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Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch to a poor Jewish family in Solotvino in the Carpathians, then part of Czechoslovakia. A coroner officially ruled Robert Maxwell’s death accidental drowning, while commentators and later books have advanced suicide and assassination theories.
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- 1923-06-10 · eventBirth of Ján Ludvík Hoch (Robert Maxwell)
- 1939 · eventLeaves native village; wartime upheaval begins
- 1945 · eventWorld War II military service period
- 1951 · eventPergamon Press publishing career takes shape
- 1984 · eventAcquisition and control of Mirror Group newspapers
- 1991-01 · investigationPension-fund hole and empire collapse exposed
- 1991-11-05 · eventBody found in Atlantic; death pronounced
- 1994 · document_releaseElisabeth Maxwell memoir published
- 2002 · document_releaseAssassination and Israeli superspy book published
- 2024 · amplificationOnline dossiers amplify espionage and crime allegations