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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 1948-02-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Patrick Poivey was a French actor. He was primarily know for being a voice actor, having dubbed Bruce Willis's films from 1988 until his passing. He also dubbed Kyle MacLachlan, Don Johnson, Gary Cole et Peter Stormare, Tom Cruise and Mickey Rourke.
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Born 1919-06-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Roger Borniche was a French author and detective of the Sűreté nationale. Borniche was born in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, Oise. He started as a singer, but his fledgling musical career was interrupted by the German invasion of 1940. To make a living, he took a job as a store detective. In 1943, he joined the Sűreté nationale as Inspector to avoid being shipped to a forced labour detail. Assigned to hunt the Resistance, he instead helped partisans escape from occupied France. He deserted in 1944, only days before the D-Day invasion. Upon the liberation of France in August, he was reinstated to the Sűreté nationale and assigned to enforce France's abortion laws. The next year, he was transferred to a homicide unit.
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Born 1933-05-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.
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Born 1911-05-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer and editor. He was born in Paris. One of his well-known works, translated into several languages, is the Histoire du surréalisme (The History of Surrealism).
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Born 1934-02-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He was an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA (with Xuejia Lai) and SAFER, and the Massey-Omura cryptosystem (with Jim K. Omura).
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Born 1937-08-04. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a French sports commentator. He died in Paris of a cerebrovascular event at age 74, just a few days after having undergone a kidney operation.
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Born 1933-11-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He marked his arrival in the Formula One World Championship in 1964 with two podium finishes. He was regarded as a strong prospect for the future and a great supporting driver for World Champion Jim Clark. In 1964, while racing in Formula 2 at Reims-Gueux, he had a spin and was hit at high speed by Richie Ginther; Arundell was thrown from the car in the impact, which resulted in him missing most of the 1965 season. Lotus boss Colin Chapman saved his place in the team for 1966, finishing third on his comeback in the non-championship South African Grand Prix at East London on 1 January 1966. He did not enjoy any great success and at the end of that year he retired from Formula One, having started only 11 races. He retired from racing altogether in 1969, and later moved to Florida, where he set up the software company Mystique, responsible for amongst other games the notorious Custer's Revenge.
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Born 1921-11-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian author and World War II veteran, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor.
His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 (and the following year in English as The Sergeant in the Snow), draws on his own experience as a sergeant in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retreat from Russia in the World War II. It is his only work to be translated into English.
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Born 1925-04-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor, most notable for his participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first non-stop, singlehanded, round the world yacht race. With the fastest circumnavigation time towards the end of the race, Moitessier was the likely winner for the fastest voyage, but he elected to continue on to Tahiti and not return to the start line in England, rejecting the idea of the commercialization of long distance sailing. He was a French national born and raised in Vietnam, then part of French Indochina.
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Born 1912-03-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Other
In 1976, von Braun learned he had a tumor in his intestines and the disease had already spread. Despite surgery, the disease progressed, forcing him to retire from Fairchild on December 31, 1976. Von Braun sustained an injury from a crash and unknown to him, started to bleed internally.
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Born 1896-09-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
"Le rossignol se tait ŕ l'aube" (instead of "la promesse de l'aube")
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Born 1881-10-13. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
She was a physicist. She was awarded le prix Staline international pour la paix in 1950.
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Born 1914-01-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Career difficulties after the war led him to move to New York for live television. It was television where he achieved the kind of fame that had eluded him in films, as he was cast in the lead of the now-iconic "Adventures of Superman" (1952). He got a few film roles, but he was mostly typecast as Superman, and other acting jobs soon dried up. His career had slid to the point where he was considering an attempt at exhibition wrestling when he committed suicide by shooting himself. Controversy still surrounds his death, due mainly to the fact of his longtime affair with Toni Lanier (aka Toni Mannix), the wife of MGM executive E.J. Mannix. Many of Reeves' friends and colleagues didn't believe that he had committed suicide but that his death was related to the Mannix situation. However, no credible evidence has ever been produced to support that contention.
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Born 1929-10-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
George Junius Stinney, Jr. was an African American child who was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial, of murdering two white girls, ages 7 and 11, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June 1944. Stinney is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed by electric chair. A re-examination of the Stinney case began in 2004, and several individuals and Northeastern University School of Law sought a judicial review. His conviction was overturned in 2014, 70 years after he was executed when a court ruled that he had not received a fair trial. Standing 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing just over 90 lbs, George Stinney was executed at the Central Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina on June 16, 1944, at 7:30 p.m. At 7:25 pm, three police officers approached the cell where George was being held, then one officer entered and took him out of his cell. The officers escorted him to the execution room where they placed him in the electric chair, using a Bible he was carrying as a booster seat because George was so small. George was then restrained by his arms, legs, body to the chair. His father was allowed to approach George to say his final words to his son. An officer asked George if he had any last words to say, but George just shook his head. George Stinney could only whimper and take big deep breaths as one of the officers pulled a strap from the chair and placed it over his mouth, causing George to break into tears. They then placed the face mask over his face, which did not fit him, as George continued sobbing. When the lethal electricity was applied, the mask covering George's face slipped off, revealing George's burned scalp and tears streaming down his face, saliva dripping from his mouth. Stinney was declared dead after eight minutes. His teeth were smoking and he had one eye missing. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Sumter, South Carolina