(+) 249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, is born in Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, Italy.
248 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1765
(-) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
198 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 October 1815
(-) Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap dies at the age of 44 in Massachusetts, United States.
150 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1863
(+) Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is born in San Saba County, Texas, United States.
127 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1886
(+) Statesman Chang Kai-Shek is born in Xikou, China.
107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 October 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 October 1913
(-) Murderer Mike Spanos is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Oregon, United States.
100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 October 1913
(-) Murderer Frank Seymour is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Oregon, United States.
(-) Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1920
(+) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1926
(-) Magician Harry Houdini dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Detroit, Grace Hospital, Room 401, Michigan, United States.
He was punched in the stomach several times by Joselyn Gordon Whitehead at his own request on 22 october 1926 which caused his appendicitis.
87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1926
(x) An unidentified 15-year-old boy who tried to kill 43-year-old Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is lynched by a mad mob in Bologna, Italy.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1929
(+) Actor Bud Spencer originally Carlo Pedersoli, is born in Naples, Italy.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1936
(+) Actor Michael Landon originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz, is born in Forest Hills, New York, United States.
75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 October 1938
(-) An unidentified woman dies as result of a cyclopropane explosion while undergoing breast surgery at the age of 44 in Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The source of ignition was static electricity.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1940
(+) Musician and founder of The Beatles Eric Ronald Griffiths is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 October 1950
(+) Actor John Franklin Candy is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 October 1961
(-) Murderer Honor Robinson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1974
(-) Laura Aime is abducted and strangled by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 October 1981
(-) ‘Orange Socks’ is strangled by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, in Oklahoma, United States.
She was found along the Interstate 35 and remains unidentified.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 October 1984
(-) President Indira Pridar Shini Gandhi shot dead by her Sikh body-guards Beant Singh and Sawant Singh at the age of 66 in New Delhi, India.
20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1993
(-) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1993
(-) Actor River Jude Phoenix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 23 in Hollywood, California, United States.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 October 1996
(x) 99 Die in TAM Fokker crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 October 1999
(x) 217 Die in Egypt Air Flight 990 Boeing 767-366ER crash in Nantucket, the Atlantic Ocean.
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