(-) Philosopher Jan Hus is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 43 in Konstanz, Germany.
The Roman Catholic Church considered him an heretic.
478 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1535
(-) Utopist Thomas More is executed by beheading at the age of 57 in London, United Kingdom.
He was charged with high treason.
263 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1750
(-) Elizabeth Banks is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.
She stripped a child.
263 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1750
(-) Forgeress Catherine Conway is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.
She forged a seamen’s ticket.
263 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1750
(-) Thief Margaret Harvey is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.
She robbed her master.
173 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1840
(-) Murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
165 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1848
(-) Ex-convict turned prospering businessman César-Joseph Regault commits suicide at the age of 44 in Graville, Le Havre, France.
159 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1854
(-) Physicist Georg Simon Ohm dies at the age of 67 in München, Germany.
(-) Writer Guy Henri René Albert De Maupassant dies of insanity due to syphilis at the age of 42 in Paris, Passy, Hopital Dr. Esprit Blanche, France.
115 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 July 1898
(+) Composer Hanns Eisler is born in Leipzig, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1907
(+) Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, is born in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico.
97 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1916
(-) Painter Odilon Redon dies at the age of 76 in France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1925
(+) Musician Bill Haley is born in Highland Park, Michigan, USA.
86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 July 1927
(+) Actress Janet Leigh originally Jeannette Morrison, is born in Mercedes, California, USA.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 July 1934
(-) Murderous brothers Manuel and Fred Hernandez are executed by The Gas Chamber at the age of 18 and 19 at the age of 18 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the first execution in the Arizona Gas Chamber.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 July 1934
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, marries 21-year-old Betty Hammer in Plymouth, United Kingdom.
78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1935
(+) 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is born in Amdo, Tibet.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 July 1937
(-) An unidentified woman is found hacked to death as ninth victim by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, West 3rd Street, in the Cuyahoga river, Ohio, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1944
(x) 168 Die in Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Over 700 are injured on the "Day the Clowns Cried".
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1946
(+) Actor Sylvester Stallone known from “Rambo” and “Rocky”, is born in NewYork, New York, USA.
65 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 July 1948
(+) Actress Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye is born in Mainneville, France.
65 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 July 1948
(+) Serial Killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Gorejne Vasi, is born in Slovenia.
63 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1950
(-) Double Murderer Daniel Raven is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1957
(x) 16-year-old Beatle John Winston Lennon meets Paul McCartney in Liverpool, Woolton Parish Church Garden, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1961
(-) Murderer Edwin Bush is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 July 1961
(x) Over 300 Die in ship explosion in Mozambique.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 July 1962
(-) Writer William Cuthbert Faulkner originally Falkner, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Byhalia, Mississippi, USA.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1964
(x) After sending numerous teasing letters to the police and press 27-year-old Serial Killer Lucien Leger aka The Paris Strangler, is arrested in Paris, France.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1964
(+) Murderer Joseph Timothy Keel is born in North Carolina, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 July 1965
(x) 26-year-old Artist Günter Brus the Viennese Actionist, performs his aktion, "Selbstbemalung und Selbstverstümmelung" in Vienna, Galerie Junge Generation, Borseplatz 7, Austria.
42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 July 1971
(-) Musician Louis Daniel Armstrong aka Satchmo, dies of a heart attack at the age of 69 in Corona, New York, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 July 1975
(+) Rapper Curtis James Jackson III aka 50 Cent, is born in Queens, New York, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 July 1984
(x) 54-year-old Serial Killer David Joseph Carpenter aka The Trailside Killer, is convicted to death in California, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1985
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is arrested in Ottawa, Canada.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 July 1987
(x) 27-year-old Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, is sentenced to death in Connecticut, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 July 1988
(x) 167 Die in Piper Alpha oil platform explosion in the North Sea.
22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 July 1991
(-) Jeremiah Weinberger is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 23 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 July 1999
(-) Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.
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