1774 (-) Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of an accident at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.
1775 (+) Physicist André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, St. Nizier, France.
1896 (+) Comedian and actor George Burns is born in New York City, New York, USA.
1910 (+) Writer and naturalist Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria.
1913 (-) Axe-murderer John Schild is executed by hanging in Berks City, Pennsylvania, USA.
1920 (+) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy.
1930 (+) Astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.
1936 (-) King of England George V originally George Frederick Ernest Albert, dies of a cold at the age of 70 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Physician Lord Dawson of Penn, hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine.
1939 (-) Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in Salem State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
It was the first execution in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.
1946 (+) Filmmaker David Keith Lynch is born in Missoula, Montana, USA.
1959 (+) Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
1960 (x) 51-year-old Richard Bugdalle aka The Bully of Sachsenhausen, is convicted to 16 terms of life imprisonment in München, Germany.
1965 (-) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
1968 (x) 34-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.
1969 (+) Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is born in Kaposvar, Hungary.
1975 (-) Emily Jackson is hammered and stabbed 52 times with a Phillips screwdriver by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 42 in Leeds, Manor Street, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1982 (x) Officially 66 (but rumoured 340) Die in soccer riot during the game Spartak Moscow-Haarlem in Russia.
1984 (-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller originally Johann Peter Weißmüller aka Tarzan, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 79 in Acapulco, in a mental hospital, Mexico.
1985 (x) An unidentified member of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.
1987 (-) Murderer Ramon Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is arrested on a charge of burglary in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1992 (x) 87 Die in Air Inter Light 148 Airbus A-300 crash in Strasbourg, France.
1993 (-) Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, dies of appendiceal cancer at the age of 63 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
1997 (-) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.
1999 (-) Double Murderer Mark Arlo Sheppard is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
2000 (-) Murderer David Hicks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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