(-) 33rd Pope Sylvester I dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.
635 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1378
(+) 209th Pope Callixtus III originally Alfons de Borja, is born in Valencia, Xativa, Spain.
499 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1514
(+) Anatomist Andreas Vesalius is born in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
265 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 December 1748
(+) Feminist Olympe de Gouges originally Marie Gouze, is born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.
144 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1869
(+) Artist Henri Emile Benoit Matisse is born in Bohin-en-Vermandois, France.
136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 December 1877
(-) Artist Gustave Courbet dies at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.
127 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1886
(+) Artist and magician Austin Osman Spare is born in London, Snow Hill, London City of, United Kingdom.
115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 December 1898
(-) Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France.
105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1908
(+) Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ukraïne, Russia.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 December 1922
(x) The Goetheaneum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is destroyed by fire in Switzerland.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1937
(+) Actor Anthony Hopkins aka Hannibal Lecter, is born in Wales, United Kingdom.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1943
(+) Musician John Denver originally Henry John Deutschendorf, is born in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1943
(+) Actor Ben Kingsley originally Krishna Banji, is born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
(+) Musician Donna Summer originally LaDonna Gaines, is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 December 1959
(+) Actor Val Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 December 1960
(+) Spree Killer John Allan Muhammad originally John Allan Williams aka The Beltway Sniper, is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 December 1962
(-) Patricia Bisette is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 24 in Boston Back Bay, 515 Park Drive, Massachusetts, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 December 1966
(-) Tuula Hoeoek is battered to death by Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, at the age of 21 in St. Clement, Jersey.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 December 1967
(-) An unidentified woman is raped and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Bonheiden, Kasteel van Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 December 1969
(-) United Mine Workers Union Leader Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock, is shot dead by three unidentified hitmen in his house at the age of 59 in Clarkesville, Pennsylvania, United States.
His wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by his son Kenneth.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1976
(x) 82 Die in Libyan airliner crash in Saudi Arabia.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 December 1980
(-) Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan dies at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1982
(-) Toshimitsu Ozawa is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
He survived.
29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 December 1984
(x) 37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train 10 days earlier in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 December 1985
(-) Musician Eric Hilliard Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, dies in a plane crash at the age of 45 in De Kalb, Texas, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 December 1986
(x) 96 Die in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 December 1993
(-) President Zviad Gamsachoerdia commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 54 in Georgia.
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