(+) Writer Emily Jane Brontë is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
160 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1853
(+) Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, is born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
155 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1858
(-) Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, United States.
150 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1863
(+) Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1898
(+) Artist Henry Spencer Moore is born in Castleford, Yorks, United Kingdom.
115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1898
(-) First Chancellor of the German Reich Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck dies of gangrene at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, Germany.
98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1915
(-) Racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in New York, Sing Sing prison, New York, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1920
(-) Last Official Executioner of Sweden Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman dies at the age of 72 in Stockholm, Sweden.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 July 1929
(-) Emma Gross is strangled by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 35 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1937
(-) Womanizer and reverend Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre, dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Cottage Hospital, United Kingdom.
He was attacked by a lion while acting as a modern ‘Daniël in the Lion’s Den’ two days before.
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 July 1939
(+) Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New Jersey, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1941
(+) Musician Paul Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1947
(+) Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is born in Graz, Austria.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1960
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Jersey.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 July 1967
(-) Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Von Bohlen und Halbach Krupp dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1969
(x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in California, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1969
(x) Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1971
(x) 22-year-old Sergeant Josjima Itsjikawa kills 162 people by hitting an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 with his Japanese Air Force Sabre F-86 Jet in Morioka, Japan.
He escaped by using his ejector-seat.
38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1975
(x) 62-year-old Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Bloomfield Hills, Machus Red Fox restaurant, Michigan, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1977
(-) Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 53 in Oberursel, Germany.
The action was taken by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Susanne Albrecht.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 July 1978
(x) 29-year-old Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt and Gary Tison escape from prison with the help of Tison's three sons and go on a killing spree that left six dead in Arizona, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, starts his performance "Illegal" in Antwerpen, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium.
It lasted four days.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1981
(-) Louise Chartrand is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 17 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 July 1985
(-) Minister of science, technology and energy, Damrong Lathapipat commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 52 in Thailand.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 July 1985
(-) Official executioner André Obrecht dies at the age of 86 in Nice, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1992
(-) Triple Murderer William Andrews aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Draper State Prison, Utah, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1993
(-) Murderer Danny Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 July 2001
(x) 32-year-old The First Western Female Suicide Bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam, marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Charleroi, Al Hidaya Mosque, Belgium.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 July 2007
(-) Filmmaker Ingmar Ernst Bergmann dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Faarö, Sweden.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 July 2007
(-) Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni dies at the age of 94 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
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