Lee Albert Miglin (July 12, 1924 – May 4, 1997) was an American real estate developer, businessman, and philanthropist. He was born in Westville, Illinois. Miglin went on to become a successful real estate developer in partnership with J. Paul Beitler. They proposed building a 125-floor skyscraper in Chicago, the Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle; however, the building was never built.
Miglin was murdered at his garage in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood on May 4, 1997 by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. He was 72 years old. He had been tortured with a saw and a screwdriver, his ribs had been broken, he had been beaten and stabbed, and his throat had been slashed with a gardener's bow saw.
The second season of the anthology television series "American Crime Story": "", was about the Cunanan spree where Miglin was played by Mike Farrell.
Westville, Illinois
Westville is a village in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Danville, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Westville's coordinates are (40.043286, -87.637995). According to the 2010 census, Westville has a total area of , all land.
Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was an American serial killer and gold digger. He murdered five people, including Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin, during a three-month period from April to July 1997. He was a gay prostitute.
Cunanan was born in National City, California. He lived in San Diego, California. He had antisocial personality disorder. Cunanan studied, but dropped out shortly afterwards from the University of California, San Diego.
Cunanan's serial killings began in Minneapolis on April 27, 1997, with the murder of his close friend 28-year-old Jeffrey Trail. He later murdered his ex-boyfriend David Madson by shooting him in the back near Rush City, Minnesota. On May 4, 1997, he drove to Chicago where he killed real estate developer Lee Miglin at his Gold Coast home by stabbing him multiple times. Five days later, Cunanan shot and killed 45-year-old cemetery caretaker William Reese and stole his red pickup truck.
On July 15, Cunanan murdered Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace, shooting him twice on the front stairway of his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina. A witness pursued Cunanan but was unable to catch him.
On July 23, 1997, eight days after killing Versace, Cunanan killed himself with a gunshot through the mouth while living in a boat as police officials were close to arresting him. He was 27 years old.
Cunanan was played by Darren Criss in "", which premiered on January 17, 2018. Criss won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie" and a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actor – Miniseries, or Television Film" for his portrayal.
Rush City, Minnesota
Rush City is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,079 at the 2010 census. It is fifty-eight miles north of Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
Darren Criss
Darren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He is known for his roles as Blaine Anderson in the series "Glee" and as serial killer Andrew Cunanan in the limited crime series "" (2018). For his role as Cunanan, he won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Hugo, Minnesota
Hugo is a small town in eastern Minnesota. It is in Washington County. The town is 21 miles northeast of St. Paul.
Jason Reese
Jason Meredith Reese (24 June 1967 – 8 March 2019) was a British engineering scientist. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His research was in multiscale flow systems. He won the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Reese died on 8 March 2019, at the age of 51.
Dobrica Erić
Dobrica Erić (; August 22, 1936 – March 29, 2019) was a Serbian writer and poet.
He was the author of many novels, five books of romantic poetry, 23 poetry books, 5 theatre dramas and over 40 children's books. His first book of poetry was published in 1959. His works have been translated into many languages. He lived and worked in Belgrade and Gruža.
Erić died in Belgrade on March 29, 2019 from lung cancer at the age of 82.
Édgar Ramírez
Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano (, born March 25, 1977) is a Venezuelan actor and former journalist. He was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela.
He played Carlos the Jackal in the 2010 French-German biopic series "Carlos". He won the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2011 for the role and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for best actor.
He also played Larry, a CIA operative in the movie "Zero Dark Thirty", Paz—a CIA assassin—in "The Bourne Ultimatum", and Roberto Durán, a four-time world-champion boxer and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, in "Hands of Stone".
Ramírez starred as Gianni Versace in the limited crime series "". He also starred as Bodhi in the 2015 movie "Point Break".
Geoff Harvey
Geoffrey John Harvey (6 August 1935 – 30 March 2019) was an English-Australian pianist, conductor, musical director and television personality. He worked at the Australian Nine Network for 38 years. He was known for starring on "The Mike Walsh Show" and "Midday". He was born in London.
Harvey was a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia during the 2006 Queen's Birthday honours for "service to the community as a musician and entertainer, and through support for charitable organisations".
Harvey died on 30 March 2019 in Berrima, New South Wales at the age of 83.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. She was best-known for her installation art and large-scale sculptures. She was also a painter and printmaker.
Bourgeois explored many themes over her career, including domesticity, family, sexuality and death.
Bourgeois was born in Paris, France.
Ruben Tovmasyan
Ruben Tovmasyan (; February 15, 1937 – March 30, 2019) was an Armenian politician. He was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He was the General Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party from 2005 to 2014.
Tovmasyan died on March 30, 2019 in Yerevan from thyroid cancer, aged 82.
Cobh
Cobh, known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland.
Cobh the last port visited by the RMS "Titanic".
After the RMS "Lusitania" sank in May 1915, its passengers were taken to Cobh.
The port had several Irish language names. It was first called "Cove" in 1750. It was renamed "Queenstown" in 1849 to honor a visit by Queen Victoria. The name was later renamed again, this time to "Cobh".
Frances Farmer
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress and television hostess. She was in over a dozen movies during her career.
Farmer was born in Seattle, Washington. She began acting in stage productions while she was a student at the University of Washington. When she graduated, she began performing in stock theatre. She later signed a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1936.
Farmer's first movie was "Too Many Parents" (1936). That was followed by a lead role in the musical western "Rhythm on the Range" (also 1936).
Farmer was unhappy with the opportunities given to her by the studio. She returned to stock theater in 1937. She was cast in the original Broadway production of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy".
Farmer was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 1970. The cancer was tied to her lifelong habit of heavy smoking. She died from the cancer in Indianapolis, Indiana at age 56.
Zuzana Čaputová
Zuzana Čaputová (; née Strapáková; born 21 June 1973) is a Slovak politician, lawyer and activist. She is the 5th President of Slovakia who took office on 15 June 2019.
Čaputová is the first woman to hold the presidency, as well as the youngest president in the history of Slovakia, at age 45.
Volodymyr Zelensky