173 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 February 1840
(+) Engineer and tyre-manufacterer John Boyd Dunlop is born in Scotland, United Kingdom.
165 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 February 1848
(+) Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Starr, is born in Carthage, Missouri, USA.
165 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 February 1848
(+) Satanist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans originally Charles-Marie-Georges, is born in Paris, France.
135 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 February 1878
(+) Car manufacterer André Gustave Citroën is born in Paris, France.
105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 February 1908
(+) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is born in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 February 1908
(+) Actress Peg Lillian Millicent Entwistle is born in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 February 1909
(-) Murderer Walter H. Johnson is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Oregon, USA.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 February 1914
(+) Writer William Seward Burroughs is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 February 1924
(x) Ted Williams cuts the throats of his three daughters to save them from being put in an institution and presumed consequent prostitution in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 February 1937
(-) Writer and psycho-analist Lou Andreas Salome dies of kidney failure at the age of 76 in Göttingen, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 February 1946
(+) Actress Charlotte Tessa Rampling is born in Sturmer, Essex, United Kingdom.
65 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 February 1948
(x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted of auto theft and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 February 1959
(-) Actress Gwili Andre originally Gurli Andresen, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 in Venice, California, USA.
She surrounded herself with numerous articles and photographs about the career she expected and set it all alight.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 February 1973
(-) Rosalind Thorpe is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, at the age of 22 in Berkeley, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 February 1974
(x) 33-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is transferred from Essen to Ossendorf Prison in Köln, Germany.
She is placed in a cell next to Ulrike Meinhof.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 February 1981
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs as 'David Mark Chapman', murderer of John Lennon with Xavier Rathé at 2e Verzameling in Gent, Handelsbeurs, East Flanders, Belgium.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 February 1997
(x) 73 Die in helicopter collision in Shaar Yishoev, Israël.
7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 February 2006
(x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "DDV from China" in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 February 2008
(-) Spiritual Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Vlodrop, the Netherlands.
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