Phoenix's parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel 'Siddhartha' and he received his middle name from the Beatles' song 'Hey Jude'. (23 August 1970)
There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.
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Sunday 14th of August 1921 (-) — Black Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging and his body riddled with bullets. Whitfield criminally assaulted the 19-year-old wife of Pompie Irving.