Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 September 1973

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

Keaton acquired the nickname 'Buster' at about eighteen months of age when Harry Houdini saw the young Keaton take a tumble down a long flight of stairs without injury. After the infant sat up and shook off his experience Houdini remarked "That was a real buster!"
(4 October 1895)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3367 births, 3931 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5725 people in 6432 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 2nd of September 1973 52 years ago
Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien dies of a bleeding ulcer and chest infection at the age of 81 in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom.