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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
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Born 1940-03-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
James Edmund Caan was an American actor who was nominated for several awards, including four Golden Globes, an Emmy, and an Oscar. Caan was awarded a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978. After early roles in Howard Hawks's El Dorado (1966), Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), he came to prominence for playing his signature role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) with a cameo appearance at the end. Caan had significant roles in films such as Brian's Song (1971), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Gambler (1974), Rollerball (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Alan J. Pakula's Comes a Horseman (1978). He had sporadically worked in film since the 1980s, with his notable performances including roles in Thief (1981), Gardens of Stone (1987), Misery (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Bottle Rocket (1996), The Yards (2000), Dogville (2003), and Elf (2003). Caan was a practicing martial artist. He had trained with Takayuki Kubota for nearly 30 years, earning various ranks. He was a Master (6 Dan) of Gosoku Ryu Karate and was granted the title of Soke Dai by the International Karate Association. He also took part in steer roping at rodeos and referred to himself as the "only Jewish cowboy from New York on the professional rodeo cowboy circuit." Caan supported Donald Trump during the 2016 United States presidential election. He described himself as "ultra conservative" and said he only watched Fox News. According to a Fortune magazine profile of Barry Minkow, during the production of the biopic based on the investor's life, Caan socialized with Minkow and was made aware by him that the financing of the film involved illegally obtained funds. Nothing suggests Caan had any involvement with any illegalities. Caan died in Los Angeles at the age of 82.
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Born 1944-09-05. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Cancer
Axel Kahn was a French scientist and geneticist. He was the brother of the journalist Jean-François Kahn. He was a member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee from 1992 to 2004 and worked in gene therapy. He first entered the INSERM with a specialization in biochemistry. He was named in 2002 as a counsellor for biosciences and biotechnologies matters by the European Commission. Head of French laboratories specialized in biomedical sciences between years 1984 and 2007, he was elected President of the Paris Descartes University in December 2007, as the sole candidate. Kahn is known in France for his appearances in the media where he attempts to explain genetics and ethics to the public. As a civil servant, he was the head of the committee in charge of genetically modified crops for Europe.
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Born 1928-11-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles. Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. He started as a talented football player for A.S. Roma but left the sport to follow his passion for music. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history. Morricone lived in Italy his entire life and never desired to live in Hollywood. The New York Times Magazine listed him among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Morricone died at the Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome as a result of injuries sustained during a fall.
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Born 1985-07-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Vlatko Ilievski was a Macedonian pop rock singer and actor. He was the runner-up to be the Macedonian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song Rusinka in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was previously a member of the rock band "Moral". He was a student of acting at the faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje, where he graduated in 2010 with the drama "Anger" from Stephen King (The Rage). Ilievski died in the evening of 6 July 2018. His body was found in his automobile in Skopje. The cause of death was mix of drugs and alcohol.
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Born 1925-12-03. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Kimishige "Kimi" Ishizaka was a Japanese immunologist who, with his wife Teruko Ishizaka, discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in 19661967. Their work was regarded as a major breakthrough in the understanding of allergy. He was awarded the 1973 Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 2000 Japan Prize for his work in immunology. He died of heart failure at the age of 92.
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Born 1955-03-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Shoko Asahara was the founder of the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo. Asahara was convicted of masterminding the deadly 1995 sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. He was sentenced to death in 2004. In May 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum Shinrikyo members. He was executed by hanging.
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Born 1960-06-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Seiichi Endo was an Aum Shinrikyo member who was executed for his participation in the Tokyo subway sarin attack and a number of other crimes. Relatives of victims said they approve of the execution. He was the man who produced the Sarin gas for the attack after leader Shoko Asahara told him to do so.
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Born 1964-03-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Tomomitsu Niimi was an Aum Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and a number of other crimes. He was Aum's "minister of internal affairs". Judge Yujiro Nakatani said that his Aum-related crimes began in 1989 with the strangulation killing of Shuji Taguchi, who had attempted to flee from the cult. He also murdered anti-cult lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and Sakamoto's wife and son the same year.
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Born 1985-03-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
Montcourt was found dead outside his home in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris by his girlfriend. A police source said on 9 July 2009 after a preliminary autopsy that Mathieu suffered a cardiac arrest. Further tests that can detect the presence of any drugs or medicines in the body were carried out. The results of those tests were negative.
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Born 1925-12-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
In 1964, she landed a starring spot on Peyton Place as "Julie Anderson". She left the role in 1966 to replace Irene Vernon in the role of "Louise Tate" on the popular sitcom Bewitched in a same character, different actor situation.
After battling throat cancer for many years, Rogers went into cardiac arrest and suffered a severe stroke. She died of complications from the stroke.
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Born 1930-02-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Stroke
He was scheduled to direct a prequel to The Exorcist but died suddenly in Los Angeles, California, from a stroke due to complications following spinal surgery at the age of 72, shortly before filming started.
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Born 1911-12-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
was a Polish pianist, composer, and memoirist. Outside Poland, Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polański film The Pianist, which is based on his autobiographical book recounting how he survived the Holocaust.
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Born 1942-05-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Amadeus August was a German actor and singer. Amadeus August became famous throughout Europe as protagonist of the successful European TV series Quentin Durward (based on Walter Scott's novel of the same name), broadcast for the first time in 1971. Although it turned out that this role marked the peak of his career, he frequently was a guest star in TV shows, sucjh as Derrick. He also had a supporting role as the Count of Haugwitz-Reventlow in The Barbara Hutton Story in 1987. He died of AIDS. His sepulchre is in the cemetery of Unterhaching.
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Born 1921-07-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
"Laissez-moi dormir ! J'étais fait pour ça ! "
He used to say that he was the only living person having a street and a place with his name on it (rue blanche, place blanche).
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Born 1885-05-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Klemperer had taken Israeli citizenship in 1970. He retired from conducting in 1971.
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Born 1901-08-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1897-09-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Faulkner was rather famous for drinking, and throughout his life was known to be an alcoholic. Some of this can be seen in the film Barton Fink where the character of W.P. Mayhew was a composite character of Lost Generation with novelists William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald being influences on the character, most notably Faulkner.