(-) Violin craftsman Antonio Stradivari dies at the age of 94 in Cremona, Italy.
(+) Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen is born in Graz, Austria.
134 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1879
(+) Artist Paul Klee is born in Munchen-Buchesee, Switzerland.
134 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1879
(+) Statesman Josef Vissarionowitsch Dzugashvili Stalin is born in Gori, Georgia, Russia.
123 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1890
(+) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong is born in New York, New York, United States.
121 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 December 1892
(x) First performance of the ballet "The Nutcracker" by 52-year-old Composer Peter Ilyitsch Tchaikowsky in St. Petersburg, Marlinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia.
106 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 December 1907
(x) Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is released from prison in the United Kingdom.
99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 December 1914
(-) Margaret Lofty is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, in London, Highgate, London City of, United Kingdom.
97 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 December 1916
(+) Pin-up and actress Betty Elizabeth Ruth Grable aka The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs, is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.
70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 December 1943
(+) Rolling Stone Keith Richards is born in Kent, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 December 1946
(+) Nationalist Leader Steve Stephen Bantu Biko is born in King William's Town, South Africa.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1947
(+) Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
65 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 December 1948
(+) Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is born in Santa Cruz, California, United States.
65 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 December 1948
(-) Janet Fay is hammered to death by Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers, at the age of 0 in Long Island, New York, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 December 1964
(+) Actor Brad Pitt is born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 December 1967
(-) Child-Murderer Gunther Voltz is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Metz, France.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 December 1979
(x) 23-year-old Necrophile Karen Greenlee is arrested after an attempt to commit suicide by an overdose of pain-killers in Alleghany, Sierra County, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1980
(-) USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1980
(x) 33-year-old Mass Murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, and Roland Feneuille are convicted to death in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1986
(-) Murderer Richard Andrade is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 December 1987
(-) Sound engineer Konrad Conny Plank dies at the age of 47 in Köln, Germany.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 1997
(x) 55-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is rushed to a hospital only hours after her appeal against having to spend the rest of her life in jail was turned down in Durham, United Kingdom.
12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 December 2001
(-) Musician Gilbert Bécaud dies at the age of 74 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 December 2003
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Richard Arinaitwe is sentenced to death in Kampala, Uganda.
He killed Maria Goetz in 1998 and was suspected in 6 more killings.
2 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 December 2011
(-) Writer and president Václav Havel dies at the age of 75 in Hráde ek, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
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