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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1972-05-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Christophe Dominici was a French rugby union footballer of Italian origin. He played wing for Stade Français and France. He was a coach with Stade Français from the start of the 2008/9 season and a board member from 2009/10 season. He died suddenly on 24 November 2020 by throwing himself from the roof of the old military facility of Sully, falling from 10m. "Saint-Yorre Ca va fort !"
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Born 1933-08-01. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Also known as Peter Gabriel, he was a French mathematician at the universities of Strasbourg (1962–1970), Bonn (1970–1974) and Zürich (1974–1998) who worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. He was elected a correspondent member of the French Academy of Sciences in November 1986.
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Born 1932-06-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
He was an American actor of Japanese descent who was well-known for playing the roles of Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on Happy Days and Mr. Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984. Pat Morita was born in Isleton, California. He developed spinal tuberculosis at the age of two and spent the bulk of the next nine years in Northern Californian hospitals, including the Shriners Hospital in San Francisco. For long periods he was wrapped in a full-body cast and was told he would never walk. After a surgeon fused four vertebrae in his spine, Pat finally learned to walk again at the age of 11. By then, his Japanese American family had been sent to an internment camp to be detained for the duration of World War II. He was transported from the hospital directly to the Gila River camp in Arizona to join them. It was at this time that he met a Catholic priest from whom he would later take his stage name, "Pat".
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Born 1937-04-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Monique Sartet in "Le clan des siciliens".
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Born 1946-09-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:AIDS
Born in Zanzibar
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Born 1946-03-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died while trying to wind surf through the detroit of Taiwan.
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Born 1951-04-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1970 issue and her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
She died in an automobile accident in Laguna Beach, California. Willis and Dorothy Stratten are the only two Playmates who died within a year and a half after their Playboy appearance, both aged 20, the youngest a Playmate died.
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Born 1939-10-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
While he was handcuffed to Detective Leavelle and as he was about to be taken to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald was shot and fatally wounded before live television cameras in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator who said, when arraigned, he had been distraught over the Kennedy assassination. Ruby later claimed he did it to spare Jackie Kennedy from having to testify at the trial and that he had shot Oswald on impulse.
Unconscious, Oswald was put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where JFK had died two days earlier. Doctors operated on Oswald, but Ruby's single bullet had severed major abdominal blood vessels, and the doctors were unable to repair the massive trauma. At 48 hours and 7 minutes after the President's death, Oswald was pronounced dead at 1:07 pm. After a full autopsy, Oswald's body was returned to his family. Oswald's grave is in Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Fort Worth. [105]It is marked by a stone which reads simply, Oswald.
His wife Marina was sequestered by federal agents the day after the assassination and later released.
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Born 1841-09-28. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Clemenceau was shot by an anarchist ‘assassin’ on 19 February 1919. Seven shots were fired through the back panel of his car – one striking him in the chest. It was discovered that if the bullet had entered a millimeter to the left or right, it would have been fatal.