(+) Explorer Marco Polo is born in Venice, Italy.
573 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 September 1440
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Gilles De Rais is arrested in Nantes, France.
156 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 September 1857
(+) 27th president of the USA William Howard Taft is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
132 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 September 1881
(+) Automobile designer Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti is born in Milan, Italy.
123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 September 1890
(+) Writer Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie is born in Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom.
119 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 September 1894
(+) Filmmaker Jean Renoir is born in Paris, France.
102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 September 1911
(+) Murderess Lea Papin is born in Le Mans, France.
94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 September 1919
(+) Cycling legend Fausto Angelo Coppi aka Il Campionissimo, is born in Catsellania, Italy.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 September 1935
(-) Isabella “Belle” Kerr is strangled by Buck Ruxton in Lancaster, Dalton Square 2, United Kingdom.
In order to prevent their housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, from discovering his crime before he could dispose of the body, he suffocated her too.
72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 September 1941
(-) Britain’s oldest bachelor Alfred Arnold dies at the age of 112 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 September 1942
(+) Murderer Leon Jerome Moser is born in Pennsylvania, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 September 1945
(-) Composer Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern is shot dead by US-soldiers during curfew at the age of 61 in Vienna, Austria.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 September 1946
(+) Filmmaker Oliver Stone is born in New York, New York, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 September 1970
(x) The Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen helps 49-year-old Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary escape from the California Men's Colony prison where he had been locked up for four years for the possession of marihuana in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 September 1974
(x) 71 die when hi-jackers blow up a Boeing 727 in the air in Phan Rang, Vietnam.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 September 1977
(-) Robert Gilroy is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
(-) Airplane designer and pioneer Wilhelm Emil Messerschmidt dies at the age of 80 in München, Germany.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 September 1987
(-) Stephen Tuomi is strangled and cut to pieces as second victim by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in Milwaukee, Ambassador Hotel, Wisconsin, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 September 1996
(-) Serial Killer and accomplice to Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Elwood Toole aka The Hand of Death, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 49 in Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 September 1997
(x) 43-year-old Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise kills four co-workers at the R.E. Phelon Lawn Mower Company in Alken, South Carolina, USA.
Afterwards he swallowed insecticide in a suicide attempt, but survived.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 September 1999
(-) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Horst Ludwig Meyer is shot dead by the police during his arrest at the age of 43 in Vienna, Austria.
His girlfriend was arrested. Meyer was the last RAF member to die violently during the organisation's lifetime.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 September 2004
(-) Punk Rocker Johnny Ramone originally John William Cummings, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 September 2006
(-) Journalist Oriana Fallaci dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Florence, Italy.
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