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Cho Seung-Hui (b. 1984-01-18 / d. 2007-04-16)
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1927-03-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018).
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Born 1920-01-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Michael Joseph Anderson was an English film director, best known for directing the World War II film The Dam Busters (1955), the epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and the dystopian sci-fi film Logan's Run (1976). Anderson died at the age of 98, from heart disease.
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Born 1988-02-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Jacquelyn Crowell was an American racing cyclist. She was a graduate from the University of Florida with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in October 2013 after a hemorrhage caused temporary paralysis on her right side. She underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation under the supervision of doctors at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University. In a speech given in May 2014, she discussed her mindset and prognosis. In the last years of her life, Crowell worked part-time at the Dick Lane Velodrome, where she taught bicycle racing to younger riders. She died , 2018 at the age of 30 after a 5 year battle with cancer.
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Born 1966-10-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Japanese actor born in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. He was a graduate of the Tokyo metropolitan Yukigaya high school, Mumeijuku and was represented by JVC Entertainment Networks at the time of his death. He comitted suicide by hanging.
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Born 1931-02-26. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1956-12-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was killed testing an Audi R8 sports car when he suffered a high-speed tire failure at the Lausitzring in eastern Germany. Alboreto's car spun out of control and overturned on a straight section of the circuit. The accident came during preparations for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was held in June
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Born 1920-05-08. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an American graphic designer and Oscar winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. Bass designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in North America, including the AT&T "bell" logo in 1969, as well as AT&T's "globe" logo in 1983 after the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 "jetstream" logo and United Airlines' 1974 "tulip" logo which became some of the most recognized airline industry logos of the era.
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Born 1911-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1923-02-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players. A famous photograph by Herman Leonard of Gordon smoking a cigarette during a set at the Royal Roost in New York City in 1948 is one of the more iconic images in the history of jazz. Gordon died of kidney failure on April 25, 1990, at age 67. He was voted musician of the year by Down Beat magazine in 1978 and 1980, and in the latter year was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame.
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Born 1891-05-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Céleste Albaret (née Gineste, was a country girl who moved to Paris in 1913 when she married the taxi driver Odilon Albaret; she is best known for being the writer and essayist Marcel Proust's housekeeper and secretary. Lonely and bored in the capital, and at her husband's suggestion, Albaret began to run errands for Proust, who was her husband's most regular client. Before very long she became his secretary and housekeeper. During the final decade of Proust's life, when his health declined and he became progressively more withdrawn, even while working with continuing intensity on his writing, she became his nurse and "the writer’s most trusted conduit to the world beyond his reclusive, cork-lined bedroom". Proust immortalised his housekeeper as Françoise in "À la recherche du temps perdu". There is also a character called Célestine in "Sodome et Gomorrhe".
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Born 1947-02-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Très affecté psychologiquement par le cambriolage de son appartement, il fait une première tentative de suicide le 21 novembre 1974 en se jetant du 5e étage de l'hôtel de la Paix, à Genève. Par chance, il est bloqué aux rambardes du 3e étage : il en est quitte pour un nouveau traumatisme crânien et deux fractures des jambes.
Le vendredi 25 avril 1975 à 11 h du matin, Mike Brant se suicide du 6e étage de l'immeuble situé au 6 de la rue Erlanger à Paris à l'âge de 28 ans. Plusieurs thèses ont été mises en avant pour expliquer sa mort prématurée. Certains ont parlé de sa difficulté de plus en plus pesante d'assumer son succès, tandis que d'autres ont défendu la version du traumatisme psychologique qui touche les enfants de déportés. Parmi les autres versions qui firent également les gros titres des magazines à sensation : un implication dans un trafic d'œuvres d'art, une obscure histoire d'espionnage avec le Mossad
buried in Haifa, Israel.
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Born 1906-07-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Sanders committed suicide in Castelldefels (a coastal town near Barcelona, Catalonia) with an overdose of barbiturates, leaving behind a suicide note that attributed his action to boredom. His friend David Niven recorded in his autobiography that Sanders had predicted his own suicide many years earlier. The note read: "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."
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Born 1889-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
She died of liver ailment. Anna Sage died 58. She was the "woman in red" who 13 years ago pointed out Public Enemy John Dillinger to FBI men, who thereupon shot him dead. She died in Timisoara, Rumania, where she was deported in 1936 for running a brothel.