(+) Humanist Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The exact year of birth is not known, it could also be 1469.
285 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1728
(+) Explorer Captain James Cook is born in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
231 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 October 1782
(+) Composer Niccolo Paganini is born in Genova, Italy.
155 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1858
(+) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York, New York, United States.
140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1873
(+) Murderer Johan Alfred Andersson Ander is born in Ljustero, Sweden.
117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 October 1896
(+) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, is born in Cape Colony, South Africa.
99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 October 1914
(+) Poet Dylan Marlais Thomas is born in Swansea, United Kingdom.
94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1919
(-) Michele Pepitone is murdered as last known victim by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 October 1923
(+) Artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein is born in New York City, New York, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 October 1923
(-) Heinz Brinkmann is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 13 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
(+) Mass murderer Perry Edward Smith aka In Cold Blood, is born in Huntington, Nevada, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1932
(x) Murderer Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, attends a surgical emergency room, having tried to cut off his penis in New York, New York, United States.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 October 1939
(+) Actor John Marwood Cleese is born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1954
(+) Artist Michael Mike Kelley is born in Wayne, Michigan, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1958
(-) Luis Garavito is abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 28 in Tustin, California, United States.
In an ensuing fight, they are spotted by a highway patrolman, and Glatman is arrested.
49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 October 1964
(-) An unidentified girl is raped and abused by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 October 1975
(-) Teenage Sex-Killer Robert Poulin commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Ottawa, St. Pius X High School, Ontario, Canada.
He was obsessed with sex and pornography, and had written about wanting to have sex before he died. He had been suicidal at least three years prior to his attack which killed one and injured five students.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1977
(-) Writer James Mallahan Cain dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 85 in Hyattsville, Maryland, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1977
(x) The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are buried in Stuttgart, Waldfriedhof Cemetary, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1982
(-) Olga Kuprina is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Kastachji Lagerja, Russia.
30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 October 1983
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is arrested in his house in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 October 1989
(-) Patty Ives is strangled and her neck broken by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 25 in Genesee Gorge, New York, United States.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 October 1996
(-) Victor Rossi is beaten to death as first victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 41 in Prairieville, Texas, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 October 1999
(-) Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
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