(+) King of Scotland Alexander III is born in Roxburg, Scotland, United Kingdom.
He was only seven years old when he attained the crown of Scotland. Two years later he married the daughter of Henry III.
245 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 September 1768
(+) Writer and diplomat François-René de Chateaubriand aka The Father of Romanticism, is born in Saint-Malo, France.
189 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 September 1824
(+) Composer Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria.
125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 September 1888
(+) Artist Oskar Schlemmer is born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
122 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 September 1891
(+) Founder of the Organisation Todt Fritz Todt is born in Pforzheim, Germany.
117 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 September 1896
(+) Theatre theorist Antonin Marie Joseph Artaud aka The Theatre of Cruelty, is born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 September 1904
(+) Chief Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz KZ Eduard Wirths is born in Geroldshausen, Germany.
106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 September 1907
(-) Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg dies at the age of 64 in Bergen, Norway.
98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 September 1915
(+) Kammersänger Rudolf Johann Schock is born in Duisburg, Germany.
(-) Anna Pascal is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 38 in Gambais, France.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 September 1940
(-) Murderer William Nelson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 September 1963
(x) 80 Die in Swissair Flight SR306 Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III crash in Dürrenäsch, Switzerland.
43 victims came from the same small village of Humlikon.
48 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 September 1965
(-) Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer dies of respiratory insufficiency and urine-poisoning at the age of 90 in Lambarene, Equatorial Africa.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 September 1971
(x) 111 Die in Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 Boeing 727 crash in Juneau, Alaska, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 September 1972
(-) Alexandra Clery is presumably beaten to death as 30th victim by Zodiac at the age of 24 in Oakland, California, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 September 1977
(-) Elizabeth Wolf is stabbed to death by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, in Davis, California, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 September 1982
(x) 22-year-old Mass Murderer Humberto De La Torre sets fire to his uncle’s Dorothy Mae hotel and kills 24 guests, including 11 members of his family in Los Angeles, California, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 September 1989
(-) Writer Georges Joseph Christian Simenon dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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