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Feit Walter (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2004-07-29)
He was a Jewish Austrian-American mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. He was born in Vienna and left for England in 1939. He moved to the United States in 1946 where he became an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, and became a professor at Cornell in 1952, and at Yale in 1964. His most famous result is his joint, with John G. Thompson, proof of the Feit–Thompson theorem that all finite groups of odd order are solvable. At the time it was written, it was probably the most complicated and difficult mathematical proof ever completed.
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Born 1935-03-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Левенште́йн, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɨˈosʲɪfəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪvʲɪnˈʂtʲejn]) was a Russian scientist who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since. He was a fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2006, for "contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and information theory, including the Levenshtein distance".
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Born 1980-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Justin "The Executioner" Levens grew up fast in the streets of Philadelphia, before eventually moving across the country for a chance at a better life. He found that life in Newport Beach, California, where he learned to channel his aggressive energy into a more productive form. He began training at Marco Ruas' Vale Tudo academy in Orange County, and the hard-hitting light heavyweight discovered a penchant for explosive action.
Levens and his wife were found shot to death in their home in Laguna Niguel, California. The police are investigating the deaths as a possible murder/suicide.