(-) 210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, dies at the age of 58 in Ancona, Italy.
271 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1742
(+) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, is born in Cesena, Italy.
173 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 August 1840
(+) Psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing known for “Psychopathia Sexualis”, is born in Mannheim, Germany.
137 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 August 1876
(+) King of Servia Alexander I Obrenovic is born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
134 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1879
(+) Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean is born in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1888
(+) Ravensbrück KZ guard Emma Anna Maria Zimmer originally Mezel, is born in Schlüchtern, Germany.
107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Paul Bronichewski is born in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 August 1907
(-) Child murderess Rhoda Willis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 August 1910
(+) Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer is born in Nancy, France.
89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1924
(-) Murderer Arthur Henry Bishop is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 August 1926
(+) Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller originally Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich, is born in Rome, Italy.
77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 August 1936
(-) Murderer Rainey Bethea is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA.
It was the last public hanging, for which about 20.000 people showed up.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1941
(+) Musician David Crosby is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1945
(+) Filmmaker Wim Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is born in Düsseldorf, Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1947
(+) Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira is born in Mushubati, Rwanda.
63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 August 1950
(+) Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, is born in Hartlepool, Durham, United Kingdom.
62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1951
(-) Millionaire William Randolph Hearst dies at the age of 88 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1956
(-) Dramatist Berthold Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Germany.
In his will he provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.
55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1958
(x) 99 Die in KLM airliner crash in the Atlantic.
52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 August 1961
(-) Actor Edwin Cooper aka Bozo the Clown, dies at the age of 41 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 August 1965
(-) Ulrich Kahlweis is abducted and tortured to death by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 12 in Velbert, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1969
(-) Roy Dumas is strangled by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 August 1972
(x) 156 Die in Iljoeshin II-62 crash in Berlin, Schönefeld Airport, Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1979
(x) 150 boats are crushed and 18 sailors die in a storm during the Fastnet-race between Ireland and South-England in the United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1980
(-) Dorothy Stratten originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, is shot dead by Paul Snider at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Snider committed suicide with the same gun.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 August 1980
(-) Bernard Marechal is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 20 in St. Malo, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 August 1982
(-) Opal Mills is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 16 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 August 1990
(-) Wanja Fomin is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Nowotscherkask, Aksai riverbank, Russia.
19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 August 1994
(-) Writer Elias Canetti dies at the age of 89 in Zurich, Switzerland.
19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 August 1994
(x) 44-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is captured in Sudan.
He was recovering from a minor testicle operation.
(-) Murderer Zane Brown Hill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 August 2002
(-) Murderer Javier Suarez Medina is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 August 2005
(x) 121 Die in Helios Airways Flight 522 crash in Athens, Greece.
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