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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1943-11-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Louis Bodin was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1965 Tour de France.
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Born 1948-09-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Fabrizio Fabbri was an Italian cyclist.
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Born 1918-12-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne was a Russian-American author, actress and a sniper during World War II. A survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, she married an American diplomat and came to the United States, becoming the author of 14 books. Among her various activities in America, she made many appearances on television programs, gave lectures on literature and history on cruise ships, and sang on concert stages.
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Born 1942-01-17. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.. He was an American boxer. He became one of the most famous boxers in the world with his "rope-a-dope" technique. He was also well known for his clever rhymes. In 1999, Ali was named "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated magazine. He won the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship three times. Ali also won an Olympic gold medal for boxing during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Ali was also known as “The Greatest”.
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Born 1991-08-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He was born in Palma, Majorca. Salom won his first Grand Prix in Indianapolis in 2012, beating Sandro Cortese and Maverick Viñales in a last-lap fight. He also won at Aragon. He finished the championship in second behind Cortese. Salom died while racing in the 2016 Catalan Moto2 Grand Prix in Barcelona after crashing against a wall, aged 24.
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Born 1933-06-27. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was the owner of the German company Brandstätter Group. The company was founded by Andreas Brandstätter in 1876. Brandstätter joined the family firm in 1954. His "support" of the inventor Hans Beck allowed the company to begin production on what became the popular toy Playmobil, prototypes of which had been developed by Beck at the company. The 1973 oil crisis necessitated the creation of a toy whose production required little solid plastic.
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Born 1922-05-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a British motor racing driver and manager. He participated in 50 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 12 July 1952, and achieved two podiums, scoring a total of 19 Championship points. He was born in Dovercourt, Essex, to parents of Italian descent. During a varied career he also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959, driving for Aston Martin and teamed with Carroll Shelby. After retiring from driving he returned to running his car dealership, but was tempted back to Formula One to manage the Cooper racing team in 1966 and 1967.
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Born 1960-11-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French skipper.
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Born 1914-10-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an agricultural worker and fisherman from Jersey who lived in self-imposed exile on the Ecréhous reef for 14 years after being wrongly accused of a string of child sex attacks. Fearing for his life, Le Gastelois felt compelled to leave Jersey to live on the small island six miles to the north east of Jersey, having been treated as a criminal and ostracised by many who lived on Jersey. Ten years later, on July 10, 1971, the real criminal, Edward Paisnel, nicknamed the Beast of Jersey, was caught and on November 29, 1971, was sentenced for 13 sex attacks, ending an 11-year reign of terror. Le Gastelois was born on the island of Jersey to French parents. His father was from Besneville and his mother from Montgardon. He studied at St Martin's School.
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Born 1927-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was Jeanne Moreau's first husband from 1949 to 1951.
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Born 1936-04-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
José Rosinski was a French sports journalist and racing driver.
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Born 1937-06-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Peritonitis
He was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in a number of areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, classical mechanics and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem, since his first main result—the solution of Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957.
Arnold died of peritonitis.
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Born 1925-09-10. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician. He was Professor Emeritus at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He entered the Academy of Sciences in 1979.
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Born 1936-12-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American actor, best known for his work in the 1970s television series Kung Fu.
On June 4, 2009, Carradine was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit, in central, Bangkok, Thailand. The initial police report indicated that Carradine had committed suicide by hanging himself; he was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body.
a Thai forensic pathologist and Director of Central Institute of Forensic Science, stated the incident met four of the criteria for accidental death involving autoerotic asphyxiation. Police Lieutenant General Worapong Chewprecha, Commander of the Metropolitan Police, remarked that the closed circuit television installed within the hotel supported the theory that no other persons were involved with the death. Carradine's representative and family members told the press that they believed the death to be accidental and not a suicide.
Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot his latest movie, Stretch, but the film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on June 3.
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Born 1930-00-00. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.
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Born 1915-04-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Primary cause: throat cancer
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Born 1927-12-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", he co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Noyce suffered a heart attack at home on June 3, 1990 and later died at the Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas
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Born 1933-09-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
A supporting Native American actor of the Creek Tribe, Sampson was first known and most remembered for his role in the Oscar-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He was also known for his portrayal of an Indian chief co-starring with Clint Eastwood in the western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Will Sampson became what was part of a "Poltergeist Curse" when he died after its release during a strange incident during open heart surgery.
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Born 1906-05-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Dear Mr. Rossellini,
I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only "ti amo", I am ready to come and make a film with you.
Ingrid Bergman
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Born 1894-11-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
In 1920, Hopf moved to Berlin to continue his mathematical education. He studied under Ludwig Bieberbach, receiving his doctorate in 1925. In his dissertation, Connections between topology and metric of manifolds (German Über Zusammenhänge zwischen Topologie und Metrik von Mannigfaltigkeiten), he proved that any simply connected complete Riemannian 3-manifold of constant curvature is globally isometric to Euclidean, spherical, or hyperbolic space. He also studied the indices of zeros of vector fields on hypersurfaces, and connected their sum to curvature. Some six months later he gave a new proof that the sum of the indices of the zeros of a vector field on a manifold is independent of the choice of vector field and equal to the Euler characteristic of the manifold. This theorem is now called the Poincaré-Hopf theorem.
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Born 1928-03-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
"Julie la Rousse". He died consequently of a car crash, near Albi.
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Born 1868-03-03. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
In 1936, while he had long been suffering from regukar crisis of rheumatism, a stroke condemned him to a wheelchair.
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Born 1883-07-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
It is generally agreed that Kafka suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety throughout his entire life. He also suffered from migraines, insomnia, constipation, boils, and other ailments, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains. He attempted to counteract all of this by a regimen of naturopathic treatments, such as a vegetarian diet and the consumption of large quantities of unpasteurized milk (the latter possibly the cause of his tuberculosis). However, Kafka's tuberculosis worsened; he returned to Prague, then went to a sanatorium near Vienna for treatment, where he died, apparently from starvation. The condition of Kafka's throat made it too painful to eat, and since intravenous therapy had not been developed, there was no way to feed him (a fate resembling that of Gregor in the Metamorphosis and the main character of A Hunger Artist).