41st year - Nr 225 Thursday, 13 August 2026

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41st year - Nr 225 Thursday, 13 August 2026

13 August / Today's 36 Events:

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(+) 208 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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(-) 163 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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(+) 155 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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(-) 132 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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(+) 129 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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(+) 127 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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(+) 124 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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(+) 119 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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(-) 119 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1907 Murderer Richard Clifford Brinkley is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 116 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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(-) 114 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1912 Composer Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet dies of abdominal cancer at the age of 70 in 48 Rue de Vaugirard, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 113 years ago Wednesday 13th of August 1913 41-year-old Circus acrobat and fantasist Otto Witte known for claiming to be the King of Albania poses as a nephew of the Sultan and is crowned as King in Durrës, Durrës, Albania. During his 5-day 'reign' Witte enjoyed the Sultan's harem and declared war to Montenegro before his ruse was discovered.

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(-) 111 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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(-) 105 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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(+) 100 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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(+) 97 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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(-) 89 years ago Friday 13th of August 1937 Murderer Burt Anderson is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 54 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 89 years ago Friday 13th of August 1937 Murderer Ernest Patton is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 37 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 87 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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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 13th of August 1944 Murderer Gary Lee Davis is born in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 80 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1946 Science fiction writer Herbert George Wells aka H. G. Wells known for his novel The Invisible Man dies of heart failure at the age of 80 in 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 13th of August 1948 Rapist and murderer Willis Jay Barnes is born in Matagorda County, Texas, United States.

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(-) 68 years ago Wednesday 13th of August 1958 Circus acrobat and fantasist Otto Witte known for claiming to be the King of Albania dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(x) 65 years ago War es Stacheldrahtsonntag Sunday 13th of August 1961 East German troops and workers begin to tear up streets running alongside the border to make them impassable to most vehicles and to install barbed wire entanglements and fences along the 156 kilometres around the three western sectors, and the 43 kilometres that divided West and East in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 62 years ago He Was One of the Last Two to Hang Thursday 13th of August 1964 Murderer Gwynne Owen Evans, originally John Robson Walby is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 24 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Evans' was one of the last two judicial executions of death sentences in the United Kingdom.

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(-) 62 years ago He Was One of the Last Two to Hang Thursday 13th of August 1964 Murderer Peter Anthony Allen is executed by hanging by Robert Stewart at the age of 21 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. Allen was one of the last two judicial executions of death sentences in the United Kingdom.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 13th of August 1969 30-year-old Foot fetishist and 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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(+) 54 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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(x) 53 years ago Monday 13th of August 1973 85 die in Aviaco Flight 118 Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle crash in Pazo do Rio, Montrove, Galicia, Spain. The only survivor, who was taken to the Hospital of La Coruña, died a few hours later as a result of the serious injuries suffered. In addition, one person on land was reported to have died because he was close to the disaster area.

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(+) 44 years ago Friday 13th of August 1982 Juvenile child killer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(-) 44 years ago Friday 13th of August 1982 Oleg Pozhidaev is stabbed and his penis cut off by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Enem, Respublika Adygeya, Russia. Chikatilo cut off Pozhidaev's genitals and took them with him.

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(-) 42 years ago Monday 13th of August 1984 Akmaral Seidaliyev is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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(x) 33 years ago Friday 13th of August 1993 137 die in Royal Plaza Hotel collapse in Royal Plaza Hotel, Nakhon Ratchasima, Khorat, Thailand. The main reason for the collapse was the addition of floors without properly considering the strength of the structure and soil stability.

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(x) 30 years ago Tuesday 13th of August 1996 40-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Paul Alain Dutroux is arrested with his wife Michelle Martin and accomplice Michel Lelièvre on suspicion of kidnapping in 128 Route de Philippeville, Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium. A search of his house fails to discover two abducted girls in the basement.

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23 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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(-) 17 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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