(-) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller dies due to excessive opium abuse at the age of 69 in Bern, Switzerland.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1821
(+) Writer Gustave Flaubert is born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
166 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 December 1847
(+) Criminologist Hans Gross is born in Graz, Austria.
(+) Artist Edvard Munch is born in Loten, Hedmark, Norway.
138 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 December 1875
(+) War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt is born in Aschersleben, Germany.
130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1883
(-) Mien Frankenhuizen-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, Netherlands.
128 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 December 1885
(+) Futurist artist Wladimir Jewgrafowitsch Tatlin is born in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 December 1901
(x) 27-year-old Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi realizes the first radio transmission across the Atlantic in St. Johns, Signal Hill, Newfoundland.
100 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 December 1913
(-) Alice Burnham is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, at the age of 25 in Blackpool, United Kingdom.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 December 1915
(+) Singer and actor Frank Francis Albert Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes aka The Voice, is born in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1917
(x) Over 500 Die in train derailment in Modane, France.
96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1917
(+) Serial Killer Edward Joseph Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, is born in New York, New York, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1934
(x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested in a rooming house in New York, 200 East 52nd Street, New York, United States.
74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 December 1939
(-) Actor Douglas Fairbanks originally Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 December 1941
(+) Musician Dionne Warwick is born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States.
67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 December 1946
(-) Lucie S. is beaten to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 55 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 December 1949
(+) Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs is born in Gralla, Styria, Austria.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1951
(-) Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 December 1965
(+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Richard Guerrero is born in Wisconsin, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 December 1965
(-) Irena S. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 57 in Czeladz, Poland.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 December 1969
(x) Fascist bomb attack in Milano, Piazza della Fontana, Milano, Italy.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1984
(-) Murderer Alpha Otis Stephens is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 39 in United States.
After the first jolt of electricity failed to kill him , Stephens struggled for eight minutes before a second charge finished the job. The first jolt took two minutes, and there was a six minute pause so his body could cool before physicians could examine him (and declare that another jolt was needed.) During that six-minute interval, Stephens took 23 breaths.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 December 1985
(x) 258 Die in Arrow Air Flight 1285 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF crash in Gander, Newfoundland.
25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 December 1988
(-) Erika Namba is abducted and strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Kawagoe, Japan.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 1990
(-) Oljoscha Chobotow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Schachty’s main cemetary, Russia.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 December 1994
(-) Murderer Raymond Kinnemon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 December 1996
(-) Rapist and murderer Lem Tuggle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Virginia, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 December 1999
(-) Writer Joseph Heller dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in East Hampton, New York, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 December 2000
(x) 41-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "DDV en Danger" in Grenoble, Ecole Supérieure d'Art, France.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 2001
(-) Bankrobber and Cop Killer Vincent Edward Cooks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 December 2007
(-) Musician Ike Wister Turner dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in San Marcos, California, United States.
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