(-) 132nd Pope Benedictus V dies in Rome, Italy.
He was disposed by the Roman Emperor Otto and served only 33 days in 964.
223 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 July 1790
(+) Surveyor George Everest is born in Crickhowell, Wales, United Kingdom.
187 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 July 1826
(-) 2nd president of the USA John Adams dies at the age of 90 in Quincy, Massachussets, USA.
187 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 July 1826
(-) 3rd president of the USA Thomas Jefferson dies at the age of 83 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
182 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 July 1831
(-) 4th president of the USA James Monroe dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.
165 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 July 1848
(-) Writer and diplomat François-René de Chateaubriand aka The Father of Romanticism, dies at the age of 79 in Paris, 120 rue du Bac, France.
141 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 July 1872
(+) 30th president of the USA Calvin John Coolidge is born in Plymouth, Vermont, USA.
135 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 July 1878
(x) 18-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Clara A. Lovering in Alton, New Hampshire, USA.
118 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 July 1895
(+) Anarchist and Mass Cop Killer IJe Wijkstra is born in Groningen, Doezum, the Netherlands.
111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 July 1902
(+) Gangster Meyer Lansky originally Majer Suchowlinski, is born in Grodno, Russia.
103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 July 1910
(x) 32-year-old First Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World Jack John Arthur Johnson aka ‘Li’l Artha aka The Galveston Giant, wins from white Jim Jeffries in the World Championship in Reno, Nevada, USA.
His victory caused huge race-riots all over the country.
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(+) Actress Gina Lollobrigida is born in Subiaco, Italy.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 July 1934
(-) Physicist and radiochemist Marie Curie originally Marya Sklodovska, dies of pernicous anemia at the age of 66 in Haute Savoye, France.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 July 1941
(+) Anti-war Activist Brian A. Willson is born in Geneva, New York, USA.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 July 1943
(+) TV-host Geraldo Miguel Rivera is born in New York, New York, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 July 1954
(x) 30-year-old Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard bludgeons his pregnant wife Marilyn to death, claiming they were attacked by persons unknown in their house in Bay Village, Lake Erie, Ohio, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 July 1963
(-) Murderer Melvin Weaver is shot dead by the police in a gunfight in Americus, Georgia, USA.
He escaped from Marianna Prison in Florida and killed 3 people on the way.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 July 1970
(-) Artist Barnett Newman dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in New York, New York, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 July 1975
(-) Nancy Baird is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Bountiful, Colorado, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 July 1982
(-) Cop Killer Barry Peter Prudom commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 37 in Malton, United Kingdom.
He was closed in by the police.
30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 July 1983
(-) General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams dies of ventricular failure at the age of 84 in Eastbourne, United Kingdom.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 July 1987
(x) Over 400 Die in ferry capsizing in Luapala River, Zaïre.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 July 1987
(x) 73-year-old Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Lyon, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 July 1992
(-) Composer Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla aka El Gran, dies at the age of 71 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 July 2003
(-) Musician Barry Eugene White originally Barrence Eugene Carter aka The Walrus of Love, dies of renal failure at the age of 58 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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