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March 29, 2024

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Debré
François. 2020-09-14

78

Born 1942-04-03. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

François Debré was a French journalist and writer. Albert-Londres prize 1977. He died one day after his younger brother Bernard.

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Ashina
Sei. 2020-09-14

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Born 1983-11-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

Sei Ashina (芦名 星, Ashina Sei) was a Japanese actress. Japanese actress Sei Ashina was found dead at her Tokyo apartment by family on Monday morning, her agency said, following what investigative sources believe was a suicide. The 36-year-old Ashina, who began her career as a fashion model, starred in numerous movies and TV series including the NHK period drama “Yae no Sakura” (Yae’s Sakura) and the police drama “Aibo” (Partner). The Fukushima Prefecture native also landed a role in the 2007 film “Silk,” an adaptation of an Italian novel of the same name, in which a French silkworm smuggler and his wife, played by Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley, journey to Japan in search of silkworms in the 19th century. Ashina made her voice acting debut in the Japanese-language version of the 2011 American TV series “Revenge” as the leading character Emily Thorne, and most recently appeared in the TV series “Theseus no Fune” (Ship of Theseus) and the movie “AI Hokai” (AI Amok) released in January.

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Jelinek
Frederick. 2010-09-14

77

Born 1932-11-18. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack

He was a Czech American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He was well-known for his oft-quoted quip that "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". In 1993 he retired from IBM and went to Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing, where he was director. He was still working there at the time of his death; Jelinek died of a heart attack at the close of an otherwise normal workday in mid-September 2010.

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Swayze
Patrick Wayne. 2009-09-14

57

Born 1952-08-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

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Sutherland
Darren. 2009-09-14

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Born 1982-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide

He was an Irish professional boxer from Dublin, Ireland. His amateur career was crowned by a bronze medal for Ireland in the middleweight division at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Sutherland was found dead at his home in Bromley, Kent, by his manager. He committed suicide by hanging.

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Martin
Jacques. 2007-09-14

74

Born 1933-06-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

At the end of his active career, he suffered from a creative drought, becoming increasingly pompous and self-infatuated, repeating ad nauseam the same unfunny jokes he always used since the beginning of his career (For instance : the works of Schubert and Schumann have all been written by the same composer whose name was Schubermann). He suffered of a stroke in 1998.

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Vansteelant
Benny. 2007-09-14

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Born 1976-11-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a Belgian duathlete.
On September 8, Vansteelant was hit by a car during training. He suffered a broken leg, facial injuries, a torn spleen and damage to lungs and heart. In the days after the accident, Vansteelant was on the better hand, getting close to leaving the intensive care section of the hospital in Roeselare on September 13. But one day later, Vansteelant suffered a cardiac arrest. Even though Vansteelant received CPR in time, he died in the early morning.

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Hargitay
Miklos (alias: Mickey Hargitay). 2006-09-14

77

Born 1929-01-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)

After winning Mr. Universe, he joined Mae West's muscleman revue at New York's The Latin Quarter, where he met Jayne Mansfield.
Multiple myeloma (also known as MM, myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, or as Kahler's disease after Otto Kahler) is a type of cancer of plasma cells which are immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies. Its prognosis, despite therapy, is generally poor, and treatment may involve chemotherapy and stem cell transplant. It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological malignancies.

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Fallaci
Oriana. 2006-09-14

77

Born 1929-06-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Wise
Robert. 2005-09-14

91

Born 1914-09-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack

"West side story". He also directed such films as The Andromeda Strain, The Hindenburg, the horror film Audrey Rose, and the Star Trek: The Motion Picture film.

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Volkoff
Vladimir. 2005-09-14

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Born 1932-11-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Crichton
Charles. 1999-09-14

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Born 1910-08-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) (for which Crichton also co-wrote the original story)

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Gemayel
Bachir. 1982-09-14

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Born 1947-11-10. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

Nine days before he was due to take office, Gemayel was assassinated along with 25 others in an explosion at the Kataeb headquarters in Achrafieh

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Kelly
Grace. 1982-09-14

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Born 1929-11-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident

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Ferras
Christian. 1982-09-14

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Born 1933-06-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a French violinist.
In spite of the beautiful music he produced from his instrument, Christian Ferras struggled with severe lifelong depression. The illustrious career of this distinguished violinist came to a tragic end when he committed suicide by defenestration.

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Carnap
Rudolf. 1970-09-14

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Born 1891-05-18. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age

Rudolf Carnap was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. He is considered "one of the giants among twentieth-century philosophers"

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Gresham
William Lindsay. 1962-09-14

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Born 1909-08-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide

William Lindsay Gresham was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power. In 1962, Gresham's health began to take a turn for the worse. He had started to go blind and was diagnosed with tongue cancer. On September 14, 1962, he checked into the Hotel Carter, Manhattan — which he had often frequented while writing Nightmare Alley over a decade earlier. There, 53-year-old Gresham took his life with an overdose of sleeping pills. His death went generally unnoticed by the New York press, but for a mention by a bridge columnist. In his pocket they found business cards reading, "No Address. No Phone. No Business. No Money. Retired.

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Duncan
Isadora. 1927-09-14

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Born 1877-05-26. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Accident

She was an american dancer.
A habitual wearer of flowing scarves which trailed behind her, Duncan's fashion preferences were the cause of her death in a freak automobile accident in Nice. The accident gave rise to Gertrude Stein's mordant remark that "affectations can be dangerous."
Duncan was a passenger in the Amilcar automobile of a handsome young Italian mechanic, Benoît Falchetto, whom she had ironically nicknamed 'Buggatti'. Before getting into the car, she said to a friend, Mary Desti, and some companions, "Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire!" ("Goodbye, my friends, I am off to glory!") However, according to the diaries of the American novelist Glenway Wescott, who was in Nice at the time and visited Duncan's body in the morgue (his diaries are in the collection of the Beineke Library at Yale University), Desti admitted that she had lied about Duncan's last words. Instead, she told Wescott, the dancer actually said, "Je vais à l'amour" ("I am off to love"), which Desti considered too embarrassing to go down in history as the legend's final utterance, especially since it suggested that Duncan hoped that she and Falchetto were going to her hotel for a sexual assignation. Whatever her actual last words, when Falchetto drove off, Duncan's immense handpainted silk scarf, which was a gift from Desti and was large enough to be wrapped around her body and neck and flutter out of the car, became entangled around one of the vehicle's open-spoked wheels and rear axle.
As the New York Times noted in its obituary of the dancer on 15 September 1927, "The automobile was going at full speed when the scarf of strong silk began winding around the wheel and with terrific force dragged Miss Duncan, around whom it was securely wrapped, bodily over the side of the car, precipitating her with violence against the cobblestone street. She was dragged for several yards before the chauffeur halted, attracted by her cries in the street. Medical aid was summoned, but it was stated that she had been strangled and killed instantly."
Isadora Duncan was cremated, and her ashes were placed in the columbarium of Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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