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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 1956-02-20. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Miss.Tic (born Radhia Novat) was a French artist. She was known for her stencils of dark-haired women seen in the streets of Paris and associated with poetry. She was active as a street artist from 1985 onward. Miss.Tic was born in 1956 in Montmartre, France, to a Tunisian immigrant father and a French mother from Normandy. She spent her childhood there until 1964 when the family moved to Orly, in the southern suburbs of Paris. She lost her mother, her little brother, and her grandmother in a car accident at the age of ten; her father died six years later. She was then raised by her stepmother who was a barmaid. she escaped from that world and quickly started to work on her stencils. In the early 1980s, She spent a few years in California, among punk milieus of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Born 1911-11-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Robert Marchand was a French centenarian cyclist. He is the holder of the world record for cycling 100 km and for the distance cycled in one hour, both in the over 100 to 105 years old age category and for the distance cycled in one hour in the over 105 years old age category.
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Born 1929-07-23. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Jacqueline Caurat was a French TV speakerine.
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Born 1950-03-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was a Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain. The album it came from, Akwaba Beach, was the best-selling African record of its time. Kanté died at a hospital in the Guinean capital of Conakry, at the age of 70. He was suffering from chronic illnesses and often received treatment in France, but it was no longer possible due to the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
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Born 1997-09-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a Japanese female professional wrestler, who wrestled for the women's professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. Her mother is former wrestler Kyoko Kimura. On May 23, 2020, it was reported that Kimura had died at the age of 22. Hours earlier, Kimura posted self-harm images and tweeted: Nearly 100 frank opinions every day. I couldn’t deny that I was hurt. I’m dead. Thank you for giving me a mother. It was a life I wanted to be loved. Thank you to everyone who supported me. I love it. I’m weak, I’m sorry. I don’t want to be a human anymore. It was a life I wanted to be loved. Thank you, everyone. I love you. Bye. — Hana Kimura, Twitter
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Born 1933-03-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth died at a Manhattan hospital of heart failure at the age of 85.
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Born 1954-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Elizabeth Fong Sung (Chinese: 孫芳; pinyin: Sūn Fāng) was a Chinese-American actress, director, and screenwriter. She was also a revered acting teacher and mentor to young performers and filmmakers in the Asian-Pacific community. Sung was married to writer and actor Peter Tulipan. She was fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. Her brother, Philip, died in 1985 from AIDS. Sung died aged 63. Her cause of death initially had not been released, but it was later revealed Sung died from lymphoma.
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Born 1981-07-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006. Hayden began racing motorcycles at a young age. He began his road racing career in the CMRA before progressing to the AMA Supersport Championship and then to the AMA Superbike Championship. He won the AMA title in 2002 and was approached by the Repsol Honda team to race for them in MotoGP. Hayden was hit by a driver while riding his bicycle in Italy. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and died five days later in a local hospital. Hayden was posthumously inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Born 1916-01-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His work, which has garnered international acclaim, follows in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in an idiosyncratic style. Before his death, Dutilleux expressed the wish to write more chamber music, notably a second string quartet, a genre he felt he had neglected.
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Born 1914-10-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
For over a quarter century (1956-1981), Gardner wrote a monthly column on the subject of "recreational mathematics" for Scientific American. It all began with his free-standing article on hexaflexagons which ran in the December 1956 issue. The SA editor suggested he write a regular feature and the January 1957 issue contained his first column, entitled Mathematical Games. The columns were first collected in book form in 1959 as The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Fourteen more followed over the next four decades. In the 1980s the column began to appear only irregularly. Other authors began to share the column and the May 1986 issue saw the final installment under that title. Gardner was famously shy and declined many honors when he learned that a public appearance would be required if he accepted. (He once told Colm Mulcahy that he "never gave a lecture in his life and that he wouldn't know how to.") However, in 1993 Atlanta puzzle collector Tom Rodgers persuaded Gardner to attend an evening devoted to Gardner's puzzle-solving efforts. The gathering was repeated in 1996, again with Gardner in attendance, which convinced Rodgers and his friends to make the gathering a regular event. It has been held since then in even-numbered years near Atlanta, and the program consists of any topic which could have been touched by Gardner during his writing career. The event is called "Gathering for Gardner", and is written "G4Gn", with n being replaced by the number of the event (the 2010 event thus was G4G9). Gardner only attended the 1993 and 1996 events. Gardner's wife died in 2000 and two years later he returned to Norman, Oklahoma where his son, James Gardner, was a professor of education at the University of Oklahoma. He died there
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Born 1903-10-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a former Australian athlete.
In the 1930s, he was a champion runner who participated in several Stawell Gifts, until a victory in 1938. He was also a fitter and turner apprentice. Booth is widely credited for inventing starting blocks for sprinting races.
In 2006, the then 102-year-old ran in a special Stawell Gift over-40s race, with the prize being a pig.
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Born 1945-04-23. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
She was a former Canadian waitress who became the public face of Canada's anti-smoking campaign. She contracted lung cancer in 2002, allegedly from second-hand smoke encountered at her workplace of over forty years.
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Born 1960-03-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Biggs was diagnosed with hearing problems when he was 13, and was partially deaf in one ear, completely deaf in the other. He frequently used his celebrity status to raise money for the Aliso Academy, a private school in Rancho Santa Margarita, California that serves both deaf and hearing children.
Biggs died suddenly in his home in Los Angeles of complications stemming from aortic dissection.
Aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta that causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. Aortic dissection is a medical emergency and can quickly lead to death, even with optimal treatment. If the dissection tears the aorta completely open (through all three layers) massive and rapid blood loss occurs. Aortic dissections resulting in rupture have an 80% mortality rate, and 50% of patients die before they even reach the hospital. If The Dissection reaches 6cm, the patient must be taken into emergency surgery. The surgery to repair a dissection takes about 20 hours. The patient would be in a drug induced coma for 3 days.
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Born 1930-10-29. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1923-07-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist, famous for a series of novels set in French Indochina in the mid-20th century, where he resided and travelled for several years. Several of these novels are collected in a series named La Nuit Indochinoise ("The Indochina Night") and include several best sellers, such as Tu récolteras la tempęte.
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Born 1926-08-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
Derek had a minor role as a film director. He directed his fourth wife, Bo Derek, in four movies. The 1990 film Ghosts Can't Do It was his last attempt in the director's chair. He also directed two hit music videos for Shania Twain, "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" and "Any Man of Mine".
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Born 1892-05-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Her father suffered from mental illness for many years, and on 4 March 1883, he battered his father to death.
She suffered from Alzheimer's disease at the end of her life. Margaret Rutherford is buried along with her husband, Stringer Davis, in the graveyard of St. James Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England.