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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 1921-06-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark) was a member of the British royal family as the husband of Elizabeth II. Philip died aged 99, two months before his centennial. He was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.
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Born 1970-12-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Earl Simmons, known by his stage name DMX ("Dark Man X"), was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies within its first week of release. He released his best-selling album, ... And Then There Was X, in 1999, which included the hit single "Party Up (Up in Here)". His 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya" were also some of his most popular. DMX had spoken openly about his addiction to crack cocaine, which began when he was 14 years old after he smoked a marijuana cigarette laced with the drug. He also said that he had bipolar disorder. On April 2, 2021, at approximately 11:00 pm, Simmons was rushed to a hospital in White Plains, New York, where he was reported to be in critical condition following a heart attack at his home possibly resulting from an overdose. The next day, his attorney, Murray Richman, confirmed Simmons was on life support. That same night, tabloid journalism outlet TMZ, who first reported on the hospitalization, stated that Simmons had suffered oxygen deprivation to his brain as paramedics attempted to resuscitate him for 30 minutes. Simmons' former manager, Nakia Walker, said he was in a "vegetative state" with "lung and brain failure and no current brain activity". His manager, Steve Rifkind, stated Simmons was comatose and that he was set to undergo tests to determine his brain's functionality which would allow his family to "determine what's best from there". On April 9, 2021, Simmons had reportedly lost functionality in multiple essential organs, including his lungs. Simmons was pronounced dead later that day, age 50, according to a statement released by his family.
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Born 1935-08-24. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker, and her mother was unemployed. In 1961, she married Maurice Garcia, a member of the French Communist Party, with whom she had a daughter, Annie. The couple divorced, and Liliane married Georges Marchais in 1977. They had a son, Olivier.[ The family lived in Champigny-sur-Marne, a suburb southeast of Paris.
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Born 1931-09-19. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Peugeot called on Calvet in 1982 when Groupe PSA was experiencing financial difficulties. CEO of the group from 1984 to 1997, he restructured the Peugeot and Citroën brands and helped them become leading auto manufacturers in Europe. When he began leading Groupe PSA, the company was 30.5 billion francs in debt. When he left in 1997, the group had 17.6 billion francs in equity. In 1987, President Mitterand described Calvet as his "most dangerous adversary".
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Born 1940-09-06. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp was an American mathematician known for his work in computer science, coding theory and combinatorial game theory. He was a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. Berlekamp was the inventor of an algorithm to factor polynomials, and was one of the inventors of the Berlekamp–Welch algorithm and the Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction. Berlekamp had also been active in money management. In 1986, he began information-theoretic studies of commodity and financial futures.
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Born 1921-12-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, best known for his role as lawyer Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital, appearing in the role from 1963 to 1986, briefly in 1989 and 1990, and returning to the role from 1992 to 2004. In 1989, he appeared in the movie The War of the Roses. Hansen met his future wife, Florence (Betty) Elizabeth (Moe), while in high school and married her in 1943. Together, they had three children, Kristen, Peter and Gretchen, had three grandchildren: Allison, Erik and Jamal. Betty died in 1993 and his daughter, Kris, died in 1996. He then shared 24 years as companion to Barbara Wenzel. Hansen resided in Tarzana, California, with his family, and he enjoyed flying, owning his own Cessna for decades, spent many vacations in the Sierra Nevada high country. He led a devoted spiritual life at St. Nicholas of Myra Episcopal Church, in Encino, California. Hansen died at his home in Tarzana, California, at the age of 95.
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Born 1916-01-19. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American computer design pioneer. He visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer with Alan Turing and others. He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects. Huskey appeared with a junk dealer as the third pair of contestants in the 10 May 1950 episode of Groucho Marx's radio show You Bet Your Life. He was described as the designer of an "electronic brain". They selected the "state category" and missed the final question when they failed to identify Iowa as the state north of Missouri
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Born 1937-08-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish emigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville. She wrote for 29 films and television shows.
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Born 1930-10-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan. Guardiola was born in Barcelona, Spain. He performed and recorded mostly Spanish versions of foreign songs and reached his maximum fame in Spain and Latin America in the early 1960s with versions of songs like "Sixteen Tons", "Mack the Knife" and "Ya Mustafa". He was known as the Spanish Crooner due to his style and the types of songs he sang. He represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1963, placing 12th. At that time he also sang a few songs with his infant daughter. He retired in 2008.
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Born 1924-06-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, although he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4. Lumet died aged 86 in his residence in Manhattan, New York from lymphoma. When asked in a 1997 interview how he wanted to "go out," Lumet responded, "I don't think about it. I'm not religious. I do know that I don't want to take up any space. Burn me up and scatter my ashes over Katz's Delicatessen."
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Born 1982-11-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Tennis player.
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Born 1922-05-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Obelix' voice in many Asterix movies.
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Born 1917-01-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
She was a ballet dancer and choreographer in Europe and the United States.
Apart from Dance and Broadway, Vera Zorina was particularly associated with performances of Arthur Honegger's "Joan of Arc at the Stake", playing the dramatic speaking part of Joan in the first USA performance with the New York Philharmonic under Charles Munch on 1st January 1948. She subsequently took the role many times but notably in the recorded performance from the UK Royal Festival Hall in June 1966 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa.
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Born 1925-06-09. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Unknown
Les éditions de Minuit.
Vincent Lindon's Uncle.
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Born 1891-05-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Edwin Branford "Eddie" Edwards was an early jazz trombonist, best known his pioneer recordings with the Original Dixieland Jass Band.In the early 1930s he retired from music and ran a newspaper stand and worked as a sports coach.He continued playing professionally irregularly until shortly before his death in New York City.
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Born 1891-09-26. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Heart attack
Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the “Berlin Circle”. Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle. He authored The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. In 1930, Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis (Knowledge). He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics.