1324 (-) Explorer Marco Polo dies at the age of 69 in Venice, Italy.
1554 (+) 234th Pope Gregorius XV originally Alessandro Ludovisi, is born in Bologna, Italy.
1836 (-) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre Lacenaire is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 35 in Paris, France.
1890 (+) Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, is born in Berlin, Germany.
1900 (-) Child Murderess Louise Masset is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Newgate Prison, London, United Kingdom.
She was convicted of murdering her young son Manfred in the ladies' lavatories at Dalston Junction station in 1899.
1908 (+) Feminist writer and philosopher Simone De Beauvoir is born in Paris, France.
1913 (+) 37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California, USA.
He was the only president to resign without completing an elected term.
1923 (-) Murderess Edith Thompson originally Graydon, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson.
1923 (-) Murderer Frederick Baywaters is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.
On 3 October 1922 he stabbed his lover Edith Thompson's husband Percy to death.
1925 (+) Actor Lee Van Cleef is born in Somerville, New Jersey, USA.
1925 (-) Wife murderer Sam Flowers is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He killed his wife on 20 february 1923.
1941 (+) Songwriter, musician and activist Joan Baez is born in Staten Island, New York, USA.
1946 (+) RAF 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel is born in Germany.
1950 (+) Musician Ralph Möbius aka Rio Reiser, is born in Berlin, Germany.
1953 (-) Murderer Morris Leland is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in Oregon, USA.
In the summer of 1949 he abducted 15-year-old high school student Thelma Taylor and held her captive under St. John's Bridge in Portland.
1953 (-) Murderer Frank Payne is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in Oregon, USA.
1958 (-) Hitman Elmer Burke aka 'Trigger', is executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
1969 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 7 1/2-year-old girl in her bed in La Rocque, Jersey.
1971 (x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier slashes open his arm and writes "Freedom From Pigs" on the wall of his cell in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
1972 (x) The ocean-liner Queen Elisabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong.
1979 (-) Engineer and inventor of concrete ceilings Piero Luigi Nervi dies at the age of 87 in Rome, Italy.
1984 (-) Natalja Schalopina is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.
1986 (-) Yvonne Couronne is tortured and strangled by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 14th, 8b rue Sarette, France.
1993 (x) 42-year-old Serial Killer William Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is arrested after a routine traffic stop in California, USA.
He is suspected of 22 murders, mostly prostitutes.
1998 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, is sentenced to death in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2001 (-) Murderer Jack Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2004 (-) Murderer Raymond Rowsey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
His final meal was a pizza, chicken wings, two packages of peanut M&M candy and a Pepsi.
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