(-) Artist Tintoretto originally Jacopo Comin aka Il Furioso, dies of fever at the age of 75 in Venice, Italy.
204 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1809
(-) Composer Franz Josef Haydn dies at the age of 77 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
194 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 1819
(+) Poet and humanist Walt Walter Whitman aka the Father of Free Verse, is born in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States.
156 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 May 1857
(+) 260th Pope Pius XI originally Achille Ratti, is born in Desio, Italy.
135 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1878
(-) Murderess Eugenie Marie Chantrelle is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in the United Kingdom.
91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1922
(-) Murderer Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in Gloucester Prison, United Kingdom.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1928
(-) Murderer Frederick Guy Browne is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1928
(-) Murderer William Henry Kennedy is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 May 1930
(+) Actor and filmmaker Clint Clinton Eastwood is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1945
(+) Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder is born in Bad-Wörishofen, Bayern, Germany.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1945
(x) Nazi-Germany capitulates in WWII.
60 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 May 1953
(-) Futurist artist Wladimir Jewgrafowitsch Tatlin dies at the age of 67 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 May 1960
(-) Writer Willem Elsschot originally Alfons-Jozef De Ridder, dies of skin cancer at the age of 78 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1962
(-) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Jerusalem, Ramleh Prison, Israël.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 1965
(+) Actress Brooke Shields is born in New York, New York, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 1965
(x) 37-year-old Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is arrested and charged with assault and battery, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, marijuana possession, resisting arrest, and unlawful assembly in New York City, New York, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1967
(-) Jan Douse aka Cra Cupido, is beaten and stabbed to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 80 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
(x) 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, and Norma Bell break into the local nursery, leaving notes referring to the murder of 4-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle, Scotland, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1972
(x) In a taped speech, 37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof calls up students to take up arms and fight the system in Frankfurt-am-Main, Hörsaal 6 der Universität, Germany.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1974
(x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the office of the California Attorney General in response to the killing of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army in Sacramento, California, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1984
(x) 30-year-old Mass-Murderer Linwood Earl Briley leads the escape of 6 convicted killers from the Mecklenberg Correctional Centre in Boydton, United States.
They are all arrested about 3 weeks later.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 1989
(+) Fashion Model Daul Kim is born in Seoul, South Korea.
23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 May 1990
(-) Joseph Proce is killed by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 78 in New York, Queens, New York, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1991
(-) Writer Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 77 in the United Kingdom.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 May 1996
(-) Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary dies of prostate cancer at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 May 2000
(-) Multiple Murderer Robert Earl Carter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 May 2010
(-) Artist Louise Bourgeois dies of a heart attack at the age of 98 in New York City, New York, United States.
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