(-) King of England Ethelred the Unready dies at the age of 48 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
449 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1564
(+) Writer William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
416 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1597
(x) "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by 33-year-old Writer William Shakespeare is first performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth I was among the audience.
397 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 April 1616
(-) Writer William Shakespeare dies of a bad cold at the age of 52 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
He drank a bit too much on a birthday-party and went home catching the deadly cold.
397 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 April 1616
(-) Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes dies at the age of 68 in Madrid, Spain.
238 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 April 1775
(+) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner is born in London, Covent Garden, London City of, United Kingdom.
222 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 April 1791
(+) 15th president of the USA James Buchanan is born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
163 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1850
(-) Romantic poet William Wordsworth dies of pleurisy at the age of 80 in Cumberland, United Kingdom.
155 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1858
(+) Physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is born in Kiel, Germany.
128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1885
(x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial poisoner Maria Catharina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, for the poisoning of over 100 people, killing at least 30, in Leiden, Netherlands.
118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1895
(+) Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh is born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1907
(-) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer dies of senility at the age of 65 in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
In 1874 he killed a party of gold-seekers, for which he featured as a guide, and ate them.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1907
(+) Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 April 1928
(+) Actress Shirley Jane Temple is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1936
(+) Musician Roy Kelton Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1940
(x) 198 Die in The Rhythm Night Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1941
(x) Greece capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 April 1961
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 11-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 April 1962
(-) Petra Giese is strangled and partly eaten by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Dinslaken-Bruckhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 April 1967
(x) 39-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but is recaptured a couple of days later in Missouri, United States.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1968
(+) Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, is born in Lockport, New York, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1969
(-) Linda Savee is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 22 in Salem, Oregon, United States.
The breast he used as a paper-weight.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1974
(x) Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1974
(x) 28-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Trans-fixed" in Venice, California, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 3" at the Symposium d'Art Performance in Lyon, Maison des Avocats, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1982
(x) 39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to Professor Patrick Fisher at Pennsylvania University in Provo, Utah, United States.
The package is forwarded to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1986
(-) Actor and filmmaker Otto Ludwig Preminger dies of cancer and Alzheimer's disease at the age of 79 in New York, New York, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1991
(-) New York Doll Johnny Thunders originally John Anthony Genzale Jr., dies of drug related causes at the age of 38 in New Orleans, St. Peter House, room 37, Louisiana, United States.
His death may also been the result of a robbery or foul drug deal.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1992
(-) Murderer William ‘Billy’ Wayne White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
It took the executioner 47 minutes to find a suitable vein, White eventually helped him.
(x) 33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Murder of Petra Giese" in Bochum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1998
(-) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1998
(x) The country’s most feared criminal, 41-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux escapes from the courthouse, where he was consulting the records for his defence, by knocking down a state trooper and running out of the building in Neufchateau, Luxemburg, Belgium.
He is found by a forest watcher about 3 hours later in a wood, where his stolen car got stuck in the mud.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1999
(-) Mass Murderer David J. Lawrie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Smyrna, Delaware, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 April 2007
(-) First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 76 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
3 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 2010
(-) Air traffic journalist Levent Salim Bergkotte commits suicide by stabbing to death 37-year-old Alastair Whewell, pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 they were flying, and shutting down the engine of the sports plane at the age of 33 in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina.
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