(+) 222nd Pope Marcellus II originally Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, is born in Montefano, Italy.
439 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 May 1574
(+) 236th Pope Innocentus X originally Giambattista Pamfili, is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.
335 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 May 1678
(-) Composer Joseph De La Barre dies at the age of 44 in France.
255 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 May 1758
(+) Leader of the French Revolution Maximilian François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is born in Arras, France.
175 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 May 1838
(+) Composer Alfred Humphreys Pease is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
157 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 May 1856
(+) Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud originally Sigismund Schlomo Freud, is born in Freiberg, Moravia, Hungary.
151 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 May 1862
(-) Writer and pacifist Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States.
He said never to have found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
150 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 May 1863
(-) Murderer John Shirley is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.
133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 May 1880
(+) Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is born in Aschaffenberg, Germany.
118 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 May 1895
(+) Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo Valentino is born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy.
115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 May 1898
(+) Gauleiter of Sudetenland Konrad Henlein is born in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Bohemia, Czechoslowakia.
111 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 May 1902
(+) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, is born in Saarbrücken, Germany.
103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 May 1910
(-) King Edward VII dies of several heart attacks at the age of 68 in London, Buckingham Palace, London City of, United Kingdom.
98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 May 1915
(+) Actor and filmmaker George Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 May 1920
(+) Serial Killer Martha Beck aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with her husband Raymond Fernandez), is born in Milton, Florida, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 May 1930
(+) Serial Killer David Joseph Carpenter aka The Trailside Killer, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 May 1937
(x) 36 Die in Hindenburgh crash in Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
(+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Bernd Baader is born in München, Bayern, Germany.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 May 1949
(-) Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Nice, France.
63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 May 1950
(-) Murderer George Miller is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.
60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 May 1953
(+) British Prime Minister Tony Blair is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 May 1960
(x) Assassin of Leon Trotsky, Ramón del Rio Hernández Mercader aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson, is released from prison in Mexico.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 May 1963
(-) Beverly Samans is stabbed to death by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 23 in Boston, Cambridge, 4 University Road, Massachusetts, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 May 1966
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ian Stewart Brady and Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers are sentenced to 3 and 2 respectively concurrent terms of life-imprisonment in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 May 1972
(x) 115 Die in Alitalia DC-8 crash in Palermo, Italy.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 May 1985
(x) Fifteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, State Police Building, Brussels, Belgium.
It was a revenge because the State Police failed to warn 2 firemen who got killed in a previous attack.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 May 1986
(-) Charles Quarrel is presumably murdered by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 73 in London, Southwark, King James Street, London City of, United Kingdom.
21 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 May 1992
(-) Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, dies of renal failure at the age of 90 in Paris, Avenue Montaigne, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 May 1998
(-) Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is executed at the age of 40 in Xinjiang, China.
He was found guilty of killing 14 people.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 May 2003
(-) Murderer Roger Dale Vaughn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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