(x) 13-year-old King Jean II aka le Bon, marries 17-year-old Bonne of Luxemburg in France.
473 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1540
(x) 49-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fifth wife Katherine Howard in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, United Kingdom.
He divorced his previous wife less than 20 days earlier.
473 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1540
(-) First Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell is executed by beheading at the age of 55 in London, England.
After the execution his head was boiled and placed on a spike of London Bridge.
358 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1655
(-) Poet and duellist Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac presumably dies due to injuries suffered when a wooden beam fell upon him a year earlier at the age of 36 in Paris, Sannois, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
272 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1741
(-) Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies of internal fire or asthma at the age of 54 in Venice, Italy.
263 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 July 1750
(-) Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of a fever attack at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Germany.
219 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1794
(-) Leader of the French Revolution Maximilian François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Place de la Concorde, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
148 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1865
(-) Multiple murderer Dr. Edward William Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Glasgow Green, Saltmarket, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
It was the last public hanging in Scotland, for which about 100.000 people showed up.
126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 1887
(+) Artist Marcel Duchamp is born in Blainville-Crevon, France.
111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1902
(+) Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1907
(+) Inventor Earl Silas Tupper is born in Berlin, Berlin, United States.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1909
(+) Writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for “Under the Volcano”, is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1909
(+) Founder of Burda magazine Aenne Burda originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger, is born in Offenburg, Germany.
102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1911
(-) Murderer Alejandro Gallego is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 1927
(+) Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton is born in Florida, United States.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1929
(+) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, is born in Southhampton, New York, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 July 1945
(x) 14 die when the Old John Feather Merchant, a US B-25 bomber, flewn by 27-year-old lieutenant-colonel William Franklin Smith Jr crashes into the Empire State building in New York, New York, United States.
(+) Actress Sally Ann Struthers is born in Portland, Oregon, United States.
65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1948
(x) Over 200 Die in IG Farben Works explosion in Ludwigshaven, Germany.
47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 1966
(x) 63-year-old Marie Couderc commits suicide by a shot through the head in a house previously owned by Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Montford l’Amaury, France.
46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1967
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1974
(-) Joey Kallinger is drowned by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of him, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1975
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is sentenced to death in Katowice, Poland.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1976
(-) Child murderer Christian Ranucci is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 22 in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1982
(-) Kerry Heiss is abducted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 10 in St. Joseph, East Hills shopping centre, Missouri, United States.
She escaped.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1986
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is arrested in London, Southwark, Keyworth House, London City of, United Kingdom.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 July 1998
(-) Maria Goetz is strangled by Richard Arinaitwe at the age of 35 in Kampala, Uganda.
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 2005
(-) Murderer David Aaron Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 2010
(x) 152 Die in Blue Airline Flight ED202 Airbus 321 crash in Islamabad, Pakistan.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 2010
(-) Mass murderer Kazuo Shinozawa is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
He burned six women to death in a jewellery shop robbery in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Province in 2000.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 2010
(-) Double murderer Hidenori Ogata is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
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