(+) Artist Albrecht Dürer is born in Nürnberg, Germany.
542 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1471
(-) King of England Henry VI dies of melancholy after hearing of his son's death in the Battle of Tewkesbury at the age of 49 in London, Tower of London prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
380 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1633
(+) Composer Joseph De La Barre is born in France.
169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1844
(+) Artist Henri Julien Félix Rousseau aka Le Douanier, is born in Laval, Mayenne, France.
140 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1873
(-) Johanna Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 12 in Leiden, Netherlands.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1907
(+) German ambassador Karl Maria von Spreti is born in Landshut, Germany.
97 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1916
(+) Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, is born in New York, New York, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1918
(-) An unidentified girl is assaulted by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in California, United States.
92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1921
(+) Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1921
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is charged with assault on a child and sent to an asylum in San Francisco, California, United States.
89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1924
(-) Bobby Franks is kidnapped and killed by Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb aka The Perfect Murderers, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
86 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1927
(x) 25-year-old Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, is the first man to fly from New York to Paris non-stop.
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1932
(x) 34-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, landing in in Derry, Ireland.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1943
(x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is arrested by the French Gestapo, suspected of leading an escape-route for jews in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 May 1951
(+) Serial Killer Douglas Edward Gretzler is born in Arizona, United States.
Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, he killed 19 people.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1954
(-) Murderer Nathaniel Germany is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1960
(+) Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is born in Milwaukee, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Wisconsin, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1963
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the basement of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1963
(+) Murderer Donald Jay Miller is born in Arizona, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1965
(-) Mass-Murderer Roger Girard commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 34 in Chavagneux, France.
He first killed his 34-year-old wife Jeannette, his 58-year-old mother Angèle, his 23-year-old brother Robert and 10-year-old Eliane, 8-year-old Jacqueline, 7-year-old Bernard, 4-year-old Yves, 2-year-old Daniel, 16-months-old Sylvianne and 6-months-old Pierre.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1968
(x) 26-year-old Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is arrested for marijuana possession in United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1970
(-) Jutta Rahn is strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Breitscheid, Germany.
Her 20-year-old boyfriend Peter Schay is charged with the crime and spent 15 months in prison before he was released due to lack of evidence.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1972
(x) 33-year-old Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth strikes in the St-Peters-Dom in Rome, Roma, Italy.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1972
(-) Billy Baulch is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1974
(x) 53-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys starts his performance "I like America and America likes Me" in New York City, René Block Gallery, New York, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1975
(x) Start of the trial against the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion members Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 May 1976
(x) The artificial respiration for 22-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is stopped in St. Claire's Hospital, New Jersey, United States.
She would remain in a coma for almost 10 years until her death.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1981
(-) IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the third to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 May 1981
(-) IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 23 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the fourth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
25 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 May 1988
(x) 32-year-old Elite-sergeant Marciano Contaoe shoots 11 people in a drunken rage in Manila, the Fillipines.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 1989
(x) Over 150 Die in Darma Mulia Ferry capsizing in Street of Lombok, Indonesia.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 1996
(x) About 800 Die in MV Bukoba steamer sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Among the victims was Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, who was at the time second in command of the Al Qaeda.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 May 1997
(-) Murderer Bruce Callins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
(x) 15-year-old Spree killer Kip Kipland Philip Kinkel drives to his school where he starts a shooting rampage that kills two of his classmates and wounds another 22 in Springfield, Thurston High School cafeteria, Oregon, United States.
The day before he had been expelled from school for possession of a handgun, in the evening he killed his parents to protect them from the embarrassment that his expulsion would have caused.
13 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 2000
(-) Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Reynolds Hughes dies of a combination of alcohol and anti-depressant Doxepin at the age of 44 in Malibu, California, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 May 2000
(-) Actor John Gielgud dies at the age of 96 in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 May 2002
(-) Artist Niki Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle dies at the age of 71 in La Jolla, California, United States.
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