31st year - N° 86 Saturday, 26 March 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 86 Saturday, 26 March 2016

26 March / Today's 16 Events:

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(-) 202 years ago Il Posa sa Tête Saturday 26th of March 1814 Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin dies of natural causes at the age of 76 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 189 years ago Monday 26th of March 1827 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies of lead poisoning at the age of 57 in Wien, Wien, Austria. There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death: alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis and Whipple's disease have all been proposed. Most probably Beethoven was accidentally poisoned to death by excessive doses of lead-based treatments administered under instruction from his doctor.

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(+) 108 years ago Thursday 26th of March 1908 SS commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps Franz Paul Stangl aka Der Weiße Tod is born in Altmünster, Oberösterreich, Austria.

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(+) 105 years ago He Was a Sweet Bird of Youth Sunday 26th of March 1911 Writer and playwright Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Mississippi, United States.

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(x) 100 years ago Sunday 26th of March 1916 prison guard Andrew Turner is stabbed through the heart with a six inch shank by 26-year-old Double murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 93 years ago Monday 26th of March 1923 Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt, originally Rosine Bernardt aka The Divine Sarah dies of uremia following kidney failure at the age of 79 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 91 years ago Thursday 26th of March 1925 Composer Pierre Boulez is born in Montbrison, Loire, France.

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(+) 89 years ago Saturday 26th of March 1927 Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen is born in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(+) 85 years ago His Long and Prosperous Life Began Thursday 26th of March 1931 Actor Leonard Simon Nimoy aka Mr. Spock is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Sunday 26th of March 1944 Singer and actress Diana Ernestine Earle Ross known from The Supremes is born in Hutzel Women's Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 59 years ago Tuesday 26th of March 1957 Film director Max Ophüls, originally Maximillian Oppenheimer dies of rheumatic heart disease at the age of 55 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 57 years ago Thursday 26th of March 1959 Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler dies of pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia at the age of 71 in Scripps Memorial Hospital, 9888 Genesee Avenue, La Jolla, California, United States.

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(-) 57 years ago Thursday 26th of March 1959 Karin Walde is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Heinrich Pommerenke aka The Beast of the Black Forest in Hornberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 51 years ago Had Hij Geen Spijt, Hij Haatte de Mensen Friday 26th of March 1965 19-year-old Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is sentenced to death in Assisenhof, Britselei 55-57, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 26th of March 1996 Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker dies of an epileptic seizure at the age of 61 in State Correctional Institution, Cresson, Pennsylvania, United States. Kallinger spent the last 11 years of his life on suicide watch.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 26th of March 2009 The first wall to go in a dauntless renovation of our kitchen in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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