholls also played in the NWOBHM band Quartz before joining Black Sabbath. In the 1960s/early 1970s, Geoff played lead guitar for the Birmingham bands The Boll Weevils, The Seed, Johnny Neal and the Starliners, and played keyboards for World of Oz.
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Born 1941-09-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
She was an American singer who was one of the founding members of the American rock band Jefferson Airplane. Signe is to be pronounced : /ˈsɪɡni/ SIG-nee. Soon after joining the Airplane, she married one of the Merry Pranksters, Jerry Anderson, a marriage that lasted from 1965 to 1974. She sang on the first Jefferson Airplane album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, most notably on the song "Chauffeur Blues". Anderson died at her home in Beaverton, Oregon from the effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Born 1979-09-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Karen Cromie sustained fatal injuries after falling onto the main Bangor to Belfast road – the same spot where two weeks earlier she had threatened to take her life. The 31-year-old, from Ballinamallard, was a talented rower who was set to compete in the London Games next year. Moving tributes were paid to Ms Cromie. It is understood she became depressed after losing the use of her legs after a fall while at university in Edinburgh several years ago. Police were called to the Holywood Exchange flyover in the morning after reports she was in distress. They closed the road and drafted in a trained negotiator, but it was too late. She died near the Decathlon sports store which had recently selected her for sponsorship as part of its ‘dedicated athlete’ programme. Two weeks earlier she was involved in a similar incident, when emergency services spent eight hours persuading her not to jump off the same flyover. Questions are now being asked over whether Ms Cromie received adequate mental health care. Born in Banbridge, she played wheelchair basketball and was a member of the GB Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team. After being introduced to rowing, Ms Cromie participated in the world championships in 2007, where she and crewmate James Roberts qualified for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, where she was part of the mixed adaptive double scull which finished fifth.
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Born 1952-06-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Billy Powell was the longtime keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1970 until his death.
The keyboardist died at the age of 56 at his home in Orange Park, Florida. Powell called 911 at 12:55 a.m., complaining of shortness of breath. He missed his appointment with the doctor on the day before his death; the appointment was for a checkup on his heart. The EMS responders found Powell unconscious and unresponsive, with the telephone still in his hand. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 am.
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Born 1939-05-19. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American astronaut who died commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission.
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Born 1945-04-30. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American astronaut, pilot of the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was destroyed during the STS-51-L mission.
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Born 1949-04-05. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American astronaut who died at the age of 36 in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during the launch of the mission STS-51-L.
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Born 1946-06-24. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Japanese-American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawai'i who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, where he was serving as mission specialist on mission STS-51-L.
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Born 1950-10-21. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American physicist and a NASA astronaut. McNair perished during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.
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Born 1944-08-24. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American astronaut who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist.
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Born 1948-09-02. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (STS-51-L).
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Born 1904-12-10. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Antonín Josef Novotný was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968. In 1971, during the period of normalization (Czechoslovakia) , he was reelected to the Central Committee. However, his political influence was minimal and he was too ill to be a strong force in the Gustáv Husák administration.
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Born 1896-04-07. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart
He was an English pediatrician, psychiatrist, sociologist and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory.
Winnicott died in 1971 following the last of a series of heart attacks and was cremated in London.