(-) Poet and philosopher Titus Carus Lucretius commits suicide by drinking a love potion at the age of 44 in Italy.
(-) 202nd Pope Urbanus VI originally Bartolomeo Prignano, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
449 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 October 1564
(-) Anatomist Andreas Vesalius dies at the age of 49 in Zakynthos, Greece.
422 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1591
(-) 229th Pope Gregorius XIV originally Niccolo Spondrati, dies at the age of 56 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
197 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1816
(x) 28-year-old Poet George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron, visits the Ambrosian Library to read the love letters of Lucrezia Borgia and steals a lock of her hair in Milano, Milano, Italy.
169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1844
(+) Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is born in Rocken, Sachsen, Germany.
132 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 October 1881
(+) Writer Pelham ‘Plum’ Grenville Wodehouse is born in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.
96 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 October 1917
(-) Spy Margaretha Geertruida Zelle aka Mata Hari, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 41 in Vinçennes, France.
93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 October 1920
(+) Writer Mario Gianluigi Puzo is born in Manhattan, New York, United States.
87 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 October 1926
(+) Philosopher Michel Foucault is born in Poitiers, France.
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 October 1932
(+) Artist Wolf Vostell is born in Leverkusen, Germany.
78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1935
(-) Rapist and multiple murderer Jerry Gerald Thompson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Joliet Prison, Illinois, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1935
(-) Murderer John Favorito is executed by Old Sparky in Trenton State Prison, United States.
The executioner is almost knocked out when he touches the body, which was loaded with electric current after the execution.
75 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 October 1938
(+) Musician and politician Fela Anikulapo Kuti originally Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, is born in Abeokuta, Nigeria.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1940
(+) Student Benno Ohnesorg is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 October 1941
(-) Mass Cop Killer Eric Stanley George Graham is shot dead by the police in New Zealand.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 October 1945
(-) Politician and Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 62 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1946
(-) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 53 in Nürnberg Prison, Bayern, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1946
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Bernhard Rössner is born in München, Bayern, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 October 1946
(+) Musician Richard Lynn Carpenter is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
57 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 October 1956
(+) Mass Murderer George Hennard is born in Texas, United States.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 October 1959
(x) 20-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is discharged from the US Army because of his bizarre obsessions in Fort Gordon, Georgia, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 October 1962
(+) Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, is born in Vitry-le-François, France.
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 October 1964
(-) Musician Cole Albert Porter dies of pneumonia and a heart attack at the age of 72 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 October 1966
(x) The Black Panther Party is founded by 24-year-old Black Panther Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 October 1967
(+) Murderer Desmond Keith Carter is born in North Carolina, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 October 1967
(-) Protester Florence Beaumont commits suicide by self-immolation in Los Angeles, Federal Building, California, United States.
She was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 October 1971
(-) Marie-Therese Rosseel is assaulted, stabbed to death, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 18 in Muizen, Muizenhoek 1, Antwerp, Belgium.
41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 October 1972
(-) Laura Brook is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Bellingham, Washington, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 October 1977
(-) Christine Eadie is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 17 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 October 1982
(x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 October 1982
(x) 24-year-old Ralf Erb is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed by Serial Killer Kurt Steinwegs in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 October 1983
(-) An unidentified boy is found as skeletonised victim by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Rensseler, Indiana, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 October 1984
(x) Fourth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Liberal Politic Centre, Brussels, Belgium.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 October 1986
(-) Ex-wife of Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline Picasso commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 60 in Mougins, Villa Notre Dame de la Vie, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 October 1992
(x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is sentenced to death in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.
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