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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 1951-11-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had a photographic or eidetic memory, but also social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the movie Rain Man. He was not autistic and likely had FG syndrome.
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Born 1934-03-20. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
Frank Capra's son.
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Born 1911-04-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death.
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Born 1933-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
She was an American film, stage, and television actress. She played the wife of Charles Bronson in the original Death Wish film. In 1985, she appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and in 1986, she took a role as Laura Dern's mother in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Lange's year of birth is often reported as 1931, but the correct year is 1933. A possible source of this error is the Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook. Lange died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, as a result of an ischemic colitis infection at the age of 70.
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Born 1913-09-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Although one of British cinema's most recognisable characters and an important and long-standing element in the 'Bond' franchise, 'Q' did not make Desmond Llewelyn rich: the actor was merely paid 'by the day' for his few hours of work on-set, and did not share in the money made by the films. Contrary to his gadget-expert character in the Bond films, Llewelyn always maintained that he was totally lost in the world of technology, a trait that also plagued his successor, John Cleese.
Llewelyn was killed in a road accident after returning home from a friend's house. His Renault Megane car without other occupants collided head-on with a 35-year-old man driving a bronze Fiat Bravo company car on the A27 road near the village of Berwick, East Sussex. He died shortly afterwards. He was 85. The other driver was seriously injured. Roger Moore, who had appeared with Llewelyn in six Bond movies, spoke at his funeral.
John Cooper, of Berwick, near Eastbourne, told the inquest how he was travelling in the same eastbound direction as Mr Llewelyn on the A27 when he saw the blue Renault pull out.
He said: "The car went onto the wrong side of the road. I saw an oncoming car and then a few seconds later a collision.
"The manoeuvre by the blue car was a firm one. There was nothing hesitant about it."
Mr Llewelyn's vehicle went into the front of a hire car being driven by Rhys Morgan.
Mr Llewelyn's son Ivor told the court how his father, born in Newport, Gwent, was on his way back from Wales to sign copies of his biography in Alfriston, East Sussex.
Mr Llewelyn said: "For his age he was remarkable. He travelled a lot."
Pathologist Dr Christopher Moffat told the inquest that although there was sign of heart disease, there was no evidence to suggest Mr Llewelyn had suffered a heart attack.
He had a successful bypass operation several years before to ease his condition.
Coroner Mr Craze concluded: "It would appear Mr Llewelyn was wholly on the wrong side of the road. The overtaking manoeuvre occurred at a time when it was not appropriate."
Mr Morgan received a broken leg, pelvis and ribs, cuts and damaged eyesight.
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Born 1924-09-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
When Mastroianni died in 1996, the Trevi Fountain, which is so famously associated with him due to his role in Fellini's La dolce vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute.
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Born 1918-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English actor and writer best known in the U.S. for starring in a weekly Sherlock Holmes television series in 1954. He was the son of actor Leslie Howard.
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Born 1930-03-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Michel Magne was a French film and experimental music composer. He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for adapting the Jackie Gleason score to film Gigot. He also scored Barbarella and a series of OSS 117 films. Magne wrote some songs with lyrics by Françoise Sagan for Juliette Gréco and provided orchestral accompaniment. In 1962, he purchased the Château d'Hérouville, near Pontoise, and converted it into a residential recording studio in 1969, known as Studio d'enregistrement Michel Magne, which through the 1970s was used by a series of artists such as Elton John (at his Honky Château), Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, and the Bee Gees among many others. In 1972, he married Marie-Claude, née Calvet, having met her in 1970, near Hérouville while she was hitch-hiking as a schoolgirl. The couple moved to the south of France in 1974. Magne committed suicide with barbiturates in 1984, in a hotel room.
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Born 1868-03-22. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. Millikan died of a heart attack at his home in San Marino, California in 1953 at age 85.
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Born 1872-01-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was also noted for being an outspoken opponent of Nazism, and was removed from his post by the Vichy government following the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany. He was later restored to his position in 1944. He died in Paris in 1946, two years after living to see the Liberation of Paris.
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Born 1864-06-14. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart attack
In mid-December 1915, Alzheimer fell ill on the train on the way to the University of Breslau, where he had been appointed professor of psychiatry in 1912. Most probably he had a streptococcal infection and subsequent rheumatic fever and kidney failure. He died of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau.