(-) Fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves dies at the age of 41 in London, United Kingdom.
She was the last of Henry's six wives to die.
141 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 July 1872
(+) Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen is born in Borge, Norway.
106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 July 1907
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Leonardo Gebbia is executed by hanging in Hahnville, Louisiana, USA.
102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 July 1911
(+) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, is born in Independance, Montana, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 July 1929
(+) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is born in Mound City, Missouri, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 July 1933
(-) Black James Sanders is lynched for writing obscene letters to a white girl at the age of 25 in Bolton, Missouri, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 July 1936
(-) Murderess Mary Creighton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 July 1936
(-) Murderer Everett Applegate is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 July 1941
(+) Musician Desmond Adolphus Dekker originally Dacres, is born in Kingston, St. Andrew, Jamaïca.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 July 1942
(-) Kurt Kneller is presumably killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, rue Lesueur, France.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 July 1945
(x) First plutonium test bomb explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 July 1951
(x) The novel "The Catcher in the Rye" by 32-year-old Writer Jerome David Salinger is published by Little, Brown and Company in New York, New York, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 July 1954
(-) Murderer Merle Williams Martin is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 July 1954
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 July 1966
(x) 24-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, tries to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 July 1974
(x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is arrested and charged with a sex-assault in Hermies, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 July 1981
(x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Richard Clark while abducting 11-year-old Todd Peers in Bettendorf, Iowa, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 July 1982
(-) Actor Patrick Dewaere commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in Paris, 25, impasse du Moulin-Vert, France.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 July 1985
(-) Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll dies at the age of 67 in Langenbroich, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 July 1989
(-) Conductor Herbert Heribert Ritter Von Karajan dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 in Salzburg, Anif, Austria.
9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 July 2004
(x) Over 90 children Die in private school fire in Kumbakonam, India.
(x) A High Court decides that 64-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, will never be released from prison during his lifetime in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
He was given 20 life terms in 1981 for thirteen murders and seven other attacks. In prison he changed his name to Peter Coonan.
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