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Wittgenstein Ludwig (b. 1889-04-26 / d. 1951-04-29)
His last words: "Tell them I've had a wonderful life."
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Born 1908-07-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1910-06-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He died at the age of 87 of a heart attack while recovering from a respiratory illness. He is buried in the Cousteau family plot at Saint-André-de-Cubzac Cemetery, Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France.
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Born 1919-02-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was hospitalized with advanced heart disease and kidney failure on November 20, 1995 and finally retired from office on January 16, 1996.
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Born 1922-07-18. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer
An epistemological paradigm shift was called a scientific revolution by epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.
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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 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 1921-02-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
She died rather suddenly at the age of 74 in 1995 of complications from throat cancer, which was diagnosed in 1992 and which she had been battling ever since, at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, California. She was, until her death, a very heavy smoker.
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Born 1914-10-28. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Jonas Salk died from heart failure
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Born 1911-04-08. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
De l'inconvénient d'être né (1973)
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Born 1948-03-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Gallagher's health and his ability to perform were increasingly compromised by excessive use of alcohol, combined with drugs that had been prescribed to alleviate his anxiety about flying. From the late 1980s, he suffered increasingly poor health, yet he continued touring. By the time of his final performance on 10 January 1995 in the Netherlands, he was visibly unwell. A liver transplant became necessary and was nearly successful, but just before being discharged from the hospital, an MRSA infection developed. His health quickly worsened and he died.
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Born 1921-06-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
In 1986, he co-authored Dans le secret des Princes ("In the Princes' secret", literally, published in English as The Evil Empire: Third World War Continues) with journalist Christine Ockrent about his days working in secret services.
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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 1915-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Born in Ukraine. I cannot make the difference between him and Jean Topart.
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Born 1922-09-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Her daugther is the French singer Annabelle.
In 1992, striken by a pleuritis, he partially lost his voice.
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Born 1917-10-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American singer, bandleader and a motion picture actor, director and producer.
He became a vocalist for Fred Waring and his band, the "Pennsylvanians " before forming his own band in 1937. In 1940 he went to Hollywood to act in film.
He was married three times, all to actresses:
Michèle Morgan (1942 - 1948) - son Michael Marshall, actor
Micheline Presle (1950 - 1954) - daughter Tonie Marshall, film director
Ginger Rogers (1961 - 1970)
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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 1907-07-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
One of the most significative poet of his time.
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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 1925-07-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was secretary to Jean-Paul Sartre, after which he was a journalist and reporter for l'Express, Figaro, and Paris-Match. In 1961, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for La pitié de Dieu.
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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 1924-03-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts. Initially grounded by a heart condition, he would serve as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations. Deke Slayton was responsible for all crew assignments at NASA from November 1963 until March 1972, when he was granted medical clearance to fly as docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. At the time of the flight, he became the oldest person to fly into space.
A long medical program led to him being restored to full flight status in 1972, when he was selected as docking module pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, designed to allow a docking between the American Apollo spacecraft and the Soyuz spacecraft of the Soviet Union (July 17, 1975).
At the end of the flight, a leaking thruster led to the introduction of noxious fumes into the Apollo cabin during landing, and the crew was hospitalized as a precaution in Honolulu, Hawaii, for two weeks. During hospitalization, a lesion was discovered on Slayton's lung and removed. It was determined to be benign.
Shortly after he moved to League City, Texas in 1992, Slayton was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. He succumbed to the illness the following summer.
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Born 1909-05-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Bousquet was shot dead by a mentally unstable person.
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Born 1944-02-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:AIDS
He was an Australian songwriter and entertainer.
In 1990 he recorded his final album on RCA Making Every Moment Count which featured Melissa Manchester and Harry Connick Jr. Shortly before his death from an AIDS-related throat cancer, he gave his last performance in Sydney on January 26, 1992. His ashes were scattered at sea.