Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland

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

Some reports say that Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite Baron de Redé wrote in his memoirs that contemporary rumor was that Dior's heart attack had been caused by a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men.
(24 October 1957)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland.

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Saturday 2nd of October 1847 (+) — Generalfeldmarschall and politician Paul von Hindenburg is born.
Monday 25th of November 1901 (+) — Lagerkommandant in KZ Auschwitz and Majdanek Arthur Liebehenschel is born.
Tuesday 8th of December 1914 (+) — Camp doctor in Auschwitz and Mauthausen Friedrich Entress is born.
Monday 1st of November 1965 (-) — Victim of Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice Janina Popielska is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice.
On 2 November the Poznan newspaper Courier Zachodni received a red-ink letter quoting Stefan Zeromsky's 1928 novel 'Popioli': "Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame, only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust."