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

Shakespeare had a merry birthday meeting with Drayton and Ben Jonson and drank too hard. Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.
(23 April 1616)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Monday 7th of June 1926 (x) — While taking his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession, Architect Antoni Gaudí is struck by a passing tram and remains unconscious
Assumed to be a beggar because of his lack of identity documents and shabby clothing, the unconscious Gaudí did not receive immediate aid. Eventually a police officer transported him in a taxi to the Santa Creu Hospital where he received rudimentary care. He died on 10 June 1926.