471 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 February 1542
(-) Fifth wife of Henry VIII Katherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn, is executed by beheading in London, United Kingdom.
She was charged with treason and adultery.
414 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 February 1599
(+) 237th Pope Alexander VII originally Fabio Chigi, is born in Siena, Italy.
147 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 1866
(x) 18-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James hits his first bank, the Commercial Bank of Liberty in Missouri, USA.
130 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 1883
(-) Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner dies of heart failure at the age of 69 in Venice, Italy.
126 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 February 1887
(+) Would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick is born in New Hampshire, USA.
122 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 February 1891
(-) Frances Coles is presumably murdered by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.
110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 February 1903
(+) Writer Georges Joseph Christian Simenon is born in Liège, 26 rue Léopold, Liège, Belgium.
107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Richard Gräf is born in Hannover, Germany.
107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 1906
(-) Double murderer William A. Williams is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 February 1914
(-) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon dies at the age of 60 in Münsterlingen, Switzerland.
80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 February 1933
(+) Actress Kim Marilyn Pauline Novak is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 February 1937
(x) 658 Die in theatre fire in Antung, China.
75 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 February 1938
(+) Actor Oliver Robert Reed is born in London, Wimbledon, United Kingdom.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 February 1941
(+) Artist Sigmar Polke is born in Oelsnitz, Lower Silesia, Poland.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 1945
(x) Over 35.000 Die in the 4.000-tonnes RAF bombing in Dresden, Germany.
63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 February 1950
(+) Musician Peter Gabriel is born in Chobham, Surrey, United Kingdom.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 February 1960
(x) 25-year-old Vampire Florencio Roque Fernandez is arrested in Monteros, Argentina.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 February 1960
(x) 23-year-old Horst Otto confesses to the murder of Manuela Knodt, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Otto will nevertheless be tried, found guilty and spend 8 years in jail.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 February 1960
(x) First French Atomic Bomb test in the Sahara.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 February 1964
(-) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
He was the leader of the T-4 programme, to extinct all the mentally deranged.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 1973
(-) Fred Perez aka Freddie Bell, is shot dead by Herbert Mullin at the age of 73 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
Mullin was arrested minutes later.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 February 1981
(-) Eta-member José Ignacio Arregui is tortured to death in prison at the age of 30 in Madrid, Spain.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 February 1991
(-) Nazi Sculptor Arno Breker dies at the age of 90 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 February 2007
(-) Fashion model Eliana Elle Ramos dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 19 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She was the sister of model Luisel Ramos, who died of anorexia nervosa six months earlier.
3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 February 2010
(-) Multiple murderer and cop killer Viva Leroy Nash dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
He had a criminal record since the 1930s and escaped in 1982 while serving a life sentence. In 1993 he was sentenced to death.
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