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March 29, 2024

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Ventura Raymond (b. 1908-04-16 / d. 1979-03-29) alias Ray Ventura

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Blondel
Marc. 2014-03-16

75

Born 1938-05-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a French syndicalist leade of FO from 1989 to 2004.

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Kapisoda
Filip. 2010-03-16

22

Born 1987-04-03. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a Montenegrin male model. He was born in Cetinje, in Montenegro. He was one of the tenants of the Serbian Big Brother VIP All Stars show. Kapisoda was also brother to handball player Petar Kapisoda. Kapisoda is suspected of murdering his girlfriend Ksenija Pajčin, and then committing suicide.

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Pajcin
Ksenija. 2010-03-16

32

Born 1977-12-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder

She was a popular Serbian singer and dancer. Sometimes referred to as Xenia, she was known for her sometimes sexually appealing image on stage.
The bodies of the 32-year old singer and her boyfriend Filip Kapisoda, a 22-year old model, were found in her apartment in Belgrade. Both had gunshot wounds to the head. Police suspect a murder-suicide, with Kapisoda as the shooter. Police were called to the house several nights earlier as the couple were reported by neighbors because Kapisoda had broken into Pajcin's apartment, knocking down the door. Early investigation reports stated that the dead bodies were discovered by the singer's mother, and that the gun used in the homicide was found next to Kapisoda's body. It is believed that the motive for the murder-suicide was jealousy.

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Low
David. 2008-03-16

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Born 1956-02-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)

On his first mission, Low was a crew member on STS-32 which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 9, 1990. On board the Orbiter Columbia the crew successfully deployed the Syncom IV-F5 communications satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the RMS. They also operated a variety of middeck materials and life sciences experiments, as well as the IMAX camera. Following 173 orbits of the Earth in 261 hours, Columbia returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on January 20, 1990. Low next served as the flight engineer aboard the Orbiter Atlantis on STS-43. The nine-day mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 2, 1991. During the flight, crew members deployed the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E), in addition to conducting 32 physical, material, and life science experiments, mostly relating to the Extended Duration Orbiter and Space Station Freedom. After 142 orbits of the Earth in 213 hours, the mission concluded with a landing on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 1991. On STS-57, Low served as payload commander aboard the Orbiter Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 21, 1993. The primary objective of this flight was the retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier satellite (EURECA) using the RMS. Additionally, this mission featured the first flight of Spacehab, a commercially-provided middeck augmentation module for the conduct of microgravity experiments. Spacehab carried 22 individual flight experiments in materials and life sciences research. During the mission Low, along with crew mate Peter J.K. Wisoff, conducted a 5-hour, 50-minute spacewalk during which the EURECA communications antennas were manually positioned for latching, and various extravehicular activity (EVA) tools and techniques were evaluated for use on future missions. Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 1, 1993, after 155 orbits of the Earth in 239 hours.

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Marshall
Arthur. 2007-03-16

103

Born 1903-12-04. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

In 1960, Marshall designed the famous droop nose for Concorde.

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Flaherty
Paul. 2006-03-16

42

Born 1964-03-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack

He joined Digital Equipment Corporation in 1994 and, as the Associated Press wrote: Flaherty came up with the idea of indexing Web pages that made the AltaVista search engine one of the most popular Internet search tools in the mid-1990s. Flaherty was working as a research engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Palo Alto when he teamed up with two other staff researchers in 1995 to develop AltaVista's technology. The Web site was made public in December 1995 and within weeks was processing several million searches a day. It was spun off from Digital Equipment as a private company in 1999.

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Corrie
Rachel Aliene. 2003-03-16

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Born 1979-04-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

She was an american peace activist. She was run over twice by a bulldozer, causing her death.

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Wollek
Bob. 2001-03-16

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Born 1943-11-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Bob Wollek died not far from the Sebring's circuit, having a road accident. He was riding his bike.

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Paoli
Jacques. 1990-03-16

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Born 1924-02-15. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer

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de Stael
Nicolas. 1955-03-16

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Born 1914-01-05. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Suicide

Nicolas de Staël (French nationality, of Russian origin) was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
By 1953, de Staël's depression led him to seek isolation in the south of France (eventually in Antibes). He suffered from exhaustion, insomnia and depression. In the wake of a disappointing meeting with a disparaging art critic on he committed suicide. He leapt to his death from his eleventh story studio terrace, in Antibes. He was 41 years old.

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Calmette
Gaston. 1914-03-16

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Born 1858-07-30. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder

Gaston Calmette was a French journalist and newspaper editor. At 6pm on 16 March 1914, he entered the offices of Le Figaro in the company of his friend, the novelist Paul Bourget. Caillaux's second wife Henriette was waiting for him, wearing a fur coat and with her hands in a fur muff. To Bourget's surprise, Calmette agreed to see her in his office. There, Madame Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots. Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded, dying six hours later. Caillaux made no attempt to escape and newspaper workers in adjoining offices quickly summoned a doctor and the police. She refused to be transported to the police headquarters in a police van, insisting on being driven there by her chauffeur in her own car, which was still parked outside. The police agreed to this and she was formally charged upon reaching the headquarters. During the campaign against Joseph Caillaux, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Madame Caillaux's motive was fear that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how her husband was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage. Joseph Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted.

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