(-) 192nd Pope Celestinus V originally Pietro di Murrone, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
477 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 May 1536
(-) Second wife of Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is executed by beheading in London, White Tower, London City of, United Kingdom.
She had been charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
143 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 May 1870
(+) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is born in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
141 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 May 1872
(-) Schoolmaster Johan Hendrik Van Dale dies of smallpocks at the age of 46 in Netherlands.
He compiled the New Dutch Language Wordbook.
132 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 May 1881
(+) Architect of modern Turkey Kemal Mustafa Ataturk is born in Salonika, Greece.
123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 May 1890
(+) Leader of the Viet Minh Independence Movement Ho Chi Minh originally Nguyen Sinh Cung, is born in Hoang Tru Village, Nghe An Province, Vietnam.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 May 1916
(-) Murderer Francisco Rodriguez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 May 1918
(-) Artist Ferdinand Hodler dies at the age of 65 in Bern, Switzerland.
90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 May 1923
(+) Murderer Angel B. Serna is born in Arizona, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 May 1925
(+) Revolutionary leader Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 May 1928
(x) 195 Die in coal-mine explosion in Mather, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 May 1928
(+) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, is born in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum, French Indochina.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 May 1933
(-) Murderer Luke Nichols is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, United States.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 May 1933
(+) Murderer Claude Buffet is born in Reims, France.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 May 1935
(-) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, dies due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days earlier at the age of 46 in Bovington, Dorset, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 May 1945
(+) Musician Pete Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is born in Chiswick, London, London City of, United Kingdom.
(+) Musician Grace Jones originally Grace Mendoza, is born in Spanishtown, Jamaica.
62 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 May 1951
(+) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffry Ross Hyman, is born in Queens, New York, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 May 1954
(-) Composer Charles Edward Ives dies at the age of 79 in West Riding, Connecticut, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 May 1969
(+) Filmmaker and founder of Dogme 95 Thomas Vinterberg is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 May 1971
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 May 1971
(x) The fresh corpse of 40-year-old Kenneth Whitacre is found on the ranch of 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, in Yuba City, California, United States.
In the next days a total of 24 bodies was excavated.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 May 1972
(x) The Axel-Springer building is bombed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion in Hamburg, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, Germany.
The 2 Juni Commando claims responsability for the attack.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 May 1972
(x) Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Pentagon in retaliation for the US bombing raid in Hanoi in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
The date was chosen for being Ho Chi Minh's birthday.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 May 1975
(x) Supposed Murderer Patrick Paddy Connolly Meehan is granted a Royal Pardon and released from prison in Peterhead, United Kingdom.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 May 1981
(-) Sandra Wolfsteiner is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 16 in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 May 1987
(-) Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr., commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 71 in McLean, Virginia, United States.
She killed her sick and blind 84-year-old husband first.
19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 May 1994
(-) Cyclist Luis Jesús Ocaña Pernía commits suicide by a gunshot at the age of 48 in Nogaro, Gers, France.
19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 May 1994
(-) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 64 in New York, New York, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 May 1997
(-) Triple Murderer Richard Drinkard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 May 1998
(-) Murderer Pedro Cruz Muniz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 May 2005
(-) Murderer Richard Cartwright is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 May 2007
(x) 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Wie Man dem Zerrissenen Hasen die Aktionskunst Erklärt" in Pori, Kulttuuritalo Annis, Finland.
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