Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 January 1939

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On the night of 18 November 18 Knight's screams woke her husband and sister in their home. They discovered Knight writhing in pain in her bed with her skin peeling off her back under her bedclothes. A doctor that was called identified the wounds as some form of burn and gave Knight morphine. She died from toxaemia.
(6 December 1943)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 28th of January 1939 87 years, 3 months and 4 days ago
Poet William Butler Yeats aka W. B. Yeats dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in Hôtel Idéal Séjour, 188 Avenue Virginie Hériot, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.