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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Gable
Clark James. 2019-02-22

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Born 1988-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

Clark James Gable , also known as Clark Gable III, was an American actor, model, and television presenter. He was born in Malibu, California. Gable was a past host of the television reality show Cheaters from the 13th to the 15th seasons. His grandfather was actor Clark Gable. Gable was found dead in Dallas, Texas of an accidental fentanyl overdose, aged 30.

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Sidney
Steffi. 2010-02-22

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Born 1935-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Kidney failure

She was an American actress who later became a publicist and producer. She was best known for her role as "Mil" in the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause. Her father was Hollywood columnist and movie producer Sidney Skolsky (1905-1983).

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Rey-Debove
Josette. 2005-02-22

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Born 1929-11-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age

Josette Rey-Debove was a French lexicographer and semiologist. She was the first female lexicographer in France, and held many prominent posts in this field, where she used her influence to promote feminist changes to French language usage. Her husband, Alain Rey, was also her colleague.

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Miquel
Jean-Pierre. 2003-02-22

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Born 1937-01-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1993 to 2001.

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Santillan
Jesica. 2003-02-22

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Born 1985-12-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Operation

She was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who entered the United States to obtain medical treatment, but died after an organ transplant operation in which she received the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center failed to check the compatibility before surgery began.
Jesica, whose blood was type O-positive, had a heart condition (restrictive cardiomyopathy and secondary nonreactive pulmonary hypertension), that resulted in reduced blood perfusion in her lungs. She had been hospitalized at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.
On February 7, 2003, she received the heart and lung transplant. The new organs had been flown in from Boston. Blood test results proving that the organ blood type (type A) and Jesica's blood type (O-Positive) did not match came in just as the surgery was ending and she was given immo-suppression drugs.
Jesica, two siblings, her mother Magdelena Santillan and her mother's boyfriend Melecio Huerta illegally entered the United States from Tamazula, Mexico, a town 275 miles west of Mexico City, so that she could receive medical treatment. Relatives have stated that the family paid a smuggler to get them across the border.
On February 20, Jesica received a new heart and set of lungs after a new donor was found late on February 19, 2003. On February 21, she was declared brain dead.
Transplant surgeon Dr. James Jaggers, stated, "Unfortunately, in this case, human errors were made during the process. I hope that we, and others, can learn from this tragic mistake."
After Jesica's death, the Santillan family was approached by the hospital to determine if her salvageable organs could be donated for use in other transplant patients. On the advice of their attorneys, the family declined.

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Jones
Charles (alias: Chuck Jones). 2002-02-22

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Born 1912-09-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart

he was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew and the other Warners characters, including the memorable What's Opera, Doc?

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Warhol
Andy. 1987-02-22

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Born 1928-08-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Operation

New York des suites d'une opération

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Vetter
David (alias: Bubble Boy). 1984-02-22

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Born 1971-09-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:orphan disease

David's parents, David Joseph Vetter Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter, had one daughter, Katherine; their first son, named David Joseph Vetter III, died seven months after birth. Doctors said that the baby boy had been born with a defective thymus, a gland which is important in the functioning of the immune system, due to a genetic condition, SCID. Each further son the couple might conceive would have a 50% chance of inheriting the same condition. Three doctors from Baylor College of Medicine—John Montgomery, Mary Ann South and Raphael Wilson —told the Vetters that if they had another child with SCID, the child could be placed in a sterile isolator until a cure could be found, and the project would be funded with federal research grants.
The couple were anxious to have another child to carry on the family name. So, believing that after a short treatment their child could live a normal life, they decided to go through another pregnancy. There was no private or public discussion of what would happen if no cure was found, or how long the prospective child would remain in the bubble.
The Rev. Raymond Lawrence, the chaplain of the hospital at that time, said of the situation: "The great scandal of the Bubble Boy was that he was conceived for the bubble. The team that did this didn't think through this very well. They didn't consider what would happen if they didn't find an immediate cure. They operated on the assumption that you could live to be 80 years old in a bubble, and that would be unfortunate but okay." Lawrence says that the original three doctors encouraged David's parents to conceive David just so that they could have a test subject for their studies, a charge which is denied by the three involved doctors. Montgomery said: "I have to be honest that we never sat down and outlined this is what we will do 'if'. It was an unspoken understanding that he would match Katherine, we would transplant him, it would work, and six weeks to three months later, he would be reconstituted and come out, and we would all be joyful, and maybe famous"

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Newman
Maxwell Herman Alexander. 1984-02-22

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Born 1897-02-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine. At the age of 85, Newman began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. He died in Cambridge two years later.

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Maes
Romain. 1983-02-22

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Born 1912-08-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

He was a Belgian cyclist who won the 1935 Tour de France. He also won Paris-Roubaix, but quite bizarrely, this victory wasn't given to him by mistake.

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Léautaud
Paul. 1956-02-22

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Born 1872-01-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

His last words would have been "Et maintenant foutez moi la paix"

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Doriot
Jacques. 1945-02-22

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Born 1898-09-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

He began as a Communist but then turned Fascist.
In December of 1943, Doriot travelled to Sigmaringen, Germany, and later became a member of the exile Vichy government there. He was killed while traveling from Mainau to Sigmaringen in February of 1945 when his car was strafed by Allied fighters. He was buried in Mengen.

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Normand
Mabel. 1930-02-22

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Born 1895-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

Tuberculosis.
Director William Desmond Taylor shared her interest in books and the two formed a close friendship. He was murdered in 1922 only minutes after Normand had left his home. She was closely scrutinized by police but never considered a serious suspect. Newspapers speculated wildly about Normand given reports of her drug use along with her many past appearances in films with Roscoe Arbuckle, who had also recently become enmeshed in scandal. In 1924 she was involved in yet another scandal when her chauffeur Joe Kelly (an ex-convict whose real name was Horace Greer) shot and wounded Normand's lover Courtland Dines with her pistol.
She continued making films and was signed by Hal Roach Studios in 1926 after discussions with director/producer F. Richard Jones, who had directed her at Keystone. At Roach she made the film Raggedy Rose plus four others which were released with publicity support from the Hollywood community (including her friend Mary Pickford).
In 1926 she married actor Lew Cody with whom she had appeared in Mickey in 1918. They lived separately in nearby houses in Beverly Hills before Cody moved in with her. However, Normand's health was in decline. After an extended stay in a sanitarium she died from tuberculosis at about the age of 35 in Monrovia, California. She was interred as Mabel Normand-Cody at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles.

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de Saussure
Ferdinand. 1913-02-22

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Born 1857-11-26. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.

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