Some reports say that Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite Baron de Redé wrote in his memoirs that contemporary rumor was that Dior's heart attack had been caused by a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men. (24 October 1957)
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Wednesday 16th of March 1977 (-) — Kamal Jumblatt is gunned down in his car by unidentified gunmen. Prime suspects include the pro-Syrian faction of the Lebanese Syrian Social Nationalist Party in collaboration with the Ba'ath Party.