(-) 159th Pope Urbanus II originally Otho of Lagery aka The Blessed, dies at the age of 57 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
369 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1644
(-) 235th Pope Urbanus VIII originally Maffeo Barberini, dies at the age of 76 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
157 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1856
(-) Composer Robert Alexander Schumann dies of heart-failure at the age of 46 in Endenich, Germany.
134 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1879
(-) Murderess Kate Webster aka Catherine Lawler, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
130 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1883
(+) Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is born in Forli, Predappio, Italy.
123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1890
(-) Artist Vincent Van Gogh commits suicide by a shot in the stomach at the age of 37 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
He shot himself two days earlier and lingered on for two days in de Hotel de Ravoux
113 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1900
(-) King Umberto I is shot dead by American anarchist Gaetano Bresci at the age of 56 in Monza, Italy.
112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 July 1901
(-) Murderer George Middleton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Clinton Prison, New York, United States.
He needs 4 blows in 12 minutes time.
108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1905
(+) Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is born in Jönköping, Sweden.
108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1905
(+) Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl, is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.
108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1905
(+) Actress Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 July 1914
(+) Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Italy.
90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1923
(+) Sound pioneer Jim James Marshall aka The Father of Loud, is born in Acton, West London, London City of, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1924
(+) Murder victim Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1938
(-) Mary Carpenter dies of spontaneous human combustion in Norfolk, United Kingdom.
She was holidaying on a cabin cruiser on the Norfolk Broads.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1947
(-) Murderer Cecil Tate is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1947
(-) Murderer George F. Gumtow is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.
63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1950
(-) Murderer Angel B. Serna is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 July 1963
(+) Murderer Jack Wade Clark is born in Texas, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 July 1974
(-) Musician Cass ‘Mama’ Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, dies of heart failure at the age of 32 in London, Mayfair, 9 Curzon Place #12, London City of, United Kingdom.
There is an urban legend that she choked to death in a ham sandwich. The Who drummer Keith Moon died in the same flat four years later.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1976
(-) Donna Lauria is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, at the age of 18 in the Bronx, New York, United States.
In the same event 19-year-old Jody Valenti is also shot, but he survived.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1979
(-) Philosopher Herbert Marcuse dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in Sternberg, Germany.
32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 July 1981
(x) 20-year-old Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, marries Prince Charles in London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London City of, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1982
(-) Michelle Steele is abducted, raped and asphyxiated by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 11 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.
(-) Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Le Chien Andalou, dies at the age of 83 in Mexico City, Mexico.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1983
(-) Actor David James Graham Niven dies of Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 73 in Chateu d'Oex, Switzerland.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1984
(-) Pia Rontini is shot dead and mutilated by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy.
Her left breast and pubis had been removed.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 July 1987
(-) Wanja Bilowetzki is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 12 in Saporosje, Ukraïne, Russia.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1990
(-) Viktor Petrow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Rostow, Botanic Garden, Russia.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1993
(x) 73-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is ruled innocent of being a Nazi camp-commander of Treblinka by the High Court in Israël.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1997
(-) Murderer Bobby West is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1999
(-) Mass murderer Mark O. Barton commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
He shot nine people and wounded another thirteen in Piedmont Avenue business district after murdering his wife and two children.
13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 2000
(-) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte dies of a stroke at the age of 67 in Jamioulx, Charleroi, Belgium.
He killed 7 people, was sentenced to death twice and sentenced to a mental hospital for life three times.
6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 2007
(-) Television personality Tom Thomas James Snyder dies of complications of leukemia at the age of 71 in San Francisco, California, United States.
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