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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 1927-04-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was an American woman who, in the 1950s, was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder. Her case, with a pseudonym used, was depicted in the 1950s book The Three Faces of Eve, written by her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, upon which a film that starred Joanne Woodward was based. She went public with her true identity in the 1970s.
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Born 1959-05-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
She was a French actress and the usual French dubbing voice of Gillian Anderson. She died of a therapeutic accident during a treatment against cancer. July, 24 is not a good day for the Bosne family.
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Born 1937-06-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Raymon Lee Cramton, known professionally as Chad Everett, was an American actor who appeared in more than 40 films and television series. He was well known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the television drama Medical Center, which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. Everett died at his home in Los Angeles after an 18-month battle with lung cancer.
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Born 1961-04-21. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Having been treated twice for a malignant brain tumor, Servan-Schreiber became a leading figure in his engagement for integrative approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer. He popularized his knowledge through teaching seminars, lectures, books, a blog and audio books. He died of brain cancer in Fécamp. David Servan-Schreiber was the eldest son of the late French journalist, author and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.
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Born 1949-03-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
Alex Higgins, also known by his nickname of Hurricane Higgins, was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who was twice World Champion and twice runner-up. Higgins earned the nickname The Hurricane due to his speed of play.
Higgins lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer. It was reported that since losing them he had been living on liquid food, and had become increasingly depressed, even contemplating suicide. He was too ill to have implants fitted.
At the end of his life, Higgins' weight reduced to six stones (38 kilos). He lived on benefits in sheltered housing on Donegall Road, Belfast. He was found dead in bed in his flat.
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Born 1973-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Also known as "the Spam King," he was an American e-mail marketer who from July 5, 2002 through April 15, 2007 conducted a Colorado business using the name Power Promoters. The primary nature of Davidson's business consisted of providing promotional services for companies by sending large volumes of unsolicited commercial electronic messages ("spamming"). The spamming was designed to promote the visibility and sale of products offered by various companies. Davidson utilized the services and assistance of other individuals who he hired as "sub-contractors" to provide spamming at his direction on behalf of his client companies.
Davidson was assigned Inmate Number 35082-013 and housed in a minimum security part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado.
Davidson walked away from a federal prison camp in Florence on July 20, 2008. He was subsequently found dead in Arapahoe County, Colorado on the morning of July 24, 2008, after reportedly killing his wife and three-year-old daughter who was strapped to a car seat, in an apparent murder-suicide. His 16-year-old daughter was also shot, but has survived, while his 7 month old son remained unharmed.
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Born 1913-09-27. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Albert Ellis had exaggerated fears of speaking in public and during his adolescence he was extremely shy around women. At age 19, already showing signs of thinking like a cognitive-behavioral therapist, he forced himself to talk to 100 women in the Bronx Botanical Gardens over a period of a month. Even though he didn't get a date, he reported that he desensitized himself to his fear of rejection by women.
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Born 1936-05-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Henri Attal was a French actor. Hunebelle said about him and fellow actor Dominique Zardi that they were the garlic in a gigot. At his funerals were only present Zardi and Mocky. Attal died from a crisis of asthma.
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Born 1933-12-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French actor.
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Born 1912-05-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Fernand Pouillon was a French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer. Pouillon was one of the most active and influential post-World War II architects and builders in France. He is remembered for his use of ‘noble’ building materials (especially stone), his seamless integration of all phases of the building process, his inexpensive and efficient building techniques and for his harmonious juxtaposition of forms. He was a humanist, as well as an architect. His stated goal was to meet human needs, and especially, those of middle-class and poorer families who faced severe shortages of dignified housing in the post-War period. Due to his success, ostentation and his imperious personality, he attracted the jealousy and ill-will of many. His was a tumultuous life, including prison time and a prison escape. Some architectural critics say he will be remembered as one of the great French architects of the 20th century. By the 1970s, influential people in France were having second thoughts about the treatment accorded to Pouillon: In 1971, he was pardoned by the French President Georges Pompidou. In 1978, he was reintegrated into the French Order of Architects. Pouillon returned definitively to France in 1984. In April 1984, he was named an Officer of the Légion d’Honour (the French Order of Merit), an honour conferred in person by the French President François Mitterrand. He spent the last years of his life at Château de Belcastel, a medieval castle in the Aveyron department, which he had restored together with Algerian craftsmen. He died in the Château de Belcastel. It is said that he had requested that his final resting place not show his name.
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Born 1925-09-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1891-10-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. He was the head of the British scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in 1945 for achievements in physics.
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Born 1885-02-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
"The little I know I owe to my ignorance."
To his fifth wife Lana Marconi: "Others were only my wives but you will be my widow!"
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Born 1879-09-27. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer
Hans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. After joining the Austrian army in 1915, he was badly wounded in 1916 and became again Professor extraordinarius, now in Bonn. In 1917 he was nominated a regular Professor there and in 1921 he returned to Vienna with this title, where he stayed until his rather early death in 1934 at the age of 54, following cancer surgery. He had married Eleonore ("Lilly") Minor in 1909 and they had a daughter, Nora (born 1910).
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Born 1892-03-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. Akutagawa published his second short story Rashōmon the following year in the literary magazine Teikoku Bungaku ("Imperial Literature"), while still a student. He died by suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.