30th year - N° 95 Sunday, 5 April 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 95 Sunday, 5 April 2015

5 April / Today's 11 Events:

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(+) 115 years ago Thursday 5th of April 1900 Actor Spencer Bonaventure Tracy is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 107 years ago Sunday 5th of April 1908 Actress Bette Ruth Elizabeth Davis is born in 55 Cedar Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Wednesday 5th of April 1916 Actor Gregory Eldred Peck is born in San Diego, California, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Lucy Came to Stay Thursday 5th of April 1917 Writer Robert Albert Bloch known for Psycho is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 97 years ago Friday 5th of April 1918 Anne-Marie Pascal is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France. In his black notebook, Landru marked "17h 15'."  On 4 June 1918 Landru sold Pascal's only set of false teeth for 15,- Francs.

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(+) 89 years ago Monday 5th of April 1926 Film director Roger William Corman is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 53 years ago Thursday 5th of April 1962 Actress and fashion model Lana Jean Clarkson is born in Long Beach, California, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Monday 5th of April 1976 Business magnate, aviator, aerospace engineer, film director and eccentric Howard Robard Hughes dies of kidney failure at the age of 71 in Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas, United States. Hughes died on board an aircraft owned by Robert Graf and piloted by Jeff Abrams en route from his penthouse at the Acapulco Fairmont Princess Hotel in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital. Hughes was in extremely poor physical condition at the time of his death in as much that the FBI had to resort to fingerprints to identify the body.

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(-) 21 years ago Tuesday 5th of 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 171 Lake Washington Boulevard, Seattle, Washington, United States. Cobain was discovered in the living quarters above his garage on 8 April 1994 by Veca Electric employee Gary Smith, who arrived at the house in the morning to install security lighting.

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(-) 18 years ago Saturday 5th of April 1997 Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg dies of liver cancer at the age of 71 in 404 East 14th Street, New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 3 years ago Thursday 5th of April 2012 Guitar amplification pioneer Jim James Charles Marshall aka The Father of Loud dies of cancer at the age of 89 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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