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Events on Monday 29 March 1954 1
1954 – 1985Karen Ann Quinlan (1954-1985)Died 11 June 1985, aged 31Quinlan became the center of a landmark American right-to-die case after she entered a persistent vegetative state in 1975 and her parents fought in court to remove her ventilator. The 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in their favor shaped later end-of-life law. She remained on a feeding tube until her death from pneumonia on 11 June 1985.