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Einstein Albert (b. 1879-04-14 / d. 1955-04-18)
He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.
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Born 1953-02-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart
Jean Teulé was a French novelist, cartoonist and screenwriter. He was the partner of actress Miou-Miou. Teulé’s book Le magasin des suicides (The Suicide Shop), published in 2007, has been turned into a film called The Suicide Shop. It screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, California, on 28 April 2013 and 2 May 2013. Teulé died from a cardiac arrest following an alimentary intoxication at the age of 69.
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Born 1937-04-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:COVID
Colin Luther Powell was an American statesman, diplomat, and four-star general who served as the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American secretary of state. He served as the 16th United States national security advisor from 1987 to 1989 and as the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Powell, who was being treated for blood cancer, that affects the immune system, died from complications of COVID-19.
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Born 1961-05-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
He was an American actor and screenwriter. Briscoe was hospitalized in October 2017 after suffering a fall. It led to internal bleeding and heart complications that resulted in his death at the age of 56.
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Born 1952-09-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a Dutch actress, model and singer. Her most famous role is in the French film Emmanuelle. She suffered throat cancer, lung cancer and esophageal cancer.
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Born 1921-09-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a journalist at RTL for 36 years commenting horse races. His son Jérôme took over his father and had the same job at RTL. He died on February 17, 2017.
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Born 1918-05-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Kam Fong Chun, the Kalihi native known to millions of TV viewers as Detective Chin Ho Kelly on "Hawai'i Five-O," has died at 84.
Kam Fong Chun played detective Chin Ho Kelly on "Hawaii Five-O" from 1968 to 1978.
Chun died after a long battle with inoperable lung cancer. He was born in May 1918 in Honolulu
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Born 1899-05-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Originally a Belgian citizen, he became a citizen of France in 1955, and he lived the rest of his life there along with his family. In 1965 he won the National Prize of Literature, which he refused to accept.
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Born 1957-11-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American actor and model who died accidentally shortly after a firearms incident on the set of Cover Up, a television series in which he was a central cast member.
In between filming scenes on the set of Cover Up, Hexum was critically wounded after he placed a .44 Magnum prop gun loaded with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger. The accident happened during the filming of a scene where Hexum’s character (Mac Harper) was supposed to unload a handgun and replace the bullets with blanks – as the script required. However, the shooting was delayed and Hexum – being overworked and tired due to his tight filming schedule and various TV appearances fell asleep. Hexum awoke, realizing that the scene still was not ready to be shot, and put the gun to his head. Of all the crewmembers in the studio that day, no one claims to have seen the shooting.
Hexum was apparently not informed that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired within a few inches of the body, especially if pointed at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. Although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, the wad struck him in the temple with enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain causing massive hemorrhaging.
Hexum was rushed to the Beverly Hills Medical Center where he underwent five hours of surgery to repair his wounds. Six days after the accident, Hexum was declared brain dead. Hexum's mother Greta allowed his body, still connected to life support, to be flown to San Francisco for organ transplants. Hexum's heart was then implanted into a then 36-year old Las Vegas escort service owner who was awaiting a heart transplant. Hexum's kidneys and corneas were also harvested and placed in organ transplant banks before his body was flown back to Los Angeles for autopsy and burial.
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Born 1907-01-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French politician who served as President of the Council of Ministers (equivalent in the French Fourth Republic to Prime Minister) for eight months from 1954 to 1955. He represented the Radical Party, and his government had the support of the Communist Party. His main priority was ending the war in Indochina, which had already cost 92,000 dead, 114,000 wounded and 28,000 captured on the French side. Public opinion polls showed that, in February 1954, only 7% of the French people wanted to continue the fight to regain Indochina out of the hands of the Communists, led by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh movement. At the Geneva Conference of 1954 he negotiated a deal that gave the Viet Minh control of Vietnam north of the seventeenth parallel, and allowed him to pull out all French forces. The United States then provided large-scale financial, military and economic support to South Vietnam.
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Born 1943-05-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
With the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer on 5 September 1977 and the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in mid-October, terrorists tried to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members. At the conclusion of a period of several weeks that came to be called the German Autumn, the passengers of the Boeing 737 named Landshut were freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977.
In the morning, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe were found in their prison cells, having died from gunshot wounds, while Gudrun Ensslin was found hanging. RAF member Irmgard Möller was found with four stab wounds to her chest, but survived.
All official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed collective suicide while Möller still insists that the deaths and her injury were extrajudicial executions.
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Born 1944-07-24. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction.
Raspe was convicted on 28 April 1977 and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 18 October 1977, Raspe was found with a gunshot wound in his cell in Stammheim Prison, Stuttgart. He died shortly after being admitted to a hospital. Fellow RAF members and inmates, Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, were found dead in their cells the same morning. Irmgard Möller was found in her cell, wounded after supposedly stabbing herself in the chest, but survived. Though all official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader, Raspe and Ensslin all committed suicide, sympathizers and Irmgard Möller persist that the deaths had been extrajudicial executions.
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Born 1940-08-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
She was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction.
Several attempts to free her from prison, through hostage-taking by sympathizers and so-called members of the 2nd generation of the RAF, failed. One was the abduction of Hanns-Martin Schleyer on September 5, 1977, and when this failed to work, the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner on October 17. When the airplane was stormed by a German anti-terrorist unit, Schleyer was killed, and Ensslin was found hanging in her cell early in the morning of October 18. Officially, her death was ruled a suicide. However, sympathizers and Irmgard Möller, the only surviving RAF member imprisoned at Stammheim Prison, insist that the deaths had been extrajudicial executions.
Ensslin's life story was fictionalized into the film Marianne and Juliane.