41st year - Nr 212 Friday, 31 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 212 Friday, 31 July 2026

31 July / Today's 29 Events:

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(-) 470 years ago Tuesday 31st of July 1556 Founder of the Jesuits Ignatius de Loyola dies of Roman Fever at the age of 65 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 242 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1784 Writer and philosopher Denis Diderot dies of emphysema at the age of 71 in 39 rue de Richelieu, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 151 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1875 17th President of the United States Andrew Johnson dies of a stroke at the age of 67 in Elizabethton, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 140 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1886 Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt dies of pneumonia at the age of 75 in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 125 years ago Wednesday 31st of July 1901 Art Brut artist Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet is born in Le Havre, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(-) 112 years ago Friday 31st of July 1914 Socialist leader Jean Auguste Marie Joseph Léon Jaurès is shot twice in the back by 29-year-old French nationalist Raoul Villain at the age of 55 in Café du Croissant, Rue Montmartre 146, IIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 112 years ago Friday 31st of July 1914 Actor Louis de Funès, originally Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza aka FuFu is born in Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 91 years ago Wednesday 31st of July 1935 Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Paul Honka aka Der Frauen-Schlächter von St. Pauli is born in Seeburgstraße, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 86 years ago Wednesday 31st of July 1940 Punjabi revolutionary Udham Singh, originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Shaheed-i-Azam is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 83 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1943 Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Monday 31st of July 1944 Actress Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(-) 82 years ago Monday 31st of July 1944 Aristocrat, writer, poet and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, originally Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger vanishes without a trace in an unarmed Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplane during a reconnaissance mission from an airbase on Corsica at the age of 44 in Archipel du Frioul, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 77 years ago Sunday 31st of July 1949 Laura Showalter is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Harvey Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

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(+) 74 years ago Thursday 31st of July 1952 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Verena Christiane Becker is born in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 72 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1954 Murderer Bernard J. O'Brien is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 66 years ago Sunday 31st of July 1960 Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist is born in Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago He Saw Vertigo Friday 31st of July 1964 Singer-songwriter Jim James Travis Reeves dies in a Beechcraft Debonair aircraft crash at the age of 41 in Baxter Lane and Franklin Pike Circle, Brentwood, Tennessee, United States. Reeves was disoriented by 'Pilot's Vertigo' and actually flying upside down when he tried to take the plane up to avoid a thunderstorm. Instead the plane plunged with its nose into a tree. Reeves' 30-year-old business partner and manager Dean Manuel also died in the crash.

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(+) 59 years ago Monday 31st of July 1967 Serial killer Heriberto Eddie Seda aka The New York Zodiac Killer is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 58 years ago Wednesday 31st of July 1968 Brian Howe is strangled by child killer Mary Bell aka Child of Hell in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. After the murder Bell returned to Brian’s body to further mutilate it, carving an 'M' onto his stomach, puncturing his thighs with a pair of scissors and wounding his genital area.

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(-) 51 years ago Thursday 31st of July 1975 John 'Johnny' Butkovich is abducted, assaulted and strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Butkovich was body nr 2 found underneath Gacy's garage on 22 December 1978.

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(x) 47 years ago Tuesday 31st of July 1979 33-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is sentenced to death in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Thursday 31st of July 1980 28-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Knut Detlef Folkerts is sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Siegfried Buback in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 40 years ago Thursday 31st of July 1986 Edit Fintor is beaten to death by serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard in Nijverheidskaai, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 34 years ago Friday 31st of July 1992 113 die in Thai Airways International Airbus A310-304 Flight 311 crash in Langtang National Park, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.

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(-) 33 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1993 5th King of Belgium Boudewijn, originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Villa Astrida, Motril, Andalucía, Spain.

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(x) 31 years ago Monday 31st of July 1995 Noise music band Club Moral play their 83rd concert in Zeemansschool, Rue de la Navigation, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 31st of July 2006 I don't see anything but my shadow on a medieval barn door in Prerow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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(-) 9 years ago Monday 31st of July 2017 Actress Jeanne Moreau dies of unknown causes at the age of 89 in Square du Roule, 223 Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 31st of July 2019 The grave of Aubrey Beardsley in Cimetiere du Trabuquet, Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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41st year - Nr 211 Thursday, 30 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 211 Thursday, 30 July 2026

30 July / Today's 37 Events:

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(+) 208 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1818 Poet and writer Emily Jane Brontë aka Ellis Bell known for her novel Wuthering Heights is born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 173 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1853 Mass murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston is born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 168 years ago Friday 30th of July 1858 Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 163 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1863 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford is born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 128 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1898 1st Reichskanzler of Germany Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck dies of gangrene at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(+) 128 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1898 Sculptor Henry Spencer Moore is born in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 111 years ago Friday 30th of July 1915 Lieutenant in the New York City Police Department, racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. Becker's electrocution took nine minutes, causing him intense agony, and was described for years afterward as "the clumsiest execution in the history of Sing Sing."

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(-) 106 years ago Friday 30th of July 1920 Executioner Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman dies of complications from an accident at the age of 72 in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. After being run over by a tram Dahlman never regained health.

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(+) 100 years ago Friday 30th of July 1926 Psychic Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina, originally Ninel Mikhaylova is born in Leningrad, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 89 years ago He Died a Modern Daniel in Freddie's Den Friday 30th of July 1937 Entertainer, priest and womanizer Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Two days earlier he was attacked by a lion during a stage act 'Daniel in a Modern Lion's Den'. Davidson gave his usual speech before entering the cage in which two lions, Freddie and Toto, were sitting quietly. Freddie became agitated and knocked Davidson over before seizing him by the neck and running with him around the cage. 16-year-old tamer Irene Somner struggled to pacify the snarling Freddie who eventually dropped the u nconscious Davidson, enabling her to drag him to safety; he was badly gashed and had suffered a broken bone in his neck.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1939 Film director Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New York, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1941 Singer-songwriter Paul Albert Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 83 years ago Friday 30th of July 1943 Abortionist Marie-Louise Giraud, originally Lempérière is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 40 in Prisons de la Roquette, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Giraud was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman axecuted in France.

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(+) 79 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1947 Actor, producer, businessman, politician and former professional bodybuilder Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger known for his role as The Terminator is born in Thal, Steiermark, Austria.

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(+) 69 years ago Tuesday 30th of July 1957 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman David William Hilligiest is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 66 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1960 35-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 62 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1964 Multiple murderer Matthias Kindlinger aka Der Blaubart von Schrems dies of heart failure at the age of 70 in Krems an der Donau, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(-) 59 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1967 Industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1969 Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1969 22-year-old Serial killer John Norman Collins, originally John Chapman aka The Ypsilanti Killer is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Friday 30th of July 1971 162 die in All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 58 Boeing 727-281 and Mitsubishi F-86F Sabre jet mid-air collision in Shimonagane, Shizukuishi, Iwate, Japan. Sabre jet pilot Technical Sergeant Yoshimi Ichikawa ejected before the collision and survived. Ichikawa was later tried and acquitted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

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(x) 51 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1975 62-year-old Labour union leader Jimmy James Riddle Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Machus Red Fox Restaurant, 6676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, on the seventh anniversary of his disappearance when he would have been aged 69.

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(-) 49 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1977 Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Oberhöchstadter Straße 69, Oberursel, Hessen, Germany. RAF members Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar attempted to kidnap Ponto but shot him when he resisted.

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(x) 48 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1978 29-year-old Serial killer Randy Greenawalt escapes with prison mate Gary Tison with the help of Tison's three sons in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Greenawalt and Tison went on a killing spree that claimed six lives. They ran into a police roadblock on 11 August where Greenawalt and Tison's sons were arrested. Tison fled into the desert and died of exposure.

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance 'Illegal' in ICC, Meir 50, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. On 30 July 1980 I mailed out invitations to friends and acquaintances to search me in the International Cultural Centre. Then I went in hiding inside the building, without food, drink and with sleeping-tablets at hand. On 2 August 1980 I was found by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK.

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(-) 45 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1981 Louise Marie Chartrand is abducted, raped and beaten to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Mission, British Columbia, Canada.

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(-) 41 years ago Tuesday 30th of July 1985 Chief executioner André Albert Obrecht dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 40 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1986 Pop star Wang Bei, originally Wang Shuzhen is born in Hubei, China.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1992 Triple murderer William Andrews aka The Hi-Fi Murderer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Friday 30th of July 1993 Murderer Danny Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Monday 30th of July 2001 34-year-old Suicide bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Mosquée Al Hidaya, Rue Jules Destrée 71, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 30th of July 2003 A giant Buddha statue in a temple in Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple, Race Course Road, Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 19 years ago Monday 30th of July 2007 Film director Ingmar Ernst Bergman dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Fårö, Gotland, Sweden.

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(-) 19 years ago Monday 30th of July 2007 Film director Michelangelo Antonioni dies of unknown causes at the age of 95 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 30th of July 2017 Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue on the beach in San Rocco, Mariakerke, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 30th of July 2019 Victor Vasarely's 'Hexa Grace' artwork on the rooftop in Auditorium Rainier III, Boulevard Louis II, L'Hermitage, Monaco.

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(-) 4 years ago He Met the God of Hellfire Saturday 30th of July 2022 Al-Qaeda leader and Emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is killed in a US drone attack with two Hellfire missiles at the age of 71 in Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan.

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