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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1961-08-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
Daniel Lévi was a French singer-songwriter, composer, and pianist.
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Born 1952-04-01. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. He has been called “the most important French theorist to come after Derrida, and one of the most important thinkers worldwide about the effects of digital technology”. Between 1978 and 1983 Stiegler was incarcerated for armed robbery, first at the Prison Saint-Michel in Toulouse, and then at the Centre de détention in Muret. It was during this period that he became interested in philosophy, studying it by correspondence with Gérard Granel at the Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail. His transformation in prison is recounted in his book, Passer ŕ l'acte (2003; the English translation of this work is included in the 2009 volume, Acting Out).
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Born 1945-04-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Joël Robuchon was a French chef and restaurateur. He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976. He published several cookbooks, two of which have been translated into English, chaired the committee for the Larousse Gastronomique, and hosted culinary television shows in France. He operated more than a dozen restaurants in Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City, with the highest record of a total of 32 Michelin Guide stars among them (31 at the time of his death), the most of any chef in the world.
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Born 1947-06-10. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Accident
She was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Seine-et-Marne department. She received a degree in private law from Montesquieu University in 1970. Bricq died accidentally from a fall.
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Born 1980-04-25. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
was a French businessman and inventor. He was Video game developer Rovio's digital services product strategist. His work at the company led to the success of Angry Birds. He was later the co-founder of Scarlet Motors. He also worked for the mobile phone company Nokia. Fourgeaud died in a base jump accident in Magland.
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Born 1944-06-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American composer. He was one of only eleven people to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He was also one of only two people to have won those four prizes and also a Pulitzer Prize (the other was Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch also won two Golden Globes. Marvin Hamlisch died in Los Angeles, California, at age 68, following a brief illness.
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Born 1931-08-27. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Infection
He was a French-born Polish painter. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Lodz. He later earned a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He moved back to France in 1977. Opałka lived in Teille, near Le Mans, and Venice. He died at age 79 after falling ill while on holiday in Italy. He was admitted to a hospital near Rome and died there a few days later. In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opałka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a 'detail', took up counting where the last left off. The final number he painted was 5607249.
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Born 1937-06-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor and humorist.
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Born 1950-08-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American singer and songwriter. First with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1985) and later on his own, DeVille in his 35-year career created songs that are wholly original yet rooted in traditional American musical styles. DeVille worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary music, including Jack Nitzsche, Doc Pomus, Dr. John, Mark Knopfler, Allen Toussaint, and Eddie Bo.
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Born 1917-05-29. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
His nephew Eric de Rothschild, son of Alain, took over at Château Lafite-Rothschild in 1974.
In 1954, when his wife Liliane was out of town, Elie was introduced to divorcee Pamela Churchill (later Pamela Harriman). According to Elie, "She was sweet, charming and pretty. I wanted to go to bed with her and I did." Nevertheless, Liliane quickly saw off her rival.
He died of a heart attack when on vacation at his hunting lodge near the village of Scharnitz outside Innsbruck in Austria.
He died just after the vote of the paquet fiscal.
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Born 1920-10-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Barth participated in the Oradour massacre as a platoon leader in the regiment Das Reich, commanding 45 soldiers. He was amongst other war criminals charged with having given orders to shoot 20 men in a garage. In 1983, Barth was sentenced to life imprisonment by the 1st senate of the city court Berlin. He was released from prison in the re-unified Germany in 1997.
He had lost a leg during the war. Then, in 1991, he obtained as a war victim, a pension of 800 Marks per month. In 1997, the Bundestag cancelled the pension, and voted a law against the pensionning of former war criminals.
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Born 1917-06-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart
In 1948 Selberg gave an elementary proof of the prime number theorem. Paul Erdős, using a crucial result of Selberg, also obtained a proof around the same time, leading to a dispute between them about to whom this result should primarily be attributed. For all these accomplishments Selberg received the 1950 Fields Medal. He was the oldest living Fields Medalist at the time of his death.
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Born 1930-05-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000. Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades. Almost all EWDs appearing after 1972 were hand-written. When lecturing, he would write proofs in chalk on a blackboard rather than using overhead foils, let alone Powerpoint slides. Even after he succumbed to his UT colleagues’ encouragement and acquired a Macintosh computer, he used it only for e-mail and for browsing the World Wide Web. He died in Nuenen on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.
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Born 1916-09-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology. His wife was American mathematician Dorothy Maharam. His first paper dealt with squaring the square, he proved the Erdős–Stone theorem with Paul Erdős and is credited with the discovery of the first flexagon, a trihexaflexagon while he was a student at Princeton University in the USA in 1939. The Stone's metrization theorem has been named after him, and he was a member of a group of mathematicians who published pseudonymously as Blanche Descartes. He is not to be confused with American mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone.
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Born 1914-00-00. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
In July 1980 he escaped an assassination attempt in his home in the Parisian suburb, Suresnes, which killed a policeman and a neighbor. But on August 7, 1991, Bakhtiar was murdered along with his secretary, Soroush Katibeh, by three assassins in his home. The inquest found that he was stabbed by a knife matching a nearby blood stained bread knife. Bakhtiar's dead body was not found until at least 36 hours after his death, despite the fact that he had heavy police protection and that his killers had left ID (presumably faked) with a guard at his house. Two of the assassins escaped to Iran, but the third, Ali Vakili Rad, was apprehended in Switzerland, as well as an alleged accomplice, Zeyal Sarhadi, a great-nephew of the president of Iran, and both were extradited to France for trial. Vakili Rad was sentenced to life in prison in December 1994, although Sarhadi was acquitted.
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Born 1899-03-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
His work is often associated with the philosophy of Phenomenology. He died in Le Bar-sur-Loup.
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Born 1951-07-04. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Other
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Born 1903-09-11. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society. Upon his return to Frankfurt, Adorno was involved with the reconstitution of German intellectual life through debates with Karl Popper on the limitations of positivist science, critiques of Heidegger's language of authenticity, writings on German responsibility for the Holocaust, and continued interventions into matters of public policy. As a writer of polemics in the tradition of Nietzsche and Karl Kraus, Adorno delivered scathing critiques of contemporary Western culture. Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the "fatal separation" of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion. Adorno was chiefly influenced by Max Weber's critique of disenchantment, Georg Lukács's Hegelian interpretation of Marxism, as well as Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. Adorno, along with the other major Frankfurt School theorists Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, argued that advanced capitalism had managed to contain or liquidate the forces that would bring about its collapse and that the revolutionary moment, when it would have been possible to transform it into socialism, had passed. As he put it at the beginning of his Negative Dialectics (1966), philosophy is still necessary because the time to realise it was missed. Adorno argued that capitalism had become more entrenched through its attack on the objective basis of revolutionary consciousness and through liquidation of the individualism that had been the basis of critical consciousness. Adorno, as well as Horkheimer, critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. Adorno and Horkheimer have been criticized for over-applying the term "positivism," especially in their interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper as positivists.
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Born 1903-03-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Leon Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist. One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism. Beiderbecke's chief competitor among cornetists in the '20s was Louis Armstrong, but due to their different sounds and styles one really could not compare them. Beiderbecke had suffered health problems from an early age and his health declined further in his adult years. He toured relentlessly, and consumed excessive alcohol, much of it low quality, and often somewhat poisonous, Prohibition Era alcohol. His spirits also suffered due to declining work around the New York City area. In 1929 bandleader Paul Whiteman sent Beiderbecke back home to Davenport, Iowa, to recover from a breakdown caused by alcoholism, related physical problems and the stress of touring. His treatment was initially successful, but failed later. In late July or early August 1931 in New York City where he went on his last drinking binge. He died in his Queens apartment alone just 28 years old. While the official cause of his death was "lobar pneumonia" and "brain edema", Beiderbecke actually died of an alcoholic seizure during delirium tremens.