(-) Arsonist Yaoya Oshichi is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 16 in Suzugamori, Japan.
She had hoped to meet Ikuta Shōnosuke, a boy she fell in love with, again by starting a fire.
223 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1790
(+) 10th president of the USA John Tyler is born in Greenway, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.
124 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1889
(x) 28-year-old Murderer William Kemmler aka John Hurt, kills his wife Tilly Ziegler with a hatchet in New York, USA.
He was sentenced to death and will be the first man to be executed by use of the electric chair.
122 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 March 1891
(-) Artist Georges Seurat dies of meningitis at the age of 31 in Paris, France.
112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1901
(-) Family-murderer Franz Theodore Wallert is executed by hanging in Gaylord, Minnesota, USA.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1912
(-) Explorer Robert Falcon Scott is lost in a snowstorm at the age of 43 in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1917
(-) Murderer Leo O’Donnel is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.
91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1922
(+) Victim of John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, Ruth Marguerite Christine Fuerst is born in Vienna, Austria.
79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1934
(+) Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert is born in Ohio, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1939
(+) Actor Terence Hill is born in Venice, Italy.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1939
(+) Actor James Caan is born in New York, New York, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1944
(+) Singer, songwriter and environmentalist Terry Jacks known for “Seasons in the Sun”, is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1949
(+) Murderer John Arthur Spenkelink is born in Le Mars, Iowa, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1951
(x) 32-year-old American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage in New York, New York, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1951
(x) 35-year-old American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage in New York, New York, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1954
(+) Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 March 1959
(+) Mentally deranged murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is born in Arkansas, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1961
(-) Murderer Jack Day is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Bedford, United Kingdom.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1963
(-) Carola Hannwacker is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
Her son Helmut is also shot in the same event.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1973
(x) The last US-soldier, Max Bielke leaves the battlefield in Vietnam.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1974
(x) Start of the trial against 46-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, who is accused of strangling 15 and attacking 6 women in Katowice, Poland.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 March 1975
(-) Keith Crotwell is poisoned and mutilated by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Long Beach Marina, California, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1977
(x) Paul Klee's "Der Goldene Fisch" is attacked by 39-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Germany.
35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1978
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries 21-year-old Tai-Fun Fanny Leung in Los Angeles, California, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1982
(-) Composer Carl Orff dies at the age of 86 in München, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1983
(-) Jacqueline Croiset is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 20 in Amiens, France.
She survived.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1984
(-) Sheryl Bonaventura is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 18 in Grand Junction, Mesa Mall, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1985
(-) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, commits suicide by a depression after being harrassed for years by the Belgian tax-services at the age of 51 in Belgium.
She committed suicide together with her friend Annie Pechler.
23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1990
(-) Montenesdro is attacked by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1994
(x) 34-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Wurger's Droom" in Antwerpen, Linkeroever, Antwerp, Belgium.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 March 1997
(-) Murderer Joseph O’Dell is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
Hours before his execution he marries law-student Lori Urs. After his death his body is shipped to Palermo, Italy where he is buried as a local hero, presumed innocent.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 2000
(x) 40-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Thai Boy Slim Foodstall" in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.
(-) Physician Carlo Urbani known for first identifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome aka SARS, dies of SARS at the age of 46 in Bangkok, Thailand.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 2006
(-) Murderer Kevin Kincy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 2006
(-) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, dies of liver cancer at the age of 67 in Salem Prison, Oregon, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 2007
(-) Murderer Roy Pippin is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.
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