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

In a darkened room a slide was projected onto a sheet of transparent plastic. From behind I sprayed white paint on it so the projection became visible: a view of the backroom in which I hung upside down. Unseen by the audience I hung myself in the same way. While violently swinging my body back and forth I could reach the plastic and pull it away while all the lights were switched on.
(8 June 1979)

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

There are 3393 births, 3958 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5747 people in 6459 places until today.

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

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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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Wednesday 29th of August 1923 (+) — Actor Richard Attenborough is born.
Sunday 6th of January 1946 (+) — Musician Syd Barrett is born.
Sunday 29th of April 1951 (-) — Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies of prostate cancer.
Wednesday 20th of November 2002 (x) — The body of Serial killer Myra Hindley is cremated.
Albinoni's Adagio was played during the service. Four months later Hindley's ashes were scattered by her former lover and Carmelite nun Patricia 'Pat' Cairns in Stalybridge Country Park.
Friday 7th of July 2006 (-) — Musician Syd Barrett dies of pancreatic cancer.
Wednesday 14th of March 2018 (-) — Theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking dies of unknown causes.