(-) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola dies of chronic stomach ailments at the age of 64 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
229 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1784
(-) Philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot dies of emphysema at the age of 70 in Langres, France.
138 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1875
(-) 17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson dies of a stroke at the age of 66 in Greeneville, Tennessee, United States.
127 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1886
(-) Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt dies of pneumonia at the age of 74 in Bayreuth, Austria.
112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1901
(+) Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet is born in Le Havre, France.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1914
(-) Socialist leader Jean Léon Auguste Marie Joseph Jaurès is shot dead by extremist Robert Villain at the age of 54 in Paris, Montmartre, café Le Croissant, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1914
(+) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, is born in Courbevoie, France.
78 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1935
(+) Serial Killer Fritz Honka is born in Leipzig, Germany.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1940
(-) Punjabi Revolutionary Udham Singh originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1943
(-) Abortionist Marie-Louise Giraud is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
She was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman executed in France.
70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1943
(+) Girlfriend of Spree Killer Charles Starkweather, Caril Ann Fugate is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 July 1944
(+) Actress Geraldine Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 July 1944
(-) Writer and pilot Marie Antoine Roger De Saint-Exupéry is lost without a trace flying his Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft at the age of 44 in Corsica, France.
64 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 July 1949
(-) Laura Showalter is bludgeoned to death by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 57 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1952
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is born in Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1954
(-) Murderer Bernard J. Obrien is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1964
(-) Musician Jim James Travis Reeves dies in a Beechcraft "Debonair" aircraft crash at the age of 40 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Reeves was disoriented by "Pilot's Vertigo" and actually flying upside down when he tried to take the plane up to avoid a thunderstorm. Instead the plane plunged with its nose in the ground.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 July 1966
(-) Mrs Whitman is stabbed to death by Charles Whitman aka The Man on the Tower, in Austin, Texas, United States.
45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1968
(-) Brian Howe is mutilated and strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 3 in Newcastle, Tin Lizzie wasteland, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1969
(-) Gary Hinman is stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 34 in California, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 July 1973
(x) 89 Die in Delta Airlines DC-9 crash in Boston, Logan Airport, Massachusetts, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1975
(-) John Butkovitch is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 July 1977
(-) Stacy Moskowitz is shot by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
In the same event Robert Violante was also shot, he survived but remained blind.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 July 1979
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is sentenced to death in Miami, Florida, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1980
(x) 28-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Siegfried Buback in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1981
(x) 32-year-old Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Spokane, Washington, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1982
(x) 44 yougsters Die in autobus collision and fire in Beaune, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1992
(x) 113 Die in Thai Airways International Airbus 310-300 crash in Ghyangphedi, Nepal.
(-) Fifth King of Belgium Boudewijn I originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart failure at the age of 62 in Motril, Villa Astrid, Andalusia, Spain.
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