One of his eyeballs had been split cleanly in two, suggesting he had been asleep when attacked. His wife Abby was also killed. "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." (4 August 1892)
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Sunday 21st of April 1918 (-) — Fighter pilot and flying ace Manfred von Richthofen is fatally shot in his Fokker Dr.I 425/17 by Canadian Captain Arthur 'Roy' Brown. von Richthofen died from an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single .303 bullet penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple. von Richthofen's last word was "kaputt".