A basement at an unspecified location in Borgerhout.
1888 (+) Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, is born in Mogilev, Russia.
1904 (+) Artist Salvador Dali is born in Figueras, Gerona, Spain.
1916 (-) Composer Max Reger dies at the age of 43 in Leipzig, Germany.
1920 (-) Millionaire, bridge-expert and womanizer Joseph Elwell is shot dead by persons unknown in New York, 244 West 70th street, New York, USA.
1928 (-) Cop Killer John Whitfield is shot dead whilst escaping from the Ohio State Penitentiary in Ohio, USA.
1945 (-) Gauleiter of Sudetenland Konrad Henlein commits suicide by cutting his veins with broken glasses at the age of 47 in an allied POW camp in Plzen, Czechoslowakia.
1947 (x) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It was her third escape, but she was recaptured 12 hours later.
1947 (x) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, has her death sentence commuted to life-imprisonment after 20 years in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
1959 (x) Actor Peter Lorre originally Laszlo Lowenstein, suffers a heart-attack while directing a film in Spain.
1966 (-) Genowefa B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 36 in Lagiza-Nieplieko, Poland.
1968 (-) An unidentified boy is attacked by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, in Newcastle, Scotswood, Delaval Arms, United Kingdom.
1972 (x) A bomb-attack is executed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on the US-armt 5th Corps headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.
1980 (-) Pamela Weisenfeld is tortured and beaten to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 27 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA.
1981 (-) Musician Bob Marley dies of lung cancer and a brain tumor at the age of 36 in Miami, Florida, USA.
1983 (-) Dominique Crete is stabbed to death by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 16 in Amiens, France.
1985 (x) 56 Die in soccer-stadium fire in Bradford, United Kingdom.
1985 (x) 11 members of a religious cult die in a shoot-out with the police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1989 (-) Sascha Djakonow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 8 in Rostow, Kamenka, Russia.
1993 (x) Over 200 Die in Toy-factory fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
2000 (-) Double murderer Michael McBride is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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