41st year - Nr 126 Wednesday, 6 May 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
41st year - Nr 126 Wednesday, 6 May 2026

6 May / Today's 36 Events:

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(+) 525 years ago Monday 6th of May 1501 222nd Pope Marcellus II, originally Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi is born in Montefano, Marche, Italy.

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(+) 452 years ago Monday 6th of May 1574 236th Pope Innocentius X, originally Giovanni Battista Pamphilj is born in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 348 years ago Friday 6th of May 1678 Composer Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 268 years ago Saturday 6th of May 1758 Leader of the French Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore Robespierre is born in Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(+) 188 years ago Sunday 6th of May 1838 Composer Alfred Humphreys Pease is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 170 years ago He Had Nothing on His Mind Tuesday 6th of May 1856 Neurologist Sigmund Freud, originally Sigismund Schlomo Freud aka The Father of Psychoanalysis is born in Schlossergasse 117, Freiberg, Mähren, Austria.

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(-) 164 years ago Came Good Sailing Tuesday 6th of May 1862 Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau known for his book ‘Walden’ dies of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Thoreau's last words were "Now comes good sailing" followed by two lone words, "moose" and "Indian".

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(-) 163 years ago Wednesday 6th of May 1863 Murderer John Shirley is executed by hanging in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Three thousand men, women and children watched Shirley's hanging on the open ground south of the guardhouse.

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(+) 146 years ago Thursday 6th of May 1880 Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is born in Aschaffenburg, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 131 years ago He Was a Spoiled Child Monday 6th of May 1895 Actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino, originally Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla aka Latin Lover is born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy.

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(+) 128 years ago Friday 6th of May 1898 Gauleiter of Sudetengau Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein is born in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 124 years ago Tuesday 6th of May 1902 Film director Max Ophüls, originally Maximillian Oppenheimer is born in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.

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(-) 116 years ago He Was Very Glad Friday 6th of May 1910 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India Edward VII, originally Albert Edward aka Bertie dies of several heart attacks at the age of 69 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 111 years ago Thursday 6th of May 1915 Actor and film director Orson George Welles is born in 463 Park Avenue, Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 106 years ago Thursday 6th of May 1920 Serial killer Martha Beck, originally Martha Jule Seabrook aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with Raymond Fernandez) is born in Milton, Florida, United States. Allegedly due to a glandular problem Beck was overweight and underwent puberty prematurely.

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(+) 96 years ago Tuesday 6th of May 1930 Serial killer David Joseph Carpenter aka The Trailside Killer is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 94 years ago Friday 6th of May 1932 Paul Doumer, originally Joseph Athanase Doumerc is shot in the head by assassin Paul Gorguloff in Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, 11 Rue Berryer, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Two shots hit Doumer at the base of the skull and in the right armpit. Doumer was rushed to Beaujon Hospital where he died the next morning.

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(x) 89 years ago Thursday 6th of May 1937 36 die in LZ 129 Hindenburg airship fire in Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. The Hindenburg disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs and eyewitness reports from the landing field.

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(+) 83 years ago Thursday 6th of May 1943 Leader of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion Andreas Bernd Baader is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 77 years ago Friday 6th of May 1949 Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck dies of a heart attack at the age of 87 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 76 years ago Saturday 6th of May 1950 Cop killer George Miller is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Wednesday 6th of May 1953 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 66 years ago Friday 6th of May 1960 47-year-old Catalan communist and assassin Ramón Mercader, originally Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson known for the assassination of Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky is released from prison in Palacio de Lecumberri, Mexico City, Mexico. Mercader moved to Havana where Fidel Castro's new revolutionary government welcomed him.

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(x) 62 years ago Wednesday 6th of May 1964 22-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) trades her Austin car for a white Morris Mini-Traveler in Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(x) 60 years ago Friday 6th of May 1966 Serial killers the Moors Murderers aka Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to 3 and 2 respectively concurrent terms of life-imprisonment in Chester Crown Court, Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 52 years ago Monday 6th of May 1974 Roberta Kathleen Parks is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Parks' skull was later found on Taylor Mountain. Bundy confessed to her murder shortly before his execution.

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(x) 41 years ago Monday 6th of May 1985 Fifteenth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Direction Supérieure de la Logistique et des Finances de la Gendarmerie, Rue Père Eudore Devroye 245, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was a revenge because the State Police failed to warn 2 firemen who got killed in the attack of 1 May 1985.

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(-) 40 years ago Tuesday 6th of May 1986 Charles Quarell is suffocated by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in King James Street, Southwark, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 34 years ago Wednesday 6th of May 1992 Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich, originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch dies of renal failure at the age of 91 in 12 Avenue Montaigne, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 6th of May 1997 Murderer Terry Washington is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Wednesday 6th of May 1998 Serial killer Bai Baoshan is executed by a shot in the back of the head at the age of 40 in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur, China. Baoshan and two accomplices killed 10 people, including police officers, security guards and civilians, and stole 1.5 million yuan. Baoshan killed his accomplice Wu Ziming and made off with the money.

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(x) 28 years ago Wednesday 6th of May 1998 47-year-old Serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria is arrested in Ospedale San Martino, Genova, Liguria, Italy.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 6th of May 2002 Weird garden furniture in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 23 years ago Tuesday 6th of May 2003 Murderer Roger Dale Vaughn is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Vaughn's last meal request was for a double meat cheeseburger with everything, a baked potato, a salad, a Coke and butter pecan ice cream.

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(x) 16 years ago Thursday 6th of May 2010 23-year-old Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist terrorist Ajmal Mohammed Amir Kasab is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and of waging war against India and sentenced to death for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India. Kasab was the only attacker captured alive by police.

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(x) 14 years ago Sunday 6th of May 2012 53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Prelude to a Motorcycle Accident' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. A music performance of Club Moral with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven whereby I screamed with my head in a bucket filled with water crawled on the floor between the audience and ate a bouquet of flowers that I spewed out again.

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