(-) 152nd Pope Leo IX originally Bruno, dies at the age of 51 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
324 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 April 1689
(-) Queen of Sweden Christina dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 62 in Stockholm, Sweden.
189 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 April 1824
(-) Poet George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron, dies of violent fever due to sepsis at the age of 36 in Missolonghi, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.
135 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 April 1878
(-) Murderer Samu Steenburgh is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, United States.
131 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 April 1882
(-) Naturalist Charles Darwin dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Down House, Kent, United Kingdom.
110 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 April 1903
(+) FBI-agent Eliot P. Ness aka The Untouchable, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
107 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 April 1906
(-) Physicist Pierre Curie has his skull crushed by a horse drawn cart as he fell in the street at the age of 46 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 April 1927
(x) 33-year-old Actress Mae Mary Jane West is sentenced to 10 days imprisonment for obscenity during her play "Sex" in New York, New York, United States.
She got out of jail two days early due to good behaviour.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 April 1928
(-) Murderer Charles Birger is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Illinois, United States.
(+) Actress Jayne Mansfield originally Vera Jane Palmer, is born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 April 1942
(+) Artist Bas Jan Ader is born in Winschoten, Netherlands.
64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 April 1949
(+) Actress and fashion designer Paloma Picasso is born in Vallauris, France.
64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 April 1949
(+) Adventurer Lawrence “Larry” Richard Walters aka The Lawn Chair Pilot, is born in California, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 April 1963
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 9-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 April 1967
(-) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer dies of pneumonia at the age of 91 in Rhondorf, Germany.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 April 1970
(-) Designer Robert Salem is mutilated and decapitated by an unidentified Zodiac copycat-killer at the age of 40 in San Francisco, 754 Stevenson St., California, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 April 1971
(x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is sentenced to death for the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 April 1977
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails a second threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his dog Harvey in New York, Yonkers, New York, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 April 1984
(-) Robert Sheldon is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 18 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 April 1989
(-) Writer Daphne Du Maurier dies at the age of 81 in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
21 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 April 1992
(-) Actor Benny Hill dies of renal failure at the age of 67 in London, Teddington, London City of, United Kingdom.
He was found sitting dead in his armchair two days later.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 April 1993
(x) Over 80 members of the Branch-Davidians sect, including their 33-year-old Leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect David Koresh originally Vernon Wayne Howell, die in a suicide-pact by poisoning and gunfire after their farm has been besieged by the FBI for 51 days in Waco, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 April 1995
(x) 162 die in a bomb-attack on the Murrah Government-building by 27-year-old Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, as an eventual revenge for the massacre in Waco, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 April 2000
(-) Rapist and murderer Robert Glen Coe is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in West Virginia, United States.
4 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 April 2009
(-) Writer James Graham Ballard dies of prostate cancer at the age of 78 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 April 2010
(x) 112 Die in China Northern Airlines MD-82 crash in the Yellow Sea.
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