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Male notables
10 Notable deaths
Peter Lorre
Hungarian and american actor (1904–1964).
Born June 26th, 1904 in Ružomberok.
Died March 23rd, 1964 at 59 years old in Los Angeles (stroke).
Powers Boothe
American actor (1948–2017).
Born June 1st, 1948 in Snyder.
Died May 14th, 2017 at 68 years old in Los Angeles (cancer). [ref]
Richard Griffiths
British actor.
Born July 31st, 1947 in Thornaby-on-Tees.
Died March 28th, 2013 at 65 years old in University Hospital Coventry (surgical complications). [ref]
Hafez al-Assad
President of syria from 1971 to 2000.
Born October 6th, 1930 in Qardaha.
Died June 10th, 2000 at 69 years old in Damascus (myocardial infarction).
George Burns
American comedian, actor, writer and singer (1896–1996).
Born January 20th, 1896 in New York City.
Died March 9th, 1996 at 100 years old in Beverly Hills (heart failure).
Len Bias
American basketball player (1963–1986).
Born November 18th, 1963 in Landover.
Died June 19th, 1986 at 22 years old in Riverdale Park (heart arrhythmia, drug overdose).
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Indian film actor and producer (1923–2014).
Born September 20th, 1924 in Ramapuram.
Died January 22nd, 2014 at 89 years old in Hyderabad (cancer).
Edward Smith
Captain of the rms titanic (1850–1912).
Born January 27th, 1850 in Hanley.
Died April 15th, 1912 at 62 years old in North Atlantic Ocean (drowning).
Moshe Dayan
Israeli military leader and politician (1915–1981).
Born May 20th, 1915 in Degania Alef. [ref]
Died October 16th, 1981 at 66 years old in Tel Aviv (myocardial infarction, colorectal cancer).
Mike Nichols
American director and comedian (1931–2014).
Born November 6th, 1931 in Berlin.
Died November 19th, 2014 at 83 years old in New York City (myocardial infarction).
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks