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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1938-04-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American market maker, investment advisor, financier, and convicted fraudster who served a federal prison sentence for offenses related to a massive Ponzi scheme. He was at one time non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, before being revealed as and later confessing to having been the operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, and the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Prosecutors estimated the fraud to be worth $64.8 billion based on the amounts in the accounts of Madoff's 4,800 clients as of November 30, 2008. Madoff died of natural causes at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.
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Born 1926-01-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Stanley Brian Reynolds was an English jazz trumpeter.
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Born 1976-09-23. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and chef, known for his use of molecular gastronomy. He owned and operated the Cantu Designs Firm and Moto Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Cantu's body was found hanging inside a building he was renovating into a brewery on the Northwest Side of Chicago. After an autopsy on April 15, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said the cause of death was asphyxiation by hanging and ruled it a suicide. Cantu did not leave a note and had no history of depression or mental illness.
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Born 1935-07-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Anne-Marie Peysson was a French speakerin and journalist.
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Born 1927-09-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor best known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
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Born 1942-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Phantom of the paradise
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Born 1940-03-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Gerhard Zemann was an Austrian actor. He appeared in many television series and films through his career, becoming best known for playing forensic pathologist Leo Graf on the series Inspector Rex from 1994 until 2004. He died of a heart attack in 2010, aged 70.
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Born 1918-04-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Les rois maudits.
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Born 1909-08-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
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Born 1962-11-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Better known as Phil Katz, he was a computer programmer best-known as the author of PKZIP, a program for compressing files which ran under the PC operating system DOS.
Katz led a very troubled personal life and battled alcoholism for years. Attempts to help him proved fruitless, and it is reported that he died with no friends remaining. He was arrested several times for driving under the influence, and became known for spending more time in cheap motels and strip clubs than his own home.
Katz was found dead in a hotel room with an empty bottle of peppermint schnapps in his hand at the age of 37. A coroner's report stated his death was a result of acute pancreatic bleeding caused by chronic alcoholism.
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Born 1910-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Bertram's sister, Millvina Dean, was the last living survivor of the disaster.
Dean died exactly 80 years, to the day, after the Titanic struck the iceberg.
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Born 1925-07-28. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, businessman and minister who attended the cabinet of Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. It is also alleged that Stonehouse had been an agent for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic military intelligence. On 14 August 1979, Stonehouse was released early from prison because of good behaviour and because he had suffered three heart attacks; he had the first on 18 April 1977, a second one four days later, and a massive heart attack on 13 August 1978. On 6 September 1978 Stonehouse suffered a coronary ischemia attack which required him to spend three days in hospital. He underwent open heart surgery on 7 November 1978 which lasted for six hours. From January 1980, Stonehouse was a volunteer fundraiser for the East London-based charity, Community Links. He joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which later amalgamated with the Liberal Party to become the Liberal Democrats. In June 1980, he was discharged from bankruptcy. Stonehouse wrote three novels, and made TV appearances and radio broadcasts during the rest of his life, mostly in connection with discussing his disappearance. In June 1986 he appeared on TVS's Regrets programme and in December that year on the BBC Radio 4 interview programme In The Psychiatrist's Chair with Anthony Clare. On 25 March 1988, Stonehouse collapsed on set during an edition of Central Weekend in Birmingham during the filming of a programme about missing people. He was given emergency medical treatment at the studio and an ambulance was called. He was diagnosed as having suffered a minor heart attack and kept in the city's general hospital overnight. Just under three weeks later, early on 14 April, he suffered a massive heart attack at his house at Dales Way in Totton, Hampshire, where he had moved six months earlier, having lived in London since his release from prison, his last address there having been at 20 Shirland Mews. This time Stonehouse could not be saved, and he died in hospital at 2:30 am. He was cremated in Bassett Green, Southampton, on 22 April 1988. The former MP Bruce Douglas-Mann paid tribute. In 1989, his fourth novel was published posthumously. He left under Ł70,000 according to his will published on 17 August 1988.
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Born 1908-01-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
She was bisexual and had an affair with her adoptive daughter.
She had shared the life of Claude Lanzmann for 6 years.
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Born 1911-06-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart
Peretti was the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1947 until his death. He was succeeded by Nicolas Sarkozy, his secretary's son, who had become his political protégé.
The first wife of Sarkozy was a Peretti's niece
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Born 1928-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Born in Lille, he was a member of the group Les Capenoules.
His best known song is undoubtedly Quand la mer monte, written by his friend Jean-Claude Darnal. He also sang the P'tit quinquin.
He hanged himself on a beam of a house under construction in front of the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
The song Quand la mer monte is featured in the movie by Yolande Moreau with the same title.
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Born 1897-08-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
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Born 1879-02-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Goncourt in 1930 for Malaisie.
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Born 1906-09-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Murder
Sachs was educated in an English-style boarding-school, lived for a year in London and worked in a bookshop, and returned to Paris.
In 1925 he converted to Catholicism and decided to become a priest, though this didn't last upon meeting a young man on the beach at Juan-les-Pins.
After involvement in a number of dubious business activities, he traveled to New York, where he passed himself off as an art dealer. Returning to Paris, he associated himself with leading homosexual writers of the time - Cocteau, Gide and Max Jacob - with all of whom he had stormy relationships whose precise nature is unclear. At various times he worked for Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, in both cases stealing from them.
Sachs was mobilized at the start of World War II, but was discharged for sexual misconduct. During the early years of the Occupation, he made money out of helping Jewish families escape to the Unoccupied Zone. He may also have been an informer for the Gestapo. He was later imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel.
One story of Sachs' death is that he was lynched by other prisoners and his body was thrown to the dogs
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Born 1895-03-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Albert Severin Roche was a distinguished French soldier, known for his numerous successful missions and capture of enemy soldiers throughout the First World War. Ferdinand Foch, the Supreme Allied Commander during World War One, said of Roche that he was "the first soldier of France". In April 1939, Albert was involved in an accident with a car on departing from a bus that took him to work. The car belonged to the former President of the Republic, Emile Loubet. He was transferred to the Sainte-Marthe hospital in Avignon, where he died on 14 April (at "five o'clock" according to his death certificate) at the age of 44.
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Born 1882-03-23. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Operation
Emmy Noether was an influential German mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. In April 1935 doctors discovered a tumor in Noether's pelvis. Worried about complications from surgery, they ordered two days of bed rest first. During the operation they discovered an ovarian cyst "the size of a large cantaloupe". Two smaller tumors in her uterus appeared to be benign and were not removed, to avoid prolonging surgery. For three days she appeared to convalesce normally, and she recovered quickly from a circulatory collapse on the fourth. On 14 April she fell unconscious, her temperature soared to 109 °F (42.8 °C), and she died. "It is not easy to say what had occurred in Dr. Noether", one of the physicians wrote. "It is possible that there was some form of unusual and virulent infection, which struck the base of the brain where the heat centers are supposed to be located."
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Born 1893-07-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
His final months were marked by poor health and political as well as private disappointment.
Mayakovsky shot himself. The unfinished poem in his suicide note read, in part:
The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts.
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Born 1859-12-15. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart attack
L. L. Zamenhof was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof first developed the language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war. He believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language. The language would be a tool to gather people together through neutral, fair, equitable communication. He successfully formed a community that continues today despite the World Wars of the 20th century. Also, it has developed like other languages, through the interaction and creativity of its users. Zamenhof died in Warsaw on 14 April 1917, possibly of a heart attack, and was buried at the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery. The farewell speech was delivered by the chief rabbi and preacher of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, Samuel Abraham Poznański, who said: "There will be a time where the Polish soil and nation will understand what fame gave this great son of God to his homeland." Zamenhof and his wife Klara Silbernik raised three children, a son, Adam, and two daughters, Zofia and Lidia. All three were murdered in the Holocaust. Lidia Zamenhof in particular took a keen interest in Esperanto, and as an adult became a teacher of the language, traveling through Europe and to America to teach classes in it. Through her friendship with Martha Root, Lidia accepted Bahá'u'lláh and became a member of the Baháʼí Faith. As one of its social principles, the Baháʼí faith teaches that an auxiliary world language should be selected by the representatives of all the world's nations. Zamenhof's grandson, Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof (Adam's son), lived in France from the 1960s until his death in 2019. As of 2020 Louis-Christophe's daughter, Margaret Zaleski-Zamenhof, is active in the Esperanto movement.