(+) Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci is born in Florence, Vinci, Tuscany, Italy.
292 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1721
(+) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
249 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1764
(-) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, dies of pneumonia at the age of 42 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
211 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 April 1802
(x) 32-year-old Romantic poet William Wordsworth is inspired to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by a long belt of daffodils during a country walk with his sister Dorothy in Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District, United Kingdom.
124 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 1889
(-) Missionary Father Damiaan originally Jozef De Veuster, dies of leprosy at the age of 49 in Molokai, Hawaï.
119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1894
(+) USSR-leader Nikita Sergeyewitsch Krushchev is born in Kalikovna, Ukraine, Russia.
109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 April 1904
(+) Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, is born in Khorgom, Armenia.
101 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 1912
(x) 1503 Die in Titanic steamer shipwreck in Newfoundland.
It collided with an iceberg.
101 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 1912
(+) Great Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung is born in Mankeidai, Heian-nando, Japanese Korea.
93 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 April 1920
(x) The Slater and Morril Shoe Company is robbed of 16.000 $, and Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti will be arrested on vague accusations in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1924
(-) Hermann Bock is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 22 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 April 1925
(-) Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 45 in Hannover, Celler Straße Prison, Niedersachsen, Germany.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 April 1938
(+) Actress Claudia Joséphine Rose Cardinale is born in Tunis, Tunisia.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 April 1942
(-) Writer Robert Mathias Edler von Musil known for “The Man Without Qualities”, dies of a stroke at the age of 61 in Genève, Switzerland.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 April 1944
(-) Murderer Fred L. Brady is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 April 1944
(-) Murderer Clark B. Knox is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1945
(x) The concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen is liberated in Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1947
(x) Over 500 Die in Grand Camp freighter explosion in Texas City, Texas, United States.
Many people died in the subsequent fire that raged through the city.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1947
(+) Cop Killer Misao Katagiri is born in Tokyo, Japan.
62 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1951
(x) Mabel Everson dies at the age of 69. On the night of the funeral, 44-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, robbed her grave and took parts of her body home to make his grisly artefacts in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 April 1955
(-) Murderer Jackson Howard is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 1957
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries Mary Catherine Castillo in Los Angeles, California, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 1957
(x) 58-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of the two murders he was charged with in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 April 1970
(x) Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen members Linda Sue Evans and Dianne Donghi are arrested in New York City, New York, United States.
The FBI were informed about their whereabouts by infiltrator Larry Grathwohl.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 April 1972
(-) Official Irish Republican Army volunteer Joe McCann is shot dead in a confrontation with British soldiers at the age of 24 in Belfast, Joy Street in The Markets, Ireland.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 1974
(x) 20-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, takes part in a bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army in San Francisco, Sunset District Hibernia Bank, 1450 Noriega Street, California, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1975
(-) Melanie Coolley is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Nederland, Colorado, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1980
(-) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre dies of edema of the lung at the age of 74 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 April 1983
(-) Ervin Gibson is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1984
(-) Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper has a fatal heart-attack in the midst of a live TV-show at the age of 63 in London, Her Majesty’s Theatre, London City of, United Kingdom.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1984
(x) Mass-Murderer Christopher Thomas kills 10 people, including 8 children, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1986
(-) Murderer Daniel Morris Thompson is executed by Old Sparky in Starke State Prison, Florida, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1986
(-) Writer and thief Jean Genet dies of throat cancer at the age of 75 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 April 1988
(-) Murderer Earl Clanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 April 1989
(x) 96 Die in soccer-riot during the game Liverpool-Nottingham Forest in Sheffield, Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 April 1989
(x) 28-year-old Mass-Murderer Ramon Bojorquez Salcido kills his wife and two daughters, his mother-in-law and her two daughters and his boss in a shooting-rage over a family-disagreement in Hot Springs, Boyes, California, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1990
(-) Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, dies of pneumonia and renal failure at the age of 83 in New York, New York, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 1990
(x) 87 Die in in Uttar Pradesh, India.
They had been eating poisoned food on the occasion of an engagement-banquet
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 April 1997
(x) Over 250 Die in encampment fire in Mekka, Camp-Mama, Saudi Arabia.
(-) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, dies of heart failure at the age of 69 in Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
Rumours persist that he committed suicide or that he was poisoned.
12 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 April 2001
(-) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffry Ross Hyman, dies of lymphoma at the age of 49 in New York, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 April 2002
(x) 128 Die in Air China Boeing 767-200 Flight CA129 crash into a mountain in Busan, South Korea.
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