(+) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, is born in Grottamare, Italy.
273 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 December 1740
(+) Composer Franz Xaver Schnitzer is born in Urtsbach, Germany.
231 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 December 1782
(-) Cannibal Blaise Ferrage Seye is broken on the wheel and exposed to die on the gibbet at the age of 25 in the United Kingdom.
216 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 December 1797
(+) Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
(+) Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, is born in Neuruppin, Germany.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 December 1912
(-) Murderer Mike Morgan is executed by hanging in Oregon, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 December 1912
(-) Murderer Fiaulder Noble is executed by hanging in Oregon, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 December 1912
(-) Murderer Frank Garrison is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Oregon, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 December 1912
(-) Double murderer H. E. Roberts is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, United States.
100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 December 1913
(x) 32-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested when he tried to sell the "Mona Lisa", stolen by him 2,5 years earlier, to an antique dealer in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 December 1925
(+) Actor Dick Van Dyke is born in West Plains, Montana, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 December 1930
(-) Wife-murderer Charles Chapin aka Sing Sing’s Rose Man, dies at the age of 72 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 December 1934
(-) Murderer Ruf Satterfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in North Carolina, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 December 1937
(x) The Imperial Japanese Army marches into China, slaughtering over 50.000 people in less than 2 months in Nanking, China.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 December 1944
(-) Artist Wassily Vasiliewitsch Kandinsky dies at the age of 78 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 December 1944
(-) Actress Lupe Maria Guadelupe Villalobos Vélez commits suicide by an overdose of Secobarbital at the age of 36 in Glendale, California, United States.
Instead of dying from the overdose, her stomach got upset and she drowned while vomiting in the toilet.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 December 1945
(-) Guard and Senior Supervisor in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Irma Grese aka The Beast of Belsen, is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Hameln Gaol, Germany.
Also hanged on this occasion are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juanna Bormann, Josef Kramer, Dr. Fritz Klein and 8 more leaders of the Belzen-KZ. Her last word to executioner Albert Pierrepoint was: "Schnell!".
65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 December 1948
(+) Musician Ted Theodore Nugent aka The Atrocious Theodocious, is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 December 1954
(-) Murderess Styllou Christofi is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in London, Holloway Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 December 1959
(-) Billy Peterson dies of spontaneous human combustion in Michigan, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 December 1967
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Hans Johannes Marinus Van Zon is arrested in Utrecht, Netherlands.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 December 1970
(-) James Glass is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 14 in Houston, Columbia, Texas, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 December 1971
(x) 46-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is convicted to 30 years imprisonment in Winchester, Jersey.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 December 1973
(-) Marietta and Agnos Di Girolamo are shot by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 31 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Agnos survived.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 December 1973
(x) 42-year-old Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim James Warren Jones is arrested for solliciting a vice officer in a cinema-toilet in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He had been watching "Dirty Harry".
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 December 1977
(-) Kimberley Martin aka Donna, is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 December 1977
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed Abdullah al-Nami is born in Saudi Arabia.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 December 1984
(-) USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolai Sjetsjelokow commits suicide by a shot in the head after a degradation at the age of 75 in Russia.
25 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 December 1988
(-) Murderer Raymond Landry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
Pronounced dead 40 minutes after being strapped to the execution gurney and 24 minutes after the drugs first started flowing into his arms. Two minutes into the killing, the syringe came out of Landry's vein, spraying the deadly chemicals across the room toward the witnesses. The execution team had to reinsert the catheter into the vein. The curtain was drawn for 14 minutes so witnesses could not see the intermission.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 December 1995
(-) Murderer James Griddle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 December 1995
(x) A search of the house of 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux fails to discover 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo who are kept in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium.
5 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 December 2008
(-) Actor Horst Tappert aka Stephan Derrick, dies at the age of 85 in Planegg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
2 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 December 2011
(-) Mass Murderer Nordine Amrani commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 33 in Liège, Place Saint Lambert, Liège, Belgium.
Minutes before he killed five people with grenades and a fussilage.
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