Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 5 March 1827

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

Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as "vigorous and healthy looking".
(18 April 1957)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 5th of March 1827 199 years, 10 months and 8 days ago
Physicist, chemist and pioneer of electricity and power Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Camnago, Como, Lombardia, Italy.