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Events on Sunday 5 March 1944 1
1876 – 1944Max Jacob (1876-1944)Died 5 March 1944, aged 67French poet and painter, a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire and an important figure in early modernism. Born Jewish, he converted to Catholicism. He was arrested by the Gestapo and died in the Drancy internment camp.