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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Giansanti
Mirko. 2023-08-07

46

Born 1976-09-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown

Mirko Giansanti was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Born in Terni, the son of the motorcycle racer Fosco, Giansanti made his Grand Prix motorcycle racing debut in 1996, as a wild card with the Pileri team. His best year was in 1998 when he finished on the podium four times and finished in sixth place in the 125cc world championship. During his Grand Prix career he achieved a total of 12 podiums. Following his 2005 Grand Prix retirement, in 2008 Giansanti resumed activity, competing in the Supersport World Championship for three seasons. In 2016 he co-founded with Filippo Conti the Giansanti Racing Team, with which he competed in the Supersport World Championship, winning a title in 2015 with Lucas Mahias, and in the Superbike World Championship.

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Withers
Jane. 2021-08-07

95

Born 1926-04-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Jane Withers was an American actress and children's radio show host. She became one of the most popular child stars in Hollywood in the 1930s and early 1940s, with her films ranking in the top ten list for box-office gross in 1937 and 1938. She began her entertainment career at the age of three and, during the Golden Age of Radio, hosted her own children's radio program in her home city of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1932, she and her mother moved to Hollywood, where she appeared as an extra in many films until landing her breakthrough role as the spoiled, obnoxious Joy Smythe opposite Shirley Temple's angelic orphan Shirley Blake in the 1934 film Bright Eyes. She made 38 films before retiring at age 21 in 1947. She returned to film and television as a character actor in the 1950s. From 1963 to 1974, she gained new popularity with her portrayal of the character Josephine the Plumber in a series of television commercials for Comet cleanser. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she did voice work for Disney animated films. She was interviewed in numerous documentary retrospectives of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was also known for her philanthropy and her extensive doll collection.

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Reigl
Judit. 2020-08-07

97

Born 1923-05-01. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

Judit Reigl was a Hungarian painter who lived in France. Reigl attended the Hungarian University of Fine Arts from 1942 to 1945 where she was the student of the celebrated painter István Szőnyi. She was awarded a scholarship from the Academy of Hungary in Rome which allowed her to study in Italy between 1947 and 1948. During her studies there she encountered Byzantine icons, the mosaics of Ravenna, the works of Giotto and Masaccio and the paintings of Venice's Giorgione and Titian amongst others. In 1950, when the Iron Curtain had divided Hungary and Western Europe, Reigl succeeded in crossing into Western Europe after eight previous attempts. She explained that her home country of Hungary solely commissioned her to paint portraits of ruling Communist leaders such as Stalin, Rákosi and Gerő, and so her defection to the West was necessary to preserve her artistic freedom. Reigl eventually reached Paris by crossing through Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium where she lived from 1950 to 1963. In 1963 she moved to Marcoussis (Île-de-France).

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Gandois
Jean. 2020-08-07

90

Born 1930-05-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Jean Gandois, AM, was a French businessman. He was a pupil of the French École polytechnique, where he graduated in 1949, as an engineer of bridges and road construction. In 1995 he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia (AM), "for service to Australian-French relations, particularly in the business sphere".

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Chicot
Étienne. 2018-08-07

69

Born 1949-05-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Étienne Chicot was a French actor.

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Coates
David. 2018-08-07

71

Born 1946-12-24. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age

David Coates was a British-American political economist. Coates earned an undergraduate degree at the University of York in 1967 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1979. He began teaching prior to earning an advanced degree, serving as lecturer at the University of York from 1970 to 1971, and moving to the University of Leeds in 1977. Coates left Leeds in 1995 for the University of Manchester, and became the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University in 1999. He died on 7 August 2018, aged 71

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Coburn
Andrew. 2018-08-07

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Born 1932-05-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Andrew Coburn was an American writer from Exeter, New Hampshire. A New York Times best-selling novelist, short-story author, essayist and newspaper reporter and columnist, Coburn was the author of 13 novels which have been translated into over 14 languages throughout the world. He was married to Bernadine Casey Coburn, a former journalist and publicist now teaching writing at a women's jail, with whom he has one son and four daughters. They lived in Andover, Massachusetts. Three of his novels have been adapted into films. Off Duty (1980) was adapted into the French film Un dimanche de flic by director Michel Vianey. Sweetheart (1985) was adapted into the French film, Toutes peines confondues (1992). The film was distributed worldwide including Germany under the title Sweetheart, and in Italy under the title Marbel. Although first released over two decades ago, Sweetheart remains a popular cult film to this day. Widow's Walk (1994) was adapted into the French classic, Noyade interdite (1997), starring Guy Marchand, for which he was nominated France's national film award, the César Award.

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Weinberg
Gerald Marvin. 2018-08-07

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Born 1933-10-27. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

Gerald Marvin Weinberg was an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development. His most well-known books are The Psychology of Computer Programming and Introduction to General Systems Thinking. Egoless programming is a style of computer programming in which personal factors are minimized so that quality may be improved. The cooperative methods suggested are similar to those used by other collective ventures such as Wikipedia. Prefactoring is the application of experience to the creation of new software systems. Its relationship to its namesake refactoring is that lessons learned from refactoring are part of that experience. The guidelines have come from a number of sources, including Jerry Weinberg, Norm Kerth, and Scott Ambler. These guidelines include: "When you're abstract, be abstract all the way" "Splitters can be lumped more easily than lumpers can be split" "Use the client’s language"

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Nakajima
Haruo. 2017-08-07

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Born 1929-01-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia

He was a Japanese actor best known for playing Godzilla in twelve consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla (1954) until Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972). He also played various other giant monsters in Kaiju films, including Mothra and The War of the Gargantuas and also appeared in a minor role in the Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai. In 2018, asteroid 110408 Nakajima was named in his memory. The film Godzilla: King of the Monsters was dedicated to his memory.

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Polac
Michel. 2012-08-07

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Born 1930-04-10. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

Le masque et la plume. Droit de réponse.

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Cremer
Bruno. 2010-08-07

80

Born 1929-10-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)

He was widely known in France and the French-speaking world for his interpretation of the famous detective Maigret in a television series that started in 1991 and ended in 2005 after 54 episodes.

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Pininfarina
Andréa. 2008-08-07

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Born 1957-06-26. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident

He was an Italian engineer and manager, former CEO of the Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina, founded by his grandfather Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930 and still controlled by the family. He was the son of Sergio Pininfarina and was married to Italian aristocrat Cristina Maddalena Pellion di Persano, with whom he had three children.
Pininfarina died while riding a Vespa scooter, near the company’s headquarters in Cambiano, outside Turin, Italy, on the morning of August 7, 2008. According to police at the scene, the dynamics of the accident were clear; without seeing the approaching scooter, a car, driven by a 78 year old man, maneuvered from a side street around a parked lorry unloading sand, pulling directly in front of Mr. Pininfarina, whose scooter then impacted the car head-on. Conditions at the time of the accident were very foggy.

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Neal
Paul (alias: Red Adair). 2004-08-07

89

Born 1915-06-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

He was a renowned American oil field firefighter. He became world famous as an innovator in the highly specialized and extremely hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping blazing, erupting oil wells, both land-based and offshore.
"Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good—keep at it. I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery." (to reporters while working at the Kuwaiti oil well fires at the end of the Gulf War in 1991).
Red sold Red Adair Company, Inc. in 1993 and then formed Adair Enterprises, Inc. for consulting, product endorsements and investing. But fighting fires was in Red¹s blood, and he's been always active in the oilwell firefighting and blowout industry.

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James
Brion Howard. 1999-08-07

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Born 1945-02-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

Brion Howard James was an American character actor. He portrayed Leon Kowalski in Blade Runner, and appeared in Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Silverado, Tango & Cash, Red Heat, The Player, and The Fifth Element. James was frequently cast as an antagonist, appearing more frequently in lower-budget horror and action films and TV shows throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack at the age of 54. James died in 1999 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Malibu, California. He appeared in five feature films that were released posthumously. The last of these was Phoenix Point (2005). The motion picture The King Is Alive (2000) was dedicated to him.

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Szego
Gabor. 1985-08-07

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Born 1895-01-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the foremost analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of Toeplitz matrices and orthogonal polynomials. At the age of 15, the young John von Neumann, recognised as a mathematical prodigy, was sent to study advanced calculus under Szegő. On their first meeting, Szegő was so astounded by von Neumann's mathematical talent and speed that he was brought to tears.

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Apgar
Virginia. 1974-08-07

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Born 1909-06-07. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

She was an American pediatric anesthesiologist. She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and effectively founded the field of neonatology. To the public, however, she is best known as the developer of the Apgar score, a method of assessing the health of newborn babies that has drastically reduced infant mortality over the world.

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Hardy
Oliver. 1957-08-07

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Born 1892-01-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

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Point
Victor. 1932-08-07

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Born 1902-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

A chief member of the "croisière jaune". He committed suicide because is wife chated on him. he shot himself with two bullets in the mouth.

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