Thursday 2nd of March 0986

Carolingian king of West Francia Lothaire IV dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Laon, Aisne, France.

Wednesday 2nd of March 1459

218th Pope Hadrianus VI is born as Adriaan Florensz Boeyens in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Sunday 2nd of March 1755

Composer Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick is born in Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1773

Mary Clues dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 52 in Gosford Street, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

Clues previously told her neighbour that the Devil had appeared in the room and that he would return to take her away.

Friday 2nd of March 1810

256th Pope Leo XIII is born as Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci in Carpineto Romano, Lazio, Italy.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1824

Composer Bedřich Smetana is born in Litomyšl, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Thursday 2nd of March 1876

260th Pope Pius XII is born as Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1880

Civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist Ivar Kreuger aka The Match King is born in Kalmar, Småland, Sweden.

Friday 2nd of March 1900

Composer Kurt Julian Weill is born in Dessau, Sandvorstadt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Thursday 2nd of March 1905

1-year-old Georgette is strangled by serial killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 2nd of March 1908

Murderer Roland Cochrane aka Charles E. Stevens is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1915

112 die in New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Nº 3 coal mine dust explosion in New River & Pocahontas Consolidated, Layland, West Virginia, United States.

Saturday 2nd of March 1918

Murderer Louis Voisin is executed by hanging in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, London, Islington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1926

60-year-old Laura Ernestine Beale is strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Jose, California, United States.

Sunday 2nd of March 1930

Writer and playwright D. H. David Herbert Richards Lawrence dies of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in Villa Robermond, Vence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Monday 2nd of March 1931

8th and last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is born in Privolnoye, Stavropolsky Kray, Russia.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1937

Victim of Jack the Stripper Bridget 'Bridie' O’Hara aka Bridget Moore is born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

Thursday 2nd of March 1939

Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun dies of Hodgkin's Disease at the age of 65 in 49 Albert Court, London, Kensington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 2nd of March 1942

Musician Lou Lewis Allan Reed is born in Beth El Hospital, New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1943

Actor Tyler Brooke commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 57 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Thursday 2nd of March 1944

426 die in steam-hauled freight train stalling in Balvano, Basilicata, Italy.

The freight train was grossly overloaded with illegal passengers. With all the cars in the tunnel, people died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient.

Thursday 2nd of March 1950

Musician Karen Carpenter known from The Carpenters is born in Grace-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

Wednesday 2nd of March 1955

Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara known for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway is born as Chizuo Matsumoto in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan.

Thursday 2nd of March 1961

80-year-old Artist Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso marries 34-year-old Jacqueline Roque in Vallauris, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Picasso and Roque's marriage lasted 11 years until his death, during which time he created more than 400 portraits of her.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1965

40-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 17 / Bimmel Bammel' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.

Saturday 2nd of March 1968

30-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 25. Aktion in Filmmakers Cinematheque, 80 Wooster Street, New York City, SoHo, New York, United States.

Nitsch' 25. Aktion lasted two hours.

Thursday 2nd of March 1972

Member of Bewegung 2. Juni Thomas Weisbecker is shot in the heart during a police shootout at the age of 23 in Stadtwerkehaus, Hoher Weg 1, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany.

SPK member Carmen Roll is arrested in the same event.

Thursday 2nd of March 1978

The coffin of 89-year-old Actor and film director Charles Spencer Chaplin is stolen from the cemetary in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

In May 1978 24-year-old Roman Wardas from Poland and 38-year-old Gancho Ganev from Bulgaria demanded a ransom of $600.000 in return for the coffin. Oona Chaplin refused to deal with them saying "My husband is in heaven and in my heart". The thieves were arrested and the coffin was found buried in a nearby cornfield.

Friday 2nd of March 1979

22-year-old Ann Rooney is hit on the head and back with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Horsforth College, Horsforth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Rooney survived.

Tuesday 2nd of March 1982

Science fiction writer Philip K. Kindred Dick known for his novel Blade Runner dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 54 in Santa Ana, California, United States.

Dick had suffered a stroke five days earlier and was disconnected from life support after his EEG had been consistently isoelectric since losing consciousness.

Wednesday 2nd of March 1983

19-year-old John Bartlett is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Niles, Illinois, United States.

Saturday 2nd of March 1991

Singer-songwriter, actor and poet Serge Gainsbourg dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in 5 bis Rue de Verneuil, Paris, VIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 2nd of March 1998

10-year-old Natascha Maria Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar is abducted by kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil in Rennbahnweg 38, Wien, Donaustadt, Wien, Austria.

Přiklopil kept her in his basement for eight years.

Wednesday 2nd of March 2005

Composer Martin Denny aka The Father of Exotica dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 94 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Friday 2nd of March 2007

Knotted underwood in a hidden park corner in Vlemincktoren, Turnhoutsebaan 381, Wijnegem, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 2nd of March 2009

68-year-old Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid aka Chemical Ali is sentenced to death for the third time, for the assassination of Grand-Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr in 1999 in Baġdād, Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād, Iraq.

Monday 2nd of March 2020

Performance artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen aka Ulay dies of lymphatic cancer at the age of 77 in Ljubljana, Carniola, Slovenia.