Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 August 1937

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

Williams hired college student Charles Carr to drive him to a concert on New Year's Day at the Windsor Theater in Canton, Ohio when Williams was discovered unresponsive in the back seat. The only items found in the backseat of Williams' 1952 Cadillac were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song 'Then Came that Fateful Day'. The cause of death was heart failure caused by the combination of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate.
(1 January 1953)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 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 (x) Friday 20th of August 1937 89 years, 6 months and 5 days ago
37-year-old Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Himmler inaugurates the Konzentrationslager in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany. The camp was to be named K. L. Ettersberg but this was changed to Buchenwald since Ettersberg carried too many associations with Goethe. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald_concentration_camp