(+) Writer Guy Henri René Albert De Maupassant is born in Dieppe, France.
153 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1860
(+) Joseph Carey Merrick aka The Elephant Man, is born in Leicester, Lee Street, Warf Street, United Kingdom.
139 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 August 1874
(x) 32-year-old Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer confesses to killing and eating a party of gold-seekers in Saguache, Colorado, United States.
118 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 August 1895
(-) Philosopher Friedrich Engels dies of throat cancer at the age of 74 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1906
(+) Filmmaker John Marcellus Huston is born in Nevada, Missouri, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 August 1915
(-) Marie-Angélique Guillin is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 52 in Vernouillet, France.
95 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 August 1918
(-) Mrs Schneider is attacked by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
She survived.
83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 August 1930
(+) Astronaut Neil Armstrong aka The First Man to Walk on the Moon, is born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 August 1931
(-) Murderer William Moosh Shelley is executed by hanging at the age of 57 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 August 1931
(-) Murderer Oliver Tiggy Newman is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1934
(+) Victim of Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, Frieda Klara Tesmer is born in Thüringen, Germany.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 August 1952
(x) 75-year-old Presumed murderer Gaston Dominici presumably shoots 61-year old Jack Drummond, his wife Anne Wilbraham and their 10-year-old daughter Elisabeth whilst camping wild on his land in Lurs, Provence, France.
55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 August 1958
(x) The US Nautilus is the first submarine to cross the North-Pole under the ice.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 August 1960
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested on charges of burglary and assault in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1962
(-) Actress Marilyn Monroe originally Norma Jean Mortenson Baker, commits suicide by drug-overdose at the age of 36 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
There are never-ending rumours that she was murdered.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 August 1976
(+) Murderer Napoleon Beazley is born in Texas, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 August 1977
(-) Anna Kenny is strangled by The Bible John Killer in Skipness, Kintyre, United Kingdom.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1979
(-) Maurice Searle is is drained of all his blood by Sally Potterton at the age of 22 in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Searle was a drug dealer, and held responsible by nurse Potterton for her daughters’ burn-out and subsequent suicide as a junkie.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1979
(-) Marcus Grabs is sodomised, beaten and stabbed 77 times by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in Newport Beach, California, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 August 1980
(-) Claude Sevigny is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 22 in Nice, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 August 1982
(x) Over 300 Die in Hasrat Mulia shipwreck in Borneo.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 August 1984
(-) Actor Richard Burton originally Richard Walter Jenkins, dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Céligny, Switzerland.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 August 1987
(-) The Uncrowned King of Circuses, Joseph Bouglione dies at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 August 1991
(-) Automobile pioneer Soichiro Honda dies of liver failure at the age of 84 in Japan.
(-) Murderer Joseph Jernigan is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project and the University of Colorado School of Medicine by Dr. Vic Spitzer and associates.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 August 1999
(-) Murderer Charles A. Boyd is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 August 2005
(-) Game Addict Lee Seung Seop dies of heart failure at the age of 28 in Daegu, South Korea.
Two days earlier he had played StarCraft for almost fifty consecutive hours and went into cardiac arrest due to exhaustion and dehydration.
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