(+) Founder of the Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi is born in Assisi, Umbria, Italy.
222 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1791
(+) Artist Théodore Géricault is born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
164 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1849
(+) Physiologist Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow is born in Ryazan, Russia.
145 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1868
(-) Scientist August Ferdinand Möbius dies at the age of 77 in Leipzig, Germany.
He died 10 years after discovering his famous 'Möbius Ring'.
125 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1888
(+) Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
124 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1889
(+) Philosopher Martin Heidegger is born in Meskirch, Germany.
116 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1897
(+) 262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, is born in Brescia, Concesion, Italy.
115 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1898
(+) Composer George Gershwin is born in New York, New York, United States.
111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 1902
(-) Clothing manufacturer Levi Löb Strauss dies at the age of 73 in San Francisco, California, United States.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1929
(-) Maria Rad is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 28 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1937
(-) Black musician Bessie Smith bleeds to death in the street after a car-accident because a white ambulance-driver refuses to take her to a hospital at the age of 43 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1945
(-) Composer Bela Viktor Janos Bartok dies of leukemia at the age of 64 in New York, New York, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1945
(+) Musician Bryan Ferry is born in Washington, Sunderland, United Kingdom.
65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1948
(+) Actress Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1951
(+) Mass-murderer Ronald Joseph Butch DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 September 1954
(x) 1172 Die in Toya Mary ferry shipwreck in Tsjugaru Strait,
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1970
(x) The Manson Family hide-out, Spahn Ranch, is burned to the ground, charring over 100.000 acres in Death Valley, California, United States.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 1970
(-) Donna Lass is presumably abducted and killed as 17th victim by Zodiac at the age of 25 in Stateline, Samara Hotel, Nevada, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1974
(x) Over 200 Die in USSR destroyer fire in the Black Sea.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 1980
(x) 12 die and 312 are wounded in a fascist bomb-attack in a beergarden during the Beer Festival in München, Bayern, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1983
(-) Musician Tino Constantino Rossi dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
(-) Mystery writer Muriel Davidson is murdered by Robert Thom in Santa Monica, California, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 September 1985
(-) James Ferris is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1988
(x) Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts Building, California, United States.
25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 September 1988
(-) Keison Sinthasomphone is drugged, and sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 13 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.
He survived.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 1990
(-) Writer Alberto Pincherle Moravia aka Il Conformista, is found dead in his bathroom at the age of 82 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 1997
(x) 234 Die in Garuda Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Medan, Indonesia.
10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 2003
(-) Murderer Joseph Bates is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 2003
(x) 234 Die in MV Joola Senegalese ferry capsizing in Gambia.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 September 2007
(x) A mistrial is declared in the case against 66-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles, California, United States.
5 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 September 2008
(-) Actor Paul Leonard Newman dies of lung cancer at the age of 83 in Westport, Connecticut, United States.
4 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 September 2009
(x) 76-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, is arrested for a 2005 international arrest warrant for his 1977 sexual assault case in Zurich airport, Switzerland.
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