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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 1949-12-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Christian Dalger was a French professional footballer who played as a forward. He made six international caps for France, scoring two goals. During his career he played for clubs including SC Toulon (1962–1971) and AS Monaco (1971–1980), with whom he won the French title in 1978. He was a member of the France national team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. After his professional career he became a football manager.
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Born 1944-10-17. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer
François Corbier was a French television presenter and songwriter. Corbier began his career as a songwriter in Parisian cabarets, where he worked from 1962 to 1982. He became a television presenter on Récré A2, a programme with singer Dorothée on Antenne 2, in 1982. He was a co-presenter of Club Dorothée on TF1 from 1987 to 1997. Corbier authored several songs, including Le Nez de Dorothée in 1986. He released several albums, including Vieux Lion in 2015. Corbier performed alongside Dorothée at the Palais Bercy and Olympia in 2010. He authored his autobiography in 2012. Corbier resided in Évreux, where he died from cancer.
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Born 1926-02-20. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, DBE (née Pyrke) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. At age 87, she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours List. The New London Theatre, where the original West End production of Cats played, was officially renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre in 2018. This made Lynne the first non-royal woman to have a West End theatre named after her. Lynne died at a London hospital from pneumonia, aged 92.
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Born 1923-06-24. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″
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Born 1917-02-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Moroccan-French racing driver. He was born in Paris, France, but raced under the Moroccan flag, the only driver to do so in F1 history. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix, driving a privately run Formula 2 Cooper. He finished 14th, five laps behind the winner, scoring no championship points. He was classified third in the F2 class. He was the oldest living World Championship driver from the death of Paul Pietsch in May 2012 until his own death in July 2015.
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Born 1909-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children's transport"). His work went unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years, until 1988 when he was invited to the BBC television programme That's Life!, where he was reunited with several of the children he had saved. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the "British Schindler." In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia". On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. He died in 2015 at the age of 106 in his sleep.
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Born 1961-11-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was involved in a Jet Ski accident with his son near Pensacola Beach, Florida, on July 1, 2012. He was lifeflighted to a local hospital, where he later died.
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Born 1986-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
He was a Puerto Rican rapper and reggaeton artist signed to the Rottweilas label. He recorded solo or as part of a duo with partner Endo under Lele y Endo. He was also known by his nickname "El Arma Secreta".
He collaborated with Cosculluela. made a lot of songs with his duo partner Endo in the duo 'Lele y Endo', In 2008, Lele had threatened to sue Hector "El Father" for not receiving royalties for more than 40 songs he had co-written with him.
He was shot in his sports car in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.
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Born 1912-03-22. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco.
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Born 1924-04-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
The cause of his death was intentionally withheld, with his lawyer citing privacy concerns. It was later revealed that he died at UCLA Medical Center of respiratory failure brought on by pulmonary fibrosis. He had also been suffering from congestive heart failure and, had also recently been diagnosed with liver cancer. In the last year of his life he had been receiving hospital treatment for failing eyesight due to diabetes.
It was revealed in 2006 that Brando had suffered from dementia in the final years of his life.
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Born 1920-10-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1904-03-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American businessman and the driving force of the Mars candy empire. He is best known for introducing Milky Way (1923) and Mars (1932) chocolate candy bars, and M&M's (1941) chocolate candy, as well as orchestrating the launch of Uncle Ben's Rice. He was the son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars and his first wife Ethel G. Mars (née Kissack).
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Born 1954-02-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Hemingway was named for the wine, Château Margaux, which her parents, Puck and Jack Hemingway (he the son of Ernest), were drinking the night she was conceived.
On July 1, 1996, the day before the 35th anniversary of her grandfather's suicide, Hemingway was found dead in her studio apartment. She had taken an overdose of phenobarbital.
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Born 1936-10-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Charles Ingalls.
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Born 1949-06-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an English musician, singer and songwriter. A multi-instrumentalist, he was best known for his guitar and violin work and his collaborations with The Residents.
Lithman performed with The Residents on their 13th Anniversary Tour in 1986. On July 1, 1987, Snakefinger and his band, The Vestal Virgins, were in Linz, Austria, on the European Night tour. During a performance at the Posthof Club Lithman suffered a fatal heart attack. On that same day his single, "There's No Justice in Life", was released.
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Born 1895-07-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Known as R Buckminster Fuller (or Buckie Fuller), he was famed as an engineer, mathematician and architect. Fuller's family were from New England and he grew up with a boyhood fascination for ship-building and fishing which were part of life on the coast of Maine. By age 32, Fuller was bankrupt and jobless, living in public, low-income housing in Chicago, Illinois. In 1922, Fuller's young daughter Alexandra died from complications from polio and spinal meningitis. Allegedly, he felt responsible and this caused him to drink frequently and to contemplate suicide for a while. He finally chose to embark on "an experiment, to find what a single individual could contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity."
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Born 1931-07-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Poet. Wrote "Mon truc en plumes".
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Born 1895-10-08. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
Perón was buried in La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. In 1987, his tomb was defaced, and the hands (and some personal effects, such as his sword) of his corpse were stolen. Those responsible have never been found, but some say it was the responsibility of Licio Gelli, leader of the P2 Propaganda Due Italian Freemasonic lodge.
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Born 1894-08-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French architect.
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Born 1894-05-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
Died of a ruptured aneurysm and was interred in a small cemetery at Bas Meudon.
He wrote three antisemitic pamphlets called Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937), L'École des cadavres (1938) and Les Beaux draps (1941), he escaped judgment by fleeing to Germany (1944) and later to Denmark (1945).
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Born 1866-05-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
At the time of Satie's death in 1925, absolutely nobody else had ever entered his room in Arcueil since he had moved there twenty-seven years earlier. What his friends would discover there, after Satie's burial at the Cimetière d'Arcueil, had the allure of the opening of the grave of Tutankhamun; apart from the dust and the cobwebs (which among other things made clear that Satie never composed using his piano), they discovered numerous items that included,
great numbers of umbrellas, some that had apparently never been used by Satie,
the portrait of Satie by Suzanne Valadon,
love-letters and drawings from the Valadon romance,
other letters from all periods of his life,
his collection of drawings of medieval buildings (only then did his friends see a link between Satie and certain previously anonymous, journal advertisements regarding "castles in lead" and the like),
other drawings and texts of autobiographical value,
other memorabilia from all periods of his life, amongst which were the seven velvet suits from his Velvet gentleman period.
Most importantly, however, everywhere there were compositions that were totally unknown or which were thought to have been lost. They were found behind the piano, in the pockets of the velvet suits, and in other odd places. These included the Vexations, Geneviève de Brabant, and other unpublished or unfinished stage works, The Dreamy Fish, many Schola Cantorum exercises, a previously unseen set of "canine" piano pieces, several other piano works, often without a title. Some of these works would be published later as more Gnossiennes, Pièces Froides, Enfantines, and Furniture music).