1630 (-) Composer Ercole Porta dies at the age of 44 in Italy.
1792 (-) 4th Earl of Sandwich and inventor of the sandwich John Montagu dies at the age of 73 in Chiswick, United Kingdom.
1812 (+) Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, is born in Germany.
1844 (x) 26-year-old Writer and pacifist Henry David Thoreau accidently set a fire that burned over a hundred acres in Fair Haven Pond, Massachussets, USA.
1870 (+) Composer Franz Ferenc Lehár is born in Komárno, Slovakia.
1874 (+) Clergyman and Nazi-collaborator Cyriel Verschaeve is born in Ardooie, Belgium.
1883 (-) Artist Edouard Manet dies of untreated syphilis and rheumatism at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
1893 (+) Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ribbentrop is born in Wesel, Prussia, Germany.
1898 (+) Assassin of SA-Leader Horst Wessel, Albrecht Höhler is born in Berlin, Germany.
1912 (-) Murderer J. J. Morris is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Utah, USA.
1930 (-) Charlotte Ulrich is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1930 (+) Psychotherapist and philosopher Pierre-Félix Guattari is born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France.
1945 (-) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler commits suicide by poison and a shot through the head at the age of 56 in Berlin, FührerBunker, Germany.
His 35-year-old lover Eva Braun follows him in death.
1945 (x) The concentration camp of Ravensbruck is liberated by Russian Armed Forces in Germany.
1946 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested for carrying a gun, but is released in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1956 (+) Filmmaker and founder of Dogme 95 Lars von Trier is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966 (x) 36-year-old Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan in San Francisco, California, USA.
1978 (x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, goes hungerstriking to secure medical treatment in Huntingdon State Correctional Institute, Pennsylvania, USA.
1979 (-) Ellen Abel is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Schriesheim, Germany.
1983 (-) Musician and Father of Chicago Blues Muddy Waters dies of natural causes at the age of 68 in Westmond, Illinois,
1983 (-) Marie Malvar is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 18 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1987 (x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is paroled and released from Stormville Prison after serving 14 of a 25-year sentence for child-murder in New York, New York, USA.
1999 (x) 17-year-old Mass Murderer Christopher Churchill is sentenced to life imprisonment in Olney, Illinois, USA.
In February 1998 he killed his half-brother, Jonathan Lloyd, along with Lloyd's 35-year-old girlfriend and her three young children at their rural Richland County home, only using a hammer.
2002 (-) Murderer Rodolpho Baiza Hernandez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
29 April 1980 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Dies
1863 (+) Millionaire William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1881 (-) Murderer Royal Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, USA.
1899 (+) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1901 (+) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito is born in Tokyo, Aoyama Palace, Japan.
1907 (+) Musician Tino Constantino Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
1907 (+) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman is born in Vienna, Austria.
1917 (+) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, is born in Kiev, Ukraïne, USSR.
1919 (-) Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper not to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1945 (x) The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by American Armed Forces in Germany.
1945 (x) 56-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler marries 33-year-old Eva Braun in Berlin, Germany.
1945 (+) Musician Hugh Colin Hopper is born in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
1949 (-) Murderer Andrew Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.
1951 (-) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies at the age of 62 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1958 (+) Multiple murderer Robert Wayne Vickers is born in Arizona, USA.
1967 (-) Coby Van Der Voort is beaten to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 37 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1970 (+) Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
1971 (-) Edna MacDonald is strangled by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, in Barrington, USA.
1977 (-) Marie-Therese Majer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 21 in Schriesheim, Germany.
1980 (-) Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in Bel Air, California, USA.
1980 (-) Darin Kendrick is sodomised, strangled and forced to drink chloral hydrate by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Stanton, California, USA.
1993 (-) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson dies of liver cancer at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.
1997 (-) David Madson is shot dead as second victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 33 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.
1998 (-) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
1998 (-) Murderer Frank B. McFarland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer David M. Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.
1881 (-) Murderer Royal Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, USA.
1899 (+) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1901 (+) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito is born in Tokyo, Aoyama Palace, Japan.
1907 (+) Musician Tino Constantino Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
1907 (+) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman is born in Vienna, Austria.
1917 (+) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, is born in Kiev, Ukraïne, USSR.
1919 (-) Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper not to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1945 (x) The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by American Armed Forces in Germany.
1945 (x) 56-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler marries 33-year-old Eva Braun in Berlin, Germany.
1945 (+) Musician Hugh Colin Hopper is born in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
1949 (-) Murderer Andrew Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.
1951 (-) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies at the age of 62 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1958 (+) Multiple murderer Robert Wayne Vickers is born in Arizona, USA.
1967 (-) Coby Van Der Voort is beaten to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 37 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1970 (+) Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
1971 (-) Edna MacDonald is strangled by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, in Barrington, USA.
1977 (-) Marie-Therese Majer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 21 in Schriesheim, Germany.
1980 (-) Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in Bel Air, California, USA.
1980 (-) Darin Kendrick is sodomised, strangled and forced to drink chloral hydrate by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Stanton, California, USA.
1993 (-) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson dies of liver cancer at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.
1997 (-) David Madson is shot dead as second victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 33 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.
1998 (-) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
1998 (-) Murderer Frank B. McFarland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer David M. Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
28 April 1992 - Francis Bacon Dies
1442 (+) King of England Edward IV is born in Rouen, Normandy, France.
1758 (+) 4th president of the USA James Monroe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA.
1770 (x) 41-year-old Explorer Captain James Cook lands on Botany Bay in Australia.
1882 (-) Murderer George Henry Lamson is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1889 (+) Prime minister Antonio De Oliveira Salazar is born in Santa Comba Dao, Portugal.
1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Adolf Hannapel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1912 (-) Gangster Jules Bonnot is riddled with bullets in a police-siege at the age of 35 in Choisy-le-Roi, Dubois Garage, France.
1914 (x) 183 Die in coal-mine explosion in Eccles, USA.
1916 (+) Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini is born in Renazzo di Cento, Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
1918 (-) Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 23 in Terezin, Czechoslowakia.
1919 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe, who he presumably killed in the meantime in Hannover, Germany.
1924 (x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in Benwood, USA.
1928 (+) Artist Yves Klein is born in Nice, France.
1929 (-) British eccentric painter Edith May Olive Branson is shot dead by persons unknown in Les Baux, France.
1937 (+) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is born in Al-Awja, Iraq.
1939 (-) Murderer James Bailey aka Archie Lee Short, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1940 (x) 39-year-old Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is installed in Auschwitz, Poland.
1943 (+) Musician and actor Jacques Dutronc is born in Paris, France.
1945 (-) Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 61 in Dongo, Italy.
His mistress, Claretta Pettaci is also executed.
1950 (+) TV-host Jay Leno is born in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
1957 (+) Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.
1961 (+) Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga is born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
1974 (-) Stripper Johanna Nilsen is killed by a lion during a striptease-act in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
1976 (-) Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, dies of heart-failure at the age of 29 in Eickelsborn, Germany.
He was under surgery for a full castration, which was to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.
1977 (x) The leaders of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for four murders and over 30 attempted murders in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.
1992 (-) Artist Francis Bacon dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Madrid, Spain.
1992 (x) The grave of 67-year-old Actor Benny Hill is robbed following rumours that he was buried with large amounts of gold jewellery in Southampton, Hollybrook Cemetary, United Kingdom.
1996 (x) 28-year-old Mass murderer Martin John Bryant kills 35 people in a shooting-spree in a tourist-resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.
1999 (-) Murderer Aaron Foust is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Mass murderer Ayub Bulubili is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 40 in Palangkaraya jail, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
2010 (-) Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 42 in Nanping, China.
1758 (+) 4th president of the USA James Monroe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA.
1770 (x) 41-year-old Explorer Captain James Cook lands on Botany Bay in Australia.
1882 (-) Murderer George Henry Lamson is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1889 (+) Prime minister Antonio De Oliveira Salazar is born in Santa Comba Dao, Portugal.
1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Adolf Hannapel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1912 (-) Gangster Jules Bonnot is riddled with bullets in a police-siege at the age of 35 in Choisy-le-Roi, Dubois Garage, France.
1914 (x) 183 Die in coal-mine explosion in Eccles, USA.
1916 (+) Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini is born in Renazzo di Cento, Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
1918 (-) Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 23 in Terezin, Czechoslowakia.
1919 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe, who he presumably killed in the meantime in Hannover, Germany.
1924 (x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in Benwood, USA.
1928 (+) Artist Yves Klein is born in Nice, France.
1929 (-) British eccentric painter Edith May Olive Branson is shot dead by persons unknown in Les Baux, France.
1937 (+) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is born in Al-Awja, Iraq.
1939 (-) Murderer James Bailey aka Archie Lee Short, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1940 (x) 39-year-old Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is installed in Auschwitz, Poland.
1943 (+) Musician and actor Jacques Dutronc is born in Paris, France.
1945 (-) Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 61 in Dongo, Italy.
His mistress, Claretta Pettaci is also executed.
1950 (+) TV-host Jay Leno is born in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
1957 (+) Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.
1961 (+) Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga is born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
1974 (-) Stripper Johanna Nilsen is killed by a lion during a striptease-act in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
1976 (-) Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, dies of heart-failure at the age of 29 in Eickelsborn, Germany.
He was under surgery for a full castration, which was to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.
1977 (x) The leaders of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for four murders and over 30 attempted murders in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.
1992 (-) Artist Francis Bacon dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Madrid, Spain.
1992 (x) The grave of 67-year-old Actor Benny Hill is robbed following rumours that he was buried with large amounts of gold jewellery in Southampton, Hollybrook Cemetary, United Kingdom.
1996 (x) 28-year-old Mass murderer Martin John Bryant kills 35 people in a shooting-spree in a tourist-resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.
1999 (-) Murderer Aaron Foust is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Mass murderer Ayub Bulubili is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 40 in Palangkaraya jail, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
2010 (-) Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 42 in Nanping, China.
Friday, April 27, 2012
27 April 1992 - Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen Dies
1521 (-) Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is shot by a poisoned arrow and finished off with spears by local inhabitants at the age of 41 in Mactan Island, Filippines.
1605 (-) 232nd Pope Leo XI originally Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici aka Papa Lampo, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
1667 (x) The blind and impoverished Poet John Milton known for “Paradise Lost”, sells the copyright of his epic poem for ten Pounds in London, United Kingdom.
1791 (+) Inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.
1822 (+) 18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, USA.
1865 (x) 1547 Die in SS Sultana steamboat paddlewheeler explosion in the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1891 (+) Composer Sergey Sergeyewitsch Prokofiev is born in Sontzovka, Ukraine, Russia.
1894 (-) Murderer Samuel Vaughan is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arkansas, USA.
1899 (+) Cartoonist and creator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz is born in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
1915 (-) Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin dies of septicemia, contracted as a result of a shaving cut or a boil on his lip at the age of 43 in Moscow, Russia.
His last words were "This means the end. What a catastrophe!" He claimed that he was God, and eventually acknowledged that he was inspired by Satan. Imitating Christ he was an anti-christ filled with Satan, controlled by Satan and ultimately destroyed by Satan.
1926 (x) Mass murderess Antoinette Scieri is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Paris, France.
1927 (-) Mary McConnel is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1932 (+) Actress Anouk Aimée is born in Paris, France.
1937 (+) Musician, poet and artist Wannes Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1943 (-) Murderer Elisandro L. Macias is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1974 (x) 108 Die in Iljoeshin-18 crash in Leningrad, Russia.
1974 (x) 39-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Stammheim Prison to Moabit Prison for the trial considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Germany.
1977 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, shoots Harvey, the dog of his neighbour Sam Carr in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
1982 (-) Jean McPaul is strangled and stabbed to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 40 in Bossier City, Louisiana, USA.
1982 (-) Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon commits suicide by a grenade explosion at the age of 27 in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
In two days time he killed 58 people and left 35 wounded after an argument with his girlfriend
1983 (-) Rhoda Piazza is asphyxiated and beaten to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 22 in Beaumont, Texas, USA.
1992 (-) Composer Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen dies of heart-failure at the age of 83 in Paris, France.
He was recovering from an operation.
1994 (-) Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
He was the first man to be convicted solely through DNA-evidence.
1995 (-) Writer Willem Frederik Hermans dies at the age of 73 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
1997 (-) Jeffrey Trail is beaten to death with a clawhammer as first victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1998 (-) Mass Murderer Ronald Taylor commits suicide by jumping from a freeway overpass at the age of 46 in Los Angeles, Artesia, California, USA.
He first killed his 40-year-old wife Ruthie, 24-year-old son Rick, 29-year-old sister-in-law Mylissa Campbell, 6-year-old niece Jolissa Morales and 24-year-old family friend Tomy Kang Jung.
1998 (-) Writer Carlos Castaneda dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1999 (x) 16-year-old Mass Murderer Lorenzo Alvarado commits suicide by a shot in the head Die in in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He first shot his father, stepmother and 4-year-old half brother to death in the family's Hyde Park apartment.
2005 (x) The skeleton of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner is found handcuffed to a tree in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier.
2007 (-) Murderer Kosaku Nata is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Osaka, Japan.
2007 (-) Murderer Yoshikatsu Oda is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Fukuoka, Japan.
2007 (-) Murderer Masahiro Tanaka aka Miyashita, is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
2009 (-) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Seoul, Jamsil, South Korea.
2010 (x) Assassin of Revolutionary Leader Malcolm X, Thomas Hagan is released from prison in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1605 (-) 232nd Pope Leo XI originally Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici aka Papa Lampo, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
1667 (x) The blind and impoverished Poet John Milton known for “Paradise Lost”, sells the copyright of his epic poem for ten Pounds in London, United Kingdom.
1791 (+) Inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.
1822 (+) 18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, USA.
1865 (x) 1547 Die in SS Sultana steamboat paddlewheeler explosion in the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1891 (+) Composer Sergey Sergeyewitsch Prokofiev is born in Sontzovka, Ukraine, Russia.
1894 (-) Murderer Samuel Vaughan is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arkansas, USA.
1899 (+) Cartoonist and creator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz is born in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
1915 (-) Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin dies of septicemia, contracted as a result of a shaving cut or a boil on his lip at the age of 43 in Moscow, Russia.
His last words were "This means the end. What a catastrophe!" He claimed that he was God, and eventually acknowledged that he was inspired by Satan. Imitating Christ he was an anti-christ filled with Satan, controlled by Satan and ultimately destroyed by Satan.
1926 (x) Mass murderess Antoinette Scieri is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Paris, France.
1927 (-) Mary McConnel is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1932 (+) Actress Anouk Aimée is born in Paris, France.
1937 (+) Musician, poet and artist Wannes Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1943 (-) Murderer Elisandro L. Macias is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1974 (x) 108 Die in Iljoeshin-18 crash in Leningrad, Russia.
1974 (x) 39-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Stammheim Prison to Moabit Prison for the trial considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Germany.
1977 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, shoots Harvey, the dog of his neighbour Sam Carr in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
1982 (-) Jean McPaul is strangled and stabbed to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 40 in Bossier City, Louisiana, USA.
1982 (-) Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon commits suicide by a grenade explosion at the age of 27 in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
In two days time he killed 58 people and left 35 wounded after an argument with his girlfriend
1983 (-) Rhoda Piazza is asphyxiated and beaten to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 22 in Beaumont, Texas, USA.
1992 (-) Composer Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen dies of heart-failure at the age of 83 in Paris, France.
He was recovering from an operation.
1994 (-) Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
He was the first man to be convicted solely through DNA-evidence.
1995 (-) Writer Willem Frederik Hermans dies at the age of 73 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
1997 (-) Jeffrey Trail is beaten to death with a clawhammer as first victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1998 (-) Mass Murderer Ronald Taylor commits suicide by jumping from a freeway overpass at the age of 46 in Los Angeles, Artesia, California, USA.
He first killed his 40-year-old wife Ruthie, 24-year-old son Rick, 29-year-old sister-in-law Mylissa Campbell, 6-year-old niece Jolissa Morales and 24-year-old family friend Tomy Kang Jung.
1998 (-) Writer Carlos Castaneda dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1999 (x) 16-year-old Mass Murderer Lorenzo Alvarado commits suicide by a shot in the head Die in in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He first shot his father, stepmother and 4-year-old half brother to death in the family's Hyde Park apartment.
2005 (x) The skeleton of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner is found handcuffed to a tree in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier.
2007 (-) Murderer Kosaku Nata is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Osaka, Japan.
2007 (-) Murderer Yoshikatsu Oda is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Fukuoka, Japan.
2007 (-) Murderer Masahiro Tanaka aka Miyashita, is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
2009 (-) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Seoul, Jamsil, South Korea.
2010 (x) Assassin of Revolutionary Leader Malcolm X, Thomas Hagan is released from prison in Manhattan, New York, USA.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
26 April 2004 - Hubert Selby Jr. Dies
1798 (+) Artist Eugène Victor Ferdinand Delacroix is born in Charenton-Saint-Meurice, Île-de France, France.
1865 (-) Murderer John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln, is shot dead by Sergeant Boston Corbett at the age of 26 in Port Royal, Virginia, USA.
"Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment."
1889 (+) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein is born in Vienna, Austria.
1894 (+) Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
1900 (+) Seismologist Charles Francis Richter is born in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
1905 (+) Filmmaker Jean Vigo is born in Paris, France.
1910 (+) Actress Lingyu Fenggeng Ruan is born in Shanghai, China.
1912 (+) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt is born in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.
1924 (-) Robert Witzel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.
1933 (x) The Gestapo is founded by 40-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring in Berlin, Germany.
1937 (x) Over 200 Die in a Nazi-Germany bombing by the Luftwaffe's Condor-Legion in Guernica, Spain.
1938 (+) Guitarist Duane Eddy is born in Corning, New York, USA.
1942 (x) 1549 Die in coal-mine explosion in Manchuria, Honkeiko Gallery, China.
1944 (-) Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Vienna, Austria.
He was first extensively experimented upon by the SS.
1950 (+) Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is born in Korsnäs, Falun, Sweden.
1952 (x) 176 Die in US Hobson destroyer and US Wasp aircraftcarrier collision in the Atlantic.
1959 (+) Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is born in Belgium.
1968 (-) Collage artist John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, dies at the age of 76 in Berlin, Germany.
1969 (+) Double murderess Teresa Lewis is born in Virginia, USA.
1971 (x) 25-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Five Day Locker Piece" at the University of California in Irvine, California, USA.
It lasted until 10 march 1972.
1974 (x) 19 Old Masters are stolen from the house of millionaire Sir Alfred Beit by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army serving as ransom for money and the freedom of some of their imprisoned members in Dublin, Wicklow, Ireland.
1982 (x) 112 Die in Trident crash in Guilin, China.
1984 (-) Bandleader William “Count” Basie dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79 in Hollywood, Florida, USA.
1985 (x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, is sentenced to life imprisonment in an asylum for the criminally insane in Bremen, Germany.
1986 (x) An unknown number of people die and thousands are infected with radiation due to a fire in a nuclear reactor in Tsjernobyl, Russia.
1989 (-) Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ihei Aoki commits suicide by a scandal in Tokyo, Japan.
1989 (-) Actress Lucille Désirée Ball dies of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1991 (-) Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, dies at the age of 76 in Vienna, Austria.
1994 (x) 264 Die in China Airlines Flight 140 Airbus A-300-600 crash in Nagoya Airport, Japan.
1994 (-) Murderer Larry Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1997 (-) Double Murderer Ernest Baldree is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Spree Killer Alton Coleman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.
He had standing death sentences in Indiana and Illinois resulting from a 54-day rampage of rape, abduction and murder which left eight dead.
2002 (-) Mass murderer Robert Steinhäuser commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Erfurt, Germany.
He shot and killed 16 people in the Gutenberg-Gymnasium before.
2004 (-) Writer Hubert Selby Jr. dies of tuberculosis at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He took the Last Exit to Brooklyn.
2004 (-) Murderer Song Baoliang is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Beijing, China.
He was executed for paying 10.000 yuan ($1.204) to hire a killer to murder his mistress' husband.
2004 (-) Murderer Li Yong is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Beijing, China.
2007 (-) Murderer Ryan Dickson is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.
1865 (-) Murderer John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln, is shot dead by Sergeant Boston Corbett at the age of 26 in Port Royal, Virginia, USA.
"Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment."
1889 (+) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein is born in Vienna, Austria.
1894 (+) Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
1900 (+) Seismologist Charles Francis Richter is born in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
1905 (+) Filmmaker Jean Vigo is born in Paris, France.
1910 (+) Actress Lingyu Fenggeng Ruan is born in Shanghai, China.
1912 (+) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt is born in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.
1924 (-) Robert Witzel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.
1933 (x) The Gestapo is founded by 40-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring in Berlin, Germany.
1937 (x) Over 200 Die in a Nazi-Germany bombing by the Luftwaffe's Condor-Legion in Guernica, Spain.
1938 (+) Guitarist Duane Eddy is born in Corning, New York, USA.
1942 (x) 1549 Die in coal-mine explosion in Manchuria, Honkeiko Gallery, China.
1944 (-) Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Vienna, Austria.
He was first extensively experimented upon by the SS.
1950 (+) Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is born in Korsnäs, Falun, Sweden.
1952 (x) 176 Die in US Hobson destroyer and US Wasp aircraftcarrier collision in the Atlantic.
1959 (+) Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is born in Belgium.
1968 (-) Collage artist John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, dies at the age of 76 in Berlin, Germany.
1969 (+) Double murderess Teresa Lewis is born in Virginia, USA.
1971 (x) 25-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Five Day Locker Piece" at the University of California in Irvine, California, USA.
It lasted until 10 march 1972.
1974 (x) 19 Old Masters are stolen from the house of millionaire Sir Alfred Beit by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army serving as ransom for money and the freedom of some of their imprisoned members in Dublin, Wicklow, Ireland.
1982 (x) 112 Die in Trident crash in Guilin, China.
1984 (-) Bandleader William “Count” Basie dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79 in Hollywood, Florida, USA.
1985 (x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, is sentenced to life imprisonment in an asylum for the criminally insane in Bremen, Germany.
1986 (x) An unknown number of people die and thousands are infected with radiation due to a fire in a nuclear reactor in Tsjernobyl, Russia.
1989 (-) Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ihei Aoki commits suicide by a scandal in Tokyo, Japan.
1989 (-) Actress Lucille Désirée Ball dies of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1991 (-) Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, dies at the age of 76 in Vienna, Austria.
1994 (x) 264 Die in China Airlines Flight 140 Airbus A-300-600 crash in Nagoya Airport, Japan.
1994 (-) Murderer Larry Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1997 (-) Double Murderer Ernest Baldree is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Spree Killer Alton Coleman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.
He had standing death sentences in Indiana and Illinois resulting from a 54-day rampage of rape, abduction and murder which left eight dead.
2002 (-) Mass murderer Robert Steinhäuser commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Erfurt, Germany.
He shot and killed 16 people in the Gutenberg-Gymnasium before.
2004 (-) Writer Hubert Selby Jr. dies of tuberculosis at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He took the Last Exit to Brooklyn.
2004 (-) Murderer Song Baoliang is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Beijing, China.
He was executed for paying 10.000 yuan ($1.204) to hire a killer to murder his mistress' husband.
2004 (-) Murderer Li Yong is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Beijing, China.
2007 (-) Murderer Ryan Dickson is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
25 April 1988 - Valerie Jean Solanas Dies
1215 (+) Saint King Louis IX is born in Poissy, France.
1595 (-) Poet Torquato Tasso dies of feeble health at the age of 51 in Sant'Onofrio, Italy.
1744 (-) Astronomer Anders Celsius dies of tuberculosis at the age of 42 in Uppsala, Sweden.
1791 (-) Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, Place de Grève, France.
It is the first ever execution by the Guillotine.
1859 (x) British and French engineers start digging the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt.
1874 (+) Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi is born in Bologna, Palazzo Marescalchi, Italy.
1884 (+) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet is born in La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
1901 (-) Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico, USA.
On the trapdoor he shouts “I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast, boys!”, then he drops and his head is torn off due to a mistied rope.
1902 (+) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, is born in Forst, Germany.
1917 (+) Musician Ella Jane Fitzgerald aka The First Lady of Song, is born in Newport News, Virginia, USA.
1921 (+) Artist Karel Christiaan Appel is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1935 (x) A recently caught tiger-shark swimming in a public aquarium regurgitates the tattood arm of 40-year-old James Smith, victim of Murderer Patrick Brady in Sydney, Coogee Beach, New South Wales, Australia.
1940 (+) Actor Al Pacino is born in New York, New York, USA.
1945 (x) 52-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is arrested and sentenced to death for treason by the SS in München, Germany.
1946 (-) Murderer Abraham Gold is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.
1951 (-) Murderer Joseph Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1951 (-) Murderer Edward Charles Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1966 (x) 81 Army cadets Die in Lockheed Elektra crash in Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA.
1972 (-) Jeanette Kamahele is presumably murdered by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Sahoma County, California, USA.
1973 (x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on a boy in San Francisco, California, USA.
1974 (-) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1975 (-) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel dies due to an unintended explosion at the age of 29 in Stockholm, West German Embassy, Sweden.
Siegfried Hausner was severely burned in the explosion and died 10 days later in Stammheim Prison.
1976 (-) Sniper Moses Pearson commits suicide by a shot through the head in Georgia, USA.
He was closed in by the police.
1978 (x) 25-year-old PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the hi-jacking of the "Landshut" Boeing in an attempt to liberate imprisoned RAF members in Mogadishu, Somalia.
She was the only one of four terrorists to survive the action.
1980 (x) 8 US-soldiers die in a helicopter-crash in an attempt to free the American hostages in their embassy in Teheran, Iran.
1988 (x) 68-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is sentenced to death for the mass-murders in the Treblinka concentration-camp in Jeruzalem, Israël.
1988 (-) Radical Feminist and founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men, Valerie Jean Solanas dies of emphysema at the age of 52 in San Francisco, Tenderloin, Bristol Hotel, California, USA.
1991 (-) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kühnen dies of aids at the age of 35 in Kassel, Germany.
1995 (-) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
2000 (-) Nguyen Thi Hiep is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In 1997 she tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin through Hanoi Airport.
2001 (-) Murderer David Lee Goff is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (x) 225 Die in China Airlines Flight 611 Boeing 747-200 crash in Taiwan Strait.
The plane broke into pieces in mid-air due to metal fatigue.
2005 (x) 107 Die in a crowded Rapid Service train derailment in Amagasaki, Japan.
2007 (-) Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, dies of leukemia at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, Veterans Hospital, California, USA.
1595 (-) Poet Torquato Tasso dies of feeble health at the age of 51 in Sant'Onofrio, Italy.
1744 (-) Astronomer Anders Celsius dies of tuberculosis at the age of 42 in Uppsala, Sweden.
1791 (-) Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, Place de Grève, France.
It is the first ever execution by the Guillotine.
1859 (x) British and French engineers start digging the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt.
1874 (+) Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi is born in Bologna, Palazzo Marescalchi, Italy.
1884 (+) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet is born in La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
1901 (-) Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico, USA.
On the trapdoor he shouts “I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast, boys!”, then he drops and his head is torn off due to a mistied rope.
1902 (+) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, is born in Forst, Germany.
1917 (+) Musician Ella Jane Fitzgerald aka The First Lady of Song, is born in Newport News, Virginia, USA.
1921 (+) Artist Karel Christiaan Appel is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1935 (x) A recently caught tiger-shark swimming in a public aquarium regurgitates the tattood arm of 40-year-old James Smith, victim of Murderer Patrick Brady in Sydney, Coogee Beach, New South Wales, Australia.
1940 (+) Actor Al Pacino is born in New York, New York, USA.
1945 (x) 52-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is arrested and sentenced to death for treason by the SS in München, Germany.
1946 (-) Murderer Abraham Gold is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.
1951 (-) Murderer Joseph Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1951 (-) Murderer Edward Charles Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1966 (x) 81 Army cadets Die in Lockheed Elektra crash in Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA.
1972 (-) Jeanette Kamahele is presumably murdered by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Sahoma County, California, USA.
1973 (x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on a boy in San Francisco, California, USA.
1974 (-) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1975 (-) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel dies due to an unintended explosion at the age of 29 in Stockholm, West German Embassy, Sweden.
Siegfried Hausner was severely burned in the explosion and died 10 days later in Stammheim Prison.
1976 (-) Sniper Moses Pearson commits suicide by a shot through the head in Georgia, USA.
He was closed in by the police.
1978 (x) 25-year-old PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the hi-jacking of the "Landshut" Boeing in an attempt to liberate imprisoned RAF members in Mogadishu, Somalia.
She was the only one of four terrorists to survive the action.
1980 (x) 8 US-soldiers die in a helicopter-crash in an attempt to free the American hostages in their embassy in Teheran, Iran.
1988 (x) 68-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is sentenced to death for the mass-murders in the Treblinka concentration-camp in Jeruzalem, Israël.
1988 (-) Radical Feminist and founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men, Valerie Jean Solanas dies of emphysema at the age of 52 in San Francisco, Tenderloin, Bristol Hotel, California, USA.
1991 (-) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kühnen dies of aids at the age of 35 in Kassel, Germany.
1995 (-) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
2000 (-) Nguyen Thi Hiep is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In 1997 she tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin through Hanoi Airport.
2001 (-) Murderer David Lee Goff is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (x) 225 Die in China Airlines Flight 611 Boeing 747-200 crash in Taiwan Strait.
The plane broke into pieces in mid-air due to metal fatigue.
2005 (x) 107 Die in a crowded Rapid Service train derailment in Amagasaki, Japan.
2007 (-) Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, dies of leukemia at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, Veterans Hospital, California, USA.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
24 April 1974 - Bud William Alexander Abbott Dies
1533 (+) Prince and Count of Nassau Willem Van Oranje aka Willem De Zwijger aka William The Silent, is born in Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany.
1558 (x) 15-year-old Queen of Scots Mary Stuart marries the Dauphin of France, 14-year-old François II in Paris, Notre Dame, France.
1731 (-) Writer and journalist Daniel Defoe known for “Robinson Crusoe”, dies at the age of 71 in London, United Kingdom.
1787 (+) Criminologist and founder of toxicology Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila is born in Mahon, Minorca, Spain.
1853 (+) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon is born in Paris, France.
1856 (+) Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain is born in Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Pas-de-Calais, France.
1875 (x) 27-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James marries his niece, Zerelda ‘Zee’ James in Missouri, USA.
1903 (+) Founder of the Fascist Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Saenz De Heredia is born in Madrid, Spain.
1904 (+) Artist Willem De Kooning is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
1922 (-) Murderer Colin Ross is executed by hanging in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1929 (-) Multiple Murderer Vernon Booher is executed by hanging in Alberta, Fort Saskatchewan jail, Canada.
1934 (+) Actress Shirley MacLaine originally Shirley Beaty, is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1942 (+) Actress Barbara Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1950 (x) 46-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, plants his first bomb in a phone booth in New York, Fifth Avenue, outside the public library, New York, USA.
1964 (-) Helen Catherine Barthelemey Helene Paul Thompson,, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 23 in London, United Kingdom.
1967 (-) Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to die during a space mission Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov dies in a crash with Soyoez I at the age of 40 in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.
1971 (+) Musician Mauro Antonio Pawlowski is born in Heusden, Limburg, Belgium.
1973 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, gives himself up, confessing to a career of murder and mutilation in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.
1974 (-) Actor Bud William Alexander Abbott dies of prostate cancer at the age of 73 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, USA.
1975 (x) 113 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, New York, USA.
1975 (x) The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Holger Meins featuring several members of the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv attack the West German embassy, set it on fire and take 13 hostages in Stockholm, Sweden.
Four people die, including two of the terrorists.
1977 (-) Tina Atkinson aka Mitra McGhee, is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 32 in Bradford, Manningham, 9 Oak Avenue, United Kingdom.
1978 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes an ‘I am back’-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.
1983 (-) Paula Golding is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
1984 (-) Westland New Post leader Paul Latinus commits suicide by hanging in Court-Saint-Etienne, Brabant, Belgium.
1984 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is taken on a flight to locate some of his victims’ graves. 3 days later he found 7, all near the Knik River in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
1995 (x) Gilbert Murray is killed by a bomb mailed by 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Sacramento, Forest Association Office, California, USA.
Kaczinski also mails more letters to the New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, containing his “Industrial Society and its Future” manifesto.
1997 (-) Murderer John A. Jr. Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (x) 50-year-old Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira and 21 other Hutu-leaders are publicly executed by the firing squad on market-squares and in football-stadions in five main cities where they have been responsible for the 1994 genocides in Nyamata and in Kigali, Rwanda.
1998 (-) Murderer Joseph Cannon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Murderess Lesley Lee Gosch is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Gary Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.
2005 (+) The world’s first cloned dog Snuppy is born in Seoul, South Korea.
The puppy was created using the cell of an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers.
2007 (-) Murderer James Filiaggi is executed by lethal injection in Ohio, USA.
1558 (x) 15-year-old Queen of Scots Mary Stuart marries the Dauphin of France, 14-year-old François II in Paris, Notre Dame, France.
1731 (-) Writer and journalist Daniel Defoe known for “Robinson Crusoe”, dies at the age of 71 in London, United Kingdom.
1787 (+) Criminologist and founder of toxicology Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila is born in Mahon, Minorca, Spain.
1853 (+) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon is born in Paris, France.
1856 (+) Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain is born in Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Pas-de-Calais, France.
1875 (x) 27-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James marries his niece, Zerelda ‘Zee’ James in Missouri, USA.
1903 (+) Founder of the Fascist Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Saenz De Heredia is born in Madrid, Spain.
1904 (+) Artist Willem De Kooning is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
1922 (-) Murderer Colin Ross is executed by hanging in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1929 (-) Multiple Murderer Vernon Booher is executed by hanging in Alberta, Fort Saskatchewan jail, Canada.
1934 (+) Actress Shirley MacLaine originally Shirley Beaty, is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1942 (+) Actress Barbara Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1950 (x) 46-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, plants his first bomb in a phone booth in New York, Fifth Avenue, outside the public library, New York, USA.
1964 (-) Helen Catherine Barthelemey Helene Paul Thompson,, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 23 in London, United Kingdom.
1967 (-) Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to die during a space mission Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov dies in a crash with Soyoez I at the age of 40 in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.
1971 (+) Musician Mauro Antonio Pawlowski is born in Heusden, Limburg, Belgium.
1973 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, gives himself up, confessing to a career of murder and mutilation in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.
1974 (-) Actor Bud William Alexander Abbott dies of prostate cancer at the age of 73 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, USA.
1975 (x) 113 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, New York, USA.
1975 (x) The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Holger Meins featuring several members of the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv attack the West German embassy, set it on fire and take 13 hostages in Stockholm, Sweden.
Four people die, including two of the terrorists.
1977 (-) Tina Atkinson aka Mitra McGhee, is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 32 in Bradford, Manningham, 9 Oak Avenue, United Kingdom.
1978 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes an ‘I am back’-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.
1983 (-) Paula Golding is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
1984 (-) Westland New Post leader Paul Latinus commits suicide by hanging in Court-Saint-Etienne, Brabant, Belgium.
1984 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is taken on a flight to locate some of his victims’ graves. 3 days later he found 7, all near the Knik River in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
1995 (x) Gilbert Murray is killed by a bomb mailed by 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Sacramento, Forest Association Office, California, USA.
Kaczinski also mails more letters to the New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, containing his “Industrial Society and its Future” manifesto.
1997 (-) Murderer John A. Jr. Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (x) 50-year-old Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira and 21 other Hutu-leaders are publicly executed by the firing squad on market-squares and in football-stadions in five main cities where they have been responsible for the 1994 genocides in Nyamata and in Kigali, Rwanda.
1998 (-) Murderer Joseph Cannon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Murderess Lesley Lee Gosch is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Gary Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.
2005 (+) The world’s first cloned dog Snuppy is born in Seoul, South Korea.
The puppy was created using the cell of an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers.
2007 (-) Murderer James Filiaggi is executed by lethal injection in Ohio, USA.
Monday, April 23, 2012
23 April 1986 - Otto Ludwig Preminger Dies
1016 (-) King of England Ethelred the Unready dies at the age of 48 in London, United Kingdom.
1564 (+) Writer William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
1597 (x) "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by 33-year-old Writer William Shakespeare is first performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth I was among the audience.
1616 (-) Writer William Shakespeare dies of a bad cold at the age of 52 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
He drank a bit too much on a birthday-party and went home catching the deadly cold.
1616 (-) Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes dies at the age of 68 in Madrid, Spain.
1775 (+) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner is born in London, Covent Garden, United Kingdom.
1791 (+) 15th president of the USA James Buchanan is born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
1850 (-) Romantic poet William Wordsworth dies of pleurisy at the age of 80 in Cumberland, United Kingdom.
1858 (+) Physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is born in Kiel, Germany.
1885 (x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial poisoner Maria Catharina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, for the poisoning of over 100 people, killing at least 30, in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1895 (+) Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh is born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1907 (-) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer dies of senility at the age of 65 in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
In 1874 he killed a party of gold-seekers, for which he featured as a guide, and ate them.
1907 (+) Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
1928 (+) Actress Shirley Jane Temple is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1936 (+) Musician Roy Kelton Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas, USA.
1940 (x) 198 Die in The Rhythm Night Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
1941 (x) Greece capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
1961 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 11-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.
1962 (-) Petra Giese is strangled and partly eaten by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Dinslaken-Bruckhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1967 (x) 39-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but is recaptured a couple of days later in Missouri, USA.
1968 (+) Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, is born in Lockport, New York, USA.
1969 (-) Linda Savee is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 22 in Salem, Oregon, USA.
The breast he used as a paper-weight.
1974 (x) Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1974 (x) 28-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Trans-fixed" in Venice, California, USA.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 3" at the Symposium d'Art Performance in Lyon, Maison des Avocats, France.
1982 (x) 39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to Professor Patrick Fisher at Pennsylvania University in Provo, Utah, USA.
The package is forwarded to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
1986 (-) Actor and filmmaker Otto Ludwig Preminger dies of cancer and Alzheimer's disease at the age of 79 in New York, New York, USA.
1991 (-) New York Doll Johnny Thunders originally John Anthony Genzale Jr., dies of drug related causes at the age of 38 in New Orleans, St. Peter House, room 37, Louisiana, USA.
His death may also been the result of a robbery or foul drug deal.
1992 (-) Murderer William ‘Billy’ Wayne White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
It took the executioner 47 minutes to find a suitable vein, White eventually helped him.
1993 (x) 33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Murder of Petra Giese" in Bochum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1998 (-) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
1998 (x) The country’s most feared criminal, 41-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux escapes from the courthouse, where he was consulting the records for his defence, by knocking down a state trooper and running out of the building in Neufchateau, Luxemburg, Belgium.
He is found by a forest watcher about 3 hours later in a wood, where his stolen car got stuck in the mud.
1999 (-) Mass Murderer David J. Lawrie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.
2007 (-) First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 76 in Moscow, Russia.
2010 (-) Air traffic journalist Levent Salim Bergkotte commits suicide by stabbing to death 37-year-old Alastair Whewell, pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 they were flying, and shutting down the engine of the sports plane at the age of 33 in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina.
1564 (+) Writer William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
1597 (x) "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by 33-year-old Writer William Shakespeare is first performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth I was among the audience.
1616 (-) Writer William Shakespeare dies of a bad cold at the age of 52 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
He drank a bit too much on a birthday-party and went home catching the deadly cold.
1616 (-) Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes dies at the age of 68 in Madrid, Spain.
1775 (+) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner is born in London, Covent Garden, United Kingdom.
1791 (+) 15th president of the USA James Buchanan is born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
1850 (-) Romantic poet William Wordsworth dies of pleurisy at the age of 80 in Cumberland, United Kingdom.
1858 (+) Physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is born in Kiel, Germany.
1885 (x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial poisoner Maria Catharina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, for the poisoning of over 100 people, killing at least 30, in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1895 (+) Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh is born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1907 (-) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer dies of senility at the age of 65 in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
In 1874 he killed a party of gold-seekers, for which he featured as a guide, and ate them.
1907 (+) Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
1928 (+) Actress Shirley Jane Temple is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1936 (+) Musician Roy Kelton Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas, USA.
1940 (x) 198 Die in The Rhythm Night Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
1941 (x) Greece capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
1961 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 11-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.
1962 (-) Petra Giese is strangled and partly eaten by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Dinslaken-Bruckhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1967 (x) 39-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but is recaptured a couple of days later in Missouri, USA.
1968 (+) Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, is born in Lockport, New York, USA.
1969 (-) Linda Savee is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 22 in Salem, Oregon, USA.
The breast he used as a paper-weight.
1974 (x) Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1974 (x) 28-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Trans-fixed" in Venice, California, USA.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 3" at the Symposium d'Art Performance in Lyon, Maison des Avocats, France.
1982 (x) 39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to Professor Patrick Fisher at Pennsylvania University in Provo, Utah, USA.
The package is forwarded to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
1986 (-) Actor and filmmaker Otto Ludwig Preminger dies of cancer and Alzheimer's disease at the age of 79 in New York, New York, USA.
1991 (-) New York Doll Johnny Thunders originally John Anthony Genzale Jr., dies of drug related causes at the age of 38 in New Orleans, St. Peter House, room 37, Louisiana, USA.
His death may also been the result of a robbery or foul drug deal.
1992 (-) Murderer William ‘Billy’ Wayne White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
It took the executioner 47 minutes to find a suitable vein, White eventually helped him.
1993 (x) 33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Murder of Petra Giese" in Bochum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1998 (-) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
1998 (x) The country’s most feared criminal, 41-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux escapes from the courthouse, where he was consulting the records for his defence, by knocking down a state trooper and running out of the building in Neufchateau, Luxemburg, Belgium.
He is found by a forest watcher about 3 hours later in a wood, where his stolen car got stuck in the mud.
1999 (-) Mass Murderer David J. Lawrie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.
2007 (-) First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 76 in Moscow, Russia.
2010 (-) Air traffic journalist Levent Salim Bergkotte commits suicide by stabbing to death 37-year-old Alastair Whewell, pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 they were flying, and shutting down the engine of the sports plane at the age of 33 in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
22 April 1994 - Richard Mulhouse Nixon Dies
1724 (+) Philiosopher Immanuel Kant is born in Königsberg, Prussia, Germany.
1766 (+) Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël originally Germaine Necker aka Madame, is born in Paris, France.
1840 (+) Painter Odilon Redon is born in Bordeaux, France.
1870 (+) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is born in Simbirsk, Russia.
1891 (+) Anarchist and supposed murderer Nicola Ferdinando Sacco is born in Torremaggiore, Fogia, Italy.
1899 (+) Writer Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Nabokov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1904 (+) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer is born in New York, New York, USA.
1916 (+) Composer Yehudi Menuhin is born in New York, New York, USA.
1922 (+) Musician Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona, USA.
1923 (+) TV-series-maker Aaron Spelling is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1923 (+) Fetish model Bettie Mae Page aka the Queen of Pinups, is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
1925 (-) Murderer John Norman Holmes Thorne is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1930 (-) Murderer William Henry Podmore is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.
1933 (-) Automobile pioneer Henry Frederick Royce dies at the age of 70 in West Wittering, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
His last words were reported to be, "I wish I had spent more time in the office."
1934 (-) FBI-agent Carter Baum is killed by George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, at the age of 29 in Spider Lake, Colorado, USA.
1937 (+) Actor Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey, USA.
1942 (-) Alice Porter is crucified by Fern Donald in Pueblo Church, Colorado, USA.
1945 (-) Artist Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz dies at the age of 77 in Moritzburg, Germany.
1946 (+) Filmmaker John Samuel Waters is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
1952 (+) Pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers originally Marilyn Ann Briggs, is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
1960 (-) Murderer Lawrence Wade is executed by the Gas Chamber in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
1960 (-) Valeska Eder is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Tuchgartenstraße, Bavaria, Germany.
1970 (-) H. Kecinski commits suicide by distress in Fahrdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He also kills his wife and 7 children.
1972 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, marries his third wife, Penny Sherbino in Watertown, New York, USA.
1977 (-) Debra Schlesinger is stabbed to death by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat at the age of 18 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1980 (x) 313 Die in Don Juan shipwreck in Manila, Filippines.
1983 (-) Murderer John Evans is executed by Old Sparky in Alabama, USA.
After the first jolt of electricity, sparks and flames erupted from the electrode attached to his leg. The electrode then burst from the strap holding it in place and caught on fire. Smoke and sparks came out from under the hood. Two physicians entered the chamber and found a heartbeat. The electrode was reattached to his leg. More smoke and burning flesh. Again doctors found a heartbeat. Ignoring the pleas of Evan's lawyer, Russ Canan, a third jolt was applied. The execution took 14 minutes and left Evan's body charred and smoldering.
1984 (-) April Brunais is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 16 in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.
1984 (-) Leslie Shelley is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 14 in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.
1986 (-) Black Vietnam-veteran and murderer David Funchess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.
1992 (x) 206 Die in numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system in Guadalajara, Mexico.
1994 (-) 37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in New York City, New York, USA.
He was the only president to resign without completing an elected term.
1998 (-) Murderer Jose R. Villafuerte is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
2002 (-) Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, dies of massive trauma and internal injuries after a car accident on 3 April at the age of 53 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Juan Rodriguez Chavez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2004 (x) 150 Die in two fuel trains collision in Ryongchon, North Korea.
2006 (x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'The Discovery of James Lee Byars' Tomb' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
1766 (+) Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël originally Germaine Necker aka Madame, is born in Paris, France.
1840 (+) Painter Odilon Redon is born in Bordeaux, France.
1870 (+) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is born in Simbirsk, Russia.
1891 (+) Anarchist and supposed murderer Nicola Ferdinando Sacco is born in Torremaggiore, Fogia, Italy.
1899 (+) Writer Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Nabokov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1904 (+) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer is born in New York, New York, USA.
1916 (+) Composer Yehudi Menuhin is born in New York, New York, USA.
1922 (+) Musician Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona, USA.
1923 (+) TV-series-maker Aaron Spelling is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1923 (+) Fetish model Bettie Mae Page aka the Queen of Pinups, is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
1925 (-) Murderer John Norman Holmes Thorne is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1930 (-) Murderer William Henry Podmore is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.
1933 (-) Automobile pioneer Henry Frederick Royce dies at the age of 70 in West Wittering, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
His last words were reported to be, "I wish I had spent more time in the office."
1934 (-) FBI-agent Carter Baum is killed by George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, at the age of 29 in Spider Lake, Colorado, USA.
1937 (+) Actor Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey, USA.
1942 (-) Alice Porter is crucified by Fern Donald in Pueblo Church, Colorado, USA.
1945 (-) Artist Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz dies at the age of 77 in Moritzburg, Germany.
1946 (+) Filmmaker John Samuel Waters is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
1952 (+) Pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers originally Marilyn Ann Briggs, is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
1960 (-) Murderer Lawrence Wade is executed by the Gas Chamber in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
1960 (-) Valeska Eder is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Tuchgartenstraße, Bavaria, Germany.
1970 (-) H. Kecinski commits suicide by distress in Fahrdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He also kills his wife and 7 children.
1972 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, marries his third wife, Penny Sherbino in Watertown, New York, USA.
1977 (-) Debra Schlesinger is stabbed to death by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat at the age of 18 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1980 (x) 313 Die in Don Juan shipwreck in Manila, Filippines.
1983 (-) Murderer John Evans is executed by Old Sparky in Alabama, USA.
After the first jolt of electricity, sparks and flames erupted from the electrode attached to his leg. The electrode then burst from the strap holding it in place and caught on fire. Smoke and sparks came out from under the hood. Two physicians entered the chamber and found a heartbeat. The electrode was reattached to his leg. More smoke and burning flesh. Again doctors found a heartbeat. Ignoring the pleas of Evan's lawyer, Russ Canan, a third jolt was applied. The execution took 14 minutes and left Evan's body charred and smoldering.
1984 (-) April Brunais is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 16 in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.
1984 (-) Leslie Shelley is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 14 in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.
1986 (-) Black Vietnam-veteran and murderer David Funchess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.
1992 (x) 206 Die in numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system in Guadalajara, Mexico.
1994 (-) 37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in New York City, New York, USA.
He was the only president to resign without completing an elected term.
1998 (-) Murderer Jose R. Villafuerte is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
2002 (-) Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, dies of massive trauma and internal injuries after a car accident on 3 April at the age of 53 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Juan Rodriguez Chavez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2004 (x) 150 Die in two fuel trains collision in Ryongchon, North Korea.
2006 (x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'The Discovery of James Lee Byars' Tomb' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
21 April 2003 - Nina Simone Dies
1699 (-) Dramatist Jean Racine dies of liver cancer at the age of 59 in Paris, France.
1816 (+) Writer Charlotte Brontë known for ‘Jane Eyre’, is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1849 (-) Murderer James Blomfield Rush aka The Killer in the Fog, is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.
1908 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Speichert is born in Hannover, Germany.
1910 (-) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dies of angina pectoris at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut, USA.
1915 (+) Actor Anthony Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn is born in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1916 (-) Murderer Joe Lee is excuted at the age of 83 in Virginia, USA.
He was the oldest person ever to be executed in the USA.
1918 (-) War pilot Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron, is shot in the air at the age of 30 in Morlancourt Ridge near Vaux-sur-Somme, France.
He died following an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single bullet, penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple.
1926 (+) Queen of England Alexandra Mary Elizabeth II is born in London, Mayfair, United Kingdom.
1930 (+) Artist Dieter Roth is born in Hannover, Germany.
1930 (x) 322 convicts Die in cell-block fire in State Penitentiary, Ohio, USA.
1934 (+) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1941 (-) Axe-murderer Germaine Godefroy is executed by the Guillotine in Angers, France.
1947 (+) Musician Iggy Pop originally James Newell Osterberg Jr., is born in Muskegon, Michigan, USA.
1949 (-) Murderer Harry Lewis is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1951 (+) Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1969 (-) Sharon Wood is attacked by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 24 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
She survived.
1971 (-) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, dies at the age of 64 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1973 (-) Clarnell Strandberg-Kemper is shot dead and decapitated by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
He also threw darts at his mother’s head and trashed her vocal cords because she always yelled at him.
1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Gummo Milton Marx dies at the age of 83 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
1979 (-) Gudrun Thome is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 15 in Rot, Heidelberg, Germany.
1990 (-) Murderer Jerome Butler is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1992 (-) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
It was the first execution after a 25-year stay in California. His last words were "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper".
1997 (-) Murderer Benjamin Boyle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard dies of pneumonia and lungcancer at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
2003 (-) Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, dies of breast cancer at the age of 70 in Carry-le-Rouet, France.
1816 (+) Writer Charlotte Brontë known for ‘Jane Eyre’, is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1849 (-) Murderer James Blomfield Rush aka The Killer in the Fog, is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.
1908 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Speichert is born in Hannover, Germany.
1910 (-) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dies of angina pectoris at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut, USA.
1915 (+) Actor Anthony Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn is born in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1916 (-) Murderer Joe Lee is excuted at the age of 83 in Virginia, USA.
He was the oldest person ever to be executed in the USA.
1918 (-) War pilot Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron, is shot in the air at the age of 30 in Morlancourt Ridge near Vaux-sur-Somme, France.
He died following an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single bullet, penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple.
1926 (+) Queen of England Alexandra Mary Elizabeth II is born in London, Mayfair, United Kingdom.
1930 (+) Artist Dieter Roth is born in Hannover, Germany.
1930 (x) 322 convicts Die in cell-block fire in State Penitentiary, Ohio, USA.
1934 (+) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1941 (-) Axe-murderer Germaine Godefroy is executed by the Guillotine in Angers, France.
1947 (+) Musician Iggy Pop originally James Newell Osterberg Jr., is born in Muskegon, Michigan, USA.
1949 (-) Murderer Harry Lewis is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1951 (+) Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1969 (-) Sharon Wood is attacked by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 24 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
She survived.
1971 (-) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, dies at the age of 64 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1973 (-) Clarnell Strandberg-Kemper is shot dead and decapitated by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
He also threw darts at his mother’s head and trashed her vocal cords because she always yelled at him.
1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Gummo Milton Marx dies at the age of 83 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
1979 (-) Gudrun Thome is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 15 in Rot, Heidelberg, Germany.
1990 (-) Murderer Jerome Butler is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1992 (-) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
It was the first execution after a 25-year stay in California. His last words were "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper".
1997 (-) Murderer Benjamin Boyle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard dies of pneumonia and lungcancer at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
2003 (-) Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, dies of breast cancer at the age of 70 in Carry-le-Rouet, France.
Friday, April 20, 2012
20 April 2004 - Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux Dies
1314 (-) Pope Clementius V originally Raymond Bertrand de Got, dies at the age of 50 in Roquemaure, Gard, France.
1831 (-) Mass murderess Margaretha Gottfried Gesche Timm is executed in Germany.
She killed over 15 relatives.
1889 (+) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau, Gasthof zum Pommer, Germany.
1893 (+) Artist Juan Mirò is born in Barcelona, Spain.
1893 (+) Actor and filmmaker Harold Clayton Lloyd is born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA.
1907 (x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is court-martialed for stealing government-property and is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in the USA.
1908 (+) Musician Lionel Leo Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1912 (-) Writer Bram Abraham Stoker known for ‘Dracula’, dies of tertiary syphilis at the age of 64 in London, St George’s Square 26, United Kingdom.
1917 (-) Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett vanishes into the Matto Grossi Jungle, probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians at the age of 49 in Brazil.
1917 (-) Andrée Babelay is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Gambais, France.
1928 (-) Murderer Ellisworth Kelley is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, USA.
1928 (-) Murderer James Willos is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, USA.
1936 (x) 30-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is arrested walking around the street with the cut off penis and testicles of her lover Kichizo Ishida in her handbag in Shinagawa, Japan.
After her arrest, Ishida's penis and testicles were moved to Tokyo University Medical School's pathology museum. They were put on public display not long after the end of World War II, but they have since disappeared.
1940 (+) Writer Jan ‘I’ Cremer is born in Enschede, the Netherlands.
1943 (+) Actress Edie Edith Minturn Sedgwick is born in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
1949 (+) Actress Jessica Lange is born in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA.
1953 (+) Musician James Siegfried aka James White aka James Chance, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1954 (-) Mme Pirotte is beaten to death by Nestor Pirotte in Belgium.
1958 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, marries Elisabeth ‘Betty’ Baumgard in Elkton, Maryland, USA.
1965 (x) 31-year-old Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, marries 21-year-old Frances Shea in London, United Kingdom.
1965 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for burglary in Walla Walla, Washington, USA.
1967 (x) 126 Die in Swissair Airliner crash in Nicosia, Cyprus.
1968 (x) 123 Die in SuidAfrikaanse Lugdiens Boeing 707 crash in Windhoek, South Africa.
1970 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a diagram how to blow up a schoolbus to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.
1972 (-) Jimmy Wallace is stabbed and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 10 in New York, West Side, New York, USA.
He survived, the penis was found the next day while some kids were playing with it.
1978 (x) 48-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the St. Paul mental hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1978 (x) Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Boeing 707 is shot at with R-60 missiles by Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon' fighters after violating Soviet airspace in Loukhi, Murmansk, Russia.
Two passengers died.
1984 (-) Caecili Hidde is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Neukölln, Germany.
1986 (x) Over 1000 Die in Ekhlas Star ferry shipwreck in Dacca, Dhaleswhari River, Bangladesh.
1991 (-) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott dies in a fire due to smoking in bed while falling asleep at his 16th century house at the age of 44 in Arkesden, Essex, United Kingdom.
1995 (x) 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Sacramento Forest Association Office in Oakland, California, USA.
He also mails letters to the New York Times, Professor David Gelernter at Yale University, Research director of New England Biolabs Richard J. Roberts and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s biology department Phillip A. Sharp.
1998 (x) German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion announce their dissolution after 28 years of Stadtguerilla in Germany.
1999 (-) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is executed by the Firing Squad in Bejing, China.
1999 (-) Mass Murderers Dylan Bennet Klebold and Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killers, commit suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 17 and 18 in Columbine, Colorado, USA.
They killed 15 people in the Columbine High School
2004 (-) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux dies of cancer at the age of 47 in Saint-Florent, Corsica, France.
2005 (-) Murderer Douglas Alan Roberts is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1831 (-) Mass murderess Margaretha Gottfried Gesche Timm is executed in Germany.
She killed over 15 relatives.
1889 (+) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau, Gasthof zum Pommer, Germany.
1893 (+) Artist Juan Mirò is born in Barcelona, Spain.
1893 (+) Actor and filmmaker Harold Clayton Lloyd is born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA.
1907 (x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is court-martialed for stealing government-property and is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in the USA.
1908 (+) Musician Lionel Leo Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1912 (-) Writer Bram Abraham Stoker known for ‘Dracula’, dies of tertiary syphilis at the age of 64 in London, St George’s Square 26, United Kingdom.
1917 (-) Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett vanishes into the Matto Grossi Jungle, probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians at the age of 49 in Brazil.
1917 (-) Andrée Babelay is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Gambais, France.
1928 (-) Murderer Ellisworth Kelley is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, USA.
1928 (-) Murderer James Willos is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, USA.
1936 (x) 30-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is arrested walking around the street with the cut off penis and testicles of her lover Kichizo Ishida in her handbag in Shinagawa, Japan.
After her arrest, Ishida's penis and testicles were moved to Tokyo University Medical School's pathology museum. They were put on public display not long after the end of World War II, but they have since disappeared.
1940 (+) Writer Jan ‘I’ Cremer is born in Enschede, the Netherlands.
1943 (+) Actress Edie Edith Minturn Sedgwick is born in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
1949 (+) Actress Jessica Lange is born in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA.
1953 (+) Musician James Siegfried aka James White aka James Chance, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1954 (-) Mme Pirotte is beaten to death by Nestor Pirotte in Belgium.
1958 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, marries Elisabeth ‘Betty’ Baumgard in Elkton, Maryland, USA.
1965 (x) 31-year-old Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, marries 21-year-old Frances Shea in London, United Kingdom.
1965 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for burglary in Walla Walla, Washington, USA.
1967 (x) 126 Die in Swissair Airliner crash in Nicosia, Cyprus.
1968 (x) 123 Die in SuidAfrikaanse Lugdiens Boeing 707 crash in Windhoek, South Africa.
1970 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a diagram how to blow up a schoolbus to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.
1972 (-) Jimmy Wallace is stabbed and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 10 in New York, West Side, New York, USA.
He survived, the penis was found the next day while some kids were playing with it.
1978 (x) 48-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the St. Paul mental hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1978 (x) Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Boeing 707 is shot at with R-60 missiles by Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon' fighters after violating Soviet airspace in Loukhi, Murmansk, Russia.
Two passengers died.
1984 (-) Caecili Hidde is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Neukölln, Germany.
1986 (x) Over 1000 Die in Ekhlas Star ferry shipwreck in Dacca, Dhaleswhari River, Bangladesh.
1991 (-) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott dies in a fire due to smoking in bed while falling asleep at his 16th century house at the age of 44 in Arkesden, Essex, United Kingdom.
1995 (x) 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Sacramento Forest Association Office in Oakland, California, USA.
He also mails letters to the New York Times, Professor David Gelernter at Yale University, Research director of New England Biolabs Richard J. Roberts and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s biology department Phillip A. Sharp.
1998 (x) German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion announce their dissolution after 28 years of Stadtguerilla in Germany.
1999 (-) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is executed by the Firing Squad in Bejing, China.
1999 (-) Mass Murderers Dylan Bennet Klebold and Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killers, commit suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 17 and 18 in Columbine, Colorado, USA.
They killed 15 people in the Columbine High School
2004 (-) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux dies of cancer at the age of 47 in Saint-Florent, Corsica, France.
2005 (-) Murderer Douglas Alan Roberts is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
19 april 2009 - James Graham Ballard Dies
1054 (-) 152nd Pope Leo IX originally Bruno, dies at the age of 51 in Rome, Italy.
1689 (-) Queen of Sweden Christina dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 62 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1824 (-) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, dies of violent fever due to sepsis at the age of 36 in Missolonghi, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.
1878 (-) Murderer Samu Steenburgh is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, USA.
1882 (-) Naturalist Charles Darwin dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Down House, Kent, United Kingdom.
1903 (+) FBI-agent Eliot P. Ness aka The Untouchable, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1906 (-) Physicist Pierre Curie has his skull crushed by a horse drawn cart as he fell in the street at the age of 46 in Paris, France.
1927 (x) 33-year-old Actress Mae Mary Jane West is sentenced to 10 days imprisonment for obscenity during her play "Sex" in New York, New York, USA.
She got out of jail two days early due to good behaviour.
1928 (-) Murderer Charles Birger is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Illinois, USA.
1933 (+) Actress Jayne Mansfield originally Vera Jane Palmer, is born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
1942 (+) Artist Bas Jan Ader is born in Winschoten, the Netherlands.
1949 (+) Actress and fashion designer Paloma Picasso is born in Vallauris, France.
1949 (+) Adventurer Lawrence “Larry” Richard Walters aka The Lawn Chair Pilot, is born in California, USA.
1963 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 9-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.
1967 (-) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer dies of pneumonia at the age of 91 in Rhondorf, Germany.
1970 (-) Designer Robert Salem is mutilated and decapitated by an unidentified Zodiac copycat-killer at the age of 40 in San Francisco, 754 Stevenson St., California, USA.
1971 (x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is sentenced to death for the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1977 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails a second threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his dog Harvey in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
1984 (-) Robert Sheldon is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 18 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1989 (-) Writer Daphne Du Maurier dies at the age of 81 in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
1992 (-) Actor Benny Hill dies of renal failure at the age of 67 in London, Teddington, United Kingdom.
He was found sitting dead in his armchair two days later.
1993 (x) Over 80 members of the Branch-Davidians sect, including their 33-year-old Leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect David Koresh originally Vernon Wayne Howell, die in a suicide-pact by poisoning and gunfire after their farm has been besieged by the FBI for 51 days in Waco, Texas, USA.
1995 (x) 162 die in a bomb-attack on the Murrah Government-building by 27-year-old Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, as an eventual revenge for the massacre in Waco, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
2000 (-) Rapist and murderer Robert Glen Coe is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in West Virginia, USA.
2009 (-) Writer James Graham Ballard dies of prostate cancer at the age of 78 in London, United Kingdom.
2010 (x) 112 Die in China Northern Airlines MD-82 crash in the Yellow Sea.
1689 (-) Queen of Sweden Christina dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 62 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1824 (-) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, dies of violent fever due to sepsis at the age of 36 in Missolonghi, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.
1878 (-) Murderer Samu Steenburgh is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, USA.
1882 (-) Naturalist Charles Darwin dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Down House, Kent, United Kingdom.
1903 (+) FBI-agent Eliot P. Ness aka The Untouchable, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1906 (-) Physicist Pierre Curie has his skull crushed by a horse drawn cart as he fell in the street at the age of 46 in Paris, France.
1927 (x) 33-year-old Actress Mae Mary Jane West is sentenced to 10 days imprisonment for obscenity during her play "Sex" in New York, New York, USA.
She got out of jail two days early due to good behaviour.
1928 (-) Murderer Charles Birger is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Illinois, USA.
1933 (+) Actress Jayne Mansfield originally Vera Jane Palmer, is born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
1942 (+) Artist Bas Jan Ader is born in Winschoten, the Netherlands.
1949 (+) Actress and fashion designer Paloma Picasso is born in Vallauris, France.
1949 (+) Adventurer Lawrence “Larry” Richard Walters aka The Lawn Chair Pilot, is born in California, USA.
1963 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 9-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.
1967 (-) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer dies of pneumonia at the age of 91 in Rhondorf, Germany.
1970 (-) Designer Robert Salem is mutilated and decapitated by an unidentified Zodiac copycat-killer at the age of 40 in San Francisco, 754 Stevenson St., California, USA.
1971 (x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is sentenced to death for the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1977 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails a second threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his dog Harvey in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
1984 (-) Robert Sheldon is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 18 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1989 (-) Writer Daphne Du Maurier dies at the age of 81 in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
1992 (-) Actor Benny Hill dies of renal failure at the age of 67 in London, Teddington, United Kingdom.
He was found sitting dead in his armchair two days later.
1993 (x) Over 80 members of the Branch-Davidians sect, including their 33-year-old Leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect David Koresh originally Vernon Wayne Howell, die in a suicide-pact by poisoning and gunfire after their farm has been besieged by the FBI for 51 days in Waco, Texas, USA.
1995 (x) 162 die in a bomb-attack on the Murrah Government-building by 27-year-old Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, as an eventual revenge for the massacre in Waco, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
2000 (-) Rapist and murderer Robert Glen Coe is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in West Virginia, USA.
2009 (-) Writer James Graham Ballard dies of prostate cancer at the age of 78 in London, United Kingdom.
2010 (x) 112 Die in China Northern Airlines MD-82 crash in the Yellow Sea.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
18 April 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl Dies
1480 (+) Duchess of Bisceglie, Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess of Salerno and Femme Fatale Lucrezia Borgia is born in Rome, Italy.
1857 (+) Lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Seward Darrow is born in Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA.
1881 (x) 21-year-old Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, escapes from the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, USA.
1909 (x) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is declared Saint in Rome, St. Peters Cathedral, Italy.
1912 (-) Masonic Murderer Henry Seddon is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1924 (x) 19-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, marries Dr. William C. Judd in Phoenix, Free Methodist Church, Arizona, USA.
1938 (x) The headless body of a woman is found, the second victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1940 (-) Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 67 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1941 (-) Prime-minister Korysis commits suicide by fear of collaboration with the Nazis in Athens, Greece.
1942 (+) Formule-1 racer Jochen Rindt is born in Mainz, Germany.
1947 (+) Mass-murderer Herbert William Mullin is born in Salinas, Monterey County, California, USA.
1947 (-) Ex-president of Slowakia and Nazi collaborator Jozef Tiso is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.
1947 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is arrested in Niedersachsen, Germany.
1947 (+) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1955 (-) Scientist Albert Einstein dies of an arterial rupture at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
1957 (-) Richard Horan is shot dead by Francis Kolakowski at the age of 35 in Suffield, Connecticut, USA.
1957 (x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is declared insane and committed to Matteawan State Hospital in New York, New York, USA.
1974 (x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is found guilty of the murder of Jerry Billings in Minnesota, USA.
1974 (x) Attorney Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Terrorist Movement Red Brigades in Italy.
1985 (-) Murderous rapist James Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Virginia, USA.
1988 (x) The body of 192nd Pope Celestinus V originally Pietro di Murrone, (died in 1300) is stolen from the Santa Maria di Colemaggio in L’Aquila and re-buried by persons unknown on the cemetary of Amatrice in Italy.
1997 (x) Three trash bags with human two upper legs, a hand and a forearm are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Havré, Chemin de Saint-Symphorien, Hainaut, Belgium.
2002 (-) Murderer Gerald Dwight Casey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl dies of a brain tumour at the age of 87 in Colla Micheri, Italy.
1857 (+) Lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Seward Darrow is born in Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA.
1881 (x) 21-year-old Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, escapes from the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, USA.
1909 (x) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is declared Saint in Rome, St. Peters Cathedral, Italy.
1912 (-) Masonic Murderer Henry Seddon is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1924 (x) 19-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, marries Dr. William C. Judd in Phoenix, Free Methodist Church, Arizona, USA.
1938 (x) The headless body of a woman is found, the second victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1940 (-) Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 67 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1941 (-) Prime-minister Korysis commits suicide by fear of collaboration with the Nazis in Athens, Greece.
1942 (+) Formule-1 racer Jochen Rindt is born in Mainz, Germany.
1947 (+) Mass-murderer Herbert William Mullin is born in Salinas, Monterey County, California, USA.
1947 (-) Ex-president of Slowakia and Nazi collaborator Jozef Tiso is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.
1947 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is arrested in Niedersachsen, Germany.
1947 (+) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1955 (-) Scientist Albert Einstein dies of an arterial rupture at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
1957 (-) Richard Horan is shot dead by Francis Kolakowski at the age of 35 in Suffield, Connecticut, USA.
1957 (x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is declared insane and committed to Matteawan State Hospital in New York, New York, USA.
1974 (x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is found guilty of the murder of Jerry Billings in Minnesota, USA.
1974 (x) Attorney Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Terrorist Movement Red Brigades in Italy.
1985 (-) Murderous rapist James Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Virginia, USA.
1988 (x) The body of 192nd Pope Celestinus V originally Pietro di Murrone, (died in 1300) is stolen from the Santa Maria di Colemaggio in L’Aquila and re-buried by persons unknown on the cemetary of Amatrice in Italy.
1997 (x) Three trash bags with human two upper legs, a hand and a forearm are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Havré, Chemin de Saint-Symphorien, Hainaut, Belgium.
2002 (-) Murderer Gerald Dwight Casey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl dies of a brain tumour at the age of 87 in Colla Micheri, Italy.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
17 April 1960 - Eddie Edward Ray Cochran Dies
1695 (-) Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, dies of the plague at the age of 46 in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.
1790 (-) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin dies of pneumonia at the age of 84 in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, USA.
1884 (+) Alleged child-murderer Leo Max Frank aka Max the Jew, is born in Cuero, Texas, USA.
1885 (-) Murderer Carmine Santore is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maine, USA.
1915 (-) Black meat-thief Caesar Sheffield is lynched by shooting in Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
1918 (+) Actor William Holden originally William Beedle, is born in O’Fallon, Illinois, USA.
1923 (+) Filmmaker and leading light of the Free Cinema Lindsay Gordon Anderson is born in Bangalore, India.
1924 (-) Wilhelm Apel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Germany.
1930 (-) Murderer Colin Campbell is executed by Old Sparky in New Jersey, USA.
1933 (+) Serial Killer Joachim Georg ‘Jockel’ Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, is born in Hindenburg, Ober-Schlesiën, Germany.
1941 (x) Yugoslavia capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
1946 (+) Spree Killer Paul John Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, is born in Orlando, Florida, USA.
1960 (-) Musician Eddie Edward Ray Cochran dies after his Ford Consul taxi crashed into a lamp post at the age of 21 in Bath, Rowden Hill, Somerset, United Kingdom.
The taxi driver, George Martin, was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years, and sent to prison for six months.
1974 (-) Susan Rancourt is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 18 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA.
1975 (-) Lilian Dresch is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 28 in Neckarau, Germany.
She survived.
1977 (-) Alexander Esau is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.
1983 (-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1986 (-) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault dies at the age of 94 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
2007 (-) Maire of Nagasaki Iccho Ito is shot dead by Yamaguchi-Gumu gangster Tetsuya Shiroo at the age of 59 in Nagasaki, Japan.
1790 (-) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin dies of pneumonia at the age of 84 in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, USA.
1884 (+) Alleged child-murderer Leo Max Frank aka Max the Jew, is born in Cuero, Texas, USA.
1885 (-) Murderer Carmine Santore is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maine, USA.
1915 (-) Black meat-thief Caesar Sheffield is lynched by shooting in Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
1918 (+) Actor William Holden originally William Beedle, is born in O’Fallon, Illinois, USA.
1923 (+) Filmmaker and leading light of the Free Cinema Lindsay Gordon Anderson is born in Bangalore, India.
1924 (-) Wilhelm Apel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Germany.
1930 (-) Murderer Colin Campbell is executed by Old Sparky in New Jersey, USA.
1933 (+) Serial Killer Joachim Georg ‘Jockel’ Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, is born in Hindenburg, Ober-Schlesiën, Germany.
1941 (x) Yugoslavia capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
1946 (+) Spree Killer Paul John Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, is born in Orlando, Florida, USA.
1960 (-) Musician Eddie Edward Ray Cochran dies after his Ford Consul taxi crashed into a lamp post at the age of 21 in Bath, Rowden Hill, Somerset, United Kingdom.
The taxi driver, George Martin, was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years, and sent to prison for six months.
1974 (-) Susan Rancourt is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 18 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA.
1975 (-) Lilian Dresch is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 28 in Neckarau, Germany.
She survived.
1977 (-) Alexander Esau is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.
1983 (-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1986 (-) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault dies at the age of 94 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
2007 (-) Maire of Nagasaki Iccho Ito is shot dead by Yamaguchi-Gumu gangster Tetsuya Shiroo at the age of 59 in Nagasaki, Japan.
Monday, April 16, 2012
16 April 1997 - Roland Topor Dies
1828 (-) Artist Francisco Goya originally Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes de todos los santos difuntos, dies of Vogt-Koyanagi-Syndrome at the age of 82 in Bordeaux, France.
This disease caused an infection of the retina with consequent blurred vision and hallucinations.
1841 (-) Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Jersey.
1850 (-) Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud originally Marie Grosholtz, dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in London, United Kingdom.
1867 (+) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright is born in Melville, Indiana, USA.
1869 (+) Presumed murderess of President Faure Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, is born in Beaucourt, France.
1881 (-) Murderer Alan Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.
1889 (+) Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin is born in London, Brixton, United Kingdom.
1896 (+) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, is born in Moinesti, Romania.
1907 (-) Auguste Bavouzet is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 9 in Villedieu, France.
1920 (-) Murderer Simplico Torrez is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1921 (+) Actor Peter Ustinov is born in London, United Kingdom.
1922 (+) Writer Kingsley William Amis is born in London, Clapham, United Kingdom.
1924 (+) Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1926 (-) Murderer Archie Cody is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.
1935 (+) Musician Bobby Robert Stanley Vinton known for “Blue Velvet”, is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
1936 (-) Murderess Dorothea Nancy Waddingham aka The Murderous Nurse, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, United Kingdom.
Waddingham was a mother of five and was still breastfeeding her 3-month old baby at the time of her execution. 10,000 people gathered outside the gaol to demonstrate against the execution, chanting "Stop this mother murder!".
1937 (-) FBI-agent Wimberly Baker is shot dead by Robert Suhay at the age of 27 in Topeka, post office, Kansas, USA.
1937 (-) Murderer Fred Hart is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.
1946 (-) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide by hanging due to depression at the age of 62 in Slidell, Louisiana, USA.
1947 (-) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Auschwitz, Poland.
1964 (x) 38-year-old Pilot Geraldine “Jerrie” Fredritz Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world in an aircraft, a Cessna 180 'Spirit of Columbus'.
She flew 22.860 miles in 29 days and made 21 stopovers.
1969 (-) Dawn Basom is raped, tortured and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 13 in Ann Arbor, Superior Township, Michigan, USA.
1971 (+) Singer Selena originally Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka Queen of Tejano Music, is born in Lake Jackson, Texas, USA.
1981 (-) Colleen Daignault is abducted, tortured and murdered by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Surrey, British Columbia, USA.
1981 (-) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Sigurd Debus dies due to internal bleeding in his head after being force-fed during a hungerstrike at the age of 38 in Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He had been hungerstriking since 11 feb 1981.
1986 (-) Murderer Jeffrey Barney is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1989 (-) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, dies of aids at the age of 25 in Paris, Prison de Fresnes, France.
1990 (x) Over 100 Die in train fire in Patna, India.
1992 (-) Kristen French is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, at the age of 16 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.
1995 (-) Daughter of Marlon Cheyenne Tarita Brando commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Tahiti.
1997 (-) Artist and writer Roland Topor dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris, France.
1997 (-) Murderer Kenneth Gentry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in Virginia Tech University, Blackburg, Virginia, USA.
On this day he went on a killing spree and shot 32 students and teachers to death. 29 others were wounded.
This disease caused an infection of the retina with consequent blurred vision and hallucinations.
1841 (-) Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Jersey.
1850 (-) Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud originally Marie Grosholtz, dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in London, United Kingdom.
1867 (+) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright is born in Melville, Indiana, USA.
1869 (+) Presumed murderess of President Faure Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, is born in Beaucourt, France.
1881 (-) Murderer Alan Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.
1889 (+) Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin is born in London, Brixton, United Kingdom.
1896 (+) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, is born in Moinesti, Romania.
1907 (-) Auguste Bavouzet is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 9 in Villedieu, France.
1920 (-) Murderer Simplico Torrez is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1921 (+) Actor Peter Ustinov is born in London, United Kingdom.
1922 (+) Writer Kingsley William Amis is born in London, Clapham, United Kingdom.
1924 (+) Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1926 (-) Murderer Archie Cody is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.
1935 (+) Musician Bobby Robert Stanley Vinton known for “Blue Velvet”, is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
1936 (-) Murderess Dorothea Nancy Waddingham aka The Murderous Nurse, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, United Kingdom.
Waddingham was a mother of five and was still breastfeeding her 3-month old baby at the time of her execution. 10,000 people gathered outside the gaol to demonstrate against the execution, chanting "Stop this mother murder!".
1937 (-) FBI-agent Wimberly Baker is shot dead by Robert Suhay at the age of 27 in Topeka, post office, Kansas, USA.
1937 (-) Murderer Fred Hart is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.
1946 (-) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide by hanging due to depression at the age of 62 in Slidell, Louisiana, USA.
1947 (-) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Auschwitz, Poland.
1964 (x) 38-year-old Pilot Geraldine “Jerrie” Fredritz Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world in an aircraft, a Cessna 180 'Spirit of Columbus'.
She flew 22.860 miles in 29 days and made 21 stopovers.
1969 (-) Dawn Basom is raped, tortured and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 13 in Ann Arbor, Superior Township, Michigan, USA.
1971 (+) Singer Selena originally Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka Queen of Tejano Music, is born in Lake Jackson, Texas, USA.
1981 (-) Colleen Daignault is abducted, tortured and murdered by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Surrey, British Columbia, USA.
1981 (-) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Sigurd Debus dies due to internal bleeding in his head after being force-fed during a hungerstrike at the age of 38 in Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He had been hungerstriking since 11 feb 1981.
1986 (-) Murderer Jeffrey Barney is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1989 (-) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, dies of aids at the age of 25 in Paris, Prison de Fresnes, France.
1990 (x) Over 100 Die in train fire in Patna, India.
1992 (-) Kristen French is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, at the age of 16 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.
1995 (-) Daughter of Marlon Cheyenne Tarita Brando commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Tahiti.
1997 (-) Artist and writer Roland Topor dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris, France.
1997 (-) Murderer Kenneth Gentry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in Virginia Tech University, Blackburg, Virginia, USA.
On this day he went on a killing spree and shot 32 students and teachers to death. 29 others were wounded.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
15 April 1984 - Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper Dies
1452 (+) Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci is born in Florence, Vinci, Italy.
1721 (+) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1764 (-) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, dies of pneumonia at the age of 42 in Paris, France.
1802 (x) 32-year-old Romantic poet William Wordsworth is inspired to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by a long belt of daffodils during a country walk with his sister Dorothy in Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District, United Kingdom.
1889 (-) Missionary Father Damiaan originally Jozef De Veuster, dies of leprosy at the age of 49 in Molokai, Hawaï.
1894 (+) USSR-leader Nikita Sergeyewitsch Krushchev is born in Kalikovna, Ukraine, Russia.
1904 (+) Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, is born in Khorgom, Armenia.
1912 (x) 1503 Die in Titanic steamer shipwreck in Newfoundland.
It collided with an iceberg.
1912 (+) Great Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung is born in Mankeidai, Heian-nando, Japanese Korea.
1920 (x) The Slater and Morril Shoe Company is robbed of 16.000 $, and Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti will be arrested on vague accusations in South Braintree, Massachussets, USA.
1924 (-) Hermann Bock is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 22 in Hannover, Germany.
1925 (-) Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 45 in Hannover, Celler Straße Prison, Germany.
1938 (+) Actress Claudia Joséphine Rose Cardinale is born in Tunis, Tunisia.
1942 (-) Writer Robert Mathias Edler von Musil known for “The Man Without Qualities”, dies of a stroke at the age of 61 in Genève, Switzerland.
1944 (-) Murderer Fred L. Brady is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1944 (-) Murderer Clark B. Knox is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1945 (x) The concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen is liberated in Germany.
1947 (x) Over 500 Die in Grand Camp freighter explosion in Texas City, Texas, USA.
Many people died in the subsequent fire that raged through the city.
1947 (+) Cop Killer Misao Katagiri is born in Tokyo, Japan.
1951 (x) Mabel Everson dies at the age of 69. On the night of the funeral, 44-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, robbed her grave and took parts of her body home to make his grisly artefacts in Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA.
1955 (-) Murderer Jackson Howard is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
1957 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries Mary Catherine Castillo in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1957 (x) 58-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of the two murders he was charged with in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1970 (x) Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen members Linda Sue Evans and Dianne Donghi are arrested in New York City, New York, USA.
The FBI were informed about their whereabouts by infiltrator Larry Grathwohl.
1972 (-) Official Irish Republican Army volunteer Joe McCann is shot dead in a confrontation with British soldiers at the age of 24 in Belfast, Joy Street in The Markets, Ireland.
1974 (x) 20-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, takes part in a bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army in San Francisco, Sunset District Hibernia Bank, 1450 Noriega Street, California, USA.
1975 (-) Melanie Coolley is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Nederland, Colorado, USA.
1980 (-) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre dies of edema of the lung at the age of 74 in Paris, France.
1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
1984 (-) Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper has a fatal heart-attack in the midst of a live TV-show at the age of 63 in London, Her Majesty’s Theatre, United Kingdom.
1984 (x) Mass-Murderer Christopher Thomas kills 10 people, including 8 children, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1986 (-) Murderer Daniel Morris Thompson is executed by Old Sparky in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.
1986 (-) Writer and thief Jean Genet dies of throat cancer at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
1988 (-) Murderer Earl Clanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1989 (x) 96 Die in soccer-riot during the game Liverpool-Nottingham Forest in Sheffield, Hillsborough Stadium, United Kingdom.
1989 (x) 28-year-old Mass-Murderer Ramon Bojorquez Salcido kills his wife and two daughters, his mother-in-law and her two daughters and his boss in a shooting-rage over a family-disagreement in Hot Springs, Boyes, California, USA.
1990 (-) Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, dies of pneumonia and renal failure at the age of 83 in New York, New York, USA.
1990 (x) 87 Die in in Uttar Pradesh, India.
They had been eating poisoned food on the occasion of an engagement-banquet
1997 (x) Over 250 Die in encampment fire in Mekka, Camp-Mama, Saudi Arabia.
1998 (-) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, dies of heart failure at the age of 69 in Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
Rumours persist that he committed suicide or that he was poisoned.
2001 (-) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffry Ross Hyman, dies of lymphoma at the age of 49 in New York, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
2002 (x) 128 Die in Air China Boeing 767-200 Flight CA129 crash into a mountain in Busan, South Korea.
1721 (+) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1764 (-) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, dies of pneumonia at the age of 42 in Paris, France.
1802 (x) 32-year-old Romantic poet William Wordsworth is inspired to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by a long belt of daffodils during a country walk with his sister Dorothy in Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District, United Kingdom.
1889 (-) Missionary Father Damiaan originally Jozef De Veuster, dies of leprosy at the age of 49 in Molokai, Hawaï.
1894 (+) USSR-leader Nikita Sergeyewitsch Krushchev is born in Kalikovna, Ukraine, Russia.
1904 (+) Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, is born in Khorgom, Armenia.
1912 (x) 1503 Die in Titanic steamer shipwreck in Newfoundland.
It collided with an iceberg.
1912 (+) Great Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung is born in Mankeidai, Heian-nando, Japanese Korea.
1920 (x) The Slater and Morril Shoe Company is robbed of 16.000 $, and Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti will be arrested on vague accusations in South Braintree, Massachussets, USA.
1924 (-) Hermann Bock is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 22 in Hannover, Germany.
1925 (-) Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 45 in Hannover, Celler Straße Prison, Germany.
1938 (+) Actress Claudia Joséphine Rose Cardinale is born in Tunis, Tunisia.
1942 (-) Writer Robert Mathias Edler von Musil known for “The Man Without Qualities”, dies of a stroke at the age of 61 in Genève, Switzerland.
1944 (-) Murderer Fred L. Brady is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1944 (-) Murderer Clark B. Knox is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1945 (x) The concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen is liberated in Germany.
1947 (x) Over 500 Die in Grand Camp freighter explosion in Texas City, Texas, USA.
Many people died in the subsequent fire that raged through the city.
1947 (+) Cop Killer Misao Katagiri is born in Tokyo, Japan.
1951 (x) Mabel Everson dies at the age of 69. On the night of the funeral, 44-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, robbed her grave and took parts of her body home to make his grisly artefacts in Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA.
1955 (-) Murderer Jackson Howard is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
1957 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries Mary Catherine Castillo in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1957 (x) 58-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of the two murders he was charged with in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1970 (x) Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen members Linda Sue Evans and Dianne Donghi are arrested in New York City, New York, USA.
The FBI were informed about their whereabouts by infiltrator Larry Grathwohl.
1972 (-) Official Irish Republican Army volunteer Joe McCann is shot dead in a confrontation with British soldiers at the age of 24 in Belfast, Joy Street in The Markets, Ireland.
1974 (x) 20-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, takes part in a bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army in San Francisco, Sunset District Hibernia Bank, 1450 Noriega Street, California, USA.
1975 (-) Melanie Coolley is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Nederland, Colorado, USA.
1980 (-) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre dies of edema of the lung at the age of 74 in Paris, France.
1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
1984 (-) Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper has a fatal heart-attack in the midst of a live TV-show at the age of 63 in London, Her Majesty’s Theatre, United Kingdom.
1984 (x) Mass-Murderer Christopher Thomas kills 10 people, including 8 children, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1986 (-) Murderer Daniel Morris Thompson is executed by Old Sparky in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.
1986 (-) Writer and thief Jean Genet dies of throat cancer at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
1988 (-) Murderer Earl Clanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1989 (x) 96 Die in soccer-riot during the game Liverpool-Nottingham Forest in Sheffield, Hillsborough Stadium, United Kingdom.
1989 (x) 28-year-old Mass-Murderer Ramon Bojorquez Salcido kills his wife and two daughters, his mother-in-law and her two daughters and his boss in a shooting-rage over a family-disagreement in Hot Springs, Boyes, California, USA.
1990 (-) Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, dies of pneumonia and renal failure at the age of 83 in New York, New York, USA.
1990 (x) 87 Die in in Uttar Pradesh, India.
They had been eating poisoned food on the occasion of an engagement-banquet
1997 (x) Over 250 Die in encampment fire in Mekka, Camp-Mama, Saudi Arabia.
1998 (-) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, dies of heart failure at the age of 69 in Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
Rumours persist that he committed suicide or that he was poisoned.
2001 (-) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffry Ross Hyman, dies of lymphoma at the age of 49 in New York, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
2002 (x) 128 Die in Air China Boeing 767-200 Flight CA129 crash into a mountain in Busan, South Korea.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
14 April 1965 - Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Eugene Smith aka In Cold Blood are Executed
1723 (+) Composer John Wainwright is born in Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
1759 (-) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in London, United Kingdom.
1865 (-) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln dies of gunshot wounds inflicted by John Wilkes Booth the day before at the age of 56 in Washington, Ford's Theatre, District Columbia, USA.
1878 (+) Flemish Nationalist Leader and WWI-collaborator Dr. August Borms is born in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium.
1904 (+) Actor John Gielgud is born in London, South Kensington, United Kingdom.
1907 (+) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, is born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1924 (-) Madge Augustine Oberholtzer commits suicide by mercury bichloride-poisoning at the age of 27 in Hamilton, Indiana, USA.
On March 15th she was savagely raped by The Grand Dragon of the Realm of the Indiana Ku-Klux-Klan, David Curtis Stephenson.
1925 (+) Actor Rod Rodney Stephen Steiger is born in West Hampton, New York, USA.
1926 (-) Murderer Andries Van Niekerk is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.
1926 (-) Murderer Edward Markus is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.
1930 (-) Futurist writer Vladimir Vladimirowitsch Mayakovski commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 36 in Moscow, Russia.
An unfinished poem in his suicide note read, in part: "The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts."
1935 (+) Singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn originally Loretta Webb, is born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA.
1935 (+) Writer and Paleocontact pioneer Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is born in Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland.
1944 (x) The first transport of jews - from Athens, Greece - arrives in Auschwitz, Poland.
1953 (x) 53 Die in stampede in Caracas, Venezuela.
They ran due to panic in a supposed fire, while the whole scenario was set up by a pick-pocket.
1965 (-) Mass-murderers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Eugene Smith aka In Cold Blood, are executed by hanging at the age of 33 and 36 in Lansing, Kansas, USA.
1972 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, marries Alice Johnson in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1974 (-) Terry White is shot dead by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 15 in Fillmore, California, USA.
1975 (x) 21-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, falls in a coma, overdosed on alcohol and barbiturates in Landing, Pennsylvania, USA.
1986 (-) Feminist writer and philosopher Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand De Beauvoir dies of pneumonia at the age of 78 in Paris, France.
1992 (x) Start of the trial against 55-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.
1993 (-) Mass Murderer James Dean Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
When he was arrested, the police found that he had retained the bullet that passed through the head of one of his victims as a souvenir.
1996 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is arrested in the house of his girlfriend Anna Kazakh, a 39-year-old hairdresser, in Yavoriv, Ukraïne, Russia.
1997 (-) Murderer Billy Joe Woods is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1759 (-) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in London, United Kingdom.
1865 (-) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln dies of gunshot wounds inflicted by John Wilkes Booth the day before at the age of 56 in Washington, Ford's Theatre, District Columbia, USA.
1878 (+) Flemish Nationalist Leader and WWI-collaborator Dr. August Borms is born in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium.
1904 (+) Actor John Gielgud is born in London, South Kensington, United Kingdom.
1907 (+) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, is born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1924 (-) Madge Augustine Oberholtzer commits suicide by mercury bichloride-poisoning at the age of 27 in Hamilton, Indiana, USA.
On March 15th she was savagely raped by The Grand Dragon of the Realm of the Indiana Ku-Klux-Klan, David Curtis Stephenson.
1925 (+) Actor Rod Rodney Stephen Steiger is born in West Hampton, New York, USA.
1926 (-) Murderer Andries Van Niekerk is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.
1926 (-) Murderer Edward Markus is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.
1930 (-) Futurist writer Vladimir Vladimirowitsch Mayakovski commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 36 in Moscow, Russia.
An unfinished poem in his suicide note read, in part: "The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts."
1935 (+) Singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn originally Loretta Webb, is born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA.
1935 (+) Writer and Paleocontact pioneer Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is born in Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland.
1944 (x) The first transport of jews - from Athens, Greece - arrives in Auschwitz, Poland.
1953 (x) 53 Die in stampede in Caracas, Venezuela.
They ran due to panic in a supposed fire, while the whole scenario was set up by a pick-pocket.
1965 (-) Mass-murderers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Eugene Smith aka In Cold Blood, are executed by hanging at the age of 33 and 36 in Lansing, Kansas, USA.
1972 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, marries Alice Johnson in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1974 (-) Terry White is shot dead by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 15 in Fillmore, California, USA.
1975 (x) 21-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, falls in a coma, overdosed on alcohol and barbiturates in Landing, Pennsylvania, USA.
1986 (-) Feminist writer and philosopher Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand De Beauvoir dies of pneumonia at the age of 78 in Paris, France.
1992 (x) Start of the trial against 55-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.
1993 (-) Mass Murderer James Dean Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
When he was arrested, the police found that he had retained the bullet that passed through the head of one of his victims as a souvenir.
1996 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is arrested in the house of his girlfriend Anna Kazakh, a 39-year-old hairdresser, in Yavoriv, Ukraïne, Russia.
1997 (-) Murderer Billy Joe Woods is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
Friday, April 13, 2012
13 April 1943 - Oskar Schlemmer Dies
1570 (+) Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is born in York, United Kingdom.
1695 (-) Poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine dies at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
1743 (+) 3rd president of the USA Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, USA.
1860 (+) Artist James Sydney Ensor is born in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.
1885 (+) Philosopher György Szegedy Bernát Lukács is born in Budapest, Hungary.
1900 (+) Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Bordeaux, France.
1901 (+) Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Emile Lacan is born in Paris, France.
1906 (+) Writer Samuel Beckett is born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland.
1917 (-) Murderer Chester Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in McAlester, State Penitentiary, Oklahoma, USA.
1919 (x) British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in the Jallianwala Bagh Garden in Amritsar, India.
1920 (-) Murderer Frederick Rothwell Holt is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
1923 (-) Murderer Paul V. Hadley aka W.M. Estaver, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1930 (-) Frau Hau is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1931 (x) Start of the trial against 47-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1943 (-) Artist Oskar Schlemmer dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
1945 (-) Murderer U. L. Holley is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
He had been drinking, entered a saloon in Globe to purchase more beer, and was told that negroes were not served. Whereupon he went home and embarked on a shooting spree, killing one and injuring two.
1947 (-) Herr Bennen is hacked to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 52 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
1956 (-) Artist Emil Hansen Nolde dies at the age of 88 in Seebull, Germany.
1961 (-) Private First Class and child rapist John Arthur Bennett is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
He was convicted to death for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl in 1954.
1967 (-) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Nicaragua.
1973 (x) 27-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Icarus" in Venice, California, USA.
1982 (x) ‘Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by an unidentified 29-year-old student in Berlin, NationalGalerie, Germany.
1983 (-) Joe Rapini is shot dead by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 42 in Rochester, Greece, New York, USA.
1984 (-) Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with state-trooper Chuck Ellison at the age of 39 in Colebrook, Vic’s Getty Oil-Station, Connecticut, USA.
1993 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sergej Rjachowsky aka The Hippopotamus, is arrested on suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old in Moscow, Russia.
1999 (x) 70-year-old Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for his assistance in the videotaped suicide of 52-year-old Thomas Youk, a Lou Gehrig's disease patient in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
2007 (x) 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'The Red Dragon' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
1695 (-) Poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine dies at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
1743 (+) 3rd president of the USA Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, USA.
1860 (+) Artist James Sydney Ensor is born in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.
1885 (+) Philosopher György Szegedy Bernát Lukács is born in Budapest, Hungary.
1900 (+) Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Bordeaux, France.
1901 (+) Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Emile Lacan is born in Paris, France.
1906 (+) Writer Samuel Beckett is born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland.
1917 (-) Murderer Chester Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in McAlester, State Penitentiary, Oklahoma, USA.
1919 (x) British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in the Jallianwala Bagh Garden in Amritsar, India.
1920 (-) Murderer Frederick Rothwell Holt is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
1923 (-) Murderer Paul V. Hadley aka W.M. Estaver, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1930 (-) Frau Hau is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1931 (x) Start of the trial against 47-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1943 (-) Artist Oskar Schlemmer dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
1945 (-) Murderer U. L. Holley is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
He had been drinking, entered a saloon in Globe to purchase more beer, and was told that negroes were not served. Whereupon he went home and embarked on a shooting spree, killing one and injuring two.
1947 (-) Herr Bennen is hacked to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 52 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
1956 (-) Artist Emil Hansen Nolde dies at the age of 88 in Seebull, Germany.
1961 (-) Private First Class and child rapist John Arthur Bennett is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
He was convicted to death for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl in 1954.
1967 (-) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Nicaragua.
1973 (x) 27-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Icarus" in Venice, California, USA.
1982 (x) ‘Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by an unidentified 29-year-old student in Berlin, NationalGalerie, Germany.
1983 (-) Joe Rapini is shot dead by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 42 in Rochester, Greece, New York, USA.
1984 (-) Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with state-trooper Chuck Ellison at the age of 39 in Colebrook, Vic’s Getty Oil-Station, Connecticut, USA.
1993 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sergej Rjachowsky aka The Hippopotamus, is arrested on suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old in Moscow, Russia.
1999 (x) 70-year-old Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for his assistance in the videotaped suicide of 52-year-old Thomas Youk, a Lou Gehrig's disease patient in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
2007 (x) 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'The Red Dragon' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
12 April 1975 - Josephine Baker originally Freda Josephine McDonald aka The Bronze Venus aka The Black Pearl Dies
1715 (-) Murderer Jeremiah Meacham is executed by hanging in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
1869 (+) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is born in Paris XIX, France.
1871 (+) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas is born in Ithaca, Greece.
1885 (+) Artist Robert Delaunay is born in Paris, France.
1895 (-) Minnie Williams is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, in San Francisco, Library of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, California, USA.
1921 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, United Kingdom.
1932 (+) Musician Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka Tiny Tim, is born in New York, New York, USA.
1933 (+) Soprano Montserrat Concepción Bibiana Caballé i Folch is born in Barcelona, Spain.
1940 (+) Musician Herbie Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1945 (-) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Warm Springs, Colorado, USA.
1946 (-) Flemish Nationalist Leader and WWI-collaborator Dr. August Borms is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 68 in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.
1948 (+) Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
1950 (+) Musician David Cassidy is born in New York, New York, USA.
1961 (x) 27-year-old Cosmonaut and the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first man to fly around the world in a space-craft.
1965 (+) Family murderess Frances Elaine Newton is born in Texas, USA.
1965 (x) 21-year-old Musician Johnny Hallyday originally Jean-Philippe Smet, marries 21-year-old Sylvie Vartan in Loconville, France.
1967 (-) Cop Killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed under Governor Ronald Reagan and the last man to be executed in California, until the Supreme Court re-installed the death-penalty in 1992.
1975 (-) Musician Josephine Baker originally Freda Josephine McDonald aka The Bronze Venus aka The Black Pearl, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 68 in Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France.
1977 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to his Cell One in the E-Block of Lakeland Annex in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.
1989 (-) Anarchist Abie Abbott Howard Hoffman commits suicide by an overdose of Phenobarbital at the age of 52 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA.
1997 (x) Two trash bags with a foot, part of a leg and a head are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Havré, Rue du Dépot, Hainaut, Belgium.
1999 (-) Serial Killer Marion Albert Pruett aka The Mad Dog Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Varner, Department of Corrections, Cummins Unit, Arkansas, USA.
2009 (-) Pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers originally Marilyn Ann Briggs, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.
1869 (+) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is born in Paris XIX, France.
1871 (+) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas is born in Ithaca, Greece.
1885 (+) Artist Robert Delaunay is born in Paris, France.
1895 (-) Minnie Williams is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, in San Francisco, Library of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, California, USA.
1921 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, United Kingdom.
1932 (+) Musician Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka Tiny Tim, is born in New York, New York, USA.
1933 (+) Soprano Montserrat Concepción Bibiana Caballé i Folch is born in Barcelona, Spain.
1940 (+) Musician Herbie Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1945 (-) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Warm Springs, Colorado, USA.
1946 (-) Flemish Nationalist Leader and WWI-collaborator Dr. August Borms is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 68 in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.
1948 (+) Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
1950 (+) Musician David Cassidy is born in New York, New York, USA.
1961 (x) 27-year-old Cosmonaut and the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first man to fly around the world in a space-craft.
1965 (+) Family murderess Frances Elaine Newton is born in Texas, USA.
1965 (x) 21-year-old Musician Johnny Hallyday originally Jean-Philippe Smet, marries 21-year-old Sylvie Vartan in Loconville, France.
1967 (-) Cop Killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed under Governor Ronald Reagan and the last man to be executed in California, until the Supreme Court re-installed the death-penalty in 1992.
1975 (-) Musician Josephine Baker originally Freda Josephine McDonald aka The Bronze Venus aka The Black Pearl, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 68 in Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France.
1977 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to his Cell One in the E-Block of Lakeland Annex in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.
1989 (-) Anarchist Abie Abbott Howard Hoffman commits suicide by an overdose of Phenobarbital at the age of 52 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA.
1997 (x) Two trash bags with a foot, part of a leg and a head are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Havré, Rue du Dépot, Hainaut, Belgium.
1999 (-) Serial Killer Marion Albert Pruett aka The Mad Dog Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Varner, Department of Corrections, Cummins Unit, Arkansas, USA.
2009 (-) Pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers originally Marilyn Ann Briggs, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.
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