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Thomas Nickerson. Thomas Gibson Nickerson (March 20, 1805 – February 7, 1883) was an American sailor and author. In 1819, when he was fourteen years old, Nickerson served as cabin boy on the whaleship Essex. On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale, and the crew spent three months at sea before the survivors were rescued.
Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874—1957), Head of British Mission Belgian, Grand Quartier Général. Brigadier-General John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (1871—1942), Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade. Brigadier Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins [ 2 ] (1891—1969), Royal Army Medical Corps.
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG, PC (/ ˈdɛvəˌruː /; 10 November 1565 [1] – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years ...
Essex lorry deaths. On 23 October 2019, the bodies of 39 Vietnamese people — 31 men and 8 women — were found in the trailer of an articulated refrigerator lorry in Grays, Essex, United Kingdom. The trailer had been shipped from the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet, Essex, UK, and the lorry cab and its driver are believed to have ...
The following is a list of deaths in March 2009.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Mark Essex. Mark James Robert Essex (August 12, 1949 [4] – January 7, 1973) was an American serial sniper and black nationalist known as the "New Orleans Sniper" who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve others, in two separate attacks in New Orleans on December 31, 1972, and January 7, 1973.
Livingston is a township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,330, [9] [10] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 1,964 (+6.7%) from 29,366 recorded at the 2010 census, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 1,975 (+7.2%) from the 27,391 counted in the 2000 census. [20]
McVicar was born in London on 21 March 1940. [1] The son of shopkeepers, George and Diane McVicar, in 1965 he fathered a son, Russell, conceived with his girlfriend, Shirley Wilshire, while he was on the run from HMP Parkhurst. Shirley and McVicar married in 1972, but she divorced him before his final release from prison in 1978. [5]