Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 January 1939

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

Lawson, strapped into a wooden chair and wearing only white boxer shorts, a diaper and socks, began yelling after his executioners placed a leather mask over his face. His words were not clear through the double-paned windows of the death chamber but he seemed to scream "I'm human! I'm human!" as the airtight door to the room was clamped shut.
(15 June 1994)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 28th of January 1939 87 years, 3 months and 12 days ago
Poet William Butler Yeats aka W. B. Yeats dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in Hôtel Idéal Séjour, 188 Avenue Virginie Hériot, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.