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He began heavily promoting himself via comic book ads as the Deadliest Man Alive. [16] One had only to mail order his instructional booklet World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets (in which he outlined the "Dance of Death") to also receive a free Black Dragon Fighting Society membership card. These comic book ads account for much of Count Dante's ...
2. 1348 – Black Death. The Black Death, one of history’s deadliest pandemics, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and primarily spread by fleas on rats ...
This is a list of mass/spree killers who attacked schools. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period. [72] [73] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [74] [75] [76]
Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) [2] was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. [3] He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest.
Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Joe Freeman Britt was born on July 22, 1935 [3] in Lumberton, North Carolina. [4] His father was a lawyer. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Wake Forest College, a master's degree in economics at the University of Tennessee, and a law degree from Stetson University in 1962.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Frano Selak or Frane Selak (14 June 1929 – 30 November 2016) was a Croatian man who was known for his unverified depictions about frequent brushes with death.. Selak's alleged near-death experiences began in January 1962 when he was riding a train through a cold, rainy canyon and the train flew off the tracks and crashed in a river.