(-) Lord, cardinal and Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is stripped naked and left to die of thirst at the age of 31 in Viana, Italy.
182 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 March 1831
(+) Automobile Pioneer Clement Studebaker is born in Pinetown, Pennsylvania, USA.
(-) Criminologist and founder of toxicology Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila dies at the age of 65 in Paris, France.
150 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 March 1863
(+) Eccentric and writer Gabriele D’Annunzio aka Principe di Montenevoso aka The High Priest of Erotica, is born in Pescara, Italy.
124 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 March 1889
(+) Choreographer Vaslav Nijinski is born in Kiev, Russia.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 March 1909
(-) Murderer Thomas Meade is executed by hanging in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 March 1914
(+) Writer John Symonds is born in Battersea, London, United Kingdom.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 March 1922
(+) Writer Jack Kerouac is born in Lowell, Massachussets, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 March 1925
(-) Revolutionary Leader Yat-sen Sun aka Sun Zhongshan aka Sun Deming, dies of liver cancer at the age of 58 in Beijing, China.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 March 1925
(+) Cyclist Louis Bobet aka Louison aka Zonzon, is born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Brittany, France.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 March 1930
(x) 60-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, leads a 200-mile march in defiance of British opposition and the Salt Tax in Sabarmati Ashram, India.
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 March 1932
(-) Swedish ‘Lucifer-king’ Ivan Kreuger commits suicide by gunshots at the age of 52 in Paris, France.
He couldn't stand the loss of face after detection of fraud in his accountancy.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 March 1937
(+) Double murderess Betty Lou Beets is born in Texas, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 March 1940
(+) Musician Al Jarreau is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 March 1945
(+) Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 March 1946
(+) Actress and singer Liza May Minnelli is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 March 1955
(-) Musician Charlie Charles Jr. Parker aka “Bird”, dies of lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer at the age of 34 in New York City, Stanhope Hotel, New York, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 March 1963
(+) Serial Killer Christine Laverne Slaughter Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, is born in Panhandle, Florida, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 March 1974
(-) Donna Manson is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 19 in Olympia, Evergreen Campus, Washington, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 March 1982
(x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, disappears after a short leave from prison in Valence, France.
He is apprehended little time later.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 March 1982
(x) 35-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to die for 10 murders throughout Los Angeles County in California, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 March 1986
(-) Murderer Charles William Bass is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 March 1986
(-) Murderer Roger De Garmo aka Animal, is executed by Old Sparky in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 March 1988
(x) 72 Die in stampede in a thunderstorm during a soccer-game in Kathmandu, Nepal.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 March 1993
(x) 300 Die in several bomb attacks in Bombay, India.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 March 1997
(-) Murderer John Barfield is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 March 1999
(-) Composer Yehudi Menuhin dies of bronchitis at the age of 82 in Berlin, Germany.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 March 2001
(-) Writer Robert Ludlum dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Naples, Florida, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 March 2008
(-) Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald dies of respiratory and kidney failure at the age of 67 in Trenton, St. Francis Medical Center, New Jersey, USA.
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