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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 1957-10-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
Jeanne Colette Dubin (née Evert) was an American professional tennis player and the younger sister of Chris Evert. She was ranked as high as 28th by the WTA in 1978 and ninth within the United States in 1974. She reached the third round of the U.S. Open in 1973 and 1978. She won all four of her Fed Cup matches for the U.S. in 1974. Evert retired in 1978, and in later years, was a coach at the Delray Beach Tennis Center. Evert died from ovarian cancer. She was 62.
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Born 1963-04-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was suspected of the murder of Géraldine Giraud and Katia Lherbier. He committed suicide by hanging in his cell in Fleury-Merogis, 3 months before the beginning of his trial.
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Born 1942-04-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Born Alexandria Cymboliak Zuck to John and Mary (née Cymboliak) in Bayonne, New Jersey, who later divorced. Her mother was of Rusyn ancestry. Abbreviated as "Sandra", she became a professional model by the age of four and subsequently progressed to television commercials.
Sandra Dee made her first film, Until They Sail, in 1957. There was some confusion as to her actual birth year, with evidence pointing to both 1942 and 1944, however Intelius indicates 1942.
Dee's adult years were marked by ill health. She admitted that for most of her life she battled anorexia nervosa, depression and alcoholism. In 2000, it was reported that she had been diagnosed with a myriad ailments, including throat cancer and renal disease. It was later learned that the former (the cancer scare) was unfounded, but the latter (renal or kidney disease) was indeed true. Complications of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), combined with pneumonia, led to her death at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Born 1937-07-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary (1998, written in the early 1960s), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973). He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is known also for his lifelong use of alcohol, LSD, mescaline, and cocaine (among other substances); his love of firearms; his inveterate hatred of Richard Nixon; and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism. While suffering a bout of health problems, he committed suicide in 2005 at the age of 67.
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Born 1907-09-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was born in Quain (Saône-et-Loire).
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Born 1916-04-28. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Ferrari insulted Lamborghini, effectively stating that a tractor manufacturer was not qualified to criticize Ferraris. Affronted by Ferrari's reaction, Lamborghini decided to "build better cars than Ferrari" and to prove that supercars did not have to be as temperamental as Ferraris. In order to achieve his goal, he founded his own rival sports car manufacturer near the Ferrari factory, and hired ex-Ferrari engineers Gianpaolo Dallara and Bob Wallace to design and develop the cars.
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Born 1928-09-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
York spent his final years battling emphysema.
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Born 1944-07-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
She participated in the Eurovision 1972 with "Comé Comédie". She was also the voice of Edith Piaf in Edith et Marcel from Lelouch.
Defenestration.
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Born 1887-10-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a French jurist and judge. A French soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the Union Federale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. That same year, he was also awarded one of the UN's own Human Rights Prizes.
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Born 1903-09-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bourvil's cousin.
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Born 1880-09-06. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
Jules Durand died at the asylum in Sotteville-lčs-Rouen. He was a French libertarian trade unionist victim in 1910 of a serious miscarriage of justice, sometimes called the "Dreyfus affair of workers' world ”or the“ poor man's Dreyfus affair ”. Anarchist and revolutionary syndicalist, secretary of the charcoal workers union (who unload and bag the coal arriving by boat), in 1910 he was at the port of Le Havre, one of the main organizers of an indefinite strike against the extension of machinery. Following a plot, he was accused of being the "moral responsible" for the assassination of a non-striking team leader, who was actually killed during a brawl between drunkards. He was sentenced to death but thanks to a major mobilization, this sentence was commuted to seven years of imprisonment. Partially pardoned and released in February 1911, he was totally exonerated in 1918. But, broken by this affair, he died in February 1926 in a psychiatric asylum. his name was given to a boulevard in Le Havre in 1956.