Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 February 1881

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Horn was one of the few people to have been hanged by a water-powered gallows known as the 'Julian Gallows', designed by Cheyenne architect James P. Julian. On the scaffold Horn shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve are you, Joe?”.
(20 November 1903)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3347 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

Like BFD on Facebook
Follow BFD on Tumblr
Like DDV on Facebook
Follow DDV on Twitter

Get a daily BFD list in your mailbox.

BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 9th of February 1881 143 years ago
Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky dies of a pulmonary haemorrhage at the age of 60 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.