(+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
174 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 January 1839
(+) Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, France.
147 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 January 1866
(-) Murderess Martha Grinder aka The American Borgia, is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
147 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 January 1866
(-) Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
143 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 January 1870
(-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Paris, Roquette Prison, France.
134 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 January 1879
(+) Writer and revolutionary terrorist Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkov, Russia.
97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 January 1916
(+) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin is born in London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
92 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 January 1921
(+) Writer Patricia Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 January 1922
(+) Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwozdziec, Poland.
80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 January 1933
(-) Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 January 1935
(+) Actress Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA.
75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 January 1938
(+) Musician Phil Philip Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
(+) Musician Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 January 1946
(+) Singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Rebecca Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 January 1947
(x) 392 Die in Himera Ocean liner hitting a forgotten WWII mine in Athens, Greece.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 January 1954
(+) Photographer Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 January 1958
(-) Marion Bartlett is shot, stabbed and choked to death by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 57 in Lincoln, 924 Belmont Avenue, Nebraska, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 January 1962
(x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 January 1970
(-) Régis Tall commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 17 in Lille, Lycée Gaston Berger, France.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 January 1970
(-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 18 in Lille, Lycée Faidherbe, France.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 January 1973
(+) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, is born in Lyon, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 January 1981
(-) Mass Murderer Alvin King commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Dangerfield, town jail, Texas, USA.
He used strips torn from his towel to make the hanging rope.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 January 1981
(-) Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a window at the age of 22 in New York, New York, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 January 1982
(-) Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77 in Jerusalem, Israël.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 January 1998
(-) Musician Carl Lee Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.
He suffered 3 heart-attacks in less than 2 months.
7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 January 2006
(-) Musician Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 January 2007
(-) Singer-songwiter Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty dies at the age of 66 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
He was a founding member of the Mamas and the Papas.
4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 January 2009
(-) Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Hamburg, Germany.
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