×
Selby Hubert (b. 1928-07-23 / d. 2004-04-26) alias Hubert Selby Jr
In 1947, while at sea, Selby was diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis. The doctors predicted that he would live less than a year. He was taken off the ship in Bremen, Germany, and sent back to America. For the next three and a half years, Selby was in and out of the Marine Hospital in New York for treatment.
Selby went through an experimental drug treatment, streptomycin, that later caused some severe complications. During an operation, surgeons removed several of Selby's ribs in order to reach his lungs. One of the lungs collapsed, and the doctors removed part of the other. The surgery saved Selby's life, but left him with a year-long recuperation and chronic pulmonary problems for the rest of his life. The medical treatments also marked the beginning of Selby's dependence on painkillers and heroin, an addiction that lasted for decades.
During the last years of his life, Selby suffered from depression and fits of rage. The last month of his life Selby spent in and out of the hospital. He died in Highland Park, Los Angeles of chronic obstructive pulmonary lung disease.
Lookup: name or firstname or alias or date (yyyy-mm-dd):
73
Born 1948-09-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE was an Australian singer, actress and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number-one hits and another ten top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200; If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Eleven of her singles (including two Platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two Platinum and four 2× Platinum) have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With global sales of more than 100 million records, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists from the second half of the 20th century to the present. In 1978, Newton-John starred in the musical film Grease, whose soundtrack remains one of the world's best-selling albums of all time. In May 2017, it was announced that Newton-John's breast cancer had returned and metastasised to her lower back. Her back pains had initially been diagnosed as sciatica. She subsequently revealed this was actually her third bout with breast cancer, as she had a recurrence of the disease in 2013 in addition to her initial 1992 diagnosis. With the 2017 recurrence, the cancer had spread to her bones and progressed to stage IV. Newton-John experienced significant pain from the metastatic bone lesions and had spoken of using cannabis oil to ease her pain. She was an advocate for the use of medical cannabis; her daughter Chloe owns a cannabis farm in Oregon.
90
Born 1929-07-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Mocky, pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He died from complications of a fall.
28
Born 1990-01-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Nicholas Kiplagat Bett was a Kenyan track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 47.79 seconds. He was a world champion in the event, having won in 2015, and a two-time bronze medallist at the African Championships in Athletics. He died in a road accident in Kenya at the age of 28. Bett died in a road accident near the town of Lessos, in Nandi County, Kenya, in the early morning of 8 August 2018. He had arrived back from the 2018 African Championships in Athletics in Nigeria two days earlier, and was driving along the Kapsabet to Eldoret road on his way back to Nairobi. According to the local police commander, Bett lost control of his car, a Toyota Prado SUV, which then hit a bump in the road and landed in a ditch, killing the athlete instantly.
78
Born 1940-02-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Xenia Gratsos, also known as Brioni Farrell, was a Greek American actress who worked both in film and on stage. She was born in Greece and moved to the United States to pursue her acting career. She had a long career with multiple roles in U.S. television and film. She lived in southern California with her husband, Eugene Robert Glazer, two dogs and seven cats, all of which were rescues. Star Trek ("The Return of the Archons") (1967) ... as Tula The actress succumbed to complications of Alzheimer's after suffering from the illness for 12 years.
69
Born 1948-01-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
Gonzague Saint Bris was an award-winning French novelist, biographer, and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for Les Vieillards de Brighton. He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. He was also a juror for the prix Contrepoint, a French literary award. With his family, he was a co-proprietor of Clos Lucé. Gonzague Saint Bris died in a road accident on the departmental 675 near Saint-Hymer, not far from Pont-l'Évêque (Calvados). His partner Alice Bertheaume, who was driving the car, a Renault Mégane, tried to dodge a fox, throwing the car against a tree. She had 0.80 grams of alcohol in her blood. Gonzague Saint Bris, whose seat belt was not fastened, was ejected and killed instantly, his companion slightly injured. On the evening of the tragedy, the couple left a reception spent in Deauville, after having dined in a restaurant in the city to join Bonneville-la-Louvet where they were to spend the night. The funeral of the writer took place on August 14, 2017 in the collegiate church of Saint Denis d'Amboise and the burial in the cemetery of this same city, not far from Clos Lucé. Alice Bertheaume was tried on May 15, 2018 by the Lisieux Criminal Court. She was sentenced to six months suspended prison for "manslaughter by a driver under the influence of an alcoholic state"
81
Born 1936-04-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Glen Travis Campbell was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and television host. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album. In June 2011, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six months earlier. He became a patient at an Alzheimer's long-term care and treatment facility in 2014. That same year Campbell was the subject of the documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, directed by longtime friend James Keach, that examined Campbell's Alzheimer's diagnosis and how it affected his musical performances during his final tour across the United States with his family. The documentary received critical acclaim, being one of the rare films to achieve a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Campbell began having problems with alcoholism and cocaine addiction in the 1970s. He credited his fourth wife Kim with helping him turn his life around. Campbell eventually stopped drinking alcohol and taking drugs in 1987. However, it was evident he relapsed in 2003 when he pleaded guilty in Arizona to drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident and spent 10 days in jail.
77
Born 1931-06-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an executioner in the last years of French Algeria. He acted as an executioner from 1947 to 1961 and executed more than 200. He inherited the job of executioner from his father Maurice Meyssonnier in 1947 when he ended compulsory education. His ancestors had been executioners from ages ago. When Algeria became independent from France in 1961, the guillotine was replaced by execution by firing squad.
78
Born 1925-04-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
She served as French Minister for the Family.
She belongs to the right wing.
74
Born 1914-08-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He died in his sleep on the Île d'Orléans in 1988. A monument in his memory was constructed there in 1989.
78
Born 1906-11-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Brooks unfortunately had a life-long love of alcohol (more specifically gin), having begun drinking heavily at the age of fourteen and was an alcoholic for a major portion of her life, although she exorcised that particular demon enough to begin writing about film, which became her second life.
She had lived alone by choice for many years, and died from a heart attack in 1985, after suffering from arthritis and emphysema for many years.
67
Born 1907-05-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Imperial Governor") of Vienna
At the Nuremberg trial Schirach was one of only two men to denounce Hitler (the other was Albert Speer). He said that he did not know about the extermination camps. He also provided evidence that he had protested to Martin Bormann about the inhumane treatment of the Jews. Also, it was revealed by Schirach at Nuremberg that the roots of his antisemitism could be found in the readings of Henry Ford's The International Jew. He was found guilty on October 1, 1946, of "crimes against humanity" for his deportation of the Viennese Jews. He was sentenced and served twenty years as a prisoner in Spandau Prison.
He was released on September 30, 1966, and retired quietly to southern Germany. He published his memoirs, Ich glaubte an Hitler ("I believed in Hitler"), in 1974. Prematurily aged because of his time in prison he died in his sleep.
58
Born 1860-02-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Zevaco was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist. He is remembered as the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Le Pont des soupirs (Bridge of Sighs), Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'Hôtel Saint Pol and Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels, but also published novels related to his times.