Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 October 1915

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Claude was at his apartment with an American girlfriend named Kathleen and a French secretary. In the afternoon he took a shower in preparation for a trip to the recording studio. After finishing his shower he noticed that the light bulb in the socket hanging over the shower was burned out. With his feet in the water he reached up to change it and was instantly electrocuted. Efforts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at 3:30pm.
(11 March 1978)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 12th of October 1915 111 years, 3 months and 0 days ago
Nurse Edith Louisa Cavell is executed by the firing squad at the age of 50 in Tir National, Schaerbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. Sixteen men forming two firing squads carried out the sentence pronounced on Cavell and on four Belgian men including Cavell's friend Philippe Baucq.