(+) 240th Pope Innocentus XI originally Benedetto Odescalchi aka The Blessed, is born in Como, Italy.
177 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 May 1836
(x) 27-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm for the second time in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
153 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1860
(+) America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, is born in Gilmantown, New Hampshire, United States.
136 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1877
(+) Criminologist Bernard Henry Spilsbury is born in Leamington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
(-) Mass-poisoness Lydia Sherman aka The Borgia of Connecticut, dies at the age of 54 in the State Prison, Connecticut, United States.
She poisoned three husbands and seven children with arsenic.
108 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 May 1905
(+) Actor Henry Jaynes Fonda is born in Grand Island, Nebraska, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 May 1915
(+) Filmmaker Mario Monicelli is born in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy.
94 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1919
(+) Entertainer and musician Wladziu Valentino Liberace is born in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 May 1920
(+) Actress Martine Carol originally Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer, is born in Saint Mandé, Val de Marne, France.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 May 1920
(x) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is canonised as a saint by Pope Benedict XV in Rome, Roma, Italy.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 May 1925
(+) Entertainer Bobbejaan Modest Schoepen is born in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1930
(-) Gertrud Bell is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1930
(+) Siemens chairman Karl-Heinz Beckurts is born in Rheydt, Germany.
75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 May 1938
(-) Actor Jack Dougherty commits suicide by coal-monoxide-poisoning at the age of 42 in the Hollywood Hills, California, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 May 1940
(+) Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 May 1944
(-) Henry Gein is presumably beaten to death and thrown into a fire by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 42 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, United States.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1951
(+) Musician Jonathan Richman is born in Natick, Massachusetts, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 May 1957
(-) FBI-agent Eliot P. Ness aka The Untouchable, dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Cleveland, United States.
In one popular yet false anecdote, he died just as he was about to have the first alcoholic drink of his life.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 May 1966
(+) Musician Janet Damita Jo Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1975
(-) Black Power leader Michael De Freitas aka Michael X aka Michael Abdul Malik, is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Port-of-Spain's Royal Gaol, Trinidad.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1975
(x) Mountain climber Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Nepal.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1975
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Khailid al-Mihdhar is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1984
(-) Writer Irwin Shaw originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 71 in Davos, Switzerland.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 May 1985
(x) Unknown number Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin crash in Sakhalin, Russia.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 May 1987
(-) Oleg Makerenkow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Swerdlowsk, Rewda, Ural, Russia.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1990
(-) Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr dies of throat cancer at the age of 64 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1990
(-) Creator of The Muppets Jim Henson dies of a bacterial infection at the age of 53 in New York, New York, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 1990
(-) Dag Drollet is shot dead by Christian Brando at the age of 26 in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, the Brandon Estate, Mulholland Drive, California, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 May 1992
(-) Astrologer Howard Sasportas dies of aids at the age of 44 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 May 1993
(x) 7 people are shot dead by persons unknown in a nightclub in Fresno, California, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1997
(-) Murderer Harry Charles Moore is executed by lethal injection in Oregon, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 May 1997
(-) Murderer Clifton Belyeu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 May 1999
(-) Spree Killer Günther Ewen commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 36 in Luxemburg, Luxemburg.
He was hunted down by German and French police after going on a 3-day shooting spree in which he killed 5.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 May 2002
(-) Murderer Ronford Lee Jr. Styron is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 May 2007
(-) Murderer Charles Smith is executed by lethal injection in Texas, United States.
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