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Farina Sergio (b. 1926-09-08 / d. 2012-07-03) alias Sergio Pininfarina
He was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the driver, but ahead of the rear wheels. The resulting Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale was presented at the Paris Motor Show in October, although it would be another two years before the cars were offered for sale. After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company. In 2006 Sergio and his son Andrea, who died in 2008 were named Honorary Chairmen of Pininfarina,
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Born 1929-06-26. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Journalist and former boss of Ouest-France.
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Born 1927-07-31. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999 and was President of the American Mathematical Society until 2000. His two younger brothers also became notable mathematicians, William Browder (an algebraic topologist) and Andrew Browder (a specialist in function algebras).
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Born 1996-08-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French cyclist. Born in Rodez, Aveyron, at the time of his death, Fabre competed for the professional team AG2R La Mondiale. He began cycling in 2005 for the amateur club Club VC Rodez. He also cycled for Chambéry CF, beginning in 2015. He won the Tour du Charolais and Circuit des quatre cantons races in 2016. in 2016, he finished second in the Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise. He was a student at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon) prior to his death. On 11 December 2016, Chambéry CF announced that Fabre, aged 20, died the previous day when he fell in a hiking accident on the Bauges mountain range.
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Born 1989-03-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
He was a Honduran footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Peralta was a full international with 26 caps for the Honduras national football team from his debut in 2011, representing the nation at the 2012 Olympics, although he was not selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup squad due to injury. Peralta died after being fatally shot outside a shopping mall in his hometown of La Ceiba on 10 December 2015, at the age of 26. He was hit by eighteen bullets, and police ruled out robbery as a motive.
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Born 1972-12-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
Better known by her stage (and married) name Rose Siggins, she was an American actress best known for her portrayal of Legless Suzi on American Horror Story: Freak Show. Siggins was born with sacral agenesis, and because of this, as she recalled, "my legs were severely deformed, with the feet pointing in opposite directions." Her parents decided to have her legs amputated. According to herself, she was the only person with sacral agenesis to have carried and given birth to a baby who was not disabled. She was married and had a son, Luke, and a daughter, Shelby. She was born in Pueblo, Colorado and died in Denver, Colorado of an infection secondary to kidney surgery.
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Born 1943-06-24. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer
A pillar of France Inter.
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Born 1981-09-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Moore began acting at age four. Sid Kozac, chose her for a role in a "B.C. Chicken" commercial when she was just five. Other commercials followed and then the series The Odyssey began. Moore played in split roles as Alpha and Donna. The show lasted three seasons, ending in 1994 with 39 episodes.
Moore's most famous role came in 1995 when she was cast as Chrissy in the film Now and Then. She dyed her hair neon red and gained an extra 20 pounds for her role.
According to her brother Jaysone Moore, on December 10, 2007, Moore died of pneumonia and bronchitis. In reality, she died of an alleged accidental drugs overdose.
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Born 1991-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
She was the victim of either an alleged honour killing or an act of domestic violence in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Her father, Muhammad Parvez is accused of strangling his daughter, then calling police to turn himself in. Apparently, she was killed after she refused to wear the Hijab, a traditional Islamic headscarf for women, and declared her desire to dress like other Western girls. However, her closest friend Lubna asserted that the Hijab issue was just one of many clashes between the victim and her father and that the other women in the family do not wear the Hijab. Parvez's death was reported internationally and sparked a debate about the status of women in Islamic communities.
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Born 1940-12-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, writer, and MC. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986. In 1990, Pryor suffered a second and more severe heart attack and underwent triple heart bypass surgery. On June 9, 1980, during the making of the film Bustin' Loose, Richard Pryor set himself on fire after freebasing cocaine and drinking 151-proof rum. While on fire, he ran down Parthenia Street from his Los Angeles, California home, until being subdued by police. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for burns covering more than half of his body. Pryor spent six weeks in recovery at the Herpolscheimer Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital. His daughter, Rain Pryor, stated that Pryor poured high-proof rum over his body and set himself on fire in a bout of drug-induced psychosis. Later, in an on-camera interview, Pryor commented, "I tried to commit suicide. Next question." Pryor incorporated a description of the incident into his comedy show Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip in 1982. He joked that the event was caused by dunking a cookie into a glass of low-fat and pasteurized milk, causing an explosion. At the end of the bit, he poked fun at people who told jokes about it by waving a lit match and saying, "What's that? Richard Pryor running down the street."
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Born 1919-12-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Marie Windsor was an actress known for her femme fatale characters in the classic film noir features Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin and The Killing. Windsor's height (1m75) created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors. She was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre. Windsor died of congestive heart failure.
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Born 1924-08-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Ray Goossens was a Belgian artist, animator, writer, and director best known for creating the cartoon character Musti. He worked as an animator mainly for client's publicity purposes, and in 1957 became artistic director of Belvision, the new animation studios of Le Lombard, one of the major Belgian comics publishers. At first, they created series based on existing comics series like Oumpah-pah, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin or Chlorophylle. They also made the full-length movie Pinocchio in Outer Space.
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Born 1924-10-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Wood's depression worsened, and with it a serious drinking problem. His drink of choice was Imperial Whiskey, but he switched to Popov Vodka after the Ralph's supermarket on Highland went out of business. Evicted from his Hollywood apartment on Yucca Street, Wood and his wife moved into the North Hollywood apartment of friend Peter Coe. Only days after the move, Wood died of a heart attack while watching a football game alone in Coe's bedroom.
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Born 1941-09-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Redding and six others, including four of the six members of Redding's backup band, The Bar-Kays, were killed when the plane on which they were travelling crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin on December 10, 1967. The two remaining members of The Bar-Kays were Ben Cauley and James Alexander. Cauley was the only person aboard Redding's plane to survive the crash; Alexander was on another plane.
Cauley reported that he had been asleep until just seconds before impact, and recalled that upon waking he saw bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and say, "Oh, no!" Cauley said that he then unbuckled his seat belt, and that was his final recollection before finding himself in the frigid waters of the lake, grasping a seat cushion to keep himself afloat.
Redding's body was recovered the next day when the lake bed was dragged with a grappling hook, and footage exists of his body being brought out of the water. The cause of the crash was never precisely determined.
Redding was laid to rest in a tomb on his private ranch in Round Oak, Georgia, 23 miles (37 km) north of Macon.
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Born 1897-03-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He died in 1965 in Shady, New York, after a series of illnesses.
Cowell was the central figure in a circle of avant-garde composers that included his good friends Carl Ruggles and Dane Rudhyar, as well as Leo Ornstein, John Becker, Colin McPhee, French expatriate Edgard Varèse, and Ruth Crawford, whom he convinced Charles Seeger to take on as a student (Crawford and Seeger would eventually marry). Cowell and his circle were sometimes referred to as "ultra-modernists," a label whose definition is flexible and origin unclear (it has also been applied to a few composers outside the immediate circle, such as George Antheil, and to some of its disciples, such as Nancarrow); Virgil Thomson styled them the "rhythmic research fellows."
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Born 1918-12-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Mado Robin was a French coloratura soprano and soprano acuto sfogato (a voice that has an extension into the altissimo area). She was noted for her extreme range. Robin died in Paris in 1960 from cancer (some sources state liver cancer, others leukaemia) a few days before the 1500th performance of Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique, which had organized the event for her birthday.