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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 1984-09-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Vincent "Vince" Reffet was a French practitioner of BASE jumping, parachuting and wingsuit flying. He was born in Annecy and died following an accident during a flight in a motorised hang glider prototype over Dubai1.
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Born 1930-11-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities. He was also known by the nicknames la belva ("the beast") and il capo dei capi (Sicilian: 'u capu di 'i capi, "the boss of bosses"). Riina was held in a maximum-security prison in Parma with limited contact with the outside world in order to prevent him from running his organization from behind bars. Over US$125,000,000 in assets were confiscated from Riina, and his vast mansion was also acquired by the crusading anti-Mafia mayor of Corleone in 1997. The mansion was subsequently converted into a police office and opened in 2015. In total, Riina was given 26 life sentences and served his sentence in solitary confinement. Riina died one day after his 87th birthday, while in a medically induced coma after two operations in the prison unit of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma. The specific cause of death was not revealed. At the time of his death, he was still considered to be the head of the Cosa Nostra according to a magistrate. Riina was refused a public funeral by the church and Archbishop Michele Pennisi; he was privately buried in his hometown of Corleone.
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Born 1919-10-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Doris May Lessing (née Tayler) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Born 1923-02-24. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He participated to the debut of French TV.
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Born 1982-09-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
She was a French model from Marseille, France, who became well-known after appearing in a controversial ad campaign "No Anorexia" which showed Caro with vertebrae and facial bones protruding in a picture by photographer Oliviero Toscani.
She died in Tokyo, Japan, after spending about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease although nobody knows the cause of her death. Her family only reported Isabelle's death to the media on December 29, 2010.
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Born 1943-07-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a French member of Parliament and for 13 years was the Mayor of Thionville, serving in that capacity from June 25, 1995 to March 21, 2008. He had been distraught since losing the election to a Socialist and committed suicide by gunshot after he killed his mistress, Karine A. aged 43, following a heated argument.
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Born 1927-04-02. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Puskas died in a Budapest hospital from respiratory and circulatory failure. Puskas had been hospitalized for six years with Alzheimer's disease and was being treated for a fever and pneumonia in recent days. He had been in intensive care since September.
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Born 1948-04-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can. Michael Karoli was born and grew up in Straubing, Bavaria, moving to St. Gallen, Switzerland by the time he finished school. He learned to play the guitar, violin and cello as a child, and played in numerous jazz and dance bands. In 1966, he met and befriended Holger Czukay, who was his guitar teacher for a while. After he graduated he began studies of the law until leaving in 1968 to form Can with Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, and David Johnson. His main role was that of the guitarist, with occasional uncredited violin performances, and later also providing vocals. He was a constant member of the band, playing with it between 1968 and its break-up in 1979. He also joined the band for its three reunions, in 1986, 1991, and 1999. Karoli died from an undisclosed form of cancer in 2001 in Essen, Germany, aged 53. Karoli's sister, Constanze Karoli, and then-girlfriend Eveline Grunwald are the models on the cover of Roxy Music's 1974 album Country Life.
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Born 1928-05-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart
As accusations of political corruption against him grew through the decade, he fled France in 1990. He was finally arrested in Uruguay in 1993 and was extradited back to France in 1994. There, he was convicted of several counts of corruption and associated crimes and sentenced to prison. He died in Punta del Este, Uruguay following cardiac arrest in November 1998. He had returned to Uruguay following his release from prison.
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Born 1912-05-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Goncourt 1955 for "Les eaux męlées"
After the suicide of his son, who belongeg to a sect, Ikor fought against all form of sects.
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Born 1887-03-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Hector Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, easily the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas brasileiras ("Brazilian Bach-pieces").
In June 1959, Villa-Lobos alienated many of his fellow musicians by expressing disillusionment, saying in an interview that Brazil was "dominated by mediocrity". In November he died in Rio; his state funeral was the final major civic event in that city before the capital transferred to Brasília. He is buried in the Cemitério Săo Joăo Batista in Rio de Janeiro.
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Born 1927-11-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Taniyama was best known for conjecturing, in modern language, automorphic properties of L-functions of elliptic curves over any number field. Taniyama committed suicide. He left a note explaining how far he had got with his teaching duties, and apologizing to his colleagues for the trouble he was causing them. His mystifying suicide note read: Until yesterday I had no definite intention of killing myself. But more than a few must have noticed that lately I have been tired both physically and mentally. As to the cause of my suicide, I don't quite understand it myself, but it is not the result of a particular incident, nor of a specific matter. Merely may I say, I am in the frame of mind that I lost confidence in my future. There may be someone to whom my suicide will be troubling or a blow to a certain degree. I sincerely hope that this incident will cast no dark shadow over the future of that person. At any rate, I cannot deny that this is a kind of betrayal, but please excuse it as my last act in my own way, as I have been doing my own way all my life. Although his note is mostly enigmatic it does mention tiredness and a loss of confidence in his future. Taniyama's ideas had been criticized as unsubstantiated and his behavior had occasionally been deemed peculiar. Goro Shimura mentioned that he suffered from depression. Taniyama also mentioned in the note his concern that some might be harmed by his suicide and his hope that the act would not cast "a dark shadow over that person." About a month later, Misako Suzuki, the woman whom he was planning to marry, also committed suicide, leaving a note reading: "We promised each other that no matter where we went, we would never be separated. Now that he is gone, I must go too in order to join him."
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Born 1890-05-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
Psychologically fragilized, he decided to take his own life, no longer supporting the "lies" of the French extreme right wing. During an inspection in Lille, his hometown, Salengro returned to his home at 16 boulevard Carnot, in the evening. Alone in his room, he opened the valve of the gas, and left open on the table two copies of Gringoire, as well as two letters: one addressed to Léon Blum and the other to his brother. Salengro died in minutes.
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Born 1869-12-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
George Sterling was born New York and a poet who became a significant figure in Bohemian literary circles in northern California in the first quarter of the 20th century.
In November of 1926, Sterling committed suicide by swallowing cyanide at his residence at the San Francisco Bohemian Club. Kevin Starr wrote that "When George Sterling's corpse was discovered in his room at the Bohemian Club... the golden age of San Francisco's bohemia had definitely come to a miserable end."
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Born 1840-11-12. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Age
Fifty-three years into their relationship, Rodin married Rose Beuret. The wedding was January 29, 1917, and Beuret died two weeks later, on February 16. Rodin was ill that year; in January, he suffered weakness from influenza, and on November 16 his physician announced that "congestion of the lungs has caused great weakness. The patient's condition is grave." Rodin died the next day, at his villa in Meudon, Île-de-France, on the outskirts of Paris. A cast of The Thinker was placed next to his tomb in Meudon; it was Rodin's wish that the figure serve as his headstone and epitaph.