BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 14th of August 1956 69 years ago He Was the Man in Steel |
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![]() Poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. In his will Brecht provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms. |
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