(+) Scientist Isaac Newton is born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
228 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 January 1785
(+) Philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.
204 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1809
(+) Inventor Louis Braille is born in Paris, France.
(+) Dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb, is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA.
132 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 January 1881
(+) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck is born in Duisburg, Germany.
123 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 January 1890
(+) Swindler who tried to sell the Eiffel Tower twice, Victor Lustig aka The Count, is born in Hostinne, Czechoslowakia.
117 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 January 1896
(+) Surrealist writer André Aimé René Masson is born in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 January 1924
(-) Murderer George Parker is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Oregon, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1939
(-) Peter Seaton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, United Kingdom.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 January 1941
(-) Olga is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 28 in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 January 1958
(x) 38-year-old Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary reaches the SouthPole.
53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 January 1960
(-) Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at the age of 46 in Petit-Villeblévin, Yonne, France.
49 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 January 1964
(-) Mary Sullivan is strangled and raped with a broomstick by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, 44a Charles Street, Massachussets, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 January 1965
(-) Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in London, United Kingdom.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1967
(-) Adolf Schickel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 27 in Wiesbaden, Main River, Germany.
He was falsely accused of killing his girlfriend, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 January 1974
(-) Sharon Clarke is sexually assaulted, but survived after several months in a coma, by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Seattle University District, Washington, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 January 1974
(-) Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India, dies at the age of 80 in Coimbatore, India.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1984
(x) The first test-tube birth resulting in triplets occurs in France.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1984
(-) Sigrid Poeltz is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, in Bremen, Germany.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1989
(-) Felicia Stephens is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, in Salmon Creek, New York, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1995
(-) Murderer Jesse DeWayne is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 January 1995
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Jesse D. Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 January 1996
(-) Carmelina Russo is presumably abducted as first victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 46 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Her remains were found cut to pieces 17 days later in Chateau L'Abbaye, France.
14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 January 1999
(-) Serial Killer Donald Leroy Evans is stabbed to death by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack in Parchman State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 January 2005
(-) Murderer James Scott Porter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 January 2007
(-) Nikki Bacharach commits suicide by suffocation using a plastic bag and helium at the age of 40 in Thousand Oaks, USA.
She was the daughter of songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson, and suffered from Aperger's Disorder.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 January 2010
(-) Chess Grandmaster Bobby Robert James Fischer dies of degenerative renal failure at the age of 66 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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