1542 (-) Fifth wife of Henry VIII Katherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn, is executed by beheading in London, United Kingdom.
She was charged with treason and adultery.
1599 (+) 237th Pope Alexander VII originally Fabio Chigi, is born in Siena, Italy.
1866 (x) 18-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James hits his first bank, the Commercial Bank of Liberty in Missouri, USA.
1883 (-) Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner dies of heart failure at the age of 69 in Venice, Italy.
1887 (+) Would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick is born in New Hampshire, USA.
1891 (-) Frances Coles is presumably murdered by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.
1903 (+) Writer Georges Joseph Christian Simenon is born in Liège, 26 rue Léopold, Liège, Belgium.
1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Richard Gräf is born in Hannover, Germany.
1906 (-) Double murderer William A. Williams is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
1914 (-) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon dies at the age of 60 in Münsterlingen, Switzerland.
1933 (+) Actress Kim Marilyn Pauline Novak is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1937 (x) 658 Die in theatre fire in Antung, China.
1938 (+) Actor Oliver Robert Reed is born in London, Wimbledon, United Kingdom.
1941 (+) Artist Sigmar Polke is born in Oelsnitz, Lower Silesia, Poland.
1945 (x) Over 35.000 Die in the 4.000-tonnes RAF bombing in Dresden, Germany.
1950 (+) Musician Peter Gabriel is born in Chobham, Surrey, United Kingdom.
1960 (x) 25-year-old Vampire Florencio Roque Fernandez is arrested in Monteros, Argentina.
1960 (x) 23-year-old Horst Otto confesses to the murder of Manuela Knodt, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Otto will nevertheless be tried, found guilty and spend 8 years in jail.
1960 (x) First French Atomic Bomb test in the Sahara.
1964 (-) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
He was the leader of the T-4 programme, to extinct all the mentally deranged.
1973 (-) Fred Perez aka Freddie Bell, is shot dead by Herbert Mullin at the age of 73 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
Mullin was arrested minutes later.
1981 (-) Eta-member José Ignacio Arregui is tortured to death in prison at the age of 30 in Madrid, Spain.
1991 (-) Nazi Sculptor Arno Breker dies at the age of 90 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
2007 (-) Fashion model Eliana Elle Ramos dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 19 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She was the sister of model Luisel Ramos, who died of anorexia nervosa six months earlier.
2010 (-) Multiple murderer and cop killer Viva Leroy Nash dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
He had a criminal record since the 1930s and escaped in 1982 while serving a life sentence. In 1993 he was sentenced to death.
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