(-) Sixth wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr dies of complications from childbirth at the age of 36 in Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
(+) King of France Louis XIV originally Louis-Dieudonné aka The Sun King, is born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
239 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 1774
(+) Artist Caspar David Friedrich is born in Greifswald, Pomerania, Germany.
182 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 1831
(+) Dramatist Victorien Sardou is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
166 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 September 1847
(+) Outlaw Jesse Woodson James is born in Clay County, Missouri, United States.
126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 1887
(x) 186 Die in Theatre Royal fire in Exeter, United Kingdom.
108 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 September 1905
(+) Writer Arthur Koestler is born in Budapest, Hungary.
101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 September 1912
(+) Composer John Milton Cage is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
97 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 September 1916
(x) 21-year-old Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo Valentino is arrested by the New York Vice squad for conducting a badger game in a whorehouse in New York, New York, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 September 1930
(-) Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Leavenworth Prison, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 September 1931
(x) 27-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is injured in a boiler blowback and inhales poisonous gases at the United Electric & Power Company’s Hell Gate power station in New York, New York, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 1932
(-) Jean Harlow’s husband Paul Bern originally Paul Levy, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 42 in Benedict Canyon, California, United States.
He did it it in Jean’s bedroom, drenched in her perfume.
80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 September 1933
(-) Axel Kjellberg is shot dead by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor, in Sala, Sweden.
Kjellberg’s maid is also shot dead, Thurnemann was assisted by Eric Hedstrom.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 September 1934
(x) An unidentified torso aka The Lady in the Lake is found as presumable first victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland Euclid Beach, Ohio, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 September 1940
(+) Actress Raquel Welch originally Raquel Tejada, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 September 1942
(+) Filmmaker Werner Herzog originally Werner Stipetic, is born in München, Bayern, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 September 1946
(+) Musician Freddie Mercury originally Farrokh Bulsara, is born in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 September 1951
(x) 37-year-old Writer William Seward Burroughs shoots his wife Joan Vollmer Adams in a William Tell shooting-game in Mexico City, Bounty Bar, Mexico.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 September 1963
(+) Murderer Gary Graham aka Shaka Sankofa, is born in Houston, Texas, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 September 1969
(x) 26-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley is charged with murdering 109 South Vietnamese civilians in My Lai in Kansas, United States.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 September 1970
(-) Formule-1 racer Jochen Rindt dies in a crash while practicing for the Italian Grand Prix at the age of 28 in Monza, Italy.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 September 1970
(x) Psychotic Killer Dale Merle Nelson kills Mrs Shirley Wasyk, 7-year-old Tracy, 8-year-old Sharlene, Ray Phibbs, Isabelle St. Amand and 4 more children during an LSD-trip in West Creston, British Columbia, Canada.
42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 September 1971
(x) Mass Murderer John Freeman kills 7 relatives during a party in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 September 1972
(x) 11 Israelian athletes are shot dead by the Terrorist Movement Black September during the Olympic Games in München, Bayern, Germany.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 September 1975
(x) 62-year-old 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford is attacked by Manson Family-member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky in Sacramento, California, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 1977
(x) 62-year-old President of the German Employers’ Association Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
It marks the start of the "Deutsche Herbst".
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 September 1978
(x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Richard Clarke for sodomizing an unidentified 16-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 September 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Ladder - 2" in Antwerpen, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 September 1985
(-) Robert Bower is shot dead by Sean Sellers aka Web of Darkness, at the age of 32 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 1988
(-) Prostitute Olga Gaevskaya dies of aids at the age of 29 in Leningrad, Russia.
She is the first official victim of aids in the USSR.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 September 1997
(-) Humanitarian nun Mother Teresa originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, dies of heart-failure at the age of 87 in Calcutta, India.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 September 1997
(x) 35-year-old Murderer Wilford Berry aka The Volunteer, is attacked and badly injured by fellow inmates during a riot in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 September 2005
(x) 143 Die in Mandala Airlines Flight 091 Boeing 737-200 crash in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.
39 people died on the ground, 16 passengers survived.
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