458 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1555
(-) 221st Pope Julius III originally Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Italy.
171 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1842
(-) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, dies of a seizure at the age of 59 in Paris, France.
153 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1860
(-) Poisoner Ann Bilansky is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA.
She was the first person and only woman hanged by the State of Minnesota.
138 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1875
(+) Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip, is born in Säter, Sweden.
136 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1877
(-) The Mountain Meadows Massacre Perpetrator, John Doyle Lee is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 64 in Mountain Meadows, Utah, USA.
120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 March 1893
(+) Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India, is born in Kalangal, India.
113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1900
(+) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1900
(-) Black Louis Rice is lynched because he testified in favor of another black man, accused of murdering a white man in Ripley, Tennessee, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1904
(+) Actress Joan Crawford is born in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
103 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1910
(+) Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa is born in Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan.
101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 March 1912
(+) Scientist astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr Von Braun is born in Wirsitz, Poland.
80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 March 1933
(+) Psychologist Philip George Zimbardo known for the Stanford Experiment, is born in New York City, New York, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 March 1941
(+) Minimal composer Michael Laurence Edward Nyman is born in Stratford, United Kingdom.
65 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1948
(+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Irene Richardson is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1962
(-) Murderer Vincent Ciucci is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 March 1964
(-) Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, dies of a stroke at the age of 59 in Hollywood, California, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1965
(x) 47-year-old Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is called out as secretary-general in Bukarest, Romania.
45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 March 1968
(-) Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, dies at the age of 70 in Agimont, Belgium.
42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1971
(-) Writer Simon Vestdijk dies at the age of 72 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1976
(x) Actor Sjimotjiro Maeno crashes into the house of Lockheed-corrupter Yoshio Kodama in a self-styled kamikaze-act with his private plane in Tokio, Japan.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1977
(-) Barbara Young is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Doncaster, United Kingdom.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 March 1978
(-) Karen Schilt is sexually tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 22 in New York, Third Avenue Hotel, New York, USA.
She was found alive in the Ledgewood Terrace Apartments parking lot.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1983
(-) The first man with an artificial heart, Barney Clark dies of general insufficiency at the age of 62 in Utah, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1983
(-) Innocent Murderer Alexander Krawtschenko is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 29 in Rostow, Russia.
He was sentenced to death for the murder of 10-year-old Lenotschka Sakotnowa, who was actually killed by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1984
(-) Terry Walden is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 24 in Beaumont, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1984
(-) Nude model and pornographic performer Shauna Grant originally Colleen Marie Applegate aka Callie Aimes, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 20 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 March 1985
(x) Over 400 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 March 1987
(-) Agnes Adams is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1993
(-) Murderer Carlos Santana is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1994
(x) 75 Die in Aeroflot Flight 593 Airbus crash in Siberia, Russia.
The pilot had given the controls of the plane to his 15-year-old son for amusement.
16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 March 1997
(x) In a burned-out house the bodies of 5 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning in Saint Casimir, Quebec, Canada.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 March 1998
(-) Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Starke, Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1999
(x) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is sentenced to death for poisoning five Hong Kong women and stealing HK$1.2 million in Bejing, China.
3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 2010
(x) 42-year-old Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng stabs eight young children to death at the Leicheng First Primary School in Leizhou, Guangdong, China.
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