Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Mingus, Charles

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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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		Musician, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus 22 April 1922 (+) is born in Nogales, United States. 5 January 1979 (-) dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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