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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1939-10-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Marie Laforêt (born Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach) was a French singer and actress, particularly well known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, and acquired Swiss citizenship. Marie Laforêt died in Genolier (Suisse), a small town in the Nyon district near Geneva, for reasons unknown to the public. The ceremony took place in Paris, church Saint-Eustache, on 24 November; followed by the burial in the family crypt at the Cemetery Père-Lachaise (division 49). She was 80.
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Born 1969-10-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Roy Anthony Hargrove was an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music in 1997 and in 2002. Hargrove primarily played in the hard bop style for the majority of his albums, especially performing jazz standards on his 1990s albums. Hargrove was the bandleader of the progressive group the RH Factor, which combined elements of jazz, funk, hip-hop, soul, and gospel music. Its members have included Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, Pino Palladino, James Poyser, Jonathan Batiste, and Bernard Wright. His longtime manager was Larry Clothier. A quiet and retiring person in life, Hargrove struggled with kidney failure. He died of cardiac arrest brought on by kidney disease, while hospitalized in New Jersey. According to his manager, Larry Clothier, Hargrove had been on dialysis for the last 14 years of his life.
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Born 1932-12-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge.
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Born 1922-11-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a Japanese actress.
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Born 1924-03-01. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American computer scientist who designed the Shell sort sorting algorithm. He acquired his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1959, and published the shell sort algorithm in the Communications of the ACM in July that same year. Shellsort, also known as Shell sort or Shell's method, is an in-place comparison sort. It can be seen as either a generalization of sorting by exchange (bubble sort) or sorting by insertion (insertion sort). The method starts by sorting pairs of elements far apart from each other, then progressively reducing the gap between elements to be compared. By starting with far apart elements, it can move some out-of-place elements into position faster than a simple nearest neighbor exchange.
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Born 1978-07-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:virus
He was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii, and won three world titles (2002, 2003, 2004), three Quiksilver Pro France titles (2003, 2004, 2005), two Rip Curl Pro Search titles (2006 and 2007) and 19 elite tour victories. On September 3, 2010 he won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti.
In a statement, the Association of Surfing Professionals said "He had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease."
Irons married Lyndie Dupuis on November 25, 2007 in Princeville, Kauai. She was seven months pregnant with their first child at the time of his death
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Born 1906-01-21. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
founder of the Moïseyev ballet.
He died of heart failure.
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Born 1984-01-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka was a Polish musician, the drummer and percussionist for the technical death metal band 'Decapitated', and younger brother of the musician Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka. He had been with the band ever since it was founded in 1996, when he was only twelve years of age. He also did work for the heavy metal bands Dies Irae and Panzer X.
On October 29, 2007, while travelling to a show in Gomel, Belarus, Decapitated and the other band that was on the tour bus, Crionics,were involved in a bus accident. The tour bus collided with a truck carrying wood, giving serious head injuries to Kiełtyka and Adrian Kowanek.
The two were taken to a hospital in Novozybkov, Russia. While Kiełtyka's family released a statement on November 1, 2007, saying that his condition had improved, he went under trepanation, and he was due to be transported to a hospital in Krakow, Poland for further treatment. However, Kiełtyka died.
The Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir played a tribute concert to him on November 2 at Oulu, Finland.
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Born 1935-09-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
Drowned
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Born 1957-07-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Murder
His great-grandfather was art dealer Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent van Gogh.
Mohammed Bouyeri assassinated van Gogh in Amsterdam, in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat, while he was bicycling to work. He shot him eight times with an HS 2000 handgun, and Van Gogh died on the spot. Bouyeri then cut van Gogh's throat, nearly decapitating him, and stabbed him in the chest. Two knives were left implanted in his torso, one attaching a five-page note to his body. The note threatened Western governments, Jews and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contained references to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra.
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Born 1951-03-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Knetemann died while riding his bike. He collapsed from a heart attack while riding with friends in Bergen, the Netherlands.
His ex team-mates Roy Schuiten and Bert Oosterbosch died also dubiously early.
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Born 1907-08-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Yugoslav mathematician. Throughout his life, Kurepa published over 700 articles, books, papers, and reviews and over 1,000 scientific reviews. He lectured at universities across Europe, as well as those in Canada, Cuba, Iraq, Israel, and the United States, and was quoted saying "I lectured at almost each of [the] nineteen universities of [the former] Yugoslavia..." His nephew was the noted mathematician Svetozar Kurepa
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Born 1947-04-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Unknown
She was a writer and photographer. She was born in Boston and died in Paris. After her divorce from photographer François Hebert (one son, Stéphane), she was married to writer Julio Cortázar from 1978 until her death in 1982. Among her works "Amélie dans le Miroir," "Llenos de Niños los Árboles" and "Los Autonautas de la Cosmopista" with Cortázar.
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Born 1936-12-28. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Murder
L'ennemi public numero 1
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Born 1944-04-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1922-03-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Murder
He was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer.
Pasolini was brutally murdered by being run over several times with his own car, dying on November 2, 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome, in a location typical of his novels.
Giuseppe Pelosi, a seventeen-year-old hustler, was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. However, on May 7th, 2005, he retracted his confession, which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family, and claimed that three strangers with southern Italian accents had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "filthy communist.
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Born 1856-07-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
During his final years Shaw enjoyed attending to the grounds at Shaw's Corner; his death when he was 94 resulted from injuries from a fall while he was pruning a tree. His ashes, mixed with those of his wife, were scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden.