(+) 229th Pope Gregorius XIV originally Niccolo Spondrati, is born in Somma, Italy.
363 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1650
(-) Philosopher René Descartes dies of pneumonia at the age of 53 in Stockholm, Sweden.
166 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1847
(+) Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio, USA.
144 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1869
(-) Murderer James Whelan is executed by hanging in Ottawa, Canada.
It would be the last public hanging in Canada.
107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 February 1906
(-) Murderer Milton Diltwer is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.
86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1927
(-) William Gaffney is abducted from Riker Avenue, Astoria, Queens and strangled, cut to pieces and roasted by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 4 in New York, Brooklyn, 99 Fifteenth St., New York, USA.
The body was dumped in the Bowery Bay.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1935
(+) Musician Gene Vincent originally Vincent Eugene Craddock, is born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1936
(+) Actor Burt Leon Reynolds is born in Lansing, Michigan, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1937
(-) Child-murderer Albert E. Volckmann is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1938
(+) Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1941
(-) Martha Zernowski is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 February 1942
(-) Margaret Lowe aka Pearl, is strangled and sexually mutilated with a razorblade and candlestick as third victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 43 in London, Marylebone, Gosfield Street, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1947
(+) Founding Symbionese Liberation Army member Emily Harris originally Emily Montague Schwartz, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
(-) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Moscow, Russia.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1957
(x) 31-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, is chosen as leader for the Conservative Party in London, United Kingdom.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1974
(+) Murderer Richard Cartwright is born in Texas, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 February 1985
(-) Filmmaker Henry Hathaway originally Henri Leonard de Fiennes, dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Hollywood, California, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1986
(-) Writer Frank Franklin Patrick Herbert known for “Dune”, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1992
(-) Murderer Johnny Frank Garrett is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 1994
(-) Actor William Conrad originally William Cann aka Cannon, dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 February 1997
(-) Rosemary Downs is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 43 in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 February 1999
(-) Murderer Danny Lee Barber is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 February 2000
(-) Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, dies of lymphoma at the age of 72 in Paris, France.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 February 2004
(-) Triple murderer Edward Lewis Lagrone is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 February 2006
(-) Writer Peter Bradford Benchley known for "Jaws", dies of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 65 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
1 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 February 2012
(-) Musician Whitney Houston dies at the age of 48 in Beverley Hills, Hilton Hotel, California, USA.
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