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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
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Born 1948-04-18. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Yasumasa Kanada was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of π. He set the record 11 of the past 21 times. Kanada was a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan until 2015. From 2002 until 2009, Kanada held the world record calculating the number of digits in the decimal expansion of pi – exactly 1.2411 trillion digits. The calculation took more than 600 hours on 64 nodes of a HITACHI SR8000/MPP supercomputer. Some of his competitors in recent years include Jonathan and Peter Borwein and the Chudnovsky brothers.
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Born 1925-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the 1989–2006 TV police drama, Navarro.
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Born 1963-08-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
She was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. On the Thursday before her death, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times reported that Houston was reeking of alcohol and looked very bloated and disheveled, wearing mismatched clothing with her hair dripping of either water or sweat.
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Born 1969-03-17. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an English fashion designer.
On 3 February 2010, he wrote on his Twitter page that his mother had passed away the day before, adding: "RIP mumxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx." Four days later he wrote that he had had an "awful week" but said "friends have been great", adding: "now i have to some how pull myself together".
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Born 1923-05-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Renaudot in 1996 for "Un silence d'environ une demi-heure".
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Born 1914-10-21. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Other
He was an inventor best known for his development of the crash test dummy, a device which, during the last half of the twentieth century, was widely used by automobile manufacturers to test the reliability of automobile seat belts and other safety protocols.
Alderson died at his home in Marina Del Rey, California, due to complications from myelofibrosis.
Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia, also known as agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, and primary myelofibrosis, was first described in 1879 and is currently classified as a myeloproliferative disease caused by the growth and proliferation of an abnormal bone marrow stem cell, resulting in the replacement of the bone marrow with fibrous connective tissue. An eponym for the disease is Heuck-Assmann disease, or Assmann's Disease.
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Born 1941-04-07. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1927-08-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British actor who played numerous film roles and gained acclaim as the TV detective in the five-series-long ITV program Van der Valk that spanned 20 years.
He played the necktie murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
Some obituaries (e.g. BBC Online) incorrectly stated his year of birth as 1931, the British Film Institute website provides definitive year of birth as 1927, based on a check of the birth and marriage certificates held at the Family Records Centre, London.
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Born 1928-01-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Vadim died at age 72 of lymphoma.
Roger Vadim was celebrated for his romances/marriages to such beautiful women as actresses Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda. He also lived with Catherine Deneuve, with whom he had a child Christian Vadim, prior to his marriage to Fonda. The transsexual Warhol Superstar Candy Darling wrote of an alleged affair with Vadim in her diaries, My Face for the World to See. She claims that the relationship took place during his marriage to Jane Fonda. In addition to his theater and movie work, he wrote several books including his autobiography D'une étoile à l'autre (From One Star to the Next).
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Born 1920-09-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
He was Cannon, which ran from 1971-76.
Conrad died from congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, California.
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Born 1930-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He is best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
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Born 1920-10-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
1984 was a tumultuous year in Herbert's life. In the same year that his wife died, his career took off with the release of David Lynch's film version of Dune. Despite high expectations, a big-budget production design and an A-list cast, the movie drew mostly poor reviews in the United States. However, despite a disappointing response in the USA, the film was a critical and commercial success in Europe and Japan. After Beverly's death, Herbert married Theresa Shackleford in 1985, the year he published Chapterhouse Dune, which tied up many of the saga's story threads (though ending on a cliffhanger intended to lead into his planned Dune 7). This would be Herbert's final single work (the anthology Eye was also published that year, and Man of Two Worlds was published in 1986). He died of a massive pulmonary embolism while recovering from surgery from pancreatic cancer.
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Born 1898-03-13. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Henry Hathaway made his 65th and last film in 1974. He died from a heart attack in 1985 in Hollywood and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Born 1912-11-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was well-received in her first starring role in 1935's Broadway Melody of 1936 (in which she was supported by Jack Benny and Frances Langford), and delighted 1930s audiences with her endless energy and enthusiasm, not to mention her stunning dancing. According to dancer Ann Miller, quoted in the "making-of" documentary about That's Entertainment! III, MGM was headed for bankruptcy in the late 1930s, but the films of Eleanor Powell, particularly Broadway Melody of 1936 were so popular they made the company profitable again.
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Born 1911-12-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In twelve angry men:
The jury consists of the following (identified only by numbers, all are white men):
The Foreman (Juror #1, played by Martin Balsam)
Juror #2 (John Fiedler)
Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb): He owns a small messenger service. He's a short-tempered, highly sarcastic man with a sense of misplaced anger, wanting to convict the defendant for personal reasons, owing mostly to anger over his estranged son. His true colors ultimately emerge when he becomes the last holdout for conviction, referring to the rest of the jurors as a "lousy bunch of bleedin' hearts" during his angry tirade.
Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall)
Juror #5 (Jack Klugman is the only survivor at this time - 2007-03-16)
Juror #6 (Edward Binns)
Juror #7 (Jack Warden)
Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney)
Juror #10 (Ed Begley)
Juror #11 (George Voskovec)
Juror #12 (Robert Webber)
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Born 1888-12-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
In 1920 he married Nicole Cervi, with whom he had three children. In 1923 they moved into a studio at 16 rue des Volontaires (Paris, 15th arrondissement) where he remained until his death.
He died while sculpting something in his studio.
1931 - War Monument for the RATP, Richelieu - Drouot (Paris Metro).
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Born 1911-04-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jean Clarieux was a French film and television actor. Generally a supporting actor appearing in smaller parts, he played a more substantial role in René Clément's 1946 resistance film The Battle of the Rails. He specialized in dubbing voices such as Antony Quinn. He was also the voice oc captain Haddock in several cartoons.
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Born 1932-10-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Sylvia Plath took her own life on the morning of February 11, 1963. She left out bread and milk and completely sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with "wet towels and cloths." Plath then placed her head in the oven in her kitchen while the gas was turned on.
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Born 1879-01-01. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Welsh neurologist, psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud’s official biographer. As the first English-language practitioner of psychoanalysis and as President of both of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised unmatched influence in the establishment of its organisations, institutions and publications in the English-speaking world.
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Born 1926-06-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was the only pied noir among the 198 supporters of the FLN who were executed (as opposed to being killed in battle) during the war in Algeria. He was guillotined in the yard of Barberousse prison in Algiers on 11 February 1957.
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Born 1898-06-30. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
He was made CEO of Renault on March 7, 1945, after having been provisory administrator from the end of war. He was accidentally killed in a car crash, en route to Strasbourg in his Fregate.
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Born 1901-01-28. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Operation
He was a prominent person in political action and served as Minister of labor. He died after undergoing a big operation a few months after his son killed in an accident.
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Born 1898-01-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Eisenstein suffered a hemorrhage and died at the age of 50. An unconfirmed legend in film history states that Russian scientists preserved his brain and it supposedly was much larger than a normal human brain, which the scientists took as a sign of genius. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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Born 1889-03-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
In 1918, he was elected general secretary of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) socialist party. Frossard took a trip to Bolshevist Russia in 1920 and became a supporter of Leninism, campaigning for his party to join the Comintern. The Leninists inside the PSU led to the party's split at the December 25 Congress of Tours. Frossard became general secretary of the new French Communist Party (PCF), while Léon Blum led the SFIO. Nonetheless, Frossard soon became disenchanted with the PCF's rejection of pluralism - he resigned on January 1, 1923, and joined the SFIO himself.
Frossard was made Minister of Public Works and Transmissions in the First Government of Philippe Pétain, created after the Battle of France and the beginning of the Nazi German occupation of France. After the signing of the armistice, he refused to be part of any Vichy France executive, but worked as a journalist. Suspicion of collaboration with the enemy led to an enquiry into his activities at the end of World War II, but his name was soon cleared.