Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 December 1927

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Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.
(25 October 1920)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 14th of December 1927 99 years, 6 months and 0 days ago
Radical artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven born as Else Hildegard Plötz aka The Dadaist Baroness dies of gas suffocation at the age of 53 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. von Freytag-Loringhoven may have forgotten to turn the gas off, someone else may have turned it on, or it may have been an intentional act.