Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 May 2008

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Parker was placed in quarantaine in the Catherine-de-Barnes Isolation Hospital near Solihull on 20 August and died there on 11 September. Many people had close contact with Parker before she was admitted to hospital, 260 people were being immediately quarantined. Parker became the last person to die of smallpox.
(11 August 1978)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 12th of May 2008 17 years ago He Personally Decided to Die
Artist Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg dies of heart failure at the age of 83 in Captiva Island, Florida, United States. Rauschenberg's heart failure followed a personal decision to go off life support.