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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
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Born 1925-07-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Richard V. Kadison was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
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Born 1945-06-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Timothy Poston was an English mathematician and polymath best known for his work on catastrophe theory. His PhD thesis on "Fuzzy Geometry" was supervised by Christopher Zeeman and the PhD was awarded in 1972. This topic, otherwise known as “tolerance spaces”, is similar to topology and should not be confused with fuzzy logic.
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Born 1953-07-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Alain Berbérian was a French film director and writer of Armenian descent. Born in Beirut to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, Berbérian spent his youth in Lebanon before finishing his studies in France. He was the brother of cartoonist Charles Berberian. He began his career in the audiovisual field, working as an editor at Canal+. His first feature film was the comedy La Cité de la peur, which was hit in France. Based on a script by Les Nuls, the film describes a series of murders in Cannes. Berbérian returned in 1998 with Paparazzi, starring Vincent Lindon and Patrick Timsit. The film follows the life of a night watchman (Timsit) who is fired after being photographed at a soccer game, instead of being at his job. He then meets Michel (Lindon), who teaches him how to be a paparazzo. In 2000, Berbérian directed Six-Pack, a thriller with Richard Anconina who stalks a serial-killer to the four corners of Paris. Returning in 2002 with the comedy Le Boulet, starring Gérard Lanvin and Benoît Poelvoorde, a prison guard (Poelvoorde) has to team up with a convict (Lanvin) to retrieve a lotto ticket from the latter. Then in 2004, Berbérian paired Christian Clavier and Jean Reno in the comedy, The Corsican File, based on a comic book of the same name by René Pétillon, in which a detective is responsible for locating a man living in Corsica who is owed an inheritance. In 2007, he reunited Gérard Jugnot and Jean-Paul Rouve in L'Île aux trésors.
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Born 1944-12-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
John Laird Abercrombie was an American jazz guitarist. His work explored jazz fusion, free jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He was known for his understated style and his work with organ trios.
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Born 1920-10-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress. She acted in many French films in the 1940s and 1950s. She was the widow of French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol. She was née Bouvier.
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Born 1944-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe.
Montignac was an international executive for the pharmaceutical industry, who, like his father, was overweight in his youth. His method is aimed at people wishing to lose weight efficiently and lastingly, reduce risks of heart failure, and prevent diabetes.
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Born 1948-05-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French former professional football (soccer) player.
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Born 1948-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
He was an American character actor. Best remembered as Magnum's friend "Mac" on "Magnum P.I.", he was also featured in recurring roles in Black Sheep Squadron, JAG, Battlestar Galactica, Airwolf, The Greatest American Hero, and Tales of the Gold Monkey. His cousin Robert Redford got him interested in acting, and helped him get his Screen Actors Guild Card with a part in All The President's Men. MacKay died of liver complications.
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Born 1953-01-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was a polish actor, who died electrocuted. He had played in Vabank
Vabank is a Polish film from 1981; the first film directed by Juliusz Machulski.
The film, sometimes referred to as Polish The Sting, tells the story of a conman, legendary Kwinto. He considered himself an honorable thief - but after being framed for bank robbery by an accomplice, named Kramer, he was sentenced for six years. Further, upon leaving the jail he learns that that person murdered his musician friend - and is now a bank president. Kramer, always ruthless, hires an assassin to kill him. Kwinto, on the other hand, from the beginning sets his goal on getting even. Meanwhile, a pair of young conman hearing that famous Kwinto is free try to get him into their team. Kwinto, employing a retired pro and the two young admirers, plans to do one last job to get even with Kramer...
A sequel, Vabank II, was filmed in 1984
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Born 1923-11-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
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Born 1930-01-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
By the early 1980s, Kalani's body couldn't handle the beatings in the ring any longer, and he moved into the film world on a more permanent basis. His first film was 1981's An Eye for an Eye and his last film was 1995's Hard Justice.
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Born 1915-00-00. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Veteran inventor and entrepreneur William C. Moog, whose servovalves revolutionized aircraft and missile flight controls, died August 22, 1997, aged 82.
He was a Robert Moog's cousin.
Moog servovalves are very compact and are intensively used in Formula one
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Born 1942-02-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Huey Percy Newton was an African-American revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966–1982). Newton and Seale together created a ten-point program to guide the African-American community to liberation. Newton was murdered in the neighborhood of Lower Bottoms in West Oakland, California. Within days, Tyrone Robinson was arrested as a suspect; he was on parole and admitted the murder to police, claiming self-defense – though police found no evidence that Newton was carrying a gun. In 1991, Robinson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to a prison term of 32 years to life. Robinson stated that his motive was to advance in the Black Guerrilla Family, a Marxist–Leninist narcotics prison gang, in order to get a crack franchise.
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Born 1903-11-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was named "the strongest man of the world".
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Born 1890-10-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
He was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and MP for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently he was both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army. Throughout this time, at least as of 1919, he was also President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War.