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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1947-05-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Anne Wiazemsky was a French actress and novelist. Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of novelist and dramatist François Mauriac. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), and went on to appear in several of Jean-Luc Godard's films, among them La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968). She and Godard were married from 1967 to 1979.
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Born 1950-06-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which was dubbed a "masterpiece" by The New York Times. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist filmmaking and avant-garde cinema has been substantial. According to Akerman's sister, she had been hospitalized for depression and then returned home to Paris ten days before her death.
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Born 1948-02-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television. In January 2014, Mankell announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and throat cancer. In May 2014, he reported that treatments had worked well and he was getting better. Three weeks before his death he wrote about what happens to people's identity when they are stricken by a serious illness.
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Born 1959-05-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian racing driver. He started 208 Formula One Grands Prix but never won, holding the record for the longest career without a race victory. A string of accidents early in his career earned him the nickname 'Andrea de Crasheris'. Though the nickname stuck, he became a more reliable driver in his later career. De Cesaris was killed in a motorcycle crash. Italian press reports said de Cesaris was killed instantly in the crash in Rome.
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Born 1925-05-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film director and scriptwriter.
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Born 1955-02-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.
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Born 1936-04-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Charles Lewis Napier was an American character actor in film and television known for his prolific career playing memorable supporting and leading roles in genre cinema, often in the role of a police officer, soldier, or authority figure. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the army, he graduated from college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. Napier established himself in character roles and worked steadily for the next 35 years. He made numerous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme, including roles in the critically acclaimed drama Philadelphia, comedy Married to the Mob, historical horror-drama Beloved, the political-thriller remake The Manchurian Candidate, and the Best Picture-winning psychological horror film adaptation The Silence of the Lambs. Other notable roles include the short-tempered country singer Tucker McElroy in The Blues Brothers, gruff army Commander Gilmour in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and bureaucratic CIA officer Marshall Murdock in Rambo: First Blood Part II. He also had numerous voiceover roles in television, most notably the character of Duke Phillips on the prime time animated sitcom The Critic and Agent Zed on Men in Black: The Series. Napier died after collapsing the previous day. He was 75 years old. The exact cause of death was not released, but Napier had been treated for deep vein thrombosis in his legs in May 2010.
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Born 1923-05-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
From a humble background, he was largely self-educated. He began working as a pastry cook apprentice when he was 14 years old.
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Born 1913-09-02. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and linear algebra. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Lenin and the Wolf Prize, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a lifelong academic, serving decades as a professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at the Busch Campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University.
While he was still an adolescent, his level of academic achievement was ascertained to be of an extremely high degree, enabling him to bypass high school and college and proceed to postgraduate study at Moscow State University, where his advisor was the preeminent mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov. Another source says he was expelled from high school and refused undergraduate admission because his father had been a mill owner. He nevertheless managed to attend lectures at the University and began postgraduate study at the age of 19.
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Born 1937-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama.
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Born 1917-12-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Kim Chan, also known as Kim S. Chan, was a Chinese-American actor and producer. He was most notable for his roles as Lo Si, a.k.a. The Ancient, in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Mr. Kim in The Fifth Element. He also was a villain in the series Now and again.
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Born 1973-01-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Dwain Weston was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper and wingsuiter. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston was killed while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado. Weston was wearing a wingsuit, a skydiving suit with fabric extended below the arms to the body and between the legs to catch air allowing for horizontal travel when skydiving. Weston was to go over the bridge while fellow skydiver Jeb Corliss was to go under it. Just prior to the jump, Weston said to Corliss, "Just remember: whatever happens, happens." Miscalculating the winds and his distance from the bridge, Weston struck a railing while traveling at an estimated 120 miles per hour (190 km/h), severing one of his legs. After the impact with the bridge, Weston's parachute deployed and he fell onto a rock face about 300 feet (91 m) from the bottom of the gorge, where he bled to death. Spectators on the bridge witnessed and filmed the event, capturing the reaction of the crowd and the damage to the bridge.
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Born 1926-04-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Scottish actor, who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s. He was also active in television, and particularly in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s. He is most remembered for starring as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Hammer's film version of Quatermass and the Pit (1967). He also originated the role of Thomas Cromwell in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons in 1960.
His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing "considerable range and undeniable distinction."
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Born 1962-05-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American football player and professional wrestler best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling.
Pillman died in a Bloomington, Minnesota motel room. He was 35 years old. An autopsy found that a previously undetected heart condition - arteriosclerotic heart disease - had led to his death. He had been scheduled to face Dude Love (Mick Foley) on the pay-per-view. Pillman did not know that he was about to become a father once again when he died. On Raw the next night, he received a ten-bell salute.
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Born 1925-09-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
Cray died of head and neck injuries suffered in a traffic collision on September 22, 1996. Cray had been hospitalized two weeks since his SUV was struck in a multicar rollover accident on Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His Jeep Cherokee vehicle was designed using a Cray supercomputer.
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Born 1947-10-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He co-founded the Parti Communautaire Européen with Jean Thiriart, a leading member of the neo-Nazi Jeune Europe Belgian group. Later, Jouret also founded the Order of the Solar Temple also known as the Order of the Solar Tradition) with Joseph Di Mambro in 1984. He committed suicide in the Swiss village of Salvan in October 1994, leading to mass suicide of his followers.
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Born 1924-08-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
OTS co-founder. Collective suicide.
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Born 1932-09-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was a NASA astronaut and United States Marine Corps Major (United States) who was killed after a mechanical failure caused the flight controls in a T-38 he was piloting to stop responding. The aircraft crashed in Florida near Tallahassee.
On October 18, 1963, Major Williams was named by NASA as one of their third group of astronauts.
Williams served on the backup crew for Gemini X and had been assigned to the back-up crew for what would be the Apollo 9 mission. This crew placement would have most likely led to an assignment as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 12. After his death, he was replaced on the Apollo 9 backup crew by Alan Bean who had been his commander on the Gemini X backup crew.
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Born 1885-01-28. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was born Friedrich Heinrich Lewy.
He was a prominent neurologist. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies.
He is consistently referred to as "Lewy", although he changed his names during the US years, ending up with "Lewey".
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Born 1905-04-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Infection
Vigo was born on April to Emily Clero and the prominent militant anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, (who adopted the name Miguel Almereyda - an anagram of "y'a la merde"). Much of his early life was spent on the run with his parents. His father was strangled in his cell in Fresnes Prison on the night of 13 August 1917. It was believed to have been the doing of the authorities, as Almereyda had earlier that day asked to speak to his lawyer, who was due to see him the following day.
Vigo was married and had a daughter in 1931. He died of complications from tuberculosis, which he had contracted eight years earlier.
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Born 1898-09-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
By the end of 1930, she had appeared in forty-five films, the last four of them talkies. That year she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, Renée Adorée lived only a few years longer.