There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death: alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis and Whipple's disease have all been proposed. Most probably Beethoven was accidentally poisoned to death by excessive doses of lead-based treatments administered under instruction from his doctor. (26 March 1827)
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Friday 18th of August 1634 (-) — Priest and philanderer Urbain Grandier is executed by burning at the stake Grandier supposedly bewitched an entire Ursuline nun convent into debauchery.