(-) Priest and Peasants’ Revolt leader John Ball is executed by hanging, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II at the age of 43 in London, United Kingdom.
His head was subsequently stuck on a pike on London Bridge.
407 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 July 1606
(+) Artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.
132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 July 1881
(-) Willem De Hees is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in the Netherlands.
130 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1883
(-) Dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb, dies of a stroke at the age of 45 in Connecticut, USA.
121 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 July 1892
(+) Philiospher Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin is born in Berlin, Germany.
109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 July 1904
(-) Writer Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Badenweiler, Germany.
94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1919
(+) Writer Iris Murdoch is born in Dublin, Ireland.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1924
(-) Francis McDonnel is sexually assaulted and strangled by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 7 in Staten Island, Charlton’s Woods, New York, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 July 1929
(-) Writer Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal dies of a stroke at the age of 55 in Vienna, Rodaun, Austria.
83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1930
(+) Philosopher Jacques Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism, is born in El-Biar, Algeria.
77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 July 1936
(-) Husband Murderess Charlotte Bryant is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Exeter Prison, United Kingdom.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 July 1940
(+) Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1945
(-) Lloyd Gomez is briefly abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, in Boulder, Sunshine Canyon, Colorado, USA.
He tied her up, they spent the night together in his car, and he let her go the next day. He was identified almost instantly.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 July 1946
(+) Musician Linda Ronstadt is born in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1952
(+) New York Doll Johnny Thunders originally John Anthony Genzale Jr., is born in New York, Queens, New York, USA.
(-) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1956
(+) Musician Ian Kevin Curtis from Joy Division, is born in Stretford, Manchester, Old Trafford Memorial Hospital, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1956
(+) Punk Rocker Marky Ramone originally Marc Steven Bell, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 July 1957
(x) 58 Die in KLM Super Constellation crash in Biak, New Guinea.
55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1958
(-) Julia Lennon (John’s mom), is knocked down by a Standard Vanguard car driven by learner-driver PC Eric Clague at the age of 44 in Liverpool, Menlowe Avenue, United Kingdom.
Her body landed about 100 feet from where she'd been hit.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 July 1959
(x) 53-year-old Philosopher and adventurer Walter Menzl is sentenced to three years imprisonment and a 800.000,- DM fine for the acid-attack on Peter Paul Rubens’ “Der Höllensturz der Verdammten” in the Alte Pinakothek on 26 February 1959, in München, Strafkammer des Landsgericht, Germany.
44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1969
(x) The German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion burglarize government headquarters and steal a number of official documents in München, Bavaria, Germany.
42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 July 1971
(-) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Petra Schelm is shot dead by the police in a road-block at the age of 20 in Hamburg, Reineckestrasse, Germany.
She was the first RAF member to die in the Stadtguerilla.
42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 July 1971
(+) Murderer Ponchai “Kamau” Wilkerson is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 July 1971
(x) 46-year-old Artist Jean Tinguely marries artist Niki de Saint Phalle in Paris, France.
40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1973
(-) Caroline Davis is presumably strychnine-poisoned by Zodiac at the age of 15 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 July 1974
(-) Television reporter Christine Chubbuck commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 29 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
She was doing a live newscast during her Suncoast Digest show and said "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: an attempted suicide" and shot herself behind the left ear.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1979
(x) 130 whales commit suicide by hitting the coast in Newfoundland.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 July 1990
(x) 31-year-old Murderess Laurie Lawrencia Bembenek aka Bambi, escapes from prison with the help of her fiancé Nick Gugliatto in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Her escape ignited the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run".
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 July 1991
(-) Oliver Lacy is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
Earlier that day Dahmer was fired from his job at the Ambrosia Chocolate Co. for chronic absenteism.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 July 1997
(-) Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead as fifth victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho at the age of 50 in Miami, Southern Beach, Ocean Drive, Florida, USA.
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