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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Schneider-Esleben
Florian. 2020-05-06

73

Born 1947-04-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a German musician best known as one of the founding members of the electronic music group Kraftwerk, taking his role with the band until his departure in November 2008.

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Holcomb
Steven Paul. 2017-05-06

37

Born 1980-04-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

He was an American bobsledder who competed from 1998 until his death in 2017. Holcomb was found dead in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York. He was 37. The initial autopsy cited fluid in Holcomb’s lungs as a significant factor, while a subsequent toxicology report indicated that Holcomb had a blood-alcohol level of 0.188, along with the sleeping aid Lunesta in his system.

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Honecker
Margot. 2016-05-06

89

Born 1927-04-17. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Margot Honecker was an East German politician who was an influential member of that country's Communist regime until 1989. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of National Education (Ministerin für Volksbildung) of the GDR. She was married to Erich Honecker, the leader of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party from 1971 to 1989 and concurrently from 1976 to 1989 the country's head of state. Margot Honecker was widely known as the "Purple Witch" for her tinted hair and hardline Stalinist views, and was described as "the most hated person" in East Germany next to Stasi chief Erich Mielke by former Bundestag president Wolfgang Thierse. Margot Honecker died in Santiago at the age of 89. On her death the historian Hubertus Knabe, director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, said that "she never critically reflected on what she had done. Up until her death she was an evil, unrepentant woman.

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Hogan
Candace (alias: Candye Kane). 2016-05-06

54

Born 1961-11-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

She was an American singer-songwriter of Jewish descent. She was best known in the blues and jazz genre. She was included in the books Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues, Elwood's Blues by Dan Aykroyd. She also had a career as a pornographic actress during porn's golden age. She was born in Ventura, California. In 2014, Kane was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year' category. Kane was a bisexual. In 2008, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Kane died from the disease at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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Andreotti
Giulio. 2013-05-06

94

Born 1919-01-14. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

He was an Italian politician of the centrist Christian Democracy party.

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Laplanche
Jean. 2012-05-06

87

Born 1924-06-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French author, theorist and psychoanalyst. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and wrote more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory. The journal Radical Philosophy described him as "the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day. From 1988 to his death, Laplanche was the scientific director of the German to French translation of Freud's complete works.

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Isaac
James. 2012-05-06

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Born 1960-06-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)

He was an American film director and visual effects supervisor. He directed Jason X. James Isaac directed his first film, The Horror Show, in the late 1980s. He then concentrated on being a visual and special effects supervisor and did not direct another film until 2001. This film was the 10th installment in the Friday the 13th franchise, entitled Jason X which was a small box-office success but panned by critics. He later created two more films in the 2000s: Skinwalkers and Pig Hunt.

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Evans
Donald Wayne (alias: Ean Evans). 2009-05-06

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Born 1960-09-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

He was the bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 2001 until his death. He joined the band following the death of Leon Wilkeson.
In late 2008 Evans was diagnosed with cancer, of which he died at his home in Columbus, Mississippi.
An ailing Evans performed with Skynyrd one last time from a chair on April 19, 2009, at the Mississippi Kid Festival, organized in support of Ean Evans.

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Asplund
Lillian. 2006-05-06

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Born 1906-10-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Lillian Gertrud Asplund was the last American survivor of the Titanic disaster. She was thought to be the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking, as the remaining survivors were less than one year old at the time. A passenger in third class, she escaped from the sinking ship on lifeboat 15, with her mother Selma and younger brother Felix.
Following her death, only two of the 712 Titanic survivors are still alive, both of whom live in England.
Selma, who lost three sons and her husband in the sinking of the White Star Liner in 1912, told her daughter it was wrong to talk about the disaster, and accordingly Lillian never publicly spoke about her memories.

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Todd
Ann. 1993-05-06

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Born 1909-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Dietrich
Marlene. 1992-05-06

90

Born 1901-12-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other

Dietrich died peacefully of renal failure at the age of 90 in Paris.
Dietrich was bisexual. She had an affair with writer Mercedes de Acosta, who published her autobiography Here Lies the Heart in 1960.

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Reinmuth
Karl Wilhelm. 1979-05-06

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Born 1892-04-04. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids (almost 400 of them), beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, Germany from 1912 to 1957. His most notable discoveries include 1322 Coppernicus, the Apollo asteroids 1862 Apollo (the namesake of the group) and 69230 Hermes. He also discovered the Trojan asteroids 911 Agamemnon, 1143 Odysseus, 1172 Äneas, 1173 Anchises, 1208 Troilus, 1404 Ajax, 1437 Diomedes, 1749 Telamon. He also discovered 5535 Annefrank which was later visited by the Stardust spacecraft. He discovered two comets, namely the periodic comets 30P/Reinmuth and 44P/Reinmuth. Asteroid 1111 Reinmuthia is named after him (and discovered by him, a practice that would become disallowed later on). The initials of the minor planets 1227 through 1234, all discovered by Reinmuth, spell out "G. Stracke". This German astronomer and orbit computer had asked that no planet be named after him. In this manner Reinmuth was able to honour the man whilst honouring his wish.

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Chapelle Kerjean
Germaine Charlotte Rose (alias: Germaine Kerjean). 1975-05-06

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Born 1893-07-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Germaine Kerjean (1893–1975) was a French stage and film actress. She spent a decade with the Comédie-Française. In films she frequently played character roles.

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von Karman
Theodore. 1963-05-06

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Born 1881-05-11. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the 20th century. Kármán never married. He died on a trip to Aachen, Germany, in 1963, and his body was returned to the United States, to be entombed in the Beth Olam Mausoleum at what is now the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He has sometimes been described as one of The Martians. "The Martians" was a term used to refer to a group of prominent Hungarian scientists (mostly, but not exclusively, physicists and mathematicians) who emigrated to the United States in the early half of the 20th century.

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Montessori
Maria. 1952-05-06

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Born 1870-08-31. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

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Cartan
Elie Joseph. 1951-05-06

82

Born 1869-04-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer

Élie Cartan was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory. He was the father of another influential mathematician, Henri Cartan.

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Maeterlinck
Maurice. 1949-05-06

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Born 1862-08-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack

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