Wednesday 28th of March 1584

Grand Prince of Moscow and Tsar of Russia Ivan the Terrible dies of a stroke while playing chess with his associate Bogdan Belsky at the age of 54 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Wednesday 28th of March 1849

Botanist, numismatist and Sinologist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Saturday 28th of March 1868

Writer and political activist Maxim Gorky is born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Friday 28th of March 1879

Irish republican hunger striker Terence James MacSwiney is born as Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne in 3 North Main Street, Cork City, Munster, Ireland.

Monday 28th of March 1881

Composer Modest Pyotrovich Mussorgsky dies of a seizure at the age of 42 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Monday 28th of March 1898

Wife and victim of John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place Ethel Simpson is born as Simpson Waddington in 30 St Luke Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Sunday 28th of March 1920

Actor Dirk Bogarde is born as Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in 12 Hemstal Road, London, West Hampstead, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 28th of March 1921

Assassin of Ernst vom Rath Herschel Feibel Grynszpan is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Tuesday 28th of March 1922

Entrepreneur Theodor Paul 'Theo' Albrecht known for co-founding Aldi supermarket is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Friday 28th of March 1924

Writer Gerhard Fritsch is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Sunday 28th of March 1937

54-year-old Mary Gedeon and her 20-year-old daughter Veronica are strangled and waiter Frank Byrnes is stabbed to death with an icepic by 30-year-old Artist, recurring mental hospital patient and murderer Robert George Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor in 316 East 50th Street, New York City, New York, United States.

"Bob Irwin is nothing. I am only a receiving set. An extremely imperfect one, which can indistinctly tune in the divine mind. You have heard a radio that isn’t working well."

Friday 28th of March 1941

Writer Virginia Adeline Stephen Woolf commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in River Ouse, Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Her body was not found until 18 April 1941. "I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work."

Saturday 28th of March 1942

Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Clement Dennett is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Saturday 28th of March 1942

Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall is born in Zschochau, Sachsen, Germany.

Sunday 28th of March 1943

Romantic composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff dies of melanoma at the age of 70 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Sunday 28th of March 1954

Psychotic murderer Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Sunday 28th of March 1954

Child molester and killer Arthur Frederick Goode is born in Hyattsville, Maryland, United States.

Monday 28th of March 1955

31-year-old Serial killer Leslie 'Joe Goebbels' Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer shoots 51-year-old Goebel Duncan, 29-year-old Raymond Duncan and 20-year-old Maple Elizabeth Duncan in Trigg-Turner Road, Henderson, Kentucky, United States.

Goebel's 49-year-old wife Mamie was shot but survived permanently blinded. Elizabeth had a two-year-old daughter Shirley Faye who was spared.

Friday 28th of March 1958

Wrestler Curt Curtis Michael Hennig aka Mr. Perfect is born in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, United States.

"I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced."

Thursday 28th of March 1968

Journalist, writer and political activist Iris Shun-Ru Chang known for her account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking is born in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

Friday 28th of March 1969

34th President of the United States Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 79 in Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Thursday 28th of March 1974

36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 44. Aktion in Kunstverein München, Galeriestraße 4, München, Bayern, Germany.

Monday 28th of March 1977

23-year-old Sylvia Lauterbach is beaten to death by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Wednesday 28th of March 1979

20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Thriller' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

I stood facing a wall. A razorblade was pressed between my lips and the wall. I stayed as long as I could.

Wednesday 28th of March 1979

A partial nuclear meltdown of the TMI-2 reactor in Unit 2 occurs due to a loss-of-coolant accident in Three Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

Within days 140.000 people had left the area to escape the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.

Thursday 28th of March 1985

Artist Marc Zakharovich Chagall dies of natural causes at the age of 98 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Monday 28th of March 1994

Playwright Eugène Ionesco dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 28th of March 1999

Messieurs Delmotte at an artists gathering in Galerie Nadja Vilenne, 5 Rue du Commandant Marchand, Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Friday 28th of March 2003

Noise music band Club Moral play their 95th concert in Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Nicolaas de Liemaeckereplein 2, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Tuesday 28th of March 2006

Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer dies of liver cancer at the age of 67 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

At the time of his death, Brudos was the longest incarcerated inmate in the Oregon Department of Corrections, a total of 37 years.

Wednesday 28th of March 2007

Murderer Vincent Gutierrez aka Flako is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Gutierrez' last meal request was for five cheese enchiladas, two carne guisada tacos, an onion, a tomato, two jalapeno peppers, a bunch of grapes, a pint of butter pecan ice cream and a banana milkshake or strawberry-flavored milk.