(-) Philosopher and mathematician Giordano Filippo Bruno is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 52 in Rome, Campo de' Fiori, Italy.
When the fire had died out his ashes were dumped into the Tiber river.
340 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 February 1673
(-) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière dies of an imagined disease causing vomiting of blood at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
165 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 February 1848
(+) Last Official Executioner of Sweden Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman is born in Sweden.
159 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 February 1854
(+) Artillery-engineer Friedrich Alfred Krupp is born in Essen, Germany.
157 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1856
(-) Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine dies of multiple sclerosis at the age of 58 in Paris, France.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1909
(-) Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, Goyathlay Geronimo aka The One Who Yawns, dies of pneumonia after he fell from his horse and lay in the cold all night at the age of 79 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1929
(+) Writer and Rabbi Chaim Herman Harold Potok is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1929
(+) Actress Patricia Katherine Routledge aka Hyacinth Bucket, is born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 February 1934
(-) Third King of Belgium Albert I originally Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad, falls off a mountain at the age of 58 in Marche-les-Dames, Belgium.
71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 1942
(+) Black Panther Huey Percy Newton is born in Monroe, Louisiana, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 1970
(x) 26-year-old Murderer Jeffrey Robert MacDonald stabs his pregnant wife Colette and two daughters 5-year-old Kimberley and 2-year-old Kristen to death in a self-created Manson-inspired attack in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 February 1974
(x) 48 Die in soccer riot during the game Zamalek-Dukla Prague in Egypt.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 1981
(+) Heiress and media personality Paris Whitney Hilton is born in New York City, New York, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1982
(-) Composer Thelonius Sphere Monk dies of a stroke at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 February 1984
(-) Sigurd Bessener is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 81 in Berlin, Schöneberg, Germany.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1986
(-) Religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 90 in Ojai, California, USA.
His ashes were scattered in India, England and the USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1986
(x) 69 Die in 2-train collision in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
They crashed head-on into each other.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1986
(x) 70 Die in bus crash in Suhamgano, Bangladesh.
It drove into a river.
(+) Victim of Wolfgang Priklopil, Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, is born in Vienna, Donaustadt, Rennbahnweg 38, Austria.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 February 1992
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 February 1993
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, is arrested in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 February 2004
(-) Triple murderer Cameron Todd Willingham is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 February 2005
(-) Multiple murderer Dennis Wayne Bagwell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 February 2007
(-) Collaborator and right wing politician Maurice Papon dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 96 in France.
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