30th year - N° 247 Friday, 4 September 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 247 Friday, 4 September 2015

4 September / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 247 years ago Sunday 4th of September 1768 Writer, politician, diplomat and historian François-René de Chateaubriand aka The Father of Romanticism is born in Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France.

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(+) 191 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1824 Composer Anton Bruckner is born in Augustinerstraße 3, Ansfelden, Oberösterreich, Austria.

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(+) 127 years ago Tuesday 4th of September 1888 Painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer known for Das Triadisches Ballett is born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 124 years ago Friday 4th of September 1891 SA-Obergruppenführer and Reichsminister für Bewaffnung und Munition Fritz Todt known for Bautruppe Organisation Todt is born in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 121 years ago Tuesday 4th of September 1894 Benjamin Freelon Pitezel is murdered by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in 1316 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Pitezel had agreed to fake his own death so that his wife could collect on the $10.000 policy, which she was to split with Holmes.

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(+) 119 years ago Il n'Était pas Cruel Friday 4th of September 1896 Playwright, poet, actor and theatre director Antonin Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud known for le Théâtre de la Cruauté is born in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 111 years ago Sunday 4th of September 1904 SS-Standortarzt at Auschwitz KZ Eduard Wirths is born in Geroldshausen, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 108 years ago It Needed to Be So Wednesday 4th of September 1907 Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg dies of unknown causes at the age of 64 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Grieg's final words were "Well, if it must be so."

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(+) 100 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1915 Tenor Rudolf Schock aka Der Czárdás-König is born in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 50 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1965 Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer dies of at the age of 90 in Lambaréné, Gabon.

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(-) 26 years ago Monday 4th of September 1989 Writer Georges Joseph Christian Simenon known for creating the fictional detective Jules Maigret dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

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