Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 January 1931

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 (-) Friday 23rd of January 1931 95 years, 3 months and 26 days ago
Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova born as Anna Pavlovna Matveyevna Pavlova dies of pleurisy at the age of 49 in Hotel Des Indes, Lange Voorhout 54-56, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation, she refused to have the surgery saying "If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead."