(-) King of France Louis XIV originally Louis-Dieudonné aka The Sun King, dies of gangrene at the age of 77 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
He reigned France for 72 years, the longest monarch ever.
138 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 September 1875
(+) Creator of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 September 1887
(+) Writer Blaise Cendrars originally Frédéric Louis Sauser, is born in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
92 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 September 1921
(+) Writer Willem Frederik Hermans is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 September 1939
(x) Nazi Germany declares war to Poland, triggering World War II.
73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 September 1940
(+) Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, is born in Hersbruck, Germany.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 September 1957
(x) 175 Die in train derailment in Jamaïca.
It drove off a viaduct.
51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 September 1962
(-) Erich Hallbauer is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Ochenbrück, Sparkasse, Germany.
50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 September 1963
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, is arrested in Perth, Mount Pleasant, Rockwood Street, Australia.
46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 September 1967
(-) KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, commits suicide by hanging in her prison cell at the age of 60 in Aichach, Germany.
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Mohamed Elamir awad al-Sayed Atta is born in Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt.
43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 September 1970
(-) Writer François Charles Mauriac dies at the age of 84 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 September 1974
(x) 121 Die in train derailment in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 September 1979
(-) Barbara Leach is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 20 in Bradford, Back Ash Grove,
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 September 1981
(-) Nazi-architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 76 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 September 1982
(-) Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka dies at the age of 77 in Warsaw, Poland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 September 1982
(x) Serial Killer Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, is arrested in Bordeaux, France.
30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 September 1983
(x) 269 Die in Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Boeing 747-230B crash in Sakhalin, Russia.
The plane was shot by a Russian Jet pilot.
29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 September 1984
(x) 80-year-old Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali is heavily burned in a bed fire in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 September 1986
(x) 398 Die in Admiral Nachimov steamer and freighter collision in the Black Sea.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 September 1987
(x) 46-year-old Anti-war Activist Brian A. Willson has his legs driven off by a train while he tried to block the railway between a munitions-plant and the harbour in Concord, California Naval Weapons Station, California, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 September 1991
(-) Murderer James Russell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 September 1995
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, is convicted to 25 years imprisonment in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 September 1999
(-) Murderer Raymond J. Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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