Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 April 1918

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Fifteen members died on 24 March, fifteen more on 25 March, and nine on 26 March. 65-year-old leader Marshall Herff Applewhite was the third to last member to die.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 21st of April 1918 108 years, 10 months and 25 days ago
Fighter pilot and flying ace Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen aka The Red Baron is fatally shot in his Fokker Dr.I 425/17 by Canadian Captain Arthur 'Roy' Brown at the age of 26 in Route de Bray, Vaux-sur-Somme, Hauts de France, France. von Richthofen died from an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single .303 bullet penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple. von Richthofen's last word was "kaputt".