40th year - N° 360 Friday, 26 December 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 360 Friday, 26 December 2025

26 December / Today's 17 Events: (+) 162 years ago  Saturday 26th of December 1863 Film pioneer Charles Pathé is born in Chevry-Cossigny, Seine-et-Marne, France. (+) 142 years ago  Wednesday 26th of December 1883 Painter Maurice Utrillo, originally Maurice Valadon is born in Rue du Poteau, XVIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. After Maurice was born to Suzanne Valadon, she went to Renoir, for whom she had modeled nine months previously. Renoir looked at the baby and said "He can't be mine, the color is terrible!". Next she went to Degas, for whom she had also modeled. He said, "He can't be mine, the form is terrible!". At a cafe, Valadon saw an artist she knew named Miguel Utrillo, to whom she spilled her woes. The man told her to call the baby Utrillo: "I would be glad to put my name to the work of either Renoir or Degas!" (+) 134 years ago  Saturday 26th of December 1891 Writer Henry Valentine Miller is born in 450 East 85th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. (+) 132 years ago  Tuesday 26th of December 1893 Communist revolutionary and father of the People's Republic of ChinaMao Zedong aka Mao Tse-Tung aka Chairman Mao is born in Mao Zhengongci, 309 County Road, Shaoshan, Hunan, China. (+) 126 years ago  Tuesday 26th of December 1899 Punjabi revolutionary Udham Singh, originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Shaheed-i-Azam is born in Sunam, Punjab, India. (+) 85 years ago  Thursday 26th of December 1940 Record producer and songwriter Phil Harvey Phillip Spector is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States. (+) 75 years ago  Tuesday 26th of December 1950 Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killeris born in Salem, Oregon, United States. (x) 66 years ago  Saturday 26th of December 1959 Irmgard Feder is attacked by serial killer Manfred Wittmann aka The Beast of Oberfranken in Freiberg, Sachsen, Germany. (-) 61 years ago Her Pleas Were Recorded on Tape Saturday 26th of December 1964 Lesley Ann Downey is abducted and killed by serial killers the Moors Murderers aka Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Downey was undressed, gagged and forced to pose for photographs before being raped and killed while her pleas and screams were recorded on tape. Downey was buried the next day and Brady and Hindleyslept a night on a blanket on her grave on Saddleworth Moors. (-) 53 years ago  Tuesday 26th of December 1972 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman dies of multiple organ failure at the age of 88 in Research Medical Center, 2316 East Meyer Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri, United States. (-) 53 years ago  Tuesday 26th of December 1972 Eddie Edward Moore is found tortured and garotted by serial killerRandy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer in 7th Street Intersection, Seal Beach, California, United States. (-) 45 years ago  Friday 26th of December 1980 Serial killer and cannibal Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 30 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. Chase saved up his daily dose of prison doctor-prescribed Sinequan(doxepin hydrochloride) for several weeks. (x) 44 years ago  Saturday 26th of December 1981 Noise music band Club Moral play their eighth concert in Lokaal 01, Kloosterlaan 138, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. (-) 42 years ago  Monday 26th of December 1983 Martina Volkmann is raped and stabbed to death by serial killerThomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. (x) 38 years ago  Saturday 26th of December 1987 47-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons kills his 23-year-old son William Billy and 22-year-old daughter-in-law Renata, their one-year-old son William Trae, his 24-year-old daughter Sheila and her 23-year-old husband Dennis McNulty, his incestuous 6-year-old daughter Sylvia Gail and 20-month-ol grandson Michael by gunfire and strangulation in Mockingbird Hill, Dover, Arkansas, United States. Four days earlier Simmons had already killed seven members of his family. (-) 19 years ago  Tuesday 26th of December 2006 38th President of the United States Gerald Rudolph Ford, originally Leslie Lynch King Jr. dies of arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, United States. (-) 6 years ago  Thursday 26th of December 2019 Actress Sue Suellyn Lyon dies of declining health at the age of 73 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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