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Bessie Smith 1900 - 1987

Bessie Smith of Elizabethtown, Hardin County, KY was born on February 27, 1900, and died at age 87 years old on November 13, 1987.
Bessie Smith
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, KY 42701
February 27, 1900
November 13, 1987
Female
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    1900

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    February 27, 1900
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  • 11/13
    1987

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    November 13, 1987
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    Bessie Smith lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1900, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud published his book (written in 1899) "The Interpretation of Dreams". Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud in May of 1856, is the "father of psychoanalysis". Although he was a medical doctor, he was fascinated with the psyche and hypothesized the existence of the id, the ego, the superego, the libido, the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, and more. These are concepts that are still used by modern psychology.
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In 1948, she was 48 years old when on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.
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