(-) 239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, dies of gout at the age of 86 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
169 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1844
(+) Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism, is born in London, Grosvenor Place, 17 Chapel Street, London City of, United Kingdom.
131 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1882
(+) Artist Edward Hopper is born in Nyack, New York, United States.
124 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1889
(+) Horror filmmaker James Whale is born in Dudley, United Kingdom.
(+) Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger is born in Topeka, Kansas, United States.
115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 July 1898
(+) Artist Alexander Calder is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1933
(x) 34-year-old Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post becomes the first man to fly around the world from New York to Moscow and Alaska in an airplane.
79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1934
(-) Bankrobber and outlaw John Herbert Dillinger is supposedly shot dead by Melvin Purvis at the age of 31 in Chicago, outside the Biograph Theatre, Illinois, United States.
Rumour are that the dead man was John Lawrence, a stand in for the left-without-a-trace Dillinger.
77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1936
(x) A decapitated body is found as third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Clinton Road, Ohio, United States.
74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1939
(+) Actor Terence Stamp is born in Stepney, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1946
(x) 90 Die in King David Hotel bomb-attack in Jerusalem, Palestina.
The attack was claimed by the Zionist militiant orgaisation Irgun.
51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1962
(+) Music producer Steve Albini is born in Pasadena, California, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1964
(-) Danuta Maciejowicz is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Olsztyn, Poland.
49 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1964
(-) Elly Hager-Segov is strangled and her throat cut by Hans Van Zon in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 July 1965
(-) Jadwiga Z. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Sosnowiec-Sroda, Poland.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1973
(x) 78 Die in Panam Boeing 707 crash in Tahiti.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1973
(-) Nancy Feusi is presumably killed by Zodiac in California, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1973
(+) Cop Killer Ronald Ray Howard is born in Texas, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 July 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 1" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 July 1986
(-) Florence Tisdall is strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 80 in London, Putney, Ranelagh Gardens Mansions, London City of, United Kingdom.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1991
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1991
(-) Tracy Edwards is abducted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.
He manages to escape and alert the police. Upon a thorough search of Dahmer’s apartment reveals various plastic bags filled with meat, 3 male torsos, severed hands, 11 heads and skulls, a human heart, male genital organs and various internal organs.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1995
(x) Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, in Teheran, Iran.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1998
(x) Serial Killer Heriberto Seda aka The NY Zodiac Killer, is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in New York, Queens, New York, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 2006
(x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "He Just Wanted to Play in his Bath Tube and Put a Finger in his Ass" in Berlin, Vilma Gold Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
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