(-) 95th Pope Hadrianus I dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.
150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1863
(+) Film pioneer Charles Pathé is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
135 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1878
(+) Racer and founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company Louis-Joseph Chevrolet is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
131 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1882
(+) Make-up queen Helena Chaja Rubinstein is born in Krakow, Poland.
128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1885
(+) Actor John Bowers originally John E Bowersox, is born in Garrett, Indiana, United States.
126 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1887
(+) Hotel-magnate Conrad Nicholson Sr. Hilton is born in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States.
122 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1891
(-) Julia Connor is murdered by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Chicago, Holmes Castle, Illinois, United States.
120 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1893
(+) Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson originally Graydon, is born in London, Dalston, London City of, United Kingdom.
116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 December 1897
(-) Mary Spink is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1899
(+) Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart is born in New York City, New York, United States.
105 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1908
(+) Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, is born in Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom.
102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1911
(+) Artist Louise Bourgeois is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1914
(+) Murderer Grady B. Cole is born in Arizona, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1918
(+) President Anwar Al Sadat is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt.
89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 December 1924
(+) Twilight Zone host Rod Rodman Edward Serling is born in Syracuse, New York, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1925
(+) Writer Carlos Castaneda is born in Cajamarca, Peru.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1940
(+) Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is born in The Bronx, New York, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 December 1946
(-) Filmmaker W.C. Fields dies of a stomach-bleeding at the age of 66 in Pasadena, California, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1949
(+) Actress Sissy Spacek is born in Quitman, Texas, United States.
61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 December 1952
(x) 47-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, United States.
It’s her sixth attempt to escape, she is recaptured 46 hours later.
54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 1959
(-) Irmgard Feder is attacked and mutilated by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 19 in Freberg, Germany.
She survived.
52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1961
(+) Son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Mike Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 December 1971
(x) 163 Die in Taejongak Hotel fire in Seoul, Korea.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1977
(-) Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin dies at the age of 88 in Vaud, Switzerland.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1977
(+) Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, is born in Kuwait.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 December 1982
(-) John R. Johnson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 25 in Belshaw, Indiana, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1983
(+) Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family and Joan Svege, Benjamin Charles Watson is born in Texas, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 December 1983
(-) Artist Juan Mirò dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 90 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1989
(-) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 71 in Romania.
He and his 70-year-old wife Elena had been sentenced to death by a People’s Court.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 1995
(-) Actor Dean Martin originally Dino Crocetti aka The King of Cool, dies of lung cancer at the age of 78 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
(x) 53-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is found drunk in his prison cell in Cambridgeshire, Whitemoor Prison, United Kingdom.
It is thought he had been bingeing on homemade moonshine.
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-) Musician James Joseph Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-) Murderer Yoshimitsu Akiyama is executed by hanging at the age of 77 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-) Murderer Hiroaki Hidaka is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hiroshima, Japan.
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-) Murderer Yoshio Fujinami is executed by hanging at the age of 75 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 December 2006
(-) Murderer Michio Fukuoka is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Japan.
4 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 December 2009
(x) 23-year-old Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, attempts to detonate PETN and TAPN plastic explosives hidden in his underwear aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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