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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 1923-08-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis) was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day, nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" because she photographed so well in that medium.
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Born 1928-11-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live action short film in 1963. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, his films were unavailable from the 1970s until 2009. As an actor, assistant director and gag writer, Étaix worked with the likes of Jacques Tati, Robert Bresson, Nagisa Oshima, Otar Iosseliani and Jerry Lewis, the last of whom cast the comedian in his unreleased film The Day the Clown Cried. Etaix died from complications of an intestinal infection in Paris.
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Born 1924-11-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Franco-American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United States, acquiring dual French and American citizenship.
Mandelbrot died in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer, at the age of 85. Reacting to news of his death, mathematician Heinz-Otto Peitgen said "if we talk about impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, he is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years." Chris Anderson described Mandelbrot as "an icon who changed how we see the world." French President Nicolas Sarkozy said very not interesting things about Mandelbrot, as usual.
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Born 1967-06-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was an American murderer. With Clinton Dickens, he was responsible for the murder of two women in Akron, Ohio, in 1986.
Early on the morning of September 1, 1986, Cooey, Dickens and Kenneth Horonetz, Jr. were throwing chunks of concrete off the Stoner Street Bridge onto U.S. Interstate 77 in Akron. One of the objects dropped by Dickens struck the car of a University of Akron student, Wendy Offredo, age 21. Also in the car was another student, Dawn McCreery, age 20.
Pretending to rescue the two students, the three men kidnapped them. Cooey, then age 19, and Dickens, age 17, took the women to a field where they beat, stabbed, tortured and raped them for three and a half hours, eventually beating them to death and abandoning the bodies. Cooey and Dickens each blamed the other for the actual murders, Horonetz having left the car before the violence began. Cooey was convicted on November 14, 1986, and subsequently sentenced to death. Dickens, a minor at the time of the murders, could not be sentenced to death under Ohio laws, and as of 2008 is serving a life sentence in prison.
Following a long series of appeals, requests for clemency, and stays of execution, Cooey's final appeal was rejected. He argued that his obesity rendered lethal injection an inhumane form of execution. However, he was executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at 10:28 AM on October 14, 2008. At his execution, he was asked if he had any final words. Cooey replied "You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now?"
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Born 1934-12-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Pat Moss-Carlsson, born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, was one of the most successful women rally drivers of all time. She scored three outright wins and seven podium finishes in International rallies, and was crowned European Ladies' Rally Champion five times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964 and 1965). She was the younger sister of Formula One Grand Prix star Stirling Moss, and in 1963 married the Swedish rally driver Erik Carlsson.
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Born 1937-06-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He took Fender from the headstock of his guitar, and Freddy because the alliteration sounded good to him.
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Born 1923-12-02. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Cancer
He died of cancer, consequence of an hepatitis he contracted due to blood transfusions he had been doing to his patients.
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Born 1907-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1918-08-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema. After a prolonged period, hyperventilation becomes inadequate to maintain high enough oxygen levels in the blood. The body compensates by vasoconstricting appropriate vessels. This leads to pulmonary hypertension, which places increased strain on the right side of the heart, the one that pumps unoxygenated blood to the lungs, fails. The failure causes the heart muscle to thicken to pump more blood. Eventually, as the heart continues to fail, it becomes larger and blood backs up in the liver.
He died just five days after retiring. A longtime heavy smoker, he had battled emphysema from his mid-20s; he suffered a coughing fit in the middle of the Beethoven performance which almost caused the concert to break down. Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
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Born 1938-02-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
As a Driector :
1970 : M comme Mathieu with Sami Frey, Brigitte Fossey, Bulle Ogier, Roland Dubillard, Laurent Douieb
1975 : Le Jeu du solitaire with Sami Frey, Alida Valli, Tanya Lopert, Emmanuel Ullmo, Romain Tagli, François Perrot, Jean-Claude Carrière, Sabine Haudepin, Danielle Chuteaux
1979 : Retour à la bien-aimée with Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Bruno Ganz, Christian Rist and Jean-François Adam
He had lived with Brigitte Fossey.
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Born 1901-05-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1902-03-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Unknown
friend with Céline and Brasillach, Marcel was accused of collaboration and antisemitism.
He wrote in "Je suis partout"
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Born 1857-09-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Ermete Zacconi was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina and Paola Pezzaglia.
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Born 1867-04-02. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller) was a Prussian bodybuilder and showman. Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy. After a spell in the circus, Sandow studied under strongman Ludwig Durlacher in the late 1880s. On Durlacher's recommendation, he began entering strongman competitions, performing in matches against leading figures in the sport such as Charles Sampson, Frank Bienkowski, and Henry McCann. In 1901 he organised what is believed to be the world's first major body building competition. Set in London's Royal Albert Hall, Sandow judged the event alongside author Arthur Conan Doyle and athlete/sculptor Charles Lawes-Wittewronge. Sandow died at his home in Kensington, London of what newspapers announced as a brain hemorrhage at age 58. It was allegedly brought on after straining himself, without assistance, to lift his car out of a ditch after a road accident two or three years earlier. However, without an autopsy, his death was certified as due to aortic aneurysm