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Einstein Albert (b. 1879-04-14 / d. 1955-04-18)
He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.
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Born 1938-07-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Brian Manion Dennehy was an American actor of stage, television, and film. He won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Dennehy had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions. His film roles included First Blood (1982), Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), Cocoon (1985), F/X (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Knight of Cups (2015). Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman (2000). According to Variety, Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill’s works on stage and screen. He had a decades long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the play's authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps." Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010. Dennehy died of cardiac arrest due to sepsis in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Born 1944-03-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor, voice actor, drill instructor and Marine. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ermey was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant. Ermey was often typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, Jimmy Lee Farnsworth in Fletch Lives, a police captain in Se7en, plastic army men leader Sarge in the Toy Story films, Lt. "Tice" Ryan in Rocket Power, a prison warden in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, and John House in House. On television, Ermey hosted two programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answered viewers' questions about various military issues both modern and historic; and Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey, which concerned the development of different types of weapons. He also hosted GunnyTime on the Outdoor Channel. Ermey died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, from complications related to pneumonia on the morning of April 15, 2018, twenty-two days after his 74th birthday. His funeral was held in Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, January 18, 2019, where his ashes are buried.
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Born 1929-09-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated in productions of note.
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Born 1915-03-09. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church. At 100, he was one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops. Since the death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, he also was the oldest Roman Catholic bishop from Italy. Leonardo born in Pietramelara, Italy in 1915. He was ordained a priest on 24 July 1938, appointed bishop on 22 July 1957 to the Telese o Cerreto Sannita Diocese, and consecrated on 29 September 1957. On 21 March 1984 Leonardo was appointed to the Diocese of Sant'Agata de' Goti then to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti when the diocese of Telese o Cerreto Sannita and the Diocese of Sant'Agata de' Goti united on 29 September 1986. Leonardo retired as Bishop of Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti on 20 July 1991.
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Born 1968-10-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was an American college and professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight seasons during the 1990s. Off the court, Schintzius was known for his performance as a Russian basketball player in the 1996 comedy film Eddie, and also for his distinctive mullet-style haircut. He was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia in 2009, and, after treatment and a brief remission, died from complications of the disease in 2012.
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Born 1979-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a blues guitarist. He died in a hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Born 1934-06-18. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Accident
Yokoyama's lifework was the sixty volumes Sangokushi, a retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published from 1971 to 1986 in Ushio Shuppansha's Comic Tom. In 1991, an animated version was broadcast on TV Tokyo and the manga recognized by the Japan Cartoonist Association.
Yokoyama died in a fire at his home in Tokyo. He was found unconscious in bed with severe burns and died 16 hours later at a hospital near his home.
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Born 1951-05-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, he was an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones. Joey Ramone's image, voice, and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon. Joey Ramone died of lymphoma at New York-Presbyterian Hospital after a seven-year battle, a month before he would have turned 50.
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Born 1954-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Gary French Dockery was a police officer in Walden, Tennessee who made world headlines after emerging from a 7˝ year coma-like state and started talking enthusiastically, recognizing friends and recalling events from past years.
On September 17, 1988 he was shot in the forehead by a drunken assailant as he responded to a domestic disturbance call. He slipped into what doctors called a persistent vegetative state, unable to communicate except occasionally with eye blinks and groans — indicating that part of his brain was still working.
But on February 11, 1996 he inexplicably stirred and started talking again nonstop, recognizing old friends, recalling the names of his horses, and recalling camping trips. By the second day he had largely become silent again, as he recovered from lung surgery and a serious bout with pneumonia. He never recovered to the same degree again.
A year later, he died at the age of 43, of a blood clot in his lung.
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Born 1905-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Garbo lived the last years of her life in absolute seclusion. She had invested very wisely, was known for extreme frugality, and was a very wealthy woman. It is rumored that she wrote an autobiography just before her death, but this book has yet to be published if it even exists.
She died in New York, at the age of 84, as a result of end stage renal disease and pneumonia, and was cremated. She had previously been operated on and treated for breast cancer, which she overcame.
Garbo's biographer Barry Paris notes that she was "technically bisexual, predominantly lesbian, and increasingly asexual as the years went by." It has been indicated that Garbo struggled greatly with her sexuality, only becoming involved with other women in affairs that she could control.
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Born 1910-12-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first year of his life before putting him up for adoption.
His dates of birth and death coincidate with the last two appearing of the Halley comet.
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Born 1924-08-31. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a German film actor. He appeared in over 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he worked as a successful theater director in West-Germany. He was born and died in Hamburg, Germany. Meyen was married to actress Romy Schneider from 1966 to 1975. Their son David (1966–1981) died accidentally two years after his death.
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Born 1880-11-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Stroke
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
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Born 1868-05-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Infection
Leroux died in Nice of a urinary tract infection.
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Born 1873-02-07. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Accident
Thomas Andrews Jr. was a British businessman and shipbuilder. He was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. He is best remembered for being the naval architect that was in charge of the plans for the ocean liner RMS Titanic, and was on board the ship during her maiden voyage. He perished along with more than 1500 others when the ship sank after hitting an iceberg, his body having never been recovered.
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Born 1850-01-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Edward John Smith RD, RNR was a British naval officer. He served as master of numerous White Star Line vessels. He was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage. Raised in a working environment, he left school early to join the merchant navy and the Royal Naval Reserve. After earning his master's ticket, he entered the service of the White Star Line, a prestigious British company. He quickly rose through the ranks and graduated in 1887. His first command was the SS Celtic. He served as commanding officer of numerous White Star Line vessels, including the Majestic (which he commanded for nine years) and attracted a strong and loyal following amongst passengers. In 1904, Smith became the commodore of the White Star Line, and was responsible for controlling its flagships. He successfully commanded the Baltic, Adriatic and the Olympic. In 1912, he was the captain of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912; over 1,500 perished in the sinking, including Smith, who went down with the ship. For his stoicism and fortitude in the face of adversity, Smith became an icon of British "stiff upper lip" spirit and discipline.