Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 May 1999

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

Merrick began to develop swellings on his lips at the age of 21 months followed by a bony lump on his forehead and a loosening and roughening of the skin. The Merrick family explained his symptoms as the result of his mother Mary Jane Potterton being knocked over and frightened by a fairground elephant while she was pregnant with Joseph.
(5 August 1860)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 2nd of May 1999 27 years, 1 months and 15 days ago
Actor Oliver Robert Reed dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Valletta, Reġjun Xlokk, Malta. Reed supposedly drank three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer and numerous whiskies in a bar on the night he died.