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Location. 171 Lake Washington Blvd E, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Deaths. 1. On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band Nirvana, was found dead at his home on Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle, Washington. Forensics investigators and a coroner later determined that Cobain had died on April 5, three ...
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Portrait (1789, two years before his death) of Mozart in silverpoint by Doris Stock. On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. The principal sources of contention ...
Location. Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Cause. Presumed suicide. Motive. Mental illness. The death of Vincent van Gogh occurred in the early morning of 29 July, 1890 in his room at the Auberge Ravoux in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise after presumably shooting himself two days earlier.
Catherine Descartes (1637–1706) was a French poet and philosopher, and the niece of French philosopher René Descartes. [1] A prominent figure in the French salon movement, her best known works included "Shade of Descartes" ( "L'Ombre de Descartes") and Report on the Death of M. Descartes, the Philosopher. [1] [2] She was also interviewed by ...
News of death. The BBC relayed the news of the death at 9:00 a.m. and continued playing Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven, the opening theme with three short notes and a long note that indicated the letter "V" in Morse code to symbolise Churchill's iconic wartime gesture, two fingers held aloft to show "V" for victory.
Philanthropist Malcolm Powell is shot dead at a charity fundraiser event. All suspects were in view of Camille at the time and she later attempts to chase after a car attempting to escape, but the driver sliced the wheels. Malcolm's secretary, Vicky, claims that a man called Jack Roberts murdered Malcolm, but Jack Roberts is nowhere to be found.
Death of Benito Mussolini. Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist ...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death is a 2013 book edited by Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman and Jens Johansson in which the authors explore philosophical aspects of death. Reception [ edit ] The book was reviewed by James Stacey Taylor, Subhasis Chattopadhyay, and Mark Alfino.