(+) Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is born in Antium, Italy.
591 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1422
(x) 0-year-old King of England Henry VI succeeds to the throne at the age of 9 months upon the death of his father in Windsor, United Kingdom.
146 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1867
(-) Writer Charles Pierre Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 46 in Paris, France.
125 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1888
(-) Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is ripped open from groin to chest and her throat slashed as first victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 43 in London, Whitechapel, Buck’s Row, United Kingdom.
118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1895
(-) Victor Portalier is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Schulze is born in Coolshorn, Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1928
(+) Actor James Harrison Coburn is born in Laurel, Nebraska, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1929
(-) Sofie Ruck is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 1933
(-) Philosopher Theodor Lessing is murdered by the SS at the age of 61 in Marienbad, Czechoslowakia.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1934
(-) Murderer Louis Sprague Douglas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 47 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1935
(+) Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver is born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 1936
(+) Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is born in Paris, France.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 1944
(+) Murderer George C Mercer aka Tiny, is born in Missouri, USA.
(x) 31-year-old Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum is arrested for smoking marihuana in Laurel Canyon, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1949
(+) Actor Richard Gere is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1955
(-) Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He killed his wife, 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter
50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1963
(-) Artist Georges Braque dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1966
(x) 96 Die in British airliner crash in Belgrado, Yugoslavia.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1966
(+) Murderer Michael E. Sexton is born in North Carolina, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1969
(+) Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, is born in California, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1973
(-) Filmmaker John Ford dies of stomach cancer at the age of 78 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 1981
(x) The German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb the Nato-headquarters in Ramstein, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 August 1982
(-) Konrad Mayer is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 26 in Bordeaux, France.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 1983
(-) Ralph Calise is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 1985
(x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Richard ‘Ricky’ Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is recognized and chased by the Hispanic community, beaten up and finally arrested by a patrolman named Ramirez in East Los Angeles, Hubbard Street, California, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1986
(x) 423 Die in Admiral Nakhinov passenger liner and Pyotr Vasev bulk carrier collision in the Black Sea.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1986
(-) Artist Henry Spencer Moore dies at the age of 88 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 1987
(x) 83 Die in Thai Airlines Boeing crash in Phuket, Thailand.
23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 1990
(-) Murderer George Gilmore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 August 1993
(-) Murderer Richard Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 1995
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Barry Lee Fairchild is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Grady, Varner Unit, Arkansas, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 August 1997
(-) Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in Paris, Cours Albert 1er underpass, France.
In the same vehicle also her lover Dodi Al Fayed, and the french driver, Henri Paul, were killed. The Mercedes S280 was leaving from the Ritz Hotel, tailed by a bunch of photographers on motorcycles. The vehicle crashed at a presumed 150 kph in a tunnel under the Seine river.
12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 August 2001
(-) Murderer Ronald W. Frye is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 August 2002
(-) Musician Lionel Leo Hampton dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 2005
(x) 1199 Die in Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad, Iraq.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 August 2005
(x) 45-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Vel" with Tim Vanhamel in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.
7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 August 2006
(-) Double murderer Derrick Frazier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 August 2009
(-) Artist Barry Flanagan dies of motor neurone disease at the age of 68 in Ibiza, Spain.
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