(-) Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Germany.
178 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1835
(-) Artist Antoine-Jean Gros commits suicide by drowning at the age of 64 in Sèvres, France.
A note hidden in his hat read: "Las de la vie, et trahi par les dernières facultés qui la lui rendaient supportable, il avait résolu de s’en défaire."
161 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 June 1852
(+) Architect Antonio Gaudi is born in Reus, Tarragona, Spain.
138 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 June 1875
(-) Double Murderer Louis Wagner is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Thomaston Prison, United Kingdom.
113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1900
(+) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten is born in Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
(+) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, is born in Motihari, Bengal, India.
90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1923
(-) Ernst Ehrenberg is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 13 in Hannover, Neue Straße, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1924
(+) Filmmaker Sidney Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 June 1933
(+) First African American student at the University of Mississippi James H. Meredith is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1940
(-) Psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by hanging at the age of 72 in London, United Kingdom.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1941
(x) Finland declares war to the USSR in Helsinki, Finland.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1942
(-) Serial Killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1945
(+) Musician Carly Simon is born in New York, New York, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1959
(-) Spree Killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 20 in State Penitentiary, Nebraska, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1963
(+) Musician George Michael originally Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou, is born in London, United Kingdom.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1979
(x) Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the Chi-Omega murders in Miami, Dade County Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Florida, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Diagonal - 1", "Diagonal - 2" with Ria Pacquée and "Installation - 4" in Paris, Galerie Diagonal, France.
29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1984
(-) Philosopher Michel Foucault dies of AIDS at the age of 57 in Paris, France.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1985
(-) Psychotic Murderer and rapist Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1985
(-) Murderer Charles Milton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1990
(-) Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Arkansas, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 June 1993
(x) 17 Die in hospital for the mentally deranged fire in Rennes, France.
All the inmates were severely sedated and could not be awakened in time.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1997
(-) Murderer William Lyle Woratzeck is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 2002
(-) Mass-murderer Robert Otis Coulson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 June 2006
(x) Bartholomeus van der Helst's "Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster" is splashed with lighter fuel and set on fire by 68-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.
4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 2009
(-) Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett dies of cancer at the age of 62 in Santa Monica, Saint John's Health Center, California, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 2009
(-) Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, dies of an overdose of propofol, along with two anti-anxiety benzodiazepines: lorazepam and midazolam at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, California, USA.
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