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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 1940-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Julie Anne Payne was an American actress who appeared in television and films from 1959 to 1967. She died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Born 1922-05-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was a British actor, singer and author. Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005).
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Born 1928-08-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Socialist politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001.
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Born 1946-07-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American musician. A former member of Fleetwood Mac, Welch had a briefly successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included "Hot Love, Cold World", "Ebony Eyes", "Precious Love", and his signature "Sentimental Lady". Welch committed suicide in his Nashville home at around 12:15 p.m. He was found by his wife with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest; a suicide note had been left behind. Welch suffered from undisclosed health issues prior to his death.
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Born 1923-12-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in France. In 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp for his role in the Resistance.
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Born 1970-05-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Welsh rock drummer and broadcaster, best known as the original drummer for the band Stereophonics.
He began drinking at the local pub, the Welsh Harp Inn, where he left his car, and walked home with friends to continue partying at his house. On arriving home, he continued drinking and has been reported by friends to have choked to death on his own vomit during his sleep. A post mortem has been conducted although the results have not been published. South Wales Police had previously ruled out any suspicious circumstances being involved in the death.
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Born 1968-08-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a former professional tennis player from Austria.
Skoff turned professional in 1985. He won his first top-level singles title in 1989 at Athens. Over the course of his career he won four top-level singles titles and two tour doubles titles. His career-high rankings were World Number 18 in singles and World Number 70 in doubles. His career prize-money totalled US$1,651,858.
Skoff retired from the professional tour in 1995. He died in Hamburg following a heart attack.
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Born 1922-05-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1952-06-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer best known for her work in French music. She was the younger sister of Taj Mahal. Between 1990 and 1996 she was in the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones alongside singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and Welsh–French guitarist Michael Jones. Two days after her 49th birthday, Fredericks died of a heart attack in Dakar, Senegal. At the request of the French Minister of Culture, Fredericks was buried in Montmartre Cemetery. On June 18, a funeral service was held for her at Eglise Notre-Dame de Clignancourt, the church that stands across from her apartment in the 18th district.
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Born 1908-07-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1902-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
She is best known for the creation and the animation of a radio broadcast "les français donnent aux français" from 1947 to 1981 on France Inter.
She was the daughter of the journalist and writer Pierre Mille.
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Born 1879-01-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH, was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.
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Born 1871-06-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1937 to 1950. Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the Tokarev TT-30 and TT-33 self-loading pistol and the Tokarev SVT-38 and SVT-40 self-loading rifle, both of which were produced in large numbers during the German-Soviet War. For his contributions to Soviet arms design Tokarev received the Hero of Socialist Labor award and the USSR State Prize.
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Born 1886-09-16. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Age
When Arp spoke in German he referred to himself as "Hans", and when he spoke in French he referred to himself as "Jean". Many people believe that he was born Hans and later changed his name to Jean, but this is not the case.
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Born 1912-06-23. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Suicide
He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.
In 1952, Turing was convicted of "acts of gross indecency" after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo hormone therapy. Turing died after eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. His death was ruled a suicide.