(-) Artist Jacopo Pontormo originally Jacopo Carucci, dies at the age of 62 in Florence, Italy.
121 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1892
(x) 41-year-old Writer Guy Henri René Albert De Maupassant tries to commit suicide by cutting his throat in Paris, France.
117 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 January 1896
(+) Filmmaker Dziga Vertov originally Denis Abelevich Kaufman aka The Man with a Movie Camera, is born in Bialystok, Grodno, Poland.
98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1915
(-) Automobile manufacterer Armand Peugeot dies at the age of 65 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.
93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 January 1920
(+) SF-writer Isaac Asimov is born in Petrovichi, Belarus, Russia.
76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1937
(-) Actor Ross Alexander originally Ross Smith, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 29 in Encino, California, USA.
He used the same gun with which his wife killed herself when she found out about his homosexuality two years before.
(+) Serial Killer Ian Stewart Brady aka The Moors Murderer, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
75 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 January 1938
(+) Land Artist Robert Smithson is born in Passaic, New Jersey, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 January 1942
(-) Joachim Guschinow is killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.
62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 January 1951
(x) 22-year-old Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook shoots 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser in Joplin, Missouri, USA.
They drove around at gunpoint for 2 days in the midwest.
61 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 January 1952
(+) Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man, is born in Glendale, California, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 January 1953
(-) Kathleen Maloney is strangled and raped by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1954
(x) During Italy’s first television-transmission 77-year-old 260th Pope Pius XII warns the Italian families for the dangers of television in family-life in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 January 1955
(-) President of Panama José Antonio Remón Cantera is murdered at a race track by an unknown revolutionary commando at the age of 46 in Panama City, Panama.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1960
(-) Cycling legend Fausto Angelo Coppi aka Il Campionissimo, dies of malaria at the age of 40 in Tortona, Italy.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 January 1968
(x) 58-year-old Dr. Philip Blaiberg becomes the second man to have a heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa.
He lived nineteen months with it.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1971
(-) Fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel dies at the age of 87 in Paris, France.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 January 1971
(x) 66 Die in soccer tribune crash during the game Rangers-Celtic in Glasgow, Ibrox Park, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 January 1972
(-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He was picked up at the Greyhound terminal.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 January 1979
(x) Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, in Santa Clara County, California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 January 1981
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested with prostitute Olivia Reivers in Sheffield’s Red Light District, Melbourne Avenue, United Kingdom.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 January 1992
(-) Maryann Holloman is strangled and cut to pieces by Joel Rifkin in Westbury, New York, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 January 2007
(x) 36-year-old Cannibal Nicolas Cocaign kills his 41-year-old cellmate Thierry Baudry, cut open his chest with a razorblade and ate part of his lung, which he presumed to be his heart in Rouen, France.
A third convict, David Lagrue watched the act in stupefied terror and committed suicide in prison in November 2009.
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