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Althusser, Louis
Born: 1918 AD
Died: 1990 AD, at 72 years of age.
Nationality: Algerian
Categories: Murderer, Philosophers
Died: 1990 AD, at 72 years of age.
Nationality: Algerian
Categories: Murderer, Philosophers
1918 - Louis Pierre Altusser was born in Birmendreis, Algeria on the 16th of October.
1937 - He joined the Catholic youth movement Jeunesse Etudiante Chretienne.
1946 - He met Helene Rytman and married her.
1947 - He received electroconvulsive therapy.
1948 - He joined the French Communist Party.
1980 - He killed his wife on the 16th of November.
1983 - He was diagnosed as suffering from diminished responsibility and remained in the hospital.
1990 - He died of heart attack in Paris, France on the 23rd of October.
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