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

Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The circumstances of the incident are still not clear. There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down.
(18 September 1961)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

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Gulf of La Spezia, Sardinia, Italy.

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Monday 8th of July 1822 (-) — Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is lost at sea on his boat 'Don Juan' and drowns between Livorno and Lerici.
Some believed Shelley's death was not accidental, that he was depressed and wanted to die. Others suggested he simply did not know how to navigate. Shelley's body was washed ashore and later was cremated on the beach near Viareggio.