(-) Murderess Patience Boston is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Falmouth, Maine, United States.
211 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1802
(+) Writer Alexandre Dumas originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, is born in Villers-Cotterêts, France.
151 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1862
(-) 8th president of the USA Martin Van Buren dies of bronchial asthma and heart failure at the age of 79 in Kinderhook, New York, United States.
149 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 July 1864
(+) Dramatist Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1897
(+) Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, United States.
104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1909
(+) Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, is born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 July 1914
(x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1915
(x) 845 Die in S.S. Eastland capsizing in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1941
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is sentenced to death in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 July 1944
(+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Jan-Carl Raspe is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1974
(-) Musician, poet and artist Wannes Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde finishes reading the news and shoots herself in the head at the age of 29 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States.
"In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first - attempted suicide." She drew the revolver and shot herself behind her right ear.
37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1976
(-) Gangster John Salanitro dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1980
(-) Actor Peter Richard Henry Sellers aka The Pink Panther, dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in London, Dorchester Hotel, London City of, United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 2" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1985
(x) 81 Die in DC-6 crash in Colombia.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1991
(-) Murderer Albert Clozza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1991
(-) Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Miami, Florida, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 2003
(-) Triple murderer Allen Wayne Janecka is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 July 2007
(-) Behavioral Therapist Albert Ellis dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in New York, New York, United States.
(-) Snooker Legend Alex Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane, dies of starvation at the age of 61 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Higgins lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer and had been living on liquid food, often Guinnes, for the last years of his life.
3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 2010
(-) ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht dies at the age of 88 in Essen, Alfrid Krupp Hospital, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
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