Wednesday, January 4, 2012

4 January 1960 - Albert Camus Dies

1643 (+) Scientist Isaac Newton is born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
1785 (+) Philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.
1809 (+) Inventor Louis Braille is born in Paris, France.
1838 (+) Dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb, is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
1881 (+) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck is born in Duisburg, Germany.
1890 (+) Swindler who tried to sell the Eiffel Tower twice, Victor Lustig aka The Count, is born in Hostinne, Czechoslowakia.
1896 (+) Surrealist writer André Aimé René Masson is born in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France.
1924 (-) Murderer George Parker is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Oregon, USA.
1939 (-) Peter Seaton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, United Kingdom.
1941 (-) Olga is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 28 in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.
1958 (x) 38-year-old Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary reaches the SouthPole.


1960 (-) Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at the age of 46 in Petit-Villeblévin, Yonne, France.
1964 (-) Mary Sullivan is strangled and raped with a broomstick by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, 44a Charles Street, Massachussets, USA.
1965 (-) Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in London, United Kingdom.
1967 (-) Adolf Schickel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 27 in Wiesbaden, Main River, Germany.
He was falsely accused of killing his girlfriend, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter.
1974 (-) Sharon Clarke is sexually assaulted, but survived after several months in a coma, by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Seattle University District, Washington, USA.
1974 (-) Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India, dies at the age of 80 in Coimbatore, India.
1984 (x) The first test-tube birth resulting in triplets occurs in France.
1984 (-) Sigrid Poeltz is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, in Bremen, Germany.
1989 (-) Felicia Stephens is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, in Salmon Creek, New York, USA.
1995 (-) Murderer Jesse DeWayne is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1995 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Jesse D. Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1996 (-) Carmelina Russo is presumably abducted as first victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 46 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Her remains were found cut to pieces 17 days later in Chateau L'Abbaye, France.
1999 (-) Serial Killer Donald Leroy Evans is stabbed to death by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack in Parchman State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.
2005 (-) Murderer James Scott Porter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Nikki Bacharach commits suicide by suffocation using a plastic bag and helium at the age of 40 in Thousand Oaks, USA.
She was the daughter of songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson, and suffered from Aperger's Disorder.
2010 (-) Chess Grandmaster Bobby Robert James Fischer dies of degenerative renal failure at the age of 66 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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