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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1937-12-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. He wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism, and published essays on food, travel, and sport. Harrison indicated that, of all his writing, his poetry meant the most to him.
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Born 1939-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
A good friend of Stéphane Collaro
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Born 1926-04-29. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was one of the three inventors of packet-switched networks, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He was born in Grodno (then Poland) and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1928. Baran did undergraduate work at Drexel University, obtained his Masters degree in Engineering from UCLA in 1959 and began working for the RAND Corporation in the same year.
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Born 1917-03-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was the inventor of Eastman 910, commonly known as Super Glue.
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Born 1974-10-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a Brazilian actress, model and writer. She also appeared on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Playboy Brazil. On June 7, 2008, Cibele Dorsa suffered a grave car accident that killed the friend who drove the car and caused her severe injuries. She stayed one month in hospital and more two months immobilized. From this tragic experience she wrote a book titled 5:00 da Manhã (meaning 5:00 A.M. in Portuguese). The title is a reference to the hour when the accident occurred. In 2010, she started a relationship with the Brazil TV presenter Gilberto Scarpa. They planned to get married in April 2011 but Scarpa committed suicide by jumping in their apartment on January 30, 2011. Scarpa jumped through the same window that Cibele Dorsa would end up jumping just two months later.
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Born 1912-09-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
In 1939, he and William Hewlett established their firm in Packard's garage with an initial capital investment of $538. The company, where Packard proved to be an expert administrator and Hewlett provided many technical innovations, grew into the world's largest producer of electronic testing and measurement devices. It also became a major producer of calculators, computers, and laser and ink jet printers. Dave mentions in his book "The HP Way" that the name Hewlett-Packard was determined on the flip of a coin. HP, rather than PH!
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Born 1920-03-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Redactor in chief at "l'humanité".
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Born 1922-01-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Operation
Relations with the United States fluctuated during the course of Touré's reign. While Touré was unimpressed with Eisenhower administration's approach to Africa, he came to consider President John F. Kennedy a friend and an ally. He even came to state that Kennedy was his "only true friend in the outside world". He was impressed by Kennedy's interest in African development and commitment to civil rights in the United States. Touré blamed Guinean labor unrest in 1962 on Soviet interference and turned to the United States.
Relations with Washington soured, however, after Kennedy's death. When a Guinean delegation was imprisoned in Ghana, after the overthrow of Nkrumah, Touré blamed Washington. He feared that the Central Intelligence Agency was plotting against his own regime. Over time, Touré's increasing paranoia led him to arrest large numbers of suspected political opponents and imprison them in camps, such as the notorious Camp Boiro National Guard Barracks. Tens of thousands of Guinean dissidents sought refuge in exile.
Once Guinea's reprochment with France began in the late 1970s, another section of his support, Marxists, began to oppose his government's increasing move to capitalist liberalisation. In 1978 he formally renounced Marxism and reestablished trade with the West. Running again for president unopposed, Touré was reelected in 1982.
Touré died in the city of Cleveland in the United States while undergoing heart surgery.
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Born 1915-11-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
On 25 February 1980, after leaving a lunch party held by François Mitterrand, Barthes was struck by a laundry truck while walking home through the streets of Paris. He succumbed to his injuries a month later.
Roland Barthes aimait raconter cette petite blague à ses étudiants : un infirme se plonge dans l’eau de Lourdes pour que sa situation s’améliore et en ressort avec une chaise roulante toute neuve. Passé maître dans les discours aux multiples sens, qu’il s’amusera à démystifier, Barthes accouche en 1968 de cet article bizarre qu’est « La mort de l’auteur ».
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Born 1899-12-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Suffering from severe arthritis and bouts of memory loss, which affected his work in The Italian Job, Coward retired from the theatre. He was knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in March 1973 of heart failure at the age of 73.
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Born 1863-01-17. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
In January 1941, his wife Dame Margaret died; this deeply upset him and heavy snowdrifts prevented his getting to her bedside before she died. In October 1943, aged eighty, he married his secretary and mistress, Frances Stevenson (who had been with Lloyd George for over 30 years at the time of his death and became Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor), a cultivated, beautiful woman now largely remembered for her extensive, insightful diaries that dealt with the issues and statesmen that were a part of her lover's life.
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Born 1873-01-12. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.
When Louis finally arrived in a stadium erupting with joy, two Greek princes – Crown Prince Constantine and Prince George – rushed to meet him and accompanied him on his final lap for a finishing time of 2:58:50, fuelled along the way by wine, milk, beer, an Easter egg, and some orange juice.