(-) Dramatist Jean Racine dies of liver cancer at the age of 59 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
197 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 April 1816
(+) Writer Charlotte Brontë known for ‘Jane Eyre’, is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
164 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1849
(-) Murderer James Blomfield Rush aka The Killer in the Fog, is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.
105 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1908
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Speichert is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 April 1910
(-) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dies of angina pectoris at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 April 1915
(+) Actor Anthony Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn is born in Chihuahua, Mexico.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 April 1916
(-) Murderer Joe Lee is excuted at the age of 83 in Virginia, United States.
He was the oldest person ever to be executed in the USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 April 1918
(-) War pilot Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron, is shot in the air at the age of 30 in Morlancourt Ridge near Vaux-sur-Somme, France.
He died following an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single bullet, penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 April 1926
(+) Queen of England Alexandra Mary Elizabeth II is born in London, Mayfair, London City of, United Kingdom.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1930
(+) Artist Dieter Roth is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1930
(x) 322 convicts Die in cell-block fire in State Penitentiary, Ohio, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1934
(+) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1941
(-) Axe-murderer Germaine Godefroy is executed by the Guillotine in Angers, France.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1947
(+) Musician Iggy Pop originally James Newell Osterberg Jr., is born in Muskegon, Michigan, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 April 1949
(-) Murderer Harry Lewis is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
62 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1951
(+) Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1969
(-) Sharon Wood is attacked by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 24 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
She survived.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 April 1971
(-) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, dies at the age of 64 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(-) Clarnell Strandberg-Kemper is shot dead and decapitated by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Santa Cruz, California, United States.
He also threw darts at his mother’s head and trashed her vocal cords because she always yelled at him.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 April 1977
(-) Actor and filmmaker Gummo Milton Marx dies at the age of 83 in Palm Springs, California, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1979
(-) Gudrun Thome is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 15 in Rot, Heidelberg, Germany.
23 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1990
(-) Murderer Jerome Butler is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1992
(-) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.
It was the first execution after a 25-year stay in California. His last words were "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper".
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1997
(-) Murderer Benjamin Boyle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1998
(-) Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard dies of pneumonia and lungcancer at the age of 73 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 2003
(-) Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, dies of breast cancer at the age of 70 in Carry-le-Rouet, France.
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