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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 1936-04-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Raymond Poulidor, nicknamed "Pou-Pou" (pronounced [pu pu]), was a French professional racing cyclist, who rode for Mercier his entire career. His career was distinguished, despite coinciding with two great riders - Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. This underdog position may have been the reason Poulidor was a favourite of the public. He was known as "The Eternal Second", because he never won the Tour de France despite finishing in second place three times, and in third place five times (including his final Tour at the age of 40). Despite his consistency, he never once wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in 14 Tours, of which he completed 12. He did win one Grand Tour, the 1964 Vuelta a España.
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Born 1982-03-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French World Cup alpine ski racer, who specialized in the speed events. He made his World Cup debut in 2004. Poisson represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he placed 7th in the downhill. At the 2013 World Championships, Poisson made his first podium in top-level competition, taking bronze in the downhill. In 2015, Poisson took his only World Cup podium in a downhill in Santa Caterina, finishing third. Poisson died in a crash during training in Canada, at Nakiska near Calgary. He caught an edge, went through the safety netting, and struck a tree.
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Born 1947-08-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was an Ivorian footballer who played as a striker. He notably played for French club Stade Rennais F.C.
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Born 1928-03-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. Soon after his formal retirement in 1988, he moved to the French village of Lasserre in the Pyrenees, where he lived secluded, still working tirelessly on mathematics until his death. Grothendieck was born in Weimar Germany. In 1938, aged ten, he moved to France as a refugee. Records of his nationality were destroyed in the fall of Germany in 1945 and he did not apply for French citizenship after the war. He thus became a stateless person for at least the majority of his working life, traveling on a Nansen passport.
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Born 1924-06-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Writer and biographer, member of the Oulipo.
He was, with Jacques Jouet, Paul Fournel and Hervé Le Tellier, from l'Oulipo, one of the regular participants of a radio braodcast on France Culture: « Des Papous dans la tête »
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Born 1948-09-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
Robert Taylor was a sprinter who won gold and silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Taylor became ill Monday at the Missouri City school where he taught and was taken to a hospital, where he died Tuesday night, wife Cheryl said. She said he had had heart problems.
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Born 1967-10-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
He was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into a legendary Mexican wrestling family.
Guerrero was found unconscious in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota by his nephew, Chavo. Chavo attempted CPR, but Eddie was declared dead when paramedics arrived on the scene. Eddie was 38 years old. During the June 25, 2007 episode of RAW, Chavo said that when he found Eddie, the first person he called and told was Eddie's best friend, Chris Benoit.
An autopsy revealed that Guerrero died as a result of acute heart failure, caused by undiagnosed arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Although Guerrero had not taken alcohol or illicit drugs for nearly four years, his past excesses contributed to his heart failure. At the time of his death, he had recently used narcotic painkillers.
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Born 1968-11-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American rapper who went by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB). He was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
At first, his legal troubles and odd behavior made Jones "something of a folk hero", according to The New Yorker writer Michael Agger. However, critic Steve Huey writes that "it was difficult for observers to tell whether ODB's wildly erratic behavior was the result of serious drug problems or genuine mental instability ... the possibility that his continued antics were at least partly the result of conscious image-making disappeared as time wore on."
Russell Jones collapsed at approximately 5:29 p.m., two days before his 36th birthday, at Wu-Tang's recording studio (36 Records LLC on West 34th Street in New York City). He was pronounced dead less than an hour later. His funeral was held at Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center.
A statement was released on Saturday (November 13, 2004) evening by his mother Cherry Jones:
“ "This evening, I received a phone call that is every mother's worst dream," she said. "My son, Russell Jones, passed away. To the public, he was known as Ol' Dirty Bastard, but to me, he was known as Rusty, the kindest, most generous soul on earth. I appreciate all the support and prayers that I have received. Russell was more than a rapper, he was a loving father, brother, uncle, and most of all, son."
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Born 1907-10-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1912-09-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Jacques Fath was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain. The playwright Georges Fath was his great-grandfather. Fath died of leukemia.