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Valardy André (b. 1938-05-17 / d. 2007-04-30)
Belgian actor and director
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Born 1940-02-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Peter Henry Fonda was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s. Fonda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999). Fonda died from respiratory failure caused by lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, at the age of 79.
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Born 1942-03-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular-music career as a recording artist for Columbia Records. While Franklin's career did not immediately flourish, she found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer" propelled her past her musical peers. By the end of the 1960s, Aretha Franklin had come to be known as the "Queen of Soul". Franklin died at her home on August 16, 2018, aged 76, without a will. The cause of death was a malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET), which is distinct from the most-common form of pancreatic cancer.
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Born 1916-05-08. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, athlete and centenarian who served as the seventh President of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. His tenure as President is the second longest in FIFA's history, behind only that of Jules Rimet. He received the title of Honorary President when leaving office, but resigned in April 2013. He succeeded Stanley Rous and was succeeded by Sepp Blatter. João Havelange served as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1963 to 2011. He was the longest-serving active member upon his resignation. In July 2012 a Swiss prosecutor's report revealed that, during his tenure on FIFA's Executive Committee, he and his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira took more than $41 million in bribes in connection with the award of World Cup marketing rights. In March and April 2012 Havelange was hospitalized for a seriously infected right ankle in Rio de Janeiro, which necessitated a period in intensive care. In April 2013 he resigned from his position as FIFA's Honorary President for "health and personal reasons". Havelange was again admitted to hospital in June 2014, for a lung infection, and in November 2015 with respiratory problems. He died at the age of 100 in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Summer Olympics which were being held there.
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Born 1919-08-15. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Ses émissions Allô, Ménie et Responsabilité sexuelle, ont contribué à vulgariser la psychanalyse et à « démythifier » la sexualité .
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Born 1930-05-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis was a mathematician at Temple University who proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. He previously held tenured positions at Yeshiva University and at the Courant Institute at New York University.
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Born 1934-09-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
In September 2006, Drew was reported to be in ill-health after being admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, to undergo tests for suspected cancer. The Evening Herald reported that Drew's apparent illness was due to years of heavy drinking. However, according a fan site dedicated to The Dubliners, it was reported that he was undergoing treatment for throat cancer. (Drew had been a teetotaler for a number of years, with an occasional relapse. However, he remained a regular smoker.)
Despite his ailing health, Drew featured on an album entitled Pearls produced by Niall Austin with work Drew did with Jah Wobble.
His wife of over 40 years, Deirdre Drew (née McCartan) died on 7 June 2007 at St Vincent's Hospital. She died just a day before Ronnie was due to return to performing after his battle with cancer, at the Legends of Irish Folk concert with Johnny McEvoy, Ralph McTell and Finbar Furey.
On 25 October 2007 Ronnie Drew appeared on Ryan Confidential on RTÉ 1 to give an interview about his role in The Dubliners, his life since leaving the band and being diagnosed with throat cancer. This was Ronnie's first ever televised appearance where he was shown bald and beardless. Later in 2007, Ronnie again appeared on the Late Late Show, where he again spoke about the death of his wife and his ongoing treatment for cancer.
Drew died in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, following his long illness and was buried three days later in Redford Cemetery in Greystones.
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Born 1924-01-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Two children, son Daryl and daughter Maxine, were born from his first marriage with Mildred Roach. In 1954 he met singer Barbara Jai (Johnson) and had another son, Raoul Jordu. He continued to play as a freelance while studying composition at the Manhattan School of Music. He graduated in 1952. During the period 1962–1970, Roach was married to the singer Abbey Lincoln, who had performed on several of Roach's albums. Twin daughters, Ayodele and Dara Rasheeda, were later born to Roach and his third wife, Janus Adams Roach. Long involved in jazz education, in 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In the early 2000s, Roach became less active from the onset of hydrocephalus-related complications.
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Born 1973-11-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a NASCAR race driver injured in a crash on lap 107 with his brother Jimmy Blewett in the New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Thompson International Speedway on August 16, 2007. Blewett III was later pronounced dead at Hubbard Regional Hospital in Webster, MA.
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Born 1924-05-17. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Amin never wrote an autobiography or authorized any official account of his life. There are discrepancies as to when and where he was born.
He fell in the coma due to high blood pressure.
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Born 1914-08-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He made guest appearances in many TV shows. His best known appearances in the science fiction community were in The Outer Limits episode "O.B.I.T." and the Star Trek season 3 episode "The Cloud Minders" as High Advisor Plasus and on Babylon 5 as Justin in the season 3 finale "Z'ha'dum".
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Born 1919-01-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Last appearance in 1982 : Les Misérables (Robert Hossein) : La Magnon.
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Born 1944-04-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He died from an acute leukemia.
He made is debuts after sending a letter to Jacques Brel, which was actually received by Brel's ex-wife, because he had moved out in the meantime.
He had been celebrated in the clubs meds for a song "à la bonne franquette".
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Born 1933-04-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
In prison, where he was to be for a maximum time of 5 years, he turned mad and commited suicide by hanging with a skipping rope.
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Born 1935-01-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Elvis had thrown up after being stricken, apparently while seated on the toilet. It looked to the medical investigator as if he had 'stumbled or crawled several feet before he died'. He was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital, where at 3:30 P.M. doctors pronounced him dead. When he died, "he weighed 159 kilograms" (350 pounds).
At a press conference following his death, one of the medical examiners declared that he had died of a cardiac arrhythmia from an intake of a large amount of drugs.
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Born 1905-12-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
he was known as an alcoholic.
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Born 1882-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
One of Lugosi's roles was in a movie released after he was dead. Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space features footage of Lugosi interspersed with a double. Wood had taken a few minutes of silent footage of Lugosi, in his Dracula cape, for a planned vampire picture but was unable to find financing for the project. When he later conceived Plan 9, Wood wrote the script to incorporate the Lugosi footage and hired his wife's chiropractor to double for Lugosi in additional shots. The double is thinner than Lugosi, and in every shot covers the lower half of his face with his cape, as Lugosi sometimes did in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
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Born 1906-12-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Philipp Auerbach, was born in Germany and had moved to Belgium where he became head of a chemical import-export company. After the German invasion of Belgium he was arrested and sent to Gurs and was later deported to Auschwitz. His wife, Martha, and daughter, Helen, managed to flee to Cuba and then come to the United States. In Asuchwitz, Auerbach served as the chief chemist preparing medicines and pesticides. He attested to having been coerced into making soap from human remains. After liberation he served the first chairman of the State Federation of North Rhine and Westphalia and later as the chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities in Bavaria. In 1946 he was appointed state commissioner of the Bavarian provincial government for religious, political and racial victims of the Nazis, thereby becoming one of the first Jews to play a role in postwar German political life. He was among the first to work for the financial compensation of victims of Nazism. In January 1951, he became a member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. One month later he was accused of financial misconduct and forgery in regard to reparations payments. His supporters insisted that he never personally benefited from the fraud, and that he gave all the money to the victims. On August 14, 1952, Auerbach was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a court of five judges, three of whom had had contacts with the Nazi party. Two days later, Auerbach committed suicide, by absorbing a surdose of somniferes. He could not endure this judgment. Four years later he was posthumously cleared of all charges.
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Born 1900-11-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street with her husband, John Marsh, on her way to see the British film "A Canterbury Tale" at The Peachtree Art Theatre in August, 1949. She died at Grady Hospital, five days later from her injuries without regaining consciousness. The driver, an off-duty taxi driver, had been out on $5,450 bond, having been arrested for drunken driving. He had 23 previous traffic violations, according to the police. This incident prompted Georgia Gov. Herman Talmadge, to announce that the state would tighten regulations in the licensing of taxi drivers.
The driver, Hugh Gravitt, was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months in prison. His conviction was controversial because witnesses said Mitchell stepped into the street without looking, and her friends claimed she often did this.
One may say she's gone with the wind!
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Born 1865-01-31. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Desgrange married and had a daughter. Little is known of either. He spent most of his life with the avant-garde artist Jane Deley but never married her. At her insistence, the couple bought a château near St-Maxime, on the Mediterranean. It was there that he retired after falling ill during the 1936 Tour after having a prostate operation. He died there on August 16, 1940. There is a memorial to him on the Col du Galibier and his initials appeared for many years on the yellow jersey worn by the leader of the Tour de France.