Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 August 1889

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Lefley had been convicted of murdering her 59-year-old husband William by putting arsenic in his rice pudding at their home in Wrangle. She had to be dragged to the gallows screaming "murder, murder!" and struggling with the warders.
(26 May 1884)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 19th of August 1889 137 years, 9 months and 27 days ago
Symbolist writer Auguste Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam aka Le Comte dies of stomach cancer at the age of 51 in Clinique des Frères Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, 19 Rue Oudinot, VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.