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Cho Seung-Hui (b. 1984-01-18 / d. 2007-04-16)
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1933-01-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Marie Straub and Daničle Huillet were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works.
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Born 1984-06-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Costa Rican footballer who played as a defender. Badilla was participating in a local marathon known as Lindora Run. Shortly before reaching the finish line, Badilla collapsed. After a long attempt to revive him, he was declared dead due to a cardiorespiratory arrest.
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Born 1926-08-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Greek conservative politician who served two consecutive terms as the President of Greece, from 1995 to 2005. Stephanopoulos died at 23:18 in Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, at the age of 90. He had been hospitalised three days earlier, suffering from fever and severe respiratory difficulty, which later emerged as pneumonia.
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Born 1923-02-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Les Frčres Jacques, Blue-gray juste-au-corps.
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Born 1926-04-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to linear algebra, graph theory and algebraic graph theory. His article, "Algebraic Connectivity of Graphs", published in the Czechoslovak Math Journal in 1973, established the use of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of a graph to create tools for measuring algebraic connectivity in algebraic graph theory.
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Born 1926-12-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Keith Joseph Michell was an Australian actor who worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was best known for his television and film portrayals of King Henry VIII. He appeared extensively in Shakespeare and other classics and musicals in Britain, and was also in several Broadway productions. He was an artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre in the 1970s and later had a recurring role on Murder, She Wrote. He was also known for illustrating a collection of Jeremy Lloyd's poems Captain Beaky, and singing the title song from the associated album.
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Born 1971-10-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a Romanian operatic soprano.
A graduate of the Music Academy in Bucharest, Briban made her debut as a soloist with the Romanian National Opera in 2000. She made her international debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2003.
She apparently committed suicide, following a period of depression caused (according to her husband) by the termination of her contract with the National Opera.
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Born 1919-04-08. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
In early 2005 Smith travelled to South Africa for medical treatment. He stayed on to live with his widowed stepdaughter Jean in Cape Town, South Africa, where there is a significant Rhodesian expatriate community, until he died.
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Born 1925-02-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Death in an hospital in Los Angeles.
Had a heart transplant 10 years ago.
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Born 1949-03-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
She was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae and his wife, Elena Ceauşescu.
She did her studies at the University of Bucharest. After completing her Ph.D. in mathematics, she worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. Allegedly, her parents were unhappy with their daughter's choice of doing research in mathematics, so the Institute was disbanded in 1975. She moved on to work for Institutul pentru Creaţie Ştiinţifică şi Tehnică (INCREST, Institute for Scientific and Technical Creativity), where she eventually started and headed a new department of mathematics.
Zoia Ceauşescu was a chain smoker.
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Born 1962-03-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American football defensive back in the National Football League who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals from 1984 to 1995. Waters was regarded as one of the NFL's hardest-hitting defenders, serving as an integral part of one of the league's top defenses. Waters committed suicide in his Tampa, Florida home.
Waters committed suicide shortly after 1 a.m., according to the Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office, dying of a gunshot to the head. He was at his home in Tampa, Florida where he was found by his girlfriend. No suicide note was found.
Shortly after Waters' death, former Harvard defensive tackle and WWE wrestler Christopher Nowinski, whose wrestling career was ended by post-concussion syndrome and has since written a book about the dangers of concussions in contact sports, approached Waters' family and asked permission to have his brain tissue examined. After receiving permission, Nowinski had samples of Waters' brain tissue sent to neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu at the University of Pittsburgh. After examining the tissue, Omalu claimed that Waters sustained brain damage from playing football that, he said, led to Waters' depression cited in a NY Times article.
Dr. Omalu determined that Waters' brain tissue had degenerated into that of an 85-year-old man with similar characteristics to those of early-stage Alzheimer's victims. Omalu said he believed that the damage was caused and/or hastened by the numerous concussions Waters sustained playing football. Additionally Omalu said that Waters would have been fully incapacitated within ten years.
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Born 1958-10-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
He was the author of the freeware network tool ping. Muuss is mentioned in two books, The Cuckoo's Egg (ISBN 0-7434-1146-3) and Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (ISBN 0-684-81862-0), for his role in tracking down crackers. He also is mentioned in Peter Salus's A Quarter Century of UNIX. Muuss died in an automobile collision on Interstate 95 on November 20, 2000.
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Born 1919-09-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician and logician. He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at the University of Cambridge (graduated 1953), where they worked together. He is best known for his work in recursion theory. His contributions include the Spector-Gandy theorem, the Gandy Stage Comparison theorem, and the Gandy Selection Theorem. He also made a significant contribution to the understanding of the Church—Turing thesis, and his generalization of the Turing machine is called a Gandy machine. Gandy was born and died in Oxfordshire, England.
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Born 1892-12-04. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
After a long illness, Franco died on same date as the death of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange. It is suspected that the doctors were ordered to keep him barely alive by artificial means until this symbolic date of the far-right. The historian Ricardo de la Cierva says that on the 19th around 6 p.m. he was told that Franco had already died.
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Born 1884-02-23. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, he was a Polish biochemist. He was generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of vitamins in 1912, which he called vital amines or vitamines.
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Born 1923-08-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Stroke
His most notable work includes the final solution of Hilbert's fifth problem.
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Born 1903-04-24. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
He was captured on the 6th July 1936, and held in captivity in Alicante until being tried by a Popular Front of communists and anarchists, condemned to death and executed.
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Born 1865-07-23. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
Ludwig Sütterlin was a graphic artist who lived in Berlin, Germany, and was most notable for designing and creating the old German blackletter handwriting Sütterlinschrift (Sütterlin script) or simply Sütterlin. Ludwig was born in Lahr, located within the Schwarzwald (Black Forest). Although Sütterlin's childhood is currently unknown, the most notable years of his life began when he moved to Berlin and began his profession as a graphic artist—gaining fame for a poster submitted to the Industrial Exhibition in Berlin, Germany, 1896. Later, Sütterlin worked as a teacher at the "Teaching Institution of the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts" in Berlin, and the future "United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts," where he held courses in artistic fonts. In 1911, Sütterlin was tasked by the Royal Prussian Ministry of Culture to create courses for preschool and school. This connection to the education system could possibly have led him to his future ambition to create a national script for Germany. At the time, the current writing style was based on alternating pressure, which made it difficult for primary school pupils to hurdle the writing exercises, leading Ludwig to develop a child-oriented methodology for writing beginners: making the line width uniform, all letters vertical and geometrically straight or circular. This new and more simple writing allowed all students, artistically inclined or not, to be able to write the script. In 1914, the initial trials of using Sütterlin in Berlin schools began and ultimately was declared Berlin's national script for education by Prussia in 1924. Most other German states (i.g., Oldenburg, Thuringia, Hesse, and Baden) followed the example of Prussia, so that from about 1930 Germany mainly introduced Sütterlin for education. Unfortunately for Sütterlin, he was not able to see his work come to fruition, for he died 7 years before in Berlin. He probably died from starving.
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Born 1828-09-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Tolstoy was remarkably healthy for his age, but fell seriously ill in 1901 and had to live for a long time in Gaspra and Simeiz, Crimea. Still, he continued working and never showed any sign of diminished capacity. Ever more oppressed by the apparent contradiction between his preaching of communism and the easy life he led under the regime of his wife, full of a growing irritation against his family, which was urged on by Chertkov, he finally left Yasnaya, in the company of his daughter Alexandra and his doctor, for an unknown destination. After some restless and aimless wandering he headed for a convent where his sister was the mother superior but had to stop at Astapovo junction. There he was laid up in the stationmaster's house and died, apparently of cold, in 1910.
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Born 1868-04-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Unknown
He was a Russian Empire mathematician of Ukrainian origin. Among other things, he defined the Voronoi diagram. In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a special kind of decomposition of a given space, e.g., a metric space, determined by distances to a specified family of objects (subsets) in the space. These objects are usually called the sites or the generators (but other names such as "seeds" are in use) and to each such object one associates a corresponding Voronoi cell, namely the set of all points in the given space whose distance to the given object is not greater than their distance to the other objects. It is named after Georgy Voronoi, and is also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Lejeune Dirichlet). Voronoi diagrams can be found in a large number of fields in science and technology, even in art, and they have found numerous practical and theoretical applications. Voronoy died in his home village, following a severe illness.