Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 March 1980

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

Bern shot himself in Jean Harlow's bedroom, drenched in her perfume. Leaving a note "Dearest Dear, Unfortuately this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation, I Love you. Paul - You understand that last night was only a comedy."
(5 September 1932)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 26th of March 1980 46 years, 2 months and 15 days ago
Literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and semiotician Roland Gérard Barthes died from chest injuries he sustained in a collision with a laundry van in the Rue des Écoles on 25 February 1980 at the age of 65 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.