Curated playlist
Deaths from bleeding
- Jack KerouacJack Kerouac typed On the Road on a 120-foot roll of taped tracing paper. He finished the final draft in 20 days.
- Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong's astronaut application came about a week late, until a colleague slipped it into the pile.
- Gene VincentGene Vincent's hit "Be-Bop-a-Lula" was supposed to be the B-side. Radio stations played it over the A-side.
- Alexander II of RussiaOn the morning a bomb killed him, Alexander II signed a step toward representative government.
- Liam PayneLiam Payne, the English singer and songwriter who lived from 1993 to 2024, once performed in front of 26,000 people at a Wolverhampton Wanderers football match. He was still a child, and almost nobody beyond his home area knew his name.…
- Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky escaped Siberia hidden in a load of hay. He later built the Red Army.
- Al CaponeAl Capone always turned the left side of his face away from the camera. Three knife slashes had scarred that cheek, and he told people they were war wounds. The nickname they earned him, Scarface, was one he loathed. His closest friends…
- Albert Sidney JohnstonAlbert Sidney Johnston bled to death at Shiloh after sending his own surgeon away.
- David LivingstoneDavid Livingstone, a Scottish doctor and missionary, once explained his obsession with Africa to a friend in a single blunt sentence. The sources of the Nile, he said, were "valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among…
- Black DahliaMore than 500 people have confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short, and some of them were not yet born when she died. Short was an American woman from Boston who was found murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947. The press soon gave her…
- Assassination of Alexander II of RussiaAlexander II said "Thank God, I'm untouched" a minute before a second bomb hit him.