41st year - N° 26 Monday, 26 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 26 Monday, 26 January 2026

26 January / Today's 31 Events: (x) 686 years ago  Tuesday 26th of January 1340 28-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France in Vrijdagmarkt, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (-) 200 years ago Il a Quitté le Radeau Thursday 26th of January 1826 Artist Théodore Jean-Louis André Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 35 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 178 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 1848 Victim of Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie Hendrik Frankhuizen is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (+) 155 years ago  Thursday 26th of January 1871 Victim of Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie Pieternella Swanenburgis born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (+) 146 years ago  Monday 26th of January 1880 Chief of Staff of the United States Army Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. (+) 108 years ago  Saturday 26th of January 1918 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians is born in Scornicești, Olt, Romania. Nicolae was the third of ten children in the Ceaușescu family. (+) 101 years ago  Monday 26th of January 1925 Actor Paul Leonard Newman is born in Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. (+) 98 years ago  Thursday 26th of January 1928 Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 94 years ago  Tuesday 26th of January 1932 Chewing gum industrialist William Wrigley dies of natural causes at the age of 71 in Wrigley Mansion, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. (-) 90 years ago Her Head Was at it Sunday 26th of January 1936 Florence Genevieve Polillo is found killed and dismembered by unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka the Cleveland Torso Murderer in 2325 East 20th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Some other parts of Polillo's body were found near 1419 Orange Avenue on 7 February. Her head was never recovered. (+) 82 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 1944 Writer and political activist Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Dynamite Hill, Birmingham, Alabama, United States. (+) 79 years ago  Sunday 26th of January 1947 Actor Patrick Dewaere, originally Patrick Jean Marie Henri Bourdeaux is born in Saint-Brieuc, Bretagne, France. (x) 78 years ago There Was no Dysentery Outbreak Monday 26th of January 1948 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery by 56-year-old Tempera painter and presumed mass poisoner Sadamichi Hirasawa in Teikoku Ginko, Shiinamachi, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. A man calling himself an epidemiologist arrived at the Imperial Bank, explaining that he was a public health official who had orders to inoculate the staff against a sudden outbreak of dysentery. He gave all sixteen people present a pill and a few drops of liquid. Those present drank the cyanide solution and died while he robbed the bank of 160.000 yen. Hirasawa is believed to have been falsely charged. (+) 71 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 1955 Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen aka The Mozart of Rock is born in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands. (x) 68 years ago  Sunday 26th of January 1958 167 die in Nankai Maru ferry capsizing in Awaji Island, Kansai, Japan. (-) 67 years ago Stieg Er Aus Monday 26th of January 1959 Heilstrom mystic Bruno Gröning dies of stomach cancer at the age of 53 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 64 years ago They Didn't Discuss the Ending of the Film Friday 26th of January 1962 Mobster and father of modern organized crime in the United StatesCharles Luciano, originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Aeroporto Internazionale, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Luciano had gone to the airport to meet with American producer Martin Gosch about a film based on his life. After the meeting Luciano was stricken with a heart attack and died. (x) 61 years ago  Tuesday 26th of January 1965 19-year-old Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. (x) 60 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 1966 The Beaumont children are presumably abducted and murdered in Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 9-year-old Jane Nartare Beaumont, 7-year-old Arnna Kathleen and 4-year-old Grant Ellis were seen in the company of a tall, blond and thin-faced man with a sun-tanned complexion of thin to athletic build in his mid-30s and wearing swimming trunks before disappearing forever. As of 2018 an A$1 million reward was offered for information related to the cold case by the South Australian Government. (-) 58 years ago Her Foot Was Used to Model Friday 26th of January 1968 Linda Katherine Slawson is strangled by foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer in Portland, Oregon, United States. Brudos lured Slawson to the garage while his wife and children were in the house, knocked her out with a wooden plank, and strangled her. He dressed her in different female undergarments and shoes he had stolen, arranged her body in provocative poses, and used a hacksaw to cut off her left foot, which he kept in the freezer and used to model his collection of high-heel shoes. (-) 49 years ago Black Magic Spells Caused Him Problems Wednesday 26th of January 1977 Film director Laurence Merrick is shot dead by 31-year-old Dennis Michael Mignano at the age of 51 in Merrick Studio Academy of Dramatic Arts, 870 N. Vine St, Hollywood, California, United States. Mignano auditioned at Merrick's school and 'black magic' spells were cast upon him that caused him problems. (-) 47 years ago He Was in Undeniable Intimate Circumstances Friday 26th of January 1979 Businessman, philanthropist, public servant and politician Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in 13 West 54th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Rockefeller died in the presence of his 25-year-old aide Megan Marshack. "It became known that he had been alone with a young woman who worked for him, in undeniably intimate circumstances, and in the course of that evening had died from a heart attack." (+) 47 years ago  Friday 26th of January 1979 Streamer, videographer, influencer and comedian Jean Pormanove, originally Raphaël Graven is born in Woippy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (-) 43 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 1983 Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 35 years ago  Saturday 26th of January 1991 32-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Did Dillinger Die Right There and Then?' in Galerie Transit, Tiensevest 39, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. The space was divided in two parts by a cutout décor. On one side I was laying naked on a rotating metal table lighted by a stroboscope. From the other side the public could see the performance only through a few small holes in the décor. The stroboscope made it look like sometimes I was on the table and sometimes I wasn’t. (-) 30 years ago There Was no Need for His Glasses Friday 26th of January 1996 Rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor is executed by the firing squad at the age of 37 in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States. Taylor's last meal request was for a large Ambassador pizza with thin crust, onions, mushrooms, hot peppers, sausage, pepperoni, ham and extra cheese. He also asked for a Coke. He gave his glasses to warden Hank Galetka and said "There is no need for them." (-) 27 years ago  Tuesday 26th of January 1999 Murderer Martin Sauceda Vega is executed by lethal injection at the age of 54 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 26 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 2000 Science fiction writer Alfred Elton van Vogt dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States. 23 years ago  Sunday 26th of January 2003 A crumpled page about the murder of John F. Kennedy recovered from artist Francis Bacon's studio in its reconstruction in The Hugh Lane, Parnell Square N, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. (-) 18 years ago  Saturday 26th of January 2008 Only child of actor Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi Christian Devi Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 50 in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, 1300 N Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 15 years ago  Wednesday 26th of January 2011 Serial rapist and murderer Mike James Mitchell DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow dies of pneumonia at the age of 71 in Federal Medical Center, Old North Carolina Highway 75, Butner, North Carolina, United States.

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