(-) Philiosopher Immanuel Kant dies at the age of 79 in Königsberg, Prussia, Germany.
204 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 February 1809
(+) Naturalist Charles Darwin is born in Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom.
204 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 February 1809
(+) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln is born in Larue, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA.
152 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1861
(+) Writer and psycho-analist Lou Andreas Salome is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
146 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1867
(+) Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler is born in Nebra, Germany.
131 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 February 1882
(+) Ballerina Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova known for The Dying Swan, is born in St. Petersburg, Ligovo, Russia.
129 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1884
(+) Artist Max Beckmann is born in Leipzig, Germany.
128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 February 1885
(-) Murderer Lewis Beach is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.
120 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 February 1893
(+) War Leader Omar Nelson Bradley is born in Clark, Missouri, USA.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1907
(x) 131 Die in Larchmont Steamer shipwreck in Long Island, USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 February 1913
(-) Murderer Frederick A. Pulin is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora, New York, USA.
He was the last man executed by the electric chair in Clinton Prison.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1918
(-) Black murderer Jim McIlherron is lynched by burning and charred to the bone by a mob of 1200 in Estil Springs, Tennessee, USA.
90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 February 1923
(-) Fritz Franke is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1929
(-) Rudolf Scheer is stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 54 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He also drank the blood of his victim.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 February 1942
(-) Doris Jouannet aka Doris Robson, is strangled and sexually mutilated as fourth victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 43 in London, United Kingdom.
(-) Dr. Archibald Henderson is shot in the head and solved in acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, in Crawley, Leopold Road, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Haigh then lured Rosalie Henderson to his workhop and killed her as well.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1952
(+) Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is born in Berkeley, California, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 February 1954
(-) Filmmaker Dziga Vertov originally Denis Abelevich Kaufman aka The Man with a Movie Camera, dies of cancer at the age of 58 in Moscow, Russia.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 February 1971
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 February 1979
(-) Filmmaker Jean Renoir dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1980
(-) Artist Oskar Kokoschka dies at the age of 94 in Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 February 1980
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is convicted to death for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 February 1984
(-) Writer Julio Florencio Cortázar dies of leukemia at the age of 69 in Paris, France.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 February 1986
(-) Cutter of the Jonker-diamond Lazare Kaplan dies at the age of 103.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 February 1989
(-) Writer Thomas Bernhard dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gmunden, Austria.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 February 1993
(-) James Bulger is abducted, tortured and stoned to death by 11-year-old Jon Venables and Robert Thompson at the age of 2 in Liverpool, Strand shopping centre, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 February 1994
(-) Minimal Artist Donald Judd dies of lymphoma at the age of 65 in New York, New York, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 February 1994
(x) 46-year-old Mass Murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, tries to escape through a hole in the wall of his cell in Leuven-Centraal, Brabant, Belgium.
He is caught in the prison courtyard.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 February 1999
(-) Mass Murderer Edwin D. Bell commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in Oklahoma City, Gardenwood Apartments, 1925 N. Gary Ave., Oklahoma, USA.
Minutes before he shot his 45-year-old mother Linda Farris, his 21-year-old wife Markita King, and his children, 4-year-old Ebony, 2-year-old Essyce, and 8-month-old Marjonna Bell
13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 February 2000
(-) Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, dies of aneurism at the age of 70 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 February 2003
(-) Murderer Richard E. Fox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 February 2004
(-) Double murderer Bobby Ray Hopkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 February 2007
(-) Mass murderer Sulejman Talovi is shot dead in a shootout with police at the age of 18 in Salt Lake City, Trolley Square Mall, Utah, USA.
He had shot five people and wounded four in a shooting spree
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