(+) 8th president of the USA Martin Van Buren is born in Kinderhook, New York, United States.
222 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1791
(-) Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is presumably poisoned at the age of 35 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
143 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1870
(-) Writer Alexandre Dumas originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, dies at the age of 68 in Puys, Seine-Maritime, France.
123 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 December 1890
(+) Filmmaker Fritz Lang is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 December 1901
(+) Filmmaker Walt Walter Elias Disney is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
107 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 December 1906
(+) Actor and filmmaker Otto Ludwig Preminger is born in Czernowitz, Hungary.
87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 December 1926
(-) Artist Claude Oscar Monet dies of cataract at the age of 86 in Giverny, Aure, France.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 December 1930
(x) 66 Die in a mysterious poisonous gas cloud in Liège, Liège, Belgium.
81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1932
(+) Musician Little Richard is born in Macon, Georgia, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 December 1947
(x) Magick Master Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast 666, is cremated in Brighton, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 December 1947
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is sentenced to 12 years hard labour in Braunschweig, Germany.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1949
(x) 34-year-old Sex-Murderer Frederick Ducharme is arrested, wearing only a raincoat and rubber boots, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 December 1951
(+) Artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
60 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 December 1953
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, marries Irmgard in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 December 1962
(-) Sophie Clark is sexually assaulted and strangled as seventh victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 20 in Back Bay Boston, 315 Huntington Avenue, Massachusetts, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1966
(-) Retired Doctor Bentley dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 92 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1966
(+) Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is born in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 December 1968
(x) Start of the trial against 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, and Norma Bell in Newcastle, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 December 1970
(x) Five members of the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen are arrested for bomb attacks in New York, New York, United States.
All of them plead guilty.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 December 1975
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, marries Betty Crawford in Chatham, Pennsylvania, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 December 1979
(-) Mira Kosecki is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 19 in Stari Log, Yugoslavia.
(-) Filmmaker Robert Aldrich dies at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 December 1983
(-) An unidentified boy is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Effingham county, Illinois, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 December 1991
(-) Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Joliet, Silver Cross Hospital, Illinois, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 5 December 1993
(x) Third bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Former Viennese Major Helmut Zilk gets injured. Two other bomb-letters are detected before they explode.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 December 2000
(-) Murderer Garry Dean Miller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 December 2003
(-) Murderer Robbie Lyons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 December 2007
(-) Mass murderer Robert A. Hawkins commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Omaha, Westroads Mall, Nebraska, United States.
Before he killed 8 people with an AK-47 rifle, his suicide note read "I'm a piece of shit, now I'll be famous".
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 December 2007
(-) Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in Kürten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
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