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September 5, 1992: Cancer: Poet, founder of the Bulgarian new wave band New Generation: 27 years, 107 days [62] Mia Zapata: August 25, 1965: July 7, 1993: Murder: Lead singer of the Gits: 27 years, 316 days [40] Kurt Cobain: February 20, 1967: April 5, 1994 c. Suicide: Founding member, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Nirvana: 27 years ...
Franciscus van den Enden, in later life also known as 'Affinius' (Latinized form of 'Van den Enden') [ 1][ 2][ 3] ( c. 5 February 1602 – 27 November 1674) was a Flemish former Jesuit, [ 4] Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher, and plotter against Louis XIV of France. Born in Antwerp, where he had a truncated career as a Jesuit ...
Belgium. In medieval historiography, West Francia ( Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks ( Latin: regnum Francorum occidentalium) constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the year 843, from the Treaty of Verdun, to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. [12] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands'), is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of ...
Trương Mỹ Lan ( Chinese: 張美蘭, born 13 October 1956) is a Vietnamese businesswoman and convicted criminal. She is the founder of Vạn Thịnh Phát Group, a real estate development group. In October 2022, she was arrested for using fake loan applications to embezzle more than US$12.5 billion from Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank ...
Paris (French pronunciation:) is the capital and largest city of France.With an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents in January 2023 [2] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [5] Paris is the fourth-largest city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [6]
Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was named Louis Dieudonné (Louis the God-given) [ 6 ] and bore the traditional title of French heirs apparent : Dauphin . [ 7 ]
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, on 18 October 1960, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, the son of Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, who was an accountant and florist. [2] [3] [4] His father is from Brussels and bilingual, and his mother is Flemish (Dutch-speaking). [5] Van Damme was brought up Roman ...