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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 1934-01-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
Leonard J. Goldberg was an American film and television producer. He had his own production company, Panda Productions (formerly Mandy Films). He served as head of programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. Goldberg was also the executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods. Goldberg died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of injuries sustained in a fall. He was 85 years old.
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Born 1927-08-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: Department S (1969–70) and Jason King (1971–72). His flamboyant dress sense and stylish performances led to success, and he was considered a style icon in Britain and elsewhere in the early 1970s; Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers. Peter Wyngarde's birth name, Cyril Goldbert, was confirmed when details of his estate were published in The London Gazette on 2 May 2019. His full name may have been Cyril Louis Goldbert, but facts about his early life are difficult to confirm and verify. Wyngarde appears to have fabricated a false biography when he changed his name, including a later year of birth, a father with a different name, profession and ethnic background, and a false education history. The Guardian said in March 2020 that "his life story is shrouded in mystery" According to his own account, he was born on 23 August 1933 to a French mother and a British father at an aunt's home in Marseille, France. A 1956 Straits Times article about his mother gives Marseille as his birthplace. He claimed to be a maternal nephew of French actor-director Louis Jouvet.
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Born 1953-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was an American actor known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film trilogy. Nunn died in his home in Pittsburgh's Hill District; he was 62 years old. His widow, Donna, confirmed that he had leukemia.
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Born 1956-01-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Operation
Stephen Gold was a skilled hacker and journalist who in the mid-1980s was charged with, convicted and later acquitted of, 'uttering a forgery' in what became known to the popular press of the time as "The Great Prestel Hack". Gold, and fellow hacker Robert Schifreen, were said to have accessed, inter alia, the personal message account of Prince Philip. The facts as outlined in The Hacker's Handbook are that he was 'fitted' up, having tried, repeatedly and unsuccessfully, to warn BT's Prestel via Micronet of the security holes. Gold later became a "respected information security journalist". In 1984, Gold and fellow journalist/hacker Robert Schifreen demonstrated an "ad hoc penetration test" of a Prestel network which, according to the writer Nick Barron, used "a combination of clever shoulder surfing and good old-fashioned hacking skills". An archive telling the story of how the 1980s hack of Prince Philip’s mailbox led to UK anti-hacking legislation is held at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley. Gold and Schifreen were convicted in 1986, (after a series of pre-'trials') at Southwark Crown Court on a charge of misusing passwords: the actual charge sheet read "uttering a forgery", under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. They appealed successfully and were twice acquitted by higher courts on the basis that they had not obtained any material gain from their exploits. The appeals were pursued right up to the House of Lords by BT at taxpayers expense during the Thatcher era. Their case, it has been said, "led directly to the introduction of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act". Gold was 'de facto' author of the fourth edition of The Hacker's Handbook, previous editions of which had been completed by "Hugo Cornwall", Professor Peter Sommer. Gold is commemorated by webpage Silent Modems created by friends and followers in his memory. Steve Gold, who died from complications arising from a heart operation on January 12th 2015, was an internationally renowned expert and commentator in the field of IT crime and cyber terrorism.
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Born 1946-09-20. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an Israeli actor and TV personality.
In May 2009, Topaz was arrested by the Israeli police. He is suspected to have paid for a series of attacks on high-ranking TV executives Avi Nir and Shira Margalit and showbiz agent Boaz Ben-Zion. The said three people were beaten by unknown attackers, and sustained serious wounds. It is alleged that when his show was taken off the air, and after multiple rejections from rival channels and newspapers he offered to write guest columns for, Topaz allegedly went on a revenge spree against network executives. It is reported that he attempted to commit suicide in his prison cell at the Abu Kabir detention facility in Tel Aviv. A second suicide attempt was successful, and on August 20th, 2009, Topaz was found dead, hanged in a shower (the only place without video surveillance) in Nizzan detention center, in Ramla.
On the August 20, 2009, at approximately 7 am, a warden discovered Topaz's body in the shower stall of his cell at the Nitzan Detention Center in Ramla. Topaz had hung himself using a cord from an electric kettle.
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Born 1944-06-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and assassinated mysteriously. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) death squad was involved in his murder. His half-brother Jean-Jacques Goldman is a popular French singer. he was assassinated at point-blank range in Paris. Eye-witnesses described three Spanish-looking persons. In April 2006, Libération published an interview of former police officer Lucien Aimé-Blanc, who stated that one of his informants, Jean-Pierre Maďone, had admitted, a few years later, having killed Goldman on behalf of the GAL: “ Marseille boys members of GAL killed him with Maďone, who also talked about a commandant, former member of the SDECE [French secret service], without revealing me his identity."
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Born 1898-05-03. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer
In the wake of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Meir appealed to the world to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed." Outraged at the perceived lack of global action, she authorized the Mossad to hunt down and assassinate the Black September and PFLP operatives who took part in the massacre. The 1986 TV film Sword of Gideon, based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas, and Steven Spielberg’s movie Munich (2005) were loosely based on these events.
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Born 1893-12-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1909-06-22. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American theatre and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of Around the World in Eighty Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Todd's private plane, Lucky Liz, crashed near Grants, New Mexico. The plane, a Lockheed Lodestar, was downed by engine failure while being operated grossly overweight at the limit of its altitude capability, and the crash killed all four on board. Todd is buried in Chicago at Beth Aaron Cemetery. In his autobiography, Eddie Fisher, Todd's best friend, stated that no fragments of Todd had been found, and that his coffin contained only his ring.