(-) Artist Francisco Goya originally Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes de todos los santos difuntos, dies of a stroke, suffering from Vogt-Koyanagi-Syndrome at the age of 82 in Bordeaux, France.
This disease caused an infection of the retina with consequent blurred vision and hallucinations.
172 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1841
(-) Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Jersey.
163 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 April 1850
(-) Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud originally Marie Grosholtz, dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
146 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 April 1867
(+) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright is born in Melville, Indiana, United States.
144 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1869
(+) Presumed murderess of President Faure Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, is born in Beaucourt, France.
132 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 April 1881
(-) Murderer Alan Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Massachusetts, United States.
124 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 April 1889
(+) Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin is born in London, Brixton, London City of, United Kingdom.
117 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 April 1896
(+) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, is born in Moinesti, Romania.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 April 1907
(-) Auguste Bavouzet is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 9 in Villedieu, France.
93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1920
(-) Murderer Simplico Torrez is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 April 1921
(+) Actor Peter Ustinov is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 April 1922
(+) Writer Kingsley William Amis is born in London, Clapham, London City of, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 April 1924
(+) Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
87 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1926
(-) Murderer Archie Cody is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 April 1935
(+) Musician Bobby Robert Stanley Vinton known for “Blue Velvet”, is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 April 1936
(-) Murderess Dorothea Nancy Waddingham aka The Murderous Nurse, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Waddingham was a mother of five and was still breastfeeding her 3-month old baby at the time of her execution. 10,000 people gathered outside the gaol to demonstrate against the execution, chanting "Stop this mother murder!".
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1937
(-) FBI-agent Wimberly Baker is shot dead by Robert Suhay at the age of 27 in Topeka, post office, Kansas, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1937
(-) Murderer Fred Hart is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 April 1946
(-) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide by hanging due to depression at the age of 62 in Slidell, Louisiana, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 April 1947
(-) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Auschwitz, Poland.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 April 1964
(x) 38-year-old Pilot Geraldine “Jerrie” Fredritz Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world in an aircraft, a Cessna 180 'Spirit of Columbus'.
She flew 22.860 miles in 29 days and made 21 stopovers.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 April 1969
(-) Dawn Basom is raped, tortured and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 13 in Ann Arbor, Superior Township, Michigan, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 April 1971
(+) Singer Selena originally Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka Queen of Tejano Music, is born in Lake Jackson, Texas, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 April 1981
(-) Colleen Daignault is abducted, tortured and murdered by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Surrey, British Columbia, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 April 1981
(-) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Sigurd Debus dies due to internal bleeding in his head after being force-fed during a hungerstrike at the age of 38 in Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He had been hungerstriking since 11 feb 1981.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 April 1986
(-) Murderer Jeffrey Barney is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 April 1989
(-) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, dies of aids at the age of 25 in Paris, Prison de Fresnes, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 April 1990
(x) Over 100 Die in train fire in Patna, India.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 April 1992
(-) Kristen French is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, at the age of 16 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.
18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 April 1995
(-) Daughter of Marlon, Cheyenne Tarita Brando commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Tahiti.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 April 1997
(-) Artist and writer Roland Topor dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 April 1997
(-) Murderer Kenneth Gentry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 April 2007
(-) Mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in Virginia Tech University, Blackburg, Virginia, United States.
On this day he went on a killing spree and shot 32 students and teachers to death. 29 others were wounded.
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