Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 May 1827

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

Phoenix's parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel 'Siddhartha' and he received his middle name from the Beatles' song 'Hey Jude'.
(23 August 1970)

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There are 3337 births, 3863 deaths, 1102 murders, 491 disasters and 2014 other events about 5670 people in 6323 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 27th of May 1827 196 years ago
18-year-old writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Poe claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18 and first served at Fort Independence for five dollars a month.