(+) Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
153 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 July 1860
(-) Engineer Charles Goodyear dies at the age of 59 in New York, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, USA.
He collapsed when he heard his daughter had died.
141 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1872
(+) Aircraft pioneer Louis Blériot is born in Cambrai, France.
137 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1876
(-) Anarchist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin dies at the age of 62 in Bern, Switzerland.
129 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 July 1884
(-) Detective Allan Pinkerton dies of an infection after biting his tongue when he slipped on the pavement at the age of 64 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
121 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 July 1892
(+) Writer James Mallahan Cain is born in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1901
(-) Peter Stubbe is decapitated and butchered by Ludwig Tessnow at the age of 6 in Gohren, Germany.
97 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1916
(+) Actress Olivia Mary De Havilland is born in Tokyo, Japan.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 July 1921
(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, moves into Neue Straße 8 aka "Das Mordhaus", in Hannover, Germany.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1922
(x) Start of the trial against 58-year-old Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, in Berlin, Moabit, Germany.
79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 July 1934
(+) Filmmaker Sydney Irwin Pollack is born in Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
(+) Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth is born in Pilisvorosyar, Hungary.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 July 1942
(-) Murderer Robert James is executed by hanging in San Quentin prison, California, USA.
It was the last hanging before the instalment of the Gas Chamber.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 July 1945
(+) Musician Deborah ‘Debbie’ Harry aka Blondie, is born in Miami, Florida, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 July 1951
(-) Motherly widow Mary Reeser aka The Cinder Lady, dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 67 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1957
(-) Judy Dull is abducted, assaulted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 19 in Hollywood, California, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 July 1959
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, marries his second wife, Joan in St. Helier, Jersey.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1961
(+) Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, is born in Sandringham, Park House, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1961
(-) Writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches Celine dies of a ruptured aneurysm at the age of 67 in Meudon, France.
45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1968
(-) Joan Schell is raped and stabbed to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 20 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 July 1971
(+) Musician Melissa Arnette Elliott aka Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, is born in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1972
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, marries his second wife Carol Lofgren in Chicago, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Illinois, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1974
(-) President Juan Domingo Peron dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 July 1975
(-) Shelley Robertson is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Golden, Colorado, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 July 1976
(-) Demonic possessed woman Anneliese Michel dies of malnutrition and dehydration at the age of 23 in Klingenberg, Bavaria, Germany.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 July 1977
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Patrick Kearney aka The Thrash Bag Killer, is arrested in Redondo Beach, California, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 July 1987
(-) Musician Snakefinger originally Philip Charles Lithman, dies of a heart attack at the age of 38 in Linz, Austria.
He was playing with his band The Vestal Virgins at the Posthof Club.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1991
(-) Serial Killer Joachim Georg ‘Jockel’ Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Rheinbach prison, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 July 1991
(-) Actor Michael Landon originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54 in Malibu, California, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 July 1993
(-) Murderer Gian Luigi Ferri commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 55 in San Francisco, 101 California Street, California, USA.
He was closed in by the police after killing 8 people in a shooting spree in the financial district. He had a grudge against lawyers.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 July 1993
(-) Murderer Curtis Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 1995
(-) Disc Jockey Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, dies of a heart attack at the age of 57 in Belvedere, North Carolina, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 July 1997
(-) Murderer Harold McQueen is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 July 1997
(-) Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum dies of lung cancer at the age of 79 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 July 1999
(-) Murderer Charles D. Tuttle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 July 2000
(-) Actor Walter John Matthau dies of complications of colon cancer at the age of 79 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 July 2004
(-) Actor Marlon Brando dies of respiratory failure brought on by pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Center, California, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 July 2009
(-) Actor Karl Malden dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Brentwood, California, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 July 2009
(-) Actress Mollie Isabel Mary Sugden aka Mrs. Slocombe in “Are You Being Served?”, dies of natural causes at the age of 87 in Guildford, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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