277 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 September 1736
(-) Physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies at the age of 50 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
231 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 September 1782
(-) Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, dies at the age of 77 in Bologna, Italy.
126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1887
(+) Artist Jean / Hans Arp is born in Strassburg, Germany.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1921
(x) Over 100 Die in bomb-attack in New York, US Assay building, New York, USA.
The attack is claimed by anarchists.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 September 1922
(-) Reverend Edward Hall and his 34-year-old lover Eleanor Mills are killed by throatcutting by persons unknown at the age of 41 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Their love-letters are strewn about around the dead bodies.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 September 1924
(+) Actress Lauren Bacall originally Betty Joan Perske, is born in New York, New York, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 September 1925
(+) Musician B. B. Riley King aka The King of Blues, is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA.
86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1927
(+) Actor Peter Michael Falk aka Lieutenant Columbo, is born in New York, New York, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1932
(-) Actress Peg Lillian Millicent Entwistle commits suicide by jumping off "HollywoodLand’"Mount Lee at the age of 24 in Hollywood, California, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 September 1935
(+) Minimal Artist Carl Andre is born in Quincy, Massachussets, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 September 1956
(+) Magician David Copperfield originally David Seth Kotkin, is born in Metuchen, New Jersey, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 September 1956
(+) Actor Mickey Rourke is born in Schenectady, New York, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1977
(-) Soprano Maria Callas originally Mengeghini-Calogeropoulou, dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Paris, France.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1977
(-) Musician Marc Bolan aka Tyrannosaurus Rex, dies in a car crash at the age of 29 in London, United Kingdom.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 September 1979
(x) Killer Groupie Veronica ‘Ver Lyn’ Compton tries to strangle an unidentified girl in an attempt to make a cover-up for Serial Killer Kenneth Alessio Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellingham, Shangri-La Motel, Washington, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 September 1980
(-) Psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget dies at the age of 84 in Genève, Switzerland.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 September 1980
(x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the Regional Mental Health Center in Norfolk, Nebraska, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 September 1987
(-) An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in St. Petersburg, Lembolowo station, Russia.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 September 1987
(-) Murderer Joseph Starvaggi is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1988
(x) 36-year-old Cellules Communistes Combattantes leader Pierre Carette starts hungerstriking in the prison of St. Gilles in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
21 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 September 1992
(-) Double murderer Willie Leroy is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 34 in Jarratt, Virginia, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 September 1994
(-) Murderer Jesse Gutierrez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 September 2002
(-) Serial Killer Archibald Thomson Hall aka Roy Fontaine aka The Monster Butler, dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Portsmouth, Kingston Prison, United Kingdom.
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