(-) Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin dies of natural causes at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
186 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1827
(-) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies of lead poisoning at the age of 56 in Vienna, Austria.
164 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1849
(+) Automobile manufacterer Armand Peugeot is born in Hérimoncourt, Montbelliard, France.
121 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1892
(-) Poet and humanist Walt Walter Whitman aka the Father of Free Verse, dies of pleurisy of the left side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis at the age of 72 in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1904
(-) Robber and Murderer George Collins is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Illinois, USA.
His neck doesn’t break and he’s slowly strangled to death before the eyes of the appalled executioner and jurors.
109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1904
(x) 5 Blacks are lynched for no apparent reason in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1905
(-) Germaine Weber is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 1 in Paris, France.
105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1908
(+) Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, is born in Altmünster, Austria.
102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1911
(+) Writer Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Missouri, USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 March 1913
(-) Murderer Henry Clark is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Agra, India.
97 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1916
(-) Prison guard Andrew Turner is stabbed to death by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 March 1918
(-) Wachtmeester Emile Verfaille is executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1922
(+) ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht is born in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
(-) Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt dies of uremia following kidney failure at the age of 78 in Paris, France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1925
(+) Composer Pierre Boulez is born in Montbrison, Loire, France.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 March 1929
(+) Triple murderer James W. Hutchins is born in North Carolina, USA.
He was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.
82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1931
(+) Actor Leonard Nimoy aka Mr. Spock, is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1942
(+) Writer Erica Jong originally Mann, is born in New York City, New York, USA.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1943
(+) Sole survivor of the Richard Speck massacre in Chicago, Corazon Amurao is born in Durangao, Batangas, the Filippines.
69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1944
(+) Musician Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1944
(-) Black Minister Isaac Simmons is lynched in Missouri, USA.
All his bones are broken, his tongue is cut out and he’s shot dead because he had oil-deposits under his farm.
69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1944
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Lutz Taufer is born in Kirchheim, Germany.
60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1953
(x) 84 die and 31 are mutilated in an attack by the Terrorist Movement Mau-Mau in Kikuya, Lari, Rift Valley, Kenya.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1959
(-) Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler dies of pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia at the age of 70 in La Jolla, California, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1959
(-) Karin Walde is raped and beaten to death by Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, at the age of 18 in Hornberg, Germany.
48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1965
(x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is sentenced to death in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1973
(-) Actor Noel Coward dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in Blue Harbor, Jamaïca.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 March 1996
(-) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, dies of a seizure at the age of 59 in Waymart, hospital for the criminally insane, Pennsylvania, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 March 1997
(x) Police find the bodies of 39 members of the Higher Source sect, who have comitted suicide by an overdose of phenobarbital and wodka in San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1998
(x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, is arrested in Paris, Metro Blanche, France.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1999
(x) Serial Killer Fernando Hernandez Leyva aka Pancho Villa, is arrested on charges of kidnapping and assault. in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Once in custody, he confessed to killing more than 100 people.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1999
(-) Murderer James Rich is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 March 2003
(-) Murderer James Blake Colburn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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