Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

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

Artaud was found at the foot of his bed clutching his shoe. It is unknown whether Artaud was aware of the lethality of the drug chloral hydrate.
(4 March 1948)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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

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Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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Tuesday 19th of October 1745 (-) — Satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, cleric and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Jonathan Swift dies of unknown causes
In 1742 Swift suffered great pain from the inflammation of his left eye which swelled to the size of an egg; five attendants had to restrain him from tearing out his eye.
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