(-) Empress Thea Philopator Cleopatra VII commits suicide by the bite of a poisonous asp at the age of 39 in Egypt.
529 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 August 1484
(-) 212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
324 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1689
(-) 240th Pope Innocentus XI originally Benedetto Odescalchi aka The Blessed, dies at the age of 78 in Rome, Italy.
186 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 August 1827
(-) Poet and artist William Blake dies at the age of 69 in London, England.
182 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1831
(+) Theosophist Madame Blavatsky originally Helena Petrovna Hahn, is born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine.
143 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1870
(+) Serial Killer Carl Denke is born in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1881
(+) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille is born in Ashfield, Massachussets, USA.
101 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 August 1912
(+) Filmmaker Samuel Fuller is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 August 1924
(-) Murderer Jean-Pierre Vaquier is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1927
(-) Murderer John Robinson is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 August 1928
(-) Composer Leo Janácek dies at the age of 74 in Ostrava, Dr. L. Klein Sanatorium, Czechoslowakia.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1938
(-) Cop Killer Robert Joseph Suhay is executed by hanging in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1938
(-) Murderer Glen J. Applegate is executed by hanging in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 August 1952
(x) 72-year-old Statesman Josef Vissarionowitsch Dzugashvili Stalin orders the immediate execution of 13 prominent Jewish writers, poets, artists and musicians in Moscow, Lubyanka Prison, Russia.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1955
(-) Writer Thomas Mann dies of athorasclerosis at the age of 80 in Zürich, Switzerland.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 August 1957
(-) Wife murderer William Lawrence Warren Nicholson is executed by hanging in Kaapstad, South Africa.
49 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 August 1964
(-) Writer Ian Lancaster Fleming dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1966
(x) Policemen Christopher Head, David Wombwell and Geoffrey Fox are gunned down by John Edward Whitey, John Duddy and Harry Roberts in the ‘Baybrook Street Massacre’ in London, United Kingdom.
(+) Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, is born in London, Bromley, United Kingdom.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 August 1979
(-) An unidentified girl is shot and stabbed to death by Peter Carlier at the age of 21 in Kortrijk, East Flanders, Belgium.
32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 August 1981
(-) Jean-Pierre Lacosta is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 24 in Mondicourt, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 August 1982
(-) Actor Henry Jaynes Fonda dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1983
(-) Artist James G. G. dies due to burns suffered in an accidental self-immolation at the age of 37 in London, United Kingdom.
He was setting fire to David Mach’s sculpture ‘General Belgrano’, outside the Royal Festival Hall, which was made out of 6000 rubber tyres.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 August 1985
(x) 520 Die in Japan Airlines Flight 123 Boeing 747-SR46 crash in Osutaka Ridge, Japan.
It crashed into Mount Takamagahara. Four people survived.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 August 1988
(-) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of drug abuse at the age of 27 in New York, New York, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 August 1992
(-) Composer John Milton Cage dies at the age of 79 in New York, New York, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 August 1993
(-) Murderer David Holland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 August 1997
(-) Serial Killer Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Teheran, Shahrak Rah-Ahan, Iran.
He killed 9 girls and women between 10 and 47 years old in 4 months. He was first flogged by relatives of the victims, and then hanged from a mobile crane on the public square where he picked up most of his victims, before a crowd of 20.000.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 August 1997
(-) Valencia Begonia is presumably abducted as fifth victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 38 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 August 2009
(x) 49-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "James Lee Byars was Never in Art Ghraib" and "And Did Those Eyes in Recent Time" at R.I.T.E.S. in Singapore, Old School, Singapore.
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