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

"I will be shot with a rifle at 7:45 p.m." Burden wrote to the editors of the avant-garde publication Avalanche of his landmark performance piece. “I hope to have some good photos.”
(19 November 1971)

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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Hotel Camino Real

Mariano Escobedo 700, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Thursday 2nd of December 1982 (-) — Comedian and actor Marty Feldman dies of a heart attack
On the day before Feldman and Michael Mileham had swam to a small island in a lake in Mexico City where a local was selling lobster and coconuts. Mileham claimed he got shellfish poisoning which also caused Feldman's death. Mel Brooks added that "smoking sometimes 5 packs of cigarettes daily, drinking copious amounts of black coffee, and a diet rich in eggs and dairy products" may have contributed to Feldman's death.