(+) Physicist Pierre Curie is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
108 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1905
(+) Actor Joseph Cheshire Cotten is born in Petersburg, Virginia, United States.
108 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1905
(+) Amateur filmmaker of the President Kennedy assassination Abraham Zapruder is born in Kovel, Ukraine.
104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 May 1909
(+) Actor James Neville Mason is born in Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1911
(+) Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser is born in Köln, Germany.
90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 May 1923
(+) Photographer Richard Avedon is born in New York City, New York, United States.
84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 May 1929
(x) 125 Die in Hospital fire in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 May 1929
(x) 123 Die in Cleveland Clinic fire in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 May 1930
(+) Artist Jasper Johns is born in Augusta, Georgia, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 May 1935
(-) Suprematist artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich dies at the age of 57 in Leningrad, Russia.
77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 May 1936
(-) Murderer Jack Sullivan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 May 1937
(+) Musician Trini Trinidad Lopez is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.
65 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 May 1948
(+) Musician and pioneer of Ambient Music Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 May 1956
(-) Artist and magician Austin Osman Spare dies at the age of 69 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1967
(-) Artist Edward Hopper dies at the age of 84 in New York City, New York, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1972
(x) Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg’s car is bombed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The Manfred Grashof Commando claims responsability for the attack.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1972
(x) Governor of Alabama and President-Candidate George Wallace is shot 5 times by would-be assassin Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland, United States.
The assassination attempt left him paralyzed.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 May 1980
(-) Jean Reyner is strangled and her breasts removed by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, in New York, Hotel Seville, 22 East Twenty-ninth street, New York, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 May 1981
(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, marries the mother of his son in Coquilham, British Columbia, Canada.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 May 1981
(-) Ulrike Hellan is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 10 in Mainz, Germany.
She survived, and Bopp was arrested later that day.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 May 1981
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Threat" in Brussels, Les Ateliers, Brussels, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 May 1985
(x) 43-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in room 224, a computer room, of Cory Hall in Berkeley, University, California, United States.
One person is badly injured when opening the package.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 May 1985
(-) Murderer Jesse De La Rosa is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 May 1986
(-) Rapist and murderer Jay Kelly Pinkerton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 24 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
(-) Erick Schmitt aka The Human Bomb, is shot dead by a special RAID-police-commando after hostaging a class of young children for 46 hours, having dynamite tied around his waist at the age of 42 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 May 1995
(-) Renee Blackwell is killed by Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, at the age of 24 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
He tossed her body in a dumpster behind a McDonald's at 63rd and Ashland.
10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 May 2003
(-) Murderer Bruce Charles Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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