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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 1992-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University in Piscataway Township, New Jersey, who jumped from the George Washington Bridge in an apparent suicide on September 22, 2010. This occurred after his sexual encounter with a man in his dorm room was video streamed over the internet without his knowledge by his roommate Dharun Ravi, and a fellow hallmate, Molly Wei, and after a second attempt by Ravi was made to do the same.
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Born 1963-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Infection
Vodden was born Lucy O'Donnell in Weybridge, Surrey, in 1963.
She was a classmate of Julian Lennon's, son of Beatles musician John Lennon, at Heath House School. Julian Lennon drew a picture of O'Donnell in 1966 and took it to his father, explaining to him that the picture he drew was, "That’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds." The quote became the legend for the origin of the song.
in 2007, Lucy Vodden admitted to being the Lucy referred to in the song in an interview with the BBC Radio. She told the BBC that, "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant… Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school."
In 2009, Julian Lennon learned that Vodden, who lived in Surrey, England, suffered from the immune system disease lupus. Lennon sent her flowers with a personally written card. After learning that Vodden was taking solace from gardening and looking at plants, Lennon sent her gift vouchers for a garden centre. Vodden, who saw Lennon in the intervening years one time at a concert of his, reacted by saying, "It was lovely of Julian."
Vodden developed an infection on the second day of her first vacation with her husband in eight years. She was rushed to a hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where she died.
At the time of its release, the Beatles claimed that the inspiration for the song came from a drawing by John Lennon's son, Julian, which Julian called "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". The song sparked controversy when released, including being banned by the BBC because of the supposed reference to the drug LSD, with the letters of the title spelling Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Lennon would later deny the reference during an interview with Rolling Stone. Despite John Lennon's denial of the title and content of the song having to do with LSD, on June 2, 2004, McCartney told BBC that the song is, in fact, about LSD
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Born 1923-03-22. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
In 1995, vocalist, dancer, choreographer and mime Michael Jackson and Marceau conceived a concert for HBO, but the project was never completed.
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Born 1911-02-06. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
She discovered that she was the daughter of Marcel Duchamp only in her 50's.
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Born 1914-12-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lamour's lack of pretension and good humor allowed her to have a remarkably long career in show business for someone best known as a glamour girl. She was a popular draw on the dinner theatre circuit of the 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s, she lived with her longtime husband William Ross Howard III (whom she married in 1943), in the Hampton suburb of Towson, Maryland. After he died in 1978, Lamour kicked her career into high gear, publishing her autobiography My Side of the Road in 1980, reviving her nightclub act, and performing in plays and acting on such television shows as Hart to Hart, Crazy Like a Fox, and Murder She Wrote.
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Born 1927-03-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Pauline Dubuisson was trialed for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Félix Bailly. This story inspired Henri-Georges Clouzot for his film La Vérité (1960). She committed suicide with barbiturates.
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Born 1936-03-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
Jean-René Huguenin was a French writer. He began writing articles for La Table ronde and Arts at the age of 20. In 1960 he published his first and only novel, La Côte sauvage, which became a critical success and was praised by François Mauriac and Julien Gracq. The book was published in the United States in 1961 as The Other Side of the Summer and the United Kingdom in 1963 as A Place of Shipwreck. On 22 September 1962, Huguenin died in a car accident at the age of 26. In 2013 a biography on Huguenin by Jérôme Michel was published under the title Un jeune mort d’autrefois – Tombeau de Jean-René Huguenin.
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Born 1897-01-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Even during her career, her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career. In her posthumously published memoirs, Davies claimed she wasn't an actress, knew nothing about politics, and described herself as a "silly, giggly idiot," but this is in keeping with her modest, self-deprecating personality.
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Born 1877-09-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Frederick Soddy FRS, was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. He was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance and economics.
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Born 1886-10-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Murder
In 1914, Alain-Fournier started work on a second novel, Colombe Blanchet, but this remained unfinished when he joined the army in August. He died fighting near Les Éparges (Meuse) one month later. His body remained unidentified until 1991, at which time he was laid to rest in the cemetery of Saint Remy la Colonne.