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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1936-11-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Sollers (French: [sɔˈlɛʁs]; born Philippe Joyaux) was a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the avant garde literary journal Tel Quel (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982. Sollers then created the journal L'Infini, published first by Denoel, then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor. Sollers was at the heart of the period of intellectual fervour in the Paris of the 1960s and 1970s. He contributed to the publication of critics and thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, and Roland Barthes. Some of them were later described in his novel Femmes (1983), alongside other figures of French intellectualism active before and after May 1968. His writings and approach to language were examined and praised by French critic Roland Barthes in his book Writer Sollers. In 1990, following a televised disagreement between Canadian novelist Denise Bombardier and the French writer Gabriel Matzneff over Matzneff's "recently published memoir, about his sexual conquests of very young women", a few days later, on the television channel France 3, Sollers referred to Bombardier as "a bitch".
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Born 1945-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Michel Cordes was a French actor, author, and stage director. He died from suicide by gunshot.
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Born 1931-01-01. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was a professor at the Moscow State University and was known for his work in group theory, especially on the Burnside problem.
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Born 1995-07-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:COVID
He was a rapper from Queensbridge, New York. Kiing Shooter first came into the public eye alongside NYC rapper and longtime friend Dave East, after releasing numerous freestyles with the rapper in 2017. Kiing Shooter gained recognition with his single "They Say" which was released on June 29, 2018.
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Born 1967-02-03. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart
She was a French politician. She served as a member of the National Assembly from 2007 to 2017, representing the Côtes-d'Armor department. Erhel died after collapsing while she was giving a speech at a meeting in support of Emmanuel Macron for the 2017 French presidential election.
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Born 1928-12-31. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French political cartoonist. His work is noted for its anti-capitalism, anti-clericalism, anti-colonialism and anarchism.
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Born 1922-01-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 to 1996. He acquired a relative celebrity playing Maurin in Maurin des Maures.
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Born 1901-03-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was the last First World War combat veteran in the world, and was the last military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War. At the time of his death, he was also the third oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia.
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Born 1917-07-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter. After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967) and La Cage Aux Folles (1983), and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions. Laurents' early film scripts included Rope (1948) for Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), The Way We Were (1973) and The Turning Point (1977). Laurents died at the age of 93 in New York City of pneumonia complications, as reported by The New York Times. He had lived with his lover Tom Hatcher for more than 50 years, until Hatcher's death in 2006.
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Born 1931-06-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
She was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dana Wynter died from congestive heart failure at the Ojai Valley Community Hospital's Continuing Care Center.
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Born 1911-08-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
There are persistent rumours that other Soviet players were coerced or forced to "throw" games to allow Botvinnik to win or keep the World Championship. These rumours usually centre around Keres (who lost his first 4 games to Botvinnik at the 1948 Championship Tournament), and Bronstein (who seemed to prematurely resign the penultimate game of their 1951 Championship Match). These rumours ave never conclusively been proven or disproven and continue to generate debate.
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Born 1927-10-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1892-05-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Mémé in le vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
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Born 1954-03-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
Sands died in the prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. The announcement of his death prompted several days of riots in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland. A milkman and his son, Eric and Desmond Guiney, died as a result of injuries sustained when their milk float crashed after being stoned by rioters in a predominantly nationalist area of north Belfast. Over 100,000 people lined the route of Sands' funeral. Sands was a Member of the Westminster Parliament for twenty-five days, though he never took his seat or oath.
In response to a question in the House of Commons on 5 May 1981, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, "Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice that his organisation did not allow to many of its victims".
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Born 1905-12-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an American character actor and politician best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers and The Wild Bunch. He is sometimes credited as Albert Van Dekker or Albert van Dekker.
In May of 1968, Dekker was found strangled to death in his Hollywood home. His naked body was bound hand and foot, a hypodermic needle was jammed into each arm, and obscenities were scrawled all over the corpse. At first, it seemed that Dekker was a closet homosexual who had committed suicide (early reports suggested that the writings on his body were his bad movie reviews) or had died while having rough sex. However, there were also items stolen from his apartment, so it is also possible that he was murdered during the course of a robbery.