(-) Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder originally Lucas Sunder, dies at the age of 81 in Weimar, Germany.
305 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 October 1708
(+) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller is born in Bern, Switzerland.
220 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1793
(-) Excessive Queen of France Marie Antoinette originally Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
214 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1799
(-) Composer Antoine Frederic Gresnick dies at the age of 44 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
159 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 October 1854
(+) Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland.
141 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1872
(+) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte is born in Albania.
127 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 October 1886
(+) Architect of Israël David Gruen Ben Gurion is born in Plonsk, Poland.
125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 October 1888
(x) Serial Killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, "From Hell" to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
105 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 October 1908
(+) Leader of Albania Enver Hoxha is born in Gjirokaster, Albania.
104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 October 1909
(+) Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 October 1914
(+) King of the Gypsies Christian Johannes Modeste is born.
86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 October 1927
(+) Writer Günter Wilhelm Grass is born in Gdansk, Poland.
82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 October 1931
(-) Hedvig Samuelson aka Sammy, is stabbed and shot dead by Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, at the age of 24 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Judd cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them.
79 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 October 1934
(x) 40-year-old Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong starts his Long March in Yudu, Jiangxi, China.
The march covered about 12.500 kilometres in 370 days.
77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 October 1936
(+) Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is born in Jablotschnoje, Achtyra, Sumy, Russia.
76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 October 1937
(-) Roger Leblond is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Neuilly, France.
(+) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1946
(-) Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1946
(x) 53-year-old Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 64-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, 45-year-old Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 53-year-old Alfred Rosenberg, 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick, 47-year-old Hans Frank, 61-year-old Julius Streicher, 52-year-old Fritz Sauckel, 54-year-old Alfred Jodl and 54-year-old Arthur Seiss-Inquart are executed by hanging for crimes against humanity by John Woods in Nürnberg, gymnastics-hall of the prison, Bayern, Germany.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 October 1955
(x) 14-year-old Robert Peterson, 13-year-old John and 11-year-old Anton Schuessler are found molested, strangled and beaten to death by an unidentified sex-killer in Chicago, Robinson Woods Forest Preserve, Illinois, United States.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 October 1955
(+) IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, is born in Belfast, Ireland.
54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 October 1959
(x) 20-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, arrives in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1974
(-) Karen Wein is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Marlboro, Connecticut, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 October 1975
(-) Susan Dye is presumably strangled a forty-seventh victim by Zodiac in Santa Rosa, California, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 October 1981
(-) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1985
(-) Murderer William E. Vandiver is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Indiana, United States.
He was still breathing after the first administration of 2,300 volts, and the current had to be applied three more times before he died.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1991
(-) Mass Murderer George Hennard commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in Killeen, Texas, United States.
He first drove his van into "Luby’s Restaurant" and started shooting around, killing 23 and wounding another 15.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 October 1995
(x) Eleventh bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Stronsdorf, Austria.
Three mail-bombs explode, several people are injured.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 October 1995
(x) Twelfth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Graz, Austria.
Four mail-bombs explode while still at post-offices, several people are injured.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 October 1995
(x) 43-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is released from prison in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1996
(x) 80 Die in soccer-tribune collaps in the game Guatemala-Costa Rica in Guatemala City, Mateo Flores Stadium, Guatemala.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1996
(x) 94 Die in Estado Mateas Flores stampede in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
47.000 soccer fans tried to squeeze in the 36.000 seat stadium.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 October 1996
(-) Consensual victim Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, is tortured and strangled by Robert Fredrick Glass at the age of 35 in North Carolina, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 October 1997
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is arrested and charged with 14 murders in Beijing, China.
9 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 October 2004
(x) 46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando marries 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Deborah claimed to be Elvis Presley's illegitimate daughter.
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