Thursday, August 23, 2012

23 August 1926 - Rudolph Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo Valentino Dies

1754 (+)   King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is born in Versailles, France.

1898 (-)  Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist, dies at the age of 65 in Essones, France.

1912 (+)   Actor Gene Eugene Curran Kelly is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.



1926 (-)  Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo Valentino dies of peritonitis, gastric ulcer, pneumonia and an infection of the inner heart at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.

1927 (-)  Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti are executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
They were convicted to death for a robbery-murder, rather due to their anarchist insights than through evidence.

1930 (+)   Actress Vera Miles is born in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA.

1936 (+)   Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, is born in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA.

1944 (x)   61 Die in USAF B-24 Liberator bomber crash in Freckleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
The aircraft crashed into a school and the "Sad Sack Snack Bar" where 7 Americans died.

1946 (+)   The Who’s Drummer Keith John Moon is born in London, United Kingdom.

1949 (+)   Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, is born in Altadena, California, USA.

1952 (+)   Gangster Yvan Somville is born in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium.

1970 (+)   Actor River Jude Phoenix is born in Metolius, Oregon, USA.

1974 (-)  Cathie Pearce is strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Musella, Florida, USA.

1975 (x)  19-year-old Musician Ian Kevin Curtis from Joy Division, marries 18-year-old Deborah Woodruff in Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

1981 (-)  Didier Vitry is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 18 in La Rochelle, France.

1982 (+)   Juvenile murderer Robert Thompson is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1982 (-)  Andrea Kowe is raped, stabbed and beaten to death by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 23 in Besançon, France.

1989 (-)  Psychiatrist Ronald David Laing dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in St. Tropez, France.

1995 (-)  An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks are abducted and killed by Marc Dutroux at the age of 18 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.

2000 (-)  Murderer David Earl Gibbs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (x)   143 Die in Gulf Air Flight 072 Airbus A320 crash in Manama, Bahrein.

2005 (-)  Murderer Robert Alan Jr. Shields is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (x)  18-year-old Victim of Wolfgang Priklopil Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, escapes after being held in captivity for over 8 years by Wilhelm Priklopil in Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Heinestrasse 60, Austria.

2006 (-)  Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, commits suicide by throwing himself before a commuter train at the age of 44 in Vienna, Northern Station, Austria.

2007 (-)  Multiple murderer Hifumi Takezawa is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2007 (-)  Murderer Yoshio Iwamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2007 (-)  Murderer Kozo Segawa is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Nagoya, Japan.

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