(+) Actor Spencer Bonaventure Tracy is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
105 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 April 1908
(+) Conductor Herbert Heribert Ritter Von Karajan is born in Salzburg, Austria.
(+) Actress Ruth Elisabeth 'Bette' Davis is born in Lowell, Massachussets, USA.
97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 April 1916
(+) Actor Gregory Eldred Peck is born in La Jolla, California, USA.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 April 1917
(+) Writer Robert Albert Bloch aka Psycho, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 April 1920
(+) Writer Arthur Hailey is born in Luton, United Kingdom.
87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 April 1926
(+) Filmmaker and King of the B-Movies Roger William Corman is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 April 1945
(-) First commander of Buchenwald KZ Karl Otto Koch is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 47 in Germany.
He had been charged with forgery, mismanagement and insubordination.
57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 April 1956
(+) British Drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is born in Pakistan.
49 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 April 1964
(-) General Douglas MacArthur dies of biliary cirrhosis at the age of 84 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 April 1970
(-) German ambassador Karl Maria von Spreti is murdered after being kidnapped by FAR guerillas at the age of 62 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 April 1975
(-) Statesman Chang Kai-Shek dies of a heart attack and pneumonia at the age of 88 in Taipei, Taiwan.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 April 1975
(+) Double murderer Derrick Sean O’Brien is born in Texas, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 April 1976
(-) Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes dies of kidney failure at the age of 70 in his private aircraft near Houston, Texas, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 April 1983
(x) 27-year-old Mass-Murderer Cevdet Yilmaz shoots 6 people because he is not accepted as a ‘Dutchman’ after his official naturalisation in Delft, ‘t Koetsiertje, the Netherlands.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 April 1984
(-) Child-Murderer Freddie Goode is executed in Florida, USA.
He faced the jury with the words “Having sex with children is the way it should be done”.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 April 1989
(-) Joris Viville is raped, strangled and mutilated by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 10 in Port Grimaud, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 April 1992
(x) Over 100 Die in diamond-mine cave-in in Nyeya, Sierra Leone.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 April 1994
(-) Musician Kurt Donald Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Seattle, Lake Washington, Washington, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 April 1997
(-) Beat Generation poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in New York, New York, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 April 2005
(-) Writer Saul Bellow originally Solomon Bellows, dies at the age of 89 in Brookline, Massachussets, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 April 2008
(-) Actor Charlton Heston originally John Charles Carter, dies of pneumonia at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.
1 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 April 2012
(-) Sound pioneer Jim James Marshall aka The Father of Loud, dies at the age of 88 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
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