(-) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.
243 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1770
(+) Philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1871
(+) Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser is born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
123 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1890
(+) Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
120 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1893
(-) Inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhofer dies at the age of 70 in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.
118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 August 1895
(-) Allaise is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 16 in France.
107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1906
(+) Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, is born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.
105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1908
(+) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson is born in Stonewall, Texas, USA.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1909
(-) Murderer Joseph Gauvette is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.
103 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1910
(+) Humanitarian nun Mother Teresa originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, is born in Skopje, Macedonia.
94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1919
(+) Artist Jan Cox is born in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 August 1929
(+) Writer Ira Levin is born in New York, the Bronx, New York, USA.
(-) Phyllis Newcombe is badly burned by spontaneous human combustion at the age of 22 in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.
She was waltzing in the Shire dance-hall when she suddenly caught fire. She died three weeks later.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 August 1946
(+) Serial Killer Peter Britton Tobin is born in Johnstone, Scotland, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1954
(+) Double Murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy, is born in Texas, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1955
(-) Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo, is abducted from his home, beaten, shot and thrown in a river with a weight around his neck for whistling at a white woman at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, USA.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1964
(x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, shoots his grandparents “wondering how it would feel to shoot grandma” in California, USA.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1964
(+) Serial Killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 August 1966
(-) Architect Charles Eduard Jeanneret Le Corbusier dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Cap Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
He went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and was found by bathers.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1967
(-) Beatles manager Brian Samuel Epstein dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1969
(-) Helga Luther is mutilated and her throat cut by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 16 in Coburg, Germany.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1972
(-) Sailor Francis Chichester dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.
38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 August 1975
(-) Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 83 in Ethiopia.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1978
(-) Artist Gordon Matta-Clark dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 in New York, New York, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1979
(-) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten is killed in an IRA bomb-attack on his yacht at the age of 79 in Mullaghmore, Ireland.
A few hours later 18 British soldiers are killed in another attack in Warrenpoint
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 August 1979
(-) Donald Hyden is sodomised, strangled and stabbed by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Attempts had been made to cut off his testicles.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1982
(x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, assaults and rapes an unidentified man and woman in Troyes, France.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 August 1982
(-) Charles Petit is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Beaufort, France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 August 1987
(-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, Russia.
18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 August 1995
(x) 35-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Marteling van de Heilige Erasmus" in Leuven, Kapel van de Romaanse Poort, Brabant, Belgium.
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