(+) Composer Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg, Germany.
160 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 March 1853
(+) Artist Ferdinand Hodler is born in Bern, Switzerland.
134 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 March 1879
(+) Scientist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 March 1883
(-) Economist Karl Marx dies of pleurisy at the age of 64 in London, United Kingdom.
109 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 March 1904
(-) Psychotic Murderer Thomas Tobin is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 March 1904
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ludwig Tessnow is sentenced to death in Leipzig, Germany.
105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 March 1908
(+) Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France.
99 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 March 1914
(+) First Lady of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Qing originally Li Shuméng aka Madame Mao, is born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China.
(+) Photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus is born in New York, New York, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 March 1932
(-) Photography pioneer George Eastman commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 77 in Rochester, New York, USA.
He left a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?"
80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 March 1933
(+) Actor Michael Caine is born in London, United Kingdom.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 March 1951
(-) Murderer Jim Q.A. Patterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 March 1963
(-) Murderer Manuel E. Silvas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in Florence, State Prison, Arizona, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 March 1972
(-) Anarchist editor and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli dies in in the bombing of an electricity-line at the age of 45 in Milan, Italy.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 March 1972
(x) 112 Die in Danish charter crash in Arabia.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 March 1979
(x) 200 Die in Hawker Siddeley Trident crash into a factory in Beijing, China.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 March 1980
(-) Ronald Gatlin is sodomised and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 March 1980
(x) 87 Die in plane crash in Warsaw, Poland.
On board were a 14-man American boxing team.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 March 1981
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "BesanKon" at Pap'cirkus-Festival in Besançon, France.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 March 1984
(-) Double Murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He remained conscious and in great pain for about 10 minutes.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 March 1989
(-) Boxer David Thio dies in the ring after being punched in a coma by Terence Ali during the light-weight championship at the age of 22 in Lyon, France.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 March 1997
(-) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman dies of a heart attack at the age of 89 in London, United Kingdom.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 March 2000
(-) Murderer Ponchai “Kamau” Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 March 2004
(-) Muslim prisoner Abd al-Rahman Narzullaev dies in custody under suspicious circumstances after participating in a hunger strike at the age of 44 in Uzbekistan.
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