(+) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is born in Loyola, Italy.
489 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1524
(-) Explorer Vasco da Gama dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Kochi, India.
204 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1809
(+) Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson is born in Madison County, Kentucky, United States.
128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 December 1885
(-) Mrs Rooney dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ottawa, Illinois, United States.
127 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 December 1886
(+) Aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud Sergei Konstantonowitch Pankejev aka Der Wolfsmann, is born in Odessa, Russia.
(x) 35-year-old Artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off the lob of his left ear in Arles, Rue du Bout d'Aeles, France.
He supposedly gave it to a prostitute named Rachel.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1905
(+) Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes is born in Houston, Texas, United States.
100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1913
(+) Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt is born in New York, New York, United States.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1922
(+) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner is born in Brogden, North Carolina, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 December 1932
(+) Artist On Kawara is born in Kariya, Japan.
78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 December 1935
(-) Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg dies of blood poisoning due to an insect bite at the age of 50 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1939
(+) Serial Killer Dean Arnold Corll aka The Candyman, is born in Fort Wayne, Waynedale, Indiana, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1941
(+) Murderer Robert Lee Massie is born in California, United States.
60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 December 1953
(x) 155 Die in North Island Main Trunk express train derailment in Tangiwai, New Zealand.
The train plunged into the Whangaehu River.
52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1961
(+) Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is born in Hong Kong.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 December 1963
(-) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, dies at the age of 67 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 December 1966
(-) Janina Kozielska is slashed to ribbons by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Poland.
The body was found on the night-train from Krakow to Warsaw.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 December 1966
(x) 129 Die in US military CL-44 crash in South Vietnam.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1969
(+) Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 December 1974
(-) Ernst Dorf is is beaten to death with a stone by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 59 in Gifhorn, Germany.
38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1975
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, attacks 2 unidentified girls with a knife in New York, New York, United States.
They both survived.
38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1975
(-) Composer Bernard Herrmann dies of cardio-vascular disease at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 December 1976
(-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 85 in London, Mayfair, London City of, United Kingdom.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1978
(-) Andrew Robinson is stabbed to death by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 13 in Gifhorn, Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 December 1979
(-) Student-leader Rudi Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke dies of drowning after an epileptic seizure while in his bathtub at the age of 39 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Because of massive brain damage from an assassination attempt on 11 april 1968 he continued to suffer health problems which finally led to his death.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 1980
(-) Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz dies at the age of 89 in Aumühle, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 December 1982
(-) Writer Luis Aragon dies at the age of 85 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 December 1995
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills the Zaichenkos, a family of four, with a hunting rifle in Ukraïne, Russia.
5 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 December 2008
(-) Dramatist Harold Pinter dies of liver cancer at the age of 78 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
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