(-) Murderer James Lowry aka The Captain, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
212 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1801
(-) Writer and philosopher Novalis originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28 in Weißenfels, Germany.
146 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1867
(+) Composer Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Italy.
138 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1875
(+) Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA.
132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1881
(+) Composer Bela Viktor Janos Bartok is born in Nagy-Szentmiklos, Hungary.
132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1881
(+) Writer and lawyer Louis Dosfel is born in Belgium.
122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1891
(+) Writer Filip De Pillecijn is born in Hamme-aan-de-Durme, East Flanders, Belgium.
108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1905
(-) Murderer Lewis W. Lyons is executed by hanging in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1910
(-) Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.
102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1911
(x) 147 Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, New York, USA.
102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1911
(+) Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
(+) Presumed son of Adolf Hitler, Jean-Marie Loret is born in Seboncourt, Picardie, France.
95 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1918
(-) Composer Claude Achille Debussy dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 55 in Paris, France.
94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1919
(-) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide by distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Duisburg, Germany.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1921
(+) Actress Simone Signoret is born in Wiesbaden, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1935
(x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in New York, New York, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1940
(+) Actress Anita Bryant is born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1942
(+) Musician Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1942
(-) Mme Khait is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 55 in Paris, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1946
(+) Serial Killer Gerard John Schaefer is born in Wisconsin, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1947
(+) Musician Elton John is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1947
(x) 111 Die in coal-mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1957
(-) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, dies of rheumatic heart disease at the age of 54 in Hamburg, Germany.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1957
(x) 30-year-old Beat Generation poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg 's poem "Howl" being imported from the printer in London is seized by customs as obscene in San Francisco, California, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1969
(-) Maralynn Skelton is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 16 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1975
(-) King Faisal Ibn Abd Al-Aziz is shot dead by his 28-year-old nephew Faisal Ibn Musa’id in Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1976
(-) Artist Josef Albers dies at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1980
(-) Literary critic Roland Barthes succumbs to his injuries after being hit by a laundry van at the age of 64 in Paris, France.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1983
(-) Teresa Watson aka Nicole, is hunted down and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 22 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 March 1984
(x) 35-year-old Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage, he surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police-snipers in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1987
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1989
(-) Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in West Allis, 2357 South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1989
(-) Letter carrier Donald Mace walked in the post office, put a 38-caliber revolver to his head and killed himself at the age of 44 in Poway, California, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 March 1990
(x) 87 Die in Happy Land Club fire in New York, New York, USA.
The fire was deliberately started by the rejected lover of the cloakroom-attendant.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1993
(-) Murderer Ramon Montoya is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1997
(-) Murderer Pedro Medina is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.
With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke, and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1999
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Charles Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 2006
(-) Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is hit by a train at the age of 55 in Barnes, United Kingdom.
7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 2006
(-) Filmmaker Richard O. Fleischer dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 March 2007
(x) 57-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years in Aichach, Germany.
She was the longest ever imprisoned RAF member.
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