Matthews' last meal request was for three pieces of fried chicken, one pork chop, two pieces of fried fish, strawberry ice cream, a six-pack of Coke and a pack of Newport cigarettes. The request for the cigarettes was denied because of a 'no tobacco policy'. (6 January 2004)
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Monday 25th of February 1980 (x) — Literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and semiotician Roland Barthes is hit by a laundry van. Barthes died on 26 March from the chest injuries he sustained in that collision.