40th year - N° 356 Monday, 22 December 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 356 Monday, 22 December 2025

22 December / Today's 40 Events: (+) 386 years ago  Thursday 22nd of December 1639 Dramatist Jean Baptiste Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, Picardie, France. (-) 287 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1738 Prostitute Constantia Jones is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Jones had stolen 36 shillings and a half-guinea from a client. (-) 199 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1826 Wilhelmine Rumpff is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisonerGesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. (+) 167 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of December 1858 Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini is born in Corte San Lorenzo 9, Lucca, Toscana, Italy. (+) 149 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1876 Founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, originally Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. (+) 142 years ago  Saturday 22nd of December 1883 Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse aka The Stratospheric Colossus of Sound is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 133 years ago  Thursday 22nd of December 1892 Mistress of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de GambaisFernande Ernestine Marcelline Segret is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 123 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1902 Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, originally Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing dies of unknown causes at the age of 62 in Graz, Steiermark, Austria. (-) 101 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1924 Serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke aka Papa Denke commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 64 in Münsterberg, Niederschlesien, Germany. Denke was arrested after attacking Vincenz Oliver with a hackblade during dinner. When police searched his house at Teichstraße 10, they found drums with salted meat and written notes about 20 years of murder and cannibalism. (-) 99 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of December 1926 Elizabeth Beard is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. (+) 89 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of December 1936 Victim of The Manson Family Wojciech Frykowski is born in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. (x) 86 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1939 186 die in D-Zug D 10 and D 180 collision in Bahnhof, Genthin, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. (+) 79 years ago  Sunday 22nd of December 1946 Wife of Jim Morrison Pamela Susan Courson is born in Weed, California, United States. (-) 72 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of December 1953 Double murderer Alfred Charles Whiteway is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 62 years ago  Sunday 22nd of December 1963 128 die in TSMS Lakonia cruise-liner fire and sinking in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Lakonia departed Southampton on 19 December 1963 for an 11-day 'Christmas Cruise' of the Canary Islands. (-) 59 years ago  Thursday 22nd of December 1966 Ilona Harke is sexually assaulted and drowned by serial killerJoachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Feldbachtal, Hückeswagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Harke disappeared in Wuppertal and was found four days later. (-) 56 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1969 Film director Josef von Sternberg, originally Jonas Sternbergdies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Hollywood, California, United States. (-) 54 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of December 1971 Ida Van Isacker-Smeets is raped, tortured and strangled by serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Dijleoever, Hanswijk, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Van Eyken wanted to rape Van Isacker but he couldn't so he strangled her. Then he went home to eat. Upon returning to finally rape her she was still alive. Van Eyken mutilated and strangled her again. (x) 54 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of December 1971 Seven members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe rob a bank of 134.000 DM in Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank, Fackelstraße 29, Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. 32-year-old policeman Herbert Schoner was shot dead when he tried to caution the getaway car for unlawful parking. (x) 54 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of December 1971 66-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is released on parole after 39 years imprisonment in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. (x) 53 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1972 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D Flight 571 plane crash are found in the Andes || Glaciar de las Lágrimas, the Andes. They fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow after their plane crashed on 13 October 1972. (+) 53 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1972 Singer, model and actress Vanessa Chantal Paradis is born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France. (+) 51 years ago  Sunday 22nd of December 1974 Victim of Arthur Gary Bishop aka The Mormon Murderer Alonzo C. Daniels is born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. (-) 51 years ago  Sunday 22nd of December 1974 David Perez is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 50 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1975 Suzanne Bach is attacked by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bach survived. (-) 50 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1975 Connie Jo Claborn Bronzich is drugged and stabbed to death by serial killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood in Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. (-) 47 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1978 Yelena Zakotnova is raped, stabbed and strangled by serial killerAndrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Grushevskiy most, Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Zakotnova was Chikatilo's first victim. Other suspects for the murder were 25-year-old Alexander Kravchenko and 50-year-old Anatoly Grigoriev. On 8 January 1979 Grigoriev hanged himself. On 5 July 1983 Kravchenko was executed for the murder.   (x) 47 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1978 36-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States. (x) 47 years ago They Were Diggin' for Boys Friday 22nd of December 1978 Start of the excavations in the house of 36-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Between 22 and 29 December, 27 bodies were recovered from Gacy's property, 26 of which were found buried in his crawl space, with one additional victim, John Butkovitch, being found buried beneath the concrete floor of his garage precisely where Gacy had marked the youth's grave with a can of spray paint. (x) 41 years ago  Saturday 22nd of December 1984 Noise music band Club Moral perform 'Here Lives My House' as their 41st concert in V2, Vughterstraat 234, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. (x) 41 years ago  Saturday 22nd of December 1984 37-year-old Bernhard Hugo Goetz aka The Subway Vigilanteshoots 19-year-old Troy Canty, 19-year-old Darrel Cabey, 19-year-old Barry Allen and 18-year-old Jimmy Ramseur who attempted to rob him in the Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line express subway train in IRT 14th Street Station, New York, New York, United States. On 31 December 1984 Goetz walked into the Concord, New Hampshire police headquarters and told the officer on duty "I am the person they are seeking in New York." At the civil trial years later Goetz said "I was trying to get as many of them as I could." (+) 39 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1986 Terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber is born in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. (x) 38 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of December 1987 47-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons kills his 46-year-old wife Rebecca, his children, 29-year-old Gene, 17-year-old Loretta, 14-year-old Eddy, 11-year-old Marianne and 8-year-old Rebecca Becky, and his granddaughter (or daughter) 3-year-old Barbara by shooting, strangling and drowning in Mockingbird Hill, Dover, Arkansas, United States. Four days later Simmons killed another seven members of his family. (-) 36 years ago  Friday 22nd of December 1989 Writer and playwright Samuel Barclay Beckett dies of respiratory failure at the age of 83 in Résidence Tiers Temps, 24 Rue Rémy Dumoncel, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (x) 33 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of December 1992 157 die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727-2L5 Flight 1103 and a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 mid-air collision in Tripoli International Airport, Tripoli, Greater Tripoli, Libya. (-) 29 years ago  Sunday 22nd of December 1996 Jacqueline Leclercq is abducted, killed and cut to pieces by unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Rue Malapert, Hyon, Hainaut, Belgium. On 22 March 1997 several parts of Leclercq's body were found in trash bags in Cuesmes. (x) 28 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 1997 Start of the trial against 48-year-old Serial killer Ahmad Suradji, originally Nasib Kelewang aka The Sorcerer in Medan, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia. Suradji stood trial for the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried. (x) 24 years ago His Foot Perspiration Was to Blame Saturday 22nd of December 2001 28-year-old Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka The Shoe Bomber aka Abdel Rahim aka Abdul Rof attempts to blow up the American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami Boeing 767 by use of PETN explosives hidden in his shoe in Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The rainy weather along with Reid's foot perspiration caused the fuse to be too damp to ignite. (x) 18 years ago  Saturday 22nd of December 2007 61-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is stabbed in the face by fellow inmate Patrick Sureda with a metal cutlery knife while shouting "You fucking raping, murdering bastard, I'll blind your fucking other one" in Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Sutcliffe, already blind in one eye after a previous attack, flung himself backwards and the blade missed his right eye, instead stabbing him in the cheek. (-) 11 years ago  Monday 22nd of December 2014 Singer and musician Joe John Robert Cocker dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Crawford, Colorado, United States.

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