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Harth Roger (b. 1927-00-00 / d. 1982-04-19)
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Born 1937-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Guy Marchand was a French actor, musician, and singer. He was best known for his role as the fictional private detective Nestor Burma and as the singer of the song "Destinée".
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Born 1937-11-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Charles Ingerham Peddle was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. Peddle, along with the 6502's co-designer Bill Mensch, are regarded as personal computer pioneers, in that both the 6502 technology and business model were instrumental in helping launch the personal computer revolution. After Peddle's death, Mensch wrote in memoriam.
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Born 1927-08-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Walter Giller was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading men. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in Roses for the Prosecutor. Giller was born in Recklinghausen. In 1956, he married actress Nadja Tiller; they had two children and appeared together in a number of films. The couple resided in Lugano, Switzerland for many years. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent a major (but unsuccessful) operation. He died in Hamburg in 2011, aged 84.
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Born 1922-07-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Edwards died of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
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Born 1949-04-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He appeared in several television roles, including Law & Order, The Practice, Passions, The Bold and the Beautiful, House, Boston Legal, NCIS, Monk and others. He had only one film credit, however, playing a Romulan senator in Star Trek Nemesis.
Berg committed suicide in his home by turning on a hibachi grill in his bedroom and succumbing to its carbon monoxide fumes.
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Born 1939-09-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Car crash, but not in a Formula 1 car. On an open road!
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Born 1923-06-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He died 3 months after an accident in Alexis Gruss' circus. An Elephant seized him with her trunk and hurled him to the floor.
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Born 1931-03-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
Parker had a minor career as a Hollywood actor and stunt man. His most notable film was Kill the Golden Goose. In this film, he co-stars with Hapkido master Bong Soo Han. His acting work included the (uncredited) role of Mr. Chong in student Blake Edwards' Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Edmund K. Parker died in Honolulu of a heart attack. His widow Leilani Parker died on June 12, 2006.
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Born 1910-10-12. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Ben Barzman was a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist, blacklisted during the McCarthy Era and best known for his screenplays for the films Back to Bataan (1945), El Cid (1961), and The Blue Max (1966). His U.S. citizenship was revoked from 1954 to 1963. His wife Norma had her passport revoked from 1951 for seven years. The family remained abroad in London, Paris and Nice until 1976, during which time he wrote his novels and screenplays for French and Italian films. Following his return to the United States after directing Give Us This Day, Edward Dmytryk, one of the Hollywood Ten, testified about the Barzmans to HUAC in 1951. "To get out of prison he named us and a lot of other people," said Norma Barzman in 2014.
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Born 1905-04-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer of French origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.
It seems that he did not behave very correctly during WWII.
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Born 1924-11-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer. His career primarily revolved around the New York City jazz scene Jones wrote the jazz standard "Del Sasser", among other tunes.
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Born 1886-09-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him. During World War I Lévy conducted mathematical analysis work for the French Artillery. In 1920 he was appointed Professor of Analysis at the École Polytechnique, where his students included Benoît Mandelbrot and Georges Matheron. He remained at the École Polytechnique until his retirement in 1959, with a gap during World War II after his 1940 firing because of the Vichy Statute on Jews. His daughter Marie-Hélčne Schwartz and son-in-law Laurent Schwartz were also notable mathematicians.
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Born 1899-07-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Laughton took a stab at directing a movie, and the result was the legendary The Night of the Hunter (1955), starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. This movie is often cited among today's critics as one of the best movies of the 1950s; unfortunately it was a critical and box-office flop when it was originally released. Laughton never had another chance to direct his own movies.
He had a long and resilient marriage to actress Elsa Lanchester, although, in her autobiography, Lanchester revealed that Laughton was homosexual. According to her own account, she was shocked to learn about this, but eventually decided to remain married to him.
Charles Laughton is caricatured as the prefect (and the villain) in the comic Asterix and the Golden Sickle
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Born 1904-03-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
Alton Glenn Miller , was an American jazz musician and band leader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands". Miller's signature recordings include, "In the Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Moonlight Serenade", "Little Brown Jug", and "Pennsylvania 6-5000". While travelling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather. His body was never found and his death is presumably on December 15, 1944. In fact, on December 15, 1944, Miller, now a major, was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris in France, to play for the soldiers who recently had liberated Paris. His plane departed from RAF Twinwood Farm, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, but disappeared over the English Channel. Miller's remains and the wreckage of the plane (a single-engine UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) have never been found. Since Miller's disappearance more than sixty years ago, there have been many theories about what happened. Buddy DeFranco, one of the leaders of the post-war Glenn Miller orchestra, told biographer George T. Simon of the many theories of Miller's disappearance that were told to him while he was leading the band in the 1970s. DeFranco said "If I were to believe all those stories, there would have been about twelve thousand four hundred and fifty eight people there at the field in England seeing him off on that last flight!" Miller's plane may have been bombed accidentally by Royal Air Force aircraft over the English Channel after an abortive air raid on Siegen, Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, jettisoned approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing, per standing orders. The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw recorded that he saw a small single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water. If this was indeed Miller's plane, the RAF crews were not culpable for the plane carrying Miller straying off course into their designated drop area. However, a second source, while acknowledging the possibility, casts doubt on the version, citing other RAF crew members flying the same mission who state the drop area was in the North Sea, a more likely location. Miller's surname resides on the 'Wall of Missing' at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial. A monument stone was also placed in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut next to the campus of Yale University. General Jimmy Doolittle said, “[...]next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations.
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Born 1837-10-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Leo Königsberger was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject.