Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany || Villa Hügel

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

Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
(18 April 1955)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3366 births, 3927 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6428 places until today.

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

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Villa Hügel

Bredeney, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Related events:

Saturday 22nd of November 1902 (-) — Arms manufacturer Friedrich Alfred Krupp dies of a stroke
The official cause of death was a stroke but more probably Krupp committed suicide after the Italian Propaganda and German Vorwärts and Augsburger Postzeitung newspapers published articles revealing his homosexual escapades with young Italian boys in his 'Congrega di Fra Felice' holiday house in Capri, Italy.
Tuesday 13th of August 1907 (+) — Industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach is born