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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 1946-07-27. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Charles-Henri Flammarion was a French editor. Éditions Audie-Fluide glacial : président-directeur général (1990-2003)
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Born 1956-05-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French actor. He was the French dubbing voice of Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Redford.
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Born 1932-12-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980–1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. He retired from acting in 1999. He died of cardiovascular disease at his Houston home, at the age of 84.
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Born 1982-09-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Shyla Stylez was a Canadian pornographic actress.
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Born 1930-07-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a Scottish drummer, primarily a session musician. He is best known for replacing Ringo Starr on drums on the Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do". White was featured on the American 7" single release of the song, which also appeared on the band's debut British album, Please Please Me. He also played on "P.S. I Love You", which was the B-side of "Love Me Do". White died after a stroke in Caldwell, New Jersey.
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Born 1941-00-00. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French software engineer and a pioneer of computer networking. Zimmermann was educated at École Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecom. His career began at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) in Rocquencourt from 1972 through 1979, where he led research into what became ChorusOS series of distributed operating systems. In 1977, he was an early member of the International Organization for Standardization as it developed the Open Systems Interconnection protocols. He then worked for France Télécom in 1980 through 1986.
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Born 1920-05-29. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
he was a chemist who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter, which has played a dramatic role in reducing pollution from motor vehicles since their introduction in the mid-1970s.
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Born 1923-01-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Kidney failure
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Born 1954-08-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
When he died at the age of 50, Larsson left three unpublished thrillers which have since been printed. These books are all bestsellers in Sweden and in several other countries. His first novel "Män som hatar kvinnor" ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") was awarded the prestigious Glass Key award as the best Nordic crime novel in 2006.
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Born 1976-03-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
He was an American television and film actor, of Dominican heritage, best known for his role as Romeo Santana on the WB series, The Steve Harvey Show.
Santana was sitting in a parked car when two men approached the car and shot him. Santana died before any help could arrive.
Damien Andre Gates was convicted of the first-degree murder of Santana and the attempted murder of another man in the car, and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 70 years in prison. Brandon Douglas Bynes received a 23-year sentence after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon. An officer involved in the case testified that Monique King, reportedly Gates' girlfriend and aged 15 at the time of Santana's death, falsely claimed that Santana had tried to rape her, which prompted Gates and Bynes to attack the car. King received eight years in juvenile custody.
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Born 1905-01-08. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").
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Born 1920-12-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director, born in Hull. Despite a fairly varied early career, Thomas is almost exclusively remembered as the director of some 31 Carry On films, the innuendo-laden British comedy series, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958.
His brother, Ralph Thomas, was also a film director.
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Born 1921-10-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1909-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Billy Curtis (born Luigi Curto) was an American film and television actor with dwarfism, who had a 50-year career in the entertainment industry.
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Born 1890-11-22. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Other
In robust health until then, it was reported that as he had finished watching the evening news on television and was sitting in his armchair he suddenly said "I feel a pain here", pointing to his neck, just seconds before he fell unconscious due to an aneurysmal rupture. Within minutes, he was dead.
Unlike many other politicians, he died nearly destitute.
Hara-Kiri Hebdo bore the headline « Tragic ball at Colombey: 1 death » The choice of the title refers to a tragedy of the same month: a fire at a discotheque where 146 people were killed. As a result, the magazine was immediately and permanently banned by the French authorities.
Charlie Hebdo was started immediately afterwards. Charlie in the title refers to general de Gaulle.
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Born 1909-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Mireille Balin was one the most glamorous and best loved actresses of pre-war French cinema.
She starred in several films and became the idol of the Paris High Society where she met the love of her life, Birl Desbok, an officer in the Wehrmacht. In the summer of 1944, as Paris was about to be liberated, she and Desbok fled Paris and tried to reach the Italian border but on September 28th, 1944 they were arrested by the FFI in Beausoleil (near Nice). Separated from Desbok, who was probably executed (she never knew what really happened to him), she was beaten and raped before being taken to Nice prison. She was soon transferred to Fresnes prison (near Paris) where she stayed until her release on bail on 3rd January 1945. She was forbidden to work for a year but once this restriction lifted, she went back to the studios to appear in what proved to be her last film 'Dernière chevauchée, La (1948)' , her frail constitution prevented her from appearing in any other films.
She died in 1968, forgotten and broke.
She died at the hopital Beaujon, from multiple illnesses: alcohol, typhus...
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Born 1869-03-18. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer
Chamberlain was forced to resign the premiership on 10 May 1940, after Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France. He was succeeded by Winston Churchill but remained very well regarded in Parliament. He had a key role in the formation of the Special Operations Executive. Chamberlain died of cancer six months after leaving office.
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Born 1877-07-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Unknown
He is considered by some to be the founder of modern public relations, although the title could also be held by Edward Bernays. The term Public Relations is to be found for the first time in the 1897 Yearbook of Railway Literature.
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Born 1880-08-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:flu
Born Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky.
He fought in World War I and, in 1916, received a serious shrapnel wound to the temple.
The war-weakened Apollinaire died of influenza during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. He was interred in the Le Père Lachaise