Curated playlist
Death conspiracy theories
- Sam CookeSam Cooke walked into a recording session and began singing Gershwin. His label's head, Art Rupe, was furious.
- Jim MorrisonOn live TV in 1967, Jim Morrison sang a lyric censors had told him to change. Ed Sullivan then banned the Doors.
- Bruce LeeBruce Lee appeared in his first film as a baby. By 18, he had been in 20 films in Hong Kong.
- Death of Benito MussoliniThe partisan who shot Mussolini in 1945 borrowed a submachine gun because his own weapon had jammed.
- Alexander I of RussiaAlexander I of Russia died in 1825, but a legend says he faked it. The story claims he became a Siberian hermit.
- Murder of John LennonJohn Lennon signed an autograph for his killer hours before the shooting. Chapman waited outside the Dakota.
- Subhas Chandra BoseSubhas Chandra Bose is remembered in India as Netaji, a Hindustani title that means Respected Leader. The name did not begin on Indian soil. It was first used in early 1942, in Berlin. The speakers were soldiers of the Indische Legion,…
- Homi J. Bhabha"I am burning with a desire to do physics." A student at Cambridge wrote those words to his father, and he meant every one of them. The student was Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the Indian theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the father…
- Death of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMozart wept while rehearsing his Requiem the afternoon before he died. He set the score aside at the Lacrimosa.
- 2025 Brown University shootingThe 2025 Brown University shooting began shortly after 4 p.m. on the 13th of December 2025, on the second day of final examination week. Brown is an Ivy League university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It…