A lonely shack on the deserted beach of Vladivostok.
1519 (-) Artist Leonardo Da Vinci dies at the age of 67 in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France.
1887 (+) War pilot Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron, is born in Breslau, Silesia, Germany.
1903 (+) Paediatrician Benjamin Spock is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
1904 (+) Musician and actor Bing Crosby originally Harry Lillis, is born in Tacoma,, Washington, USA.
1930 (x) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for vagrancy in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
1931 (-) Murderer Erich Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 26 in Regensburg, Germany.
1938 (-) William Ramsey is shot dead by Joseph Earlywine at the age of 34 in Penfield, Illinois, USA.
1942 (-) Ivy McLeod is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, at the age of 40 in Melbourne, Australia.
1945 (-) Nazi-leader Martin Bormann commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Berlin, Germany.
His skeleton was only found on 28 december 1972, during construction works near the Lehrter Bahnhof.
1945 (x) The German radio officially anounces the death of the Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany.
1957 (-) Politician and Communist-hunter Joseph McCarthy dies of hepatitis at the age of 41 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
1960 (-) Murderer Caryl Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 38 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1972 (-) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover dies at the age of 77 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1974 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is sentenced to death in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1997 (-) Triple murderer Walter Hill is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 62 in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
1997 (x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Ahmad Suraji aka Nasib Datuk Kalewang aka The Sorcerer, is arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He confessed to the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried.
1999 (-) Actor Oliver Reed dies of a heart-attack at the age of 61 in Valetta, Malta.
He supposedly drank three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer and numerous whiskies in a bar on the night he died.
2006 (x) 113 Die in Armavia Airbus 320 crash in Sotsji, Russia.
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