41st year - N° 19 Monday, 19 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 19 Monday, 19 January 2026

19 January / Today's 33 Events: (+) 217 years ago  Thursday 19th of January 1809 Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe is born in 62 Carver Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. (+) 187 years ago  Saturday 19th of January 1839 Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France. (+) 178 years ago  Wednesday 19th of January 1848 Swimmer Matthew Webb is born in Dawley, Shropshire, United Kingdom. (-) 160 years ago  Friday 19th of January 1866 Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. (-) 160 years ago  Friday 19th of January 1866 Serial killer Martha Grinder aka The Pittsburgh Poisoner is executed by hanging at the age of 51 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. "I loved to see death in all its forms and phases and left no opportunity to gratify my tastes for such sights." (-) 156 years ago  Wednesday 19th of January 1870 Mass murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Prisons de la Roquette, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 147 years ago  Sunday 19th of January 1879 Writer and revolutionary Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (+) 110 years ago  Wednesday 19th of January 1916 Artist, writer and sound poet Brion John Clifford Gysin aka The Father of Cut-up is born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. (+) 105 years ago  Wednesday 19th of January 1921 Writer Patricia Mary Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Highsmith's parents divorced ten days before their daughter's birth. (+) 104 years ago  Thursday 19th of January 1922 Film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwoździec, Stanisławów Voivodeship, Poland. (+) 96 years ago  Sunday 19th of January 1930 Actress and animal rights activist Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. For much of her career Hedren's year of birth was listed as 1935, although in 2004 she acknowledged that she was actually born in 1930. (-) 93 years ago  Thursday 19th of January 1933 Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. (+) 87 years ago  Thursday 19th of January 1939 Musician Phil Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (+) 83 years ago  Tuesday 19th of January 1943 Singer-songwriter Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States. (+) 80 years ago  Saturday 19th of January 1946 Singer-songwriter, actress and philanthropist Dolly Rebecca Partonis born in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. (x) 79 years ago  Sunday 19th of January 1947 392 die in Himera ocean liner explosion in Athens, Attica, Greece. The ship struck a forgotten WWII mine. (+) 78 years ago  Monday 19th of January 1948 Double murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd is born in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States. (-) 73 years ago  Monday 19th of January 1953 Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 72 years ago  Tuesday 19th of January 1954 Photographer Cindy Cynthia Morris Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States. (x) 64 years ago  Friday 19th of January 1962 21-year-old Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell marries 15-year-old Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, United States. In January 1966 Malone filed for divorce. (-) 57 years ago  Sunday 19th of January 1969 Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 dies due to injuries after his self-immolation protest three days earlier at the age of 21 in Charles University Faculty Hospital, Studničkova 2028/7, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. (+) 53 years ago  Friday 19th of January 1973 Actress Karen Lancaume, originally Karine Bach is born in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France. (-) 52 years ago  Saturday 19th of January 1974 Cathy Lee Scharf is found beaten and strangled by serial killerGerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Titusville, Florida, United States. (x) 49 years ago His Presence Would Constitute a Menace Wednesday 19th of January 1977 33-year-old Serial killer Vaughn Orrin Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher is sentenced to life imprisonment in Los Angeles, California, United States. Greenwood was convicted of nine counts of murder. Greenwood's victims had their throats cut from ear to ear. There was evidence that the killer drank the blood of the victims. Greenwood left cups of blood and rings of salt around the corpses. The judge recommended that Greenwood never be released because "His presence in any community would constitute a menace." (-) 45 years ago  Monday 19th of January 1981 Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a loft window at the age of 23 in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 44 years ago  Tuesday 19th of January 1982 Mass murderer Alvin Lee King III aka The Daingerfield Church Shooter commits suicide by hanging at the age of 47 in Morris County Jail, 502 Union St, Daingerfield, Texas, United States. King used strips torn from his towel to fabricate the hanging rope. (-) 44 years ago  Tuesday 19th of January 1982 Organizer of the Soviet spy ring Rote Kapelle Leopold Trepper dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. (x) 43 years ago  Wednesday 19th of January 1983 70-year-old SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon is arrested and extradited to France to stand trial in La Paz, Pedro Domingo Murillo, Bolivia. (-) 28 years ago  Monday 19th of January 1998 Singer-songwriter Carl Lee Perkins dies of throat cancer at the age of 66 in Jackson-Madison County Hospital, 620 Skyline Drive, Jackson, Tennessee, United States. Perkins suffered three strokes in less than 2 months before his death. 21 years ago  Wednesday 19th of January 2005 Snow on a high bridge railing in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. (-) 20 years ago  Thursday 19th of January 2006 Singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett aka The Wicked Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Reston, Virginia, United States. (-) 19 years ago Papa Left the Building Friday 19th of January 2007 Singer-songwriter and musician Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty dies of kidney failure at the age of 67 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. (-) 17 years ago  Monday 19th of January 2009 Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann dies of cancer at the age of 72 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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