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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1928-07-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Patricia Alma O'Connell (née Hitchcock) was an English actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of his films, her most substantial appearance being in Strangers on a Train (1951).
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Born 1997-05-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Olivia Rose Podmore was a New Zealand professional racing cyclist. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Podmore died in Cambridge on the evening of 9 August 2021, aged 24. Her death is a suspected suicide and has been referred to the coroner. Hours before her death, she posted on Instagram about the pressures of high-performance sport. Podmore's funeral was held in Christchurch on 13 August 2021. Her death came less than 24 hours after the 2020 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, and as the New Zealand Olympic team returning from Tokyo were required to undergo 14 days in managed isolation and quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a second memorial service is planned to be held in Cambridge on 27 August 2021.
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Born 1941-01-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He began acting during his college years at West Chester University, in Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jenner moved to New York City where he found roles in Club Champion’s Widow, opposite Maureen Stapleton, and Put Them All Together with Mariette Hartley. Along with Olympia Dukakis, he was a founding member of the innovative Whole Theatre Company where he starred opposite Dukakis in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Jenner also received wide acclaim as the self-destructive pitcher in Jonathan Reynolds' hit play, Yanks 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Ninth, directed by Alan Arkin at New York City’s American Place Theatre. Jenner had a recurring role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Admiral William Ross. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 75.
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Born 1954-01-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
He was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. he was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside of France was Mygale (2003), which was published in English translation as Tarantula in 2005 (Serpent's Tail). He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
Jonquet died aged 55 in hospital in Paris, after suffering an epileptic crisis on July, 28.
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Born 1938-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
John William Saunders III, better known by the stage name John Quade, was an American character actor who starred in film and in television. He was best known for his role as Cholla, the leader of the motorcycle gang the Black Widows in the Clint Eastwood films Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980).
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Born 1941-03-13. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart
He was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet.
Darwish had a history of heart problems: After a heart attack in 1984, he underwent heart surgery. In 1998, he was operated on again. His last return visit to Palestine was on 15 July 2007 to attend a poetry recital at Mt. Carmel Auditorium, in which he criticized the factional violence between Fatah and Hamas as a "suicide attempt in the streets".
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Born 1957-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
His most noted film role was as Frank Catton in the remake Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels. Mac also starred in several films, including Mr. 3000. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001-2006, earning two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His other films included Friday, Bad Santa, Pride, and Transformers.
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005.
On July 24, 2008, he was hospitalized with an infection, that was later identified as pneumonia. The news of his hospitalization would not be announced for over a week, when his publicist claimed that Mac had pneumonia. The next day, responding to rumors that the actor was in "very, very critical condition," his publicist said that he was responding well to treatment, and should be released soon. On August 9, his publicist announced that Mac had died from complications of pneumonia unrelated to sarcoidosis.
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Born 1946-04-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Prior to the 1968 Olympics, Besson was virtually unknown, and the fact that she qualified for the 400 m could already be considered a surprise. In the final, Britain's Lillian Board - the favourite for the gold - was way ahead of the rest of the field with just 100 m to go. With an amazing last sprint, Besson then moved up from fifth place to beat Board on the finish line by a tenth of a second. Her winning time of 52.03 seconds was 1.8 seconds better than her personal best.
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Born 1949-04-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was grinded by an elephant during a photograph rallye in Kenya.
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Born 1928-07-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
Killed by a car while he was riding his bike.
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Born 1920-05-29. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was a Hungarian economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner. He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games. He also made important contributions to the use of game theory and economic reasoning in political and moral philosophy (specifically utilitarian ethics) as well as contributing to the study of equilibrium selection. For his work, he was a co-recipient along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. John Harsanyi died in 2000 from a heart attack in Berkeley, California, after suffering for a time from Alzheimer's disease
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Born 1959-07-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Leonard Nimoy was the best man at her and William Shatner's 1997 wedding.
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Born 1907-06-01. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine (some years earlier than Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain) and is regarded by many as the father of jet propulsion. Von Ohain allegedly stated that if the RAF had taken Whittle's design seriously when it was first submitted, there would have been no World War II. As it was found later in the war the fighter superiority over Europe was key to winning the war in Europe.
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Born 1917-06-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Helena Rasiowa was a Polish mathematician. She worked in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic. Rasiowa was born in Vienna on 20 June 1917 to Polish parents. As soon as Poland regained its independence in 1918, the family settled in Warsaw. Helena's father was a railway specialist. She exhibited many different skills and interests, from music to business management and the most important of her interests, mathematics. In 1938, the time was not very opportune for entering a university. Rasiowa had to interrupt her studies, as no legal education was possible in Poland after 1939. Many people fled the country, or at least they fled the big towns, which were subject to German bombardment and terror. The Rasiowa family fled also, as most high-ranking administration officials and members of the government were being evacuated to Romania. The family spent a year in Lviv. After a Soviet invasion in September 1939, the town was taken over by the Soviet Union. The lives of many Poles became endangered, so Helena's father decided to return to Warsaw.
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Born 1932-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Girlfriend of Jacques Brel. He wrote "ne me quitte pas" for her, although he was the one who left.
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Born 1906-09-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
In later life, Shostakovich suffered from chronic ill health, but he resisted giving up cigarettes and vodka. From 1958 he suffered from a debilitating condition which particularly affected his right hand, eventually forcing him to give up piano playing.
Shostakovich died of lung cancer.
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Born 1943-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
During the night they were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "Family" and their bodies discovered the following morning by Tate's housekeeper, Winifred Chapman. Police arrived at the scene to find the body of a young man, later identified as Steven Parent, shot to death in his car, which was in the driveway. Inside the house, the bodies of Tate and Sebring were found in the living room; a long rope tied around each of their necks connected them. On the front lawn lay the bodies of Frykowski and Folger. All of the victims, except Parent, had been stabbed numerous times. The coroner's report for Tate noted that she had been stabbed sixteen times, and that "five of the wounds were in and of themselves fatal".
She was pregnant.
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Born 1898-09-28. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart attack
Carl Clauberg was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on human subjects (mainly Jewish) at Auschwitz concentration camp. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1945, near the close of WWII, he was captured by the Red Army and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released in 1955 under a prisoner exchange agreement, and he returned to Germany and continued to practice medicine. Due to public outcry from Holocaust survivors, Clauberg was arrested in 1955. Carl Claubert died in his cell of a heart attack, a few weeks before the opening of his trial.
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Born 1864-05-10. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry.
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Born 1863-05-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. First awarded in 1936, the medal has been awarded since 1950 every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians to two to four recipients under the age of 40.
It comes with a monetary award, which in 2006 was C$15,000 (US$15,000 or €10,000).
In 2006, Grigori Perelman, credited with proving the Poincaré conjecture, refused his Fields Medal and did not attend the congress.
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Born 1835-01-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He is best known today for a series of two essays he published in 1883 in le Journal des Sciences Militaires ("Journal of Military Science") entitled La Cryptographie Militaire ("Military Cryptography"). These articles surveyed the then state-of-the-art in military cryptography, and made a plea for considerable improvements in French practice. They also included many pieces of practical advice and rules of thumb.
In 1885, Dr. Kerckhoffs became interested in the constructed language Volapük, and for several years was a leading member of the Volapük movement, and Director of the Academy of Volapük. He published several books on the subject and introduced the movement to France, Spain, and Scandinavia through a series of public lectures.