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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1928-02-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 hits. His humility and shyness may be one reason his contribution to the genre has been overlooked. During his career, Domino had 35 records in the U.S. Billboard Top 40, and five of his pre-1955 records sold more than a million copies, being certified gold. His musical style was based on traditional rhythm and blues, accompanied by saxophones, bass, piano, electric guitar, and drums. His 1949 release "The Fat Man" is widely regarded as the first million-selling rock and roll record. Two of his most famous songs are "Ain't That A Shame" and "Blueberry Hill".
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Born 1943-04-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career. Vee's career began in the midst of tragedy. On February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died," three of the four headline acts in the lineup of the traveling Winter Dance Party—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper—were killed in the crash of a V-tailed 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane, along with the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. (Dion DiMucci, the fourth headliner, had opted not to travel on the plane.) It crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, en route to the next show on the tour itinerary, in Moorhead, Minnesota. Velline, then 15 years old, and a hastily assembled band of Fargo schoolboys (including his older brother Bill) calling themselves the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band at the Moorhead engagement. Their performance there was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer. Vee continued performing live until 2011 when diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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Born 1923-06-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Georges Francis Raymond Jouvin was a French trumpettist and composer.
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Born 1920-08-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American and Irish actress and singer. She was a famous redhead who was known for playing fiercely passionate, but sensible heroines, often in westerns and adventure films. On numerous occasions, she worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. O'Hara was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Born 1927-09-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), invented the Lisp programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI. McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems. He received the Turing Award for his major contributions to the field of AI, and many other accolades and honors, including the United States National Medal of Science.
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Born 1938-07-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
A long-time political figure within French political circles, Frêche is an extremely controversial character, considered by some a great builder and visionary, while criticised by others and condemned in court for his controversial, sometimes racist remarks.
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Born 1912-05-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.
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Born 1939-04-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He died following an accidental fall.
He was known for having problems with alcohol, due to the difficulty of being the son of Georges Simenon.
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Born 1921-08-19. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was an American television screenwriter, producer, and futurist. He is best known for creating the original Star Trek television series and thus the Star Trek science fiction franchise. Following a September 1989 stroke at a family reunion in Tallahassee, Florida, Roddenberry's health declined, ultimately leaving him confined to a wheelchair by 1991. By the fourth season of The Next Generation, he seldom appeared at the show's offices. He died from cardiopulmonary arrest.
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Born 1908-09-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
For around ten years, Oistrakh played the 1702 Conte di Fontana Stradivarius that he traded for the 1715 Ex Marsick Stradivarius in June 1966.
Oistrakh suffered a heart attack as early as 1964. He survived and continued to work at a furious pace. He had already become one of the principal cultural ambassadors for the Soviet Union to the West in live concerts and recordings. After conducting a cycle of Brahms with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he died of another heart attack in Amsterdam.
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Born 1905-01-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Dior died at the health spa town Montecatini, Italy. Some reports say that he died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time magazine's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite and Dior acquaintance Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Rédé stated in his memoirs that contemporary rumor had it that the fashion designer succumbed to a heart attack after a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men.
His companion at the time of his death, was the Algerian-born singer Jacques Benita (born 1930).
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Born 1903-08-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a French actress born in Perigueux, Dordogne. She appeared in a number of films, most notably director Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog, 1929).
After World War II she returned to her native region where she fell into a deep depression. She committed suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square.