709 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1304
(-) 194th Pope Benedictus XI originally Nicholas Boccasini, dies at the age of 64 in Perugia, Italy.
He was probably poisoned.
180 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1833
(+) Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist, is born in Namur, Namur, Belgium.
153 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1860
(+) Composer Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, Czechoslowakia.
126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1887
(+) Artist Marc Chagall originally Moishe Shagal, is born in Vitebsk, Russia.
123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1890
(-) Founder of the chocolate company Henri Heinrich Nestlé dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Germany.
122 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 July 1891
(+) Film-extra Virginia Rappe is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
115 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1898
(+) Wife murderer Leonard Coey is born in Arizona, USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1901
(+) Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans is born in Hannover, Germany.
111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1902
(+) Filmmaker Vittorio De Sica is born in Sora, Latium, Italy.
108 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1905
(x) 14-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, burns down a warehouse ‘for thrills’ in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1906
(+) Serial Poisoner Anna Maria Hahn is born in Bavaria, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1907
(+) Writer Robert Anson Heinlein aka The Dean of Science Fiction Writers, is born in Butler, Montana, USA.
102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1911
(-) Murderer Domingo Franco is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1916
(-) Murderer Miguel Peralta is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1922
(+) Fashion designer Pierre Cardin is born in Venezia, Italy.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1922
(-) Cop Killer Elvie D. Kerby is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Oregon, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1922
(-) Cop Killer John L. Rathie is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Oregon, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1924
(+) Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is born in Kreis Annaberg, Kuhberg, Germany.
86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1927
(-) Murderer Louis Boersig is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1930
(-) Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies of heart and kidney disfunction at the age of 71 in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1935
(+) Kitty Catherine Susan Genovese is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 July 1936
(+) Greek Folk-legend Nikos Xilouris is born in Anoghia, Greece.
73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1940
(+) Beatle Ringo Starr originally Starkey, is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1946
(x) 40-year-old Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes crashes with his own designed XF-11 spy-aircraft in Los Angeles, Country Club Golf House, California, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1947
(x) An Unidentified Flying Object supposedly carrying an alien crashes in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
The US Airforce maintain that is was a research balloon.
64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1949
(+) Actress Shelley Duvall is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1958
(x) Alaska is called out as 49th of the United States in the USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1961
(x) Over 100 Die in Doekia coal-mine explosion in Dolni-Soetsja, Czechoslowakia.
46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1967
(-) Actress Vivien Lady Olivier Leigh originally Vivien Hartley, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 53 in London, United Kingdom.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1972
(x) 25-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion members Irmgard Möller and Klaus Jünschke are arrested in Offenbach, Germany.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1973
(x) Over 80 Die in bus collision in Alwar, India.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1973
(-) Megan Emerick is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 17 in Anchorage, Sewrad, Alaska, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1973
(-) Homer Garcia is tortured and shot dead by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, Texas, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 July 1982
(-) Amina Agisheff is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 35 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1985
(-) Joyce Nelson is beaten to death by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 61 in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, California, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1997
(-) Leonce Millet Jr. is beaten and shot as seventh and eighth victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 66 in Gonzales, Texas, USA.
They both survived.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 July 1999
(-) Murderer Tyrone Fuller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 2006
(-) Musician Syd Roger Keith Barrett dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 60 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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