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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Sutcliffe
Patricia (alias: Marie Devereux). 2019-12-30

79

Born 1940-11-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown

Marie Devereux was a British model and film actress. She was born Patricia Sutcliffe in Edmonton, London. Marie Devereux became a regular and very popular nude model in magazines during the 1950s, photographed by George Harrison Marks. She had a brief career in cinema, starting in late 1950s usually as a sexy girl in comedies, dramas and horror films, but under the direction of distinguished filmmakers. After appearing in Terence Young’s "Serious Charge" and Stanley Donen's "Surprise Package", Devereux was seen to good advantage in three Hammer Film Productions: first, for genre master Terence Fisher, she played a follower of goddess Kali in “The Stranglers of Bombay” (1959), and was one of "The Brides of Dracula" (1960); followed in 1962 by John Gilling's "The Pirates of Blood River", in which she played a married woman who is having an affair with a sailor, played by Kerwin Mathews. She was also in Guy Green's praised drama "The Mark" (1961), and then travelled to Italy to work as Elizabeth Taylor's stand-in in Cleopatra (1963), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Devereux went to Hollywood after the production closed in Rome, and appeared in Samuel Fuller's cult melodramas "Shock Corridor" (1963) and most notably in "The Naked Kiss" (1964), in which she had a sizeable supporting role. After The Naked Kiss in 1964, she retired from acting, to get married and raise a family. Devereux died in Meridian, Idaho, United States.

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Sally
Paul Joseph. 2013-12-30

80

Born 1933-01-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for 30 years. His research areas were p-adic analysis and representation theory. He created several programs to improve the preparation of school mathematics teachers, and was seen by many as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

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Farrell
Roberto Alfonso. 2010-12-30

61

Born 1949-10-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown

He was a dancer and performer, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.
Bobby Farrell lived in Amsterdam Zuidoost, in the neighbourhood Gaasperdam. He died in the morning of December 30, 2010 in a hotel in Saint Petersburg, after performing with his band the evening before. The cause of death is still unknown.

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Calle
Paul. 2010-12-30

82

Born 1928-03-03. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer

He was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, along with other designs he created for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations, including several he co-designed with his son Chris. Hired by NASA as the only artist allowed to cover the Apollo 11 astronauts up close. Calle designed the 10 cent postage stamp commemorating the first manned moon landing, depicting an astronaut stepping onto the moon from the lunar module, with the orb of the Earth visible over the moon's horizon.

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Hamilton
Bernie. 2008-12-30

80

Born 1928-06-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was an American actor.
He is best remembered for his role as the brusque, no-nonsense Captain Dobey in the United States 1970s police series Starsky and Hutch. Hamilton was the brother of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton.

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Hussein
Saddam. 2006-12-30

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Born 1937-04-28. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

Executed by Hanging

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Arshawsky
Arthur (alias: Artie Shaw). 2004-12-30

94

Born 1910-05-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

A self-proclaimed "very difficult man," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns (1932); Margaret Allen (1934-37); Lana Turner (1940); Betty Kern (1941-43), daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern; Ava Gardner (1945-46); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor (1946-48); Doris Dowling (1952-56) and Evelyn Keyes (1957-85).

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Mui Yim-Fong
Anita. 2003-12-30

40

Born 1963-10-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)

From the early 1980s to 2003, she was a close friend with Leslie Cheung, another Hong Kong pop star, who committed suicide in April 2003. She was devastated by his death.
Anita Mui announced in early September 2003 that she had cervical cancer and was undergoing treatment. Some of her friends and the media were baffled as to why she took so long to undergo treatment when it appeared she knew of her ailment when it was in a fairly early stage. It's also possible that it was a late detection like most cases or secretly had treatment.
It was widely believed she forwent early treatment because she wanted to preserve the possibility to conceive. Mui eventually lost her battle to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at 02:50 (local time). She was 40 years old and single. Her sister, Ann Mui, also a Hong Kong singer, died from the same illness in 2000.
Her death, following Leslie Cheung's, was a great loss to the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

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Farmar
Mary Aline (alias: Mary Wesley). 2002-12-30

90

Born 1912-06-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

During her career, she became one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 best-sellers in the last 20 years of her life. Her take on life reveals a sharp and critical eye which neatly dissects the idiosyncrasies of genteel England with humour, compassion and irony, detailing in particular sexual and emotional values. Her style has been described as "arsenic without the old lace". She wrote two books for children - Speaking Terms and The Sixth Seal (both 1969) - before publishing adult fiction. Since her first adult novel was published only in 1983, when she was 71, she may be regarded as a late bloomer.

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Whitehead
Alfred North. 1947-12-30

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Born 1861-02-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell.

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