Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 October 1440

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Lancaster poisoned his wife, her father, her three sisters, her former fiancé, her aunt and a servant and to make it look like a local epidemic, went on to poison some of his neighbours. Lancaster was hung from his own front door at High Wray Farm and then taken by horse and cart to Poole Stang where his body was placed on a gibbet to rot away.
(8 April 1672)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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BirthFactDeath (x) Wednesday 21st of October 1440 586 years, 6 months and 9 days ago
35-year-old baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais, originally Gilles de Montmorency-Laval aka Gilles de Retz makes a full confession of his crimes in court in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France.