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Plague


1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80

1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79

1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco

1899 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii

1863 Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist, bacteria plague

1840 Hans Makart, Austrian painter, Plague in Florenz

1720 "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000

1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague

1576 Titian, Tiziano Vecelli, Italian painter, dies of plague

1424 Jan Zizka, Czechoslovakian (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46

1349 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz

1348 Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague

1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"

1270 Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56

590 Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague


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