(+) Painter Sir Anthony van Dyck is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
181 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 March 1832
(-) Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Weimar, Germany.
156 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1857
(+) 13th President of the Third Republic and 14th President of France Paul Joseph Athanase Doumer is born in Aurillac, France.
(+) Actor Karl Malden is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1913
(-) Murderers Charles and George Humphery are executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Oregon, USA.
George was 52.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1921
(+) Writer Jean Bruce originally Jean Brochet known from OSS117, is born in Beauvoir, Sarthe, France.
90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 March 1923
(+) Actor Marcel Marceau is born in Strasbourg, France.
82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1931
(+) Actor William Shatner aka Captain Jim Kirk, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1936
(+) Singer-songwriter and whistling talent Roger Whittaker is born in Nairobi, Kenya.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1937
(+) Composer Angelo Badalamenti is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1941
(+) Actor Bruno Ganz is born in Zurich, Switzerland.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1942
(-) Jean-Pierre Van Beveren is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 42 in Paris, France.
70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1943
(x) 195 inhabitants including 75 children are burned alive or gunned down by German 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion in Khatyn, Belarus.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 March 1963
(-) Multiple Murderer Charles Wood is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1969
(-) Writer Gerhart Fritsch dies at the age of 45 in Vienna, Austria.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1970
(-) Kathleen Johns is attacked by Zodiac in Bakersfield, California, USA.
She survived.
35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 March 1978
(-) Jeffrey Rignall is sodomised and battered to death by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 27 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 March 1979
(-) Sir Richard Sykes British Ambassador, is shot dead by the IRA at the age of 58 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Footman Karel Straub was also killed, both being shot in the head as they left the ambassador's residence for the short trip to the embassy.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1981
(x) 24-year-old IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1981
(x) 23-year-old IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1982
(-) Jay Reynolds is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 26 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1983
(-) Veronique Dubois is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 18 in Amiens, France.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 March 1989
(-) Murderer Leon Ruthe King is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1994
(-) Cartoonist and creator of 'Woody Woodpecker' Walter Lantz dies of heart failure at the age of 94 in Burbank, California, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1994
(x) 75 Die in Aeroflot Airbus A310 crash in Mezjdoeretsjensk, Siberia, Russia.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1997
(x) State policeman Olivier Motte discovers eight trash bags with female torsos, arms and legs, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Cuesmes, Rue Emile Vandervelde, Hainaut, Belgium.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 March 2006
(-) Murderer Robert Madrid Jr. Salazar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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