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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 1928-02-28. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French movie and stage director and actor. As an actor, he starred in Yves Robert's War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) in 1962. He played a supporting role in Germinal in 1993. He was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris.
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Born 1918-01-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
Prior to becoming an actress, Flon worked as an English translator at the Paris department store Au Printemps and then as personal secretary to Édith Piaf.
Director Daničle Thompson dedicated Fauteuils d'orchestre to Flon, which was her last film appearance.
She died, following a Gastroenteritis.
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Born 1968-03-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an italian cyclist. He died after a malaise on his bike, during a race.
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Born 1911-07-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
He was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy. Hume Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario, Canada. excerpt of "A life in Darkness and Life": Cronyn was chosen because he was a "friend" Hitchcock told Truffaut, "a very articulate man who knows how to voice his ideas."
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Born 1909-02-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
French cinematographer.
Alekan died from leukemia in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France.
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Born 1917-04-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Already blinded by the effects of diabetes, Fitzgerald had both her legs amputated in 1993. In 1996 she died of the disease in Beverly Hills, California.
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Born 1947-08-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was married twice: first, to model Suzy Millar, who left him for the actor Richard Burton. His second marriage, to Sarah, resulted in two children.
Soon after retirement, Hunt became an outspoken and entertaining television commentator for the BBC, alongside Murray Walker. Viewers were regularly exposed to his knowledge, insights and dry sense of humour during broadcasts, bringing him a whole new fanbase. He was famous for 'rubbishing' drivers he didn't think were trying hard enough, and although harsh-sounding, his comments were usually in good humour – he once described René Arnoux's comments that non-turbo cars didn't suit the Frenchman's driving skills as "bullshit", while live on the BBC. He was also skilled at reading a race and predicting outcomes to situations on-track. He briefly considered making a comeback to F1 in the mid-80's, and even tested privately for Williams setting competitive lap times, but eventually changed his mind.
Hunt fought depression and alcoholism and despite severe financial setbacks in his business life, approaching his mid-40s it seemed that he had overcome many of his demons (particularly alcohol and tobacco) and had finally achieved happiness. Happiness to Hunt included his new partner Helen, his clean health, his bicycle, his casual approach to dress, his two sons and his Austin A35 van.
Hunt made a brief appearance in the 1979 British silent slapstick comedy "The Plank." He also made an appearance on ITV's Police, Camera, Action! special Crash Test Racers in 2000; this was one of many interviews to be aired posthumously.
This was however not to last long - Hunt died at the age of 45, of a heart attack at his home in Wimbledon, only hours after proposing marriage to Helen.
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Born 1925-03-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Montgomery is often considered the greatest of modern jazz guitarists.
George Benson, in the liner notes of the Ultimate Wes Montgomery album, wrote, "Wes had a corn on his thumb, which gave his sound that point. He would get one sound for the soft parts, and then that point by using the corn. That's why no one will ever match Wes. And his thumb was double-jointed. He could bend it all the way back to touch his wrist, which he would do to shock people."
He didn't have very long to live and to enjoy his commercial success, however; in 1968, he woke one morning, remarked to his wife that he "Didn't feel very well," and minutes later collapsed, dying of a heart attack within minutes.
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Born 1917-05-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
One of his most memorable roles was as psychotic mobster James Cagney’s deceitful, power-hungry henchman, Big Ed Somers, in the gangster classic White Heat (1949).
Cochran was a notorious womanizer and attracted tabloid attention for his tumultuous private life, which included well-documented affairs with actresses such as Mae West, Jayne Mansfield, Barbara Payton, Joan Crawford, Sabrina, Merle Oberon, Kay Kendall, Virginia Lord, and Ida Lupino.
Cochran died on his yacht off the coast of Guatemala due to an acute lung infection. His body, along with three alive but upset female assistants, remained onboard for ten days since the three women didn't know how to operate the boat. The boat drifted to shore in Port Champerico, Guatemala and was found by authorities. There were various rumors of foul play and poisoning, and Merle Oberon tried to use her influence to push for further police investigations. No new evidence was found.
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Born 1894-08-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
The first Italian champion of the Tour de France. Bottecchia is now known as much for his mysterious death as for his achievements during life. In June 1927 he was found by the side of a road, badly bruised and with a serious skull fracture. His bicycle was undamaged, propped against a nearby tree. He was brought to a hospital but died soon afterwards. An official inquiry concluded accidental death but many suspected that he had run afoul of the powerful and growing fascist movement in Italy at the time. Two people confessed to killing him—a farmer, for stealing his grapes, and a dying Italian man in New York who said he carried out the murder "under contract"—but neither account could be corroborated. In 1973 the Italian pastor who had given Bottecchia his last rites, on his own deathbed, attributed Bottecchia's death to Fascists jealous of his success.