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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 1961-11-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. (/ˈsaɪzmɔːr/) was an American actor. He is known for his supporting roles in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Passenger 57 (1992), True Romance (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Strange Days (1995), Heat (1995), The Relic (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Black Hawk Down (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the revival series of Twin Peaks (2017). He is also known for voicing Sonny Forelli in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). On February 18, 2023, Sizemore suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm at his Los Angeles home and was hospitalized at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in critical condition. Charles Lago, his representative, issued a statement on February 27 that doctors had determined there was "no further hope and have recommended end-of-life decision" to Sizemore's family. Sizemore died at the age of 61.
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Born 1979-04-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French directeur sportif and professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Auch, France. He missed much of the 2009 season because of problems with cardiac arrhythmia and retired as a professional cyclist following the 2010 season. He stayed with his final professional team, Team Sky, as a manager from the 2011 season. Following the retirement of Sean Yates, Portal was appointed lead directeur sportif of Team Sky for 2013. He died of a heart attack.
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Born 1945-01-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Frank Doubleday was an American actor whose most notable roles are as film villains. Doubleday was born in Norwich, Connecticut, but moved to Los Angeles with his family as a child. Doubleday is known for such films as John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) playing the character Romero. In the special edition Escape from New York DVD commentary, Kurt Russell credits Doubleday's performance as setting the tone of the movie. He made his film debut in The First Nudie Musical (1976), and his other film credits include roles in Alex & the Gypsy (1976), The Big Fix (1978), Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979), Avenging Angel (1985), Nomads (1986), Broadcast News (1987), L.A. Bounty (1989) and Dollman (1991). Doubleday also acted and directed theater productions. Doubleday taught acting at the Hollywood Court Theater. He was married to actress Christina Hart for over 40 years. The couple have two daughters, Kaitlin Doubleday and Portia Doubleday. Doubleday died of complications from esophageal cancer at age 73 at his Los Angeles home on March 3, 2018.
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Born 1929-12-28. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Robert Scheerer was an American film and television director, actor, and producer. Scheerer was born in Santa Barbara, California. Scheerer's more notable work includes directing Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He has received three Emmy Award nominations for directing Fame.
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Born 1931-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French footballer, integral to the French national team of the 1950s. At club level he was part of the legendary Real Madrid team of the 1950s, winning three European Cups.
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Born 1992-10-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French cyclist. He died on the road, struck by a truck.
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Born 1968-11-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a Japanese professional wrestler, stage actor, musician and professional wrestling promoter, better known under the ring name Hayabusa. Ezaki died of a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was found when the owner of a nearby tavern, with whom he was scheduled to meet concerning a March 7 event, went to his home after Ezaki failed to arrive for their planned meeting.
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Born 1929-06-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award. McQuarrie died aged 82, in his Berkeley, California home, from complications of Parkinson’s disease.
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Born 1926-03-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
The second son of Sir Charles Chaplin and his second wife, actress Lita Grey, Sydney Chaplain was named for his uncle Sydney Chaplin (1885–1965).
He was an award winning film and theatre actor.
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Born 1920-01-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian cartoonist. His most famous work is his series of short animated cartoons, La Linea ("The Line"). Cavandoli was born in Maderno on the shores of Lake Garda and his family moved to Milan when he was two years old (later becoming an honorary citizen of that city). From 1936 to 1940 he worked as a technical designer for Alfa Romeo. When he developed his interest in cartoons in 1943, he started working with Nino Pagot, who later created Calimero. In 1950 he started working independently as a director and a producer.
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Born 1958-02-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
The daughter of comic actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide Efantis.
Adams is well-known to fans of Star Trek for portraying Ishka (also known as "Moogie"), mother of the Ferengi brothers Rom and Quark.
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Born 1933-12-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He played Chico,in the magnificent seven.
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Born 1909-03-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Pseudo : Frank Harding, Leo Latimer, Lionel Doucet, Omer Refreger, Louis Refreger
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Born 1906-08-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart attack
Inventor of the polio vaccination
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Born 1970-09-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was a supporter of Liverpool football club injured in the Hillsborough disaster (15 April 1989). He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state whereby the hospital, with the support of his parents, applied for a court order allowing him to 'die with dignity'. As a result he became the first patient in English legal history to be allowed to die by the courts through the withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment
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Born 1941-03-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Born in Frugarolo, Piedmont, she participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974 and finishing her career with half a point. She is the only female Formula One driver in history to have a top six finish in a World Championship race, which she did at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix (Half points were awarded for this race due to a shortened race distance, hence Lombardi received half a point instead of the usual one point). As well as being the sole female driver to score points in Formula One (and the only driver with a career total of half a point), she is one of two who qualified for a Formula One race (the other being compatriot Maria Teresa de Filippis).
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Born 1913-01-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Kaye died in 1987 from a heart attack, following a bout of hepatitis.
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Born 1907-05-22. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
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Born 1905-09-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
In 1983, suffering from Parkinson's disease and leukemia, Koestler committed joint suicide with his third wife Cynthia by taking an overdose of drugs. He had long been an advocate of voluntary euthanasia, and in 1981 had become vice-president of EXIT (now the United Kingdom's Voluntary Euthanasia Society).
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Born 1936-03-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
A Void or in French La Disparition (literally, "The Disappearance") is a 300 page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. Its translation into English by Gilbert Adair is entitled A Void.
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Born 1906-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a French middle-distance runner. He became a running star as the sport enjoyed a huge resurgence at the start of the Great Depression, fueled in large part by newsreel coverage. But his career was abruptly cut short when he was banned for life from track for payments he received for several races.
A few days before his birth, his father died on the docks, crushed by wooden blocks, as he was trying to rescue collegues of him.
2 weeks after his birth, his mother died while saving him from their burning house.
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Born 1917-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. As the nagging and nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner (George Tobias), provided a common thread through many of the series' early episodes.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the Bewitched began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season of Bewitched at the age of 48. Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 until the end of the series by actress Sandra Gould.
Alice Pearce was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.
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Born 1906-03-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In 1942, Costello had an attack of rheumatic fever and was unable to work for a year. A tragic event shadowed his comeback. On November 4, 1943, the day Costello returned to the team's popular radio show, his infant son, Lou Jr. (nicknamed Butch) accidentally drowned in the family pool. The baby was only a few days short of his first birthday. Lou had asked his wife to keep Butch up that night so the boy could hear his Dad on the radio for the first time. Rather than cancel the broadcast, Lou said, "Wherever he is tonight, I want him to hear me," and went on with the show. No one in the audience knew of the death until after the show when Bud Abbott explained the events of the day, and how the phrase "The show must go on" had been epitomized by Lou that night.
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Born 1927-08-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
She died in a plane crash (Paris-Nice) alongside actress Michèle Verly and dancer Harriet Toby.
She was the sister of actor Jean Topart.