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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
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Born 1942-12-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Freddie Joe Ward was an American actor and producer. Starting with a role in an Italian television movie in 1973, he appeared in such diverse films as Escape from Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Tremors and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Henry & June, The Player, Swing Shift, Short Cuts, and 30 Minutes or Less. Ward lived in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. His first marriage, to Carla Evonne Stewart in 1965, ended in divorce the following year. His second marriage was to Silvia Ward, with whom he had a son, Django. After they divorced, he married Marie-France Boisselle in 1995 and she filed for divorce in August 2013, but they reconciled later that year. Ward died aged 79. His family declined to cite a cause.
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Born 1952-12-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Marta Estela DuBois was a Panamanian actress. DuBois had a steady career on episodes of numerous television series and films. She may be best known as the female lead -- homicide detective Roberta Hansen -- in the McBride franchise of 10 television films. DuBois died of a brain aneurysm in Los Angeles, California, at age 65.
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Born 1922-12-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
She was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.
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Born 1923-08-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks.
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Born 1988-03-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American actor. He was best known for his roles on The X-Files, Girls, and The 40 Year Old Virgin. He appeared in The Last Song. He played Brandon O'Neil in My Soul to Take. Lashaway died in a car crash on May 8, 2016 in Framingham, Massachusetts, aged 28.
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Born 1928-06-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Sendak was not a fan of ebooks, stating, "Fuck them is what I say, I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead, I won’t give a shit!"
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Born 1911-01-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Polish-American violinist and educator.
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Born 1911-05-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik. In a 2005 article, Slobodan Adzic wrote that Lilienthal was still active, in good health, driving his car, and writing articles for chess magazines. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living grandmaster, and the last surviving person from the original group of grandmasters awarded the title by FIDE in 1950.
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Born 1982-03-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Belgian footballer who played for Club Brugge.
Sterchele was killed instantly when he crashed his Porsche Cayman S into a tree.
The previous day, Sterchele had visited some friends in Antwerp and was supposed to meet with Jurgen Cavens and Vicenzo Verhoeven. While travelling home on the N49 between Antwerp and Knokke, at around 03:00, Sterchele lost control of his Porsche and veered into a ditch before hitting a tree. It has been suggested that he was driving in excess of the 120km/h speed limit, however the police have not confirmed this. No other vehicles were involved in the accident
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Born 1962-11-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Dédé Fortin was a founding member, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990. In 2000 Fortin was said to have been saddened by the break-up of a relationship. He committed suicide at his apartment by the Japanese ritual of seppuku, a kind of disembowelment. A friend found him in a pool of blood. Four days afterwards, fans left flowers and messages in his memory at his building on Rachel Street, in the Plateau neighborhood of Montreal. Others criticized his act; one writer in Le Devoir said that he was "not a hero." The day before, the Colocs manager Raymond Paquin had received a poem by Fortin. He published it posthumously in La Presse. In part the poem read: Condemned by doubt, immobile and timorous; I am like my people, indecisive and a dreamer; I speak to whomever wants to hear of my fictive country, my heart full of vertigo and consumed by fear. Several years later, the remaining members of the band adapted it as a song, which they released in 2009.
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Born 1921-03-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1911-07-03. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Isorni was a French lawyer and memoirist. He came to prominence for his role as defending counsel in a number of cases involving prominent figures on the far right as well as for his own involvement in right wing politics. Isorni came to wider prominence in the immediate post-war years when he was chosen to defend Robert Brasillach and then Pétain himself in their trials for collaboration with Nazi Germany. However Isorni's earlier success rates deserted him as not only were both men found guilty both were also sentenced to death, albeit with the sentence commuted to life in the latter case on account of the Marshal's age and fragile mental state.
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Born 1945-02-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American actor who appeared in such films as Silent Rage, Death Wish, Gumball Rally, Black Sunday, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Badge of the Assassin and the TV-movie version of the Norman Mailer book The Executioner's Song starring Tommy Lee Jones. He portayed Bronson's stepson in Death Wish.
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Born 1950-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
On his final qualifying lap for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, Villeneuve was attempting to beat Pironi's faster time. As he came up behind Jochen Mass' March-Ford, the front left wheel of his car came into contact with the right rear wheel of Mass' car, who moved aside to let Villeneuve through. Villeneuve moved the same way to pass Mass' car and was launched into the air before nose-diving into the soft earthen embankment just outside the armco and somersaulting along the side of the track. The violence of the accident reduced the car to its cockpit, and ripped Villeneuve's seat from the back of the monocoque. Villeneuve, still strapped to his seat, was thrown across the track and into the catch fencing just outside the corner. When the medical team arrived, he was not breathing. Villeneuve was resuscitated at the scene, but his injuries were fatal. He died in a local hospital that evening, his fatal injuries were likely caused by the force of his car landing for the first time after the initial impact.
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Born 1908-04-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French stage and film character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles.
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Born 1896-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Dr. Karl Prusik (also spelled Prussik) was an Austrian mountaineer, with Czech origins, who is known as the inventor of the prusik knot. After the Anschluss, Prusik was one of the supporters of the then Nazi German Alpine Club (German: Deutscher Alpenverein) led by Arthur Seyss-Inquart. In 1941, aged 45 years, he was called up for service as a lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht. In 1942, he was promoted to captain and received the War Merit Cross, 2nd class, awarded for operations behind the front. In 1947, Karl Prusik returned from captivity and again became first vice president of the ÖAK.
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Born 1904-11-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Unknown
Known as Henry, he was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960. In the late 1950s, Whitehead approached Robert Maxwell, then chairman of Pergamon Press, to start a new journal, Topology, but died before its first edition appeared in 1962. He was the nephew of Alfred Whitehead.
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Born 1879-01-01. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Fox lost control of the company in 1930 during a hostile takeover. A combination of the "Black Monday" stock crash, Fox's injury in a car crash, and government anti-trust action forced him into a protracted seven-year struggle to fight off bankruptcy. At his bankruptcy hearing in 1936, Fox attempted to bribe judge John Warren Davis and commit perjury. He was sentenced to six months in prison. After serving his time, Fox retired from the film business. Fox died in 1952 at the age of 73. No Hollywood producers came to his funeral.
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Born 1892-03-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Nungesser mysteriously disappeared while trying to be the first person to complete a non-stop transatlantic flight, in his case flying with wartime comrade Francois Coli from Paris to New York City on The White Bird.
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Born 1881-06-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French pilot and navigator best known as the flying partner of Charles Nungesser in the doomed attempt to fly the Atlantic Ocean on the aircraft known as The White Bird.
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Born 1830-04-09. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was a British photographer who spent much of his working life in North America. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip. He went on to make many studies of animals and humans in motion, capturing what the human eye could not break down as separate movements. In 1874, while still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his young wife Flora had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On 17 October, he sought out Larkyns and said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here's the answer to the letter you sent my wife." He shot and killed the major pointblank. Muybridge was tried for murder. His defense attorney pleaded insanity due to a head injury that Muybridge had sustained following his stagecoach accident. Friends testified that the accident had dramatically changed Muybridge's personality from genial and pleasant to unstable and erratic. The jury dismissed the insanity plea, but he was acquitted for "justifiable homicide". The episode interrupted his horse photography experiment. After the acquittal, Muybridge left the United States for a time to take photographs in Central America, returning in 1877. Having divorced his wife and been awarded custody of their son, Florado Helios Muybridge (nicknamed "Floddie" by friends), as was customary at the time, he had the boy put in an orphanage while he was out of the country. Muybridge believed Larkyns to be the boy's biological father but, as an adult, Florado was reported as bearing a remarkable resemblance to Muybridge. Florado Muybridge worked as a ranch hand and gardener. In 1944 he was hit by a car in Sacramento and killed. Eadweard Muybridge returned to his native England for good in 1894, where he published two additional popular books of his work. He died in Kingston upon Thames while living at the home of his cousin Catherine Smith, Park View, 2 Liverpool Road. Muybridge was cremated and his ashes interred at Woking in Surrey.
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Born 1848-06-07. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Other
In 1903, due to a problem with the church and the government, he was sentenced to three months in prison, and charged a fine. At that time he was being supported by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard. He died of syphilis before he could start the prison sentence. His body had been weakened by alcohol and a dissipated life.