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Marshall Applewhite

Marshall Applewhite was an American religious cult leader who co-founded the Heaven's Gate cult. He led his 39 cult members in mass suicide in the belief that a spacecraft following Comet Hale-Bopp would transport them to heaven.

Biographical fast facts

Full or original name at birth: Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr.

Date and place of birth: May 17, 1931, at 3:20 a.m., Spur, Texas, U.S.A.

Date, place and cause of death: March 26, 1997, at 18241 Colina Norte (now 18241 Paseo Victoria), Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S.A. (Suicide - Poison and suffocation)

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