(-) King of England Henry VIII dies of diabetes at the age of 55 in Whitehall, United Kingdom.
392 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1621
(-) 233rd Pope Paulus V originally Camillo Borghese, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
307 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1706
(+) Printer and typographer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.
245 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1768
(-) Composer John Wainwright dies at the age of 44 in Cheshire, United Kingdom.
225 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1788
(+) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, is born in London, United Kingdom.
211 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1802
(-) Murderer Joseph Wall Esq. is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
184 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1829
(-) Serial Killer William Burke aka The Bodysnatcher, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
A huge crowd showed up to see him hang.
172 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1841
(+) Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.
158 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1855
(+) Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs I is born in Rochester, New York, USA.
126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 1887
(x) 26-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Myrta Z. Belknap as Henry Howard Holmes in Colorado, USA.
126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 1887
(+) Composer Arthur Rubinstein is born in Lodz, Poland.
123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1890
(+) Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.
101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1912
(+) Artist Jackson Paul Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, USA.
99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1914
(+) Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1924
(+) Artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
84 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1929
(+) Artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1936
(+) Actor Alan Alda is born in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1936
(-) Richard Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer, is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie Day at the age of 30 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 January 1939
(-) Writer William Butler Yeats dies at the age of 73 in Menton, Hôtel Idéal Séjour, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1945
(+) Musician Robert Wyatt-Ellidge is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.
65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1948
(x) Over 250 Die in Joo Maru freighter collision in Japan.
It collided with an abandoned mine.
65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1948
(-) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Krakow, Poland.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 1949
(-) Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1953
(-) Cop Killer Derek William Bentley is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1958
(-) Lauer and 46-year-old Clara Ward is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 47 in Lincoln, 2843 24th Street, Nebraska, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1965
(+) Fifth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Sears is born in Wisconsin, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1974
(x) 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by the Black Zebra Killers while 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down in San Francisco, California, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1976
(-) Artist Marcel Broodthaers dies at the age of 52 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
(x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is arrested in Sacramento, California, USA.
Assorted human and animal organs are found in his refrigerator.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1986
(x) US-astronauts 49-year-old Michael Smith, 36-year-old Judith Resnik, 35-year-old Ronald McNair, 39-year-old Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old Francis Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger Spacecraft, just 1min 12 sec after take-off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1996
(-) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York, New York, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 2003
(-) Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 2004
(-) Murderer Billy Frank Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 2005
(-) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in Paris XIV, France.
She played a violent murderess in the movie "Baise-Moi".
3 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 2010
(-) Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.
He spent 30 years in prison for the murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.
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