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Baire René-Louis (b. 1874-01-21 / d. 1932-07-05)
René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variable réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Since he was young, Baire always had "delicate" health. He had developed problems with his esophagus before he attended school and he would occasionally experience severe attacks of agoraphobia. From time to time, his health would prevent him from working or studying. The bad spells became more frequent, immobilizing him for long periods of time. Over time, he had developed a kind of psychological disorder that made him unable to undertake work that required long periods of concentration. At times this would make his ability to research mathematics impossible. Between 1909 and 1914 this problem continually plagued him and his teaching duties became more and more difficult. He was given a leave of absence from the University of Dijon due to all these breakdowns. He retired from Dijon in 1925 and spent his last years living in multiple hotels that he could afford with his meager pension.
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Born 1928-11-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles. Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. He started as a talented football player for A.S. Roma but left the sport to follow his passion for music. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history. Morricone lived in Italy his entire life and never desired to live in Hollywood. The New York Times Magazine listed him among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Morricone died at the Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome as a result of injuries sustained during a fall.
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Born 1936-10-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Shelley Morrison (born Rachel Mitrani, also known as Rachel Domínguez) was an American theater and television actress. Morrison was known for her role as maid Rosario Salazar in the NBC comedy Will & Grace, which she played from 1999 to 2006. She was also a regular performer on the sitcom The Flying Nun, playing Sister Sixto, a nun known mostly for mangling the English language, and she had a recurring role in the soap opera General Hospital in 1982.
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Born 1925-03-13. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
John Torrence Tate Jr. was an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.
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Born 1923-01-17. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a computer scientist known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages. In his PhD dissertation (in Mathematics, at ETH Zurich, 1951; published in 1954), Böhm describes for the first time a full meta-circular compiler, that is a translation mechanism of a programming language, written in that same language. His most influential contribution is the so-called structured program theorem, published in 1966 together with Giuseppe Jacopini. In lambda calculus, he established an important separation theorem between normal forms. Together with Alessandro Berarducci, he demonstrated an isomorphism between the strictly-positive algebraic data types and the polymorphic lambda-terms, otherwise known as Böhm–Berarducci encoding. A special issue of Theoretical Computer Science was dedicated to him in 1993, on his 70th birthday. He is the recipient of the 2001 EATCS Award for a distinguished career in theoretical computer science.
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Born 1985-11-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Peruvian-American middle-distance runner and indoor American record holder in the 1000 meters (active). Born in Okinawa, Japan, Torrence was raised in Tarzana, California. After graduating from Loyola High School in 2003, he went on to run for the University of California, Berkeley and Hoka One One. Torrence represented Peru at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Torrence was found dead in a swimming pool in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 31. His death was ruled as accidental drowning.
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Born 1925-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Jorris was a French theatre actor.
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Born 1931-08-16. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American heir. He was the eldest son of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars Sr., and the grandson of Frank C. Mars, the founder of Mars, Incorporated, the confectionery company. In March 2015, Forbes estimated his wealth to be $26.8 billion up from US $11 billion in March 2010. In October 2012, the Bloomberg Billionaires List ranked Mars as the 31st richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of 20.1 billion. Mars died at age 84 in Seattle, Washington, of complications from a heart attack.
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Born 1991-08-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He was born in Palma, Majorca. Salom won his first Grand Prix in Indianapolis in 2012, beating Sandro Cortese and Maverick Viñales in a last-lap fight. He also won at Aragon. He finished the championship in second behind Cortese. Salom died while racing in the 2016 Catalan Moto2 Grand Prix in Barcelona after crashing against a wall, aged 24.
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Born 1976-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
The Argentine cycling community lost one of its prized riders, Armando Borrajo, to a tragic suicide on December 18 in Buenos Aires. The 34-year-old was kidnapped for two days and released just prior to his death and reportedly suffered from injury and shock. According to reports, Borrajo's younger brother Alejandro, who races for the US-based team Jamis-Sutter Home, broke his arm while attempting to intervene. Details of Borrajo's death have not been released. Borrajo was a member of an electoral campaign for the Argentine Track and Road Cycling Federation, directly under Facundo Donadio who was running for presidency. The election was scheduled to take place on December 22 but has been postponed. Borrajo recently traveled to northern Argentina for a campaign presentation. It was reported that he was a victim of a kidnapping and then released two days prior to his suicide. Investigators are still searching for details in the kidnapping case. Borrajo won the national road title in 2006 and more recently won a stage of the Giro del Sol San Juan in 2009.
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Born 1920-01-23. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known as the inventor of the Frisbee.
Morrison claimed that the original idea for a flying disc toy came to him in 1937, while throwing a popcorn can lid with his girlfriend, Lu, whom he later married. The popcorn lid soon dented which led to the discovery that cake pans flew better and were more common. Morrison and Lu developed a little business selling "Flyin' Cake Pans" on the beaches of Santa Monica, California.
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Born 1981-06-05. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer
Goody had a number of health scares throughout the 2000s. In 2002, shortly before her Big Brother 3 appearance, she had a cervical smear test which revealed abnormal cells, a possible indicator of cancer. She was later tested for ovarian cancer in 2004 and bowel cancer in 2006, but was given the all-clear on each occasion. She underwent hospital tests in early August 2008 after her fourth cancer scare. She had already collapsed four times. The test results confirmed she had cervical cancer; she was told of this on 19 August 2008 while in the Indian version of Big Brother, called Bigg Boss. Her spokesperson said, "It looks like her cancer is at an early stage but we will have to wait until she gets back to Britain and sees a specialist and has more tests".
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Born 1952-06-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Billy Powell was the longtime keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1970 until his death.
The keyboardist died at the age of 56 at his home in Orange Park, Florida. Powell called 911 at 12:55 a.m., complaining of shortness of breath. He missed his appointment with the doctor on the day before his death; the appointment was for a checkup on his heart. The EMS responders found Powell unconscious and unresponsive, with the telephone still in his hand. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 am.
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Born 1927-07-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
She died at her home after suffering cardiac arrest due to dilated cardiomyopathy at age 77. Her family was at her side. She also suffered from vasculitis and peripheral neuropathy, which caused her right hand to become gangrenous.
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Born 1979-04-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
She was an american peace activist. She was run over twice by a bulldozer, causing her death.
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Born 1923-12-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Accident
He died in 2001 by an accidental fall.
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Born 1904-03-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American businessman and the driving force of the Mars candy empire. He is best known for introducing Milky Way (1923) and Mars (1932) chocolate candy bars, and M&M's (1941) chocolate candy, as well as orchestrating the launch of Uncle Ben's Rice. He was the son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars and his first wife Ethel G. Mars (née Kissack).
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Born 1965-07-02. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
In 1998 Borrelli joined Lyon, but was killed in a road accident in February 1999, near Molphey (Côte-d'Or). Lyon subsequently retired the number 16 shirt in his honour, and Caen named an entire grandstand in his honour.
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Born 1933-09-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
In 1966, Greg Morris was cast in his most recognizable role as the electronics expert Barney Collier in the TV series Mission: Impossible. Along with Peter Lupus and Bob Johnson, he would be the only other actor to remain with the series throughout its entire run.
Shortly before his death, he went to see the film version of Mission: Impossible that starred Tom Cruise. The reports were that he hated the movie so much (an opinion that was shared by several of his former co-stars) that he left the theater early.
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Born 1930-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He is best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
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Born 1919-02-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of only fifteen years old. A mentor provided funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, five inches. Tucker was a sight reader who needed only one take and his film career started well despite a perception in most Hollywood studios that blond men were not photogenic. He enlisted in the Army during World War II. After twenty years spent mainly in Westerns and action roles, he returned to his roots, showing versatility as a comedic and stage musical actor. In the television series F Troop, he became identified with the character of Cavalry Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke (a manipulative character quite similar to Phil Silvers' role as MSgt. Ernie Bilko). Tucker struggled with a drinking problem that began to affect his performances in the later years of his career. Tucker, who had battled lung cancer for more than a year, as well as having a series of minor illnesses, collapsed and was hospitalized, for the second time in a week, on his way to the ceremony for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 21, 1986. He died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on October 25, 1986, a few months after the theatrical release of Thunder Run and Outtakes. He was interred in Forest Lawn–Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.
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Born 1929-02-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American actor whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. He and two children died decapited, when a stunt helicopter crashed on them during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Director John Landis and other defendants, including producer Steven Spielberg and pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Morrow's children also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.
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Born 1907-05-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
In 1964, Wayne was diagnosed with lung cancer, and underwent surgery to remove his entire left lung and two ribs. Despite rumors that the cancer was caused by filming The Conqueror in Utah where the US government had tested nuclear weapons (following which a surprising percentage of the cast and crew developed cancer), Wayne himself believed his five-pack-a-day cigarette habit was the cause.
In March 1978 Wayne underwent open-heart surgery to repair an artery damaged by a bout of pneumonia four years previously.
Although he recovered, at Christmas 1978, he fell ill again, and in January of the following year underwent a nine-hour operation to remove his stomach, which was entirely cancerous.
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Born 1943-12-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Morrison moved to Paris in March 1971 with the intention of taking a break from performing and concentrating on his writing. Hoping to get his life back on track, Morrison lost a great deal of weight and shaved off his beard (although his last photographs show a considerable amount of bloating -- a classic symptom of congestive heart failure). By all accounts he became very depressed whilst in Paris, but he admired the city's architecture, saying 'When they built this city, they threw away the blueprint' in an interview with a Los Angeles journalist in summer 1971.
He was found in his bathtub by Courson. According to Stephen Davis' biography of Morrison, it was reported that he had dried blood around his mouth and nose and large bruising on his chest. This suggests Morrison might have died from a massive hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis. Many fans and biographers have speculated that the cause of death was a drug overdose, but the official report listed the cause of death as heart failure. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. The lack of an official autopsy left many questions unanswered and provided a fertile breeding ground for speculation and rumor.
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Born 1904-06-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M.
Overweight and never fully recovered from his addiction to morphine, Lorre suffered many personal and career disappointments in his later years. When he died in 1964 of a stroke he was 59 years old. Lorre's body was cremated and his ashes interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. Vincent Price read the eulogy at his funeral.
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Born 1863-08-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to the early development of algebraic geometry. In a 1926 memorial article, H.F. Baker called Segre the "father of" the Italian school of algebraic geometry.
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Born 1855-08-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism, and (for the times) openly gay.
I died of abuse of drugs, such as ether. I also got the syphilis.
More precisely, he died from peritonitis provoked by a lavement that was administrated to him in a clinic.