(-) Prophet Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus, dies of oedema at the age of 62 in Salon-de-Provence, Provence, France.
235 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1778
(-) Composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies of brain hemorrhage at the age of 66 in Ermenonville, France.
150 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1863
(-) Murderer Charles Louis Kasteleyn is executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.
It was the last official execution by the Guillotine in Belgium.
136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 July 1877
(+) Writer Hermann Hesse is born in Calw, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
132 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 July 1881
(x) 49-year-old 20th president of the USA James Abraham Garfield is shot by mentally deranged assassin Charles Julius Guiteau while entering a railway station in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 July 1905
(x) 14-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, sets fire to the blacksmith shop and a warehouse of the State Training School in Minnesota, USA.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1909
(-) Murderer Joe Anderson is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Oregon, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1925
(-) Composer Erik Satie dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 59 in Arcueil, France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1925
(+) Black Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers is born in Decatur, Mississippi, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1925
(+) Independence Leader and first Prime Minister of Congo Patrice Émery Lumumba is born in Onalua, Katakokombe, Belgian Congo.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 July 1929
(-) Religious cultist Benny Evangelista and his wife and 4 children are hacked to pieces by persons unknown in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Benny is found sitting at his desk, his decapitated head next to him.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 July 1929
(+) Philippine First Lady and prominent shoe collector Imelda Remedios Marcos originally Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez aka The Iron Butterfly, is born in Manila, Philippines.
82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1931
(-) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 48 in Düsseldorf, Klingelputz Prison, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
His last words were: "Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures."
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 July 1932
(x) 21-year-old Actress and Sex-Queen Jean Harlow aka The Blonde Bombshell, marries Paul Bern in California, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1937
(-) Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart dies at the age of 39 in the Pacific Ocean.
She went missing with her Electra 10E in an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 July 1945
(-) Don and Amy McSwann is beaten to death and solved in acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, in London, 79 Gloucester Road, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 July 1961
(-) Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 62 in Ketchum, Idaho, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 July 1961
(-) Jerry Tharrington is stabbed to death by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 26 in Jefferson City, State Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.
(-) Pin-up and actress Betty Elizabeth Ruth Grable aka The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs, dies of lung cancer at the age of 56 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 July 1973
(-) Angela Thomas is presumably smothered by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1976
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Joachim Georg ‘Jockel’ Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, is arrested after 4-year-old Marion Ketter went missing and her hand was found boiling with carrots and potatoes in his kitchen in Duisburg, 24 Friesen Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1976
(-) Luke Soloman is poisoned by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Agra, India.
36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 July 1977
(-) Writer Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Nabokov dies of bronchial congestion at the age of 78 in Montreux, Switzerland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1982
(x) 40-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in the facility lounge of Cory Hall in Berkeley, University, California, USA.
One person is injured when opening the package.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1982
(-) Travis Coleman is smothered to death by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, in Blountstown, Florida, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1982
(x) 33-year-old Adventurer Lawrence “Larry” Richard Walters aka The Lawn Chair Pilot, pilotes an aluminium lawn chair attached to 42 helium weather balloons, dubbed 'Inspiration I', 16.000 feet high to Long Beach. in San Pedro, California, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 July 1983
(-) An unidentified man is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Ford County, Illinois, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 July 1985
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Ian Stewart Brady aka The Moors Murderer, returns to the scene of his crimes and pinpoints the grave of victim Pauline Reade after 20 years in Saddleworth Moor, United Kingdom.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 July 1985
(-) Mary Cannon is killed by throatslashing by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, Arcadia, California, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 July 1987
(-) Dancer and choreographer Michael Bennet originally Michael DiFiglia, dies of aids at the age of 44 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 July 1988
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is convicted to death in Philadelphia, City Hall, Room 653, Pennsylvania, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 July 1989
(-) Soviet leader Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko dies at the age of 80 in Moscow, Russia.
23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 July 1990
(x) 1400 pilgrims suffocate and are trampled to death in a tunnel leading to Mina, near the Arafat Mountain where Mohammed presumably held his last speech in Mekka, Saudi Arabia.
22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 July 1991
(-) Actress Lee Ann Remick dies of kidney and liver ailments at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1993
(x) 326 Die in the pagode for the Feast of the Holy Cross of the River capsizing in Bocaue, the Philippines.
The pagode was built on two rafts.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 July 1997
(-) Actor James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart dies of cardiac arrest and a pulmonary embolism at the age of 89 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1999
(x) 37-year-old Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong is sentenced to death in Bejing, China.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1999
(x) Mass Murderer Wang Huanbu is charged with killing 11 children and two women in Shanghai, China.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 July 1999
(-) Writer Mario Gianluigi Puzo dies of heart failure at the age of 78 in Bay Shore, New York, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 July 2003
(-) Murderer Hilton Lewis Crawford is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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