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Einstein Albert (b. 1879-04-14 / d. 1955-04-18)
He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.
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Born 1951-06-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Thierry Liagre was a French actor. Liagre began acting in the 1980s after studying at the Cours Simon. He was known for appearing in films, on television, and onstage, particularly at the Théâtre La Bruyère. Thierry Liagre also stood out in "Les Visitors" in 1993, alongside Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, where he played the mad with rage cook of the Courtepaille restaurant.
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Born 1941-01-09. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a British businessman. He was the founder of Grid Systems Corporation, maker of the Grid Compass, one of the first commercially successful laptop computers. He also co-founded GeoVector, an early augmented reality company.
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Born 1937-10-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French singer and songwriter. His 1973 song "Qui c'est celui-là?" was done partido alto by Chico Buarque; it sold more than 300,000 copies and secured for him a place in the memories of the teenagers of the time. In 2006 he discovered he had Parkinson disease.
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Born 1962-02-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a pole vaulter from France. He committed suicide by jumping through a window.
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Born 1982-05-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was 25.
Eddie Griffin was killed when his SUV struck a freight train.
Medical examiners in Harris County, Texas, required dental records to identify Griffin.
"Basketball was never an issue with him," said former Timberwolves head coach Dwane Casey. "He needed more life lessons, and, unfortunately, he was never able to reach his potential."
Griffin's career was marred by alcohol problems which resulted in a series of league suspensions and court dates, many of them handled by Hollingsworth.
"He had a problem with alcohol and I think that was a medication for him," Hollingsworth said. "And I think that led to a lot of issues."
Griffin was charged Nov. 20, 2003, with felonious aggravated assault with a deadly weapon plus assault causing bodily injury.
The charges stemmed from an Oct. 25 incident in which Griffin allegedly slapped girlfriend Joann Romero three times and fired a pistol in her direction as she departed his home in southwest Houston, when he played for the Rockets.
Griffin was suspended three games by the NBA and was later treated at the Betty Ford Center for alcohol abuse.
Last season with the Timberwolves, he was suspended for five games in January after violating the league's anti-drug program.
"Everybody tried to help him from the top to the bottom of the organization," Casey said. "He just could not get it straight.
On March 30, 2006, Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.
Several of the 911 callers that night said Griffin was drunk. One witness said Griffin told him he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard of his Cadillac Escalade SUV when he struck a Chevy Suburban parked on University Avenue Southeas.
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Born 1945-02-17. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Also a writer and a director
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Born 1894-04-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
Hess flew to Britain in May 1941 to meet the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, parachuting from his Messerschmitt Bf 110 over Renfrewshire. He was quickly arrested, although the details of how this happened are somewhat unclear and remain controversial, and he was held captive as a prisoner of war.
At the Nuremberg trial, Hess was considered to be the most mentally unstable of all the defendants
Hess died at Spandau Prison in West Berlin. At 93, he was one of the oldest prisoners in Germany, if not the world. By all accounts he was found in a "summer house" in a garden located in a secure area of the prison with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. His death was ruled a suicide by self-asphyxiation, accomplished by tying the cord to a window latch in the summer house.
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Born 1906-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Horace McMahon was an American actor. He was one of Hollywood's favorite heavies. McMahon began his acting career on Broadway, then appeared in many films and television series. In 1962, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the series Naked City (1958–1963).
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Born 1886-03-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a German architect. He is commonly referred to and addressed as Mies, his surname. He sought a rational approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design. He is often associated with the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details".
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Born 1881-06-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was one of the early pioneers of radio and received 117 patents. He was the first to report observation of electroluminescence from a diode, leading to the discovery of the light-emitting diode. He was a personal assistant to Guglielmo Marconi. Round died in August 1966 in a nursing home in Bognor Regis after a short illness.
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Born 1918-11-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a British sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the US and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. The Ford J-car was intended to be the successor to the all-conquering Ford GT40 Mk.II and, despite reliability problems, showed potential in the springtime Le Mans trials. After the death of Walt Hansgen in a J-car Ford while testing at Le Mans in April, the decision was made to shelve the J-car and focus on the proven Mk IIs, and little development was done for the rest of the 1966 World Sports Car Championship season. Finally, in August 1966, Shelby American resumed testing and development work with Miles serving as primary test driver. The J-car featured a breadvan-shaped rear section that experimented with Kammback aerodynamic theories, as well as a revolutionary (but untested) honeycomb panel design that was supposed to both lighten and stiffen the car, but the design remained unproved with high-speed prototype sports cars. After almost a day of testing at Riverside International Raceway in the brutally hot Southern California desert summer weather, Miles approached the end of the track's 1-mile (1.6 km), downhill back straight at top speed (200-plus mph) when the car suddenly looped, flipped, crashed and caught fire. The car broke into pieces and ejected Miles, killing him instantly. The car had suffered precisely the sort of crash damage the honeycomb construction was designed to prevent. As a result, the aerodynamics of the J-car were greatly modified to correct the rear-end lift generated at race speeds. Ford officials, under pressure after the second of two fatal accidents in the program in five months, also ordered a NASCAR-style steel tube rollover cage to be installed in future versions of the car.] The death of 47-year-old Miles, following that of 46-year-old Hansgen, led Ford to favour younger drivers in subsequent race entries. The significantly revised J-car, renamed the Ford Mk IV, won the only two races in which it was entered: the 1967 Sebring (Fla.) 12 Hours, and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans. The steel roll cage in the Mk IV (mandated as a direct result of Miles's death) probably saved the life of Mario Andretti, who crashed violently during the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans but escaped.
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Born 1903-02-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Murder
On July 13, 1942, Irène Némirovsky (then 39) was arrested as a "stateless person of Jewish descent" by French police under the regulations of the German occupation. As she was being taken away, she told her daughters, "I am going on a journey now." She was brought to a convoy assembly camp at Pithiviers and then transported on July 17 along with 928 other Jewish deportees to Auschwitz arriving two days later where her forearm was marked with an identification number. According to official papers, she died a month later of typhus.
Her husband was sent to Auschwitz shortly thereafter, and was immediately put to death in a gas chamber.
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Born 1921-11-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Typhoid fever.