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Cho Seung-Hui (b. 1984-01-18 / d. 2007-04-16)
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1958-09-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Frank Darcel was a French writer, musician and music producer. He was a leading French rock guitarist during the 1980s with the band Marquis de Sade and with his collaboration with Étienne Daho. Darcel was also Breton nationalist activist and member of the Breton Party. He ran for municipal elections in Rennes on an autonomist list. Frank Darcel was found dead on 14 March 2024 on a beach in Galicia in north-west Spain. According to the Galician emergency services, his body was discovered by walkers on the rocks of Los Castros beach in the municipality of Ribadeo. He was "in an easily accessible place, just beside the stairs leading to the beach ". According to the initial findings of the investigation, suicide has not been ruled out.
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Born 1933-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Henry Darrow (born Enrique Tomás Delgado Jiménez) was an American character actor of stage and film known for his role as Manolito "Mano" Montoya on the 1960s television series The High Chaparral. In film, Darrow played the corrupt and vengeful Trooper Hancock in The Hitcher. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was seen in numerous guest starring television roles. Darrow replaced Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Zorro's father Don Alejandro de la Vega in the 1990s television series Zorro.
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Born 1952-08-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Charles Whitingwas a British motorsports director. He served as the FIA Formula One Race Director, Safety Delegate, Permanent Starter and head of the F1 Technical Department, in which capacities he generally managed the logistics of each F1 Grand Prix, inspected cars in parc fermé before a race, enforced FIA rules, and controlled the lights that start each race. On the morning of 14 March 2019, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, three days before the season opening Australian Grand Prix of the 2019 Formula One season, Whiting suffered a pulmonary embolism and died, aged 66.
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Born 1962-01-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Gonzalo Quintana III, also known as Charlie Quintana or Chalo, was an American rock and punk drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band The Plugz and as the drummer for the punk rock band Social Distortion from 2000 to 2009. Quintana died of a heart attack at the age of 56 at his home in Cancún.
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Born 1942-01-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:orphan disease
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Hawking had a rare early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neuron disease (MND; also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that results in the death of motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades.
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Born 1981-02-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood was an American threat analyst and hacker. Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest. Lamo was best known for reporting U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. Lamo died on March 14, 2018, in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 37. Nearly three months later, the Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center reported that "Despite a complete autopsy and supplemental testing, no definitive cause of death was identified." However, many bottles of pills were found in his home. Several of the pills found there were known to cause severe health problems when combined with kratom. As a result, evidence points to an accidental death due to drug abuse.
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Born 1941-06-15. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Marxist philosopher and academic administrator. He taught Philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté and Pantheon-Sorbonne University until he became a full professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He served as its vice president from 1992 to 1998, and as the director of its Center for the History of Ideas from 1998 to 2003. He was the author of several books about Marxism and Marxist theorists.
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Born 1928-05-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1956, he resigned from Pathé whose representative threatened him: "You are leaving us? So you'll never do cinema again, because we are huge!". In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966.
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Born 1926-03-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American film and television actor. He was known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967-1973. He has an older brother, actor James Arness (born 1923) of the long-running Gunsmoke western series, which aired on CBS from 1955-1975.
Graves died of a heart attack four days prior to his 84th birthday. The actor had just returned from brunch with his wife and children, collapsing before he could enter the house. Although one of his daughters administered CPR, she could not revive him.
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Born 1947-12-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
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Born 1917-03-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo.
McSweeney's published Kaufman's first novel, titled Bowl of Cherries, in October 2007. Kaufman was 86 years old when he began work on the novel and 90 when it was published. His second novel, Misadventure, will be published posthumously.
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Born 1920-02-29. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a journalist in the early times of Le Monde.
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Born 1911-03-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books. Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career. In 1983, Japanese emperor Hirohito named him to the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the highest honors that can be given to a Japanese citizen. His second wife, Kiyo Yoshizawa, served as his manager and taught origami alongside him till his death on his 94th birthday.
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Born 1929-07-13. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
"That which suggests is superior to that which shows. Movies today show more and more. It's paranoid dictator cinema. What we need is schizophrenic cinema."
Filmography
* Fantastic Planet (1973)
* Time Masters (1981)
* Gandahar (1987)
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Born 1907-04-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons.
When a young executive callowly asked Zinnemann to list what he had done in his career, Zinnemann delivered an elegant comeback by reportedly answering, "Sure. You first."
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Born 1926-08-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In 1992, Poiret directed his first and only film, Le Zèbre (The Zebra). This adaptation of Alexandre Jardin's novel starred Thierry Lhermitte and Mme. Poiret, Caroline Cellier. Unfortunately, Poiret died of a heart attack in Paris three months before the film's premiere.
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Born 1927-04-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was married to Maria Pacôme from 1950 until 1956 (divorce), and to Josephine Chaplin, daughter of Charles Chaplin, from 1977 until his death.
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Born 1917-06-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
She died of pneumonia-related complications of her brain cancer, having survived considerably longer than doctors had originally predicted.
Some theorize that Hayward’s cancer was a result of having been exposed to fallout during the filming of The Conqueror (1956)
However, the number of cases of cancer detected (91) and the number of deaths from cancer (46) in the cast and crew (220) are in line with the average lifetime risk of cancer in whites (around 40%) and the average lifetime risk of dying of cancer for whites (around 20%), as published by the National Cancer Institute SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2001.