Tuesday 6th of March 0632

62-year-old Prophet and founder of Islam Muhammad delivers his Farewell Sermon aka Khuṭbatu l-Wadāʿ in Jabal ‘Arafāt, Makkah l-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.

Saturday 6th of March 1475

Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo is born as Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in Caprese, Toscana, Italy.

Wednesday 6th of March 1619

Writer and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac is born as Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac in Rue des Deux-Portes, Paris, IIe, Île-de-France, France.

de Bergerac was baptised on this day, his birth date was not recorded.

Sunday 6th of March 1785

Serial poisoner Gesche Margarethe Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen is born as Margarethe Timm in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

Gesche had a twin brother namen Johann.        

Thursday 6th of March 1828

43-year-old Serial poisoner Gesche Margarethe Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen is arrested and locked up in Detentionshaus am Ostertor, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

Sunday 6th of March 1836

Folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician Davy David Crockett aka King of the Wild Frontier is killed on the battlefield at the age of 50 in Misión de Álamo, San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Sunday 6th of March 1870

Serial killer Adolf Gustav Seefeldt aka Onkel Tick Tack is born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.

Tuesday 6th of March 1894

Multiple murderer Raymond Lisenba aka Rattlesnake James is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

Tuesday 6th of March 1900

Engineer and automobile developer Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Stuttgart, Cannstatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Tuesday 6th of March 1900

Baby farmer and murderess Ada Chard Williams is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Williams was the last woman to be hanged in the yard of Newgate Prison.

Friday 6th of March 1908

Actor and comedian Lou Costello known from Abbott and Costello is born as Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, United States.

Sunday 6th of March 1910

Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is born in Spokane, Washington, United States.

Saturday 6th of March 1926

Film and theatre director Andrzej Witold Wajda is born in Suwałki, Województwo Podlaskie, Poland.

Saturday 6th of March 1937

Cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova known for becoming the first woman in Space is born in Maslennikovo, Yaroslavi Oblast, Russia.

Thursday 6th of March 1941

Serial killer Hans van Zon is born as Johannes Marinus van Zon in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Monday 6th of March 1944

Murderer Harvey Cunningham is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 38 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Friday 6th of March 1953

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Wolfgang Grams is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.

Sunday 6th of March 1960

23-year-old Joy Mellish is tied up and raped by Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey in Saint Brélade, Portelet, Jersey, United Kingdom.

Mellish survived.

Monday 6th of March 1961

Mass murderer Ramón Bojórquez Salcido is born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Friday 6th of March 1964

Elijah Muhammed announces in a radio message that 22-year-old Boxer Muhammad Ali has joined the Nation of Islam Black Muslims and renamed Muhammad (one who is worthy of praise) Ali (fourth rightly guided caliph) in New York City, New York, United States.

Monday 6th of March 1967

Composer Zoltán Kodály dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

Friday 6th of March 1970

During a press conference, the release of the one and only record album 'Lie, The Love and Terror Cult' of Criminal hippy gang the Manson Family is announced in Spahn Ranch, 12000 Santa Susana Pass Road, Chatsworth, California, United States.

Friday 6th of March 1970

Three members of Radical left organisation the Weather Underground are killed while constructing a nailbomb in a townhouse in 18 West 11th Street, New York City, New York, United States.

The killed Weathermen were 22-year-old Theodore Gold, 28-year-old Diana Oughton and 22-year-old Terry Robbins.

Tuesday 6th of March 1973

Writer Pearl S. Buck aka Sai Zhenzhu dies of lung cancer at the age of 81 in Danby, Vermont, United States.

Wednesday 6th of March 1974

Bomb attack by the Women's Brigade of Radical left organisation the Weather Underground to protest the sterilisation of poor women in Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, California, United States.

In the accompanying communiqué the Women's Brigade argues for "the need for women to take control of daycare, healthcare, birth control and other aspects of women's daily lives."

Friday 6th of March 1981

31-year-old Vigilante Marianne Bachmeier aka The Revenge Mother shoots the confessed killer of her 7-year-old daughter Anna, 35-year-old convicted sex offender Klaus Grabowski, seven times in the back in Landgericht Lübeck, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Bachmeier was convicted by the Circuit Court Chamber of the District Court Lübeck for manslaughter and sentenced for unlawful possession of a firearm to six years in prison on 2 March 1983 but was later released after serving three years.

Sunday 6th of March 1983

Noise music band Club Moral play their 23rd concert at the Nacht van de Industrie festival in Limelight, Persijnstraat 6, Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Also played: La Drolesse, Angst, AR/TE, Einstürzende Neubauten

Tuesday 6th of March 1984

An unidentified woman is raped by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Port Richey, Florida, United States.

The woman advertised her home for sale.

Thursday 6th of March 1986

Painter Georgia O'Keeffe aka The Mother of American Modernism dies of natural causes at the age of 99 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.

O'Keefe's ashes were scattered on the land around her home and studio Ghost Ranch.

Friday 6th of March 1987

193 die in Herald of Free Enterprise ferry capsizing in Zeebrugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Tuesday 6th of March 1990

Performance artist Gina Pane dies of cancer at the age of 51 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 6th of March 1994

Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer dies of AIDS at the age of 42 in Pontiac Correctional Center, Pontiac, Illinois, United States.

Wednesday 6th of March 2002

75-year-old Serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard  is sentenced to life in prison for killing six family members and dissolving their bodies in chemical drain cleaner in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

His daughter Agnes Pándy is sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for being an accomplice in five of her father's murders.

Sunday 6th of March 2005

Horse number 4 in the 'Ganzenrijden' contest in Lillo, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 6th of March 2007

Double murderer Robert Anthony Martinez Perez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Perez was linked to at least 15 murders in San Antonio. Perez' final meal request was for five pieces of fried chicken, one double meat hamburger with cheese and onion, onion rings, three cheese and onion enchiladas, one onion, french fries, hot sauce, pico de gallo, jalapeno peppers and two cokes. His last words were "I am ready Warden. I got my boots on, like a cowboy."

Tuesday 6th of March 2007

Sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 6th of March 2019

Performance artist Carolee Schneemann dies of breast cancer at the age of 80 in New Paltz, New York, United States.