The daughter of a writer, Rufina was mistakenly pronounced dead on her 19th birthday following a cataleptic attack.

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The Dartford Grammar School for Girls pupil was stabbed more than 40 times, in an apparently motiveless attack, four days after her 16th birthday.

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Ms. Gullickson, a former marketing executive, survived a heart attack in January 2011, just after her 51st birthday.

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Guardsman Shadrake was shot during an attack in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province three days after his 20th birthday.

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