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Cho Seung-Hui (b. 1984-01-18 / d. 2007-04-16)
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1931-05-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch, commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, was a British-French actor who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, the detective Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M. Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day. Lonsdale died aged 89 in Paris.
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Born 1937-09-21. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Ronald Ray Cobb was an American-Australian cartoonist, artist, and film designer, who worked on numerous major films including Dark Star (1974), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Back to the Future (1985), The Abyss (1989), and Total Recall (1990). He had one credit as director, for the 1992 film Garbo. Cobb was also known for creating a symbol which was later featured on the Ecology Flag. He was born in Los Angeles but spent most of his life in Sydney, Australia. Among the most famous film props signed by Cobb are two of the swords he designed for the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian (the "Father's Sword" and the "Atlantean Sword"). Cobb's original drawings of the swords are nowadays used, in cinema merchandising, to mass-produce and sell replicas. He died on his 83rd birthday from complications of Lewy body dementia.
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Born 1937-12-21. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French computer scientist. His research in computer science spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an honorary doctorate (Ph.D.) called Nivat one of the fathers of theoretical computer science. He was a Professor at the University Paris Diderot until 2001.
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Born 1922-10-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was a French heiress, socialite and businesswoman. She was one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman, and the 14th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$44.3 billion
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Born 1910-10-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Paulette Dubost was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera. She appeared in over 250 films and worked with such directors as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tourneur, Marcel Carné, Julien Duvivier, Preston Sturges and Max Ophüls. One of her most famous roles was as Lisette in Renoir's La Règle du jeu.
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Born 1948-11-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He attained some popularity after finding a steady role starring T.J. with Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep. He won his first film action lead in The Exterminator (1980), which became a surprising box-office hit.
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Born 1926-08-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Ghostley's role of Esmerelda was created after the passing of Marion Lorne in May 1968, who portrayed the lovable, forgetful Aunt Clara. Rather than replace the character, Bewitched producers opted to create a new, befuddled character with Esmerelda. Interestingly, Lorne and Ghostley appeared side-by-side in The Graduate as partygoers Miss DeWitte and Mrs. Singleman the year before Lorne's passing.
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Born 1957-01-09. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Unknown
Attention Chien Léchant, Fluide Glacial - Audie (1997) ;
Vu à la Télé, Charlie Hebdo (1999) ;
Le zapping de Bernar : Chroniques télé parues dans Charlie Hebdo, Éditions Hoëbeke (2005).
Bernar est mort, les peoples unanimes : "Il ne dessinera plus nos sales gueules"
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Born 1923-03-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jean Minisini was a French actor. Before entering the world of cinema, Jean Minisini was a wrestler and stuntman. Official stand-in of the American actor Burt Lancaster, he worked in Hollywood. He is however well known to film fans for his role as henchman of Fantômas in the film by André Hunebelle (1964). Faithful stuntman of Claude Carliez and François Nadal's team, we see him fighting alongside Yvan Chiffre against Jean Marais and robbing a casino with Louis de Funès, Yvan Chiffre, Dominique Zardi and Henri Attal. He played a mobster named Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Le Majordome by Jean Delannoy in 1964. He played, in Le Corniaud (1964), a P.J. inspector alongside Eric Vasberg, Marius Gaidon and Jack Ary. He also played the role of "Mathieu la valise" in Un flic by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1972.
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Born 1937-04-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Pulmonary failure, complication of esophageal cancer.
Recognized as one of Los Angeles' most prominant small-theater performers.
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Born 1959-12-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Other
In 1998, Griffith-Joyner died in her sleep at her home in Mission Viejo, California. On October 22, the sheriff-coroner's office (it was an unexpected death) announced the cause of death as: "1) positional asphyxia 2) epileptiform seizure 3) cavernous angioma, left orbital frontal cerebrum".
The cavernous angioma referred to a brain abnormality discovered during the autopsy that made Joyner subject to seizures. It is in fact, a congenital defect, having developed at birth. In 1990 she had, according to a family attorney, suffered a grand mal seizure and had been treated for seizures in 1990, 1993 and 1994.
The cause of death in effect said that she had suffocated in her pillow during a severe epileptic seizure.
Her retirement from competitive track and field after her 1988 Olympic Games triumph further fueled the controversy as mandatory random drug testing was about to be implemented in 1989. Under the less stringent testing schedule during her career, no evidence was found that Griffith-Joyner used performance enhancing drugs.
She stunned the world when—known as a 200 m runner—she ran a new 100 m World Record of 10.49 in the quarter-finals of the US Olympic Trials. Reporters at the event commented that although the wind meter measured 0.0—indicating no wind—there was visual evidence of considerable wind in the stadium at the time of the race. Every event on that day measured excessive wind speeds and this led many to later suggest that the wind meter in the stadium malfunctioned during the race, but the record is still recognized. Joyner, her coach stated that he believed the 10.49 run to be wind aided as well. Flo-Jo never ran faster than 10.61 without excessive wind assistance that season.
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Born 1892-08-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Emmanuel Berl was a French journalist, historian and essayist. He was born at Le Vésinet in the modern département of Yvelines, and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. In 1937 he married the singer, composer and film actress Mireille Hartuch; she had nicknamed him "Théodore" (which is what appears on their tomb). Berl was the cousin of Lisette de Brinon.
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Born 1894-07-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Upon his death from emphysema at the age of eighty in Oxnard, Brennan was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles. His widow, Ruth, whom he married in 1920, lived to be ninety-nine and is buried next to him. They had a daughter and two sons.
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Born 1896-04-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
De Montherlant published Le solstice de Juin in 1941 -- an essay in which he expressed his admiration for the German army and claimed that France was justly defeated and conquered in World War II.
Montherlant mostly hid his pederastic tendencies during his lifetime. In 1912, he had been expelled from the prestigious Sainte-Croix de Neuilly school for a relationship with a younger pupil. His novel Les garçons (1969) and his correspondence with Roger Peyrefitte (author of Les amitiés particulières (1943), also about homosexual relationships between boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school), are the main testaments to this side of his character.
Between 1960 and 1972, Montherlant was a member of the Académie française. According to Peyrefitte, he was beaten up by some youths which caused a serious injury to his eye. He was going blind on account of that and he committed suicide in 1972.
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Born 1882-07-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
She was a French psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. Her wealth contributed to the popularity of psychoanalysis, and enabled Freud's escape from Nazi Germany.
She was born at Saint-Cloud, a town in Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France. Her mother died of an embolism induced by giving birth to Marie.
She died of leukemia in Saint-Tropez, was cremated in Marseilles, and her ashes were interred in Prince George's tomb at Tatoï, near Athens.
Marie consulted Sigmund Freud for treatment of her own frigidity, a cure which can be said to have backfired, as she later conducted affairs with Freud's disciple Rudolph Loewenstein, as she had with the Prime Minister of France, Aristide Briand. It was to Marie Bonaparte that Sigmund Freud remarked, "The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’".