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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 1937-03-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Martine Allain-Regnault was a French scientific journalist and television presenter.
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Born 1932-01-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American jazz and soul-jazz drummer and baritone vocalist. In addition to his work as sideman, Tate released many albums as leader and lent his voice to songs in the animated Schoolhouse Rock! series. Grady Tate died of complications of Alzheimer's at the age of 85.
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Born 1920-07-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was Professor of structural engineering in the department of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the finite element method (FEM). His article in 1956 was one of the first applications of this computational method. He coined the term “finite elements” in an article in 1960. He was born in Seattle.
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Born 1928-01-29. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France he was known as "Magic" Tchernia and Monsieur Cinema.
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Born 1961-11-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
He was, at the time of his death, one of the world's heaviest people, with a total weight of 452 kg (990 lb). Before his death, he was helped by Manuel Uribe Garza, also of Nuevo León and also morbidly obese.
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Born 1931-09-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He invented the "digicode" in 1970.
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Born 1971-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Unknown
Following an illness, Mathieu Grossot passed away at the age of 34.
Mathieu joined the motor sports department of Eurosport in 2000. His great professional qualities and his unbridled passion for these sports propelled him to head of service from January 2003 to January 2004. From there he moved to France's leading television station TF1 to work on their weekly motor sports programme Auto-Moto and on the channel's coverage of Formula One.
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Born 1930-07-15. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
At its core, if it can be said to have one, deconstruction is an attempt to open a text (literary, philosophical, or otherwise) to several meanings and interpretations. Its method is usually based on binary oppositions within a text — for example inside and outside or subject and object, or male and female. 'Deconstruction' then argues that such oppositions are culturally and historically defined, even reliant upon one another, and seeks to demonstrate that they are not as clear-cut or as stable as it would at first seem. On the basis that the two opposed concepts are fluid, this ambiguity is used to show that the text's meaning is fluid as well.
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Born 1936-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Franco-Russian model Irina Demick was Darryl F. Zanuck's newest obsession in 1961. He cast her prominently as a French resistance fighter in his all-star The Longest Day (1962), making a point of bringing up her key scene (in which she drowns a Nazi officer) at virtually every press conference attending the film's release. In 1965, Irina was spotlighted in no fewer than seven roles in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, each character a different nationality. Despite Zanuck's strenuous efforts, Irina Demick never caught on with the public, and she faded from films after 1968's Prudence and the Pill.
She is the cause of Delon's killing in le clan des siciliens.
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Born 1915-02-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1913-12-18. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck, Germany to Martha Frahm, an unwed mother who worked as a cashier for a department store. His father was an accountant from Hamburg by the name of John Möller, whom Brandt never met.
In 1933, using his connections with the port and its ships from the time he had been apprentice, he left Germany for Norway on a ship to escape Nazi persecution. It was at this time that he adopted the pseudonym Willy Brandt to avoid detection by Nazi agents. In 1934, he took part in the founding of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations, and was elected to its Secretariat.
The Guillaume affair and several revelations about Brandt's private life (he had had some short-lived affairs) appeared in newspapers. Brandt contemplated suicide and even drafted a suicide note. He chose instead to accept responsibility for Guillaume, and resigned on May 7, 1974.
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Born 1929-10-20. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide
She left a note beside the bath where she was found unconscious:
"when there is no spotlight to lighten them, TV stars are like running beheaded ducks".
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Born 1906-06-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician, university professor, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park, and author.
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Born 1896-10-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a noted French pedagogue, and educational reformer.
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Born 1869-09-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Felix Salten was an Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna. Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary. His father was Fülöp Salzmann, the telegraph office's clerk in Pest; his mother was Maria Singer. He was the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi. When he was four weeks old, his family relocated to Vienna, as many Jews did after the Imperial government had granted full citizenship rights to Jews in 1867. His best remembered work is Bambi (1923). A translation in English was published by Simon & Schuster in 1928, and became a Book-of-the-Month Club success. In 1933, he sold the film rights to the American director Sidney Franklin for only $1,000, and Franklin later transferred the rights to the Walt Disney Studios, which formed the basis of the animated film Bambi (1942). Life in Austria became perilous for Jews during the 1930s. In Germany, Adolf Hitler had Salten's books banned in 1936. Two years later, after Germany's annexation of Austria, Salten moved to Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife, and spent his final years there.
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Born 1838-12-26. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer
He was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity. In 1902, Winkler resigned his professorship. He died in Dresden two years later of carcinoma at the age of 66.