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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 1927-11-15. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Charles Edward Sporck was an American engineer and company manager. He was best known for his role as chief executive officer and president of National Semiconductor from 1967 to 1991. The New York Times described Sporck as "a founding father of Silicon Valley".
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Born 1962-04-05. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University. Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary. She was one of the central figures in the 2018 controversies resulting in the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature that year and the following restructuring of the academy.
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Born 1941-09-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language. Dennis Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey where he lived alone. First news of his death came from his former colleague, Rob Pike. The cause and exact time of death have not been disclosed. He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease. His death came a week after the death of Steve Jobs; although Ritchie's death did not receive as much media coverage, computer historians such as Paul Ceruzzi said his influence was comparable.
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Born 1912-03-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation and the Lelong number. In mathematics, the Lelong number is an invariant of a point of a complex analytic variety that in some sense measures the local density at that point. More generally a closed positive (p,p) current u on a complex manifold has a Lelong number n(u,x) for each point x of the manifold. Similarly a plurisubharmonic function also has a Lelong number at a point.
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Born 1974-11-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in athletics and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drugs problems, rows with teams, suicide attempts and finally being disowned by world cycling. His former wife described him as a cocaine addict.
In 1978, when he was four and cycling in the village square, he was knocked over by the driver of a rally car. His mother said her son didn't cry until doctors cut his cycling shorts. The collision led to four operations on his right knee and repeated problems later in life.
Vandenbroucke died while on holiday in Senegal due to a pulmonary embolism.
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Born 1967-04-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American football fullback who played for the Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings. He retired at the age of 33 in the 2000 season after playing in the NFL for 8 years.
He died of heart failure.
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Born 1977-07-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Cook Islands rugby league player. He played as a prop for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Bradford Bulls, Castleford Tigers and represented the Cook Islands.
He died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 31 after collapsing during a weight training session in the gym.
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Born 1919-11-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart
He was nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1969 and in that same year won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, both for The Battle of Algiers.
he died from congestive heart failure in Rome
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Born 1936-08-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American basketball player who played as a center and is considered one of the greatest players in history. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. Chamberlain stood 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall, and weighed 250 pounds (110 kg) as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and eventually to over 300 pounds (140 kg) with the Lakers.
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Born 1904-07-02. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
There are numerous explanations of why Lacoste was originally nicknamed the Crocodile (or the Alligator). A 2006 New York Times obituary about Lacoste's son, Bernard, provides an apparently authoritative one. In the 1920s, supposedly, Lacoste made a bet with his team captain about whether he would win a certain match. The stakes were a suitcase he had seen in a Boston store; it was made of crocodile (or alligator) skin. Later, René Lacoste's friend Robert George embroidered a crocodile onto a blazer that Lacoste wore for his matches.
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Born 1911-01-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French racing cyclist who won the 1937 Tour de France.
In addition, Lapébie won the 1934 and 1937 editions of the Critérium National. He was born at Bayonne, Aquitaine, and died in Pessac.
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Born 1935-02-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Gene Vincent died from a ruptured stomach ulcer while visiting his father in California, and is interred in the Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Newhall, California.