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Rolls Charles (b. 1877-08-27 / d. 1910-07-12)
He was killed in an air crash at Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off, making him the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident, and the eleventh internationally. A statue in his memory, in which he is seen holding a biplane model, was erected in Agincourt Square, Monmouth.
His grave lies in a little known corner of Monmouthshire at the now disused church of Llangattock Vibon Avel, where many of the Rolls family lie buried in various family tombs. His grave is just below Llangattock Manor and bears the inscription Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
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Born 1936-10-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis. He was a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Lindenstrauss was married to theoretical computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss. Two of their children, Ayelet Lindenstrauss and Fields Medallist Elon Lindenstrauss, are also mathematicians (providing a rare example of father, mother, son and daughter all having papers listed in Mathematical Reviews).
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Born 1940-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He was a convicted serial killer from Linden, New Jersey. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1969 murder of Rosemary Calandriello of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. On March 11, 2008, he was indicted for the 1968 murder of Jane Durrua of Keansburg. He was acquitted in 2001 of the 1958 murder of Rahway, New Jersey police officer Charles Bernoskie.
While the cause of death was uncertain, Zarinsky was known to have severe respiratory
problems and had been seen in court on a gurney and tethered to oxygen to breathe.
He was also a suspect in the murders of Linda Balabanow, Doreen Carlucci and Joanne Delardo of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.
Zarinsky died at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey of pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring of the lung tissue that made it increasingly difficult for him to breathe. Zarinsky's death occurred exactly 50 years from the date of the Bernoskie murder.
He held the infamous distinction of being the first person in New Jersey state history to be convicted of murder without a corpse.
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Born 1945-06-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a French essayist and novelist. Although none of his works has yet been translated into English, Muray is considered one of the most influential thinkers of his generation. In 2002, Daniel Lindenberg included him in his notorious list of "new reactionaries"
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Born 1946-08-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Rick van der Linden was a Dutch composer and keyboardist. Van der Linden first gained fame as a member of Ekseption, but he played in several other bands including most notably Trace, as well as solo. Van der Linden was best known for his reworkings of classical music in a pop music domain, often with jazz improvisations. Van der Linden had long suffered from diabetes with following eyesight impairment, and in 2005 had a successful eye surgery. On 19 November 2005 he suffered from a stroke which resulted in partial paralysis. He died in Groningen, and was cremated in Assen. Almost 500 people attended his memorial service in Hoogeveen.
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Born 1925-11-17. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Unknown
He was a Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. For this, he worked with Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
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Born 1889-04-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory in the city centre, Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker. He did so by means of a self-delivered shot to the head while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule. Hitler's body and that of Eva Braun (his long-term mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, doused in gasoline by Otto Günsche and other Führerbunker aides, and set alight as the Red Army advanced and shelling continued. Hitler also had his dog Blondi poisoned before his suicide to test the poison he and Eva Braun were going to take.
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Hitler war zu Lebzeiten Ehrenbürger etlicher deutscher Städte. Trotz der Argumentation, dass die Ehrenbürgerschaft mit dem Tod ende, haben viele Städte Hitler diese nach seinem Tod explizit wieder entzogen, einige andere nicht, darunter z. B. Bad Doberan oder Völklingen.
Mit dem Anophthalmus hitleri benannte der Käfersammler Oscar Seibel 1933 einen kleinen, blinden, braunen Höhlenkäfer, der mittlerweile vom Aussterben bedroht ist, nach Hitler.
Im April 1934 wurde in der Umgebung von Bad Tölz der Heigelkopf in Hitlerberg umbenannt und ein zehn Meter hohes, 1200 kg schweres Hakenkreuz aufgestellt.
Das TIME Magazine wählte Hitler 1938 zum „Mann des Jahres“. Die Intention dieses Titels war jedoch nicht, die entsprechende Person zu ehren, sondern herauszustellen, wer aus Sicht der Redaktion in einem bestimmtem Jahr den größten Einfluss auf die Weltpolitik hatte. So ging der Titel 1939 und 1942 an Josef Stalin.
Hitler wurde von verschiedenen Forschungsinstituten mehrmals als der bekannteste Deutsche identifiziert und ist eine der weltweit bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten überhaupt.