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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 1959-12-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Alexander Konstantinovich Kuznetsov was a Russian American actor. Kuznetsov was born in the USSR in Petrovka, a small village in Primorsky Krai on the Sea of Japan. He graduated from Schukin Theatrical College. Alexander Kuznetsov made his first appearance in a movie in 1983. He starred in many Russian movies and TV series. His most known role is Jack Vosmyorkin in Jack Vosmyorkin, The American. Aleksander Kuznetsov was a key member of the Malaya Bronaya Theater (1985–1989). The actor was working in Russia as well as in the United States. He has had television appearances as Nikolai Kossoff in NYPD Blue, as Victor in Crossing Jordan, as Capt. Alex Volkonov in JAG, as Kazimir Shcherbakov in Alias. His most recent performance was the character Ostroff on the thriller series, 24. In 2000 he starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in Agent Red. In 2014, the actor was diagnosed with cancer.
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Born 1971-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Michael Alan O'Neill was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Hugh in Sons of Anarchy and as Keith McGrath in the Irish soap Fair City. O'Neill was found dead by a friend in his Los Angeles, California apartment. The cause of death was complications from head trauma, as a result of being intoxicated.
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Born 1931-03-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a professional chess grandmaster. He was born in Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg). In 1976 he defected to the Netherlands. He lived in Switzerland for many years, and became a Swiss citizen. Towards the end of his life, he was the oldest active grandmaster on the regular tournament circuit. Viktor was at or near the top in chess for half a century. In all, Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions (1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991). Korchnoi was also a four-time USSR chess champion, a five-time member of Soviet teams that won the European championship, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad. Korchnoi died at the age of 85 in Wohlen, Switzerland from complications of a stroke.
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Born 1928-03-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English satirical author, best known for his Wilt series of novels and Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, both of which were adapted for television.
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Born 1921-08-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American competitive swimmer and MGM movie actress. She died at home in her sleep.
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Born 1946-09-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Preston had battled kidney disease in his later years, brought on by a lifetime of alcohol and drug abuse. Although he received a kidney transplant in 2002, his health continued to deteriorate. He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. He had been in a coma since November 21, 2005.
Billy Preston is one of several people sometimes credited as a "Fifth Beatle".
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Born 1921-06-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1935-02-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
In 1994, McManus died of pneumonia in Glasgow only eight months after the death of his wife Marion. He became the first person to be posthumously awarded the Lord Provost of Glasgow's Award for Performing Arts.
He was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running ITV television series Taggart.
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Born 1927-02-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
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Born 1920-11-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
There were only 2 people at her funeral: Barbara and Catherine Lara.
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Born 1892-12-15. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American. At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion. J. Paul Getty and J. Paul Getty II are cited on Leonard Cohen's song Jazz Police.
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Born 1925-11-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
On June 4, 1968, Kennedy scored a major victory when he won the California primary. He addressed his supporters in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He left the ballroom through a service area to greet supporters working in the hotel's kitchen. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22 caliber revolver and shot Kennedy in the head at close range. (Questions persist about whether Sirhan acted alone.) Following the shooting, Kennedy was rushed to The Good Samaritan Hospital where he died early the next morning.
Kennedy was shot three times, with a fourth bullet passing through his jacket, and died nearly 26 hours later. Five other persons at the party were also shot, but all five recovered: Paul Schrade, an official with the United Automobile Workers union; William Weisel, an ABC TV unit manager; Ira Goldstein, a reporter with the Continental News Service; Elizabeth Evans, a friend of Pierre Salinger, one of Kennedy's campaign aides; and a teenager, Irwin Stroll, a Kennedy volunteer.
A parole hearing for Sirhan is scheduled every five years. On March 15, 2006, he was denied parole for the 13th time. Currently he is confined at the California State Prison. He did not attend the hearing, nor did he appoint a new attorney to represent him. His next possible chance for parole will be in 2011.
On May 10, 1982, Sirhan told a parole board: "I sincerely believe that if Robert Kennedy were alive today, I believe he would not countenance singling me out for this kind of treatment. I think he would be among the first to say that, however horrible the deed I committed 14 years ago was, that it should not be the cause for denying me equal treatment under the laws of this country.
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Born 1928-04-28. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European art. New York critics of Klein's time classify him as neo-Dada, but other critics, such as Thomas McEvilley in an essay submitted to Artforum in 1982, have since classified Klein as an early, though "enigmatic," Post-Modernist.
Klein died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 34, shortly before the birth of his son.
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Born 1875-07-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Jung died in Zürich, after a short illness.
He was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.
In an interview with Carol Baumann in 1948, published in the Bulletin of Analytical Psychology Club of New York, December 1949, Jung explicitly denies rumors regarding any sympathy for the Nazi movement, saying:
It must be clear to anyone who has read any of my books that I have never been a Nazi sympathizer and I never have been anti-Semitic, and no amount of misquotation, mistranslation, or rearrangement of what I have written can alter the record of my true point of view. Nearly every one of these passages [referring to a list of quotations cited against him] has been tampered with, either by malice or by ignorance. Furthermore, my friendly relations with a large group of Jewish colleagues and patients over a period of many years in itself disproves the charge of anti-Semitism.
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Born 1875-11-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Hiram Bingham III was an American academic, explorer and politician. He made public the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers. Later, Bingham served as Governor of Connecticut for a single day, and then as a member of the United States Senate.
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Born 1864-10-05. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Louis Lumičre, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; died of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France.