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

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

Hausner was severely wounded in the explosion of the German Embassy in Stockholm on 24 April with burns to over 40% of his body and a fractured skull. Despite the recommendations of Swedish doctors Hausner was immediately flown back to West Germany and hospitalized in Stammheim Prison which had neither the equipment or specialist staff to treat severe burns.
(5 May 1975)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 26th of March 1980 44 years 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.