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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1944-08-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:COVID
He was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, a special ministerial post created for two years following the global financial crisis of 2008, a tenure which commenced in December 2008. He was of Armenian descent. In the night of 28 to 29 March 2020, he died of COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Born 1971-02-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He is a South Korean actor and singer who is the brother of Choi Jin-shil that committed suicide on 2008. He made his acting debut in 1994. After his sister's death he became the legal guardian of his sister's children, Hwan-hee and Joon-hee.
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Born 1924-09-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He essentially composed for the film industry.
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Born 1936-01-30. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Other
He died in Paris after being hospitalized for two and a half years. Trương Trọng Thi was born in Cholon (Saigon). When he was 14 years old, he arrived in France to study, and later studied at the École Française de Radioélectricité (now EFREI). After working for Schlumberger and Intertechnique for some time, he formed the company R2E (Réalisation d'Études Électroniques). In 1973, with François Gernelle and a team of engineers he created the Micral, the first non-kit, microprocessor based personal computer in the world. It was created two years before the MITS Altair of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems arrived on the market. In 1981, R2E was absorbed by Groupe Bull.
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Born 1911-03-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Simone Renant was a French film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1934 and 1983. She was born in Amiens, France and died in Garches, France
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Born 1909-11-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude of humans and the insignificance of one's existence.
Born in Slatina, Romania.
Although Ionesco wrote almost entirely in French, he is one of Romania's most honored artists.
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Born 1905-03-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
His most important work is La Bergère et le Ramoneur (The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep). He began it in 1948 and it was highly anticipated, but Grimault’s partner André Sarrut showed the film unfinished in 1952, against Grimault’s wishes. This caused a rift between partners and a stop in production. In 1967, Grimault got possession of the film and was able to complete it under a new title, Le Roi et l'oiseau (there are many names for it in English that have been used in various releases, including: The King and the Bird, The King and the Mockingbird, The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird and The King and Mr. Bird) (1980).
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Born 1939-02-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Most memorable for is performance in "l'acrobate". He died in 1994, completely forgotten.
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Born 1916-01-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
A cancer of the prostate is detected in 1985. Nobody tell him the truth and he continues to work. Then, the cancer spread to bones. The French movie gives him a César d'honneur in 1989.
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Born 1939-03-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
He was Tanguy in the serie les chevaliers du ciel. Christian Marin was playing Laverdure.
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Born 1933-10-17. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Suicide
Better known in English as The Singing Nun, she was a Belgian nun, and a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium. She became internationally famous in 1963 as Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile) when she scored a hit with the song "Dominique". In the English language world, she is mostly referred to as "The Singing Nun".
Her musical career over, Deckers opened a school for autistic children in Belgium. In the late 1970s (mentioned in the July 22, 1978 broadcast of American Top 40), the Belgian government claimed that she owed around US$63,000 in back taxes. Deckers countered that the money was given to the convent and therefore exempt from taxes. Lacking any receipts to prove her donations to the convent and her religious order, Deckers ran into heavy financial problems. In 1982 she tried, once again as Soeur Sourire, to score a hit with a disco version of "Dominique", but this last attempt to resume her singing career failed.
Citing their financial difficulties in a note, she and her companion of ten years, Anna Pécher, both committed suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.
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Born 1895-07-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Orff was a personal friend of Kurt Huber, one of the founders of the resistance movement Die Weiße Rose (the White Rose), who was condemned to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed by the Nazis in 1943. After World War II, Orff claimed that he was a member of the group, and was himself involved in the resistance, but there was no evidence for this other than his own word, and other sources dispute his claim. Canadian historian Michael H. Kater made in earlier writings a particularly strong case that Orff collaborated with Nazi authorities, but in his most recent publication "Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits" (2000) Kater has taken back his earlier accusations to some extent. Orff's assertion that he had been anti-Nazi during the war was accepted by the American de-nazification authorities, who changed his previous category of "gray unacceptable" to "gray acceptable", enabling him to continue to compose for public presentation.
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Born 1908-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age