(-) 230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, dies at the age of 72 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
148 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1865
(+) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1898
(+) Musician Umm Kulthum aka The Nightingale of the Nile, is born in Tamay-Az-Zahayra, Egypt.
110 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1903
(x) Over 600 Die in Iroquis Theatre fire in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 1909
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Germany.
103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1910
(+) Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, United States.
(+) Musician Bo Diddley originally Elias Otha Bates, is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1932
(-) Multiple poisoness Daisy Louisa De Melker Originally Daisy Hancorn-Smith, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria, South Africa.
She presumably killed her husband and son. Two more husbands and four children had died suspiciously.
79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 December 1934
(+) Singer-songwriter Del Shannon originally Charles Wedon Westover, is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 1937
(-) Child-Murderer Frederick Hodder aka Uncle Fred Hudson, is executed by hanging in Nottingham, Lincoln Prison, United Kingdom.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 December 1941
(-) Artist El Ellasar Markowitsch Lissitsky dies at the age of 51 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1944
(x) 102 Die in train derailment in Mandalay, Myitkyina, Birma.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1946
(+) Musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 December 1947
(-) Painter and forger Han Henricus Antonius Van Meegeren dies of heart-failure at the age of 58 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 December 1956
(x) Art destructor Hugo Unjaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" in Paris, Le Louvre, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1959
(+) Actress Tracy Ullman is born in Slough, United Kingdom.
45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1968
(-) Marina Habe is is presumably stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 18 in Mulholland Drive, California, United States.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1970
(-) World-champion boxing Sonny Liston dies of a probable heroin overdose at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
He was found on 5 January 1971.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1974
(-) Arsonist Murderer Anthony F. Barbaro commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 18 in Olean, New York, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 December 1977
(-) Robert Donnelly is attacked by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 22 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
He survived.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1978
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, escapes from the city jail in Aspen, Colorado, United States.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1978
(-) An unidentified man is strangled and drowned by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 1987
(-) Mass Murderer Robert Dreesman commits suicide at the age of 41 in Algona, Iowa, United States.
He first killed his parents, his sister and her three children.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 1995
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills a family of four with a hunting rifle and sets the house on fire in Ukraïne, Russia.
17 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 December 1996
(x) Over 300 Die in train explosion in India.
It was a terrorist bomb attack.
9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 2004
(x) 194 Die in Republica Cromagnon nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".
9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 December 2004
(-) Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 94 in Thousand Oaks, California, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 December 2006
(-) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Baghdad, Iraq.
4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 December 2009
(-) Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, commits suicide by blowing himself up at the age of 32 in Khost, Camp Chapman, Afghanistan.
Seven CIA agents who were organising a birthday party for him were blown to pieces as well.
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