Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 August 1889

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

Amundsen's team included Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen. It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea and that Amundsen and his crew were killed in the crash, or died shortly afterward.
(18 June 1928)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 19th of August 1889 137 years, 10 months and 0 days ago
Symbolist writer Auguste Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam aka Le Comte dies of stomach cancer at the age of 51 in Clinique des Frères Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, 19 Rue Oudinot, VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.