Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 August 1516

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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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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 9th of August 1516 508 years ago
Painter Hieronymus Bosch dies of pleurisy at the age of 66 in Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. This was the day of his burial mass. Exact date of death is unknown.