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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 1932-01-04. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Carlos Saura Atarés was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with Luis Buńuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be one of Spain's most renowned filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century. His films won many international awards. Saura died of respiratory failure in his residence of Collado Mediano at the age of 91. He was due to receive the life-achievement Goya honorary award the following day during the 37th Goya Awards.
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Born 1942-11-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and unsuccessfully ran for public office. He was paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list. Flynt disowned his eldest daughter, Tonya Flynt-Vega, after she became a Christian anti-pornography activist. In her 1998 book Hustled, she says that Flynt sexually abused her as a child, often calling her names. Flynt denied the charges, saying he passed a polygraph test and to be in possession of a tape recording of his daughter admitting she made up the accusations for money. Flynt said he had bipolar disorder. His daughter Lisa Flynt-Fugate died in a car crash in Ohio in October 2014 at the age of 47. Flynt died from heart failure in Los Angeles at the age of 78.
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Born 1940-04-17. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Claire Bretécher was a French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues. Her creations included Les Frustrés, and the unimpressed teenager Agrippine. Claire Bretécher was the widow of French constitutionalist Guy Carcassonne with whom she had a son.
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Born 1931-04-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Robert C. Hermann was an American mathematician and mathematical physicist. In the 1960s Hermann worked on elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, and published books which revealed the interconnections between vector bundles on Riemannian manifolds and gauge theory in physics, before these interconnections became "common knowledge" among physicists in the 1970s.
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Born 1957-07-06. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:COVID
Lin Zhengbin was a Chinese physician and organ transplant expert at Wuhan Tongji Hospital. Lin graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1987, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine. After graduation, he started his career at Wuhan Tongji Hospital, engaged in organ transplants for more than 30 years. He was chief physician of the Institute of Organ Transplantation of Tongji Hospital. He retired in July 2017, but was rehired by Wuhan Tongji Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Lin was infected with the coronavirus. He died on 10 February 2020 due to complications caused by the disease. Falun Gong supporters accused him of harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners.
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Born 1948-05-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French actress. Niece of actor Jean Le Poulain, she seduced Jean Marais on-screen in the film La Provocation (1969). She was famous as Sally in TV-series Sam & Sally. She was s great success during the 1970s with based-on-novel-TV-series Splendeurs et misčres des courtisanes. She made a comeback as Claude Jades lesbian love Gloria in Jean-Pierre Mocky's Bonsoir. From 2005, she played in TV-series Plus belle la vie.
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Born 1928-04-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and one-time U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States, 1976–1977.
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Born 1984-11-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American freestyle motocross racer from San Diego, California.
On February 7, 2009, Lusk crashed while attempting to land a "Hart Attack indian air backflip" in a freestyle motocross competition in San Jose, Costa Rica. Lusk under-rotated the flip, causing his front wheel to strike the landing and eject Lusk head first off the bike. He sustained head injuries, severe brain damage and a possible spinal cord injury. On February 10, 2009, he entered into cardiac and respiratory failure at Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Hospital in San José, Costa Rica.
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Born 1932-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
In 2004, Scheider was diagnosed with myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. In June 2005, he underwent a bone marrow transplant to successfully treat the cancer which was classified as being in partial remission.
Scheider died in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital. Though a cause of death was not immediately released, Scheider's wife attributed her husband's death to an immunitary cancer staph infection.
Scheider's first film role was in the 1963 horror film Curse of the Living Corpse. (He was billed as "Roy R. Sheider"). In 1971, he appeared in two highly popular movies, Klute and The French Connection, the latter garnering him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Four years later he portrayed Chief Martin Brody in the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws which also starred Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfus. Scheider's famous movie line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat", was voted 35th on American Film Institute's list of best quotes for movies. In 1976, he starred as Doc, a secret agent in Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier.
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Born 1980-03-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
A week before her 27th birthday, she decided to kill herself by hang on a rope in her friend’s apartment and she was found in January 10th 2007 morning. Many media told that she did it because she was depressed.
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Born 1915-10-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
In December 2004, the 89-year-old Miller announced that he has been living with a 34-year-old artist Agnes Barley at his Connecticut farm since 2002, and that they intended to marry. Miller's final play, Finishing the Picture, opened at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, in the fall of 2004. He stated that the work was based on the experience of filming The Misfits.
Miller died at his home in Roxbury of congestive heart failure (the 56th anniversary of the Broadway debut of Death of a Salesman) at the age of 89, surrounded by his family.
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Born 1954-08-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Suicide
Humbert Jean René Balsan was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was known for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films. In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the offices of his production company, Ognon Pictures, in Paris. He was known to have suffered from depression, and killed himself by hanging.
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Born 1925-04-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Long illness.
On se calme et on boit frais ŕ Saint-Tropez (1987)
Deux enfoirés ŕ Saint-Tropez (1986)
Brigade des mśurs (1985)
Les Branchés ŕ Saint-Tropez (1983)
On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge (1982)
Belles, blondes et bronzées (1981)
Mieux vaut ętre riche et bien portant que fauché et mal foutu (1980)
La peur et l'amour (1966)
Douce violence (1962)
De quoi tu te męles Daniela ? (1961)
Le Cercle vicieux (1960)
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Born 1958-03-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Hennig was an American professional wrestler who performed for the American Wrestling Association, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment.
He was found dead in a Florida hotel room. He was 44 years old. The Tampa Coroner's office and the Tampa Medical Examiner's office declared an acute cocaine intoxication as the official cause of his death. His father said that steroids and painkillers also contributed to his death.
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Born 1919-08-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Les compagnons de la chanson.
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Born 1827-04-05. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds.
Lister retired from practice after his wife, who had long helped him in research, died in 1893 in Italy, during one of the few holidays they allowed themselves. Studying and writing lost appeal for him and he sank into religious melancholy. Despite suffering a stroke, he still came into the public light from time to time. Edward VII came down with appendicitis two days before his coronation. The surgeons did not dare operate without consulting Britain's leading surgical authority. The king later told Lister "I know that if it had not been for you and your work, I wouldn't be sitting here today".
Listeria was name after him.