Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 22 May 1885

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

The thirteen JAC members were 57-year-old Yiddish poet Peretz Markish, 63-year-old Yiddish poet David Hofstein, 52-year-old Yiddish poet Itzik Feffer, 62-year-old Yiddish poet Leib Kvitko, 68-year-old writer David Bergelson, 74-year-old director of the Soviet Information Bureau Solomon Lozovsky, 60-year-old Medical Director of the Botkin Clinical Hospital Boris Shimeliovich, 53-year-old director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater Benjamin Zuskin, 62-year-old researcher Joseph Yuzefovich, 59-year-old journalist Leon Talmy, 65-year-old editor of Eynikeyt newspaper Ilya Vatenberg, 51-year-old wife of Ilya, Chaika Vatenburg-Ostrovskaya and 47-year old deputy editor of the Diplomatic Dictionary Emilia Teumin.
(12 August 1952)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 22nd of May 1885 140 years ago
Romantic poet and writer Victor Marie Hugo dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in La Princesse de Lusignan, Avenue d'Eylau, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.