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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 1998-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Conor Angus Cloud Hickey was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Fezco in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–2022). He also had small roles in the independent films North Hollywood (2021) and The Line (2023), and appeared in music videos by Noah Cyrus, Juice Wrld, Becky G, and Karol G. Cloud died at his family's house in Oakland, California, at age 25. The Oakland Fire Department were summoned for a medical emergency and declared Cloud "already deceased" on arrival. He had been mourning the death of his father, whose funeral he had attended in Ireland a week earlier.
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Born 1964-11-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Unknown
Sophie Fillières was a French film director and screenwriter who wrote for more than fifteen film and television productions from 1991 on. Fillières died on 31 July 2023, at the age of 58, after ending the shoot of her last film, This Life of Mine.
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Born 1944-02-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Alan William Parker CBE was an English filmmaker. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films. Parker was married twice; first to Annie Inglis from 1966 until their divorce in 1992, and then to producer Lisa Moran, to whom he was married until his death. He had five children, including screenwriter Nathan Parker. Parker died in London at age 76, following a lengthy illness.
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Born 1941-07-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French singer and saxophonist, principally known for his participation to the French rock group Martin Circus.
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Born 1939-01-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Tony Bullimore, nicknamed The British Bulldog, was a British businessman and international yachtsman. He is known especially for being rescued on 10 January 1997 during a sailing race after he had been presumed dead. Bullimore died of a rare form of stomach cancer.
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Born 1973-09-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:orphan disease
He was a French tennis player. The left-hander reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in April 1999, winning 2 singles titles and reaching the semifinals of Monte Carlo in 1999. Golmard finished his career with over $2.2 million in prize money. Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former World No. 1s Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcelo Ríos and Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanišević, Albert Costa, Gastón Gaudio, Thomas Johansson and Michael Chang. He announced in 2014 that he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, which causes muscle paralysis, and died of the disease.
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Born 1941-12-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He was a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1966 until 2015. Les brigades du tigre.
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Born 1928-01-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) (which she shared with Melina Mercouri for her role in Never on Sunday), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992). She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, Cannes Golden Palm in 2003 and César Award in 2008.
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Born 1929-03-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of Caucasian life. He authored various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which features a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik".
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Born 1954-04-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Roderick George "Roddy" Toombs, better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, was a Canadian professional wrestler, film actor and podcast host. In professional wrestling, he was known for his work with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Although he was Canadian, because of his Scottish heritage he was billed as coming from Glasgow and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nicknames "Rowdy" and "Hot Rod" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity, and quick wit. Industry veteran Ric Flair hailed Piper as "the most gifted entertainer in the history of professional wrestling". Piper acted in dozens of films and TV shows, including the lead role in 1988's They Live and a recurring role in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Piper died in his sleep after a heart attack, at the age of 61, in his home in Hollywood, California.
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Born 1925-10-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal in West Point, New York, the only child of 1st Lieutenant Eugene Luther Vidal (1895–1969) and Nina Gore (1903–1978). The middle name, Louis, was a mistake on the part of his father, "who could not remember for certain whether his own name was Eugene Louis or Eugene Luther." As Vidal explained in his memoir Palimpsest (Deutsch, 1995), "... my birth certificate says 'Eugene Louis Vidal': this was changed to Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr.; then Gore was added at my christening; then at fourteen I got rid of the first two names."
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Born 1952-06-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Serbian singer, born in Leskovac. Louis was known for his unique musical style and was in the music business from 1970 until his death. He died in a car accident, on the road between Feketić and Vrbas. His last show was on July 22nd, 2011 at Club Jez in Sarajevo, where he played to a packed house of enthusiastic fans who waited until 1 a.m. for him to take the stage.
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Born 1928-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
Philippe Avron,was a French actor. In the 60's together with Claude Evrard, he formed the comic duo Avron et Evrard.
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Born 1933-02-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
"Bobby" Robson was an English footballer and, after retirement, manager of several European clubs and the England national football team.
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Born 1914-05-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Élisabeth Lutz was a French mathematician. The Nagell–Lutz theorem in Diophantine geometry describes the torsion points of elliptic curves; it is named after Lutz and Trygve Nagell, who both published it in the 1930s. Lutz was a student of André Weil at the University of Strasbourg, from 1934 to 1938. She earned a thesis for her research for him, on elliptic curves over p-adic fields.
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Born 1933-07-15. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
He was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the sixties. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of eroticism.
he died of multiple sclerosis.
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Born 1900-01-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Poland and residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives.
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Born 1900-06-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
He disappeared on the night of July 31, 1944 while flying on a mission to collect data on German troop movements.
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Born 1859-09-03. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Jaurès was assassinated in a Paris café by Raoul Villain, a young French nationalist. Villain was tried after World War I and acquitted.
Two bullets perforated Jaurès' head. A third shot hit himin the chest.
Ten years after his death, Jaurès' remains were transferred to the Panthéon.