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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 1944-06-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection
Geoffrey Arnold Beck was an English guitarist who rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style of music with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica. Beck died from a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near Riverhall at the age of 78.
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Born 1968-11-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Charlotte Valandrey was a French actress and author. After early success she was widely tipped for stardom, but her career took a more modest course until the release of her autobiography in 2005. After being revealed, at the age of sixteen, by the film Red Kiss, she lives alone in a studio that her parents bought for her. Carefree and uninformed about the dangers involved, she had affairs with “a drug-addicted musician, and other boys at risk”. In 1986, a few days before her eighteenth birthday, she learned that she was HIV-positive. In 1999, she met Arthur Lecaisne with whom she married on 17 July 1999 at Pléneuf-Val-André. At the beginning of 2000, they had a daughter, Tara who is HIV-negative. While separating from Arthur in 2002 and following a triple therapy which damaged her heart and caused her two heart attacks, her heart broke down, necrotic, and left her with only 10% heart capacity. On 4 November 2003, she received a transplant. In her book L'Amour dans le sang (published in 2005), she recounts her other love stories, with her cardiologist or Yann, an architect whom she intimately believes to be the husband of her late donor. In March 2007, after selling over 280,000 copies of her book, Charlotte gave approval for its adaptation in the TV movie, L'Amour dans le sang. Produced by Dominique Besnehard for Mon Voisin Productions, it was first broadcast on 23 November 2008 on France 3. On 8 June 2022, she announced that she was waiting for a second heart transplant because of new health problems. She received it on 14 June at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital but the transplant did not take. Charlotte Valandrey died on 13 July 2022, at the age of 53. Charlotte was a patron of the Greffe de vie ("Foundation of Life Registry") and was committed to the cause of organ donation and transplantation.
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Born 1928-08-30. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
Alain Rey was a French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality. He was the editor-in-chief at French dictionary publisher Dictionnaires Le Robert.
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Born 1938-10-12. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Geoffrey Peter Murphy ONZM was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the second half of the 1970s. His second feature Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its own soil. Murphy directed several Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second-unit director on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Murphy was also at different times a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player. He was married to Merata Mita, also a film director, actor, writer.
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Born 1936-02-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American actor, director, and producer of film and television, considered a sex symbol and icon of American popular culture.
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Born 1926-01-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Stanley Brian Reynolds was an English jazz trumpeter.
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Born 1944-02-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a British musician and keyboardist, and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, until 2004. Nicholls also played in the NWOBHM band Quartz before joining Black Sabbath. In the 1960s/early 1970s, Geoff played lead guitar for the Birmingham bands The Boll Weevils, The Seed, Johnny Neal and the Starliners, and played keyboards for World of Oz.
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Born 1935-07-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Geoffrey Bond Lewis was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He typically portrayed villains or quirky characters. He played a bodyguard in the Jean-Claude van Damme film Double Impact.
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Born 1964-01-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer. In early 2011, Hanneman contracted necrotizing fasciitis. While some reports linked this illness with a spider bite he claimed to have received while in a friend's hot tub, some experts have cast doubts on this theory given the relative rarity of these type of spider bites, the fact that he did not actually see the spider, and the number of other possible causes of the disease. In light of his illness and Slayer's upcoming participation in the Australian Soundwave Festival tour that was set to begin on February 26th, 2011, the band made the decision to play the dates without Hanneman, and on February 16th, 2011 brought on Gary Holt (guitarist of the band Exodus) to fill in for him. Pat O'Brien joined as Slayer's temporary second guitarist when Holt left the tour to play with Exodus. By 2012, bandmate Tom Araya had announced his recovery from the disease. However, later in February 2013, Kerry King revealed continuing health problems that kept him from working with Slayer. Hanneman died of liver failure in a local Los Angeles hospital near his home in Southern California's Inland Empire.
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Born 1985-05-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
He was a South African footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a defender. Ntuka was stabbed to death in a nightclub in Kroonstad.
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Born 1950-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Known as Jeff Conaway, he was an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the U.S. television series Taxi and Babylon 5. He directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer II. On May 11, 2011, Conaway was found unconscious from what was initially described as an overdose of substances, believed to be pain medication, and was taken to Encino Tarzana Medical Center in Encino, California, where he was listed as being in critical condition and in a coma. After the initial reports, Dr. Drew Pinsky, who had treated Conaway for substance abuse, said the actor was suffering not from a drug overdose but rather from "pneumonia with sepsis", for which he was placed into an induced coma. Though his pneumonia was not directly caused by drugs, his use of them hampered his ability to recognize how ill he was, and prevented him from seeking treatment for pneumonia until it was too late. On May 26, 2011, Conaway's family took him off life support after doctors decided there was nothing they could do to revive him. Conaway died the following morning at the age of 60. Pinsky attributed his death to his addiction, stating, "What happens is, like with most opiate addicts, eventually they take a little too much ... and they aspirate, so what's in their mouth gets into their lungs ... That's what happened with Jeff."
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Born 1927-07-04. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American software engineer, key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and was often called the father of software quality.
The Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India is named after him.
The Capability Maturity Model was published in 1989 in Humphrey's "Managing the Software Process"
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Born 1931-00-00. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
He was a Canadian mathematician and a biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Open University and a key founder of a branch of mathematical biology known as theoretical biology that focuses on the methods of mathematics and physics to understand processes in biology.
Brian Goodwin died in hospital, after surgery resulting from a fall from his bike.
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Born 1909-05-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a former English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
His daughter Charlotte Rampling is a film actress. He was, as of October 2007, the last surviving male athletics medallist from the 1932 Summer Olympics and the last male gold medallist in athletics from the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1918-04-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Les rois maudits.
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Born 1957-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
His most noted film role was as Frank Catton in the remake Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels. Mac also starred in several films, including Mr. 3000. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001-2006, earning two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His other films included Friday, Bad Santa, Pride, and Transformers.
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005.
On July 24, 2008, he was hospitalized with an infection, that was later identified as pneumonia. The news of his hospitalization would not be announced for over a week, when his publicist claimed that Mac had pneumonia. The next day, responding to rumors that the actor was in "very, very critical condition," his publicist said that he was responding well to treatment, and should be released soon. On August 9, his publicist announced that Mac had died from complications of pneumonia unrelated to sarcoidosis.
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Born 1956-03-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Although she argued that her company's services were legal she was convicted on April 15, 2008 of racketeering and money laundering.
Palfrey died in Tarpon Springs, Florida, from what authorities have called a suicide. She was staying with her mother at the time. Palfrey's body was found in a small storage shed attached to her mother's mobile home. She had apparently hanged herself from a beam inside the shed. Tarpon Springs police reported finding handwritten suicide notes near the body. According to Palfrey biographer Dan Moldea, “She wasn’t going to jail, she told me that very clearly. She told me she would commit suicide." This all despite appearing on the Alex Jones Radio show and clearly stating that no matter what she would not commit suicide no more than 4 weeks earlier.
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Born 1966-03-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Healey died of cancer at St. Joseph's Health Centre in his home town of Toronto; he was 41. His death came a month before the release of his new album, Mess of Blues, which will be his first rock album in 8 years.
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Born 1930-04-00. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
„J’ai vécu chaque jour de ma vie comme si j’allais mourir dans 5 minutes“
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Born 1929-11-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
Josette Rey-Debove was a French lexicographer and semiologist. She was the first female lexicographer in France, and held many prominent posts in this field, where she used her influence to promote feminist changes to French language usage. Her husband, Alain Rey, was also her colleague.
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Born 1921-04-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
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Born 1914-08-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He made guest appearances in many TV shows. His best known appearances in the science fiction community were in The Outer Limits episode "O.B.I.T." and the Star Trek season 3 episode "The Cloud Minders" as High Advisor Plasus and on Babylon 5 as Justin in the season 3 finale "Z'ha'dum".
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Born 1951-05-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, he was an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones. Joey Ramone's image, voice, and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon. Joey Ramone died of lymphoma at New York-Presbyterian Hospital after a seven-year battle, a month before he would have turned 50.
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Born 1966-11-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Buckley drowned during an evening swim in 1997.
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Born 1896-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Do you think of death ? Of course yes, but I don't want to get sick with this.
Interred in Arradon.
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Born 1960-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Dahmer along with another inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin was beaten to death with a bar from a weight machine while cleaning the prison gym. The cause of death was ruled as severe head trauma.
This was not the first attempt on Dahmer's life. Previously during his prison sentence, a different inmate tried to murder him by slitting his throat after a church service, but was unable to kill him.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was one of America's most notorious serial killers who is well known for picking up gay men at bars and taking them back to his apartment where he tortured, performed experiments on, murdered and ate his victims.
He took the lives of seventeen known victims in Wisconsin and Ohio from 1978 to 1991.
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Born 1917-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1929-05-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
The future actress's father later appended the surname of his maternal grandmother Kathleen Hepburn to the family's, and her surname became Hepburn-Ruston.
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Born 1938-03-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:AIDS
He socialized with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, but he developed an intolerance for non-celebrities.
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Born 1954-04-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Jeff Porcaro suffered a fatal and completely unexpected heart attack on August 5, 1992 at the age of 38. He was using a pesticide in his yard and an allergic reaction to the substance triggered the attack. An autopsy revealed a serious heart condition that had been previously undiagnosed. A report issued by the office of the Los Angeles County Coroner a month later also mentioned that a minute trace of cocaine was found in his body, and this is disputed to this day (many close to him felt he had not used the drug in years, if at all). However, many on both sides of the argument state it was not a big factor in the death of Porcaro.