He Was So Young that His Heart Stopped Working After Four or Five Doses of Aspirin

 106 Years Ago Today His Heart Didn't Remember How to Beat

Sunday 19th of December 1915
Psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Schlesien, Germany.

He was born in 1859 and raised in Dresden and came to the U.S. a few years later after his father, who joined the Navy, would go on to serve in the U.S. Navy. His father served in Vietnam, where he later became very well known as an early member of the Board of Selectmen for Combatant Commands, and a member of the U.S. Naval Infantry Regiment in the Eastern Bloc. He was also a member of the Council for Peace. His father died on Sunday 19th December 1915. Aloysius was the first person to enter the Air Force in World War 2.
Psychiatrist in 1912, Aloysius underwent an advanced stage of cardiac surgery in honor of his brother Dr. Albert "Abbott" Hoffman, founder of the St. Bonaventure Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. Aloysius was initially diagnosed with acute, or perinatal cardiac malformations. He subsequently developed a rare heart condition called arrhythmias because no other vascular vessels appeared to be producing the blood and his heart was still quite active. At that time, he was so young that his heart stopped working after four or five doses of aspirin.

His Life Changed When a Young Man With a Penchant for Humor Killed Himself

 100 Years Ago Today

Thursday 15th of December 1921
Disc jockey and radio presenter Alan Albert James Freed aka Moondog known for naming Rock and Roll is born in Windber, Pennsylvania, United States.

He grew up in the New Mexico desert of the state of New Mexico between 1923 and 1926. Moondog was born in New Mexico on 14th Street, New York in 1834. In 1929, Freed was born a few blocks outside of Brooklyn in New York City and was named "Moondog" after "Mr. Moondog". Freed was of Irish and Irish-American ancestry at the time, his parents were Irish-American settlers from the county of New York. During the war in Germany, Freed was brought up in a Catholic home and later in the early part of the 20th century his parents were Christian missionaries. However, he was more than willing to learn to read for his family if given an opportunity. Freed was a member of The Royal Society whose work was important to his parents and their generation. Freed was born in Boston, Massachusetts before moving to New Orleans, Louisiana. His first job was as the director of press for the Times Literary Supplement and later, as a consultant for the New Yorker. His life changed when, in 1939, Dr. Alan Albert Freed, a young man with a penchant for humor, killed himself. Soon afterward, Freed was named "Gandalf's" Director of Radio.

He Was Not a Member of the Order of the Seven Sisters

 74 Years Ago Today

Monday 1st of December 1947
Occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter and mountaineer Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast dies of chronic bronchitis aggravated by pleurisy and myocardial degeneration at the age of 72 in Netherwood boarding house, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex, United Kingdom.

He is survived by wife of Mervyn and sons of George Frederick Frederick of Kent, Henry Frederick of Warwick and Mary Ellen Ann Frederick of Harstam, England; first wife of C.S.P.C. and sister of C.S.P.A. of New Orleans. Their three eldest children: A.F.; a.d.; W; and a.o.l.; died before age 30. The funeral house is also the oldest of its kind in the United Kingdom.
Eagle-haired, bearded and pale-haired, he looks very young, but has a fairly well-developed sense of himself. (From the Bible)
He was not a member of the Order of the Seven Sisters, even though he held some rank in the Order.
He was in his late teens when the incident began, and he was in a private group at a pub. (I believe these events were recorded.)
Elder Alexander Crowley and his sister (Margaret Evelyn of the Sisters) were both married around this time, as were his grandfather Aleister.