30th year - N° 225 Thursday, 13 August 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 225 Thursday, 13 August 2015

13 August / Today's 21 Events:

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(+) 197 years ago Thursday 13th of August 1818 Abolitionist and suffragette Lucy Stone is born in Coy Hill Road, West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 152 years ago Thursday 13th of August 1863 Romantic painter Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix dies of hemoptysis due to tuberculosis at the age of 65 in 6 Rue de Furstemberg, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 144 years ago Sunday 13th of August 1871 Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Karl Liebknecht is born in Braustraße 15, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 121 years ago Monday 13th of August 1894 Murderer Albert Joseph Pierre Bruneau aka The Murderous Priest is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 33 in Laval, Mayenne, France.

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(+) 118 years ago Friday 13th of August 1897 Victim of Karl Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof Johanna Sosnowski is born in Wartenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 116 years ago Sunday 13th of August 1899 Film director Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense is born in Leytonstone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 113 years ago Wednesday 13th of August 1902 Inventor and mechanical engineer Felix Heinrich Wankel known for the Wankel engine is born in Lahr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 108 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1907 Industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach is born in Villa Hügel, Bredeney, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 108 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1907 Murderer Richard Clifford Brinkley is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 105 years ago Her Lamp Went Out Saturday 13th of August 1910 Social reformer, statistician and modern nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in 10 South Street, Mayfair, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 100 years ago Friday 13th of August 1915 Serial killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Maidstone Prison, Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 94 years ago Saturday 13th of August 1921 Johanna Sosnowski is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by serial killer and cannibal Karl Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof in Langen Straße 88/89, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Sosnowski was cut to pieces and some of her meat was either eaten or sold by Großmann near Schlesischen Bahnhof.

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(+) 89 years ago Friday 13th of August 1926 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is born in Birán, Holguín, Cuba.

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(+) 86 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1929 Multiple murderer Raymond Leslie Morris aka The Monster of Cannock Chase is born in Walsall, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 76 years ago Sunday 13th of August 1939 Frau Budzinski is beaten and stabbed by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Budzinski survived.

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(+) 71 years ago Sunday 13th of August 1944 Murderer Gary Lee Davis is born in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 13th of August 1969 30-year-old Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer has a bucket of water slammed into his head by an unidentified fellow-inmate in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 43 years ago He Wanted to Become a Flight Attendant Sunday 13th of August 1972 9/11 terrorist Hani Saleh Hasan Hanjour is born in Ta'if, Makkah l-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.

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(+) 33 years ago Friday 13th of August 1982 Juvenile child killer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 13th of August 2003 A local bus in an outskirt district in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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(-) 6 years ago Thursday 13th of August 2009 Mass murderer John Linley Frazier aka The Killer Prophet commits suicide hanging in his cell at the age of 63 in Mule Creek State Prison, 4001 Highway 104, Ione, California, United States.

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