Wednesday 11th of March 1931
Expressionist film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau known for Nosferatu dies of head injuries suffered in a car crash at the age of 43 in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
The day before Murnau's 14-year-old Filippino servant crashed their hired Rolls Royce against an electric pole.
While working at a coffee shop in Chicago, the passenger of their car accidentally struck their driver who was also an electrician and had a head start.
The accident became the catalyst for an all out series of strikes which culminated in the death of one of their own conductor, Walter Murnau,
Mr. Murnau died at the age of 42 on 26 December 1936.
He was buried on December 16, 1936 in a stone coffin in his home state of Illinois in Pleasant Grove, Illinois.
He was a regular visitor to the family grave, which was where the deceased mummified his dead wife to be hung.
He was survived by his son Walter Murnau at his second marriage to his second wife, Margaret Lomond.
As a child Murnau was known on the street for his unusual style of singing, which included a double electric-bomber.
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