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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1922-05-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Marcel Boiteux was a French economist, mathematician, and senior civil service member. He was the "architect of the French nuclear program" that created 61 nuclear reactors and kept the French electricity sector less carbon-intensive than other European countries (save Iceland).
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Born 1940-08-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Just Jaeckin was a French film director, photographer, and sculptor. Jaeckin was born in Vichy, Allier, French State during the Second World War, but left with his mother and father for England. Following the end of hostilities, he returned to France where he studied art and photography, before and after serving with the French Army: while with the army, he shot photographs as commissioned. Jaeckin debuted with Emmanuelle in 1974, starring Sylvia Kristel, a French softcore film which began a series. In 1975 he directed Histoire d'O (English title: Story of O), starring Corinne Cléry. The film met with far less acclaim than the book. It was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors until February 2000.
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Born 1933-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pɔl ʃaʁl bɛlmɔ̃do]) was a French actor, initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and a major French film star for several decades from 1960s. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), and Pierrot le Fou (1965). He was most notable for portraying police officers in action thriller films and became known for his unwillingness to appear in English-language films, despite being heavily courted by Hollywood. During his career, he was referred to as the French James Dean, Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart. Belmondo died at his home in Paris, after a period of ill health, at the age of 88. He had been in failing health since he suffered a stroke nearly a decade before.
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Born 1948-03-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation
Jean-Pierre Adams was a French professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was capped 22 times for France in the 1970s, and at club level, he played Division 1 football for Nîmes, Nice and Paris Saint-Germain. From March 1982 until his death in September 2021, he was in a coma as a result of mistakes made during a hospital operation. In the mid-1990s, when a court of law adjudicated on the case, both the anaesthetist and trainee were given one-month suspended sentences and were fined $815. His wife continued to tend to his needs, refusing to consider euthanasia.
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Born 1936-02-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American actor, director, and producer of film and television, considered a sex symbol and icon of American popular culture.
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Born 1935-03-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Левенште́йн, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɨˈosʲɪfəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪvʲɪnˈʂtʲejn]) was a Russian scientist who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since. He was a fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2006, for "contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and information theory, including the Levenshtein distance".
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Born 1926-11-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor, and director.
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Born 1995-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2011 until his death in 2015. He was born in Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais. Damiens won gold in the K1 team event at the 2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Augsburg. Damiens died at the age of 20 after falling from the fifth floor of a building
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Born 1926-07-21. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1910-08-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Page died in her sleep.
She was an American film actress and, at the time of her death, was one of a few people surviving to have acted as an adult (albeit young) in silent films (Barbara Kent, Dorothy Janis, and Miriam Seegar are among the handful of others) to live into the 21st century. She was also the last living attendee of the very first Academy Awards in 1929.
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Born 1935-10-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2006 and required emergency surgery to remove the tumor. Shortly after surgery he was reported to be "recovering well."
On Thursday, August 9, 2007, he was hospitalized for observation in his hometown of Modena, in Northern Italy, hospital officials there said. On August 21, it was announced that he was being treated on the cancer ward, given tests related to his pancreatic cancer and would not be released for another few days.
On September 5, 2007, Italy's AGI news agency reported that Luciano Pavarotti's health has deteriorated and the 71-year-old singer was in a "very serious condition". He was reported to be in and out of consciousness multiple times, suffering kidney failure. He died in the early morning of the 6th of September.
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Born 1931-08-00. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
He was the French voice of Robert Stack and Clint Eastwood.
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Born 1910-03-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
After an accident where his dog was cut off in two by a railway train, he began to be obsessed by blood.
When Akira Kurosawa was in his early 20s, his older brother Heigo committed suicide. Four months later, the oldest of Kurosawa's brothers also died, leaving Akira as the only surviving son of an original four at age 23. Kurosawa's next-oldest sibling, a sister he called "Little Big Sister," had also died suddenly after a short illness when he was ten.
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Born 1944-02-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Hopkins died of complications from a previous intestinal surgery.
He had suffered from Crohn's disease since his youth. Poor health and ongoing surgeries made it difficult for him to tour. This contributed heavily to his occupational preference for studio work.
He is regarded as one of the most important session musicians in rock history, playing on countless hit recordings by leading British and American acts.
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Born 1941-11-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:AIDS
"Creedance Clearwater Revival". Tom Fogerty died of AIDS (specifically from a Tuberculosis infection), having contracted HIV from blood transfusions for back ailments.
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Born 1885-06-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician, best known for the results achieved in collaboration with G. H. Hardy. There is a story (related in the Miscellany) that at a conference Littlewood met a German mathematician who said he was most interested to discover that Littlewood really existed, as he had always assumed that Littlewood was a name used by Hardy for lesser work which he did not want to put out under his own name; Littlewood apparently roared with laughter. There are versions of this story involving both Norbert Wiener and Edmund Landau, who, it is claimed, "so doubted the existence of Littlewood that he made a special trip to Great Britain to see the man with his own eyes".
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Born 1926-05-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She starred opposite Rex Harrison in the comedy The Constant Husband (1955), and an affair soon followed. Harrison was married to actress Lilli Palmer at the time. However, when he learned from Kendall's doctor that Kendall had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia, he and Palmer agreed to divorce so he could marry Kendall and provide for her care. Kendall was never told of her illness and ended up believing she merely had an iron deficiency. As for the divorce, Palmer said she was not upset because she had a lover, too. She and Harrison planned to remarry after Kendall's death, but Palmer ended up falling in love with her companion, Carlos Thompson, and married him instead.
Kendall's distinctive nose, an aristocratic swoop, was the result of plastic surgery after a car crash. As she told Bogarde, the surgeon had only two noses in his repertoire, "this one and the other one." The one she chose, Kendall explained, made it difficult to photograph her in profile.
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Born 1904-06-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
He was a Polish mathematician. Hurewicz is best remembered for three remarkable contributions to mathematics: his discovery of the higher homotopy groups in 1935-36, his discovery of the long exact homotopy sequence for fibrations in 1941, and the Hurewicz theorem connecting homotopy and homology groups. His work led to homological algebra. It was during Hurewicz's time as Brouwer's assistant in Amsterdam that he did the work on the higher homotopy groups; "...the idea was not new, but until Hurewicz nobody had pursued it as it should have been. Investigators did not expect much new information from groups, which were obviously commutative..." He died after participating in the International Symposium on Algebraic Topology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. He tripped and fell off the top of a Mayan step pyramid during an outing in Uxmal, Mexico. In the Dictionary of Scientific Biography it is suggested that he was "...a paragon of absentmindedness, a failing that probably led to his death."
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Born 1839-03-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
René-François-Armand (Sully) Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901.
Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but was to turn to philosophy and later to poetry. In writing poetry, he declared it as his intent to create scientific poetry for modern times. In character sincere and melancholic, he was a member of the Parnassus school, although, at the same time, his work displays characteristics of its own.
His health was weakened during the 1870's war. He suffered of frequent attacks of paralysis, and died suddenly.
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Born 1823-02-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
He was the 3rd French official executioner in chief. He was of a German descent of « Scharfrichter » ("executioners"). In 1897, he became hematophobic, which is a real problem for an executioner. He resigned from his position in 1898, because of this. His son Anatole became then the new executioner.