(-) Artist Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi Botticelli dies at the age of 65 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
147 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 May 1866
(+) Composer Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France.
(+) Automobile manufacturing pioneer Horace Elgin Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, United States.
140 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 May 1873
(+) Writer Henri Barbusse is born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
113 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 May 1900
(x) 25-year-old Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip, kills the Princ Carl steamboat's captain Olof Rönngren, a butcher, an old lady, a farmer and a cattle merchant and wounds another nine passengers in Arboga, Sweden.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 May 1904
(+) Actor Jean Gabin originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 May 1924
(x) Numerous skulls and bones are found in the river Leine between Schloss Herrenhausen and the Bruckmühle. They are all presumed victims of 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 May 1927
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for malicious wounding in London, South Western Magistrates Court, London City of, United Kingdom.
86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 May 1927
(-) Cop Killer Albert Brownlee is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 May 1937
(+) Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 May 1941
(x) 35-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is released from prison on the occasion of the 2,600th anniversary celebrations of the mythical founding of Japan in Tochigi, Japan.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 May 1950
(+) Founding Symbionese Liberation Army member Patricia Monique Soltysik aka Mizmoon, is born in Goleta, California, United States.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 May 1955
(+) Actress Debra Winger is born in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 May 1974
(x) In a police raid on the Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, six members die from smoke inhalation, burns and gunshot wounds in Los Angeles, 1466 East 54th Street, California, United States.
The SLA dead were: Nancy Ling Perry aka Fahizah, Angela Atwood aka General Gelina, Willie Wolfe aka Cujo, who was reported to be Patricia Hearst's lover, Donald DeFreeze aka Cinque, and Patricia Soltysik aka Mizmoon.
35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 May 1978
(-) Vera Millward is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 41 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 May 1979
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is sentenced to die in the Gas Chamber in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 May 1990
(-) Murderer Johnny R. Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 May 1994
(-) Murderer John Thanos is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Maryland, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 May 2006
(-) Double murderer Jermaine Herron is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 May 2010
(-) Entertainer Bobbejaan Modest Schoepen dies of heart failure at the age of 85 in Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium.
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