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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1910-12-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Rosa Bouglione (née Van Been) was a French circus performer and the matriarch of the Bouglione circus family.
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Born 1935-12-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
He was an American computer scientist, a noted researcher in complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. He retired in 1998, and died of stomach cancer. Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was a graduate student of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where Fischer's father was a professor. In 1982, Kaczynski sent the fifth of his mail bombs to Fischer, at his Penn State address; it was forwarded to Vanderbilt, where it was opened on May 5 by Fischer's secretary, Janet Smith, who was hospitalized for three weeks after the attack. Fischer claimed not to have ever met Kaczynski, and speculated that he was targeted because he had moved from pure mathematics to more applied research areas. Kaczynski was not apprehended until 1996, by which time the statute of limitations on the 1982 bombing had expired, so he was never prosecuted for it.
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Born 1931-11-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Wayne Andre was an American jazz trombonist, best known for his work as a session musician.
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Born 1955-10-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Was the bass player for rock groups The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, The Artemus Pyle Band, The Peter Criss Band and Montage.
The cause of his death has not been publicly released (or determined?), and consequently has been speculated among fans.
Woody's death helped Haynes in his decision to return to The Allman Brothers Band. Gov't Mule continued on after his death with Andy Hess assuming bass duties after a three year period that saw a routing group of bass players including Dave Schools and Oteil Burbridge.
After his death, Epiphone released the Allen Woody Rumble Kat limited edition bass guitar.
Woody was a respected bass guitarist - he had a large collection of bass guitars (around 450), featured in his own 'masterclass' bass instruction video and was held in high esteem for his playing. His proficient technique was characterized by steady playing of the 16th note, while maintaining consistent rhythm. The Epiphone signature bass was similar to two specially built double-neck instruments that Gibson made him... a bass/guitar and a bass/mandolin. Allen usually played the Gibson EB series, but at times played a Rickenbacker or Gibson Thunderbird. Ampeg SVT was his amp of choice most of the time.
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Born 1914-12-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
Married Pierre Brasseur, then Philippe Agostini.
Claude Barsseur's mother.
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Born 1925-12-20. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He is considered an early master of the Ligne claire style. He wrote and drew several comics series on his own, but also collaborated with Hergé on several volumes of The Adventures of Tintin.
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Born 1933-12-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was the prime suspect in the Zodiac murders. Although he was never charged in the case, many believed him to have been the infamous Zodiac serial killer.
Allen was a diabetic and died in 1992 of a heart attack at the age of 58. Allen had been working at a hardware store for over a decade before his death.
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Born 1899-08-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
His son, Michael killed himself in the sixties.
his wife, Pat Paterson, died from a cancer two days before he commited his own suicide. They are buried together in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California
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Born 1902-02-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
From 1957 until his death in 1974, Lindbergh had an affair with a woman 13 years his junior, German hat maker Brigitte Hesshaimer who lived in a small Bavarian town called Geretsried (35 km south of Munich). On 23 November 2003, DNA tests proved that he fathered her three children: Dyrk (1958), Astrid (1960) and David (1967). The two managed to keep the affair secret; even the children did not know the true identity of their father, whom they saw when he came to visit once or twice per year using the alias, "Careu Kent". Astrid later read a magazine article about Lindbergh and found snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair after both Brigitte and Anne Morrow Lindbergh had died.