According to studies by the musicologist and literary scholar Eric Sams, Schumann's symptoms during his terminal illness and death appear consistent with those of mercury poisoning, mercury at this time being a common treatment for syphilis and other conditions. (29 July 1856)
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Tuesday 27th of December 1983 (-) — Victim of Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper Sergey Markov is stabbed and sexually mutilated by Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper. Markov's body was found on 1 January 1984 in the area of the Persianovka Railway Station on the Moscow-Rostov-on-Don line.