(+) Composer Giuseppe Verdi is born in Roncole, Parma, Italy.
124 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 October 1889
(+) Painter and forger Han Henricus Antonius Van Meegeren is born in Deventer, Netherlands.
119 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 October 1894
(-) Howard Pitezel is strangled by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Indianapolis, Irvington, Indiana, United States.
112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 October 1901
(+) Artist Alberto Giacometti is born in Borgonova, Graubunden, Switzerland.
110 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1903
(-) Murderer Willis Burton is executed by Old Sparky in United States.
110 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1903
(-) Murderer Fred Van Wormer is executed by Old Sparky in United States.
100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 October 1913
(x) 136 Die in Volturno shipwreck in the Atlantic.
96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 October 1917
(+) Composer Thelonius Sphere Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 October 1923
(-) Child Murderess Susan Newell is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Glasgow, Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 October 1924
(+) Filmmaker Edward D. Davis Wood Jr. is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1925
(x) 25-year-old Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, marries Anna Schoeffler in New York, New York, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1925
(+) Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio, is born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 October 1930
(+) Dramatist Harold Pinter is born in London, Hackney, London City of, United Kingdom.
82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1931
(x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, is arrested in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 October 1933
(+) Hair stylist and Manson Family victim Jay Sebring originally Thomas John Kummer, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 October 1939
(-) Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Greene Elliott dies at the age of 65 in Hamlin, New York, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 October 1947
(+) Shocking Blue singer Mariska Veres is born in Den Haag, Netherlands.
65 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 October 1948
(+) Victim of John Reginald Christie, Geraldine Evans daughter of Beryl and Timothy Evans, The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 October 1949
(x) 20-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for forgery in Maryville, Missouri, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 October 1949
(-) Leopold and Esther Goodman are murdered by Daniel Raven in Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1970
(x) 49-year-old Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is kidnapped by the Front de Libération de Quebec in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 October 1970
(x) Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Queens traffic-court building in support for the prison riots in New York, New York, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 October 1972
(-) James Willet is shot dead, beheaded and buried on a hikers trail by The Manson Family at the age of 26 in San Francisco, Guerneville, California, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 October 1980
(-) Cherie Ayers is raped and killed by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 October 1985
(-) Actor Yul Yuliy Borisovich Brynner dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in New York, New York, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 October 1985
(-) Actor and filmmaker George Orson Welles dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 October 1986
(-) Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gerold Von Braunmuhl is shot dead by Rote Armee Fraktion in Bonn, Germany.
The Ingrid Schubert Commando claims responsability.
9 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 October 2004
(-) Actor Christopher D’Olier Reeve aka Superman, dies of heart failure at the age of 52 in New York, New York, United States.
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