Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 3 January 1980

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

I was laying with my back naked in the middle of the room. Ria Pacquée spray-painted a diagonal through the space and over my back. Then she removed the paint from my back with sandpaper. On the floor I wrote: “I don’t belong here”.
(25 June 1980)

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There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 3rd of January 1980 46 years, 11 months and 22 days ago
Naturalist, artist and writer Joy Friederike Victoria Adamson born as Friederike Viktoria Gessner is murdered by discharged labourer Paul Nakware Ekai at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Eastern Province, Kenya.