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Leonard Joe (b. 1932-08-04 / d. 2017-04-27)
He was an American professional motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
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Born 1928-12-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot was a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song "African Waltz" in 1960. His most successful musicals were Hair (1967; its cast album also won a Grammy) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971). MacDermot also composed music for film soundtracks, jazz and funk albums, and classical music, and his music has been sampled in hit hip-hop songs and albums. He is best known for his work on Hair, and in particular three of the songs from the show; "Aquarius", "Let the Sunshine In", and "Good Morning Starshine", all three of which were number one hits in 1969.
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Born 1920-02-03. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, described in Emergency Medicine in 1974. He also invented the Micro Trach portable oxygen system for ambulatory patients and the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, or "flutter valve", which drains blood and air out of the chest cavity. A statement from his family said Heimlich died at The Christ Hospital after complications from a heart attack in his home in Hyde Park, Cincinnati.
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Born 1929-04-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
He was an American recording, voice, television and stage director, producer, writer, actor and voice actor. He directed such animated productions as The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends, The Richie Rich Show, The Smurfs, Pound Puppies, Tom & Jerry Kids, The Pirates of Dark Water, Droopy, Master Detective and The New Adventures of Captain Planet. Hunt died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 87.
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Born 1941-02-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Kim Jong-il, also written as Kim Jong Il, birth name Yuri Irsenovich Kim (according to Soviet records was the supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). He was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party since 1948, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world. In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was amended to refer to him implicitly as the "Supreme Leader". He was also referred to as the "Dear Leader", "our Father", "the General" and "Generalissimo". His son Kim Jong-un was promoted to a senior position in the ruling Workers' Party and is heir apparent. In 2010, he was ranked 31st in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People. The North Korean government announced his death on 19 December 2011.
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Born 1941-08-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed The Barefoot Diva for performing without shoes, she was also The Queen of Morna. In late September 2011, Évora's agent announced she was ending her career due to poor health. Évora died in Săo Vicente, Cape Verde, from respiratory failure and hypertension. A Spanish newspaper reported that 48 hours before her death she was still receiving people -and smoking- in her home in Mindelo, popular for having always its doors open.
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Born 1941-01-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Van Vliet met Frank Zappa when they were both teenagers and shared an interest in rhythm and blues and Chicago blues. Zappa and Van Vliet began collaborating on pop song parodies and a movie script called Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People, the first appearance of the Beefheart name.
The cause of death was named as complications from multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms.
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Born 1952-01-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.
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Born 1946-09-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:orphan disease
He was an American motion picture screenwriter, director and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.
O'Bannon moved into the director's chair with Return of the Living Dead. The film met with success, has become a cult classic, and went on to spawn numerous sequels.
He died from Crohn's disease.
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Born 1919-03-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jones was a breast cancer survivor. Actress Susan Strasberg, who would die of the disease in 1999, who was then married to actor Christopher Jones, named her own daughter Jennifer Robin Jones in the older actress's honor.
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Born 1980-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Justin "The Executioner" Levens grew up fast in the streets of Philadelphia, before eventually moving across the country for a chance at a better life. He found that life in Newport Beach, California, where he learned to channel his aggressive energy into a more productive form. He began training at Marco Ruas' Vale Tudo academy in Orange County, and the hard-hitting light heavyweight discovered a penchant for explosive action.
Levens and his wife were found shot to death in their home in Laguna Niguel, California. The police are investigating the deaths as a possible murder/suicide.
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Born 1916-08-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French pianist.
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Born 1908-05-03. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an American animator whose career lasted from the "golden age" of theatrical animation into the 1980s.
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Born 1925-08-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian actor, who lived in the UK for many years. He was best known for playing the part of "Matt Hammond" in the Australian children's television series Skippy. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes: Devereaux directed The Veteran (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. He also wrote the script. Devereaux wrote the story of Double Trouble, wrote the screenplay of Summer Storm and wrote the script of The Mine.
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Born 1930-10-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was also a director.
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Born 1909-01-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In the last years of his life Andrews suffered from Alzheimer's disease and in 1992 he died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
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Born 1903-06-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1824-06-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1883, was its President 1890–1895, and in 1892 was the first British scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords. In November 1907 he caught a chill and his condition deteriorated until he died at his Scottish country seat, Netherhall, in Largs.