41st year - Nr 239 Thursday, 27 August 2026

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41st year - Nr 239 Thursday, 27 August 2026

27 August / Today's 34 Events:

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(-) 436 years ago Monday 27th of August 1590 227th Pope Sixtus V, originally Felice Peretti di Montalto aka Xystus V dies of malaria at the age of 69 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 256 years ago Monday 27th of August 1770 Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Eberhardstraße 53, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 168 years ago Friday 27th of August 1858 Mathematician and glottologist Giuseppe Peano known for the Peano Curve is born in Spinetta, Piemonte, Italy.

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(+) 155 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1871 Naturalist writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser known for An American Tragedy is born in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 136 years ago Wednesday 27th of August 1890 Artist Man Ray, originally Emmanuel Radnitzky is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 133 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1893 Carpenter and inventor Peter Mitterhofer known for inventing the typewriter dies of natural causes at the age of 71 in Partschins, Südtirol, Austria.

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(x) 120 years ago Monday 27th of August 1906 0-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America’s Most Bizarre Murderer is baptised in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 118 years ago Thursday 27th of August 1908 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Baynes Johnson is born in Stonewall, Texas, United States.

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(-) 117 years ago Friday 27th of August 1909 Murderer Joseph Gauvette is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.

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(-) 114 years ago Tuesday 27th of August 1912 The 77-year-old father of 43-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais commits suicide by hanging in Bois de Boulogne, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Julien-Alexandre Sylvain Landru could not stand the disgrace due to his son's criminal activities and prison sentences any longer.

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(-) 105 years ago Saturday 27th of August 1921 Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See is executed by beheading at the age of 28 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. His last meal request was for "Bouletten mit Teltower Rübchen und zum Nachtisch ein schön suppiges Grieß-flammeri mit Blaubeer-Kompott. Zudem gab es eine richtige Weiße mit Schuss, serviert im Weißbierglas." After his last meal he confessed to 14 more murders, bringing his total to 25.

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(+) 97 years ago He Was Beatrice's Baby Tuesday 27th of August 1929 Writer Ira Marvin Levin known for Rosemary’s Baby is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Friday 27th of August 1937 Serial killer Vladimir Ionesyan aka Mosgaz aka Iwan the Axeman is born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Ionesyan is considered to be Russia's first serial killer.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 27th of August 1946 Serial killer Peter Britton Tobin is born in Johnstone, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 70 years ago Monday 27th of August 1956 Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown John 'Johnny' Butkovich is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 67 years ago Thursday 27th of August 1959 German right-wing extremist Gundolf Köhler is born in Schwenningen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 65 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1961 Double murderer Jonathan Wayne Nobles is born in Austin, Texas, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago He Just Wanted to See What it Felt Like Thursday 27th of August 1964 16-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer shoots his grandparents Maude Matilda Hughey and Edmund Emil Kemper in North Fork, California, United States. When questioned Kemper said that he "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma".

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(+) 62 years ago Thursday 27th of August 1964 Serial killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 60 years ago Saturday 27th of August 1966 Urban planner and pioneer of modern architecture Le Corbusier, originally Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Le Cabanon, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Against his doctor's orders Le Corbusier went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and was found by bathers.

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(-) 59 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1967 Music entrepreneur Brian Samuel Epstein aka The Beatle-Making Prince of Pop known for discovering The Beatles dies of an overdose of Carbitral and alcohol at the age of 33 in Chapel Street 24, Belgravia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 57 years ago Wednesday 27th of August 1969 William Freeman is abducted and strangled by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in Antioch, California, United States.

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(-) 57 years ago Wednesday 27th of August 1969 Helga Luther is stabbed to death and mutilated by serial killer Manfred Wittmann aka The Beast of Oberfranken in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 51 years ago Wednesday 27th of August 1975 Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie, originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael aka The Lion of Juda is strangled in his bed by military officers at the age of 83 in Jubilee Palace, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The state media reported that Selassie had died of 'respiratory failure' following complications from a prostate examination followed up by a prostate operation.

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(x) 51 years ago They Had Walked Together for Almost a Mile Wednesday 27th of August 1975 Tracy Browne is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Silsden, Silsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Sutcliffe ran off when he saw the lights of a passing car, leaving Browne requiring brain surgery. Sutcliffe was not convicted of the attack but confessed in 1992. Browne later said that she had been charmed by Sutcliffe at first: "We had walked together for almost a mile – for about 30 minutes and I never once felt intimidated or in danger."

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(-) 48 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1978 Artist Gordon Matta-Clark, originally Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 47 years ago Monday 27th of August 1979 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten is killed in a bomb attack on his Shadow V boat by the IRA at the age of 79 in Mullaghmore, Connacht, Ireland. The boat was destroyed by the force of the blast and Mountbatten's legs were almost blown off. Mountbatten was pulled alive from the water by nearby fishermen but died from his injuries before being brought to shore. Also aboard the boat were his elder daughter Patricia aka Lady Brabourne, her husband John aka Lord Brabourne, their twin sons Nicholas and Timothy Knatchbull, John's mother Doreen aka Baroness Brabourne and crew member Paul Maxwell. 14-year-old Nicholas and 15-year-old Paul were killed by the blast and the others were seriously injured. 83-year-old Doreen died from her injuries the following day.

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(-) 47 years ago Evident Attempts Had Been Made Monday 27th of August 1979 Donald Ray Hyden is abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, United States. Evident attempts had also been made to remove Hyden's testicles and slash his throat.

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(x) 37 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1989 33-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton marries 60-year-old James P. Wallace, a retired Eastern Washington University (EWU) professor in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States. Compton and Wallace were granted conjugal visits and in 1993, she gave birth to a daughter at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. She returned to prison while Wallace and Compton’s mother cared for the baby.

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(x) 31 years ago Sunday 27th of August 1995 36-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Marteling van de Heilige Erasmus' in Kapel van de Romaanse Poort, Brusselsestraat 63, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. The audience entered the space through a glass door. Then I tied a thin rope to the outside of the door lay down on the ground and tied my feet to two posts on the street. The other end of the rope I swallowed. The performance stopped when someone opened the door from the inside.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 27th of August 2007 The location of a 1940s crime scene of serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 27th of August 2007 The house where on 14 May 1970 Ulrike Meinhof assisted in the freeing of Andreas Baader with Gudrun Ensslin, Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert, and jumped in the underground through this window in Deutsches Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen, Miquelstraße 83, Dahlem, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 13 years ago He Was Terminated Tuesday 27th of August 2013 Serial killer Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko aka The Terminator aka Citizen O dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.

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(-) 7 years ago There Was an Object on the Desert Tuesday 27th of August 2019 Race car driver and TV personality Jessi Jessica M. Combs aka the fastest woman on four wheels dies after crashing a jet-powered high-speed race car at the speed of 841,338 km/ph at the age of 39 in Alvord Desert, Oregon, United States. Combs was attempting to better her four-wheel land speed record. Combs's car crashed due to "a mechanical failure of the front wheel" which was "most likely caused from striking an object on the desert".

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