(+) 219th Pope Clementius VII originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, is born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
366 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1647
(-) Witch Alse Young is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Windsor, Connecticut, United States.
She was the first person in the records executed for witchcraft in the USA.
191 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1822
(x) 116 Die in Grue Church fire in Skulstad, Norway.
185 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1828
(x) 16-year-old Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, is found on a market square in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.
160 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1853
(+) Outlaw and gunman John Wesley Hardin is born in Bonham, Texas, United States.
146 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1867
(+) Queen consort of the United Kingdom Victoria Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Mary of Teck is born in London, Kensington Palace, London City of, United Kingdom.
135 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1878
(+) Choreographer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
130 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1883
(+) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is born in Mulheim-am-Rhein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
129 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1884
(-) Husband murderess Mary Lefley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Lincoln, United Kingdom.
She had to be dragged to the gallows screaming 'murder, murder!' and struggling with the warders.
127 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1886
(+) Singer Al Jolson originally Asa Yoelson aka The World’s Greatest Entertainer, is born in Seredzius, Lithuania.
114 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 May 1899
(+) War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1904
(-) Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Edouard Brutus de la Tourette dies due to depression and hypomania at the age of 46 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1907
(+) Actor John Wayne originally Marion Michael Morrison, is born in Winterset, Iowa, United States.
(+) Horror film actor Peter Wilton Cushing is born in Kenley, Surrey, United Kingdom.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 May 1916
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, sets fire to the State Penitentiary’s flax mill and workshops in Oregon, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1920
(+) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, is born in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 May 1922
(x) 52-year-old Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is hit by a stroke in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1923
(+) Actor Horst Tappert aka Stephan Derrick, is born in Elberfeld, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1924
(-) Fritz Wittig is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 1924
(-) Friedrich Abeling is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 10 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1926
(+) Musician Miles Dewey III Davis is born in Alton, Illinois, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1928
(+) Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is born in Pontiac, Michigan, United States.
75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1938
(-) Murderer Robert Hoolhouse is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Durham Gaol, United Kingdom.
75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1938
(+) Murderess Pauline Yvonne Parker aka Heavenly Creature, is born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1946
(-) Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1946
(+) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson is born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1954
(x) 103 Die in US Bennington aircraftcarrier explosion.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1954
(+) Serial Killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1956
(+) Army Veteran and Suicide Pilot Frank Eugene Corder is born in Perry Point, Maryland, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1957
(+) Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is born in Gateshead, United Kingdom.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1971
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is arrested and charged with the murders of 25 migrant farm workers in Yuba City, California, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 1976
(-) Philosopher Martin Heidegger dies at the age of 86 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 May 1983
(x) The Public Health Service announces AIDS to be the number 1 public health menace in United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 May 1984
(-) Michelle Simms is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 22 in Tampa, Florida, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1991
(x) 223 Die in Lauda-Air Flight 004 Boeing 767-3Z9ER "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" crash in Phu Toei National Park, Suphanburi, Thailand.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 May 1991
(-) Konerak Sinthasomphone is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 14 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 2003
(-) Falun Gong member Li Rongxian is tortured to death at the age of 44 in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp, Jilin, China.
He also suffered of advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 May 2004
(x) 44-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Hij die geen Hart Heeft zal geen Hartepijn Hebben" in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.
5 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 May 2008
(-) Filmmaker Sydney Irwin Pollack dies of stomach cancer at the age of 73 in Pacific Palisades, California, United States.
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