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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1936-10-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Samuel William "Bill" Hinzman was an American actor and film director. Hinzman's first role was the cemetery zombie in the horror film Night of the Living Dead (1968). Hinzman also played roles in the films Legion of the Night (1985), Santa Claws (1996), Evil Ambitions (1996), and The Drunken Dead Guy (2005). He played one of the lead roles in the Independent horror film River of Darkness alongside Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash and "Psycho" Sid Vicious, a.k.a. Sid Eudy. He later directed the films The Majorettes in 1986, and Flesheater in 1988.
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Born 1923-12-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a stage actor and a writer.
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Born 1915-01-29. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Complications from pneumonia and cancer. He was the creator of Dumbo at Disney.
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Born 1970-05-21. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder
He was a French radio reporter and journalist. He started his career on Radio France then then joined Radio Tele Luxembourg as international reporter.
Billaud, along with fellow French journalist Johanne Sutton and German journalist Volker Handloik, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack. According to Reyberotte Billaud and Sutton jumped off the tank.
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Born 1937-11-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Formula One driver from Italy who raced for the March, Surtees and Alfa Romeo teams. His nickname was "The Monza Gorilla".
He died at Lesmo, near Milan, of a heart attack at the age of 63 while gardening at his home. He reportedly collapsed while mowing the lawn.
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Born 1960-05-29. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cystic fibrosis
Bill Williams was an American game designer, programmer, and author born with cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disorder. According to a medical encyclopedia Williams consulted when he was 12, people with cystic fibrosis weren't expected to live past the age of 13. Williams created a string of computer games from 1982 through 1990 for the Atari 8-bit family and then the Amiga which are admired for their imaginative design concepts, innovative sound and music, and skillful implementation. Necromancer is a three-stage game about a wizard growing and controlling an army of trees. Scenarios in Alley Cat include stealthily drinking from the bowls of sleeping dogs, avoiding a sweeping broom to jump inside a fish bowl, and collecting ferns atop a bookcase protected by spiders. Mind Walker, one of the first games released for the Amiga, places the player inside the head of a physics professor gone mad. Late in his career he worked on a licensed title for the Nintendo Entertainment System and another for the Super NES, but became frustrated with the game business and left to attend the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and write two theological works.
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Born 1917-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1934-01-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Hulk.
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Born 1909-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Billy Curtis (born Luigi Curto) was an American film and television actor with dwarfism, who had a 50-year career in the entertainment industry.
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Born 1900-11-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was an English professional association football player of the 1930s. Born in Rotherham, he joined Gillingham from Exeter City in 1930 and went on to make 27 appearances for the club in The Football League, scoring six goals. He left to join Mansfield Town in 1931.
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Born 1919-05-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Pierre Brambilla, 3rd of Tour de France 1947, used to talk to himself like that : « Tu vas avancer, vieille carcasse... Ah ! tu ne veux pas... Eh bien, tu ne boiras pas ! » Finally, beaten by thirst, he was drinking enormous quantity of liquid, that was too much compared with the normal capability of assimilation by the body (800 millilitres per hour). This gastric overload was limiting his respiratory function, slowing down his cell's oxygenation. Then, he believed that drinking a lot was bad for sporting performances.
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Born 1901-02-07. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
1948 : Ruy Blas. Director.
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Born 1904-08-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was born in Paris, Kentucky, and died in Toulouse.
In 1935 he moved for the first time to France. He later spent time in Egypt working with Herman Chittison. In 1943 he worked with the American saxophonists Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins.
He returned to France in 1948 and spent the rest of his life there in part due to racial segregation.
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Born 1925-07-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
A self-admitted alcoholic (as indicated in a 1974 radio interview for the BBC), Haley fought a battle with liquor well into the 1970s. Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and Roll Revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label. After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June of 1980. Prior to the South African tour, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and a planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 was canceled. Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography (accounts differ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he retired to his home in Harlingen, Texas where he died. Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson released a year later which describes Haley painting the windows of his home black and making rambling late-night phone calls to friends and relatives, there is little information extant about Haley's final days. The exact cause of his death is controversial. Media reports, supported by Haley's death certificate (reproduced in the book Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll by John Swenson), suggest he died of "natural causes most likely heart attack". Members of Haley's family, however, contest that he died from the brain tumor. Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Born 1929-08-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Evans's chemical dependency problems most likely began during his stint with Miles Davis in the late 1950s. A heroin addict for much of his career, his health was generally poor and his financial situation worse for most of the 1960s. By the end of that decade he appeared to have succeeded in overcoming that drug problem, but during the 1970s cocaine became a serious and eventually fatal issue for Evans. His body finally gave out in the fall of 1980, when, ravaged by psychoactive drugs, a perforated liver, and a lifelong battle with hepatitis, he died in New York City of a bleeding ulcer, cirrhosis of the liver and bronchial pneumonia.
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Born 1907-09-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette was an American Menominee singer, waitress, convict, and lecturer known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s. Frechette is known to have been involved with Dillinger for about six months, until her arrest and imprisonment in 1934. She finished two years in prison in 1936, then toured the United States with Dillinger's family for five years with their "Crime Doesn't Pay" show. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades.
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Born 1904-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.