1809 (+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
1839 (+) Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, France.
1866 (-) Murderess Martha Grinder aka The American Borgia, is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
1866 (-) Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
1870 (-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Paris, Roquette Prison, France.
1879 (+) Writer and revolutionary terrorist Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkov, Russia.
1916 (+) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin is born in London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
1921 (+) Writer Patricia Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
1922 (+) Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwozdziec, Poland.
1933 (-) Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1935 (+) Actress Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA.
1938 (+) Musician Phil Philip Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1943 (+) Musician Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.
1946 (+) Singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Rebecca Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.
1947 (x) 392 Die in Himera Ocean liner hitting a forgotten WWII mine in Athens, Greece.
1954 (+) Photographer Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.
1958 (-) Marion Bartlett is shot, stabbed and choked to death by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 57 in Lincoln, 924 Belmont Avenue, Nebraska, USA.
1962 (x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1970 (-) Régis Tall commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 17 in Lille, Lycée Gaston Berger, France.
1970 (-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 18 in Lille, Lycée Faidherbe, France.
1973 (+) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, is born in Lyon, France.
1981 (-) Mass Murderer Alvin King commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Dangerfield, town jail, Texas, USA.
He used strips torn from his towel to make the hanging rope.
1981 (-) Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a window at the age of 22 in New York, New York, USA.
1982 (-) Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77 in Jerusalem, Israël.
1998 (-) Musician Carl Lee Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.
He suffered 3 heart-attacks in less than 2 months.
2006 (-) Musician Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.
2007 (-) Singer-songwiter Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty dies at the age of 66 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
He was a founding member of the 'Mamas and the Papas'.
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