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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 1937-03-02. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, romanized: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Būtaflīqa [ʕabd elʕaziːz buːtefliːqa]) was an Algerian politician who served as President of Algeria for almost 20 years, from 1999 to his resignation in 2019.
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Born 1937-06-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Colette Castel was born on June 29, 1937 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972), Au théâtre ce soir (1966) and Le retour du grand blond (1974). She was married to José Artur. She died on September 17, 2019 in Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Dordogne, France.
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Born 1946-05-03. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French press illustrator, son of Jacques Faizant.
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Born 1913-09-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman.
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Born 1918-07-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
« La Dame Blanche de Saint-Germain-des-Prés » She was Michel Vaucaire's wife, the song writer of "non je ne regrette rien"
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Born 1925-01-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French wrestler.
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Born 1939-10-12. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. His novels The Mexican Tree Duck, The Last Good Kiss, and The Right Madness feature the character C.W. Sughrue, an ex-army officer turned private investigator. The Wrong Case, Dancing Bear and The Final Country feature a P.I. named Milo Milodragovitch. Bordersnakes brings both characters together. Crumley's book Whores contains short stories, and his Muddy Fork and Other Things has short fiction and essays.
Crumley died in Missoula after many years of health problems.
The detective "Crumley" in Ray Bradbury's trilogy of mystery novels (Death Is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard for Lunatics, and Let's All Kill Constance) is named in tribute to him.
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Born 1899-03-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was the director of the SPARS, the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve during World War II.
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Born 1925-12-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Operation
A passionate admirer of ancient Greece and its mythology, his essay L'été grec (Greek Summer) was an immense popular success, as were his following classical works Maria of Egypt and Dictionnaire amoureux de la Grèce (Dictionary for one who loves Greece). Of interest to ethnographers and ecologists is his Chemin faisant: Mille kilomètres à pied à travers la France.
He died in Paris, following complications from orthopedic surgery.
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Born 1917-11-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
had been living rue froidevaux for more than 50 years, but not interred in the cimetiere montparnasse.
Sent to Grimaux.
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Born 1959-04-24. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Yates met Geldof in the early days of the Boomtown Rats. They got together as a couple in 1976 when she travelled by airplane to Paris, to surprise him while the band was playing there. Their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, was born on 31 March 1983. After 10 years together, they married on 31 August 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran acting as Geldof's best man. The couple then had two more daughters, Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof on 16 March 1989, and Pixie Geldof on 17 September 1990. Pixie is said to be named after a celebrity daughter character from the cartoon Celeb in the satirical magazine Private Eye, itself a lampoon of the unusual names the Geldofs gave to their first children.
Yates interviewed the INXS singer Michael Hutchence in her Big Breakfast boudoir, and fell in love with him. In 1995, Yates left Geldof for Hutchence. Geldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. Two months later Yates's daughter with Hutchence, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence (known as Tiger) was born on 22 July 1996.
On 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found hanged in a hotel room in Sydney. Yates became distraught, refusing to accept the coroner's verdict of suicide. She eventually sought psychiatric treatment. Yates never entirely recovered from losing him, and even attempted suicide. In June 1998, Bob Geldof won full custody of the couple's three daughters. Meanwhile, she battled Hutchence's mother Patricia Glassop and her daughter Tina for custody of Tiger Lily.
Yates's dispute with the Hutchence family over Michael's estate saw her struggling to bring up her daughter. While battling grief and problems with addiction, she was also in an extremely difficult financial situation. Yates resorted to selling her jewellery in order to pay bills, including the three amethyst rings Geldof gave her after the birth of each of their daughters. She downsized to living in a small mews house in the years prior to her death, but also purchased a second home in Hastings.
While fighting for custody of Tiger, it was reported in the media that Jess Yates had not been Yates's natural father. A paternity test proved that the late quiz show host Hughie Green, who had died only six months before Hutchence, had in fact been her natural father.
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Born 1898-06-26. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Following World War II, Messerschmitt was tried by a denazification court for using slave labor, and in 1948 was convicted of being a "fellow traveller". After two years in prison, he was released and resumed his position as head of his company. Since Germany was forbidden to manufacture aircraft until 1955, he turned his company to manufacturing prefabricated buildings, sewing machines, and small cars - most notably the Messerschmitt Kabinenroller. Exporting his talents, he designed the Hispano HA200 jet trainer for Hispano Aviacion in Spain in 1952 before eventually being allowed to return to aircraft manufacturing in Germany to licence-produce the Fiat G91 and then Lockheed F-104 Starfighter for the West German Luftwaffe.
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Born 1903-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American Master Sergeant and the hangman for the Third United States Army at the Nuremberg Trials.
Woods carried out the execution of ten Nazi war criminals, who had been sentenced to death by hanging at Nuremberg in 1946. Altogether he hanged 347 criminals in his 15-year career.
He died accidentally, while repairing an electric chair