(+) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar is born in Rome, Italy.
1074 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 939
(-) 126th Pope Leo VII dies in Rome, Italy.
764 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 July 1249
(x) 7-year-old King of Scotland Alexander III is crowned in Scone, Scotland, United Kingdom.
486 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 July 1527
(+) Astronomer and occultist John Dee is born in London, England.
423 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 July 1590
(+) 239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, is born in Rome, Italy.
(-) Activist in the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by 24-year-old Charlotte Corday at the age of 50 in Paris, France.
He spent most of the time of his last three years in his bath due to dermatitis herpetiformes.
217 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 July 1796
(x) First public execution by the Guillotine in Brussels, Grand Place, Brabant, Belgium.
206 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 1807
(-) Murderer Richard Faulkner is executed by hanging at the age of 15 in Norfolk, Whittlesea, United Kingdom.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 July 1906
(-) Murderer George W. Lauth is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.
101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 July 1912
(-) Beatrice Mundy aka Bessie, is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, at the age of 33 in Weymouth, Herne Bay, United Kingdom.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 July 1934
(-) Murderer George J. Shaughnessy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 1936
(x) Start of the trial against 27-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, and gang members Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg in Västerås, Sweden.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 July 1944
(+) Inventor Erno Rubik is born in Budapest, Hungary.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 July 1946
(+) Actor Cheech Richard Marin from Cheech and Chong, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 July 1949
(x) 73-year-old 260th Pope Pius XII declares all catholic communists excommunicated in Rome, Italy.
62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 July 1951
(-) Composer Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg dies of heart failure at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He had spent the whole day in bed suffering from triskaidekaphobia.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 July 1954
(-) Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, dies of embolism at the age of 47 in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.
She attempted suicide a couple of times, but no official autopsy was done. The last words in her diary were "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 July 1955
(-) Murderess Ruth Neilson Ellis is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
She was the last woman executed in the UK.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 July 1961
(x) 81 Die in CSA Airlines Iljoesjin-18 crash in Casablanca, Morocco.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 1964
(x) 20 die after eating poisoned ‘Kolyva’ bread at a funeral in Stylia, Greece.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 July 1967
(-) Cyclist Tom Simpson drops dead due to the lethal combination of drugs, exhaustion and heat in the Tour de France cyclist rally at the age of 29 in Mont Ventoux, Vaucluse, France.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 July 1973
(-) Nancy Gidley is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 July 1976
(-) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , is shot dead and his house burned down by a terrorist group known as ‘Les Vengeurs’ at the age of 61 in Traves, Haute Saone, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 1981
(-) IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, dies of dehydration after 46 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the sixth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 1981
(-) Judy Kozma is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 14 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 July 1984
(-) Marlene Walters is beaten to death by Alton Coleman at the age of 44 in Norwood, Ohio, USA.
Her husband, Harry Walters, was beaten into a coma that left him with permanent brain damage.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 July 1986
(-) Designer of coke-bottles and greyhound-buses, Raymond Ferdinand Loewy dies at the age of 92 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 July 1986
(-) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 July 1998
(-) Rapist and murderer Thomas Martin Thompson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 July 1999
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Angel Leoncio Reyes Maturino Reséndiz aka The Railway Killer, turns himself in to Immigration and Naturalization Services officials in El Paso, Texas, USA.
He was being hunted down by the FBI for over a month.
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