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

During his torture Lorenzo cried out "This side’s done, turn me over and have a bite". This is the legend often quoted explaining why San Lorenzo is the Patron Saint of comedians, butchers and roasters.
(10 August 258)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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Wednesday 29th of August 1923 (+) — Actor Richard Attenborough is born.
Sunday 6th of January 1946 (+) — Musician Syd Barrett is born.
Sunday 29th of April 1951 (-) — Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies of prostate cancer.
Wednesday 20th of November 2002 (x) — The body of Serial killer Myra Hindley is cremated.
Albinoni's Adagio was played during the service. Four months later Hindley's ashes were scattered by her former lover and Carmelite nun Patricia 'Pat' Cairns in Stalybridge Country Park.
Friday 7th of July 2006 (-) — Musician Syd Barrett dies of pancreatic cancer.
Wednesday 14th of March 2018 (-) — Theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking dies of unknown causes.