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Einstein Albert (b. 1879-04-14 / d. 1955-04-18)
He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.
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Born 1959-03-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Patrick Dupond was a French dancer.
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Born 1937-06-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French comic book artist. He is best known for creating Rahan in 1969 alongside Roger Lécureux. Chéret published his first comic book, Paulo et la furie du rodéo, on 24 May 1959. He published a comic strip in Cœurs Vaillants from 1959 to 1964. He also drew illustrations for the weekly magazine Radar and for the comic strip Rock l’invincible. From May 1962 until 1969, Chéret drew illustrations for Pif Gadget.
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Born 1934-10-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Loussier was a French pianist and composer. He arranged jazz interpretations of many of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as the Goldberg Variations. The Jacques Loussier Trio, founded in 1959, played more than 3,000 concerts and sold more than 7 million recordings—mostly in the Bach series. Loussier composed film scores and a number of classical pieces, including a Mass, a ballet, and violin concertos. Loussier's style is described as third stream, a synthesis of jazz and classical music, with an emphasis on improvisation. Loussier suffered a stroke during a performance at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr on 14 July 2011, and retired from the stage. He diedat the age of 84.
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Born 1931-12-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
André S. Labarthe was a French actor, film producer and director. He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 film Vivre sa vie. He was the director of many television documentaries that profile specific individuals, beginning with Cinéastes de notre temps.
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Born 1929-12-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble, Concentus Musicus Wien, in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement. Around 1970, Harnoncourt started to conduct opera and concert performances, soon leading renowned international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals. His repertoire then widened to include composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert. Harnoncourt was also the author of several books, mostly on subjects of performance history and musical aesthetics. Harnoncourt met his wife Alice through their mutual interest in historically informed performances of Baroque music and co-founded the Concentus Musicus Wien. Their daughter is the mezzo-soprano Elisabeth von Magnus. Their two surviving sons are Philipp and Franz. Their third son Eberhard, a violin maker, died in 1990 in an automobile accident.
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Born 1941-04-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; he is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate".
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Born 1922-08-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an Argentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, and scientist. He was the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their trip around Latin America, and founder of the Santiago School of Medicine in Cuba. He wrote at least one book, Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary. The book also served as reference for the 2004 film, The Motorcycle Diaries, in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna, while Che Guevara was played by Gael García Bernal. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film.
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Born 1973-05-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a computer programmer and engineering student from Hollister, California, with bipolar disorder who had been institutionalized several times according to a 2006 Orange County court filing regarding an arrest for marijuana possession. It is not clear that the bipolar disorder affected his behavior.
On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro mass-transit system in Washington, D.C., United States. They returned fire and struck him in the head. He died a few hours later.
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Born 1928-06-24. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Yvan Delporte was a Belgian comics writer, and was editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine between 1955 and 1968 during a period considered by many the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics. He is credited with several creative contributions, among these his collaborations with Peyo on The Smurfs and André Franquin with the creation of Gaston Lagaffe and the co-authorship of Idées noires.
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Born 1933-10-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Viktor Arsenevich Kapitonov (Russian: Виктор Арсеньевич Капитонов) was a Soviet road cyclist who competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he finished 32nd individually and 6th with the Soviet team. In 1960 he won the individual road race and finished third in the 100 km team time trial. His gold medal was the first for Soviet cyclists. At the end of the race Kapitonov mistakenly sprinted for the finish with one lap to go, surprising his main rival Livio Trapè. In the last lap Trapè sprinted first, but Kapitonov caught him up in the last few meters. Kapitonov was part of the Soviet teams that won the Peace Race in 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962. He retired in 1965 and until 1985 coached the Soviet road racing team. In 1983 he defended a PhD in pedagogy.
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Born 1970-11-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
Murder but not sure. Maybe accident
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Born 1909-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor. Bissell died in 1996 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California from the effects of Parkinson's disease. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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Born 1949-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers.
Belushi was known for his drug use, and it eventually cost him his life. Belushi was found dead in his room at Bungalow #3 of the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The cause of death was a speedball, an injection of cocaine and heroin. On the night of his death, he was visited separately by friends Robin Williams (at the height of his own drug exploits) and Robert De Niro, each of whom left the premises, leaving Belushi in the company of assorted others, including Cathy Smith. His death was investigated by forensic pathologist Dr. Ryan Norris among others, and while the findings were disputed, it was officially ruled a drug-related accident.
The case was reopened two months later, when Smith, a former groupie for The Band, and a former friend of hers admitted in an interview with the National Enquirer that she had been with Belushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article "I Killed Belushi" in the Enquirer edition of June 29, 1982, the case was reopened. Smith was extradited from Toronto, arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A plea bargain arrangement reduced the charges to involuntary manslaughter, and she served 18 months in prison.
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Born 1878-12-18. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Stroke
On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin did not emerge from his room the next day, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body.
Although his guards thought it odd that he did not rise at his usual time, the next day they were under orders not to disturb him and he was not discovered until that evening. He died four days later.
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Born 1876-07-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Murder
Jacob’s brother was deported to Auschwitz and then his sister Mirthé-Léa and her husband were deported where they were murdered by the Nazis. On February 24, 1944 Max Jacob too was arrested by the Gestapo and put into Orléans prison. He was then transferred to a holding camp in Drancy for transport to a concentration camp in Germany. However, said to be suffering from bronchial pneumonia, Max Jacob died in the Drancy deportation camp.
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Born 1909-09-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Infection
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Born 1854-09-17. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
In 1903 Buick was forced to raise more money via a $5,000 loan from a friend and fellow car enthusiast, Benjamin Briscoe. With this financial help from Briscoe, Buick formed the Buick Motor Company which was to become the cornerstone of the General Motors empire.
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Born 1841-04-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Ader innovated in a number of domains of electrical and mechanical engineering. He originally studied electrical engineering, and in 1878 improved the telephone manufactured by Alexander Graham Bell. He refined the Bell Telephone and established the first telephone network in Paris in 1880. In 1881, he invented the "théâtrophone", a system of telephonic transmission where two channels allowed binaural hearing and gave listeners an exact idea of the respective positions of the actors on a set; it was this invention which gave the first transmission in stereo of the spectacles of the Opera, over a distance of 2 miles (3 km) (1881). In 1903, he devised a V8 engine for the Paris-Madrid Rally; 3 or 4 were made, none sold.
Abandoning everything, and in particular public demonstrations, the "father of aviation" fell into obscurity. His Avion is still displayed at the museum of the Conservatory of Arts and Industry in Paris. Non-French aviation historians often discredit any claims of priority, since all flights ended in crashes, many were disputed, and Ader greatly exaggerated his achievements in later life. Nonetheless, Ader's October 9, 1890 flight of the Éole remains relatively undisputed, and Ader is still admired for his efforts.