33rd year - N° 226 Tuesday, 14 August 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 226 Tuesday, 14 August 2018

14 August / Today's 20 Events:

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(-) 554 years ago Sunday 14th of August 1464 210th Pope Pius II, originally Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini dies of fever at the age of 59 in Ancona, Marche, Italy.

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(+) 276 years ago Tuesday 14th of August 1742 251st Pope Pius VII, originally Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti is born in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 178 years ago Friday 14th of August 1840 Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, originally Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing known for Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie is born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 151 years ago Wednesday 14th of August 1867 Baby farmer and murderess Rhoda Rhoda aka Leslie James is born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.

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(+) 130 years ago Tuesday 14th of August 1888 KZ-Aufseherin Emma Zimmer, originally Emma Anne Mezel is born in Schlüchtern, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 112 years ago Tuesday 14th of August 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Paul Bronichewski is born in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 111 years ago She Farmed the Last Baby Wednesday 14th of August 1907 Baby farmer and murderess Rhoda Rhoda aka Leslie James is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Cardiff Prison, Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Willis was the only woman to be hanged in Wales in the 20th century and the last baby farmer to be executed.

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(+) 108 years ago Sunday 14th of August 1910 Composer, musicologist and acoustician Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer is born in Nancy, Lorraine, France.

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(-) 93 years ago Friday 14th of August 1925 Murderer Arthur Henry Bishop is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Bishop murdered 26-year-old Francis Edward Rix at 24 Charles Street, Mayfair, London on 7 June 1925.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 14th of August 1926 Film director Lina Wertmüller, originally Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spañol von Braueich is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 73 years ago War Er Nicht Über Berlin Tuesday 14th of August 1945 Film director Wim Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 68 years ago Monday 14th of August 1950 Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man known for organising his own disappearance and presumed death is born in Hartlepool, North East, United Kingdom.

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(-) 67 years ago Tuesday 14th of August 1951 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago He Was the Man in Steel Tuesday 14th of August 1956 Poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. In his will Brecht provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.

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(-) 57 years ago Monday 14th of August 1961 Actor Edwin Cooper aka Bozo the Clown dies of unknown causes at the age of 41 in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Saturday 14th of August 1965 Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov dies of unknown causes in Dunes Hotel, 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard S., Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Vadim and Fonda divorced on 16 January 1973.

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(-) 38 years ago Thursday 14th of August 1980 Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten, originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten is shot dead by 29-year-old Paul Snider at the age of 20 in 10881 West Clarkson Road, Los Angeles, California, United States. Stratten as well as Snider's naked bodies were found in Snider's room both facially blasted with a Mossberg 12 gauge. Police believed that Snider murdered Stratten and then abused and raped the corpse before turning the shotgun on himself.

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(-) 24 years ago Sunday 14th of August 1994 Writer Elias Canetti dies of unknown causes at the age of 89 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 14th of August 2003 The Nayada Kanca Studio Musik where I had a rehearsal with Henry Foundation aka Batman for a music performance at the BB's Club, organized by Pink Girl Go Wild EuNice Nuh in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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(x) 9 years ago Friday 14th of August 2009 61-year-old Member of the 'Manson Family' Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky known for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford is released from prison on parole in Federal Medical Center Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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