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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 1956-04-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Christine Boisson was a French actress. Boisson died from lung disease at a care home in Paris.
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Born 1912-11-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Viola Clara Smith (née Schmitz) was an American drummer best known for her work in orchestras, swing bands, and popular music from the 1920s until 1975. She was one of the first professional female drummers. She played five times on The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as in two films and the Broadway musical Cabaret. Smith never married. She had been engaged to be married, but the man was drafted into World War II, and the engagement was cancelled. At the time of Smith's 107th birthday in November 2019, it was reported that she occasionally still drummed with bands in Costa Mesa, California, as one of the oldest living mainstream musicians. Smith died on October 21, 2020, at her home in Costa Mesa, California, at the age of 107. She had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease in the time leading up to her death
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Born 1929-01-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Robert Faurisson was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, and by letters to French newspapers, especially Le Monde, which contradicted the history of the Holocaust by denying the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, and the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank. After the passing of the Gayssot Act against Holocaust denial in 1990, Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, and in 1991 he was dismissed from his academic post.
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Born 1936-11-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film and television actor. Michu acted in many films, four of which were directed by Gérard Oury. He acted also on Thierry la Fronde, a television programme, from 1963 to 1966. His best-known role was as Inspector Guyomard on Commissaire Moulin, a series on TF1, from 1980 to 2008.
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Born 1961-09-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French swimmer who became a national team trainer. He died of a heart attack while racing a mountain bike race.
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Born 1920-02-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a professional 9-dan Japanese professional Go player. Sakata became a professional Go player in 1935.
Sakata wrote many books in Japanese; several have been translated into English, including Modern Joseki and Fuseki, The Middle Game of Go, Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go and Killer of Go.
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Born 1918-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
The last surviving brother of President Miterrand.
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Born 1919-04-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He studied the role of love in French History, and was a TV film producer as well.
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Born 1969-08-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery". Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction, and these topics often appeared in his lyrics. At age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously released. While Smith's death was originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in December 2003 left open the question of possible homicide. A possible suicide note, written on a Post-it, read, "I'm so sorry—love, Elliot. God forgive me."
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Born 1919-08-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was one of the frères Jacques. He was the tallest one, in red body stocking.
Paul Tourenne was the frère Jacques in blue.
Georges Bellec was the tiniest. The comic one. In yellow.
André Bellec was in green.
Hubert Degex, And before, Pierre Philippe, were playing the piano.
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Born 1909-10-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leader in the study of group theory.
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Born 1894-09-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Dirk Jan Struik was a Dutch-born American (since 1934) mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the U.S. In 1926 Struik was offered positions both at the Moscow State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He decided to accept the latter, where he spent the rest of his academic career. He collaborated with Norbert Wiener on differential geometry, while continuing his research on the history of mathematics. He was made full professor at MIT in 1940.
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Born 1924-08-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Karl Egil Aubert was a Norwegian mathematician. Karl Aubert was born at Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the brother of sociologist Vilhelm Aubert. He studied at the University of Oslo and took his Doctor of Science degree at the University of Paris in 1957. He stayed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1958 to 1960. From 1962 to 1990 he was a professor at the University of Oslo. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and Tufts University. He chaired the Norwegian Mathematics Society from 1960 to 1967.
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Born 1932-02-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Truffaut was born out of wedlock. He never met his biological father, who was a Jewish dentist. His mother's future husband Roland Truffaut accepted him as an adopted son and gave him his surname.
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Born 1943-07-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He fought the French connection.
His killer was François Checchi. The moto driver was Charles Altiéri.
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Born 1906-02-18. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Unknown
Interestingly, as a child, Hans Asperger appears to have exhibited features of the very condition named after him. He was described as a remote and lonely child, who had difficulty making friends. He was talented in language; in particular he was interested in the Austrian poet Franz Grillparzer, whose poetry he would frequently quote to his uninterested classmates.
Asperger Syndrom:
Asperger syndrome — also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's disorder, Asperger's, or just AS — is a pervasive developmental condition related to autism. It manifests in individual ways and can have both positive and negative effects on a person. It is recognized by the medical community as one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) considered to be part of the autistic spectrum. It is typically characterized by issues with social and communication skills. Due to the mixed nature of its effects, it remains controversial among researchers, physicians, and people who are diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.
Asperger syndrome is differentiated from other PDDs and from high functioning autism (HFA) in that early development is normal and there is no language delay.
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Born 1922-03-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cirrhosis of the liver
He died at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, one day after being rushed, in severe abdominal pain, from his St. Petersburg home by ambulance. His death, at the age of 47, resulted from an internal hemorrhage (bleeding esophageal varices) caused by cirrhosis of the liver, the result of a life of heavy drinking.
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Born 1882-03-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books. Three well-known fractals are named after him (the Sierpiński triangle, the Sierpiński carpet, and the Sierpiński curve), as are Sierpiński numbers and the associated Sierpiński problem. Sierpiński retired in 1960 as professor at the University of Warsaw, but continued until 1967 to give a seminar on the Theory of Numbers at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He also continued editorial work as editor-in-chief of Acta Arithmetica, and as a member of the editorial board of Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Composito Matematica, and Zentralblatt für Mathematik.