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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 1941-04-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest. In 1959, she married writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit. They later divorced. She married British businessman Peter Brent in the 1980s. The couple had one child, Jessica Claudine Brent (b. 1991). Peter Brent died in August 2008. Auger died in Paris following a lengthy illness.
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Born 1935-11-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Alain Barrière (born Alain Bellec) was a French singer, who was active from the 1950s until his death and was known for participating in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest. Barrière died of cardiac arrest.
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Born 1936-00-00. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was Mr Meteo on RTL for 32 years.
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Born 1990-04-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, radio host, and author under the SM Entertainment label. He was the main vocalist of the South Korean boy band Shinee for nine years, releasing twelve albums with the group in both Korean and Japanese. He also participated in SM Entertainment's project group, SM the Ballad, for the release of two EP albums. In December 2017, Jonghyun rented an apartment in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam District in southeastern Seoul for two days. He checked in at 12:00 PM KST on December 18, 2017. Later that day, at 4:42 PM, Jonghyun's older sister, Kim So-dam, made an initial call to emergency responders, reporting that she believed he intended to commit suicide, because he had sent her a number of messages on KakaoTalk with words such as "last goodbye" and "say I did well".He was last seen at a convenience store next to the apartment. Jonghyun was found unconscious by the police and rescue workers at around 6:10 PM in the apartment he rented. He was immediately brought to Konkuk University Hospital in a state of cardiac arrest. He received emergency CPR treatment. However, he failed to regain consciousness and was pronounced dead at the hospital at around 6:32 PM, aged 27. Investigators believe he died from inhaling either toxic fumes or smoke, as they discovered coal briquettes burnt on a frying pan upon arriving at the apartment. The police stated that, at the request of Jonghyun's family, a post-mortem would not be carried out, and they declared his death a possible suicide.
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Born 1940-09-08. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Accident
Altero Matteoli was an Italian politician. He died in a car accident.
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Born 1917-02-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Her sisters were actresses Eva and Magda Gabor. Outside her acting career, Gabor was known for her extravagant Hollywood lifestyle, her glamorous personality, and her many marriages. In total, Gabor had nine husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders. She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman—not just a man with muscles."
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Born 1912-08-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a French singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s before her career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II.
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Born 1936-11-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Particularly since the late 1990s, Virna Lisi did many successful dramatic productions of television. In 2002, Lisi starred in her last film, Il più bel giorno della mia vita.
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Born 1936-10-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. Havel received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award and several other distinctions. Soon to be former French president N. Sarkozy, while showing off as usual, pretending he knew him very well, mispronunced his firstname several times, saying vaklav instead of vasslav. Well done, Mr President.
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Born 1913-03-26. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
She was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Of Jewish ancestry, she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie Française. She was also known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides. She was born Jacqueline David in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir.
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Born 1976-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
The Argentine cycling community lost one of its prized riders, Armando Borrajo, to a tragic suicide on December 18 in Buenos Aires. The 34-year-old was kidnapped for two days and released just prior to his death and reportedly suffered from injury and shock. According to reports, Borrajo's younger brother Alejandro, who races for the US-based team Jamis-Sutter Home, broke his arm while attempting to intervene. Details of Borrajo's death have not been released. Borrajo was a member of an electoral campaign for the Argentine Track and Road Cycling Federation, directly under Facundo Donadio who was running for presidency. The election was scheduled to take place on December 22 but has been postponed. Borrajo recently traveled to northern Argentina for a campaign presentation. It was reported that he was a victim of a kidnapping and then released two days prior to his suicide. Investigators are still searching for details in the kidnapping case. Borrajo won the national road title in 2006 and more recently won a stage of the Giro del Sol San Juan in 2009.
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Born 1918-08-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French film actress. She starred with Jean Gabin in Marcel Carné's Le Jour se Leve (1939).
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Born 1925-05-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French former football defender.
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Born 1913-08-17. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Felt died in his sleep at a hospice care facility in Santa Rosa, California. According to his daughter, he was fine but after a big breakfast he remarked that he was tired and he went back to sleep. He was 95 years old. No cause of death was released immediately to the press, but it was known that Felt had suffered from congestive heart failure in recent years.
He was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat."
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Born 1932-02-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Barrett-Roddenberry died on December 18, 2008, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, as a result of leukemia.
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Born 1922-04-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Along with many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. He was "gray-listed" (not banned, but kept off major projects) due to sympathy with left-wing causes, and had to work on low-budget science fiction films such as Robot Monster and Cat-Women of the Moon.
He was not related to composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein.
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Born 1927-10-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
In 2001 he died, aged 74, on his houseboat on the Seine and was interred in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
In 2003 Sophie Daumier was interred in the adjacent tomb.
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Born 1964-02-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
His younger brother John found Farley dead in his apartment on the sixtieth floor of the John Hancock Center in Chicago. An autopsy later revealed that Farley had overdosed on a combination of cocaine and morphine (a speedball) with advanced atherosclerosis cited as a "significant contributing factor" in his death. Farley's death was similar to the death of John Belushi, a comedian and actor who, like Farley, starred in Saturday Night Live. Both died at age 33 of a drug overdose.
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Born 1910-06-22. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse has often been regarded as the inventor of the modern computer.
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Born 1894-12-16. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Samuel William Théodore Monod was a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography. He was born in Condé-sur-Noireau in Calvados, where his father was a minister, and educated at the Corneille school in Rouen. In 1914 he published his humorous cartoons in L'Humanité, Floréal and La Guerre Sociale and became editor of Le Mot, the review produced by Paul Iribe. Most of his cartoons were signed Sam Monod or Esmono. Monod adopted a number of aliases before settling on Maximilien Vox. After getting married he went to Paris to learn typography, and in 1926 was awarded the Prix Blumenthal, worth 20,000 Francs, for a series of 24 book covers. During the Second World War he worked as a department head for the Ministry of Information, whilst at the same time continuing his editorial activities. In 1942 he founded The Union Bibliophile de France, which published artworks. After the war he concentrated on typography and created in 1949 the professional magazine Characters, which he edited until 1964. He created the VOX-ATypI classification of type characters. In 1952 he moved to Lurs to live in a house he called Monodière and founded the Rencontres internationales de Lure. He died there and is buried in Lure. He had married Eliane Poulain in 1917 and had five sons.