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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Baylor
Elgin Gay. 2021-03-22

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Born 1934-09-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

Elgin Gay Baylor was an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in eight NBA Finals. Baylor was a gifted shooter, strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer. Renowned for his acrobatic maneuvers on the court, Baylor regularly dazzled Lakers fans with his trademark hanging jump shots. The No. 1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, 11-time NBA All-Star, and a 10-time member of the All-NBA first team, he is regarded as one of the game's all-time greatest players. In 1977, Baylor was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. His popularity led to appearances on the television series Rowan and Martin's Laugh In in 1968, the Jackson Five's first TV special in 1971 and a Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode, "Olympiad".

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Merah
Mohammed. 2012-03-22

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Born 1988-10-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

He is the suspect in the 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings. He is a Muslim French citizen, born to a French father and an Algerian mother. The 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings are a series of shooting attacks in the French cities of Montauban and Toulouse. At approximately 11 am on 22 March, the BBC reported that a police source had told AFP that the siege was "coming to an end". They later reported that France 2 had been told that RAID troops had entered Merah's flat. Less than one hour later, Didier Martinez of the SGP police union confirmed to media in Toulouse that Medah was dead. Merah's death was later confirmed. AFP reported that three police officers had been injured in the preceding gunfire, one of whom sustained "fairly serious" wounds.

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Waltz
David. 2012-03-22

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Born 1943-03-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)

He was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems.

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Goody
Jade Cerisa Lorraine. 2009-03-22

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Born 1981-06-05. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer

Goody had a number of health scares throughout the 2000s. In 2002, shortly before her Big Brother 3 appearance, she had a cervical smear test which revealed abnormal cells, a possible indicator of cancer. She was later tested for ovarian cancer in 2004 and bowel cancer in 2006, but was given the all-clear on each occasion. She underwent hospital tests in early August 2008 after her fourth cancer scare. She had already collapsed four times. The test results confirmed she had cervical cancer; she was told of this on 19 August 2008 while in the Indian version of Big Brother, called Bigg Boss. Her spokesperson said, "It looks like her cancer is at an early stage but we will have to wait until she gets back to Britain and sees a specialist and has more tests".

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Hansenne
Marcel. 2002-03-22

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Born 1917-01-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

He was a French middle distance runner, who won the bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London over 800 m in a time of 1:49.8 min. The race was won by Mal Whitfield. Hansenne also equalled Rune Gustafsson's 1000 m world record of 2:21.4 in Gothenburg in 1948. Hansenne was born in Tourcoing.
After his sporting career, he became a journalist and led the paper l'Equipe.

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Hanna
William. 2001-03-22

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Born 1910-07-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (throat)

Cartoon artist

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Lanza
Walter (alias: Walter Lantz). 1994-03-22

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Born 1900-04-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart

Created Woody Woodpecker.
Coincidentally, same day of death as William Hanna (2001)

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Goldbogen
Avrom (alias: Michael Todd). 1958-03-22

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Born 1909-06-22. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident

He was an American theatre and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of Around the World in Eighty Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Todd's private plane, Lucky Liz, crashed near Grants, New Mexico. The plane, a Lockheed Lodestar, was downed by engine failure while being operated grossly overweight at the limit of its altitude capability, and the crash killed all four on board. Todd is buried in Chicago at Beth Aaron Cemetery. In his autobiography, Eddie Fisher, Todd's best friend, stated that no fragments of Todd had been found, and that his coffin contained only his ring.

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Brossolette
Pierre. 1944-03-22

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Born 1903-06-25. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

When he returned to Paris the second time, the Gestapo had gotten his name from an arrested resistance member (René Hardy) and kept him under surveillance. He escaped arrest many times. In February 1944 he tried to return to Britain by boat but the vessel was shipwrecked and the Germans captured him. Initially the Gestapo did not recognize him without papers but he was eventually taken to the Gestapo HQ on Avenue Foch in Paris. Subjected to heavy torture and afraid that he would implicate others, he jumped from a lavatory window on the HQ's sixth floor on March 22, 1944, and died later that evening in a Paris hospital.

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Delluc
Louis. 1924-03-22

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Born 1890-10-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia

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