(-) 200th Pope Urbanus V originally Guillaume de Grimoard, dies at the age of 61 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
(-) Writer Emily Jane Brontë dies of a bad cold and tuberculosis at the age of 30 in Haworth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
162 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1851
(-) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner dies at the age of 76 in London, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk, London City of, United Kingdom.
He is said to have uttered the last words "The sun is God" before expiring.
130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1883
(-) Hendrik Frankenhuizen is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, Netherlands.
107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1906
(+) Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev is born in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraïne, Russia.
106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1907
(x) 239 Die in coal-mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, United States.
103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 December 1910
(+) Writer and thief Jean Genet is born in Paris, Maternité de la Rue d’Assas 22, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 December 1915
(+) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
Somewhere in the street, on a policeman’s coat.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 December 1915
(-) Neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1925
(-) Black Lindsey Coleman is lynched because he wasn’t guilty of murder in Clarksdale, Missouri, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1925
(-) Composer Jose Ignacio Quinton dies at the age of 44 in Puerto Rico.
82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1931
(x) 34-year-old Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels marries Johanna Maria Magdalena ‘Engelchen’ Behrend in Severin, Germany.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1934
(-) Husband Murderess Ethel Lille Major is executed by hanging in Hull Prison, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1946
(-) Mrs. G. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 44 in Braunschweig, Germany.
57 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 December 1956
(x) 57-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested on suspicion of four murders in Lewes, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1959
(-) Jillian Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 22 in Perth, Cottesloe, Stirling Highway, Australia.
49 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 December 1964
(-) Christiane Herreman is raped and strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 21 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1968
(-) Nora Wenzl is slashed to ribbons by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 14 in Staffelstein, Germany.
42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 December 1971
(-) Barbara Fields is abducted, assaulted and raped by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 18 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
She survived.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1975
(x) 27-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the attempted assassination of president Ford in Sacramento, California, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 December 1977
(-) John Swint is shot dead by Ottis Toole aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 67 in Houston, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 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.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 December 1996
(-) Actor Marcello Mastroianni dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1997
(x) 16-year-old Serial Killer Ershov is arrested after a 34-year-old woman managed to escape following an attack in a city park in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
During police interrogation, Ershov confessed to killing two of the five women murdered in Losiny Ostrov park over a two-month period.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 December 1997
(x) 104 Die in SilkAir Flight 185 Boeing 737-300 crash in Palembang, Indonesia.
Due to the high speed, the entire aircraft and passengers disintegrated upon impact.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 December 2000
(-) Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
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