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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
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Born 1948-02-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:COVID
Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lança, better known as Linda de Suza, was a Portuguese Lusophone and Francophone singer, actress and best-selling author. She was described by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as "a French icon of Portuguese migration".
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Born 1926-07-31. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Italo Bettiol was an Italian-French film director. Bettiol left Italy in 1947 with his brother, Stefano, and emigrated to France in hopes of becoming a painter. Alongside their friend, Stefano Lonati, the trio began working in film animation, notably creating advertisements with puppets produced by "Les Cinéastes associés" in the 1950s. He became a specialist in stop motion. He gained notoriety through animated television series, working alongside Lonati in the series Pépin la bulle and Chapi Chapo. In 1968, Bettiol founded the animation studio Bélokapi alongside Lonati, Michel Karlof, and Nicole Pichon. After his retirement, he worked on gadgets in his workshop with his wife, Françoise. Italo Bettiol died in Aniane on 28 December 2022, at the age of 96. His death was announced by the Société Magic.
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Born 1969-05-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Hugo Hernán Maradona, also known as El Turco, was an Argentine football player and coach. He was the younger brother of legendary player Diego Maradona. He played as a midfielder for clubs in South America, Europe, Japan, and Canada, and was a member of the Argentina U-16 national team. He died from a heart attack at his home in Monte di Procida, near Naples.
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Born 1949-08-29. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:COVID
Igor Yourievitch Bogdanoff and Grichka Yourievitch Bogdanoff were French twin brother television presenters, producers, and scientific essayists who, from the 1970s on, presented various subjects in science fiction, popular science, and cosmology. They were involved in a number of controversies, most notably the Bogdanov affair, in which it was alleged the brothers wrote nonsensical advanced physics papers that were nonetheless published in reputable scientific journals.
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Born 1934-02-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Pierre Barouh was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film. Barouh died in the Hôpital Cochin in Paris from a heart attack at the age of 82.
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Born 1932-06-18. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
He was a French artist painter who specialized in trompe l'oeil. He was commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy to paint a pair of doors in her dressing room in the White House.
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Born 1936-01-04. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
She was an English fine artist and a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. She was a figurative artist.
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Born 1953-04-10. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. Kelton was killed when his SUV collided head-on with a school bus in Crosby, Texas, two days before he was due to perform on New Years Eve at Rooster's Steak House in Baytown, Texas.
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Born 1981-02-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
The Rev, or The Reverend Tholomew Plague was the drummer and back-up vocalist for the band Avenged Sevenfold, and lead vocalist in the avant-garde metal band Pinkly Smooth with fellow Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates.
Sullivan was found dead at his home in Huntington Beach at 11:00 a.m. The Orange County Police Department are investigating his death and have said that it appears to be due to natural causes.
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Born 1925-07-31. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
As an undergraduate during World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of John Littlewood's research students.
Atkin, along with Noam Elkies, extended Schoof's algorithm to create the Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm.
Atkin, together with Daniel J. Bernstein, developed the sieve of Atkin.
Atkin is also known for his work on properties of the integer partition function and the monster module.
Atkin contracted hospital pneumonia, and passed away.
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Born 1933-01-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
She was an American literary theorist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist.
Sontag drew fire for writing that "Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history." (Partisan Review, Winter 1967, p. 57.) Sontag later offered an ironic apology for the remark, saying it was insensitive to cancer victims.
Sontag sparked controversy for her remarks in The New Yorker (September 24, 2001) about the immediate aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Sontag wrote:
"Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word 'cowardly' is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): Whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards."
Sontag died in New York City aged 71, from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome. It had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia. The MDS was likely a result of the chemotherapy and radiation treatment she received three decades earlier for advanced breast cancer and, later, a rare form of uterine cancer. Sontag is buried in Montparnasse cemetery, in Paris, France.
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Born 1914-09-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949–1951 and 1954–1957 on the television series of the same name and two related movies from the same producers. Clayton Moore died in a West Hills, California, hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home in nearby Calabasas.
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Born 1952-12-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
She appeared in The Greek Tycoon (1978), Rough Cut (1980), and the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol). While she was filming this movie, her third husband, Pierce Brosnan, met James Bond series producer Albert R. Broccoli, which eventually led to his casting as the new James Bond with starring roles in four James Bond films.
She guest starred in several episodes of the television series Remington Steele with her husband Brosnan, to whom she was married from 1977 until her death in Los Angeles, California from ovarian cancer at the age of 39.
She had three children -- Christopher and Charlotte Harris, from her second marriage to Dermot Harris — a younger brother of the late actor, Richard Harris -- and son Sean Brosnan, from her third marriage to Pierce. Christopher and Charlotte were adopted by Brosnan after Dermot Harris's death in 1986. Harris had allegedly always wanted to see her husband portray James Bond, but her death occurred prior to his selection for the role in "GoldenEye."
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Born 1925-02-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Throughout his life, Peckinpah was plagued by alcoholism, drug addiction, and, according to some, mental illness (possibly manic depression or paranoia). He was married three times. His personality reportedly often swung between a sweet, soft-spoken, artistic disposition, and bouts of rage and violence during which he verbally and physically abused himself and others. He was fascinated with guns and was known to shoot the mirrors in his house during his "benders",
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Born 1944-12-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Succeeding years saw his alcohol abuse problem worsen and he possibly became disillusioned by others' neglect of his talent (though he had always shown a blatant disregard for his own physical safety), he continued to record solo intermittently, but never released any more material. Thus, the "other" Beach Boy who has been called genius by some was unfulfilled creatively at the time of his death by alcohol-related drowning at Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, just after his 39th birthday. On the day of his death in 1983, Wilson was quoted as saying "I'm lonesome. I'm lonesome all the time."
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Born 1905-08-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American Broadway and film actor. He played a small but vital role in the 1939 film classic Golden Boy as William Holden's taxi-driving brother-in-law "Siggie". He also appeared in many film noir classics, including The Killers, Brute Force, and Crossfire.
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Born 1875-03-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Operation
In 1932, Ravel sustained a blow to the head in an accident while a passenger in a taxi. The injury itself was considered minor but soon thereafter he began to complain of aphasia-like symptoms. Ravel had begun work on music for a proposed film version of Don Quixote featuring the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and, when he could not complete the project, Jacques Ibert took over. Ravel could no longer compose music; he could not write down the musical ideas he heard in his mind. Finally, in late 1937, he consented to a primitive brain surgery. One hemisphere of his brain was re-inflated with serum. He awoke from the surgery, called for his brother Edouard, lapsed into a coma and died shortly afterwards. He is buried in Levallois-Perret (a north-west part of Paris, France).
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Born 1895-10-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
The last two years of Sergei Yesenin's life were filled with constant erratic and drunken behavior, but he also created some of the most famous pieces of his poetry. In the Spring of 1925, a highly volatile Sergei Yesenin met and married his fifth wife, Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya, a granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. She attempted to get him help but he suffered a complete mental breakdown and was hospitalized for a month. Two days after his release for Christmas, he allegedly cut his wrist and wrote a farewell poem in his own blood, then the following day hanged himself from the heating pipes on the ceiling of his room in the Hotel d'Angleterre at the age of 30.
After accidentally meeting Yesenin in 1925, Vladimir Mayakovsky noted:
... With the greatest difficulty I recognized Yesenin. With difficulty, too, I rejected his persistent demands that we go for a drink, demands accompanied by the waving of a fat bunch of banknotes. All day long I had his depressing image before me, and in the evening, of course, I discussed with my colleagues what could be done about Yesenin. Unfortunately, in such a situation everyone always limits oneself to talk.