41st year - N° 43 Thursday, 12 February 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 43 Thursday, 12 February 2026

12 February / Today's 41 Events: (-) 222 years ago War es Gut Sunday 12th of February 1804 Philosopher Immanuel Kant dies of poor health at the age of 80 in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Kant's last words were "Es ist gut". (+) 217 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1809 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is born in Sinking Spring, Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States. (+) 217 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1809 Naturalist, geologist and evolutionary theorist Charles Robert Darwin is born in The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom. (+) 173 years ago  Saturday 12th of February 1853 Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 165 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1861 Psychoanalyst and writer Lou Andreas-Salomé, originally Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. (+) 149 years ago  Monday 12th of February 1877 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Louis Renault is born in 14 Place de Laborde, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 144 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1882 Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, originally Anna Pavlovna Matveyevna Pavlova is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. (+) 142 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1884 Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann is born in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany. (+) 133 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1893 War leader Omar Nelson Bradley aka The G.I. '​s General is born in Clark, Missouri, United States. (x) 119 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1907 131 die in Larchmont Steamer shipwreck in Block Island, Rhode Island, United States. (+) 117 years ago  Friday 12th of February 1909 Nazi doctor Sigmund Rascher is born in München, Bayern, Germany. (-) 113 years ago  Wednesday 12th of February 1913 Murderer Frederick Poulin is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora Prison, Dannemora, New York, United States. Poulin was the last man executed by the electric chair in Clinton Prison. (-) 108 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1918 Black Jim McIlherron is chained to a tree and tortured to death with heated irons and a bonfire by a mob of 1200 locals in Estill Springs, Tennessee, United States. (-) 103 years ago  Monday 12th of February 1923 Fritz Franke is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Neue Straße 8, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (-) 85 years ago  Wednesday 12th of February 1941 Johanna Voigt is attacked and thrown out of a train by serial killerPaul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (-) 84 years ago  Thursday 12th of February 1942 Doris Jouannet aka Doris Robson is stabbed and sexually mutilated by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in 187 Sussex Gardens, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 78 years ago  Thursday 12th of February 1948 Archibald Henderson is shot in the head and solved in acid by serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer in 2 Leopold Road, Crawley, Sussex, United Kingdom. Haigh then lured the doctor's 41-year-old wife Rosalie Henderson to his workhop and killed her as well. (+) 74 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1952 Serial killer Larry Craig Green aka The Zebra Killer is born in Berkeley, California, United States. (-) 72 years ago  Friday 12th of February 1954 Film director Dziga Vertov, originally David Abelevich Kaufmandies of cancer at the age of 58 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. (+) 70 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1956 Murderer Willie Ray Williams is born in Houston, Texas, United States. (+) 63 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1963 Victim of Randall Woodfield aka the I-5 Killer Julie Ann Reitz is born in Lansing, Illinois, United States. (x) 57 years ago  Wednesday 12th of February 1969 31-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 30. Aktion in Galerie van de Loo, Maximilianstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany. (x) 55 years ago  Friday 12th of February 1971 29-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (x) 52 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1974 56-year-old Writer Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is arrested and deported the next day from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. (+) 51 years ago  Wednesday 12th of February 1975 Double murderer Christopher Jay Swift is born in Dallas, Texas, United States. (-) 47 years ago  Monday 12th of February 1979 Film director Jean Renoir dies of a heart attack at the age of 85 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. (x) 46 years ago  Tuesday 12th of February 1980 34-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is convicted to death for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orange County Courthouse, 65 East Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida, United States. (-) 42 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1984 Writer Julio Jules Florencio Cortázar aka The Simón Bolívar of the Novel dies of leukemia at the age of 70 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Some sources state that Cortázar died from AIDS as a result of receiving a blood transfusion. (-) 40 years ago  Wednesday 12th of February 1986 Diamond merchant Lazare Kaplan dies of natural causes at the age of 102 in Lew Beach, New York, United States. (-) 37 years ago  Sunday 12th of February 1989 Writer Thomas Nicolaas Bernhard dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gmunden, Oberösterreich, Austria. (-) 33 years ago  Friday 12th of February 1993 Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulgeris abducted, tortured and stoned to death by 11-year-old Jon Venablesand Robert Thompson at the age of 3 in Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. (x) 32 years ago  Saturday 12th of February 1994 48-year-old Mass murderer Freddy André Horion aka De Zonnebril tries to escape through a hole in the wall of his cell in Leuven Centraal, Geldenaaksevest 64, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. Horion was caught in the prison courtyard. (-) 32 years ago  Saturday 12th of February 1994 Minimal artist Donald Clarence Judd dies of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 66 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. (-) 27 years ago  Friday 12th of February 1999 Mass murderer Edwin Bell commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 24 in Gardenwood Apartments, 1925 N. Gary Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Minutes before Bell shot his 45-year-old mother Linda Farris, his 21-year-old wife Markita King and his children, 4-year-old Ebony, 2-year-old Essyce, and 8-month-old Marjonna. (x) 27 years ago He Lived in the Cannibal Shack Friday 12th of February 1999 43-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Dorángel Vargas, originally José Dorángel Vargas Gomez aka El Comegente aka Hannibal Lecter of the Andes is arrested when 8 bodies are found on a piece of wasteland near his shack in San Cristobal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela. An inspection of the shack Vargas was living on near the area revealed several vessels containing human flesh and viscera prepared for consumption, along with three human heads and several feet and hands. Vargas confessed to having killed and eaten at least 10 men over a period of two years. (-) 26 years ago His Screaming Stopped Saturday 12th of February 2000 Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin' Jay Hawkins dies of an aneurism at the age of 71 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. (-) 23 years ago  Wednesday 12th of February 2003 Murderer Richard Edwin Fox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. (-) 22 years ago  Thursday 12th of February 2004 Double murderer Bobby Hopkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 19 years ago  Monday 12th of February 2007 Mass murderer Sulejman Talović is shot dead by a police SWAT team at the age of 19 in Trolley Square Mall, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Talović had shot five people and wounded four in a shooting spree for no apparent reason. Talović's body was later found to have been struck a total of 15 times by bullets fired by police. The entire shooting lasted for six minutes. 15 years ago  Saturday 12th of February 2011 The selector dancing to exclusive tracks from the 'Sound as a Weapon'releases by 'De Player' on the live launch event in De Player, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Katendrecht, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (x) 15 years ago  Saturday 12th of February 2011 52-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Head of Waldo's Penis' in De Player, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Katendrecht, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. A music performance with machines and voice for the presentation of 'Sound as a Weapon'.

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