(-) Writer Jonathan Swift dies at the age of 77 in Dublin, Ireland.
155 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1858
(+) Wife-murderer Charles Chapin aka Sing Sing’s Rose Man, is born in New York, New York, United States.
151 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 October 1862
(+) Film pioneer Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière is born in Besançon, France.
131 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1882
(+) Artist Umberto Boccioni is born in Reccio di Calabria, Italy.
120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1893
(-) Abolitionist and Suffragette Lucy Stone dies of stomach cancer at the age of 75 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
116 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1897
(-) Inventor and ruthless industrialist George Mortimer Pullman known for the Pullman Sleeping Car, dies at the age of 66 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
104 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1909
(-) Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso dies at the age of 70 in Turin, Italy.
87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1926
(-) Beatrice Withers is raped and strangled as sixth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 October 1927
(+) Plotter of the assassination of president De Gaulle, Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry is born in Lunéville, France.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1928
(-) Kidnapper and Murderer Edward Hickman is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1931
(+) Writer John le Carré originally David John Moore Cornwell, is born in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.
(-) Artist Camille Claudel dies at the age of 78 in Montfavet, France.
She spent the last 30 years of her life in the Asile de Montdevergues.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1944
(+) Murderer Ronald Clark O’Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer, is born in Pasadena, Texas, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 October 1944
(+) Musician Peter Tosh originally Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Stepping Razor, is born in Kingston, Jamaïca.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1945
(+) Actor Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine, The Dirtiest Man in the World, is born in Towson, Maryland, United States.
57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1956
(+) Physician Carlo Urbani known for first identifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome aka SARS, is born in Castelplanio, Italy.
54 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1959
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 28-year-old woman in St. Martin’s, Jersey.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1964
(-) VietCong terrorist Nguyen Van Troi is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 17 in Saigon, Vietnam.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1970
(-) Victor Ohta is shot dead by John Linley Frazier at the age of 47 in Santa Cruz, Soquel, California, United States.
In the same event also the Ohta children 11-year-old Taggart, 12-year-old Derrick and their nurse Dorothy Cadwallader are killed.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 October 1974
(-) Doris Hovey is shot through the head by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, at the age of 53 in Woodford, Virginia, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 October 1976
(-) Murderer Michaian Shobek is executed by hanging in Nassau, Bahamas.
33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 October 1980
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Vlaamse Primitieven" with Kamagurka and De Vlaamse Primitieven in Koningshooikt, Zaal Alcazar, Belgium.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 October 1983
(x) 4 skeletonised victims of 30-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, are found in Lake Village, Indiana, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1984
(-) Catholic Priest Jerzy Popieluszko is kidnapped and murdered by the secret police Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa at the age of 37 in Poland.
His body was found 10 days later in the Vistula Water Reservoir.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 1984
(x) In a nation-wide ‘Mammouth’-operation the authorities try to track down members of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 October 1985
(x) Nineteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Namur, Military Promotion Centre, Namur, Belgium.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1987
(x) 5 of the highest ranked generals of the Red Army, Vladimir Sjoetov, Erlen Porfiyev, Vladimir Bardashevsky, Kiril Trofimov and Joeri Rybinin are killed in a helicopter crash in Russia.
25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 October 1988
(x) 131 Die in Air India Boeing 737 crash in Ahmadabad, India.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 1998
(-) Serial Killer Fritz Honka dies at the age of 63 in Hamburg-Langenhorn, Krankenhaus Ochsenzoll, Germany.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 October 2007
(-) Writer Jan Wolkers dies of erysipelas aka "holy Fire" at the age of 82 in Texel, Netherlands.
4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 October 2009
(-) Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh dies at the age of 88 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.
He was confined to the high-security Vroom Building for the criminally insane at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital until 1993, when he was transferred across the grounds to less restrictive wards in a geriatric unit.
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