When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: January 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

31 January 2007 - Rotterdam, Netherlands

The neon sign on top of Central Railway Station in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

1797 (+) Composer Franz Schubert is born in Vienna, Lichtenthal, Austria.

1921 (+) Tenor and actor Mario Lanza originally Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1923 (+) Writer Norman Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.

1939 (+) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is born in Webster, South Dakota, USA.

1949 (+) Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, is born in Cuhahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.

1954 (-) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor window of his flat at the age of 63 in New York, New York, USA.
He was lonely and depressed over the FM patent dispute.

1955 (-) Founder of the WMCA John Mott dies at the age of 89 in Cornell, New York, USA.

1956 (+) Sex Pistol John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Jack Larber dies of spontaneous human combustion in San Francisco, California, USA.

1964 (x) Serial Killer Wladimir Ionesyan aka Iwan The Axeman, is sentenced to death for 5 murders in Armenia, Russia.

1967 (-) Bozena Raczkiewicz is knifed and mutilated to death with a broken bottle by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 18 in Lodz, Poland.

1969 (-) Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, dies of intense muscular spasms at the age of 74 in Meherazad, India.

1974 (-) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn originally Szmuel Gelbfisz, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1974 (x) 92 Die in Pan Am Airliner crash in Pago Pago, Samoa.

1978 (-) Elena Rytka is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 18 in Huddersfield, Great Northern Street, United Kingdom.

1979 (x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is released from the Norfolk Regional Center after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

1986 (-) Virginie Labrette is tortured to death by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 76 in Paris 12th, 25 rue de Wattignies, France.

1995 (-) Murderer Willie Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1996 (x) 86 Die in an explosives-filled truck crash in Colombo, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
At least 1400 people are injured.

2000 (x) 88 Die in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 MD-83 crash into the Pacific Ocean in Point Mugu, California, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Randall Hafdahl aka Jack Douglas Cone, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Double murderer Jaime Jr. Elizalde is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2009 (x) 113 Die in an oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenia.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

30 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

My daily ferry ride across the river coming from Taling Chan to Silpakorn University Bangkok, Thailand.

1835 (x) 67-year-old 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory, escapes the first ever assassination-attempt on a president when Richard Lawrence's 2 pistols both misfire in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1849 (+) President of France Félix Faure is born in Paris, France.

1882 (+) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in Hyde Park, New York, USA.

1889 (-) Juliette Deitsch is murdered in a magickal sex-rite by Etienne Deschamps at the age of 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1889 (-) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge, Austria.
He probably killed his lover, 17-year-old baroness Mary Vetsera, first and then took his own life. There is no question that the depression-prone Rudolf and Mary had a suicide-pact.

1896 (x) Presentation of the first motion picture, "A Passion Play" by Rich Hollaman in Hollywood, Eden Musée, California, USA.

1915 (+) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1927 (+) Prime-minister Olof Palme is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1930 (+) Actor Gene Hackman is born in San Bernardino, California, USA.

1930 (+) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is born in Germany.

1930 (+) Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon Samuel Byck is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1933 (x) 43-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is appointed as ReichsKanssler in Berlin, Germany.

1937 (+) Actress Vanessa Redgrave is born in London, United Kingdom.

1945 (x) Cabatuan-KZ is liberated by the American Armed Forces in Japan.

1948 (-) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1948 (-) Mahatma Ghandi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, is shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse at the age of 78 in Delhi, Berli House, India.

1951 (+) Musician Phil Collins is born in London, United Kingdom.

1951 (-) Automobile designer and engineer Ferdinand Porsche dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Stuttgart, Germany.

1953 (-) Murderer Albert Kames is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

1969 (x) The Beatles play their last public concert, on the roof of Apple Records in London, United Kingdom.
The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

1971 (-) Donald Edward is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, Mangum, Texas, USA.

1972 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is arrested and charged with child-abuse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1972 (x) 13 Die in the Bloody Sunday events in Londonderry, Ireland.

1977 (-) Christine Feund is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.

1980 (-) Mary Maher is stabbed and choked by Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, in Daytona, Florida, USA.

1985 (-) Rapist and murderer James Raulerson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Florida, USA.

1993 (x) Over 140 Die in train derailment in Darajani, Kenia.

1994 (-) Writer Pierre Boulle known from "Planet of the Apes", dies at the age of 82 in Paris, France.

1996 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, butchers a family of four in Ukraïne, Russia.

1998 (-) Murderer Ricky Sanderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in North Carolina, USA.

2002 (-) Double murderer Windell Broussard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Granville Riddgle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Triple murderer Christopher Swift is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, January 29, 2010

29 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

The filmcrew on the way in the back of a truck to the square in front of Wat Suthat for an open air film show in Bangkok, Thailand.

1763 (-) Poet Louis Racine dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.

1843 (+) 25th president of the USA William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, USA.

1860 (+) Writer Anton Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia.

1880 (+) Filmmaker W.C. Fields originally William Claude Dukenfield, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1904 (-) Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.

1905 (+) Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York, New York, USA.

1905 (+) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is born in Oxford, Indiana, USA.

1906 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or, is brought to trial for the strangling of 2 children, but found not guilty in Paris, France.

1924 (+) Composer Luigi Nono is born in Venice, Italy.

1930 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Fr for attempted fraud in Sens, Tribunal de Première Instance, France.

1939 (+) Feminist writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1940 (x) Over 200 Die in train collision in Osaka, Japan.

1941 (-) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 69 in Athens, Greece.

1942 (+) Musician and murderess Claudine Longet is born in Paris, France.

1945 (+) Actor Tom Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1954 (+) TV-host Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.

1958 (-) Edith Middleton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Merle Collison is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 37 in Douglas, Wyoming, USA.
Minutes later Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Fugate are arrested.

1959 (-) Patricia Vinico Berkman is stabbed to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 33 in Perth, Australia.

1971 (x) A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 19-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.

1974 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends an "Exorcist"-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.

1979 (x) 16-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school because she didn't like mondays in San Diego, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
She killed the principal and the janitor and wounded 9 children.

1980 (-) Comedian and actor Jimmy Durante dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1985 (-) Millionaire Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 46 in Germany.
He imprisoned and sexually tortured his maid for a period of 466 days.

1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is sentenced to 40 years in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

2001 (-) Murderer Alexander Caruthers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Stephen Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Richard Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Musician and founder of The Beatles Eric Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

2005 (-) Mass murderess Priscilla Ford dies at the age of 75 in Reno, Nevada, USA .
She was the only women on Nevada's Death Row.

2006 (-) Video Artist Nam June Paik dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Miami, Florida, USA.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

28 January 2004 - Singapore

Having a damn good Masala tea in a restaurant in Singapore.

1547 (-) King of England Henry VIII dies of diabetes at the age of 55 in Whitehall, United Kingdom.

1621 (-) 233rd Pope Paulus V originally Camillo Borghese, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.

1706 (+) Printer and typographer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

1768 (-) Composer John Wainwright dies at the age of 44 in Cheshire, United Kingdom.

1788 (+) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, is born in Scotland, United Kingdom.

1802 (-) Murderer Joseph Wall Esq. is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.

1829 (-) Serial Killer William Burke aka The Bodysnatcher, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
A huge crowd showed up to see him hang.

1841 (+) Explorer Sir Henry Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.

1855 (+) Inventor of the calculating machine William Burroughs I is born in Rochester, New York, USA.

1887 (x) 26-year-old America's first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Myrta Z. Belknap as Henry Howard Holmes in Colorado, USA.

1887 (+) Composer Arthur Rubinstein is born in Lodz, Poland.

1890 (+) Murderer Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1912 (+) Artist Jackson Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, USA.

1914 (+) Actor and murderer Tom Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

1924 (+) Artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1929 (+) Artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1936 (+) Actor Alan Alda originally Alphonso D'Abruzzo aka Hawkeye Pierce, is born in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.

1936 (-) Richard Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer, is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie Day at the age of 30 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.

1939 (-) Writer William Butler Yeats dies at the age of 73 in Menton, Hotel Idéal Séjour, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

1945 (+) Musician Robert Wyatt-Ellidge is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

1948 (x) Over 250 Die in Joo Maru freighter collision in Japan.
It collided with an abandoned mine.

1948 (-) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Krakow, Poland.

1949 (-) Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.

1953 (-) Cop Killer Derek Bentley is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Lauer and 46-year-old Clara Ward is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 47 in Lincoln, 2843 24th Street, Nebraska, USA.

1965 (+) Fifth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Sears is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1974 (x) 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 the Black Zebra Killers while 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down in San Francisco, California, USA.

1976 (-) Artist Marcel Broodthaers dies at the age of 52 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1978 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is arrested in Sacramento, California, USA.
Assorted human and animal organs are found in his refrigerator.

1986 (x) US-astronauts 49-year-old Michael Smith, 36-year-old Judith Resnik, 35-year-old Ronald McNair, 39-year-old Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old Francis Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger Spacecraft, just 1min 12 sec after take-off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

1996 (-) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York, New York, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Alva Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Billy Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in Paris XIV, France.
She played a violent murderess in the movie "Baise-Moi".

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

27 January 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A swamp area in the Rivierenhof Park in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1756 (+) Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

1832 (+) Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

1836 (+) Writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch is born in Lemberg, Austria.

1892 (+) Composer Mitya Stillman is born in Russia.

1901 (-) Composer Giuseppe Verdi dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Milan, Italy.

1906 (+) Actress Starr Faithfull aka The Drowned Girl, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1928 (-) Murderer Daniel Driscoll is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.

1928 (-) Murderer Edward Rowlands is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.

1944 (+) Musician Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, United Kingdom.

1945 (x) Auschwitz-KZ is liberated by the Russian army in Poland.

1949 (x) Over 600 Die in Taiping steamer collision with collier in China.

1958 (-) August Meyer is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 70 in Bennet, Meyer Farm, Nebraska, USA.

1958 (-) Robert Jensen is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 17 in Bennet, Schoolhouse, Nebraska, USA.

1963 (-) John Sturkey is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 19 in Perth, Cottelsoe and Nedlands, Australia.
Nicholas August, Roweena Reeves and Brian Weir are also shot and woonded in separate events on the same night.

1967 (x) US-astronauts 40-year-old Gus Grisson, 33-year-old Edward H. White and 31-year-old Roger B. Chaffee are burned alive in their Apollo/Saturn 204 in John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.
They were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission.

1972 (-) Musician Mahalia Jackson dies of a heart-attack at the age of 60 in Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA.

1977 (-) Lawrence Merrick is shot dead by persons unknown in Los Angeles, the Merrick Studio Academy of Dramatic Arts, California, USA.
He was working on a 'Manson'-documentary.

1977 (x) 27-year-old RAF 2nd Generation member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is released from prison in Germany.

1978 (-) Evelyn Miroth is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 38 in Sacramento, Merrywood Drive 3207, California, USA.
In the same event he also killed 6-year-old Jason Miroth and 22-months-old David Ferreira. He then took the baby's body home, decapitated it and ate parts of its brains before dumping it in a cardboard box.

1981 (x) 443 Die in Tamponas 2 Ocean Liner fire in the Java Sea.

1982 (-) An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Lucas & Toole aka The Hand of Death, in Plainview, Texas, USA.

1983 (-) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Nantes, France.

1984 (x) 25-year-old Musician Michael Jackson suffers second and third degree burns on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium, California, USA.

1992 (-) Wife of Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach Henriette 'Henny' von Schirach originally Henriette Hoffmann, dies at the age of 79 in München, Germany.

2000 (-) Double murderer James Moreland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (x) Start of the trial against Murderer Robert Glass for the consensual murder of Sharon Lopatka in North Carolina, USA.
He had fulfilled her wish to be tortured and strangled to death.

2009 (-) Writer John Updike dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

26 January 2004 - Singapore

A colourful evening dinner (I had green Tandoori chicken) with Frank Pinckers and Namrata at Khansama restaurant on Serangoon Road in Singapore.

1340 (x) 27-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France.

1826 (-) Artist Théodore Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 34 in Paris, France.

1880 (+) General Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

1918 (+) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is born in Scornicesti, Romania.

1925 (+) Actor Paul Newman is born in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA.

1938 (x) The dismembered body of 41-year-old Florence Polillo is found, she's the third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, 2315 East 20th Street, Ohio, USA.

1944 (+) Political Activist Angela Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

1947 (+) Actor Patrick Dewaere is born in Saint-Brieuc, France.

1948 (x) 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery, presumably by 55-year-old Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, in Tokio, Imperial Bank, Japan.
He posed as a health officer, and ordered 16 employees to drink some 'dysentery medicine', what was really potassium cyanide.

1955 (+) Musician Eddie Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

1958 (+) Murderer John Rose is born in North Carolina, USA.

1958 (x) 167 Die in Nankai Maru capsizing in Awaji Island, Japan.

1962 (-) Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 64 in Napoli, Capodicine Airport, Italy.
He was meeting a scriptwriter who was about to write his life as a film.

1963 (x) 15-year-old Douglas Godfrey shoots his mother in a self-created 'sniper' attack in Bloomfield township, Michigan, USA.

1965 (x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1965 (x) Hindi becomes the official language in India.

1966 (x) The Beaumont Children 9-year-old Jane Nartare, 7-year-old Arnna Kathleen and 4-year-old Grant Ellis collectively disappear in Adelaide, Gleneig Beach, South Australia, Australia.
It remains Australia's most infamous cold case.

1968 (x) 69 Die in Dakar submarine wrecking in the Mediterranean Sea.

1968 (-) Linda Slawson is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1971 (x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Manson is found guilty of the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1974 (x) The RAF aka Rote Armee Fraktion - Aufbauorganisation calls itself the successor of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe in Germany.

1979 (-) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1983 (-) Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 20 in London, United Kingdom.

1999 (-) Murderer Martin Vega is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt dies at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2008 (-) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 49 in Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center , California, USA.

Monday, January 25, 2010

25 January 2003 - Dublin, Ireland

The multi-keyboard of the largest organ in Ireland in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.

1533 (x) 41-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his second wife Anne Boleyn in London, United Kingdom.

1874 (+) Writer William Somerset Maugham is born in Paris, France.

1882 (+) Writer Virginia Woolf is born in London, United Kingdom.

1904 (x) 179 Die in coal-mine explosion in Cheswick, United Kingdom.

1913 (+) Composer Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland.

1917 (+) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine is born in Moscow, Russia.

1923 (+) Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), is born in Dodge Center, Minnesota, USA.

1942 (x) Thailand declares war to the USA and United Kingdom.

1943 (-) Actor Spencer Charters commits suicide by coal-monoxide poisoning combined with sleeping tablets at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1947 (-) Gangster Al Capone dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 48 in Palm Island, Florida, USA.

1950 (+) Child murderer Melvin White is born in Texas, USA.

1965 (-) Persian prime minister Ali Mansoer dies due to injuries suffered in an assault on January 21st in Iran.

1973 (-) James Ralph, 21-year-old Joan, 9-year-old David Hughes, 4-year-old Damon Francis Gianera are shot dead by Herbert Mullin in Santa Cruz West Side, Happy Valley, California, USA.

1975 (x) Over 100 Die in Passenger Ferry shipwreck in Dacca, India.

1979 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 76 in Hutton-Le-Hole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1983 (x) 69-year-old Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is arrested and expelled to France in La Paz, Bolivia.

1984 (x) 508 Die in oil-pipeline explosion in Cubato, Brazil.

1985 (-) General René Audran is shot dead by Action Directe in Paris, France.

1990 (-) Actress Ava Gardner dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

1996 (-) Double murderer Billy Bailey is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.
He was the last man to be hanged in the USA. For his last meal he had requested a well-done steak, a baked potato with sour cream and butter, buttered rolls, peas and vanilla ice cream.

2000 (-) Murderer Glen McGinnis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer Troy Kunkle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (x) 258 Die in Mandher Devi temple stampede in Mandhradevi, India.

2006 (-) Triple murderer Marion Dudley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Pornographic actress Anna Malle originally Hotop, dies in a car crash, not wearing a seat belt at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

24 January 2004 - Singapore

A tropical rainshower at the foodcourt near Newton Circus in Singapore.

41 (-) Emperor Gaius Caligula is assassinated by his Praetorian Guards at the age of 28 in Rome, Italy.

76 (+) Roman Emperor Publius Hadrianus is born in Rome, Italy.

1705 (+) Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, is born in Andria, Italy.

1846 (-) Murderess Elisabeth Van Valkenburgh is executed by hanging in Fulton, New York, USA.

1920 (-) Artist Amadeo Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 35 in Paris, France.

1921 (-) Eventual Murderer Morris Stein aka Stinie Morrison, dies of hungerstriking in claiming his innocence in a murder trial in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

1940 (+) Performance artist Vito Acconci is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1943 (+) Actress Sharon Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1944 (+) Countertenor Klaus Nomi originally Klaus Sperber, is born in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

1948 (-) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Kraków, Poland.

1949 (+) Actor John Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1952 (+) SPK and RAF 2nd Generation member Siegfried Hausner is born in Selb, Germany.

1961 (+) Actress Natassja Kinski originally Nastassja Naksynski, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1961 (x) A B-52 Stratofortress bomber carrying two 24-megaton H-bombs breaks up in mid-air in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA.
One weapon nearly detonates; its uranium core is still lost.

1965 (-) Politician Winston Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.

1966 (+) Seventeenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Joseph Bradehoft is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1966 (x) 117 Die in Air India Boeing 707 crash in Mont Blanc region, France.

1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.

1985 (x) 70-year-old Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is released from prison in Italy.

1986 (-) Founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA.

1989 (-) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 42 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.

1989 (x) Raphael's "La Madonna di Foligno" is attacked with a fire-bomb by an unidentified wheelchair-patient in Rome, Vatican Museum, Italy.

1991 (-) Pascale Escarfail is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.

1992 (-) Cop Killer Ricky Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Arkansas, USA.
It took medical staff more than 50 minutes to find a suitable vein in Rector's arm. Witnesses were not permitted to view this scene, but reported hearing Rector's loud moans throughout the process. During the ordeal, Rector (who suffered serious brain damage from a lobotomy) tried to help the medical personal find a vein.

1995 (-) Murderer Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He is one of only a few white criminals to have been executed for murdering a black victim.

1995 (-) Murderer Clifton Russell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer Billy Hughes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

23 January 2008, Paris, France

The Tomb of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Pantheon in Paris, France.
"L'Ordre Social ne vient pas de la Nature; il est fondé sur des conventions."

1783 (+) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, is born in Grenoble, France.

1803 (-) Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness dies at the age of 77 in Beaumont, Kildare, Ireland.

1832 (+) Artist Eduard Manet is born in Paris, 5 Rue des Petits-Augustins, France.

1898 (+) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailowitch Eisenstein is born in Riga, Latvia, Russia.

1912 (x) Blacks Belle Hathaway, John Moore, Eugene Hamming and Dusty Cruthfield are lynched by hanging and riddled with gunfire by some 100 white men in Hamilton, Georgia, USA.

1923 (x) The furniture, including the stove, of 53-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sold at a public auction in Versailles, France.

1928 (+) Actress Jeanne Moreau is born in Paris, France.

1931 (-) Ballerina Anna Pavlova aka The Dying Swan, dies of pleurisy at the age of 48 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

1932 (+) Matricider Jack Graham is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.

1944 (-) Artist Edvard Munch dies at the age of 80 in Ekerly, Norway.

1947 (-) Artist Pierre Bonnard dies at the age of 80 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

1948 (-) Murderer Wardell Henderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

1969 (-) Therèse Adam is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l'Ombre, at the age of 49 in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue de Frères Péraux, France.

1973 (-) Alexandros Onassis dies in a plane-crash at the age of 24 in Athens, Ellinikon International Airport, Greece.

1976 (-) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Sorokin dies of natural causes at the age of 44 in the USSR.

1978 (-) Theresa Wallin is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 22 in Sacramento, Tioga Way 2630, California, USA.

1986 (-) Artist Joseph Beuys dies of heart-failure at the age of 64 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1989 (x) Over 150 Die in Sol de Oro goldmine explosion in Ica, Peru.

1989 (-) Artist Salvador Dali dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.

1997 (-) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request was a cheeseburger, fries and coffee with milk. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine" were his last words.

1997 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper, is found guilty of raping and murdering three prostitutes and cutting them up with a chain saw in Athens, Greece.
He is sentenced to 13 life sentences.

2002 (-) Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu dies at the age of 71 in Paris, France.

2004 (-) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in West Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Chateau Marmont, California, USA.

2005 (-) TV-host Johnny Carson dies of emphysema at the age of 79 in Malibu, California, USA.

Friday, January 22, 2010

22 January 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

Lying in bed with flu and waking up with the haunting ghost of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Bern, Switzerland.

1849 (+) Writer August Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1869 (+) Influencial Monk Grigory Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russia.

1875 (+) Filmmaker David Wark Griffith is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, USA.

1879 (+) Artist Francis Picabia is born in Feydieu, Gironde, France.

1901 (-) Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 81 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Her death marks the end of the Victorian Age.

1922 (-) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.

1925 (-) Murderer Nichol Ferranti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1930 (-) Nora Lake dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 42 in Kerhonkson, New York, USA.

1931 (+) Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is born in Anolaima, Colombia.

1931 (+) Musician Sam Cooke is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.

1934 (+) Actor Bill Bixby is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1936 (+) Lawyer and RAF member Horst Mahler is born in Haynau, Silesia, Germany.

1937 (+) Writer Joseph Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1940 (+) Actor John Hurt is born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.

1946 (+) Impresario and band manager Malcolm McLaren is born in London, Stoke Newington, United Kingdom.

1957 (x) 53-year-old George Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
He was charged with planting over 30 bombs.

1960 (x) The first atomic bomb-test by France.

1960 (+) INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1963 (-) Notorious bandit and murderer Teofilo Rojas aka Sparks, dies in mysterious circumstances.
He was credited with 592 up to 3500 murders.

1969 (x) USSR-astronauts Sjalatov, Jelisejev, Kroenov and Volynov, who have just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are attacked by an unidentified young man during an official parade in Moscow, Russia.

1973 (-) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

1973 (x) 176 pilgrims Die in Boeing 707 crash in Kano Airport, Nigeria.

1980 (x) 58-year-old Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Sakharov is arrested by the KGB and expelled to Gorki in Russia.

1987 (-) Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol in front of cameras at a news conference at the age of 47 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback.

1994 (-) Actor Telly Savalas dies of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Universal City, California, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Robert Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2008 (-) Actor Heath Ledger dies of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 28 in New York City, New York, USA.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

21 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

An undefinable hardware shop in Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand.

1793 (-) King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Paris, France.

1855 (+) Inventor and designer John Browning is born in Ogden, Utah, USA.

1899 (+) General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is born in Randalstown, Ireland.

1905 (+) Fashion designer Christian Dior is born in Granville, France.

1921 (+) Spree Killer Howard Unruh is born in East Camden, New Jersey, USA.

1922 (+) Actor Telly Savalas is born in Garden City, New York, USA.

1924 (-) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin dies of sclerosis of the cerebral arteries at the age of 53 in Gorky, Russia.

1925 (+) Actor Benny Hill originally Alfie Hill, is born in Southampton, United Kingdom.

1931 (-) Film star Alma Ruben commits suicide by drug-overdose after being arrested for smuggling drugs in Hollywood, California, USA.

1938 (+) Disk Jockey Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1938 (-) Film pioneer Georges Meliés dies at the age of 76 in Paris, France.

1941 (+) Musician Plàcido Domingo originally José Plàcido Domingo Embil, is born in Madrid, Spain.

1944 (+) Murderer and litterary talent Jack Henry Abbott from The Belly of the Beast, is born in Oscoda, Michigan, USA.

1950 (-) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.

1950 (+) RAF 2nd Generation member Silke Maier-Witt is born in Nagold, Germany.

1952 (+) Multiple Murderer Raymond Stewart is born in Burlington, North Carolina, USA.

1959 (-) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1960 (x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Coalbrook, South Africa.
Many were trapped underground due to a cave-in.

1961 (-) Writer Blaise Cendrars originally Frédéric Louis Sauser, dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Paris, France.

1963 (x) 37-year-old Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany is sentenced to life-imprisonment for soaking his wife in nitric acid in San JosÈ, California, USA.

1965 (-) Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 27 in Antwerpen, Gloriantlaan, Antwerp, Belgium.

1968 (x) A US B52-bomber with 4 nuclear bombs aboard crashes in Thule, Greenland.

1978 (-) Yvonne Pearson is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 22 in the United Kingdom.

1980 (x) Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.

1985 (x) 71 Die in L118 Elektra crash in Reno, USA.

1997 (-) Elvis Impersario Tom Parker originally Andreas Cornelis 'Dries' van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

1998 (-) Double Murderer Jose Ceja is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request were two chili beef burritos, two cans of Coke Classic and a slice of cherry pie.

1998 (-) Murderer Lloyd Hampton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.

2000 (-) Multiple murderer Larry Robison is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, dies of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81 in Bel Air, California, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Kevin Zimmerman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

20 January 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

A frame on the wall of the 'Goldene Schluessel' restaurant in Bern, Switzerland.

1774 (-) Composer Florian Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of an accident at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.

1775 (+) Physicist André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, St. Nizier, France.

1896 (+) Comedian and actor George Burns originally Nathan Birnbaum, is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1910 (+) Writer and naturalist Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria.

1913 (-) Axe-murderer John Schild is executed by hanging in Berks City, Pennsylvania, USA.

1920 (+) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy.

1930 (+) Astronaut Edwin Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.

1936 (-) King of England George V originally George Frederick Ernest Albert, dies of a cold at the age of 70 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Physician Lord Dawson of Penn, hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine.

1939 (-) Murderer LeRoy McCarthy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in Salem State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
It was the first execution in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.

1946 (+) Filmmaker David Lynch is born in Missoula, Montana, USA.

1959 (+) Serial Killer Joel Rifkin is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1960 (x) 51-year-old Richard Bugdalle aka The Bully of Sachsenhausen, is convicted to 16 terms of life imprisonment in M¸nchen, Germany.

1965 (-) The Dj who named Rock'n'Roll Alan Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

1968 (x) 34-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.

1969 (+) Miss Hungary Csilla Molnar is born in Kaposvar, Hungary.

1975 (-) Emily Jackson is hammered and stabbed 52 times with a Phillips screwdriver by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 42 in Leeds, Manor Street, United Kingdom.

1982 (x) Officially 66 (but rumoured 340) Die in soccer riot during the game Spartak Moscow-Haarlem in Russia.

1984 (-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller aka Tarzan, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 79 in Acapulco, in a mental hospital, Mexico.

1985 (x) An unidentified member of the Terrorist Movement Rote Armee Fraktion is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.

1987 (-) Murderer Ramon Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is arrested on a charge of burglary in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

1992 (x) 87 Die in Air Inter Light 148 Airbus A-300 crash in Strasbourg, France.

1993 (-) Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, dies of appendiceal cancer at the age of 63 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.

1997 (-) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Haisman originally Brown, dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.

1999 (-) Double Murderer Mark Sheppard is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer David Hicks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

19 January 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

A sudden burst of snow covered the city in white overnight in Bern, Switzerland.

1809 (+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1839 (+) Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, France.

1866 (-) Murderess Martha Grinder aka The American Borgia, is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1866 (-) Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

1870 (-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Paris, Roquette Prison, France.

1916 (+) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin is born in London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

1921 (+) Writer Patricia Highsmith originally Mary Patricia Plangman, is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

1925 (+) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, is born in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum, Cambodja.

1933 (-) Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1935 (+) Actress Tippi Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA.

1938 (+) Musician Phil Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1943 (+) Musician Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.

1946 (+) Singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.

1947 (x) 392 Die in Himera Ocean liner hitting a forgotten WWII mine in Athens, Greece.

1954 (+) Photographer Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.

1958 (-) Marion Bartlett is shot, stabbed and choked to death by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 57 in Lincoln, 924 Belmont Avenue, Nebraska, USA.

1962 (x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1969 (-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation in Lille, France.

1973 (+) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, is born in Lyon, France.

1981 (-) Mass Murderer Alvin King commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Dangerfield, town jail, Texas, USA.
He used strips torn from his towel to make the hanging rope.

1982 (-) Leader of the 'Rote Kapelle' spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77 in Jerusalem, Israël.

1998 (-) Musician Carl Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.
He suffered 3 heart-attacks in less than 2 months.

2006 (-) Musician Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.

2007 (-) Singer-songwiter Denny Doherty dies at the age of 66 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
He was a founding member of the 'Mamas and the Papas'.

Monday, January 18, 2010

18 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

An abandoned LandRover in Taling Chan where I performed 'Pain', my first work for the 'Alter Ego' exhibition at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

1574 (-) Hermit and cannibalistic murderer Gilles Garnier aka The Werewolf of Dole, is executed by burning at the stake in Dole, France.
He stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12.

1803 (-) Wife- and child-murderer George Forster is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
Shortly after the execution his body was taken to a nearby house where it was used in an experiment by Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini. "On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion."

1878 (x) 32-year-old Cannibal Adolph Luetgert aka The Sausage King, marries 31-year-old Louisa Bicknese in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1890 (-) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I dies at the age of 44 in Aosta, Italy.

1892 (+) Actor Oliver Hardy is born in Harlem, Georgia, USA.

1904 (+) Actor Cary Grant originally Alexander Archibald Leach, is born in Bristol, Horfield, 15 Hughenden Road, United Kingdom.

1909 (-) Charlie Von Dahmer is shot dead by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Juneau, Alaska, USA.

1913 (+) Actor and comedian Danny Kaye originally David Daniel Kaminsky, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Philosopher Gilles Deleuze is born in Paris, France.

1929 (x) 4 policemen are killed by 33-year-old Anarchist and Mass Cop Killer IJe Wijkstra in Groningen, Doezum, the Netherlands.

1932 (+) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Wilson is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.

1936 (-) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at the age of 70 in London, United Kingdom.

1946 (-) Murderer Joseph Wessel is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.

1952 (+) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is born in Gopinatham, Karnataka, India.

1955 (+) Actor Kevin Costner is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1977 (x) 90 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Sydney, Australia.

1981 (-) Shari Hull is shot dead after being sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 20 in Salem, TransAmerica Title Building, Oregon, USA.

1982 (x) 4 US stunt-pilots crash with their Thunderbird Jets in the Nevada Desert, USA.

1984 (+) Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, is born in Seoul, South Korea.

1987 (-) Jacquelin Askins is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, at the age of 18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
She survived.

2000 (-) Murderer Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He kidnapped and brutally killed Cecile Ham, wife of Bill Ham, manager and image-maker of ZZ Top in 1991.

2001 (-) Murderer Alvin Goodwin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

17 January 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The backroom of a whorehouse where I performed 'Only the Lonely' on the opening night of the 'Bordello' event in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1504 (+) 225th Pope St. Pius V originally Michele Ghisleri, is born in Bosco, Italy.

1528 (+) Queen of Navarra Jeanne d'Albret is born in Paris, France.

1706 (+) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, USA.

1751 (-) Composer Tomaso Albinoni dies of diabetes at the age of 79 in Venezia, Italy.

1874 (-) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke due to pneumonia, and the other one of fear, at the age of 62 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and lifted right testicle.

1894 (x) 33-year-old Americaís first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Georgiana Yoke as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, USA.

1897 (+) Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is born in Auxerre, 100 Rue de Paris, Yonne, France.

1899 (+) Gangster Al Capone is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1899 (+) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1919 (x) 460 Die in Chaonia Steamer shipwreck in the Strait of Messina.

1928 (+) Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is born in London, United Kingdom.

1933 (+) Singer and actress Dalida originally Yolande Christina Gigliotti, is born in Caïro, Egypt.

1942 (+) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammed Ali originally Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

1944 (+) Singer and actress Françoise Hardy is born in Paris 9th, France.

1947 (-) Margot M. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 20 in Niedersachsen, Germany.

1950 (x) 11 Thieves steal $1.218.211,29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities from the Brinks Building Offices in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Although all of the gangsters were captured and put on trial only 58.000 Dollars were ever recovered. The rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

1966 (x) A US-bomber with 4 Hydrogen-bombs aboard crashes into the sea in Palomares, Spain.

1975 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1977 (-) Spree Killer Gary Gilmore aka The Executionerís Song, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Drape State Prison, Utah, USA.
He gained international notoriety for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled. His ashes were scattered from an airplane over Spanish Fork, Utah.

1978 (x) 25-year-old Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is stabbed by a white inmate in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1981 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry capsizing in Meghna, Bangladesh.

1988 (x) 108 Die in CAAC Iljoeshin-18 crash in Chongquing, China.

1989 (-) Mass Murderer Patrick Purdy aka The S.A.T.A.N. Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 5 and wounding over 30 children at the age of 24 in Stockton, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
All of the fatally shot victims and many of the wounded were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants.

1995 (-) Double Murderer Mario Marquez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies of multiple strokes two days before at the age of 85 in Beijing, China.
He spent nearly 16 years under house arrest after he opposed a military intervention to end the student-led protest at Tienanmen Square.

2006 (-) Multiple Murderer Clarence Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 76 in San Quentin State Prison, California, USA.
His last meal consisted of Buffalo steak and frybread as well as a bucket of KFC white-meat-only chicken, sugar-free pecan pie, sugar-free walnut ice cream and whole milk. The ice-cream was left out to thaw for one hour, which he turned into a milkshake by hand.

2007 (-) Cop Killer Johnathan Moore is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

16 January 2004 - Gent, Belgium

AMVK interviewed in her Headroom installation at the SMAK in Gent, Belgium.

1864 (x) 18-year-old Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka 'Polly', marries John Nichols in London, United Kingdom.

1907 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery in Brieg Penitentiary, Germany.

1930 (+) Multiple Murderer Clarence Allen is born in Blair, Oklahoma, USA.

1933 (+) Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1935 (-) Gangster Kate 'Ma' Barker originally Arizona Clark, is shot dead by FBI agents at the age of 61 in Ocala, Florida, USA.
Her son Fred was also shot dead.

1936 (-) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 65 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The first blow short-circuited because of a number of needles Fish had inserted in his scrotum during his lifetime. He was the oldest man ever to be executed in Sing Sing.

1943 (+) Artist Heinz Cibulka is born in Wien, Austria.

1944 (x) Over 500 Die in trainwreck in a tunnel in Leon, Spain.

1948 (+) Filmmaker John Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Composer Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 89 in New York, New York, USA.

1960 (-) Murderer Homer Buckley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Reidsville Prison, Georgia, USA.

1961 (-) Patrice Lumumba is assasinated while imprisoned by Joseph Kasavubu in Katanga, Belgian Congo.

1965 (-) Anna Kalinka is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 16 in Warsaw, Praga, Poland.

1969 (-) Revolutionary student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 20 in Prague, Wenceslas Square, Czechoslowakia.

1969 (x) USSR spacecrafts Soyoez 4 and Soyoez 5 are linked in Space.

1970 (-) Régis Tall commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 17 in Lille, France.

1970 (-) Jean Way is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 23 in Montreal, Canada.

1978 (-) Child-killer and would-be mass-murderer Ronald Cooper is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in South Africa.

1985 (-) Multiple Murderer Doyle Skillern is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1988 (-) James Doxtator is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in West Allis, South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Jermarr Arnold is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf Oetker dies of pneumonia at the age of 90 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Friday, January 15, 2010

15 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A streetsleeper near Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

1622 (+) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Molière is born in Paris, France.

1918 (-) Wife-murderer Frederick Small is executed by hanging in Concord State Prison, New Hampshire, USA.

1918 (+) President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

1919 (-) Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back of the head by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.

1919 (-) Rosa Luxemburg is shot in the back of the head and thrown in the Landwehr Canal by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.
Her body was only found on 1 june 1919.

1924 (-) Heinrich Koch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 20 in Hannover, Germany.

1929 (+) Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1932 (-) Murderer Guy Fairley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Mississippi, USA.

1945 (-) Murderer Henry Merton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in Oregon, USA.

1945 (-) Murderer Walter Higgins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 32 in Oregon, USA.

1947 (-) Elisabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is found severely tortured, murdered, drained of all her blood and cut to pieces by persons unknown at the age of 22 in Los Angeles, Leimert Park, California, USA.

1951 (x) 44-year-old KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.

1971 (x) 30-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci starts his performance series "Seedbed" at Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York, USA.

1978 (-) Lisa Levy is clubbed to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 20 in Tallahassee, Chi Omega Sorority House and nearby apartments, Florida, USA.
21-year-old Karen Chandler, Kathy Kleiner and Cheryl Thomas are severely battered but survived.

1981 (-) Gangster Meyer Lansky originally Majer Suchowlinski, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 78 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

1985 (x) Thirteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, Nato Cultural Centre, Brabant, Belgium.

1986 (-) Yvonne Schaible is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 4th, 20 rue Censier, France.

1989 (x) Over 150 Die in 2-train collision in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
They crashed head-on into each other.

2001 (x) Wikipedia goes online.

2003 (-) Murderer John Baltazar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

14 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

Some furry animal in the Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand.

1742 (-) Astrologist Edmund Halley dies at the age of 85 in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

1875 (+) Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kayserberg, Germany.

1908 (-) Murderess Marie Wilkinson St-LÈger Gould is executed by the Guillotine in Monaco.

1909 (+) Filmmaker Joseph Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1920 (-) Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 55 in New York City, New York, USA.

1921 (-) Murderer Pedro Dominguez is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1925 (+) Writer Yukio Mishima is born in Tokio, Japan.

1925 (-) Murderer Ben Burchfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.

1933 (+) Experimental film-maker Stan Brakhage originally Robert Sanders, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
He was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth.

1936 (-) Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.

1938 (-) Murderer Elvin Odom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1941 (+) Actress Faye Dunaway is born in Bascom, Florida, USA.

1944 (+) Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Germany.

1945 (+) Musician Neil Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1946 (+) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Shipman is born in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

1951 (x) National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 22-year-old Mass Murderer Billy Cook in the USA.

1957 (-) Actor Humphrey Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 57 in Holmby Hills, 232 Mapleton Drive, California, USA.
At the time of his death he only weighed 36kgs.

1961 (x) Serial Killer Peter Hoessl aka Der Wochenendmörder, is arrested and charged with 5 murders in 5 years in München, Germany.

1969 (-) Michèle Louvet is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l'Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, France.
She survived.

1972 (-) King of Denmark Frederick the 9th dies of a heart-attack at the age of 72 in Denmark.

1975 (-) Louise Greenberg is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Margate, New Jersey, USA.
He is accompanied by his son Michael.

1977 (-) Erotic writer Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, dies at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1990 (-) Andrej Krawtschenko is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Schachty cemetary, Russia.

1999 (-) Dramatist Jerzy Grotowski dies of cancer at the age of 65 in Pontadera, Tuscany, Italy.

2003 (-) Multiple murderer Samuel Gallamore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Lewis Williams is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Kenneth Bruce is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra, dies of stomach-cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

13 January 2008 - Borgerhout, Belgium

The cat doesn't like it when I'm about to pack my things and leave Borgerhout, Belgium

1830 (x) Start of the Great Fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1866 (+) Occult Teacher George Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Leniniakin, Russia.
The exact date of his birth remains unknown (conjectures range from 1866 to 1877).

1908 (x) 171 Die in Rhodes Opera House cinema fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, USA.

1909 (+) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1919 (+) Actor Robert Stack is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1922 (-) Murderer Ricardo Lauterio is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1922 (-) Murderer Thomas Roman is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1928 (-) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Winnipeg, Canada.

1928 (-) Murderer Garfield Fuller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1941 (-) Writer James Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 58 in Zurich, Switzerland.

1941 (-) Lotte Marlow is assaulted by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 25 in Berlin, Germany.
She survived.

1943 (-) Allen Small dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 52 in Deer Island, Maine, USA.

1944 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is released from prison by the French Gestapo in Fresnes, France.

1946 (+) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1958 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1968 (x) 35-year-old Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, plays live in Folsom State Prison, California, USA.

1975 (-) Lesley Whittle is kidnapped and killed by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, at the age of 17 in Highley, Shropshire, United Kingdom.

1981 (x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

1982 (x) 78 Die in Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 crash into the icy Potomac River in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1984 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for one murder in Seminole County Courthouse, Florida, USA.
Itís his eighth life-sentence, and the first time ever that somebody is sentenced for the murder of an unidentified person.

1985 (x) 418 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Awash, Ethiopia.
It was the worst train disaster in Africa.

1986 (-) Françoise Vendome is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 12th, 68 rue de Charenton, France.

1991 (x) 40 Die in soccer riot in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1992 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Jess Gillies is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1999 (-) Cop Killer Troy Farris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Kelvin Malone is executed at the age of 37 in Missouri, USA.

2002 (-) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Shipman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 56 in Wakefield, Her Majesty's Prison, United Kingdom.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

12 January 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

My regular foodstall area during a major cleaning operation in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

1860 (-) Murderer Patrick Maude is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.

1876 (+) Writer Jack London originally John Griffith, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1891 (+) Biochemist Jack Drummond is born in London, United Kingdom.

1893 (+) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is born in Mariënbad-sanatorium, Rosenheim, Germany.

1918 (+) Spiritual Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is born in Raipur, India.

1926 (x) Start of the second trial against 24-year-old accomplice of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans in Hannover, Schwurgericht, Germany.

1928 (-) Murderess Ruth Snyder aka The Granite Woman, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The final moments of her execution were caught on film with the aid of a miniature one time use camera strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer.

1928 (-) Murderer Judd Gray aka Lover Boy, is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1942 (+) Weather Underground Leader Bernardine Dohrn originally Ohmstein, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1944 (+) RAF 2nd Generation member Inge Viett is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1949 (-) Murderess Margaret Allen aka 'Bill', dies at the age of 42 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
She killed an elderly widow "in one of my funny moods".

1950 (x) 64 Die in Truculent submarine collision with the Swedish tanker 'Davina' in the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom.

1950 (+) Cop Killer Ricky Rector is born in Arkansas, USA.

1953 (-) Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.

1960 (-) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 61 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1960 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, stabbs his mother Viola to death in Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.

1961 (x) 37-year-old Writer Norman Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife in New York, New York, USA.

1975 (-) Caryn Campbell is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA.

1976 (-) Writer Agatha Christie dies at the age of 85 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

1983 (-) Cult-leader Lindbergh Sanders is shot dead with 6 other members in a 30-hour gun-fight with the police at the age of 49 in Memphis, Shannon Street, Tennessee, USA.
The day before Sanders had taken police officer Robert S. Hester hostage. During the shootout Hester was beaten to death.

1986 (-) Marjem Jurblum is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 81 in Paris 11th, 7 rue PelÈe, France.

1988 (x) Start of the trial against 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

2000 (-) Double murderer Earl Heiselbetz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.