Monday 22nd of March 1599

Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday 22nd of March 1832

Poet, writer and botanist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies of heart failure at the age of 83 in Brauhausgasse 10, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

Sunday 22nd of March 1857

13th President of the Third Republic and 14th President of France Paul Doumer is born as Joseph Athanase Doumerc in Aurillac, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Saturday 22nd of March 1913

Murderers Charles and George Humphery are executed by hanging at the age of 52 and 39 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Saturday 22nd of March 1913

Actor Karl Malden is born as Mladen George Sekulovich in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 22nd of March 1921

Writer Jean Bruce aka Jean Alexandre, Jean Alexandre Brochet, Jean-Martin Rouan or Joyce Lindsay known for the adventures of secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath aka OSS117 is born as Jean Brochet in Beauvoir, Pays de la Loire, France.

Thursday 22nd of March 1923

Mime artist Marcel Marceau aka Bip the Clown is born as Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.

Sunday 22nd of March 1931

Actor William Shatner aka Captain Kirk is born in Montreal, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Quebec, Canada.

Wednesday 22nd of March 1933

The first Konzentrationslager is inaugurated by 33-year-old Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Luitpold Himmler with the arrival of about 200 prisoners from Stadelheim Prison in München and the Landsberg fortress in Konzentrationslager Dachau, Dachau, Bayern, Germany.

Sunday 22nd of March 1936

Singer-songwriter Roger Whittaker is born in Thika, Kiambu County, Kenya.

Monday 22nd of March 1937

Composer Angelo Daniel Badalamenti known for the Twin Peaks soundtracks is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Saturday 22nd of March 1941

Actor Bruno Ganz is born in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

Sunday 22nd of March 1942

42-year-old Jean-Marc Van Bever is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 22nd of March 1943

156 inhabitants including 75 children are burned alive or gunned down by the German Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 in Khatyn, Minsk Oblast, Russia.

Earlier that day a German convoy was attacked by Soviet partisans near Koziri village just 6 km away from Khatyn, resulting in the deaths of four police officers of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.

Sunday 22nd of March 1964

Victim of Dennis Nilsen aka Killing for Company Stephen Dean Holmes is born in London, Hampstead, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 22nd of March 1968

Murderer Odell Odell is born in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States.

Friday 22nd of March 1968

Multiple murderer Dustin Lee Honken is born in Britt, Iowa, United States.

Saturday 22nd of March 1969

Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is born in Austin, Texas, United States.

Saturday 22nd of March 1969

Writer Gerhard Fritsch dies of autoerotic asphyxiation at the age of 45 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Fritsch was found hanging in women's clothes, which had been a common practice for him to do.

Wednesday 22nd of March 1978

27-year-old Jeffrey Rignall is raped, drugged, whipped and tortured by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.

When Rignall next regained consciousness he woke up under a statue in Chicago's Lincoln Park.

Wednesday 22nd of March 1978

22-year-old Karen Schilt is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by serial killer Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer in Ledgewood Terrace Apartments, Liberty Street, Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States.

Schilt was found in the parking lot the next day by patrolman Raymond Auger.

Sunday 22nd of March 1981

24-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Patsy O'Hara starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Sunday 22nd of March 1981

24-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Raymond McCreesh starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 22nd of March 1989

Murderer Leon Rutherford King is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Tuesday 22nd of March 1994

Cartoonist, animator and film director Walter Benjamin Lantz known for creating Woody Woodpecker dies of heart failure at the age of 95 in Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California, United States.

Saturday 22nd of March 1997

State policeman Olivier Motte discovers eight trash bags with female torsos, arms and legs, considered to be victims of Unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Rue Emile Vandervelde, Cuesmes, Hainaut, Belgium.

Wednesday 22nd of March 2006

Child killer Robert Madrid Salazar is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Salazar's last meal request was for a dozen tamales, six brownies, refried beans with chorizo, two rollo candies, six hard shell tacos with lettuce, three big red sodas, ketchup, hot sauce, six jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, cheese and extra ground beef.

Thursday 22nd of March 2007

Loafs of bread in an automated vending machine waiting to be bought in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.