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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1938-02-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
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Born 1938-03-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Holger Czukay, born Holger Schüring, was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridging the gap between pop and the avant-garde", Czukay was also notable for having created early important examples of ambient music, for having explored "world music" well before the term was coined, and for having been a pioneer of sampling. Czukay's body was discovered inside his apartment on 5 September 2017. The New York Times reported that he died on the same day, but the cause of his death was subject to a police investigation. His death was eventually assumed to be from natural causes.
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Born 1925-04-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973). His notable films included the adaptation of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). He was highly regarded for creating the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a nonprofit youth leadership-development program for high-school scholars. It has sponsored more than 400,000 students since O'Brian founded the program in 1958, following an extended visit with physician and theologian Albert Schweitzer.
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Born 1920-06-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
She was a Japanese actress. In the West, she is best known for her performances in Yasujirō Ozu's films Late Spring (1949) and Tokyo Story (1953), although she had already appeared in 67 films before working with Ozu. After more than half a century of seclusion, Hara died of pneumonia at a hospital in Kanagawa prefecture, at the age of 95.
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Born 1929-02-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film actor. He is best known for his role in Le gendarme series (as Merlot). He did not appear in the last two sequels. In 1967 he appeared in the TV serial Les Chevaliers du ciel.
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Born 1990-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a japanese motorcycle racer. After a successful career in the All Japan Road Race Championship, he switched to the MotoGP and competed in the 250cc class during 2009. In the 2010 season he is riding in the newly created Moto2 class. Tomizawa won the first race of the new class, at Losail in Qatar, winning by nearly five seconds from Alex Debón and Jules Cluzel.
Tomizawa was involved in serious accident at Misano World Circuit. Tomizawa fell in the fast right-hander and was then run over by Scott Redding and Alex de Angelis. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. He died at 14.21 in Riccione.
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Born 1945-03-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
CEO of Elf-Aquitaine (1993-2000).
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Born 1921-08-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was an American actor and director.
He was married to actress Eileen Ryan, and the father of singer Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.
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Born 1910-10-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Solti was born György Stern in Budapest, where he learned the piano and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. His father Germanized young György's given name to Georg and changed his family name to Solti, to shield his son from antisemitism. By 1935 he was gaining recognition as a conductor, and made his debut at the Budapest Opera in 1938 with The Marriage of Figaro.
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Born 1910-08-26. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Heart attack
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian Gonxha for "rosebud") was born in Skopje, now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Although she was born on August 26, 1910, she considered August 27, 1910, the day she was baptized, to be her "true birthday.
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Born 1914-12-04. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a cinematographer.
He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir and nephew of director Jean Renoir. He was also the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
He lost his sight in 1978.
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Born 1913-02-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Frôbe was a German film actor known for his work as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, as Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and as Hotzenplotz in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz.
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Born 1932-07-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
At the time of her death at the age of 48 from cancer, she was married to the director Elia Kazan, by whom she had one child. She was perhaps best-known for her role in Kazan's film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), in which she played Warren Beatty's sister, as well as for portraying a fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe in Kazan's stage production of After the Fall, written by Monroe's former husband, playwright Arthur Miller.
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Born 1939-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
Was the coach of the Israeli international wrestling team In the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, Palestinian members of Black September illegally entered the Munich Olympic Village and broke into the coaches' apartment of the Israeli Olympic team. (It is unclear whether Weinberg was actually in the apartment already or was captured as he was entering it) Realizing the gravity of the situation, Weinberg got into a scuffle with the intruders, one of whom shot the wrestling coach through his cheek. The wounded Weinberg was taken by the terrorists to help find more Israelis. Keeping a clear head, Weinberg led the terrorists past Apartment 2, which housed the slimly-built fencers, shooters and track athletes, and instead took them to Apartment 3, which housed Israel's weightlifters and wrestlers. (Weinberg might have thought that the stronger men might have a better chance of fighting off the intruders) Taken by surprise, the six athletes of Apartment 3 were captured by the terrorists. As the hostages were being marched back to the coaches' apartment, Weinberg once more attacked the intruders, knocking one of them unconscious and allowing one of his wrestlers, Gad Tsobari, to escape via an underground parking garage. The terrorists fatally riddled Weinberg with machine-gun fire, then tossed his nude and bloodied body out into the street in order to demonstrate their resolve. Weinberg had become the first victim of the Munich massacre.
Weinberg's son Guri, an Israeli actor, portrayed his father in the 2005 movie Munich.
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Born 1940-12-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
was a Libyan-born, Arab weightlifter with the Israeli team.
In the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, Arab terrorists broke into the Israeli quarters of the Olympic Village. After seizing the coaches in the first apartment and wounding wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg in the face, the terrorists forced Weinberg to lead them to other potential hostages in another apartment. There, they seized six wrestlers and weightlifters, including Romano. As the athletes were being led back to the coaches' apartment, Weinberg attacked the terrorists, which allowed wrestler Gad Tsobari to escape but resulted in Weinberg's death by gunfire. Once inside the apartment, Romano, who had fought in the Six-Day War, also attacked the intruders, slashing terrorist Afif Ahmed Hamid in the face with a paring knife and grabbing his AK-47 away from him before being shot to death by another terrorist. Romano's bloodied corpse was left at the feet of his teammates all day as a warning.
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Born 1942-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
During practice for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, near Milan, Rindt was attempting to set a competitive qualifying time against the more powerful Ferraris. At first he insisted on driving the Lotus 49 but was told by Colin Chapman that only the Lotus 72 was available. Either he drove the 72 or he didn't have to drive was the choice Chapman gave him. Rindt elected to have the critically important wings removed in an attempt to gain a higher top speed and took to the track.
As Rindt braked for the Parabolica corner, the Lotus 72 suddenly darted left and slammed hard into the guard rails. The crash had possibly been caused by one of his front brake shafts (the car had inboard brakes) failing. The barriers were placed too high for the revolutionary wedge design of his Lotus 72. He was immediately rushed to hospital, but died on the way. Rindt had only recently acquiesced to wearing a simple lap belt, and had slid underneath where the belt buckle cut his throat. He was the second Lotus team leader to be killed in two years, as Jim Clark had been killed in 1968.
Rindt is buried at the central cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) in Graz.
At the time he died Rindt had won five of that year's ten Grands Prix, which meant that he had a strong lead in the World Drivers Championship. At that stage he theoretically could have been overtaken by Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx. However Rindt's Lotus team mate, Emerson Fittipaldi, won the penultimate Grand Prix of the year at Watkins Glen, depriving Ickx of the points he needed to win the title, and so Rindt became motor racing's first posthumous World Champion. The trophy was presented to his Finnish widow Nina Rindt nee Lincoln, daughter of famous Finnish racer, Curt Lincoln. In a tragic twist of irony, it was learned that Jochen had promised Nina he would retire from F1 if he won the world championship.
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Born 1873-01-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Murder
He died in battle, shot in the forehead, in Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne during World War I.
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Born 1844-02-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Suicide
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈbɔlt͡sman]) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1906, Boltzmann's deteriorating mental condition forced him to resign his position, and his symptoms indicate he experienced what would today be diagnosed as bipolar disorder. Four months later he died by suicide, by hanging himself while on vacation with his wife and daughter in Duino, near Trieste (then Austria).