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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 1932-05-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Anna Senioutovitch, known as Anna Gaylor, was a French actress. She is particularly known for her roles in La Vie Upside Down (1964) by Alain Jessua and in the soap opera Les Oiseaux Rare (1969) by Jean Dewever. She married Jessua in 1961.
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Born 1945-03-24. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His directing work included the psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential (1997), the comedy Wonder Boys (2000), the hip-hop biopic 8 Mile (2002), the romantic comedy-drama In Her Shoes (2005), and the made-for-television docudrama Too Big to Fail (2011). Hanson was reported to have frontotemporal dementia. He died of natural causes at his Hollywood Hills home at the age of 71.
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Born 1922-01-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
From 1963 to 1989, he was chief of CGT-FO.
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Born 1957-06-11. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Belgian journalist, best known as a music critic and rock expert. He died accidentally from a fall in the steps.
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Born 1924-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Belgian singer, who was also the pianist of Juliette Gréco. Born Fernand Urbain Dominic Leclercq, Leclerc had a career as a pianist, accordionist, song writer and singer before retiring to travel the world. On his return to Belgium he began a new career as a building contractor. More recently, Leclerc was invited to ESC 2005 by the Belgian TV network RTBF as a guest star.
Leclerc represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest four times. The song Leclerc performed in the 1962 Contest is notable for being the (joint) first song performed at the Contest that scored zero points.
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Born 1908-12-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
In October, 2006, the Vienna city council overwhelmingly approved renaming a street in Wiesenthal's honor. The newly-named Simon-Wiesenthal-Gasse was formerly known as Ichmanngasse. The former name honored Franz Ichmann, a songwriter in the early 20th century, and card-carrying member of the Nazi party.
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Born 1923-07-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Gordon Mitchell (born Charles Allen Pendleton) was an American actor and bodybuilder who made about 200 B movies. From the early 1970s onwards, he started to diversify into everything from horror (Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks - 1974), Nazi exploitation (Achtung! The Desert Tigers! -1977), sexploitation (Porno-Erotic Western - 1979), French criminal comedy (The Umbrella Coup - 1980), and post-apocalyptic films (Endgame - 1983). He also appeared in the bizarre 1982 Israeli adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's She as "Hector." The film was directed by Avi Nesher and co-starred Sandahl Bergman. He returned to the United States in the late 1980s and retired from acting, but kept making occasional film appearances until his death from an apparent heart attack in Marina Del Rey, California, aged 80.
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Born 1913-03-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. He is also known for his "legendarily eccentric" personality. His life was documented in the film N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős, made while he was still alive. Because of his prolific output, friends created the Erdős number as a humorous tribute. An Erdős number describes a person's degree of separation from Erdős himself, based on their collaboration with him, or with another who has their own Erdős number. Erdős alone was assigned the Erdős number of 0 (for being himself), while his immediate collaborators could claim an Erdős number of 1, their collaborators have Erdős number at most 2, and so on. Approximately 200,000 mathematicians have an assigned Erdős number, and some have estimated that 90 percent of the world's active mathematicians have an Erdős number smaller than 8 (not surprising in light of the small world phenomenon). Due to collaborations with mathematicians, many scientists in fields such as physics, engineering, biology, and economics have Erdős numbers as well. It is said that Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron has an Erdős number of 1 because they both autographed the same baseball when Emory University awarded them honorary degrees on the same day. Erdős numbers have also been assigned to an infant, a horse, and several actors. The Erdős number was most likely first defined by Casper Goffman, an analyst whose own Erdős number is 1. Goffman published his observations about Erdős' prolific collaboration in a 1969 article titled "And what is your Erdős number?" He died "in action" of a heart attack at the age of 83, while attending a conference in Warsaw, Poland. Erdős never married and had no children.
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Born 1930-08-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
His reputation as a solid “team player” and excellent test and development driver earned him an invitation to join the works Honda F1 team for 1965 for whom he scored his one and only GP win at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix. The win was also Honda's first in Formula 1. Ginther averaged 151.7 kilometres per hour (94.3 mph) over the curving 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) track in the 65 lap Mexico City event. His speed eclipsed the previous course record of 150.185 km/h (93.321 mph) established by Dan Gurney in 1964. It was also the first time Honda had entered the Mexican Grand Prix. Honda reentered international competition in the 1966 Italian Grand Prix. The team was but three years old and had encountered difficulty in the preparation of a larger engine. Ginther led in Italy before his car crashed into a retaining wall and he broke his collarbone. Ginther won 1 race, achieved 14 podiums, and scored a total of 107 championship points. He appeared in an uncredited role in the 1966 film Grand Prix as John Hogarth, a driver in the Japanese funded “Yamura” team. He also acted as one of the technical racing advisors for the movie. Richie Ginther died of a heart attack while on vacation with his family in France? .
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Born 1944-06-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and assassinated mysteriously. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) death squad was involved in his murder. His half-brother Jean-Jacques Goldman is a popular French singer. he was assassinated at point-blank range in Paris. Eye-witnesses described three Spanish-looking persons. In April 2006, Libération published an interview of former police officer Lucien Aimé-Blanc, who stated that one of his informants, Jean-Pierre Maďone, had admitted, a few years later, having killed Goldman on behalf of the GAL: “ Marseille boys members of GAL killed him with Maďone, who also talked about a commandant, former member of the SDECE [French secret service], without revealing me his identity."
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Born 1887-05-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
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Born 1865-12-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Tawaststjerna relayed an endearing anecdote regarding Sibelius' death: [He] was returning from his customary morning walk. Exhilarated, he told his wife Aino that he had seen a flock of cranes approaching. "There they come, the birds of my youth," he exclaimed. Suddenly, one of the birds broke away from the formation and circled once above Ainola. It then rejoined the flock to continue its journey. Two days afterwards Sibelius died of a brain hemorrhage, at age 91, in Ainola, where he is buried in a garden. Another well-known Finnish composer, Heino Kaski, died that same day. Aino lived there for the next twelve years until she died on June 8, 1969; she is buried with her husband.
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Born 1885-06-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Kaski was awarded a Pro Finlandia medal in 1950.