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Dimey Bernard (b. 1931-07-16 / d. 1981-07-01)
Poet. Wrote "Mon truc en plumes".
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Born 1955-12-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Clarence Alfred Gilyard Jr. was an American university professor, actor, and author. As a performer, he appeared in film, television, and stage productions; some sources give his middle name as Alfred. Gilyard was known for his roles as second private investigator and right-hand man Conrad McMasters to Ben Matlock (played by Andy Griffith) on the legal drama series Matlock from 1989 to 1993; Pastor Bruce Barnes in the first two Left Behind movies; Cordell Walker's (played by Chuck Norris) Texas Ranger partner, James "Jimmy" Trivette, in the 1990s crime drama Walker, Texas Ranger; Theo, the terrorist computer expert in Die Hard; and Lieutenant (junior grade) Evan "Sundown" Gough in Top Gun.
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Born 1942-04-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams CBE was a British businessman, racing car driver and the founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited. He was the team principal from its foundation in 1977 until 2020. Williams met Virginia Berry in 1967. They married in 1974. They had two sons, Jonathan and Jamie, and a daughter, Claire, who would go on to become the deputy team principal of his future Formula One team Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Williams used a wheelchair since a car accident in the South of France, on 8 March 1986, rendered him tetraplegic. He was driving with team sponsorship manager Peter Windsor in a hired Ford Sierra 1600 from the Paul Ricard Circuit to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport when the incident happened. Williams had been at the circuit to watch the testing of the team's new Williams FW11, but as a keen long distance runner, he was returning to the airport following the trials because he wished to compete in a half marathon in London the next day. During the drive to the airport, he lost control of the hire car on a slight left hand kink in the road, clipping a low stone wall, causing the vehicle to leave the highway. An eight-foot (2.4 m) drop between the road and a field caused the car to roll onto the driver's side. Williams remained conscious but was immediately aware that he could not move and was fearful of fire due to fuel spillage. He suffered a spinal fracture between the fourth and fifth vertebra after being pressed between his seat and the crushed roof. Windsor, who had sustained only minor injuries, extracted Williams from the vehicle while waiting for the emergency services. Virginia flew with Patrick Head to the French hospital and was of the opinion that Williams was about to die. She organised his urgent repatriation to England, where doctors performed a tracheotomy, which then allowed his lungs to be drained of fluid, almost certainly saving his life. Virginia wrote an autobiographical book that was published in 1991, A Different Kind of Life, in which she describes her experiences in the Formula One team's formative years as well as her husband's near-fatal accident. For his part, Williams decided not to read her account during her lifetime, preferring to leave the past in the past. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, and died on 7 March 2013, at the age of 66.
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Born 1937-10-31. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:COVID
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist. He was the co-founder of L'Expansion and the founder of Psychologies and Radio Classique. He was the author of several books. His father, Émile Servan-Schreiber, was a Jewish author. His mother was Denise Bresard. The Servan-Schreibers (up to 200 members) have a family reunion every five years. Servan-Schreiber was married twice. He married his first wife, Claude Sadoc, in 1957. They had four children; she is now married to a woman, Françoise Gaspard. In 1987, he married his second wife, Perla.
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Born 1935-07-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
David Charles Prowse MBE was an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television. Worldwide, he was best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy (with the character's voice being performed by James Earl Jones); in 2015, he starred in a documentary concerning that role, entitled I Am Your Father. Prior to his role as Vader, Prowse had established himself as a prominent figure in British culture as the first Green Cross Code man, a character used in British road safety advertising aimed at children. He had a role as Frank Alexander's bodyguard, Julian, in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, in which he was noticed by the future Star Wars director George Lucas. Prowse suffered from arthritis for much of his life. This led to replacements of both hips and his ankle being fused, as well as several revisionary surgeries on his hip replacements. Prowse's arthritic symptoms first appeared at age 13, but seemingly disappeared when he took up competitive weightlifting. However, they reappeared in 1990. In 2001, Prowse's left arm became paralysed, followed by his right. He was diagnosed with septic arthritis caused by an infection which nearly killed him. The amount of surgery he had was stated to have reduced his height from the 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm) of his younger days. Prowse worked with various arthritis organisations in Britain and was vice-president of the Physically Handicapped and Able-bodied Association. In March 2009, Prowse revealed that he was suffering from prostate cancer. From early 2009 he underwent radiation therapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital in South London. He discovered that he had the cancer following his participation in a charity event in aid of a prostate cancer charity, where a representative of the charity asked whether, as a man over 50, he had had a PSA test. The conversation stayed in his mind, and on a future visit to a general practitioner, he requested the blood test that eventually led to diagnosis. In 2009 he was said to be in remission. In November 2014, the Daily Mirror reported that Prowse had dementia. However, Prowse himself denied this, admitting instead he had problems with his memory, which he put down to age.
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Born 1930-09-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Clair was a French actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and popular humorist. Along with fellow French directors Max Pécas and Richard Balducci, his name is synonymous with the golden age of camp and low comedy in French cinema.
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Born 1982-08-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Brazilian footballer who last played as a forward for Chapecoense. Kempes was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.
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Born 1991-08-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Marcelo Augusto Mathias da Silva, simply known as Marcelo, was a Brazilian footballer who last played as a central defender for Chapecoense. Marcelo was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.
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Born 1994-06-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Tiago da Rocha Vieira, known as Tiaguinho, was a Brazilian football player who last played for Chapecoense. Tiaguinho was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.
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Born 1981-06-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He won state championships with Sport, Vitória, Santos and Avaí. He also had spells abroad, with Kashiwa Reysol in Japan and Atlético Madrid and Mallorca in Spain. Santana was the captain of the Chapecoense team aboard LaMia Flight 2933 that crashed, killing him and 70 others.
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Born 1986-07-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Brazilian central defender who played for Chapecoense. Thiego was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.
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Born 1934-02-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
He was an actor best known for his leading role as Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. television detective series Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960) and its sequel, Surfside 6 (1960–1962). He teamed for one season with the late Bruce Lee as his partner Kato, in the television series The Green Hornet, which broadcast during the 1966–1967 season.
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Born 1948-07-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Swiss theatre and film director. He has had numerous health problems all his life long.
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Born 1921-01-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American physicist who invented the W70 warhead, more popularly known as the neutron bomb.
He died from complications of his stomach cancer.
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Born 1926-02-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.
In November 2010, Nielsen was admitted to a Fort Lauderdale, Florida hospital for pneumonia. On 28 November, Dr. Doug Nielsen, Nielsen's nephew, announced to the CJOB radio station that Nielsen had died in his sleep, due to complications from pneumonia, around 5:30 pm EST, surrounded by family and friends.
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Born 1940-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He was a convicted serial killer from Linden, New Jersey. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1969 murder of Rosemary Calandriello of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. On March 11, 2008, he was indicted for the 1968 murder of Jane Durrua of Keansburg. He was acquitted in 2001 of the 1958 murder of Rahway, New Jersey police officer Charles Bernoskie.
While the cause of death was uncertain, Zarinsky was known to have severe respiratory
problems and had been seen in court on a gurney and tethered to oxygen to breathe.
He was also a suspect in the murders of Linda Balabanow, Doreen Carlucci and Joanne Delardo of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.
Zarinsky died at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey of pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring of the lung tissue that made it increasingly difficult for him to breathe. Zarinsky's death occurred exactly 50 years from the date of the Bernoskie murder.
He held the infamous distinction of being the first person in New Jersey state history to be convicted of murder without a corpse.
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Born 1949-00-00. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Murder
He was a Chinese scientist and entrepreneur of Daur nationality. He was executed at the age of 60 on 28 November 2008, allegedly due to spying for a Taiwanese organization. Weihan's trial was held in secrecy in 2007.
Wo Weihan was interrogated for ten months without legal counsel. During this time he suffered a life-threatening stroke and spent the rest of his incarceration in a prison hospital.
According to the verdict released by the High Court of Beijing after the sentencing in March 2008, the charges Wo Weihan was convicted of included: "...discussing the health of senior Chinese leaders." Wo was also accused of copying military photos from a magazine, which was public at the time but later declared classified, and for collaborating with Guo Wanjun, according to the jingoistic Global Times an alleged missile expert, who was also executed.
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Born 1954-04-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Prior to his work in Les Rita Mitsouko, Chichin had been active in the rock bands Fassbinder (with Jean Neplin), Taxi Girl (with Daniel Darc), and Gazoline (with Alain Kan).
He died of a rapidly evolving cancer, which was diagnosed only two months before
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Born 1920-01-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
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Born 1960-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Dahmer along with another inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin was beaten to death with a bar from a weight machine while cleaning the prison gym. The cause of death was ruled as severe head trauma.
This was not the first attempt on Dahmer's life. Previously during his prison sentence, a different inmate tried to murder him by slitting his throat after a church service, but was unable to kill him.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was one of America's most notorious serial killers who is well known for picking up gay men at bars and taking them back to his apartment where he tortured, performed experiments on, murdered and ate his victims.
He took the lives of seventeen known victims in Wisconsin and Ohio from 1978 to 1991.
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Born 1933-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
In 1971, convicts Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems took a nurse and a prison guard hostage, then murdered them. They were captured. Bontems, whose defence counsels included Robert Badinter, contended that the murder was Buffet's idea, while Buffet affirmed that he now desired death. Both were sentenced to death by the "assises" court in June 1972 and were guillotined.
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Born 1936-09-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Beheaded with Claude Buffet for the murder of two hostages in Clairvaux.
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Born 1915-01-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
She had been sentenced to death in 1934 for the murder of her parents (poison and gas). Only her father actually died. Her mother survived. During the trial Violette accused her father of incest. In December 1934 her sentence was commuted to life emprisonment. In 1942, Petain reduced her punishment to 12 years. Eventually she was rehabilitated in 1963.
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Born 1901-09-29. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Two of his graduate students who assisted him in working on or near the nuclear pile also died of cancer. Fermi and his team knew that such work carried considerable risk but they considered the outcome so vital that they forged ahead with little regard for their own personal safety. As Eugene Wigner wrote: "Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, 'I hope it won't take long.' He had reconciled himself perfectly to his fate".
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Born 1902-11-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died in an airplane accident near Colomb-Béchar, Algeria.