Tracy Chapman, Paul Verlaine, Gaëtan Dugas
Born: Tracy Chapman (1964), Paul Verlaine (1844)
Died: Gaëtan Dugas (1984)
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30MarBorn 196462nd birthday
Tracy Chapman
With “Fast Car” she became a star in 1988 – an extremely private artist whose relationship with a woman became known only through others.
30MarBorn 1844182nd birthdayPaul Verlaine
The great poet of French Symbolism and Arthur Rimbaud lived a passionate, destructive love affair – which ended with a gunshot.