2006 Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court
2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18
2004 Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors
2004 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, writer/physician, On Death and Dying, dies at 78
2004 At least 250 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia
2003 Charles Bronson, tough actor, Death Wish, dies at 81
2003 An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002
2000 Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78
2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86
1998 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 At least 119 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia
1997 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901
1997 Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death
1997 Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
1997 Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50
1997 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1996 O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1995 New York City reinstates the death penalty
1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth New York City after 55 performances
1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth New York City for 55 performances
1995 Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1995 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
1994 Dedrick Gobert, U.S. actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22
1994 Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82
1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 126 degrees F (52.2 degrees C) in Death Valley California
1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
1994 Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1993 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92
1993 Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44
1993 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
1993 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50
1993 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in New York since 1954, dies
1993 Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1993 Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1993 Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys
1993 Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
1992 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 "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1992 "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances
1992 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies
1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York City
1991 Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies
1991 Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies
1991 Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64
1990 Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
1990 Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37
1990 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1990 1st sudden death U.S. Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1990 Michael Powell, Engl director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
1989 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59
1989 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1989 U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death
1988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads
1987 Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa sentenced to death
1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor
1987 R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1986 Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1986 L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74
1985 Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at 67
1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine
1984 Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44
1984 California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital
1983 Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway
1983 Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62
1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia
1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
1983 Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1983 Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89
1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1982 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87
1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1980 U.S.S.R. formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
1980 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1980 South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1979 Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death
1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone
1979 Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran
1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1978 Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
1977 Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1976 Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1975 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57
1974 Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas and Papas), chokes to death in London at 32
1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
1973 Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death
1972 Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
1972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86
1972 "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances
1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual
1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
1971 Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1971 "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per
1971 George Jackson, U.S. prisoner, shot to death at 29
1971 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
1971 Fernandel, [Contandin], French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67
1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death)
1970 Donald Tardy, U.S., death metal drummer, Obituary, Cause of Death
1970 James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep and Limelites), beaten to death
1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
1969 Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
1969 "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois Univ newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death
1969 Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57
1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69
1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
1968 Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death
1968 Frank Watkins, U.S. heavy metalist bass, Obituary, Cause of Death
1967 Allen West, U.S. metal guitarist, Obituary, Cause of Death
1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair
1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1966 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1965 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
1964 Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1964 Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
1963 Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
1960 Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life and Death), dies at 55
1959 Boughera El Quafi, marathoner 1928 Olympics gold, shot to death at 60
1959 Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, actress, Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2
1959 Carl Switzer, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang), shot to death at 31
1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
1958 John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67
1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1956 Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
1956 Britain abolishes death penalty
1955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 Stephen Lang, born in New York City, actor, Another You, Death of a Salesman
1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
1951 Olivia Hussey, born in Buenos Aires, actress, Romeo and Juliet, Death on Nile
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1951 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63
1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1950 Death penality abolished in Belgium
1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1950 President Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
1950 U.S.S.R. re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage
1949 Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
1949 Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death
1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1949 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman and Kiss Me Kate win
1949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, New York City
1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter
1948 Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
1947 Marisa Berenson, New York City, actress, Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB
1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) and allows sudden death in playoffs
1946 Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced
1946 Felton Perry, actor, Magnum Force, Sudden Death
1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1946 Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial
1946 U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
1946 U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1945 Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1945 U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1945 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1944 Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced
1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends
1944 Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
1944 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
1944 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
1943 Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress, Love is Colder than Death
1943 Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death
1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1943 Bruce Weitz, Norwalk, Connecticut, actor, Hill St. Blues, Death of a Centerfold
1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1943 ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
1943 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
1942 Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
1941 Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death
1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1939 Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70
1939 John Fahey, singer, Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
1938 Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress, Bloodline, Death Watch
1937 Merle Haggard, Bakersfield, California, country singer, Death Valley Days
1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death
1935 Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish
1934 Maggie Smith, born in Ilford, England, actress, Death on Nile, Clash of Titans
1934 Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer and songwriter, Death of Ladies Man
1934 Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
1933 Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1932 Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1931 John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone, Death in Venice
1931 Perry Lopez, born in New York City, actor, Chinatown, Death Wish 4
1930 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
1930 Silvana Mangano, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Death in Venice, Barabbas
1930 Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man
1929 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, Death of Artemio Cruz
1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929 James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death
1928 Arnold Rothstein, [A R], U.S. businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1928 Jimmy Logan, British comedian, Mad Death
1927 Italy and U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences
1924 Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer, Death of Narcissus
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
1923 Dale Robertson, Harrah, Oklahoma, actor, Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty
1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death
1922 William Manchester, born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, historian, Death of a President
1921 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty, 1960
1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1921 Peter Ustinov, born in London, actor, Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd
1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
1920 Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death
1920 Charles Bronson, [Buchinsky], Penns, actor, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen
1920 Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1920 Dirk Bogarde, born in London, England, actor, Death in Venice, Servant
1918 Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46
1918 Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Joseph Allen, Jr., born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Death of a Champion
1916 Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57
1915 Arthur Miller, New York City, playwright, Death of a Salesman, Crucible
1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1915 Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer, Death of Me
1913 Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
1911 Robert Taylor, Filley, Nebraska, actor, Death Valley Days
1911 Gustav Mahler, Austr composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50
1910 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1910 Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor, Death in Venice
1909 James Agee, American author, African Queen, Death in Family
1907 Adrienne Ames, Fort Worth, Texas, actress, Death Kiss, Panama Patrol
1906 Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice
1906 Roger Livesey, born in Barry, Wales, actor, Drums, Life and Death of Col Blimp
1905 Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail
1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
1901 Jo Mielziner, born in Paris, set designer, Carousel, Death of a Salesman
1900 250 grave robbers shot to death
1899 Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (New York City)
1899 Elizabeth Bowen, born in Dublin, novelist, Death of the Heart, Encounters
1899 Royal Beal, Brookline, Massachusetts, actor, Death of a Salesman
1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)
1895 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1892 Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?)
1888 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 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda
1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"
1876 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
1871 Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
1869 William V Moody, U.S. poet, Death of Eve, Faith Healer
1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death
1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1861 Elmer Ellsworth, U.S. warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23
1851 Earl G. Andrassy sentenced to death in Hungary
1850 VP Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death
1849 Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1848 Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1846 U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty
1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1836 British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1829 Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1826 Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1825 Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77
1820 Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1817 Janos Arany, born in Hungary, epic poet, Toldi, Death of King Buda
1815 Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death
1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes"
1778 Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter, Court of Death
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1770 Daniel Lambert, born in England, giant, weighed 739 lbs, 334 kg, at death
1748 Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter, Death of Marat
1738 Benjamin West, painter, Death of General Wolfe
1736 Patrick Henry, U.S., patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
1730 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1702 England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1676 King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1646 Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word
1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1598 Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso
1598 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1545 Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
1533 Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1531 Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1524 Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death
1476 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
1429 Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death
1349 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1099 Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death
399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
180 Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago
117 Hadrianus hears of death of emperor Trajanus of Antioch
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