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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 1939-04-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Paul Anthony Sorvino was an American actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and sculptor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law. Sorvino died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Born 1918-10-16. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Charles-Henri Jean Dewisme, better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, was an author of action and science-fiction novels. He published over 200 titles in the action and science-fiction genre. He was most noted for the creation of the character Bob Morane, a hero whose adventures spanned fifty years and went from straight adventure and science-fiction to fantasy. Vernes also wrote the text of many comics albums and animated movies. Dewisme used a number of other pseudonyms, including Jacques Colombo, Robert Davids, Duchess Holiday, C. Reynes, Jacques Seyr, Lew Shannon, and Ray Stevens, as well as his real name.
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Born 1916-07-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE was a French-British-American actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading actresses of her time. She was also one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood Cinema, until her death in 2020. Her younger sister was actress Joan Fontaine.
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Born 1933-05-16. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Danièle Heymann was a French journalist and film critic. She was the former head of the Culture Department at Le Monde, a film critic for Marianne and L'Express, and was a participant in the show Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter. She was a recipient of the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Officer of the National Order of Merit. Danièle Heymann was born in Paris. She was the daughter of filmmaker Claude Heymann, and was the second wife of singer Jean Bertola. Her first salaried job was at the Cinémathèque Française. After starting at France-Soir, she was quickly dismissed because of a very negative review of a film with Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault. She was a cinema critic at L'Express and Marianne, and head of the Culture Department at Le Monde. From 1989 to 2019, she served as a cinema columnist on the radio show Le Masque et la Plume. She was a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1987. From 1977 to 2006 she directed L'Année du cinéma, which she wrote alone or with Pierre Murat or Alain Lacombe. Heymann was a friend of Michèle Morgan and Françoise Arnoul during her youth. She died in Paris 15eme.
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Born 1952-06-17. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Operation
Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry. Following complications from surgery, Marchionne resigned from all of his positions in July 2018 and died a few days later. The American business channel CNBC described Marchionne as a "legend of automotive industry", while the British newspaper Financial Times considered him as having been "one of the boldest business leaders of his generation".
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Born 1939-04-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Patrick Moody Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.
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Born 1938-10-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 films.
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Born 1960-11-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a German film and television actress. She was married to actor Ulrich Mühe with whom she had two children. Mühe died of cancer in 2007. With Ulrich Mühe, she appeared as the victimised married couple in the original version of Michael Haneke's Funny Games in 1997. Lothar worked again with Haneke as Mrs Schober in The Piano Teacher and in The White Ribbon. Assisted suicide ?
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Born 1922-06-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Michael Cacoyannis (Greek: Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης) was a prominent Greek filmmaker from Cyprus, best known for his 1964 film Zorba the Greek. He directed the 1983 Broadway revival of the musical based on the film.
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Born 1981-12-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American World Cup aerial skier from Boise, Idaho, skiing out of Bogus Basin. A three-time Olympian, he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Peterson was found dead in Lambs Canyon, Utah. The cause of death was determined to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Three days previously, Peterson had been arrested for driving while intoxicated. He was still reeling from the suicide of a friend named Trevor Fernald, who had committed suicide in front of Peterson in 2005. Peterson also had problems with alcohol and depression and admitted he had his own thoughts of suicide--all stemming from a childhood in which he was sexually abused and at the age of 5-years-old he lost one of his older sisters to a drunk driver. A few days after Peterson's death, Utah law enforcement released a recording of the 911 call that Peterson made just before he committed suicide. In it Peterson told the dispatcher that he was going to kill himself and that he wanted the police to come and get his body.
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Born 1944-11-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
Bruce Adler, the scion of Yiddish theatre family who went on to have much success on the Broadway stage, winning two Tony Award nominations, died in the early hours of July 25, said his close friend, actor Mike Burstyn. Mr. Adler had been battling liver cancer for several years. He was 63.
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Born 1919-10-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Tracy Hall was an American physical chemist, and the first person who grew a synthetic diamond according to a reproducible, verifiable and witnessed process, using a press of his own design. He was granted 19 patents in his career.
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Born 1913-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1903-02-28. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Alzheimer.
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Born 1938-01-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
After his divorce, Vysotsky fell in love with Marina Vlady, a French actress of Russian descent, who was working at Mosfilm on a joint Soviet-French production at that time. Marina had been married before and had 3 children, while Vladimir had two. Fueled by Marina's exotic status as a Frenchwoman in the USSR, and Vladimir's unmatched popularity in his country, their love was passionate and impulsive. They were married in 1969. For 10 years the two maintained a long-distance relationship as Marina compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and Vladimir's friends pulled strings in order for him to be allowed to travel abroad to stay with his wife. Marina eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the USSR, and provided Vladimir with some immunity against prosecution by the government, which was becoming weary of his covertly anti-Soviet lyrics and his odds-defying popularity with the masses. The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.
He died in Moscow at the age of 42 of heart failure.
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Born 1891-12-02. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
He was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering, including his 1948 Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire.
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Born 1905-08-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS. He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka. He reportedly contacted the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter as well as members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII in order to inform the international public about the Holocaust. In 1945 he wrote the Gerstein Report about this. Afterward he allegedly committed suicide.
On 22 April 1945, Gerstein surrendered to the French commandant of the occupied town of Reutlingen. He received a sympathetic reception and was transferred to a residence in a hotel in Rottweil. It was there that he was able to write out his reports. However, he was later transferred to the notorious Cherche-Midi military prison where he was apparently treated as a war criminal. On 25 July, 1945 he was found dead in his cell, an alleged suicide.
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Born 1913-09-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
André DALMAS was employed at the Central Telegraphic PTT in Paris, 103 rue de Grenelle since February 1, 1938. He was born in Thomery in Seine-et-Marne. He made brilliant studies, obtained the baccalaureate of philosophy and two certificates of license in law. As a student, he was already participating in a political activity, in particular by joining the Communist Students in 1934 during his studies at the Faculty of Law in Paris. He was also a member of the Federal Union of Students. He took part in demonstrations to defend a law professor attacked by the Croix-de-Feu and the Patriotic Youth in 1935 and 1936. He did his military service from 1936 to 1937 in Mourmelon, section of military nurses. He was mobilized from August 1939 to August 1940. He married on December 5, 1939, to Aimée Pannetier, a former student in philosophy and member of the Socialist Youth who then campaigned for the Federal Union of Students. After their marriage, they will live in Maisons-Laffitte in Seine-et-Oise. Very quickly, André Dalmas will join the underground Communist Party then the FTP. On May 31, 1942, rue de Buci in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, a revolt of a significant number of women broke out. They were exasperated by the hardships, by the endless queues, by the worry about ration tickets. Women grab goods from nearby grocery stores and distribute them. The police arrived very quickly and charged the demonstrators but run into a group of FTP. André Dalmas was responsible for protecting Madeleine Marzin. Arrests were made made. Among them, André Dalmas, Madeleine Marzin, a steelworker Edgar Lefébure, and students. The judgment by the Special Section of the State Court was expeditious. No recourse, officially appointed lawyers defended them by presenting them as lost. The next day, Edgar Lefébure and André Dalmas were guillotined on July 25, 1942 in the courtyard of La prison de la Santé. The name of André Dalmas appears on the stele of the PTT Telegraph Center at 103, rue de Grenelle. In 2005, the building having been sold, this stele was removed and reinstalled in one of the France Telecom-Orange halls, 6 place d´Alleray in the 15th arrondissement. The management of this company has left this place. Madeleine Marzin, born July 21, 1908 in Loudéac, died May 27, 1998 in Paris. She joined the Resistance very early on, participating in the constitution of the National University Front. She and other women lead the demonstration in rue de Buci. At the mock trial, she was sentenced to death, a sentence commuted to hard labor. During her transfer to Rennes prison she managed to escape. She became Municipal councilor of Paris, elected Member of the Communist list in 1951, then re-elected in 1956.