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215 Years Ago Today
Romantic poet and writer Novalis dies of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Weißenfels, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. -
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149 Years Ago Today
Conductor Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. -
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141 Years Ago Today
Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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135 Years Ago Today
Composer Béla Viktor János Bartók is born in Nagyszentmiklós, Timiș, Austria-Hungary. -
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125 Years Ago Today
Writer Filip De Pillecyn aka De Prins der Nederlandse Letteren known for his novel ‘Monsieur Hawarden’ is born in Plezantstraat, Hamme aan de Durme, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. -
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106 Years Ago Today
Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging from a water tank at the age of 27 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. -
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105 Years Ago Today
Nightclub operator Jack Ruby is born as Jacob Leon Rubenstein in Chicago, Illinois, United States. -
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98 Years Ago Today
Presumed illegitimate son of Adolf Hitler Jean-Marie Loret is born as Jean-Marie Lobjoie in Seboncourt, Aisne, France. -
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98 Years Ago Today
Composer Claude Achille Debussy dies of rectal cancer at the age of 56 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
In December 1915 Debussy underwent one of the earliest colostomy operations ever performed. -
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97 Years Ago Today
Sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide due to distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. -
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95 Years Ago Today
Actress Simone Signoret is born as Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. -
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81 Years Ago Today
65-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States. -
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74 Years Ago Today
Singer and musician Aretha Louise Franklin aka The Queen of Soul is born in 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. -
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74 Years Ago Today
55-year-old Marthe Khait is presumably murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France. -
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70 Years Ago Today
Serial killer Gerard John Schaefer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Schaefer's actual birth place is unknown. -
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69 Years Ago Today
111 die in No. 5 coal mine dust explosion in Centralia, Illinois, United States. -
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69 Years Ago Today
Singer-songwriter and composer Elton Hercules John is born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex, United Kingdom. -
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59 Years Ago Today He Didn't Howl
The poem 'Howl' by 31-year-old Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg being imported from the printer in London is seized by customs as obscene in San Francisco, California, United States.
On 3 October 1957 Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene. -
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41 Years Ago Today
King of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is shot point-blank and killed by his half-brother's 28-year-old son Faisal bin Musaid at the age of 69 in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia. -
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40 Years Ago Today
Artist Josef Albers dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. -
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32 Years Ago Today
35-year-old Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage in Leuven Centraal, Geldenaaksevest 64, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.
Carlier surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police snipers. -
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29 Years Ago Today
44-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer is arrested in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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27 Years Ago Today
24-year-old Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in 2357 South 57th Street, West Allis, Wisconsin, United States.
Dahmer cleaned the Sears' skull and kept the scalp because he liked his ponytail and wanted to keep it. Sears' skull and scalp were found three years later in Dahmer’s apartment. -
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23 Years Ago Today
Cop killer Ramon Montoya Facundo is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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19 Years Ago Today
Murderer Pedro Luis Medina is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States.
With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room. -
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17 Years Ago Today
Double murderer Charles Henry Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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10 Years Ago Today
Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke commits suicide by jumping in front of a train at the age of 56 in London, Barnes, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Clarke checked himself out of the Priory Hospital just minutes before. -
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10 Years Ago Today
Film director Richard O. Fleischer dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Woodland Hills, California, United States. -
10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
A bright lit corridor in a U-Bahn station in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. -
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9 Years Ago Today
58-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years in Zuchthaus, Aichach, Bayern, Germany.
Mohnhaupt was the longest ever imprisoned member of the Rote Armee Fraktion. -
6 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Spring time on our back terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Monday morning feels so bad
Everybody seems to nag you
Comin' Tuesday you feel better
Even your old man looks good
Wednesday just don't go
Thursday goes too slow
You've got Friday on your mind
Description
Friday on Your Mind is a one-year project by Danny Devos aka DDV for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerpen. Every Friday DDV will visit various Master Programme Studios to discuss the work of participating students. Students are invited to participate to Friday on Your Mind by creating works in any discipline that are inspired by historic events listed for that day in DDV’s Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar, an ongoing project since 1985. Leaflets will be handed out every Friday and the listings will also be online here. The works will be featured in an exhibition that will show a timeline of events and inspired works created for this project.
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