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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1931-09-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE, known as Ian Holm, was an English actor on stage and in film. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He won the 1981 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. His other well-known film roles include Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, Chef Skinner in Ratatouille, and Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series. He was treated for prostate cancer in 2001. He died in hospital on 19 June 2020 at the age of 88. He had Parkinson's disease for a number of years.
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Born 1926-09-01. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Stanley Louis Cavell was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references. Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts of heart failure at the age of 91.
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Born 1922-07-17. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Her research concerned partial differential equations and mathematical biology.
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Born 1938-07-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a German actor. He was the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. He was best known for his role of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort.
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Born 1989-03-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Soviet-born American movie, television and voice actor. Starring role in the 2013 movie, "Odd Thomas". On the morning of June 19, 2016, Yelchin was found by friends crushed between his car and the iron security gate of his Studio City, Los Angeles home. It was described as a "freak accident". He was pronounced dead later that day at the age of 27. Yelchin was best known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot series, appearing in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and will appear in Star Trek Beyond (2016).
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Born 1925-06-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.
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Born 1973-10-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Director, filmmaker, publicist and musician Vladimír Mičúch was born in Žilina in 1973. He originally graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Žilina and became an engineer. At the time, he also played in the rock bands Strange States and Charms' Children. After school he started working as a surveyor, but after about a month he left his job because, according to him, it did not fill him. He founded the civic association Truc sphérique, then the cultural center Stanica. He also became the founder and co-creator of the English-Slovak picture magazine Panic Button, which was published once a year. He began making short feature films through the millennium, namely Another Young Man (2002), Euthanasia (2002) and Wolves and Foxes.(2008). Every year he applied to the Prague FAMU - they did not take him for the third time in 2008, when he was thirty-five. At the school, he went to the studio of director Věra Chytilová, whose films he admired, and then to the teacher and filmmaker Jasmina Blaževič. He then appeared under the female pseudonym La Aramisova, which he gave himself out of a mere recession. Mičúch mostly made intuitive, unfettered, plot-inconsistent short feature films, in which women played the main roles. He applied to FAMU with the film Wolves and Foxes, an image of an independent, free-spirited girl. For a 12-minute film I Like Nora (2009) about a love triangle, he won the Best Feature Film Award at the Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival a year later. His 23-minute film Cagey Tigers (2011) about the relationship of two girlfriends to one man was again selected for the student section (Cinéfondation) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Finally, the fourth, 32-minute film What We Did Before We Went Together for Cocoa (2014). ), for which he was nominated for the Czech Lion, was officially selected for the festival in Angers, France. He also worked on a screenplay for the feature film Children from the East , which won Best Screenplay at the 10th Crossroads Co-Production Forum Agora Awards in Thessaloniki, Greece, and was selected for the second round at the Sundance Script Lab. Unfortunately, the film itself will no longer be shot… Vladimír Mičúch died in Žilina as a result of an epileptic seizure at the age of only forty-one. He left behind his girlfriend Belo Bielka and his little daughter Lajka.
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Born 1961-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American actor best known for his role in The Sopranos as Tony Soprano, a troubled crime boss struggling to balance his family life and career in the Mafia. Gandolfini died suddenly in Rome, Italy, during a brief vacation, as he was expected to travel to Sicily on June 22 where he was scheduled to receive an award at the Taormina Film Fest. Following a day of sightseeing in Rome in sweltering heat, Gandolfini was discovered around 10 pm local time on the bathroom floor at the Boscolo Exedra Hotel in Rome's Piazza della Repubblica by his 13-year-old son Michael. Michael quickly called hotel reception, who in turn called emergency paramedics. The time of death was 11:00 p.m., according to Dr. Claudio Modini, the head of the hospital's emergency room.
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Born 1967-10-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
"Tim" Carter was a retired football goalkeeper. He was a goalkeeping coach at the time of his death.
As a goalkeeping coach he worked with the Sunderland first team and was also a part-time coach for the Estonian national team.
Carter's body was found by a passer-by in bushes in the Highfield Close area of Stretford, Greater Manchester. Emergency services were called, and he was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics at midday. His death is not being treated as suspicious. Sources stated that Carter's body was found with a rope around the neck and it is believed he had committed suicide.
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Born 1944-03-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Grosskost died in 2004, after he was hit by a car while cycling with friends.
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Born 1980-12-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
She joined the cast of Holby City, a spin-off series from the long-running BBC medical drama series Casualty, in the show's third series.
In the early hours of 15 June 2003, she fell 40 feet (12 metres) from the rear window of a block of flats in Holland Park, an area of west London, having previously taken alcohol and cocaine. The building was the home of her boyfriend, fellow Holby City actor George Calil. She suffered severe head injuries, and never regained consciousness. She died at Charing Cross Hospital on 19 June, after a decision by her family the previous day to have her life support system turned off.
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Born 1908-10-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Marcel Béalu was born in Selles-sur-Cher and raised in impoverished circumstances in Saumur. In 1951, Marcel Béalu set himself up in business as a Parisian bookseller. He named his store, after a comment on his work by Jean Paulhan, Le Pont Traversé, or "the Crossed Bridge." The store, which sold all manner of strange works in addition to the more familiar bookshop fare, moved several times, at one time into a former butcher's shop at 62 rue de Vaugirard. One of his first customers was pre-eminent French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, who purchased a complete edition of Shakespeare — for which he never paid. His writing was admired by Jean Paulhan and Antonin Artaud, but as yet his literary reputation has not fully developed. Only one of his works, L’Expérience de la nuit, has been translated into English (by Christine Donougher, as The Experience of the Night).
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Born 1900-10-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains, arguably, the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress.
The screwball comedy is a subgenre of the comedy film genre. It has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres. It first gained prominence in 1934 with It Happened One Night, and, although many film scholars would agree that its classic period ended sometime in the early 1940s, elements of the genre have persisted, or have been paid homage to, in contemporary film.
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Born 1944-10-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
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Born 1894-04-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
To gain a professional advantage, Borzage subtracted a year from his date of birth while still a teenager; many sources thus give 1893 as his birthdate. Dumont, p. 32.
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Born 1915-09-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
The Rosenbergs were convicted on March 29, 1951, and on April 5 were sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman under Section 2 of the 1917 Espionage Act, 50 U.S. Code 32 (now 18 U.S. Code 794), which prohibits transmitting or attempting to transmit to a foreign government information "relating to the national defense." The conviction helped to fuel Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into anti-American activities by U.S. citizens. While their devotion to the Communist cause was well documented, the Rosenbergs denied the espionage charges even as they faced the electric chair.
The couple was executed at sundown in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. This was delayed from the originally scheduled date of June 18 because, on June 17, Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas had granted a stay of execution. That stay resulted from the intervention in the case of Fyke Farmer, a Tennessee lawyer whose efforts had previously met with scorn from the Rosenbergs' attorney.
On June 18, the Court was called back into special session to dispose of Douglas' stay rather than let the execution be delayed for months while the appeal that was the basis of the stay wended its way through the lower courts. The Court did not vacate Douglas's stay until noon on June 19. Thus, the execution then was scheduled for later in the evening after the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Desperately playing for more time, their lawyer, Emanuel Bloch, filed a complaint that this offended their Jewish heritage—so the execution was scheduled before sunset. Reports of the execution state that Julius died after the first application of electricity, but Ethel did not succumb immediately and was subjected to two more electrical charges before being pronounced dead. The chair was designed for a man of average size; and Ethel Rosenberg was a petite woman: this discrepancy resulted, it is claimed, in the electrodes fitting poorly and making poor electrical contact. Eyewitness testimony (as given by a newsreel report featured in the 1982 documentary film The Atomic Cafe) describes smoke rising from her head.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are buried at Wellwood Cemetery in Pinelawn (Suffolk County), New York.
The Rosenbergs' two sons, Robert and Michael, were orphaned by the executions, and no relatives dared adopt them for fear of ostracism or worse. They were finally adopted by the songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne, and they assumed the Meeropol surname. Abel Meeropol (under the pen name of Lewis Allan) wrote the classic anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit", made famous by singer Billie Holiday. Robert and Michael co-wrote a book about the experience, We are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (1975), and Robert wrote another book in 2004, An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey. In 1990, Robert founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a non-profit foundation that provides support for children whose parents are leftist activists involved in court cases.
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Born 1918-05-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
The Rosenbergs were convicted on March 29, 1951, and on April 5 were sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman under Section 2 of the 1917 Espionage Act, 50 U.S. Code 32 (now 18 U.S. Code 794), which prohibits transmitting or attempting to transmit to a foreign government information "relating to the national defense." The conviction helped to fuel Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into anti-American activities by U.S. citizens. While their devotion to the Communist cause was well documented, the Rosenbergs denied the espionage charges even as they faced the electric chair.
The couple was executed at sundown in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York.
The guilt of the Rosenbergs and the appropriateness of their sentence have been subject of perennial debate; however, information released after the Cold War has been taken as confirming a charge against Julius about espionage, but not in relation to atomic bombs. Recent information does not support the charge that the Rosenbergs provided information that led to the Soviet Union developing the atomic bomb—the rationale for their execution. According to the former Soviet agent who was Julius's contact: "He didn't understand anything about the atomic bomb and he couldn't help us."
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Born 1888-09-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Stefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU). His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund. For a time Mazurkiewicz was a professor at the University of Paris; however, he spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Warsaw. The Hahn–Mazurkiewicz theorem, a basic result on curves prompted by the phenomenon of space-filling curves, is named for Mazurkiewicz and Hans Hahn. His 1935 paper Sur l'existence des continus indécomposables is generally considered the most elegant piece of work in point-set topology. During the Polish–Soviet War (1919–21), Mazurkiewicz as early as 1919 broke the most common Russian cipher for the Polish General Staff's cryptological agency. Thanks to this, orders issued by Soviet commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky's staff were known to Polish Army leaders. This contributed substantially, perhaps decisively, to Polish victory at the critical Battle of Warsaw and possibly to Poland's survival as an independent country.