Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| London, Knightsbridge, Greater London, United Kingdom || Cadogan Hotel Room #118

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

Belknap and his 20-year-old friend James Vance engaged in a suicide pact after listening intensively to the Judas Priest song "Better by You, Better than Me" that supposedly contained a subliminal message "do it". Vance followed but survived the self-inflicted gunshot wound with a severely disfigured face. He died three years later after a suicidal overdose of painkillers.
(23 December 1985)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Cadogan Hotel

Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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