31st year - N° 253 Friday, 9 September 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 253 Friday, 9 September 2016

9 September / Today's 10 Events:

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(+) 188 years ago Tuesday 9th of September 1828 Writer Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is born in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russia.

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(+) 177 years ago Monday 9th of September 1839 Serial poisoner Maria Catherina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 118 years ago Friday 9th of September 1898 Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, originally Étienne Mallarmé dies of a spasm of the larynx at the age of 56 in Vulaines-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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(-) 115 years ago Monday 9th of September 1901 Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, originally Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa dies from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis at the age of 37 in Château Malromé, Saint-André-du-Bois, Aquitaine, France.

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(+) 105 years ago Saturday 9th of September 1911 SS Sturmbannführer and commander of Auschwitz KZ Richard Baer is born in Floß, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 95 years ago Friday 9th of September 1921 Model and actress Virginia Rappe, originally Virginia Caroline Rapp known for her death after attending a party with actor Fatty Arbuckle dies of peritonitis due to a ruptured bladder after being violently raped, 4 days earlier, by filmmaker 'Fatty' Roscoe Conklin Arbuckle at the age of 30 in St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Sunday 9th of September 1928 Conceptual artist Sol Solomon LeWitt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 40 years ago Thursday 9th of September 1976 Communist revolutionary and father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong aka Mao Tse-Tung aka Chairman Mao dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Beijing, Hebei, China. Mao was rendered an invalid by a third heart attack on 5 September.

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(-) 36 years ago Tuesday 9th of September 1980 Journalist and writer John Howard Griffin known for Black Like Me dies of diabetes at the age of 60 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago Wednesday 9th of September 1981 Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Émile Lacan dies of renal failure at the age of 80 in 74 Rue d'Assas, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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