(+) First wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.
243 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 December 1770
(+) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven is born in Bonn, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
238 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 December 1775
(+) Writer Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire, England.
223 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 December 1790
(+) King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is born in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
154 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1859
(-) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Carl Grimm dies at the age of 73 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 December 1899
(+) Actor Noel Coward is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.
112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 December 1901
(+) Anthropologist Margaret Mead is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1904
(-) Mrs Cochcrane dies of spontaneous human combustion in Falkirk, Rosehill, Scotland, United Kingdom.
109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1904
(-) Barbara Bell dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 77 in Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom.
96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 December 1917
(+) Writer and Space Odysseyist Arthur C. Charles Clarke is born in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.
96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 December 1917
(+) Lebanese Statesman Kamal Jumblatt is born in Moukhtara, Lebanon.
(+) Sf-writer Philip K. Kindred Dick is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 December 1935
(-) Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl, dies of coal-monoxide poisoning at the age of 30 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
She was probably murdered by persons unknown.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1938
(+) Actress Liv Ullmann is born in Tokyo, Japan.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1938
(-) Swindler Philip Musica aka Donald Coster, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 61 in New York, New York, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 December 1944
(-) Musician Glenn Alton Miller is permanently lost at sea whilst returning from a mission in Germany at the age of 40 in the Atlantic Ocean.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 December 1944
(x) 597 Die in Rex cinema fire in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
The building was caught in a full hit by a V2 during the showing of the movie "Buffalo Bill".
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 December 1956
(+) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1960
(x) 134 Die in United Airlines Flight 826 Douglas DC-8 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 Lockheed L-1049 collision in Staten Island, New York, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 December 1965
(-) Writer William Somerset Maugham dies at the age of 91 in Cap-Ferrat, France.
44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 December 1969
(x) 44-year-old Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl performs his aktion "O Tannenbaum" in Braunschweig, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Germany.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 December 1970
(x) 16-year-old Religious fanatic Frank Alexander aka The Prophet, is found beating his 39-year-old mother Dagmar and sisters Marina (18) and Petra (15) to death, cutting away their sex organs and nailing them to the walls of Flat 1d at 37 Calle Jesus Nazareno in Santa Cruz, California, United States.
In the meantime his father Harald played the organ.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 December 1976
(x) 36-year-old Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, attempts to commit suicide in State Prison, Utah, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 December 1977
(-) Maryann Carr is suffocated by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 26 in Ledgewood Terrace, Quality Inn Motel parking lot, New Jersey, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 December 1985
(x) The 4 only members of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes 33-year old Pierre Carette, 30-year-old Didier Chevolet, 28-year-old Pascale Vandegeerde and 23-year-old Bertrand Sassoye are arrested in a fast-food restaurant in Namur, Namur, Belgium.
24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 December 1989
(-) Actor Lee Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Oxnard, California, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 December 1993
(-) Rapist and murderer David Marion Pruett is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 December 1998
(x) Serial Child Killer Pedro Pablo Ramirez Garcia aka Carlos Alberto Woods Salazar aka Pedro Pechuga, is arrested in Pereira, Colombia.
3 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 December 2010
(-) Murderer John David Duty is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in McAlester, State Penitentiary, Oklahoma, United States.
He was to be the first US prisoner whose execution included the use of the sedative pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanise animals.
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