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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 1925-07-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης [ˈmicis θeođoˈɾacis]) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He composed the "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen", which has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust" and possibly his best work. Up until his death, he was viewed as Greece's best-known living composer. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. On 26 February 2019, Theodorakis was hospitalized due to heart problems, and on 8 March, underwent surgery to place a pacemaker. He died from cardiac arrest at his home in Athens at the age of 96.
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Born 1961-02-12. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Unknown
David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist, and author known for his books Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018). He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber died in a Venice hospital at the age of 59. He had been recently active before the time of his death when he posted a video to YouTube on August 28 saying that he had been feeling "a little under the weather" but that he was beginning to feel better.
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Born 1960-07-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Conway Victor Savage was an Australian rock musician. He was a member of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, providing piano, organ and backing vocals from 1990. From 1993, Savage had a solo career and released albums, Nothing Broken (2000), Wrong Man's Hands (2004) and Rare Songs & Performances 1989–2004. He also collaborated with other artists for their albums, such as Soon Will Be Tomorrow (with Suzie Higgie, 1998) and Quickie for Ducky (with Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner, 2007).
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Born 1997-04-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cystic fibrosis
Claire Lucia Wineland was an American activist and author. Through her non-profit organization "Claire's Place Foundation," she supported people with terminal and chronic illnesses, as well as their families. She died from a stroke one week after a lung transplant, at the age of 21. Wineland wrote the book Every Breath I Take, Surviving and Thriving with Cystic Fibrosis and was a TEDx speaker.
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Born 1965-11-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
She was a French actress and theater director. Her most successful television role was in the series Avocats et associés, in which she appeared from 2000 to 2005.
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Born 1954-02-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a motorcycle racer. He had an accident during the 1986 Paris-Dakar (11th January, 1986) which left him in a vegetative state for 24 years.
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Born 1922-11-08. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Other
Christiaan Barnard died in September 2001, whilst on holiday in Paphos, Cyprus. Early reports claimed that he had died of a heart attack, although an autopsy showed his death to be caused by an acute asthma attack.
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Born 1936-01-27. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
He starred in Monster on the Campus, Live Fast, Die Young, and The Tarnished Angels, all in 1958, and opposite fellow teen idol Sandra Dee in A Summer Place in 1959. The latter made him a huge star, especially among teenage audiences.
In 1974 he was cast in his most high profile role, a small part in The Godfather Part II as the new fiancé of Connie Corleone. His character was called Merle Johnson, Donahue's real name.
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Born 1905-03-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".
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Born 1907-02-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. There is a mention about him in the film "Peggy Sue got married"
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Born 1892-01-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Edith Tolkien died on 29 November 1971, at the age of 82. Tolkien had the name Lúthien engraved on the stone at Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. When Tolkien died 21 months later on 2 September 1973, at the age of 81, he was buried in the same grave, with Beren added to his name.
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Born 1930-10-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was a stuntman who died in an airplane crash while working on the making of the 1967 film Les Grandes Vacances.
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Born 1863-01-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 (in De Coubertin's own Paris) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.
De Coubertin remained Honorary President of the IOC until he died in 1937 in Geneva, Switzerland, almost ruined.
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Born 1844-05-21. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Other
Henri Rousseau died of gangrene in the Hospital Necker in Paris. Seven friends stood at his grave in the Cimetičre de Bagneux: the painters Paul Signac and Otiz de Zarate, Robert Delaunay and his wife Sonia Terk, the sculptor Brancusi, Rousseau's landlord Armand Queval and Guillaume Apollinaire who wrote the epitaph Brancusi put on the tombstone: We salute you Gentle Rousseau you can hear us Delaunay his wife Monsieur Queval and myself Let our luggage pass duty free through the gates of heaven We will bring you brushes paints and canvas That you may spend your sacred leisure in the light of truth Painting as you once did my portrait Facing the stars