date of death i remember in the days following his death there was colossal confusion in the press about exactly which date he died on and it seems to be continuing here the lede says unambiguously he died april but later on we have this on the sic april at pm francis bacon was admitted to the handmaids of maria a private clinic in madrid where he had been holidaying he died of cardiac arrest at am the following morning attempts to resuscitate him having failed unless i'm insane that means he died on april either that or someone's royally stuffed up the datesin this section of the article what's it to be folks even the irish can't have it both ways your turn