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* Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853.
  
     
  * He died on July 29, 1890, two days after a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the abdomen.  
 
 
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  * His short life of 37.33 years was punctuated by periods of extremely debilitating sickness.  
 
 
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* These episodes of illness, called medical crises, are important indicators of the type of disease suffered by van Gogh.
  
 

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