(-) Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible, dies of mercury poisoning at the age of 53 in Moscow, USSR.
164 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1849
(-) Priest and botanist Stephan L. Endlicher dies at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.
He formulated a major system of plant classification.
145 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1868
(+) Writer Maxim Alexey Maksimowitsch Peshkow Gorky is born in Nizhni (now Gorky), Novgorod, Russia.
132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 March 1881
(-) Composer Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky dies of a seizure at the age of 42 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 March 1920
(+) Actor Dirk Bogarde is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1924
(+) Writer Gerhart Fritsch is born in Vienna, Austria.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1941
(-) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom.
"I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work"
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1942
(+) Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, is born in Leutewitz, Germany.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1942
(+) Philosopher Daniel Clement Dennett is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
(-) Composer Sergey Vassiljewitsch Rachmaninov dies at the age of 70 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1953
(+) PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is born in Hadath, Lebanon.
59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 March 1954
(+) Psychotic Murderer and rapist Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore, is born in Virginia, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1958
(+) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
"I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced."
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 March 1968
(+) Historian and author Iris Chang is born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1969
(-) 34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 March 1972
(-) Linda Ohlig is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Half Moon Bay, California, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 March 1977
(-) Sylvia Lauterbach is beaten to death by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 23 in Mainz, Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1979
(x) The cooling-system of a nuclear plant fails and an explosion is prevented on the limit in Harrisburg, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1979
(x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Thriller" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1980
(-) Marsha Weatter is presumably assaulted and shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 19 in Spokane, Washington, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 March 1985
(-) Artist Marc Chagall originally Moishe Shagal, dies at the age of 97 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 March 1994
(-) Writer Eugene Ionesco dies at the age of 84 in Paris, France.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 2007
(-) Murderer Vin Gutierrez is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.
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