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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 1980-01-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
Federico Martín Aramburú was an Argentine rugby union footballer. He was born in La Plata, and primarily played as a wing but could also play centre for Glasgow Warriors in the Pro12, and also for Argentina. In joining the Glasgow squad in the summer of 2010 he joined his fellow Argentine international Bernardo Stortoni who was the first choice full back at the club. Since his international debut in April 2004, in a match against Chile, Martín Aramburú had played 22 times, (17 starts and 5 appearances from the bench) scoring eight tries, including one against Georgia in the 2007 World Cup. Of his 17 international starts six have been at outside centre, three at inside centre, and four on each wing. He previously spent much of his career in France with US Dax, USA Perpignan and originally with Biarritz Olympique. He was killed on 19 March 2022, in a drive-by shooting after an argument in a bar in Paris. The killer is believed to be the far-right activist Loïk Le Priol, already known for acts of violence. On 23 March, the suspect was arrested in Hungary, according to French prosecutors.
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Born 1984-09-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Peter Michael Whittingham was an English professional footballer. His primary position was as a central midfielder, although he operated as a winger on both the left and right, as well as a second-striker. He was part of the Aston Villa team that won the 2001–02 FA Youth Cup, and a year later he made his Premier League debut. Whittingham had loans at Championship clubs Burnley and Derby County in 2005. In January 2007, he signed for Cardiff City for a fee of £350,000. In eleven seasons at Cardiff, Whittingham played 457 competitive matches and scored 96 goals, putting him seventh on the all-time appearances list and ninth among their goalscorers. During his time at that club they won the Championship in 2013, and reached the 2008 FA Cup Final and 2012 League Cup Final. He was named three times in the Championship's PFA Team of the Year, and his 20-goal haul in the 2009–10 season made him the division's top scorer. He signed for Blackburn Rovers in June 2017, and made 24 appearances for the club before his contract was terminated by mutual consent in August 2018. On 18 March 2020, South Wales Police confirmed that Whittingham was in hospital after suffering head injuries as a result of an accidental fall at a pub in Barry on 7 March. He died from his injuries on 19 March at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, aged 35.
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Born 1941-11-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Linda Jeanne Bement was an American model and beauty queen who became the third Miss USA to be crowned Miss Universe. She died of natural causes at her home in Salt Lake City.
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Born 1927-02-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff was a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and worked on information retrieval. He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures. He was best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm, which is based on the dihedral group of order 10. He was the father of Tom Verhoeff, also a mathematician and computer scientist.
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Born 1940-08-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a professional road bicycle racer from France. Pingeon died at his home in the village of Beaupont in the Ain department, about 100 km away from his hometown of Hauteville-Lompnes, after suffering a heart attack.
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Born 1929-07-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a British racing driver. Stewart was regarded by Jim Clark as a highly-strung individual who “at the wheel was as relaxed as anyone”. His only appearance in a World Championship Grand Prix came at the 1953 RAC British Grand Prix, in which - due to ignition failure - he failed to finish.
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Born 1922-10-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. Former chairman and chief executive officer of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, he also served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America and as chairman of Character Education Partnership. He was "Man of the Year" in St. Louis in 1984
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Born 1917-12-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name.
On 26 May 2000 he was made a Knight Bachelor for his Services to Literature at a ceremony in Colombo. The investiture of the award had been delayed, at Clarke's request, since 1998 because of an accusation, by the British tabloid The Sunday Mirror, of paedophilia, was found to be baseless by Sri Lankan police and retracted by the paper soon after.
Clarke died in Sri Lanka at 1:30am local time (UTC+5:30), after suffering from breathing problems according to Rohan de Silva, one of his aides.
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Born 1929-04-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
Claus suffered from Alzheimer's disease and requested his life to be terminated through euthanasia in the Middelheim Ziekenhuis in Antwerp on March 19, 2008.
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Born 1955-01-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
Chantal Sébire was a retired 52-year-old French teacher living in Plombières-lès-Dijon nearby Dijon in France, who suffered from esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare and incurable form of cancer. It is so rare that in the past 20 years there have been only 200 reported cases. In Ms Sébire's case the disease left her severely facially disfigured and partially disabled. She first gained recognition in Feburary 2008 when she made a public appeal to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to allow her to die through euthanasia. On March 17, 2008, she lost her appeal to die in a French court. On March 19, 2008, she was found dead in her home.
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Born 1925-01-06. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Stroke
Renault was contracted to build the factory, which employed over 2000 workers at its peak production. The engine was made by Renault, while Lotus designed the chassis and bodywork details. The factory started manufacturing cars in early 1981, but the company was in receivership by February 1982. It turned out around 9,000 cars over 21 months before the British government ordered its closure in November 1982.
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Born 1919-01-08. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American psychiatrist and co-author of the book The Three Faces of Eve (1957). In 1957, with Cleckley, Thigpen co-authored the book The Three Faces of Eve, the first popular account of a case of multiple personalities (now called dissociative identity disorder). They had previously published a research article on their patient "Eve" in 1954, documenting the psychiatric sessions and how they came to view it as a case of multiple personality. Such a diagnosis had fallen into relative disuse in psychiatry, but Thigpen and Cleckley felt they had identified a rare case; others have questioned the use of hypnosis and suggestion in creating some if not all of the characterization, and the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder remains controversial despite, or because of, upsurges in diagnoses in America. The book was made into a film, The Three Faces of Eve, released later in 1957, and starring Joanne Woodward, who earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. Thigpen and Cleckley served as advisors to Director Nunnally Johnson and received writing credits on the film. At the authors' behest, the film followed the actual patient's life and treatment. In the book and film, Eve is cured of her alternate personalities, but the real life person—Chris Costner Sizemore—has stated that she was not free of them until many years later. She also alleges that she was not aware the session reports would be published outside of medical circles, or that she was signing over rights to her life story forever (for £3 for the book rights to McGraw-Hill which sold 2 million copies and $5000 for the visual rights (relatives received $2000)). She fought unsuccessfully to stop the publication of videos of her treatment sessions, but in 1989 successfully sued the film studio 20th Century Fox when it wanted to make a parody remake of its film and tried to use a 1956 contract she had signed, without legal representation via Thigpen, to prevent Sissy Spacek optioning Sizemore's own published book on her life. When Sizemore returned to Augusta for a speaking tour in 1982 neither Thigpen or Cleckley attended and she did not visit them, though in 2008 she described the diagnosis and treatment of her as courageous. In 1994 Thigpen and Cleckley published a brief communication in an international hypnosis journal cautioning against over-use of the diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder. Thigpen continued his practice of psychiatry until 1987, when vertigo forced retirement.
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Born 1923-06-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was the guru of a religious sect he named the Mandarom. He was charged for multiple rapes and incarcerated in June 1995. He was rapidly released because of his declining health. He died before the trial could take place.
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Born 1913-08-21. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Foccart was an initiator of what would become known as the Françafrique, a term borrowed from Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of Côte d'Ivoire, by François-Xavier Verschave. This expression would survive until François Mitterrand's 1981 election and the first socialist government of the Fifth Republic (founded in 1958), in particular with Mitterrand's son, Jean-Christophe, nicknamed "Papamadi" ("Papa-told-me").
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Born 1933-05-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Chen is ranked as one of the leading mathematicians in the twentieth century and one of China's most influential mathematicians in history.
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Born 1920-08-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
From 1949 Bellman worked for many years at RAND corporation and it was during this time that he developed dynamic programming. A Bellman equation, also known as a dynamic programming equation, is a necessary condition for optimality associated with the mathematical optimization method known as dynamic programming. Almost any problem which can be solved using optimal control theory can also be solved by analyzing the appropriate Bellman equation. The Bellman equation was first applied to engineering control theory and to other topics in applied mathematics, and subsequently became an important tool in economic theory.
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Born 1893-02-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Julia was born in the Algerian town of Sidi Bel Abbes, at the time under French rule. In his youth, he had an interest in mathematics and music. His studies were interrupted at the age of 20, when France got involved in World War I and he was called to serve in the army. In one attack on a cold, stormy night he suffered a severe injury, losing his nose. After many unsuccessful operations to remedy the situation, he resigned himself to wearing a leather strap around the area where his nose was for the rest of his life.
Julia gained attention for his mathematical work after the war when a 199-page article he wrote was featured in the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, a French mathematics journal. The article, which he published in 1918 at the age of 25, titled "Mémoire sur l'itération des fonctions rationnelles" described the iteration of a rational function. The article gained immense popularity among mathematicians and the general population as a whole, and so led to Julia's later receiving of the Grand Prix de l'Académie des Sciences. Despite his fame, his works were all forgotten until the day Benoît Mandelbrot mentioned them in his works, after which he received some national attention.
Julias's curves:
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Born 1916-02-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an American character actor best known for his portrayal of "The Chief" in the 1965-70 NBC/CBS television series Get Smart.
Platt was believed to have died of a heart attack in 1974 at the age of 58, though in 2007, his son Jeff revealed a long-held secret. He left behind four children from two marriages and a brother living in Santa Barbara, California.
In August 2007, a Get Smart fan website WouldYouBelieve.com published an interview with Platt's son Jeff, in which he stated that Mr. Platt actually died as a result of a suicide, caused by depression and financial difficulties.
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Born 1875-09-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
The town of Tarzana, California was named after Tarzan. In 1919 Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana." The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their town was incorporated in 1928.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor he was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late sixties, he asked for permission to be a war correspondent. This permission was granted and so he became the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II. After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack having written almost seventy novels.
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Born 1885-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Villain fired two fatal bullets through a window into Jaurès' head while his victim was at a meeting in "Le café du croissant" at the corner of Rue Montmartre and Rue du Croissant. the next day, posters went up all over France announcing the general mobilization for what would be the First World War.
Incarcerated for the duration of the war, Villain was brought to trial in 1919. Controversially acquitted on March 29, 1919, he fled to Ibiza in the Balearic Islands, where he was assassinated by Republicans just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.