(-) Poet Dante Alighieri originally Durente degli Alighieri, dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Italy.
538 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 September 1475
(+) Lord, cardinal and Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is born in Rome, Italy.
274 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 September 1739
(+) Statesman Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin is born in Smolensk, Russia.
139 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 September 1874
(+) Composer Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 September 1904
(+) Mother of Martin Luther Alberta Christine Williams King is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
97 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 September 1916
(+) Writer Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, Wales, United Kingdom.
82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 September 1931
(x) 22 die in a bomb-attack and subsequent derailment of the Orient Express by Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, on a viaduct in Torbagy, Hungary.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 September 1944
(+) Actress Jacqueline Winifred Fraser Bisset is born in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 September 1946
(-) Murderer Kenneth W. M. Bailey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 September 1956
(+) IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O'hUrsain, is born in Cappagh, Tyrone, Ireland.
47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 September 1966
(-) Ursula Rohling is killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 20 in Marl, Försterbusch Park, Germany.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 September 1971
(x) After 4 days of riots 63-year-old Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller orders 1000 State Troopers and National Guardsmen to storm Attica Prison in New York, New York, USA.
Over 40 people including 11 hostage prison guards died.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 September 1974
(x) The members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion start their third hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.
It was announced by Ulrike Meinhof while she stood trial for the freeing of Andreas Baader in Berlin.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 September 1975
(-) Liane Woessner is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 11 in Bruchsal, Germany.
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Simpletones in de Bajes" with The Simpletones in an old prison in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 September 1984
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is arrested and charged with theft in Rostow, Russia.
At the trial, three weeks later, he is released due to lack of evidence.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 September 1984
(x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 September 1986
(x) 250 Die in overloaded ferry shipwreck in Barisal, Bangladesh.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 September 1995
(-) Murderer Jimmie Wayne Jeffers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 September 1996
(-) Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 25 in Las Vegas, University Medical Center, Nevada, USA.
He had been shot four times in a drive-by shooting six days earlier.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 September 2007
(x) Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Alexander Pichushkin aka The Bitsevsky Maniac, in Moscow, Russia.
He is accused of 62 murders, his plan was to kill 64, one for each square on a chess board.
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