Mason was the last man to die in San Quentin's Gas Chamber. Mason refused any last meal, requesting only ice water while in the death watch cell. Mason told the warden that he had no final words to impart. (24 August 1993)
There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Wednesday 4th of October 1978 (x) — Singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette is supposedly kidnapped and terrorized by an unidentified masked man, physically assaulted and abandoned 80 miles away. In her 2000 memoir Wynette's daughter Jackie Daly published that her mother had confessed to her that the kidnapping was a hoax to cover up domestic violence from her fifth husband George Richey. Richey denied the allegation.
Monday 6th of April 1998 (-) — Singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette dies of a blood clot in her lung.