41st year - N° 28 Wednesday, 28 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 28 Wednesday, 28 January 2026

28 January / Today's 37 Events: (-) 479 years ago He Asked for Monks Tuesday 28th of January 1547 King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudordies of diabetes at the age of 56 in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. His last words were "Monks! Monks! Monks!" (-) 405 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1621 233rd Pope Paulus V, originally Camillo Borghese dies of a stroke at the age of 99 in Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (+) 320 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1706 Printer and type designer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom. (-) 258 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1768 Composer John Wainwright dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom. (-) 224 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1802 Colonial administrator Joseph Wall is executed by hanging at the age of 65 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Wall was sentenced to death for a series of fatal floggings in 1782. On 10 July 1782 Sergeant Benjamin Armstrong and George Robinsoneach received 800 lashes and on 11 July Corporal Thomas Uptonreceived 350 lashes, Private George Paterson 800 lashes, William Evans 800 lashes, Joseph Shaw 275 lashes and Private Henry Fawcett 47 lashes. From their wounds Corporal Upton died on the 13th, Sergeant Armstrong on the 15th, and George Paterson on 19 July. With a reward of £200 for his capture Wall had been living under an assumed name in France and Italy. (-) 197 years ago His Tanned Skin Was Turned into Artefacts Wednesday 28th of January 1829 Serial killer William Burke aka The Body Snatchers (with William Hare) is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Burke was hanged in front of a crowd possibly as large as 25.000; views from windows in the tenements overlooking the scaffold were hired at prices ranging from 5 to 20 shillings. Burke's skeleton was given to the Anatomical Museum of the Edinburgh Medical School where it remains. His death mask and a book said to be bound with his tanned skin can be seen at Surgeons' Hall Museum. (+) 185 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1841 Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom. (+) 171 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1855 Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs is born in Rochester, New York, United States. (+) 139 years ago  Friday 28th of January 1887 Pianist Arthur Rubinstein is born in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. (x) 139 years ago  Friday 28th of January 1887 26-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor marries Myrta Z. Belknap while he was still married to Clara Lovering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. (+) 138 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1888 Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, originally Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin is born in Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast, Russia. (+) 136 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1890 Double murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz is born in Seattle, Washington, United States. (+) 114 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1912 Abstract expressionist painter Jackson Paul Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, United States. (+) 112 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1914 Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. (+) 102 years ago  Monday 28th of January 1924 Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Rue Hôtel des Monnaies, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. (+) 97 years ago  Monday 28th of January 1929 Pop artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. (-) 90 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1936 Kidnapper and murderer Richard Albert Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie James E. Day at the age of 31 in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, United States. Rumors suggested that Day had desired sexual favors from Loeb who refused him. Loeb's last words to his partner in crime Nathan Leopold were "I think I'm going to make it." (+) 90 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1936 Actor Alan Alda, originally Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo aka Hawkeye Pierce is born in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 87 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1939 Poet William Butler Yeats aka W. B. Yeats dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in Hôtel Idéal Séjour, 188 Avenue Virginie Hériot, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France. (+) 81 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1945 Musician Robert Ellidge Wyatt is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom. (x) 78 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1948 Over 300 die in Joo-Maru freighter collision in Seto Inland Sea, Setouchi, Japan. The Joo-Maru collided with an abandoned mine. (-) 77 years ago  Friday 28th of January 1949 Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 41 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, United States. (-) 73 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1953 Cop killer Derek William Bentley is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 20 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 70 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1956 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman James Eugene Glass is born in Houston, Texas, United States. (-) 68 years ago He Snapped Suzy's Neck Tuesday 28th of January 1958 Chester Lauer Ward is shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in S 24th Street 2843, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Both 50-year-old Clara Olson Ward and 51-year-old maid Ludmila Lilyan Fencl were already murdered earlier that day by stabbing. Starkweather also snapped the neck of the family dog Suzy. (x) 52 years ago  Monday 28th of January 1974 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by Murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in San Francisco, California, United States. 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down. (-) 50 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1976 Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers dies of a liver disease at the age of 52 in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (x) 48 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1978 28-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento is arrested in Watt Avenue Complex Apartment #15, Sacramento, California, United States. A search of Chase's apartment revealed assorted human and animal organs in his refrigerator. (x) 40 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1986 49-year-old pilot Michael J. Smith, 36-year-old mission specialist Judith Resnik, 35-year-old mission specialist Ronald McNair, 39-year-old mission specialist Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old payload specialist Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old payload specialist and teacher Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old commander Francis R. Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger OV-99 spacecraft, just 73 seconds after take-off in off coast, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. (-) 30 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1996 Poet Joseph Brodsky, originally Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskydies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. (x) 24 years ago  Monday 28th of January 2002 94 die in TAME Flight 120 Boeing 727-134 crash into a mountain in Cumbal Volcano, Nariño, Colombia. (-) 24 years ago  Monday 28th of January 2002 Writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren dies of natural causes at the age of 95 in Dalagatan 46, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. (-) 23 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 2003 Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Curry's final meal request was for chicken fried steak, country gravy, hot buttered corn, mashed potatoes, hot buttered rolls, hot apple pie, vanilla ice cream and tea. (-) 22 years ago He Had Four Foursomes Wednesday 28th of January 2004 Murderer Billy Frank Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Vickers' last meal request was for a four-egg omelet with cheese and onions, a bowl of chili, four slices of fried bologna, four pieces of toast, four slices of cheese, fried potatoes with a bowl of gravy, sliced tomato, hot coffee and black walnut or vanilla ice cream. (-) 21 years ago  Friday 28th of January 2005 Actress Karen Lancaume, originally Karine Bach commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. 21 years ago  Friday 28th of January 2005 Taking his theme from the triumph and tragedy in the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, Ferdinand Hodler created two gigantic dioramas in 1865 and 1894 measuring 7,25 x 4,35m each for the World's Fair in Antwerp. They are a symbolic representation of human fate in general. A figure detail from the diorama 'Plunge' by Ferdinand Hodler in Alpines Museum, Helvetiaplatz 4, Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. (-) 16 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 2010 Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide hanging in his cell at the age of 61 in Gevangenis, Zwarte-Brugstraat 4, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium. Carlier spent 30 years in prison for the sadist murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.

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