(-) King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Paris, France.
171 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1842
(+) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer is born in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
158 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 January 1855
(+) Inventor and designer John Moses Browning is born in Ogden, Utah, USA.
117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 January 1896
(+) Younger sister of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler Paula Hitler is born in Hafeld, Austria.
114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1899
(+) General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is born in Randalstown, Ireland.
108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1905
(+) Fashion designer Christian Dior is born in Granville, France.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1921
(+) Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh is born in East Camden, New Jersey, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1922
(+) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas is born in Garden City, New York, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1924
(-) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin dies of sclerosis of the cerebral arteries at the age of 53 in Gorky, Russia.
88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1925
(+) Actor Benny Hill is born in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1931
(-) Film star Alma Ruben commits suicide by drug-overdose after being arrested for smuggling drugs in Hollywood, California, USA.
(+) Disc Jockey Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1938
(-) Film pioneer Georges Meliès dies at the age of 76 in Paris, France.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 January 1941
(+) Musician Plàcido Domingo is born in Madrid, Spain.
69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1944
(+) Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, is born in Oscoda, Michigan, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1950
(-) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1950
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Silke Maier-Witt is born in Nagold, Germany.
61 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1952
(+) Multiple Murderer Raymond Lee Stewart is born in Burlington, North Carolina, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1953
(+) Triple murderer Pierre Dale Selby aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is born in Trinidad.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1959
(-) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Hollywood, California, USA.
53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 January 1960
(x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Coalbrook, South Africa.
Many were trapped underground due to a cave-in.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1961
(-) Writer Blaise Cendrars originally Frédéric Louis Sauser, dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1963
(x) 37-year-old Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany is sentenced to life-imprisonment for soaking his wife in nitric acid in San José, California, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 January 1965
(-) Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 27 in Antwerpen, Gloriantlaan, Antwerp, Belgium.
45 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 January 1968
(x) A US B52-bomber with 4 nuclear bombs aboard crashes in Thule, Greenland.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1978
(-) Yvonne Pearson is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 22 in the United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1980
(x) Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1985
(x) 71 Die in L118 Elektra crash in Reno, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 January 1997
(-) Elvis Impresario Tom Thomas Andrew Parker originally Andreas Cornelis ‘Dries’ van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1998
(-) Double Murderer Jose Jesus Ceja is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request were two chili beef burritos, two cans of Coke Classic and a slice of cherry pie.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1998
(-) Murderer Lloyd Wayne Hampton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 2000
(-) Multiple murderer Larry Keith Robison is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 2002
(-) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, dies of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81 in Bel Air, California, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 2004
(-) Murderer Kevin Lee Zimmerman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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