(-) Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley dies of a brain tumour at the age of 53 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
141 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 February 1872
(+) Mass murderer Andrew Kehoe is born in Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.
139 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 February 1874
(+) Writer Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal is born in Vienna, Austria.
118 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1895
(+) Filmmaker John Ford is born in Cape Elisabeth, Maine, USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1901
(+) Actor Clark William Gable is born in Cadiz, Ohio, USA.
105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 February 1908
(x) King Carlos I and his son Prince Luis are shot dead by revolutionary republicans Alfredo Costa and Manual Buiça in Lissabon, Portugal.
The assassins were shot by the King's bodyguards.
91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 February 1922
(-) William Taylor is shot dead by Charlotte Minter at the age of 45 in Hollywood, California, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1929
(-) Murderer Tom Dreher is executed by hanging in Louisiana, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1929
(-) Murderess Ada Lebout is executed by hanging in Louisiana, USA.
82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 February 1931
(+) First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is born in Sverdlovsk, Russia.
(+) Notorious call-girl Rosemarie Nitribitt is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westphalen, Germany.
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1935
(-) Double murderer Kenneth Neu aka ‘Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Hang’, is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 February 1937
(+) Musician Don Donald Isaac Everly is born in Brownie, Kentucky, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 February 1939
(+) musician Claude François aka Clo-Clo, is born in Ismaïlia, Egypt.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 February 1944
(-) Artist Piet Mondriaan dies of pneumonia at the age of 71 in New York, New York, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 February 1945
(x) Over 100 Die in train collision in Cazadero, Mexico.
54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 February 1959
(-) August Horry is shot dead by Penny Bjorkland in San Francisco hills, California, USA.
"Just to see if I could do it and not worry about it."
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1963
(x) 95 Die in Viscount and Air Force plane collision in Ankara, Turkey.
47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 February 1966
(-) Actor and filmmaker Buster Joseph Francis Keaton dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 February 1967
(x) Serial Killer Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, is arrested in Katowice, Poland.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 February 1968
(+) Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1974
(x) 188 Die in 25-story Joelma Bank building fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1974
(x) 44-year-old The Great Train Robber Ronald “Ronnie” Arthur Biggs is arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1974
(-) Brenda Merchant is presumably stabbed to death by Zodiac in Marysville, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1974
(-) Lynda Healy is bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 21 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 February 1978
(x) 44-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, skips bail and flees the country after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old in California, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 February 1979
(x) 24-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is released from prison in California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 February 1981
(-) Airplane designer Donald Wills Douglas dies at the age of 88 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
His ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 February 1984
(-) Willi Fleischer is his skull crushed in by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 42 in Suechteln, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1985
(-) Industrial Ernst Zimmerman is shot dead by Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 55 in München, Germany.
The assassination was carried out in the name of Patsy O'Hara.
22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 1991
(x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is sentenced to 10 consecutive terms of 25 years to life in Rochester, New York, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 February 1994
(x) Over 100 Die in ferry collison with trailer in Yangtse River, China.
11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 2002
(-) Actress and musician Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef dies of cancer at the age of 76 in Berlin, Germany.
9 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 February 2004
(x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is sentenced to death for the murder of at least 67 people in the past 3 years in Hehan, China.
The trial lasted less than an hour.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 February 2007
(-) Filmmaker Carlo Ponti dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 94 in Geneve, Switzerland.
5 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 2008
(-) Murderer Masahiko Matsubara is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Osaka, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 2008
(-) Murderer Takashi Mochida is executed by hanging at the age of 65 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 February 2008
(-) Murderer Keishi Nago is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Fukuoka, Japan.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 February 2010
(x) 119 Die in Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crash in Khorramabad Airport, Iran.
1 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 February 2012
(-) Artist Michael Mike Kelley commits suicide by coal-monoxide poisoning at the age of 57 in South Pasadena, California, USA.
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