Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Paris XIIIe, Île-de-France, France || Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild

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Some reports say that Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite Baron de Redé wrote in his memoirs that contemporary rumor was that Dior's heart attack had been caused by a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men.
(24 October 1957)

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Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild

11 Rue Berryer, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Friday 6th of May 1932 (x) — 13th President of the Third Republic and 14th President of France Paul Doumer is shot in the head by Paul Gorguloff aka .
Two shots hit Doumer at the base of the skull and in the right armpit. Doumer was rushed to Beaujon Hospital where he died the next morning.