(+) War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is born in Ajaccio, Corsica.
242 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 August 1771
(+) Writer Walter Scott is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
228 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 August 1785
(+) Writer Thomas de Quincey is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.
156 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 August 1857
(+) Jack the Ripper-suspect Montague John Druitt is born in Wimborne, Dorset, United Kingdom.
136 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 August 1877
(x) 30-year-old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison makes the first phonograph recording in New Jersey, USA.
He recorded "Mary had a Little Lamp".
118 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 August 1895
(+) Murderess Virginia Christian is born in Virginia, USA.
117 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 August 1896
(+) Inventor Léon Theremin originally Lev Sergeyevich Termen, is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
108 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 August 1905
(-) Wife-murderer Arthur Devereux is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
108 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 August 1905
(+) Senior Hygienist, Nazi-Doctor in Buchenwald and typhoid-expert Joachim Mrugowski is born in Rathenow, Germany.
96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 August 1917
(+) Revolutionary Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is born in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 August 1925
(+) Actor Mike Connors originally Kreker Ohanian, aka Mannix, is born in Fresno, California, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 August 1930
(-) Murderer Robert Wilkins is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 August 1935
(-) Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post dies in a plane crash at the age of 36 in Point Barrow, Alaska, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 August 1940
(+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is born in Bartholomä, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 August 1944
(+) Musician Sylvie Vartan is born in Iskretz, Bulgaria.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 August 1945
(x) Japan capitulates in WWII after the US dropped 2 Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 August 1958
(+) Murderess Laurie Lawrencia Bembenek aka Bambi, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 August 1961
(x) 19-year-old Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, succesfully makes his escape to the West in Berlin, Ruppinerstrasse & Bernauerstrasse, Germany.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 August 1963
(-) Murderer Henry John Burnett is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
He was the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 August 1965
(-) Maria B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 22 in Czeladz-Piaski, Poland.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 August 1967
(-) Artist René François Ghislain Magritte dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 August 1974
(+) Double murderer Tommie Collins Hughes is born in Texas, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 August 1975
(-) Olive Smelt is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 46 in Halifax, United Kingdom.
She survived.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 August 1977
(x) 69-year-old Head of the SS in Rome Herbert Kappler escapes from a prison hopital in a large suitcase carried by his wife, a qualified nurse in Rome, Italy.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 August 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "First Aid" in Bilzen, Limburg, Belgium.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 August 1982
(-) Karl Bulcke is raped and shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Rochefort-Montagne, France.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 August 1984
(-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.
21 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 August 1992
(-) Britain’s official executioner Harry Bernard Allen dies at the age of 80 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 August 1995
(-) Murderer Vernon Sattlewhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 August 1997
(x) 37-year-old Multiple Murderer Frederick Martin Davidson aka The Lethal Graduate, opens fire in a classroom while meeting with a panel of professors to defend his master's thesis, shooting to death 3 of the professors in San Diego State University, California, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 August 1997
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sipho Agmatir Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper, is arrested by heavily armed policemen on suspicion of killing at least 19 young women in the Besters squatter camp in Phoenix, Durban, South Africa.
(-) Serial Killer Gary Charles Evans commits suicide by drowning at the age of 43 in Albany, Hudson River, New York, USA.
He kicked out the window of a police van transporting him to court, jumped out and threw himself off a bridge. His hands and feet shackled, he drowned in the river.
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