Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 September 1918

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

A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.
(6 July 1840)

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

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 September 1918 108 years, 5 months and 5 days ago
31-year-old stigmatised monk Pio of Pietrelcina, originally Francesco Forgione has his first occurence of stigmata while kneeling before a cross in Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Rotondo, Puglia, Italy. This phenomenon continued for fifty years, until Pio's death in 1968.