Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 October 1745

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Debus had been hungerstriking since 11 February 1981. Force-feeding started on 19 March 1981 and he fell into a coma on 10 April 1981.
(16 April 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 19th of October 1745 279 years ago He Died Unsound of Mind and Memory
Satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, cleric and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Jonathan Swift dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. In 1742 Swift suffered great pain from the inflammation of his left eye which swelled to the size of an egg; five attendants had to restrain him from tearing out his eye.