(-) Roman Emperor Caracallus originally Lucius Septimius Bassianus aka Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus, is assassinated while urinating at a roadside by Julius Martialis, an officer of his personal bodyguard at the age of 29 in Harran, Turkey.
649 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 April 1364
(-) King Jean II aka le Bon, dies of an unknown malady at the age of 45 in London, United Kingdom.
He was held as an honoured prisoner at the Savoy Palace.
341 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 April 1672
(-) Quaker Thomas Lancaster is executed by hanging in Hawkshead, Cumbria, United Kingdom.
He poisoned his family of 6.
138 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 April 1875
(+) Third King of Belgium Albert I originally Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad, is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
(+) Actress Mary Pickford originally Gladys Louise Smith aka America’s Sweetheart aka The Girl with the Curls, is born in Toronto, Canada.
115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 April 1898
(+) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is born in Halifax, Black Boy House, United Kingdom.
102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 April 1911
(x) 128 Die in coal-mine explosion in Littleton, USA.
102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 April 1911
(+) Philosopher Emil Cioran is born in R inari, Romania.
84 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 April 1929
(+) Musician and actor Jacques Romain Georges Brel is born in Schaarbeek, Brabant, Belgium.
83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 April 1930
(-) Homosexual Matricider Sidney Harry Fox is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 April 1938
(x) An unidentified headless woman is found as first victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 April 1941
(+) Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood originally Vivienne Isabel Swire, is born in Tintwistle, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 April 1949
(-) Murderer Jessie Carroll is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 April 1950
(-) Choreographer Vaslav Nijinski dies at the age of 61 in London, United Kingdom.
60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 April 1953
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion member Stefan Werner Wisniewski is born in Klosterreichenbach, Germany.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 April 1955
(+) Murderer Robert Dale Rowell is born in Texas, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 April 1961
(x) Over 200 Die in Dara shipwreck in the Persian Gulf.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 April 1963
(+) Musician and son of Beatle John, Julian Lennon is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 April 1972
(-) Ruthless Ruler Sheik Abeid Aman Karume is assassinated by persons unknown in Zanzibar.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 April 1973
(-) Artist Pablo Nepumuceno Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso dies at the age of 91 in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 April 1981
(-) War Leader Omar Nelson Bradley dies at the age of 88 in New York, New York, USA.
He led the Allied Forces to the beaches of Normandy.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 April 1983
(-) Gustavo Herrera is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake County, Illinois, USA.
In the course of the fight, Eyler’s hand is badly cut between the thumb and forefinger.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 April 1986
(-) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, commits suicide by jumping out of the 7th storey window of the Sun Music Agency building at the age of 18 in Tokio, Japan.
Over 30 young fans will follow her into death in the next days.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 April 2003
(-) Murderer Don Wilson Jr. Hawkins is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in McAlester, State Penitentiary, Oklahoma, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 April 2006
(-) Writer Gerard Kornelis van het Reve dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 82 in Zulte, Belgium.
6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 April 2007
(-) Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt dies of cancer at the age of 78 in New York, New York, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 April 2010
(-) Impresario and band manager Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren dies of cancer at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.
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