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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1962-10-26. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Heart attack
Aurélien Ferenczi was a French journalist and film critic. He served as deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Télérama and had a blog titled Cinécure. He also worked on the Canal+ show Le Cercle. In 2019, he was fired from Télérama for "sexist behavior, sexual harassment and moral harassment". He disputed the allegations and announced his intentions to fight his termination in court.
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Born 1943-08-06. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Hungarian economist, who served as the last governor of the Hungarian National Bank during the Communist regime. He was a member of the Hungarian Economical Society, South Eastern Europe Business Advisory Council, Science Council of the MTA's World Economic Research Institute. He received Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. According to the Veszprém County Police Department, he committed suicide in his cottage in Tihany. Viktória Komár, spokesperson of the Veszprém County Police, said "she does not know that Bartha would have left behind a suicide note.
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Born 1927-04-02. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Puskas died in a Budapest hospital from respiratory and circulatory failure. Puskas had been hospitalized for six years with Alzheimer's disease and was being treated for a fever and pneumonia in recent days. He had been in intensive care since September.
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Born 1852-06-13. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Charles Samson Féré was a French physician. He initially studied medicine in Rouen, where he subsequently served at the Hôtel-Dieu under surgeon Achille Flaubert (1813-1882), an older brother of writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Afterwards, he relocated to Paris, where in 1877 he gained his internship. In 1881 he began work as an assistant to Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), who was a profound influence to Féré's career. In 1887, he was appointed chief medical officer at the Hospice Bicętre, remaining there for the rest of his career. Féré's wide-ranging research covered subjects such as medicine, psychology, criminology, sexuality, hypnosis, Darwinism, heredity, et al. Féré is credited with introducing the term "hallucination altruiste" to denote an hallucination depicting a person to whom a sensation, wish, or feeling is conveyed or attributed. In 1903, Charles Féré introduced the term fou rire prodromique to describe pathological laughter heralding an apoplectic event. He was also among the first to describe gelastic epilepsy. His description was influenced by Edouard Brissaud, who supported the existence of a thalamic center for laughter regulation and suggested that spasmodic laughter and crying were due to lesions of the faisceau psychique (anterior internal capsule) or to irritation of the faisceau géniculé (corticobulbar tract). One hundred Years later, we review the evolution of the theories about pathological laughter and crying from Charles Bell in the early XIXth Century, up to the seminal works of Kinnier Wilson and James Papez and the era of modern neuroscience.