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Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation, she refused to have the surgery saying "If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead."
(23 January 1931)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.

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Dead Horse Camp, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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Friday 20th of April 1917 (-) — Geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist and explorer of South America Percy Fawcett leaves on his final expedition from Cuiabá with his eldest son Jack, Raleigh Rimell and two Brazilian labourers, two horses, eight mules, and a pair of dogs.
Fawcett and his companions were probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians.