1911 Lucille Ball

Never did like her. Her style of comedy never appealed to me.







1964 Sir Cedric Hardwicke, age 71 – British actor (Suspicion, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stanley and Livingstone, The Ten Commandments, Around the World in Eighty Days, Rope, I Remember Mama) He was the father of Edward Hardwicke

I think Edward Hardwicke was the best Watson of them all.







1890 William Kemmler – Convicted murderer, died at Auburn Prison in New York. His was the first execution by electrocution in history. He had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe.

Perhaps if criminals still feared punishment there would be less crime. There would certainly be less repeat offenders.