Tuesday 19th of March 1286

King of Scots Alexander III aka Alaxandair mac Alaxandair dies of a broken neck at the age of 45 in Kinghorn Castle, Kinghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.

After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol Alexander was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone advised him not to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck having been thrown off his horse.

Wednesday 19th of March 1721

243rd Pope Clemens XI dies of unknown causes at the age of 72 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Wednesday 19th of March 1738

Revolutionary leader Túpac Amaru II is born as José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera in Surimana-Canas, Cusco, Peru.

Friday 19th of March 1813

Explorer and pioneer medical missionary David Livingstone is born in 165 Station Road, Blantyre, Scotland, United States.

Saturday 19th of March 1831

Edward Smith aka Edward Jones aka James Honeyman and James Murray commit what is regarded as one of the first bank thefts in the United States in City Bank of New York, Wall Street, New York City, New York, United States.

The thieves made off with $245.000 using a set of copied keys.

Sunday 19th of March 1871

Baroness and mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria Mary Vetsera is born as Marie Alexandrine von Vetsera in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Wednesday 19th of March 1873

Pianist and composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger is born in Brand, Bayern, Germany.

Monday 19th of March 1888

Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 19th of March 1905

Nazi architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer is born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Monday 19th of March 1906

SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is born in Solingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Thursday 19th of March 1914

Actress and wife of Mao Zedong Jiang Qing aka Lan Ping aka Madame Mao is born as Lǐ Shūméng in Zhucheng, Shandong, China.

Saturday 19th of March 1921

Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper is born in 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Caerphilly, Trecenydd, South Wales, United Kingdom.

Sunday 19th of March 1933

Writer Philip Milton Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

Thursday 19th of March 1936

Actress Ursula Andress is born in Ostermundigen, Mittelland, Switzerland.

Sunday 19th of March 1939

Mass murderer Dale Merle Nelson is born in Creston, British Columbia, Canada.

Sunday 19th of March 1944

Assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan known for the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is born as Sirḥān Bishārah Sirḥān in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Israel.

Monday 19th of March 1945

Murderer John Henry George Lee aka Babbacombe Lee aka The Man They Couldn't Hang dies of natural causes at the age of 81 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Monday 19th of March 1945

Serial killer Randy Steven Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer is born in Long Beach, California, United States.

Sunday 19th of March 1950

Writer Edgar Rice Burroughs known for Tarzan dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Encino, California, United States.

Friday 19th of March 1971

19-year-old Lutgarde Van Der Wilt is raped, strangled and mutilated by serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Wielewaalreservaat Zellaar, Bonheiden, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 19th of March 1997

Abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93 in East Hampton, New York, United States.

Wednesday 19th of March 1997

58-year-old Barbara Bourgeois is stabbed to death by serial killer Daniel Blank aka The Parish River Killer in Paulina, Louisiana, United States.

Monday 19th of March 2001

Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 19th of March 2004

Drug trafficker Yen May Woen aka Joelle Yen is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Changi Prison, Singapore, Singapore.

Woen was arrested in May 2002 carrying 120 sachets, each containing 30.16g of heroin.

Monday 19th of March 2007

Start of the trial against 67-year-old Record producer and songwriter Phil Harvey Phillip Spector known for the ‘Wall of Sound’ production method for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles Superior Court, Alhambra, California, United States.

Presiding Judge Larry Paul Fidler allowed the proceedings in court to be televised.

Wednesday 19th of March 2008

Science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television series host Arthur C. Charles Clarke known for 2001: A Space Odyssey dies of respiratory failure at the age of 91 in Colombo, Basnahira Palata, Sri Lanka.