Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 25 January 1874

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Three days before, Gardner ate a last meal of steak, lobster tail, apple pie, vanilla ice cream and 7-Up before beginning a 48-hour fast while watching The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and reading Divine Justice.
(18 June 2010)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Sunday 25th of January 1874 150 years ago
Writer and playwright William Somerset Maugham is born in Embassy of the United Kingdom, 35 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Since French law declared that all children born on French soil could be conscripted for military service his father arranged for Maugham to be born at the embassy, technically on British soil.