(-) Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is shot by a poisoned arrow and finished off with spears by local inhabitants at the age of 41 in Mactan Island, Filippines.
408 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1605
(-) 232nd Pope Leo XI originally Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici aka Papa Lampo, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
346 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1667
(x) The blind and impoverished Poet John Milton known for “Paradise Lost”, sells the copyright of his epic poem for ten Pounds in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
222 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1791
(+) Inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.
191 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 April 1822
(+) 18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, United States.
148 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 April 1865
(x) 1547 Die in SS Sultana steamboat paddlewheeler explosion in the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
122 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1891
(+) Composer Sergey Sergeyewitsch Prokofiev is born in Sontzovka, Ukraine, Russia.
119 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 1894
(-) Murderer Samuel Vaughan is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arkansas, United States.
114 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 April 1899
(+) Cartoonist and creator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1915
(-) Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin dies of septicemia, contracted as a result of a shaving cut or a boil on his lip at the age of 43 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
His last words were "This means the end. What a catastrophe!" He claimed that he was God, and eventually acknowledged that he was inspired by Satan. Imitating Christ he was an anti-christ filled with Satan, controlled by Satan and ultimately destroyed by Satan.
87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1926
(x) Mass murderess Antoinette Scieri is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1927
(-) Mary McConnel is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1932
(+) Actress Anouk Aimée is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1937
(+) Musician, poet and artist Wannes Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1943
(-) Murderer Elisandro L. Macias is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 April 1974
(x) 108 Die in Iljoeshin-18 crash in Leningrad, Russia.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 April 1974
(x) 39-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Stammheim Prison to Moabit Prison for the trial considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1977
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, shoots Harvey, the dog of his neighbour Sam Carr in New York, Yonkers, New York, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1982
(-) Jean McPaul is strangled and stabbed to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 40 in Bossier City, Louisiana, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1982
(-) Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon commits suicide by a grenade explosion at the age of 27 in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
In two days time he killed 58 people and left 35 wounded after an argument with his girlfriend
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1983
(-) Rhoda Piazza is asphyxiated and beaten to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 22 in Beaumont, Texas, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1992
(-) Composer Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen dies of heart-failure at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
He was recovering from an operation.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1994
(-) Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, United States.
He was the first man to be convicted solely through DNA-evidence.
18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 April 1995
(-) Writer Willem Frederik Hermans dies at the age of 73 in Utrecht, Netherlands.
16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 April 1997
(-) Jeffrey Trail is beaten to death with a clawhammer as first victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1998
(-) Mass Murderer Ronald Taylor commits suicide by jumping from a freeway overpass at the age of 46 in Los Angeles, Artesia, California, United States.
He first killed his 40-year-old wife Ruthie, 24-year-old son Rick, 29-year-old sister-in-law Mylissa Campbell, 6-year-old niece Jolissa Morales and 24-year-old family friend Tomy Kang Jung.
(-) Writer Carlos Castaneda dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1999
(x) 16-year-old Mass Murderer Lorenzo Alvarado commits suicide by a shot in the head in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He first shot his father, stepmother and 4-year-old half brother to death in the family's Hyde Park apartment.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 2005
(x) The skeleton of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner is found handcuffed to a tree in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 2007
(-) Murderer Kosaku Nata is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Osaka, Japan.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 2007
(-) Murderer Yoshikatsu Oda is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Fukuoka, Japan.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 2007
(-) Murderer Masahiro Tanaka aka Miyashita, is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 2009
(-) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Seoul, Jamsil, South Korea.
3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 2010
(x) Assassin of Revolutionary Leader Malcolm X, Thomas Hagan is released from prison in Manhattan, New York, United States.
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