41st year - Nr 298 Sunday, 25 October 2026

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41st year - Nr 298 Sunday, 25 October 2026

25 October / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 188 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1838 Composer Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet known for Carmen is born in 26 Rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 162 years ago He Was no Veg-O-Matic Tuesday 25th of October 1864 Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 147 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1879 Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 145 years ago Tuesday 25th of October 1881 Artist Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso is born in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.

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(+) 132 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1894 Surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer Claude Cahun, originally Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob is born in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France.

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(x) 132 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1894 13-year-old Alice Etta and 10-year-old Nellie Rosa Pitezel are gassed and stuffed in a trunk by 33-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor in 16 St. Vincent Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(+) 113 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1913 SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon is born in Bad Godesberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 106 years ago Food Was Often Placed Near Him Monday 25th of October 1920 Irish republican hunger striker Terence James MacSwiney, originally Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne dies after 73 days of hungerstriking at the age of 41 in Brixton Prison, Lambeth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.

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(-) 103 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1923 Hermann Wolf is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 97 years ago Friday 25th of October 1929 Hubertine Meurer is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Hellweg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Passersby found Meurer and took her to the hospital.

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(x) 97 years ago Friday 25th of October 1929 Klara Wanders is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Ananasberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Wanders was raped and hit with a hammer several times. The hammer broke and flew into the bush where Kürten couldn't find it anymore.

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(+) 90 years ago Sunday 25th of October 1936 Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset is born in Trøndelag, Norway.

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(-) 85 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1941 Painter Robert Delaunay known for founding the Orphism art movement dies of cancer at the age of 56 in Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(-) 83 years ago Monday 25th of October 1943 Murderer Ruffie Lundon is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

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(-) 69 years ago Friday 25th of October 1957 Mobster and hitman Albert Anastasia, originally Umberto Anastasio aka The One-Man Army is sprayed with bullets by two men with scarves covering their faces at the age of 55 in Park Sheraton Hotel Barber Shop, 56th Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. No one was ever charged with Anastasia's murder.

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(+) 69 years ago Friday 25th of October 1957 Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Donna Ann Lauria is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 69 years ago Friday 25th of October 1957 Painter, architect and interior designer Henry Clemens Van de Velde dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

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(+) 66 years ago Tuesday 25th of October 1960 Murderer and necrophiliac William Hamilton Little is born in Harris County, Texas, United States.

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(-) 61 years ago Monday 25th of October 1965 Teresa Tosza is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(-) 53 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1973 Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila known for winning an Olympic marathon while running barefoot dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 41 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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(x) 46 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1980 Maureen Lea is battered with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Lea survived.

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(-) 36 years ago Thursday 25th of October 1990 Brunhilde Masser is stabbed and strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Masser's body was found on 5 January 1991.

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(-) 33 years ago Monday 25th of October 1993 Actor Vincent Leonard Price dies of lung cancer at the age of 82 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Saturday 25th of October 1997 Robin M. Atkins is asphyxiated by serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 25th of October 2002 Our oldskool kitchen as core of a dinner party in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 22 years ago Was the Day that Music Died Monday 25th of October 2004 Disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist John Peel, originally John Robert Parker Ravenscroft dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Cusco, Cusco, Peru.

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(-) 21 years ago Tuesday 25th of October 2005 Mass murderer Willie James 'Flip' Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 25th of October 2006 Serial killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

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(-) 20 years ago Wednesday 25th of October 2006 Murderer Gregory Lynn Summers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Summers' last meal request was for salad, onion rings, chili dogs, and sweet iced tea.

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