Monday 14th of March 1853

Artist Ferdinand Hodler is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

Friday 14th of March 1879

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Wednesday 14th of March 1883

Economist and revolutionary communist Karl Heinrich Marx dies of pleurisy at the age of 65 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 14th of March 1904

Murderer Thomas Tobin is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

Monday 14th of March 1904

32-year-old Serial killer Ludwig Tessnow aka The Mad Carpenter his death sentence is confirmed at an appeal hearing in Reichsgericht, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

Tessnow was sentenced to death in 1902 despite the opinion of six psychiatrists that he was insane.

Saturday 14th of March 1908

Phenomenological philosopher Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty is born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France.

Wednesday 14th of March 1923

Photographer Diane Arbus is born as Diane Nemerov in New York City, New York, United States.

Monday 14th of March 1932

Innovator and entrepreneur George Eastman commits suicide a shot through the heart at the age of 78 in Rochester, New York, United States.

Eastman left a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?"

Monday 14th of March 1938

Multiple murderer Robert Excell White aka Excell the Executioner is born in Shelby, Mississippi, United States.

Wednesday 14th of March 1951

Murderer Jim Q. A. Patterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Friday 14th of March 1952

Double murderer Jimmy C. Wingo is born in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Thursday 14th of March 1963

Murderer Manuel Estrella Silvas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 43 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Tuesday 14th of March 1972

Anarchist publisher and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli dies in in the bombing of an electricity-line at the age of 46 in Segrate, Lombardia, Italy.

Tuesday 14th of March 1972

112 die in Sterling Airways Flight 296 Caravelle crash into a mountain in Kalba, Al-Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Thursday 14th of March 1974

30-year-old John Farrell is garotted by serial killer Robert Maudsley aka The Brain Eater in London, Wood Green, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Farrell picked up Maudsley for sex and showed him pictures of children he had sexually abused.

Wednesday 14th of March 1979

32 die in CAAC Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E crash in Beijing, Hebei, China.

The crash was caused by an unqualified pilot who stole and flew the airliner. Total fatalities were all 12 crew, 32 ground, and no passengers. Over 200 people working in a factory on the crash site were injured.

Friday 14th of March 1980

19-year-old Ronald Craig Gatlin is sodomised, beaten and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in North Hollywood, California, United States.

Friday 14th of March 1980

87 die in LOT Polish Airlines Flight 7 Ilyushin Il-62 crash in Okęcie Airport, Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

Among the fatalities were a contingent of the U.S. amateur boxing team including 29 boxers, trainers and doctors.

Saturday 14th of March 1981

22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'BesanKon' at Pap'cirkus-Festival in Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.

In an old schoolbuilding I made an installation with loud noise music and slide-projections from midnight till eight in the morning.

Sunday 14th of March 1982

Noise music band Club Moral play their twelfth concert in De Moriaan, Markt, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

Wednesday 14th of March 1984

Double murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Autry's last meal request was for a hamburger, french fries and a Dr. Pepper. During the execution he remained conscious and in great pain for about 10 minutes.

Tuesday 14th of March 1989

Boxer David Thio dies in the ring after being punched in a coma by Terence Alli during the light-weight championship at the age of 23 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Thursday 14th of March 1996

40-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton is released on parole in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States.

Two weeks later Compton was sent back to prison for parole violations.

Friday 14th of March 1997

Film director Fred Alfred Zinneman dies of a heart attack at the age of 90 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 14th of March 2000

Murderer Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

On the day of his execution Wilkerson refused to leave his cell at the Terrell Unit prison near Livingston. Guards were forced to use Mace-like gas and carry him to and from the death van that took him to the Hunstville Unit. After the drugs were administered Wilkerson spit out an inch-and-a-half universal handcuff and leg restraint key.

Wednesday 14th of March 2007

Cycling as far as I could in a one day journey on the longest street in Landsberger Allee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 14th of March 2015

The playlist for James Chance and Les Contortions in Het Bos, Ankerrui 5-7, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 14th of March 2018

Theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen William Hawking dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Saturday 14th of March 2020

Musician, performance artist and occultist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge known from the industrial band Throbbing Gristle dies of leukemia at the age of 70 in New York City, New York, United States.