Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 May 1543

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Rudolf first shot his 17-year-old lover baroness Mary Vetsera and then took his own life. There is no question that the depression-prone Rudolf and Mary had a suicide-pact because his father wanted them to end their affair.
(30 January 1889)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 24th of May 1543 482 years ago
Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Frombork, Województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland.