Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tokyo, Setagaya, Kantō, Japan

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

After Louis IX his death his body was subject to the process known as mos Teutonicus (a postmortem funerary custom used in medieval Europe whereby the flesh was boiled from the body, so that the bones of the deceased could be transported hygienically from distant lands back home) for its transportation back to France.
(25 August 1270)

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

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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Setagaya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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Tuesday 15th of April 1947 (+) — Cop killer Misao Katagiri is born.
Tuesday 23rd of March 1976 (-) — Pornographic actor and suicide pilot Mitsuyasu Maeno crashes a rented Piper Cherokee JA3551 airplane kamikaze-style into the mansion of multi-millionaire right-wing leader and leading figure in the Lockheed bribery scandals Yoshio Kodama.
Maeno's last words on the radio were “Long live the emperor! Banzai!” Kodama was in another part of the building convalescing from a stroke and escaped harm.
Sunday 6th of September 1998 (-) — Film director Akira Kurosawa dies of a stroke.
Kurosawa's longtime wish to die on the set while shooting a movie was never to be fulfilled.