Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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

A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.
(6 July 1840)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Related events:

Wednesday 19th of December 1370 (-) — 200th Pope Urbanus V dies of unknown causes.
Thursday 10th of December 1908 (+) — Composer, organist and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen is born.
Tuesday 20th of February 1912 (+) — Writer Pierre Boulle is born.
Tuesday 6th of April 1954 (+) — Child killer Christian Ranucci is born.