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Dictator of the Roman Empire Julius Gaius Caesar is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators at the age of 145 in Theatrum Pompeii, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Sunday 15th of March 1767

7th President of the United States Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory is born in Lancaster, Waxhaws, South Carolina, United States.

Wednesday 15th of March 1820

Maine is admitted as 23rd of the United States in Augusta, Maine, United States.

Friday 15th of March 1907

Actress Zarah Leander is born as Sara Stina Hedberg in Karlstad, Värmland, Sweden.

Thursday 15th of March 1923

53-year-old Political theorist and communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is struck by a third stroke in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Wednesday 15th of March 1933

Murderer William Larocque is executed by hanging at the age of 57 in Prison de L'Orignal, 1023 Queen Street, L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada.

Wednesday 15th of March 1933

Murderer Emmanuel Lavictoire is executed by hanging at the age of 51 in Prison de L'Orignal, 1023 Queen Street, L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada.

Friday 15th of March 1935

Evangelist Jimmy Lee Swaggart known from The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, United States.

Monday 15th of March 1937

Horror fiction writer H. P. Howard Philips Lovecraft dies of cancer of the small intestine at the age of 47 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Monday 15th of March 1943

Film director David Paul Cronenberg aka Dave Deprave aka The Baron of Blood is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Saturday 15th of March 1947

Sadist murderer Marc Fasquel is born in La Chaussée-Tirancourt, Hauts de France, France.

Saturday 15th of March 1952

Double murderer William Dean Wickline aka The Butcher is born in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States.

Friday 15th of March 1957

Kidnapper and murderer Burton Wilbur 'Bud' Abbott is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Thursday 15th of March 1962

Presumed murderer Carlos DeLuna is born in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States.

Friday 15th of March 1963

37-year-old Murderer Geza de Kaplany aka The Acid Doctor is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder torture of his wife Geza de Kaplany with a mixture of hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acid in San Jose, California, United States.

Friday 15th of March 1963

Murderer Victor Harry Feguer is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Iowa State Penitentiary, Fort Madison, Iowa, United States.

Feguer's last meal request was for a single olive with the pit still in it. He told guards he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his grave as a sign of peace. Feguer was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Madison City Cemetery in Iowa wearing a second new suit that was provided for his burial.

Saturday 15th of March 1975

Shipping magnate and businessman Aristotelis Socrates Onassis dies of respiratory failure at the age of 69 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 15th of March 1975

26-year-old Julie Cunningham is abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Vail, Colorado, United States.

Weeks later Bundy made the six-hour drive from Salt Lake City, Utah to revisit her remains buried in Rifle, Colorado.

Tuesday 15th of March 1977

21-year-old Jon Prestidge is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 15th of March 1977

42-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker tries to commit suicide by setting himself on fire in Camden County Jail, 330 Federal Street, Camden, New Jersey, United States.

A week later Kallinger was moved to Trenton State Prison for psychiatric care.

Sunday 15th of March 1981

31-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Francis Hughes starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Thursday 15th of March 1984

15-year-old Colleen Emily Orsborn is abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

Orsborn's remains were finally identified in March 2011 through a DNA match with her sister 27 years after she went missing

Tuesday 15th of March 1988

Murderer Willie Jasper Darden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 55 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

Monday 15th of March 1993

44-year-old Mustapha Mohamed 'Haj' Tabit is sentenced to death for indecent assault, rape, violence, abduction and of sequestrating a married woman, in addition to other assaults in Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco.

Tabit was arrested in February for carrying pornographic tapes that featured more than 500 women and several important political figures. Around thirty people were accused of their complicity and involvement and were sentenced to various penalties.

Saturday 15th of March 1997

Artist Victor Vasarely aka The Grandfather of Op Art dies of prostate cancer at the age of 91 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 15th of March 1998

Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock dies of cancer at the age of 95 in La Jolla, California, United States.

Wednesday 15th of March 2000

Double murderer Patrick Gene Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Wednesday 15th of March 2000

Serial rapist and murderer Darrell Keith Rich aka The Hilltop Rapist is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Wednesday 15th of March 2000

Double murderer Timothy Lane Gribble is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 15th of March 2006

Double murderer Tommie Tom Andrew Hughes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

For his final meal, Hughes requested six pieces of fried chicken with hot sauce, six jalapeno peppers, French fries, four buttered rolls, two large sodas and two menthol cigarettes.

Thursday 15th of March 2007

A detail of AMVK's work at the 'Über das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) and a lot of fun' exhibition in DAAD Galerie, Zimmerstraße 90-91, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.