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Astruc Alexandre (b. 1923-07-13 / d. 2016-05-19)
He was a French movie critic and movie director. He was known for being part of the French New Wave. He was born in Paris. Astruc was known for his movies The Crimson Curtain, La Putain respectueuse, Les Mauvaises rencontres, Amour de poche, Une vie, and La proie pour l'ombre. In 1994, he was given the René Clair Award.
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Born 1947-09-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Peter Lawrence Montgomery was an American mathematician who worked at the System Development Corporation and Microsoft Research. He is best known for his contributions to computational number theory and mathematical aspects of cryptography, including the Montgomery multiplication method for arithmetic in finite fields, the use of Montgomery curves in applications of elliptic curves to integer factorization and other problems, and the Montgomery ladder, which is used to protect against side-channel attacks in elliptic curve cryptography. Montgomery is particularly known for his contributions to the elliptic curve method of factorization, which include a method for speeding up the second stage of algebraic-group factorization algorithms using FFT techniques for fast polynomial evaluation at equally spaced points. This was the subject of his dissertation, for which he received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also invented the block Lanczos algorithm for finding nullspace of a matrix over a finite field, which is very widely used for the quadratic sieve and number field sieve methods of factorization; he has been involved in the computations which set a number of integer factorization records. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1967. In that year, he was one of only two contestants, along with child prodigy Don Zagier of MIT, to solve all twelve of the exam problems.
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Born 1932-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff AfterMASH from 1983 to 1985. According to his son John Christopher, the 84-year-old actor died as the result of small-cell carcinoma. He had been diagnosed with cancer about 18 months earlier, according to his New York-based agent, Robert Malcolm.
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Born 1938-09-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Giuliano Gemma was an Italian actor. He is best known internationally for his work in Spaghetti Westerns, particularly for his performances as the title character in Duccio Tessari's A Pistol for Ringo (1965), Captain Montgomery Brown/'Ringo' in Tessari's The Return of Ringo (1965), the title character in Michele Lupo's Arizona Colt (1966), Scott Mary in Tonino Valerii's Day of Anger (1967) and Michael "California" Random in Lupo's California (1977). In Italy, his advantageous musculature makes him a recurring actor in peplums and westerns, but he is best known in France for his participation in the film series Angelique, Marquise of Angels. On 1 October 2013, Gemma died following a car accident in Cerveteri, near Rome. He was taken to a hospital in Civitavecchia and pronounced dead shortly after his arrival. Two other passengers, a man and his son, were also injured in the accident.
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Born 1929-02-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was the French voice of Peter Falk, Jack Nicholson, Richard Burton, Burt Young, Montgomery Clift, Marcello Mastroianni, Mickey Rourke, Charles Bronson, Burt Reynolds and Sidney Poitier.
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Born 1930-03-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
Thomas Lee Flanagan (16 March 1930–16 November 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald. He played on a number of critically acclaimed recordings, such as John Coltrane's Giant Steps, Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus , The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper's Straight Life. He died on November 16, 2001, of an arterial aneurysm.
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Born 1919-08-25. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Infection
He was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. After four runs for U. S. president (three as a Democrat and one on the American Independent Party ticket), he earned the title of "the most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher. A 1972 assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed, and he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is remembered for his Southern populist and pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life. Wallace died of septic shock from a bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. He suffered from respiratory problems in addition to complications from his gunshot spinal injury. He is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery.
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Born 1933-04-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
Montgomery was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the spring of 1995. She had ignored the symptoms of her illness until it was too late during the filming of "Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan." Unwilling to die in a hospital, and with no hope of recovery, she elected to return to her Beverly Hills home that she shared with Robert Foxworth, her last husband. She died there, in the company of her children and Foxworth.
She died just eight weeks after her cancer diagnosis. Her last words were "I cry out! A silver sparrow has flown in the dark night!".
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Born 1930-04-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
"the second Darrin Stephens" on the hit television series Bewitched.
Later in life, he came out as gay, and supported gay rights issues. Previously he covered his orientation to men by marrying lesbian actor Fannie Flagg. He lived with his life partner, Albert Williams until his death. Sargent and his former co-star Elizabeth Montgomery, with whom he remained good friends, were Grand Marshals of the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade in June 1992.
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Born 1906-08-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema.
Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive lung disease. It is often caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long-term exposure to tobacco smoke.
Huston directed The Misfits (1960) with an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach. Famously, Huston spent long evenings carousing in the Nevada casinos after filming, surrounded by reporters and beautiful women, gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Gable remarked during this time that 'if he kept it up he would soon die of it'. Ironically, and tragically, Gable died three weeks after the end of filming from a massive heart attack while Huston went on to live for twenty-six more years.
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Born 1971-09-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:orphan disease
David's parents, David Joseph Vetter Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter, had one daughter, Katherine; their first son, named David Joseph Vetter III, died seven months after birth. Doctors said that the baby boy had been born with a defective thymus, a gland which is important in the functioning of the immune system, due to a genetic condition, SCID. Each further son the couple might conceive would have a 50% chance of inheriting the same condition. Three doctors from Baylor College of Medicine—John Montgomery, Mary Ann South and Raphael Wilson —told the Vetters that if they had another child with SCID, the child could be placed in a sterile isolator until a cure could be found, and the project would be funded with federal research grants.
The couple were anxious to have another child to carry on the family name. So, believing that after a short treatment their child could live a normal life, they decided to go through another pregnancy. There was no private or public discussion of what would happen if no cure was found, or how long the prospective child would remain in the bubble.
The Rev. Raymond Lawrence, the chaplain of the hospital at that time, said of the situation: "The great scandal of the Bubble Boy was that he was conceived for the bubble. The team that did this didn't think through this very well. They didn't consider what would happen if they didn't find an immediate cure. They operated on the assumption that you could live to be 80 years old in a bubble, and that would be unfortunate but okay." Lawrence says that the original three doctors encouraged David's parents to conceive David just so that they could have a test subject for their studies, a charge which is denied by the three involved doctors. Montgomery said: "I have to be honest that we never sat down and outlined this is what we will do 'if'. It was an unspoken understanding that he would match Katherine, we would transplant him, it would work, and six weeks to three months later, he would be reconstituted and come out, and we would all be joyful, and maybe famous"
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Born 1904-05-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed (née Barney) and Henry Montgomery, Sr.
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Born 1925-03-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Montgomery is often considered the greatest of modern jazz guitarists.
George Benson, in the liner notes of the Ultimate Wes Montgomery album, wrote, "Wes had a corn on his thumb, which gave his sound that point. He would get one sound for the soft parts, and then that point by using the corn. That's why no one will ever match Wes. And his thumb was double-jointed. He could bend it all the way back to touch his wrist, which he would do to shock people."
He didn't have very long to live and to enjoy his commercial success, however; in 1968, he woke one morning, remarked to his wife that he "Didn't feel very well," and minutes later collapsed, dying of a heart attack within minutes.
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Born 1917-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. As the nagging and nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner (George Tobias), provided a common thread through many of the series' early episodes.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the Bewitched began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season of Bewitched at the age of 48. Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 until the end of the series by actress Sandra Gould.
Alice Pearce was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.