(-) Saint King Louis IX dies of typhoid fever at the age of 55 in Tunis, Algeria.
483 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1530
(+) Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible, is born in Moscow, USSR.
194 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 1819
(+) Detective Allan Pinkerton is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
168 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1845
(+) The Mad King of Bavaria, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II is born in Nymphenburg Palace, Germany.
146 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1867
(-) Physicist Michael Faraday dies at the age of 75 in Hampton Court, Surrey, United Kingdom.
113 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1900
(-) Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche dies due to a physical and psychic collaps at the age of 55 in Weimar, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1907
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is judged insane and locked up in an asylum in France.
101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1912
(+) Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker is born in Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany.
(+) Composer Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachussets, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1929
(-) Klara Wanders is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 26 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1930
(+) Actor Sean Connery is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 August 1938
(+) Writer Frederick Forsyth is born in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 August 1946
(x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with first degree robbery in Albany, Ontario Street, New York, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 1954
(+) Musician Elvis Costello originally Declan Patrick McManus, is born in London, United Kingdom.
58 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 August 1955
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for auto theft in Orrick, Missouri, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1956
(-) Sexuologist Alfred Charles Kinsey dies of heart disease and pneumonia at the age of 62 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1956
(x) A huge number of books, journals and papers of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich are burned by FDA officials in the 25th Street Gansevoort public incinerator in New York, New York, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 1965
(-) Genowefa L. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 28 in Bedzin, Poland.
46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 August 1967
(-) Founder of the American Nazi-party George Lincoln Rockwell aka The American Hitler, is shot dead by John Patler at the age of 49 in Arlington, Econowash laundromat, Dominion Hills Shopping Center, Virginia, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 August 1969
(-) Leila Jackson is strangled and mutilated by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 August 1970
(+) Model Claudia Schiffer is born in Rheinberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 August 1984
(-) Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, dies of liver disease complicated by drug abuse at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 August 1992
(-) An unidentified black policeman commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 8 people in a random shooting-spree in a police-station, South Africa.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 2004
(-) Double murderer Jason Shane Busby is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 August 2004
(x) The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 55-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.
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