Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 May 1815

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

Van Gogh supposedly gave it to Gabrielle Berlatier, a farmer’s daughter who worked as a maid at a brothel frequented by Van Gogh. He was found unconscious the next morning by a policeman and taken to hospital where Félix Rey, a young doctor still in training, treated him. The ear was delivered to the hospital but Rey did not attempt to reattach it as too much time had passed.
(24 December 1888)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.

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Tuesday 2nd of May 1815
211 years, 1 months and 12 days ago

Gesche Margarethe Timm is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

Timm was Gottfried's mother.