(-) Physician and inventor of Animal Magnetism Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer dies at the age of 80 in Meersburg, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
186 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 March 1827
(-) Physicist Alessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta dies at the age of 82 in Como, Italy.
142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 March 1871
(+) Founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg is born in Zamosc, Poland.
105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 March 1908
(+) Actor Rex Harrison is born in Huyton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
103 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 March 1910
(+) Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Ando is born in Kagi, Taiwan.
101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 March 1912
(x) Over 500 Die in Principe de Asturias steamer shipwreck in Spain.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 March 1918
(+) Economist James Tobin known for the Tobin Tax, is born in Champaign, Illinois, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 March 1922
(+) Writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is born in Bologna, Italy.
89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 March 1924
(x) George Behr has a transplantation of testicles from a Makaki monkey in the USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 March 1939
(+) Actress Samantha Victoria Louise Marie Elizabeth Eggar aka Miranda Grey, is born in London, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 March 1945
(-) Murderess Lena Baker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 March 1947
(+) Serial Killer and accomplice to Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Elwood Toole aka The Hand of Death, is born in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 March 1953
(-) Composer Sergey Sergeyewitsch Prokofiev dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 61 in Moscow, Russia.
(-) Statesman Josef Vissarionowitsch Dzugashvili Stalin dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 73 in Moscow, Russia.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 March 1954
(+) Kidnapper and murderer Barry Lee Fairchild is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 March 1957
(+) Musician, lead dinger, lyricist and frontman of The Fall Mark Edward Smith is born in Salford, United Kingdom.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 March 1960
(+) Musician David Tibet originally David Michael Bunting, is born in Batu Gajah, Malaysia.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 March 1966
(x) 124 Die in BOAC Flight 911 Boeing 707 crash on Mount Fuji in Honsho, Japan.
43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 March 1970
(-) Patricia King is presumably strangled by Zodiac in California, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 March 1973
(x) 176 Die in Iberia DC-9 and Iberia Convair collision in Nantes, France.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 March 1973
(x) 29-year-old Founding Symbionese Liberation Army member Donald David DeFreeze aka Field Marshal Cinque Mtume, escapes from prison in Vaccaville, California, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 March 1975
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested while trying to assault policewoman Annette Jolin in Portland, Duniway Park, Oregon, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 March 1980
(-) Organiser of the Bayreuth Festspiele Winifred Wagner originally Winifred Williams, dies at the age of 82 in Überlingen, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 March 1982
(-) Actor John Belushi dies of a drug overdose at the age of 33 in Los Angeles, Chateau-Marmont Hotel, Bungalow #3, Sunset Boulevard, California, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 March 1986
(x) 16-year-old Satan Worshiper and Triple Murderer Sean Sellers aka Web of Darkness, kills his 32-year-old mother Vonda and 43-year-old stepfather Paul Bellofatto in their sleep in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 March 1995
(-) Founder of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall dies in a fire caused by faulty wiring near his bed at the age of 51 in London, Muswell Hill, United Kingdom.
13 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 March 2000
(-) Actress Lolo Ferrari originally Eve Valois aka The Woman with the Largest Breasts in the World, is presumably suffocated by her 59-year-old husband Eric Vigne at the age of 37 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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