Saturday 3rd of April 1830

18-year-old Foundling Kaspar Hauser aka The Wild Child is found bleeding from a wound to the right side of his head in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

Hauser quickly revived and stated that he climbed on a chair to get some books, the chair fell and while trying to hold on to something he accidentally tore down a pistol hanging on the wall, causing a shot to go off.

Friday 3rd of April 1863

Painter, architect and interior designer Henry Clemens Van de Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 3rd of April 1882

Outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber and murderer Jesse Woodson James is ‘accidently’ shot in the head by Robert Ford while cleaning a dusty picture above the mantle at the age of 35 in Jesse James Home, St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1895

20-year-old Blanche Lamont is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by double murderer Theodore Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry in Emanuel Baptist Church, Bartlett Street, San Francisco, California, .

Lamont's body was found on 13 April in the belfry.

Saturday 3rd of April 1897

Romantic composer Johannes Brahms dies of liver cancer at the age of 64 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Friday 3rd of April 1908

Serial killer Bruno Lüdke is born in Berlin, Köpenick, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 3rd of April 1915

Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier is born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Thursday 3rd of April 1919

Black soldier William Wilbert Little is lynched by battering because he refused to take off his army uniform in Blakely, Georgia, United States.

Saturday 3rd of April 1920

Guard at Sobibór KZ John Demjanjuk is born as Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk in Dubovi Makharyntsi, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.

Thursday 3rd of April 1924

Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day is born as Doris Von Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

Thursday 3rd of April 1924

Actor and film director Marlon Brando known from the movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1929

Frau Flake is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

The next day Frau Flake was not able to swallow properly. On her neck she had a large red swelling 70mm long by 7,5mm wide, on the left a painful reddish mark 50mm long and 30mm wide. The skin of the whole face was covered with contusions in size from a pin point to a pea. The conjuntivae of both eyes were partly congested. In the mucuous membrane of the mouth were numerous abrasions.

Thursday 3rd of April 1930

30-year-old Frau Hau is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Hofgarten, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Friday 3rd of April 1936

Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

Thursday 3rd of April 1941

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary Pál Teleki commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 62 in Sándor Palace, Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

Teleki wanted to avoid collaboration with the Nazis. In his suicide note he wrote "We will become body-snatchers! A nation of trash. I did not hold you back. I am guilty."

Monday 3rd of April 1950

Composer Kurt Julian Weill dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in New York City, New York, United States.

Sunday 3rd of April 1955

300 die in night train derailment in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

The train plunged into a canyon.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1957

Murderer Ernest L. Ranson is executed by hanging in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

Thursday 3rd of April 1958

Photographer Francesca Woodman is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Tuesday 3rd of April 1962

Murderess Brenda Spencer known for Not Liking Mondays is born in San Diego, California, United States.

Tuesday 3rd of April 1962

Serial killer Roberto Succo aka L'Assassino della Luna Piena aka Il Mostro di Mestre aka Roberto il Folle is born in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

Saturday 3rd of April 1965

28-year-old Horst Otto is released from prison after serving 5 years for the murder of Manuela Knodt in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Knodt was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1968

39-year-old Activist and African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King delivers his last speech 'I've Been tot the Mountaintop' in Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

At the end of the speech King discusses the possibility of an untimely death. On the following day King was assassinated.

Friday 3rd of April 1970

40-year-old Writer James Graham Ballard opens his 'Crashed Cars' exhibition in Institute for Research in Art and Technology, Gordon Street, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

The wrecks of a white Pontiac, a Mini and an Austin Cambridge A60 were on show while a topless woman interviewed guests about their reactions.

Saturday 3rd of April 1971

Gangster Joseph Michael 'Joe Cargo' Valachi aka Anthony Sorge aka Charles Charbano known for disclosing information about the Italian-American Mafia dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution, Anthony, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1974

20-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst announces on an audiotape that she joined the Symbionese Liberation Army and assumed the name 'Tania' in San Francisco, California, United States.

'Tania' was inspired by the nom de guerre of Che Guevara's comrade Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider.

Friday 3rd of April 1981

22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Lift Off' with Etat Brut at the Underground on Stage festival in Beursschouwburg, Auguste Ortsstraat 22, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

During a concert by Etat Brut I was standing before a filmscreen and threw my right leg as high as I could several times. To my left foot a rope was fastened at which somebody pulled at a non-defined moment. I suffered a concussion of the brain.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1991

Writer Graham Henry Greene dies of leukemia at the age of 87 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

Wednesday 3rd of April 1996

54-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber is arrested in his forest cabin in Unabomber Cabin, Lincoln, Montana, United States.

Thursday 3rd of April 1997

Triple murderer David Wayne Spence is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Friday 3rd of April 1998

Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Tuesday 3rd of April 2001

Double murderer Jason Eric Massey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

On 26 July 1993 Massey viciously murdered two teenagers: 14-year-old Brian King and his 13-year-old stepsister Christina Benjamin. Benjamin's death had been particularly gruesome; her head, hands and nipples had been cut off, her genitals mutilated and her intestines removed.

Wednesday 3rd of April 2002

Musician Frank Francis John Tovey aka Fad Gadget dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 3rd of April 2010

Founder and leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche is beaten to death with pipes and pangas at the age of 69 in Ventersdorp, Transvaal Province, South Africa.

Two workers on Terre'Blanche's farm 28-year-old Chris Mahlangu and 15-year-old Patrick Ndlovu were arrested.

Friday 3rd of April 2015

The bloodied drum and mallet from a fierce female drummer at the Ruta del Tambor y el Bombo in Calanda, Teruel, Spain.

Monday 3rd of April 2017

A Frigidaire electric cooking stove up for sale in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.