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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1949-02-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Ivana Maria Trump (née Zelníčková) was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, socialite, fashion designer, author, and model. Ivana lived in Canada in the 1970s before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977. She held key managerial positions in The Trump Organization as vice president of interior design, as CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and as manager of the Plaza Hotel. Ivana and Donald Trump were prominent figures in New York society throughout the 1980s. The couple's divorce, finalized in 1992, was the subject of extensive media coverage. Following the divorce, she developed her own lines of clothing, fashion jewelry, and beauty products which were sold on QVC London and the Home Shopping Network. She wrote an advice column for Globe called "Ask Ivana" from 1995 through 2010 and published several books including works of fiction, self-help, and the autobiography Raising Trump. Ivana died of blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down stairs at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Born 1944-09-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Christian Boltanski was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker, most well known for his photography installations and contemporary French Conceptual style. He was the brother of Luc Boltanski and the partner of Annette Messager. The writer Christophe Boltanski is his nephew.
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Born 1935-07-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard) was a Danish cartoonist famous for creating the controversial cartoon of a terrorist, although not the Islamic prophet Muhammad as it is often claimed, wearing a bomb in his turban. This cartoon was the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which met with strong reactions from Muslims worldwide who condemned the act, including Western countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he was under constant police protection
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Born 1921-12-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She was most known for a series of novels about a heroine called Angelique
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Born 1977-05-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer
Mirzakhani was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. In 2016, the cancer spread to her bones and liver, and she died at the age of 40 at Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California.
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Born 1923-11-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".
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Born 1923-04-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Mr Cale in Quadrophenia (1979).
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Born 1970-00-00. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
Former Boulder resident and Webroot founder Steven Thomas appears to have died of injuries from a fall, the Honolulu medical examiner said.
"The injuries he had are consistent with a fall from a height," said Dr. Kanthi De Alwis, who performed the autopsy Monday. "However, at this point, we have not concluded the manner, which means whether he jumped or accidently fell."
Homicide is not suspected at this time, she said. Toxicology tests are being conducted, which could take several weeks, she said.
De Alwis determined that Thomas had been dead five to six days when hikers found his body Sunday.
The 36-year-old entrepreneur was found about 200 feet below the Pali lookout, a scenic overlook in the mountains just northeast of Honolulu on Oahu island. The spot is about 5 miles from Thomas' beachfront home in Lanikai, outside Kailua.
Thomas had been missing for two weeks. He had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, but refused medication and medical attention. His behavior in the months and weeks leading up to his disappearance increasingly alarmed family members.
In April, he was arrested after he ran naked into a race/walk event in front of his home. More recently, Thomas expressed deep dismay over his investments, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his family's plans move back to Boulder, according to reports published in Hawaii.
Thomas stayed with visiting family members at a Waikiki hotel in the days before he disappeared, according to news reports. He told them that the balcony of their hotel room was not high enough for what he needed to do, his brother told reporters.
Friends and family members have said Thomas did not exhibit signs of mental-health problems until recently.
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Born 1932-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Born in 1932.
“Well, as I was coming up, I was driving along and then I heard this screaming of an engine
or saw it first, I am not sure which, in other words. It both happened and I had—it was right under me
then, or there was a collision… the car I seen after the impact… All I seen at impact was an arm… I
heard the car and I looked right down into it and into the seat after the impact, but at the time of impact I
seen an arm come up over the hood.” He saw Dean’s body. “He was on the right-hand side of the car
hanging over the door facing down.”
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Born 1901-02-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Roger Conti was a French carom player, specialized in all game modes and inventor of the modern game, because it is thanks to him that billiards knows its current technical form. He had become aware and transmitted the study of the mechanism (the gestures, the different positions of the body depending on the point to be executed), he understood the importance of building a series with different frame games (the 47/2 , 71/2, 47/1). He had approached the design based on fundamental principles. The design is the basis for building a series of different frame games: "The point played is not the one that presents itself, but those that will be." For him, "Billiards, the real, the only, pure blend of sport and art, requiring skill, measure, self-knowledge and self-control, fierce will, training followed by his muscles and his brain, the love of Beauty in the execution of stitches and the taste of Harmony in their sequence ».
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Born 1901-07-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter was an Austrian lawyer, Nazi politician and a high-ranking member of the SS, a paramilitary organisation of the Nazi Party. During the occupation of Poland in World War II, he was the Governor of the district of Kraków in the General Government and then of the District of Galicia (now for the most part in Ukraine). Later, in 1944, he was appointed as head of the German Military Administration in the puppet state of the Republic of Salò in Italy. During the last two months of the war, he was responsible for the non-German forces at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin. In 1940 68,000 Jews were expelled from Kraków and in 1941 the Kraków Ghetto was created for the remaining 15,000 Jews by his decrees. On 28 September 1946 the Polish government requested the Military Governor of the United States Zone that Wächter be delivered to Poland for trial for "mass murder, shooting and executions. Under his command of District Galicia more than one hundred thousand Polish citizens lost their lives." He managed to evade the Allied authorities for 4 years. In 1949, Wächter was given refuge by pro-Nazi Austrian bishop Alois Hudal in the Vatican where he died the same year, aged 48, reportedly from kidney disease.