(-) 241st Pope Alexander VIII originally Pietro Ottoboni, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.
283 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 February 1730
(-) 245th Pope Benedictus XIII originally Pietro Francesco Orsini, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.
273 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 February 1740
(-) 246th Pope Clementius XII originally Lorenzo Corsini, dies at the age of 87 in Rome, Italy.
154 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 February 1859
(+) Sexuologist Henry Havelock Ellis is born in Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom.
131 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 February 1882
(+) Writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce is born in Dublin, Ireland.
106 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 February 1907
(-) Scientist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev dies of influenza at the age of 73 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
100 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 February 1913
(+) Wife of Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Henriette “Henny” von Schirach originally Henriette Hoffmann, is born in München, Schwabing, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 February 1924
(-) Willi Senger is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 19 in Hannover, Germany.
(-) Geneviève Lancelin and her daughter are scratched, knifed and hammered to death by Lea and Christine Papin aka The Diabolical Sisters, at the age of 25 in Le Mans, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 February 1946
(-) Murderer Andrew W. Dennis is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in Oregon, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 February 1947
(+) Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett is born in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 February 1949
(+) Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is born in Spokane, Washington, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 February 1952
(x) 47-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes for the fifth time, but is recaptured 5 days later in State Hospital, Arizona, USA.
49 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 February 1964
(-) Hannah Tailford is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper in London, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 February 1969
(-) Actor Boris Karloff originally William Henry Pratt, dies of a bad cold at the age of 81 in Midhurst, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 February 1970
(-) Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russel dies at the age of 97 in Penryhndeudraeth, Gwynned, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 February 1972
(x) Boatbuilder Irwin Beelitz is the first deadly victim in a Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, bomb-attack by the Movement 2nd June against a British Yachting Club in Berlin, Gatow, Germany.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 February 1975
(x) The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, end their third hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.
Holger Meins had already died in the course.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 February 1979
(-) Sex Pistol Sid Vicious originally Simon John Ritchie, dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21 in New York, New York, USA.
"We made a death pact, and I have to accomplish my part of the deal. Please bury me next to my baby. Please bury me with my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye. With love, Sid."
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 February 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "B" in Antwerpen, Ruimte Z, Antwerp, Belgium.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 February 1981
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Salem al-Hazmi is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 February 1994
(-) Murderer Harold Barnard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 February 1995
(-) Actor Donald Pleasance dies of heart failure at the age of 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 February 1996
(-) Actor Gene Eugene Curran Kelly dies of a stroke at the age of 83 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 February 1998
(x) 104 Die in Cebu Pacific Flight 387 DC-9-32 crash into a mountain in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines.
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