Tuesday, January 10, 2012

10 January 2004 - Spalding Gray Commits Suicide

1862 (-) Firearms inventor Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
1883 (x) 73 Die in Newall Hotel fire in Milwaukee, USA.
1888 (-) Wife-murderer Dr. Philip Cross aka The Coachford Poisoner, is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in Dublin, Ireland.
1912 (+) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is born in Münzkirchen, Austria.
1917 (+) Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is born in Arizona, USA.
1917 (-) Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, dies of kidney failure at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
1930 (-) Murderer Edward Ives is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Colorado, USA.
1934 (-) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Leipzig, Germany.
1943 (+) Singer-songwriter Jim James Joseph Croce is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1945 (+) Musician Rod Stewart is born in London, United Kingdom.
1949 (+) Heavyweight Boxing-champion George Foreman is born in Marshall, Texas, USA.
1949 (+) Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
1956 (+) Son of Geraldine Yvonne Vinal and Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, Michael Lee is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1961 (-) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.
1963 (+) Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is born in Arkansas, USA.
1970 (-) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev dies of peritonitis at the age of 44 in Moscow, USSR.
1972 (-) John Szyc is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1976 (-) Françoise Lecron is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue Faidherbe, France.
She survived.
1976 (-) Blues music pioneer Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf, dies of complications of kidney disease at the age of 65 in Hines, Illinois, USA.
1983 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is attacked with a broken coffee-jar by murderer Jimmy Costelloe in F2 Hospital wing of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
1986 (-) Murderer James Terry Roach is executed by Old Sparky in South Carolina, USA.
1997 (-) Arsonist and murderer Billy W. Waldrop is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.
1998 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Aida Nureddin Mohammed aka The Angel of Death, in Caïro, Egypt.


2004 (-) Actor, screenwriter and playwright Spalding Gray commits suicide by drowning at the age of 62 in East River, New York, USA.
2005 (x) 46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando is charged with spousal abuse of 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Five months later they divorced.
2007 (-) Murderer Carlos Granados is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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