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March 29, 2024

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Ventura Raymond (b. 1908-04-16 / d. 1979-03-29) alias Ray Ventura

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Cordero
Nicholas Eduardo Alberto. 2020-07-05

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Born 1978-09-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID

Nicholas Eduardo Alberto Cordero was a Canadian Broadway actor. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Cheech in the 2014 Broadway musical Bullets Over Broadway and was twice nominated for the Drama Desk Awards. His career also included television roles and film roles. He died at the age of 41 from COVID-19 complications.

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Golod
Evgenii Solomonovich. 2018-07-05

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Born 1935-10-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Evgenii Solomonovich Golod was a Russian mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Golod was a student of Igor Shafarevich. As of 2015, Golod had 39 academic descendants, most of them through his student Luchezar L. Avramov.

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Lanzmann
Claude. 2018-07-05

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Born 1925-11-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985). He died at his Paris home, after having been ill for several days.

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Henry
Pierre Georges. 2017-07-05

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Born 1927-12-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He was a French composer, considered a pioneer of musique concrète (Williamson 2017). Composer Christopher Tyng was heavily inspired by Henry's "Psyché Rock" when writing the theme to the popular animated cartoon show Futurama. The theme is so reminiscent of Henry's song, it is considered a variation of the original (Cohen 2001). Henry died at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paris, at the age of 89.

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Ménage
Gilles. 2017-07-05

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Born 1943-07-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

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Twombly
Edwin Parker (alias: Cy Twombly). 2011-07-05

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Born 1928-04-25. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

He was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. In 1957 Twombly moved to Rome, where he married the Italian Tatia Franchetti, in 1959 – sister of his patron Giorgio Franchetti. He died in Rome after being hospitalized for several days, and had cancer for many years. In 2007, an exhibition of Twombly's paintings, Blooming, a Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things, and other works on paper from gallerist Yvon Lambert's collection was displayed from June to September in Avignon (France), at the Lambert Foundation (Hôtel de Caumont). On July 19, 2007, police arrested Cambodian-French artist Rindy Sam after she kissed one panel of Twombly's triptych Phaedrus. The panel, an all-white canvas, was smudged by Sam's red lipstick. She was tried in a court in Avignon for "voluntary degradation of a work of art". Sam defended her gesture to the court: "J'ai fait juste un bisou. C'est un geste d'amour, quand je l'ai embrassé, je n'ai pas réfléchi, je pensais que l'artiste, il aurait compris... Ce geste était un acte artistique provoqué par le pouvoir de l'art" ("It was just a kiss, a loving gesture. I kissed it without thinking; I thought the artist would understand.... It was an artistic act provoked by the power of Art"). The prosecution, calling it "A sort of cannibalism, or parasitism", while admitting that Sam is "visibly not conscious of what she has done", asked that she be fined €4500 and compelled to attend a citizenship class. The art work, which is worth an estimated $2 million, was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon. In November 2007 Sam was convicted and ordered to pay €1,000 to the painting's owner, €500 to the Avignon gallery that showed it, and €1 to the painter.

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Crespin
Régine. 2007-07-05

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Born 1927-02-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (liver)

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Goodman
Shirley Mae. 2005-07-05

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Born 1936-06-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Shirley Mae Goodman was an American R&B singer, best known as one half of Shirley and Lee, a 1950s duo. Later in her career, she had a resurgence with the disco hit "Shame, Shame, Shame" in the 1970s. After suffering a stroke in 1994, she moved to California, and died in 2005 in Los Angeles. She was buried in New Orleans.

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Schwartz
Laurent. 2002-07-05

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Born 1915-03-05. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

In 1948 Laurent Schwartz visited Sweden to present his distributions to the local mathematicians. He had the opportunity of conversing with Marcel Riesz. Having written on the blackboard the integration-by-parts formula to explain the idea of a weak derivative, he was interrupted by Riesz saying, “I hope you have found something else in your life.” Later Schwarz told Riesz of his hopes that the following theorem would eventually be proved: every linear partial differential equation with constant coefficients has a fundamental solution (a concept made precise and general by distribution theory). “Madness!” exclaimed Riesz. “This is a project for the twentyfirst century!” The general theorem was proved by Ehrenpreis and Malgrange in 1952. At the end of the twentieth century, there were proofs of it in ten lines.

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Kohl
Hannelore. 2001-07-05

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Born 1933-03-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

Kohl was found dead aged 68 in her Ludwigshafen home. She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills, after years of suffering from what was claimed to be a very rare and painful photo allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years.
Kohl is known for her collection of German-style cooking recipes published as Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions) which was published in 1996.

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Dumontet
Jean-Pierre (alias: Jean-Pierre Darras). 1999-07-05

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Born 1927-11-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Nemerov
Howard. 1991-07-05

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Born 1920-02-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

He was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Yale University.

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Gropius
Walter. 1969-07-05

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Born 1883-05-18. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

German architect. Founder of the Bauhaus.

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Decoin
Henri. 1969-07-05

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Born 1890-03-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

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Bernanos
Georges. 1948-07-05

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Born 1888-02-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Unknown

Sous le soleil de Satan 1926 (published in English as Under the Sun of Satan, made into a film by the same name by Maurice Pialat in 1987, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for it.)

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Ridste
Frances (alias: Carole Landis). 1948-07-05

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Born 1919-01-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

Carole was plagued by depression her entire life and attempted suicide in 1944 and 1946. By 1948 her career was fading and her marriage was failing. She entered into a romance with actor Rex Harrison who was at the time married to actress Lilli Palmer. Landis was reported to be crushed when Harrison refused to divorce his wife in her favor and unable to cope any longer, she committed suicide at Pacific Palisades, California, by taking an overdose of Seconal. Her final night alive had been spent with Harrison and it was Harrison who found her body the next morning.

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Baire
René-Louis. 1932-07-05

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Born 1874-01-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Suicide

René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variable réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Since he was young, Baire always had "delicate" health. He had developed problems with his esophagus before he attended school and he would occasionally experience severe attacks of agoraphobia. From time to time, his health would prevent him from working or studying. The bad spells became more frequent, immobilizing him for long periods of time. Over time, he had developed a kind of psychological disorder that made him unable to undertake work that required long periods of concentration. At times this would make his ability to research mathematics impossible. Between 1909 and 1914 this problem continually plagued him and his teaching duties became more and more difficult. He was given a leave of absence from the University of Dijon due to all these breakdowns. He retired from Dijon in 1925 and spent his last years living in multiple hotels that he could afford with his meager pension.

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