Artist birthday: Jewel Kilcher
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Bummer May 23rd
May 23, 1926: Playwright Henrik Ibsen dies after his third stroke.
May 23, 1934: Murderous bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are driving a 1934 Ford Deluxe V-8, with Barrow at the wheel, when they notice Henry Methvin, a member of their “gang,” parked at the side of the road. Unknown to them, Methvin is working with law enforcement, who are hiding in the nearby bushes. As Barrow slows down the Ford to talk to Methvin, police open fire, firing 160 rounds into the Ford. Barrow, struck in the head, dies almost instantly. Parker is also killed at the scene; witnesses describe hearing her scream as bullets strike her.
May 23, 1990: While Scottish psychedelic/electronic band The Shamen is in the Canary Islands filming a music video for its song “Move Any Mountain,” band member Will Sinnott, who performed under the name Will Sinn, drowns off the coast of La Gomera island. Unconfirmed reports implicate psychedelic drugs in his drowning accident.
May 23, 1999: Canadian wrestler Owen Hart dies during a match in Kansas City, Missouri. As Hart is being lowered into the ring, his harness fails. Hart falls 78 feet onto the top rope, severing his aorta. Hart’s lungs fill with blood; he dies from blunt force trauma and internal bleeding at the hospital.
