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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 1932-08-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann, known professionally as Geneviève de Fontenay (French pronunciation: [ʒənvjɛv də fɔ̃tnɛ]), was a French businesswoman who served as the president of the Miss France Committee from 1981 until 2007. After leaving her position with Miss France, Fontenay created the beauty pageant Miss Prestige National in 2010, and served as its president until her retirement in 2016. On 2 August 2023, Fontenay's son announced that she had died in her sleep of cardiac arrest on the night of 1 August, at her Saint-Cloud home. She was 90. She had been growing weak in the time prior to her death, and spent her last moments with her brother and granddaughter.
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Born 1934-09-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor and singer. After serving in the United States Marine Corps and taking on a variety of odd jobs, he became an extra for Western films, and in little more than a decade he had established himself as a character actor in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983) and The Natural (1984). He was the long-time face of television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related commercials for Liberty Medical, which later became a meme due to his accent causing him to pronounce the name of the disease as "diabeetus".
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Born 1952-07-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Ian Gibbons was an English keyboardist, most notable for playing with The Kinks. Gibbons died at home at the age of 67 from bladder cancer.
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Born 1947-10-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Anders Peter Ravn was a Danish computer scientist. Anders P. Ravn was born in 1947 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of Niels and Henny (Sønder) Ravn. He arrived in Denmark in 1948. Ravn received a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Copenhagen in 1973 and a Doctor of Technology (Dr.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark in 1995. Ravn specialized in research into formal methods, especially for embedded systems and hybrid systems. In particular, he worked with Zhou Chaochen and Tony Hoare on the development of Duration Calculus for real-time systems.
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Born 1930-01-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese film director.
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Born 1967-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
In late 2006, Ray Underhill, was diagnosed with a chordoma brain tumor,
for which he has been receiving successful treatment.
He was a professional skateboarder from Hendersonville, Tennessee. He turned pro in 1987 and was sponsored by Powell Peralta. He was featured in the Bones Brigade videos The Search For Animal Chin (1987) and Ban This (1989).
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Born 1979-04-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation
He was a South African professional road racing cyclist. He had been cycling since 1987 but turned professional in 2000. He first joined Amore e Vita but changed, the following year to Team Cologne which was based in Germany. He had been a member of Team Barloworld since 2003. Cox died at Kempton Park Hospital when the main artery in his left leg burst, three weeks after a vascular lesion operation in France for a knotted artery.
Meanwhile, during the tour de France 2007... An interview of Vinokourov, in French: "Oui il y a eu beaucoup de 'shoot' pendant la dernière étape". did he mean 'chutes'?
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Born 1917-11-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
The actress chose the stage name "Robinson" after the novel Robinson Crusoe because it denoted liberty, as her Czech birth name meant "freedom". She was the daughter of a Czechoslovak pastry cook father and a French tram ticket collector mother. At 14 Robinson, whose real name was Svoboda, began work in a factory, and then became an errand-girl before working as a maid for a painter.
Her daughter Sophie-Julia (from a relationship with Jean-Louis Jaubert, from the group 'Les Compagnons de la Chanson') died of AIDS in 1993 aged 38.
Had a son, Jean-François, from her first marriage with Robert Dalban
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1958
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Born 1962-01-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
Beaten up by her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat
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Born 1915-03-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Richter died in his home outside Moscow due to a heart attack, after a long period of depression caused by his inability to perform in public. At the time of his death, Richter was learning Schubert's Fünf Klavierstucke, D.
During the taping of the documentary titled "Enigma", Richter claimed he never practiced more than 2 or 3 hours a day (except when he had to learn a piece on short notice). That statement, however, is demonstrably false. In fact, it is known that Richter routinely practiced for more than 10 hours a day, obsessively laboring over details, which may reflect Richter's constantly self-deprecating nature.
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Born 1932-02-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
Militza de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff had 3 sisters:
Olga (born 1928) : Olga Varen - TV Director
Tania(1930-1980) : Odile Versois - Actress
Catherine (born 1938) : Marina Vlady - Actress.
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Born 1893-03-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
It is alleged that the name The Cold War was officially "coined" after a speech he made in 1948, over his concern on the growing rift that developed between The Allied Powers of Western Europe and The Warsaw Pact Forces of Eastern Europe.
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Born 1944-08-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was driving at a private test session at Hockenheim, when a suspension failure pitched his car into the armco at the high-speed Ostkurve, inflicting fatal head injuries when the vehicle overturned and vaulted the barrier.
Buried in Crevant-Laveine (Puy-de-Dome)
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Born 1921-02-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Jean Marie Behra was a Formula One driver who raced for the Gordini, Maserati, BRM, Ferrari and Porsche teams. Behra was small in stature, stocky, and weighed 178 pounds. Behra had big shoulders and was scarred from 12 crashes. In 1955 he had an ear torn off from a collision. He sometimes drove magnificently, while at other times he drove with a lack of enthusiasm. Behra was known for being hard-charging and temperamental, which led to confrontations with Ferrari team managers after being accused of overstressing engines at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Reims Grand Prix race in 1959. He was dismissed from the Ferrari team after assaulting a team manager, shortly before his death. He crashed his Porsche RSK in rainy weather in the sports car race that preceded the German Grand Prix at AVUS, in Berlin, Germany. He was thrown from his car and fatally injured when he hit a flagpole, causing a skull fracture. The sports car race featured entries of small, under 1,500 c.c. engine capacity. After three laps Behra was third behind Wolfgang von Trips and Bonnier, who eventually finished one and two. The AVUS was unique among race tracks. It used a strip of the Autobahn 2.5 miles (4.0 km) in length. The north and south bound lanes were fifty feet apart. At one end was a hairpin turn which drivers negotiated at around 30 mph (48 km/h). At the other end was a 30-foot (9.1 m) high, steeply banked loop. Behra lost control in the pouring rain, while going 110 mph (180 km/h). The Porsche began to fishtail with the tail of the car going higher and higher up the slick, steep bank. Then the Porsche spun and went over the top of the banking, with its nose pointing toward the sky. It landed heavily on its side on top of the banking. It remained there wrecked, while the race continued on underneath. Behra was thrown out and for a fleeting moment he could be seen against the background of the sky, with his arms outstretched as though attempting to fly. He impacted one of eight flagpoles arranged at the summit of the embankment which bore the flags of the competing nations. The flagpole toppled over when Behra collided with it, about halfway to its top. Behra came down into trees and rolled almost into a street where drivers and cars often waited in a paddock to practice. A doctor arrived from a Red Cross ambulance close by. He examined Behra briefly and shook his head. A hospital bulletin stated that Behra broke most of his ribs in addition to the skull fracture which killed him. Currently AVUS is a vital part of the German public highway system as Autobahn A 115.