2015 Event Queen Elizabeth II surpasses her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the U.K.'s longest-reigning royal with 63 years on the throne; Elizabeth II was installed on the throne at age 25 in 1952 after the sudden death of her father, George VI 2015 Event The death toll rises to 104 from a massive explosion three days ago at a warehouse containing hazardous chemicals in the port of Tianjin, China; 720 were also injured in the disaster 2015 Event Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president who was the first to be democratically elected, has been given a death sentence for his role in a prison outbreak during the revolution of 2011 2015 Event Aid response to the Nepal earthquake has been hindered due to runway damage at the country's main airport in Kathmandu, requiring airport closure to large jets; the death toll from the disaster has risen to over 7,000 2015 Event The world's oldest living person, Gertrude Weaver of the U.S., dies at age 116, just five days after the death of the previous record holder, Misao Okawa of Japan, who died at age 117 2015 Event Pakistan reinstates the death penalty for all crimes, extending a previous reinstatement only for terrorism cases; the country has had a moratorium on capital punishment since 2008 but lifted it after terrorist attacks in December 2014 2014 Event Pakistani officials have arrested suspects in the Taliban's military school attack that killed 148 people; the government has lifted a death penalty moratorium and has bombed militant strongholds along the Afghan border to address terrorist violence 2014 Event French President Francois Hollande proposes that terminally ill patients should have the right to be sedated until death; the proposal does not suggest assisted termination of the patient's life 2014 Event Protests erupt in New York and other U.S. cities after a grand jury does not indict a white police officer for choking to death an unarmed man, Eric Garner; New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to retrain the police force in conflict resolution 2014 Event A grand jury in St. Louis County reaches the decision that police officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted in the shooting death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown; the decision sparked protests, looting and businesses being burned to the ground in St. Louis, as well as protests across the U.S. 2014 Event A Van Gogh painting, 'Still Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies', sells for $61.8 million, exceeding its estimated worth of $50 million; the artist painted the work at his doctor's home shortly before his death 2014 Event A total of 111 people have been identified as having had contact with an Ebola-infected 2-year-old girl before her death in Mali, raising concerns of a potential new epidemic; the girl was the first confirmed Ebola case in the nation 2014 Event A 2-year-old girl is the first case of Ebola in Mali; the girl was brought to the country from Guinea after her mother's death 2014 Event Former Egyptian President President Mohamed Mursi and nine others have been charged with giving confidential state security information to the government of Qatar; if convicted of treason, Mursi could face the death penalty 2014 Event Continued rain in the Hiroshima province of Japan poses a risk of additional landslides, which have caused the death of at least 42 people to date 2014 Event U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder flies to Ferguson, MO to inform residents that the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown will be investigated by the federal government; a separate county-appointed grand jury has already begun reviewing the case 2014 Event Continued riots in Ferguson, Missouri over the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer have resulted in the announcement of a state of emergency and a curfew by Governor Jay Nixon 2014 Event Residents of Ferguson, MO call for FBI investigation of the shooting death of a teenager by a police officer; the reason for the confrontation has not been disclosed 2014 Event Former Press Secretary James S. Brady dies at age 73; Brady's death has been ruled a homicide due to a gunshot wound made 33 years earlier by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; Hinckley was found to be insane and was not charged with the original crime 2014 Event The Islamic State captures the Iraqi town of Sinjar, home to the country's Yazidi religious minority population; residents fled in advance of the extremists, who have demanded that non-Muslim residents convert to Islam or face death 2014 Event Brazilian police distribute pamphlets to World Cup visitors with instructions on how to behave in the event of a robbery; the advice is meant to protect victims from injury or death during crime 2014 Event The death toll from a landslide covering Hobo Barik, Afghanistan is estimated to be at least 2,000; though only 350 are confirmed deceased, authorities lack the equipment needed to attempt a full rescue 2014 Event Kim Jong Un is re-elected as leader of North Korea with 100% of the vote; the election was the first since the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011 2014 Event U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorizes federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 2014 Event Shanghai and Hong Kong halt live poultry sales after a third death from to the H7N9 bird flu is reported in Hong Kong; China has reported 19 deaths and 96 infections from the bird flu at the beginning of 2014 2013 Event The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines, is confirmed to be over 5,700 people; the number is expected to increase 2013 Event Journalist Lara Logan of CBS is suspended after admitting that portions of her '60 Minutes' Benghazi attack report covering the death of U.S Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens, were false 2013 Event After the death of Frank Lautenberg, Governor Chris Christie appoints Jeffrey Chiesa as U.S. Senator for New Jersey until a special election is held later this year 2013 Event Prosecutors for Boston Marathon bomber and Islamic terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev discuss a plea deal to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life in prison without parole 2012 Event In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother's death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy 2012 Event Ceremonies commemorating the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il were held outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang; the nation observed three-minutes of silence to honor him 2012 Event Palestinian officials plan to exhume the body of former leader Yasser Arafat to determine whether his death in Paris, 2004, was caused by poisoning 2012 Event Half of the population of New York City, and millions of others in the Northeastern United States continue to deal with power outages, gas shortages and limited public transportation after Hurricane Sandy struck; the death toll rises to 90 2012 Event Following the death of Crown Prince, Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz becomes Saudi Arabia's heir apparent 2012 Event Following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi 2012 Event A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications 2011 Event The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi in the Philippines reaches 1,002, and is expected to rise 2011 Event An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981 2011 Event Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson 2011 Event Right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan; his death caused by pneumonia and kidney problems 2011 Event Tornado warnings are issued for Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri; the Joplin, Missouri death toll rises to 126 people with 1,150 injured by the May 22 tornado 2011 Event The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami death toll now exceeds 15,000 with 9,000 still missing and 115,000 evacuees still living in shelters 2011 Event Militant Islamic group Al-Quaeda confirms Osama bin Laden's death and threatens revenge 2011 Event U.S. President Barack Obama chooses not release photos of Osama bin Laden following his death; photos taken at the Abbotabad compound are released by Reuters 2011 Event In Yafran, Libya, thousands risk potential death and starvation after Muammar Gaddafi's forces shut off water and block food supplies 2011 Event The news of Osama bin Laden's death is received positively by international leaders, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari 2011 Event According to the WHO, leading causes of death in the world include chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes 2011 Event In his book 'Jesus of Nazareth Part II', Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people for the responsibility of the death of Jesus 2011 Event New Zealand honors victims of the 2011 Canterbury earthquake with two minutes of silence; 154 persons died, and the death toll is expected to reach 240 2011 Event Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistan to repeal its blasphemy law whereby those who insult the Prophet Muhammed receive the death penalty 2010 Event The last death row inmate in Cuba has his death sentence commuted; the nation is against capital punishment and has commuted many death sentences since 2008 2010 Event In Prague, scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe, in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden death 2010 Event Iran's Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted of adultery and sentenced to death, faces the whip 2010 Event The death toll from the Gansu province flooding and landslide disaster rises to 702 with 1,100 people missing 2010 Event Floods in Pakistan kill over 900 people, and the death toll is expected to rise further 2010 Event An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act 2010 Event Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010 2010 Event Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people 2010 Event Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi minister, also known as Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the poison gas attack at Halabja 2009 Event Six people sentenced to death over ethnic rioting in July that killed almost 200 in the region of Xinjiang 2009 Event Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment 2009 Event Internet traffic reaches unprecedented levels after entertainer Michael Jackson's death triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief 2006 Event Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court 2005 Event The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18 2004 Event Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors 2004 Death Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, writer/physician, On Death and Dying, dies at 78 2004 Event At least 250 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia 2003 Death Charles Bronson, tough actor, Death Wish, dies at 81 2003 Event An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002 2000 Death Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78 2000 Death "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86 1998 Event Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards 1998 Event At least 119 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia 1997 Event British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901 1997 Event Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death 1997 Event Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh 1997 Death Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50 1997 Event Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death 1996 Event O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true" 1996 Death Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party 1996 Death Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 1995 Event New York City reinstates the death penalty 1995 Event "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth New York City after 55 performances 1995 Event "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth New York City for 55 performances 1995 Death Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death 1995 Event New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty 1995 Death Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29 1994 Death Dedrick Gobert, U.S. actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22 1994 Death Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82 1994 Event 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin 1994 Event 126 degrees F (52.2 degrees C) in Death Valley California 1994 Event 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa 1994 Death Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48 1994 Event Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti 1994 Event Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5 1994 Event President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death 1993 Death Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92 1993 Death Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44 1993 Death Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25 1993 Death Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death 1993 Death Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50 1993 Death Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in New York since 1954, dies 1993 Death Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40 1993 Death Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South Africa, shot to death 1993 Death Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44 1993 Death James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys 1993 Death Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death 1992 Event New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train 1992 Event "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances 1992 Event John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos 1992 Event "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances 1992 Death Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies 1991 Event 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York City 1991 Death Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella 1991 Death Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies 1991 Death Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies 1991 Death Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64 1990 Event Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years 1990 Death Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37 1990 Death Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31 1990 Event Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death 1990 Event 1st sudden death U.S. Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin 1990 Event Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977 1990 Death Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84 1989 Death Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59 1989 Event 96 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England 1989 Event Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses" 1989 Event U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" 1988 Event China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938 1988 Death Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death 1988 Death Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59 1988 Event John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem 1987 Event 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man 1987 Event 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" 1987 Event Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads 1987 Event Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa sentenced to death 1987 Event "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor 1987 Death R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference 1986 Event Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season) 1986 Event Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi 1986 Death Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75 1986 Death L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74 1985 Death Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at 67 1984 Event Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine 1984 Event California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital 1983 Event Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway 1983 Death Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62 1983 Event Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia 1983 Event NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period 1983 Death Arthur Koestler, Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77 1983 Death Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89 1983 Event China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life 1982 Death Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87 1982 Event 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules 1982 Event 3 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot 1981 Event 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death 1981 Event Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death 1980 Event U.S.S.R. formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin 1980 Event 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up 1980 Event 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador 1980 Event South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death 1980 Event Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1979 Death Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death 1979 Event Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone 1979 Event Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran 1979 Event Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto 1978 Death Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in Puerto Rico at 73 1978 Event Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death 1978 Death Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious 1977 Death Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20 1977 Event Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws 1976 Event Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers 1976 Event Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual 1975 Event Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna 1975 Event Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens 1974 Death Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57 1974 Death Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas and Papas), chokes to death in London at 32 1973 Event Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman 1973 Event Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death 1972 Death Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21 1972 Death Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 1972 Event "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances 1972 Event Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual 1972 Event California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty 1971 Event Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping 1971 Event "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per 1971 Birthday Luke Wilson, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, films include, 'Blades of Glory', 'You Kill Me', 'Blonde Ambition', 'Henry Poole is Here', 'Death at a Funeral' 1971 Death George Jackson, U.S. prisoner, shot to death at 29 1971 Death Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death 1971 Death Fernandel, Contandin, French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67 1970 Event 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death) 1970 Birthday Donald Tardy, U.S., death metal drummer, Obituary, Cause of Death 1970 Death James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep and Limelites), beaten to death 1969 Event Britain abolishes death penalty 1969 Event British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty 1969 Event Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death 1969 Event "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois University newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death 1969 Death Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25 1969 Death Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57 1969 Event Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death 1969 Death Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69 1969 Event Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy 1968 Event 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 Death Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death 1968 Birthday Frank Watkins, U.S. heavy metalist bass, Obituary, Cause of Death 1967 Birthday Allen West, U.S. metal guitarist, Obituary, Cause of Death 1967 Event Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair 1967 Event Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death 1966 Event French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry 1965 Event 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner) 1964 Death Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29 1964 Event Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder 1964 Death Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on 1963 Death Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death 1962 Event South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes 1961 Event Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann 1961 Death John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies 1961 Event President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) 1960 Death Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life and Death), dies at 55 1959 Death Boughera El Quafi, marathoner, Gold Medal 1928 Olympics, shot to death at 60 1959 Birthday Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, actress, Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2 1959 Death Carl Switzer, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang), shot to death at 31 1959 Event De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts 1958 Death John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67 1958 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 1956 Event Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger 1956 Event Britain abolishes death penalty 1955 Event 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17 1955 Death James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY 1954 Birthday Murtaza Bhutto, born in Karachi Pakistan, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court 1952 Event Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death 1952 Birthday Stephen Lang, born in New York City, actor, Another You, Death of a Salesman 1951 Death Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death 1951 Birthday Olivia Hussey, born in Buenos Aires, actress, Romeo and Juliet, Death on Nile 1951 Event Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death 1951 Death Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63 1951 Event Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" 1951 Event "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1950 Event Death penality abolished in Belgium 1950 Event Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death 1950 Event President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence 1950 Event U.S.S.R. re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage 1949 Death Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death 1949 Death Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death 1949 Event Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" 1949 Event 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman and Kiss Me Kate win 1949 Event Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, New York City 1949 Event Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter 1948 Death Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers 1948 Event Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1948 Event Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death 1948 Event Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death 1948 Event The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death 1948 Event Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason 1947 Birthday Marisa Berenson, New York City, actress, Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB 1947 Event NFL adds 5th official (back judge) and allows sudden death in playoffs 1946 Event Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced 1946 Birthday Felton Perry, actor, Magnum Force, Sudden Death 1946 Event 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg 1946 Event Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial 1946 Event U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau 1946 Event U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1946 Death Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed 1945 Event Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death 1945 Event Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl 1945 Event Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London 1945 Event Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis 1945 Event U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1945 Death Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 1945 Event Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1944 Event Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced 1944 Event Hungarian death march of Jews ends 1944 Death Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn 1944 Death Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death 1944 Event All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died 1944 Event Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins 1944 Event 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 Event Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1944 Event Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death 1944 Event 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1943 Birthday Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress, Love is Colder than Death 1943 Death Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death 1943 Event SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Birthday Bruce Weitz, Norwalk, Connecticut, actor, Hill St. Blues, Death of a Centerfold 1943 Event Rauter signs unofficial death sentence 1943 Death ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance 1943 Event Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death 1942 Event Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death 1941 Event Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death 1941 Event 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague 1941 Death Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death 1940 Event Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death 1939 Death Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70 1939 Birthday John Fahey, singer, Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death 1938 Birthday Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress, Bloodline, Death Watch 1937 Birthday Merle Haggard, Bakersfield, California, country singer, Death Valley Days 1937 Event 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1936 Birthday Lars Gustafsson, born in Vasteras, Sweden, professor, University of Texas at Austin, author, wrote 'The Death of a Beekeeper' 1935 Birthday Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish 1934 Birthday Maggie Smith, born in Ilford, England, actress, Death on Nile, Clash of Titans 1934 Birthday Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer and songwriter, Death of Ladies Man 1934 Death Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59 1933 Event Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death 1933 Event Death penality for anti fascists in Germany 1932 Event Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1932 Death Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd 1931 Birthday John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone, Death in Venice 1931 Birthday Perry Lopez, born in New York City, actor, Chinatown, Death Wish 4 1930 Event 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio 1930 Birthday Silvana Mangano, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Death in Venice, Barabbas 1930 Birthday Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man 1929 Birthday Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, Death of Artemio Cruz 1929 Event Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death 1929 Birthday James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death 1928 Death Arnold Rothstein, A R, U.S. businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46 1928 Birthday Jimmy Logan, British comedian, Mad Death 1927 Event Italy and U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences 1924 Birthday Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer, Death of Narcissus 1923 Event Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1923 Event Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding 1923 Birthday Dale Robertson, Harrah, Oklahoma, actor, Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty 1923 Birthday Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death 1922 Birthday William Manchester, born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, historian, Death of a President 1921 Birthday Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty, 1960 1921 Event Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death 1921 Birthday Peter Ustinov, born in London, actor, Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd 1920 Death Claude Tozer, cricketer, dashing NSW batsman, shot to death 1920 Birthday Charles Bronson, Buchinsky, Penns, actor, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen 1920 Death Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27 1920 Birthday Dirk Bogarde, born in London, England, actor, Death in Venice, Servant 1918 Death Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46 1918 Death Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Death Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Death Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Death Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Death Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Death Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Death Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Birthday Joseph Allen, Jr., born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Death of a Champion 1917 Birthday Jessica Mitford, author, American Way of Death 1916 Death Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57 1915 Birthday Arthur Miller, New York City, playwright, Death of a Salesman, Crucible 1915 Event Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 1915 Birthday Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer, Death of Me 1913 Death Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse 1911 Birthday Robert Taylor, Filley, Nebraska, actor, Death Valley Days 1911 Death Gustav Mahler, Austr composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50 1910 Death Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death 1910 Birthday Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor, Death in Venice 1909 Birthday James Agee, American author, African Queen, Death in Family 1907 Birthday Adrienne Ames, Fort Worth, Texas, actress, Death Kiss, Panama Patrol 1906 Birthday Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice 1906 Birthday Roger Livesey, born in Barry, Wales, actor, Drums, Life and Death of Col Blimp 1905 Birthday Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail 1902 Event Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria 1901 Birthday Jo Mielziner, born in Paris, set designer, Carousel, Death of a Salesman 1900 Event 250 grave robbers shot to death 1899 Death Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (New York City) 1899 Birthday Elizabeth Bowen, born in Dublin, novelist, Death of the Heart, Encounters 1899 Birthday Royal Beal, Brookline, Massachusetts, actor, Death of a Salesman 1897 Event Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll) 1895 Event North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass 1894 Event Death duties 1st introduced in Britain 1892 Death Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?) 1891 Death Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day 1888 Death Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to death in London, 1st of at least five murders by Jack the Ripper 1886 Event 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda 1882 Event Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket" 1876 Event Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death 1871 Death Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death 1869 Birthday William V Moody, U.S. poet, Death of Eve, Faith Healer 1867 Birthday Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death 1864 Event Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death 1861 Death Elmer Ellsworth, U.S. warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23 1851 Event Earl G. Andrassy sentenced to death in Hungary 1850 Event Vice President Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death 1849 Birthday Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death" 1849 Death Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 1848 Death Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54 1847 Event Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1846 Event U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty 1844 Event Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death 1837 Event Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1836 Event British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death 1834 Birthday John Acton, born in Naples, Italy, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie 1829 Event Britain abolished "suttee" in India, widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre 1826 Event Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews 1825 Death Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77 1820 Death Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1817 Birthday Janos Arany, born in Hungary, epic poet, Toldi, Death of King Buda 1815 Event Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death 1815 Death Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74 1795 Event Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao 1793 Event French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1789 Event Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes" 1778 Birthday Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter, Court of Death 1775 Event Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1770 Birthday Daniel Lambert, born in England, giant, weighed 739 lbs, 334 kg, at death 1748 Birthday Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter, Death of Marat 1740 Birthday Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert 1738 Birthday Benjamin West, painter, Death of General Wolfe 1736 Birthday Patrick Henry, U.S., patriot "Give me liberty or give me death" 1730 Event States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy" 1717 Event German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam 1702 Event England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III 1676 Death King Philip, Metacomet, leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death 1646 Event Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word 1600 Event Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1598 Event Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso 1598 Event Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I 1587 Event English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence 1562 Event Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1558 Event Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary 1555 Event Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 1547 Event King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII 1547 Event Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death 1545 Death Pierre Brully, Peter Brulius, calvinist minister, burned to death 1533 Event Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa 1531 Death Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop 1524 Death Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death 1476 Event 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy 1429 Death Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death 1349 Event 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots 1349 Event Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1349 Event Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) 1349 Event 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany 1264 Event Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen 1099 Death Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death 399 Event Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death 180 Event Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago 117 Event Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch
