(-) Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of an accident at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.
238 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 January 1775
(+) Physicist André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, St. Nizier, France.
117 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1896
(+) Comedian and actor George Burns is born in New York City, New York, USA.
103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 January 1910
(+) Writer and naturalist Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria.
100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1913
(-) Axe-murderer John Schild is executed by hanging in Berks City, Pennsylvania, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 January 1920
(+) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1930
(+) Astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1936
(-) King of England George V originally George Frederick Ernest Albert, dies of a cold at the age of 70 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Physician Lord Dawson of Penn, hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 January 1939
(-) Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in Salem State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
It was the first execution in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 January 1946
(+) Filmmaker David Keith Lynch is born in Missoula, Montana, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 January 1959
(+) Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1960
(x) 51-year-old Richard Bugdalle aka The Bully of Sachsenhausen, is convicted to 16 terms of life imprisonment in München, Germany.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1965
(-) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
(x) 34-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1969
(+) Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is born in Kaposvar, Hungary.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1975
(-) Emily Jackson is hammered and stabbed 52 times with a Phillips screwdriver by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 42 in Leeds, Manor Street, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1982
(x) Officially 66 (but rumoured 340) Die in soccer riot during the game Spartak Moscow-Haarlem in Russia.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 January 1984
(-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller originally Johann Peter Weißmüller aka Tarzan, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 79 in Acapulco, in a mental hospital, Mexico.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 January 1985
(x) An unidentified member of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 January 1987
(-) Murderer Ramon Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1988
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is arrested on a charge of burglary in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1992
(x) 87 Die in Air Inter Light 148 Airbus A-300 crash in Strasbourg, France.
20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1993
(-) Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, dies of appendiceal cancer at the age of 63 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1997
(-) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1999
(-) Double Murderer Mark Arlo Sheppard is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 January 2000
(-) Murderer David Hicks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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