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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 1993-09-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Braian Ezequiel Toledo was an Argentine javelin thrower who improved the World Youth Best in boys' javelin throw by more than six metres. Toledo died in a motorcycle accident.
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Born 1963-10-18. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
French imitator
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Born 1995-02-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African American male who was unarmed; George Zimmerman is a 28-year-old Hispanic American, who at the time of the shooting was a community watch coordinator. Martin was walking back to a home in a gated community where he was staying when Zimmerman began following him, while contacting the Sanford Police Department to report Martin's behavior as suspicious. Soon afterward, there was a confrontation that ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin.
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Born 1898-10-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Il est le dernier poilu du Loiret.
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Born 1904-11-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jean Coulomb was a French geophysicist and mathematician, and one of the early members of the Bourbaki group of mathematicians.
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Born 1929-12-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He is perhaps best remembered for his role as detective John Bosley on the television series Charlie's Angels, for which reason he is occasionally mixed up with TV actor Tom Bosley.
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Born 1911-01-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
After a stroke in 1980, he had to leave the trumpet, but he continued performing on other instruments for the remainder of his life.
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Born 1903-05-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
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Born 1882-08-08. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Born Władysław Starewicz, he was a Polish, Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.)
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Born 1873-02-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Peritonitis. He had to get a complete rest during the entire year preceding his death, in 1924, due to heart problems.
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Born 1874-06-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He was a French lawyer, journalist, writer and organizer of motor races. He is mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Marcel Allain of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas.
Souvestre died of a congestion of the lungs. After his death, Allain continued the Fantômas saga alone.
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Born 1858-11-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Unknown
Emmanuel Poiré, the grandson of a Napoleontine officer stationed in Russia, was born in Moscow. In 1877, he moved to France and became a military officer. He published his first drawings in Le Chronique Parisienne in 1880, specializing in military caricatures. He used the pseudonym Caran d'Ache, which is the Russian word for a pencil.
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Born 1818-09-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
he was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, the first successful machine gun.
While in New York City to visit his daughter and to talk with his patent agency, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling died at his daughter's home