(-) 201st Pope Gregorius XI originally Pierre Roger de Beaufort, dies in Rome, Italy.
211 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1802
(+) Writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in Besançon, France.
184 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1829
(+) Clothing manufacturer Levi Löb Strauss is born in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
167 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1846
(+) Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, is born in Le Claire, Iowa, USA.
161 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1852
(-) Mass-murderess Helène Jegado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Rennes, Champ-de-Mars, France.
She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
161 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1852
(+) Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, USA.
(+) Animation artist Frederick “Tex” Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, USA.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1909
(-) Murderer C. Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon, USA.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1914
(-) Murderer George Ball is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Liverpool, Walton Prison, United Kingdom.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 February 1918
(x) Over 3000 Die in Provence crusier shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.
85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 February 1928
(+) Musician Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1932
(+) Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, USA.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1943
(-) First commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies in a plane-crash while performing a battlefield reconnaissance during the opening stages of the Third Battle of Kharkov at the age of 50 in Artelnoye, USSR.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1943
(x) The first transport of Gypsies arrives in Buchenwald-KZ, Germany.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1943
(-) Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 February 1958
(+) Writer Michel Thomas Houellebecq is born in Réunion, France.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1959
(x) Peter Paul Rubens’ “Der Höllensturz der Verdammten” is attacked with acid by 52-year-old Philosopher and adventurer Walter Menzl in München, Alte Pinakothek, Germany.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1971
(-) Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, dies of cancer at the age of 67 in Paris, Avenue Foch, France.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 February 1971
(-) Lynda Kanes is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Angwin, California, USA.
Her body is found 8 days later, nude and wrapped in an American flag.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 February 1978
(-) Poisoness of her mother, husband, mother-in-law and son, Audrey Marie Hilley dies of a heart attack due to hypothermia at the age of 53 in Blue Mountain, Vermont, USA.
She jumped parole and wandered through the woods for 5 days.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 February 1984
(-) Rosario Gonzalez is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Miami, Florida, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 February 1998
(-) Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 February 2000
(-) Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell with the cable of an electric razor at the age of 50 in Gralla, Styria, Austria.
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