(-) 187th Pope John XXI originally Perdo Juliao, dies at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Italy.
He died of injuries suffered in the collapse of a roof above his bedroom 8 days earlier.
504 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 May 1509
(-) Explorer Christoffel Columbus dies of heart failure at the age of 58 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain.
492 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 May 1521
(x) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is severely injured when a French cannonball shatters his leg in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.
214 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 May 1799
(+) Writer Honoré de Balzac is born in Tours, France.
162 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 May 1851
(+) Inventor and founder of the Berliner Gramophone Company Emil Berliner is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
131 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 May 1882
(+) Writer Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Zeeland, Denmark.
119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 May 1894
(-) Eugenie Delhomme is raped, strangled, her throat cut and her right breast severed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 20 in France.
105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 May 1908
(+) Actor James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart is born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 May 1915
(+) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan is born in Degania, Palestine.
96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 May 1917
(x) Future 20-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, has his left foot ripped open by a German hand-grenade during a bitter fight in the Aisne, France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 May 1925
(+) Aircraft designer Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 May 1927
(-) Murderer Charles J. Blackburn is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 May 1940
(-) Flemish Nationalist Verdinaso Leader Joris Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken partizans at the age of 45 in Abbéville, France.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 May 1944
(+) Musician Joe John Robert Cocker is born in Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 May 1946
(+) Musician Cher originally Cherilyn Sarkisian, is born in El Centro, California, United States.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 May 1952
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christian Georg Alfred Klar is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 May 1965
(x) 119 Die in Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 Boeing 720-040 B crash in Caïro International Airport, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced for sodomy and sent to the Iowa Men Reformatory in Anamosa, Iowa, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 May 1981
(-) Carmen Riviera is presumably murdered by Zodiac in Hayward, California, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 May 1992
(-) Murderer Roger Keith Coleman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Virginia, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 May 1992
(-) Murderer Jesus Romero is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 May 1997
(-) Murderer Clarence Lackey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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