Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 29 December 1926

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

Two hours before Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled apartment crouching in a closet and crying. Okada's death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism 'Yukiko Syndrome'.
(8 April 1986)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3347 births, 3885 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 29th of December 1926 98 years ago
Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke born as René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Clinique de Valmont, Route de Valmont, Glion sur Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland. Rilke suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines and he struggled with increasingly low spirits.