Sunday, September 30, 2012

30 September 1955 - James Byron Dean Dies

1861 (+)   Chewing gum industrialist William Jr. Wrigley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1882 (+)   Physicist Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger is born in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany.

1888 (x)  Serial Killer Jack the Ripper sends a postcard to the Central News Agency in London, United Kingdom.

1888 (-)  Elisabeth Stride-Gustaafsdochter aka Long Liz, is killed by throatcutting as fourth victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 44 in London, Berner Street, United Kingdom.

1888 (-)  Catherine Eddowes is killed by throatcutting and severly mutilated as fifth victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 44 in London, Mitre Square, United Kingdom.

1902 (x)  Inauguration of the Pentonville Prison scaffold, to be the ‘finest scaffold in the world’ according to British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint in London, United Kingdom.

1909 (+)   Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Ernst Ehrenberg is born in Hannover, Germany.

1921 (-)  War-hero and homosexual wife-murderer Carl Otto Wanderer is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He sang "Dear Old Pal O' Mine" before being hanged, causing the hangman to remark, "That son-of-a-bitch should have been a song plugger."

1923 (-)  Richard Gräf is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1924 (+)   Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1931 (+)   Actress Angie Dickinson originally Angeline Brown, is born in Kulm, North Dakota, USA.

1932 (-)  Serial Killer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster, dies at the age of 72 in Boston, Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Massachussets, USA.

1935 (+)   Musician Johnny Mathis is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1947 (+)   Musician Marc Bolan aka Tyrannosaurus Rex, is born in London, Hackney, United Kingdom.


1955 (-)  Actor James Byron Dean known from “Rebel Without a Cause”, dies in a head-on car crash with his Porsche Spyder at the age of 24 in Paso Robles, California, USA.

1962 (-)  Beauty Queen Hajna De Kaplany dies after 33 days of agony after her husband Geza soaked her with nitric acid at the age of 25 in San Francisco, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, California, USA.

1966 (x)  61-year-old Nazi-architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer and Baldur von Schirach are released from Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess becomes the last imprisoned Nazi in Berlin, Germany.

1978 (-)  Mary Vincent is raped, killed and hacked to bits by Larry Singleton at the age of 15 in Berkeley, California, USA.

1984 (-)  Chanel Williams is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 18 in Tampa, the Strip, Florida, USA.

1985 (-)  Actress Simone Signoret dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Auteuil-Anthouillet, France.

1985 (-)  Seismologist Charles Francis Richter dies at the age of 85 in California, USA.

1997 (-)  Murderer Johnny Cocrum is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

29 September 1997 - Roy Fox Lichtenstein Dies

235 (-)  Pope Pontianus dies due to maltreatment in the Sardinian mines in Tavolara Island, Italy.

1518 (+)   Artist Tintoretto originally Jacopo Comin aka Il Furioso, is born in Venice, Italy.

1547 (+)   Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.

1571 (+)   Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio is born in Milan, Italy.

1758 (+)   Admiral Horatio Nelson is born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England.

1854 (-)  Annie Palmer-Brooks is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.

1890 (-)  Olympe Buisson is killed as first victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 9 in France.

1895 (-)  Pierre Massot-Pelet is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 15 in France.

1902 (-)  Writer Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola dies of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide fumes at the age of 62 in Paris, France.

1912 (+)   Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni is born in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.

1912 (+)   Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is born in Mundthofen, Prussia, Germany.

1913 (-)  Scientist and engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 55 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1920 (+)   Actor Peter Arne originally Peter Arne Albrecht, is born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1922 (-)  Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1929 (-)  Ida Reuter is bludgeoned to death and raped by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 40 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1931 (+)   Actress Anita Ekberg is born in Malmo, Sweden.

1935 (+)   Musician Jerry Lee Lewis is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA.

1939 (x)  Poland capitulates to Nazi-Germany .

1941 (+)   Serial Killer Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, is born in Much Marcle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

1943 (+)   Union leader and first free-elected president of Poland Lech Walesa is born in Poland.

1957 (x)   250 Die in train collision in Montgomery, Pakistan.

1961 (x)  35-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for possession of narcotics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1967 (+)   Fifteenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeremiah Weinberger is born in Puerto Rico.

1969 (x)  23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested for ‘going equipped for theft’, carrying a hammer in Bradford, Mannington Area, United Kingdom.

1969 (-)  Michael De Gruchy is battered to death by The Geoffrey Hammond Gang at the age of 29 in Wimbledon, United Kingdom.

1970 (x)  Between 9.48 hrs and 9.58 hrs, the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, robs the Berliner Bank at Rheinstrasse of 154.182,50 marks, the Sparkasse at Südwestkorso of 55.152 marks and the Sparkasse at Altonaer Strasse of 8.115 marks in Berlin, Germany.
In the Altonaer Strasse Ulrike Meinhof forgets a box with 97.000 marks.

1970 (x)  Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is arrested in Berlin, Knesebeckstrasse 89, Germany.
Three more RAF members are arrested the same night.

1974 (-)  Ann Dawson is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

1974 (-)  Donna Braun is presumably strangled as forty-sixth victim by Zodiac at the age of 14 in Monterey, California, USA.

1979 (-)  Ex-dictator Francisco Macias Nguema is executed in Equatorial Guinea.

1979 (x)  20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Anarchy!" in Bergen-op-Zoom, Galerie Valckesteyn, the Netherlands.

1982 (-)  First Chicago Tylenol murder victim Mary Kellerman dies after taking a capsule of Extra Strength Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide at the age of 12 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, USA.
In all seven people died by the unidentified poisoner.


1997 (-)  Artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.

2010 (-)  Actor Tony Curtis originally Bernard Schwartz, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Friday, September 28, 2012

28 September 2003 - Elia Kazan originally Elias Kazanjoglou Dies

551bc (+)   Philosopher Confucius aka Master Kung, is born in China.

1850 (-)  Murderer Reuben A. Dunbar is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in New York, New York, USA.

1888 (x)  Serial Killer Jack the Ripper writes a letter “Dear Boss” to the Central News Agency in London, United Kingdom.

1891 (-)  Writer Herman Melville dies of cardiac dilation at the age of 72 in New York City, New York, USA.

1895 (-)  Scientist Louis Pasteur dies of uremic poisoning at the age of 72 in Marnes-la Coquette, France.

1898 (+)   Nazi-doctor and mass-sterilizer Carl Clauberg is born in Wupperhof, Germany.

1912 (x)   Over 1000 Die in Kecher Maru shipwreck in Japan.

1915 (+)   American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1924 (+)   Actor Marcello Mastroianni is born in Fotana Liri near Rome, Italy.

1934 (+)   Actress and animal-activist Brigitte Bardot originally Camille Javal, is born in Paris, France.

1952 (+)   Actress Sylvia Kristel aka Emmanuelle, is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

1953 (-)  Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble dies of cerebral trombosis at the age of 63 in San Marino, California, USA.
There was no funeral and the whereabouts of his remains are unknown.

1954 (x)   137 Die in train derailment in Hyderabad, India.
It drove off a viaduct.

1956 (-)  Aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1959 (-)  Dorothy Rawlinson is raped and murdered by Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy, at the age of 29 in Southlands Beach, Bermudas.

1964 (x)  Mass Murderer William Graulin kills his wife and his six children in Troy, Michigan, USA.

1964 (-)  Actor and filmmaker Harpo Arthur Adolph Marx dies of heart failure at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1966 (-)  Writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism, dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.

1967 (-)  Murderer of Rasputin, Prince FelixJoessoppov dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

1970 (-)  President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Caïro, Egypt.

1978 (-)  263rd Pope John Paul I originally Albino Luciani, dies of myocardial infarction at the age of 65 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
He might have died from drinking poisoned coffee, only 33 days after his inauguration.

1982 (-)  Lutgarde Meeus is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 28 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.

1989 (-)  Dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos dies of kidney and liver ailments at the age of 72 in Honolulu, Hawaï, USA.

1991 (-)  Musician Miles Dewey III Davis dies of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1992 (x)   167 Die in Pakistan Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Kathmandu, Nepal.

1993 (-)  Murderer Antonio Bonham is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1994 (x)   852 Die in Sweden-Estland MS Estonia Ferry capsizing in the Baltic Sea.


2003 (-)  Filmmaker Elia Kazan originally Elias Kazanjoglou, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.

2007 (-)  Reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 47 in Phoenix, North 21st street, Arizona, USA.

2010 (-)  Filmmaker Arthur Hiller Penn dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in New York, Manhattan, New York, USA.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

27 September 1944 - Aimée Semple McPherson originally Aimée Elisabeth Kennedy Commits Suicide

1590 (-)  228th Pope Urbanus VII originally Giovanni Battista Castagna, dies of malaria at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.
He was the shortest reigning (13 days) Pope.

1700 (-)  242nd Pope Innocentus XII originally Antonio Pignatelli, dies at the age of 85 in Rome, Italy.

1854 (x)   300 Die in Arctic steamer shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.

1913 (+)   Behavioral Therapist Albert Ellis is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1917 (-)  Artist Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas dies at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1920 (+)   Actor William Conrad originally William Cann aka Cannon, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

1920 (+)   General Carlo Alberto Della Chiese Prefect of Palermo, is born in Saluzzo, Italy.

1922 (+)   Filmmaker Arthur Hiller Penn is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1927 (-)  Police constable George William Gutteridge is shot dead and his eyes blown out by Frederick Browne and William Kennedy in Essex, United Kingdom.

1933 (+)   The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina is born in Ticrapo, Peru.

1938 (+)   Artist Günter Brus the Viennese Actionist, is born in Ardning, Austria.

1940 (-)  Philiospher Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin commits suicide by morphine poisoning at the age of 48 in Port Bou, Spain.
A fierce critic of Nazism, he was on the run for the Gestapo.

1942 (+)   Musician Alvin Stardust originally Bernard William Jewry, is born in London, Muswell Hill, United Kingdom.


1944 (-)  The world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson originally Aimée Elisabeth Kennedy aka Sister Aimée, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 54 in Oakland, California, USA.

1952 (-)  Karl Lehmann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.

1961 (-)  Poet Hilda Doolittle aka H. D., dies of the effects of a stroke at the age of 75 in Zurich, Klinik Hirslanden, Switzerland.

1965 (-)  Actress Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl, dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1969 (-)  Brian Hartnell is stabbed to death as fifth and sixth victims by Zodiac in Lake Berryessa, California, USA.

1974 (x)  26-year-old Manson Family-member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, has a religious vision of Jesus in her cell and becomes a born-again christian in Frontera, California Institute for Women, California, USA.

1975 (x)   3 FRAP and 2 ETA-members are executed by the firing-squad for the murders of 4 policemen in Spain.

1980 (x)  21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "This Week I Was Beaten Up - 1" and "Eternity Forever - 1" with The Simpletones in Den Bosch, Willem II Fabriek, the Netherlands.

1982 (x)  Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is arrested in Berck, France.

2000 (-)  Murderer Rickey Nolen McGinn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

26 September 1983 - Tino Constantino Rossi Dies

1181 (+)   Founder of the Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi is born in Assisi, Umbria, Italy.

1791 (+)   Artist Théodore Géricault is born in Rouen, France.

1849 (+)   Physiologist Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow is born in Ryazan, Russia.

1868 (-)  Scientist August Ferdinand Möbius dies at the age of 77 in Leipzig, Germany.
He died 10 years after discovering his famous 'Möbius Ring'.

1888 (+)   Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1889 (+)   Philosopher Martin Heidegger is born in Meskirch, Germany.

1897 (+)   262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, is born in Brescia, Concesion, Italy.

1898 (+)   Composer George Gershwin is born in New York, New York, USA.

1902 (-)  Clothing manufacturer Levi Löb Strauss dies at the age of 73 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1929 (-)  Maria Rad is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 28 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

1937 (-)  Black musician Bessie Smith bleeds to death in the street after a car-accident because a white ambulance-driver refuses to take her to a hospital at the age of 43 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the USA.

1945 (-)  Composer Bela Viktor Janos Bartok dies of leukemia at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.

1945 (+)   Musician Bryan Ferry is born in Washington, Sunderland, United Kingdom.

1948 (+)   Actress Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

1951 (+)   Mass-murderer Ronald Joseph Butch DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1954 (x)   1172 Die in Toya Mary ferry shipwreck in Tsjugaru Strait,

1970 (x)   The Manson Family hide-out, Spahn Ranch, is burned to the ground, charring over 100.000 acres in Death Valley, California, USA.

1970 (-)  Donna Lass is presumably abducted and killed as 17th victim by Zodiac at the age of 25 in Stateline, Samara Hotel, Nevada, USA.

1974 (x)   Over 200 Die in USSR destroyer fire in the Black Sea.

1980 (x)   12 die and 312 are wounded in a fascist bomb-attack in a beergarden during the Beer Festival in München, Germany.


1983 (-)  Musician Tino Constantino Rossi dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1983 (-)  Mystery writer Muriel Davidson is murdered by Robert Thom in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1985 (-)  James Ferris is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

1988 (x)  Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts Building, California, USA.

1988 (-)  Keison Sinthasomphone is drugged, and sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 13 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
He survived.

1990 (-)  Writer Alberto Pincherle Moravia aka Il Conformista, is found dead in his bathroom at the age of 82 in Rome, Italy.

1997 (x)   234 Die in Garuda Airlines Airbus A-300 crash in Medan, Indonesia.

2003 (-)  Murderer Joseph Bates is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2003 (x)   234 Die in MV Joola Senegalese ferry capsizing in Gambia.

2007 (x)  A mistrial is declared in the case against 66-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2008 (-)  Actor Paul Leonard Newman dies of lung cancer at the age of 83 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.

2009 (x)  76-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, is arrested for a 2005 international arrest warrant for his 1977 sexual assault case in Zürich airport, Switzerland.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25 September 1991 - Klaus Barbie Dies

1534 (-)  219th Pope Clementius VII originally Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, dies at the age of 56 in Rome, Italy.
Just a few days before his death he ordered Michelangelo to paint "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel.

1832 (+)   Architect William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper, is born in Fairhaven, Massachussets, USA.

1897 (+)   Writer William Cuthbert Faulkner originally Falkner, is born in New Albany, Mississippi, USA.

1902 (-)  Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit is lynched by a large crowd of catholics in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1903 (+)   Artist Mark Rothko originally Marcus Rothkowitz, is born in Dvinsk-Daugavpilz, Latvia.

1906 (+)   Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is born in Leningrad, Russia.

1918 (-)  Friedel Rothe is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1932 (+)   Composer Glenn Herbert Gould is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1944 (+)   Actor Michael Douglas is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

1951 (-)  Murderer Steve Mitchell is executed by Old Sparky in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1952 (+)   Serial Killer Patrick David Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, is born in Middlesex, Park Royal Hospital, United Kingdom.

1952 (+)   Actor Christopher D’Olier Reeve aka Superman, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1953 (-)  Brady Murphy is shot dead by John Johnson at the age of 35 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

1970 (-)  Jeffrey Konen is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 18 in Houston, Yorktown, Texas, USA.

1977 (-)  John Mowery is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaine, Illinois, USA.

1978 (x)   150 Die in Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 Boeing 727-214 and Cessna 172 mid-air collision in San Diego, California, USA.
The site of the crash is immediately swarmed with looters who rob the bodies of all their valuables.

1979 (x)  20-year-old Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is sentenced to 20 years hard labour in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1982 (x)  43-year-old Mass Murderer George Emil Banks kills 13 people in a shooting spree in Wilkes Barre and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
Among the victims were five of his own children.

1983 (-)  Fourth King of Belgium Leopold III originally Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 81 in Brussels, St. Luc Hospital, Brabant, Belgium.

1983 (x)  In the largest prison escape in Great Britain 38 republican prisoners armed with handguns hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out in Belfast, Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.

1984 (x)  49-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is doused with paint thinner and set on fire by inmate Jan Holstrom in the hobby shop of the California Medical Facility in Vaccaville, California, USA.
He suffered burns over 18% of his body, mostly his head and hands.

1987 (x)  Mass Murderer John Schnick shoots 7 members of his family to death in Elkland, Montana, USA.


1991 (-)  Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, dies of blood-cancer at the age of 77 in Lyon, France.

1991 (-)  Murderer Warren McCleskey is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1997 (-)  Double Murderer Benjamin Stone is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-)  Murderer Robert A. Buell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

2002 (-)  Murderer Calvin Eugene King is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, September 24, 2012

24 September 2009 - Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz Dies

1541 (-)  Alchemist Paracelsus originally Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, dies at the age of 47 in Salzburg, Austria.

1725 (+)   Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness is born in Celbridge, Kildare, Ireland.

1896 (+)   Writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

1902 (+)   Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini is born in Khomein Isfahan, Persia, Iran.

1911 (+)   USSR-leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko is born in Bolshaya Tes, Russia.

1912 (-)  Murderer Chester Danton Jordan is executed by Old Sparky in Massachussets, USA.

1923 (-)  Paul Bronichewski is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.

1936 (+)   Creator of The Muppets Jim Henson is born in Greenville, Missouri, USA.

1945 (-)  Physicist Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger dies at the age of 63 in Potsdam, Germany.

1974 (x)  47-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

1980 (-)  Upaehya Bandara is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 34 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
She survived

1990 (-)  David Thomas is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 23 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

1993 (-)  Nazi Punk Rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
There are rumours that State Security had sabotaged his car.

1995 (-)  Spree Killer Eric Borel commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 16 in Sollies-Pont, France.
He first killed his mother, stepfather and brother with a hammer. Then he went to the neighbouring village of Cuers and shot 7 people with a .22 rifle.

1999 (-)  Double murderer Harvey Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2001 (-)  Artist, activist and organisation pioneer Franz Ferdinand Feigl dies of cancer at the age of 43 in Amsterdam, Sint Lucas hospital, the Netherlands.

2002 (-)  Double murderer Rex Warren Mays is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-)  Writer Françoise Sagan originally Françoise Quoirez, dies of heart-failure at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Normandy, France.


2009 (-)  Manson Family-member Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz, dies of brain cancer at the age of 61 in Chowchilla, Central California Women's facility, California, USA.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

23 September 2008 - Matti Juhani Saari Commits Suicide

1869 (+)   Cook and healthy Typhoid Fever carrier Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary, is born in New York, USA.

1875 (x)  15-year-old Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is arrested for the first time in Silver City, USA.

1907 (+)   Head of the SS in Rome Herbert Kappler is born in Stuttgart, Germany.

1916 (+)   Politician Aldo Moro is born in Maglie, Italy.

1920 (+)   Actor Mickey Rooney originally Joe Yule, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1930 (+)   Musician Ray Charles originally Robinson aka Brother Ray, is born in Albany, Georgia, USA.

1935 (-)  Edward Andrassy and an unidentified man are found as first and second victim by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland at the age of 28 in Cleveland, Kingsbury Run, East 49th Street, Ohio, USA.

1938 (+)   Actress Romy Schneider originally Rose-Marie Magdalena Albach-Retty, is born in Germany.

1938 (-)  Serial Killer Joe Joseph D. Ball aka The Alligator Man aka the Butcher of Elmendorf aka the Bluebeard of South Texas, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 42 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
He used to feed his victims to his pet-alligators.

1939 (-)  Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud originally Sigismund Schlomo Freud, commits suicide by morphine poisoning at the age of 83 in London, United Kingdom.
He had been suffering from mouth cancer.

1941 (+)   Black Panther George Lester Jackson aka Soledad Brother, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1943 (+)   Musician Julio José de la Cueva Iglesias is born in Madrid, Spain.

1947 (+)   Catholic Priest Jerzy Popieluszko is born in Okopy, Poland.

1949 (+)   Musician Bruce Springsteen aka The Boss, is born in Freehold, New Jersey, USA.

1958 (+)   Mass-murderer Harry William Frederick De La Roche jr. is born in Montvale, New Jersey, USA.

1959 (-)  Murderer John E. Day is executed by hanging at the age of 0 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

1968 (-)  Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, dies at the age of 81 in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.

1970 (-)  Actor André Bourvil originally Robert Raimbourg, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in Paris, France.

1971 (x)  21-year-old Mario Roymans aka Tijl Van Limburg, steals Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Loveletter’ and claims a ransom to give to Bengal Refugees in Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brabant, Belgium.

1973 (-)  Poet Pablo Neruda originally Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, dies at the age of 69 in Santiago de Chile, Chili.

1976 (x)  Start of the second trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in New Jersey, USA.

1982 (-)  Leon Guichard is raped by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 20 in Venaray-les-Laumes, France.

1983 (x)   112 Die in Gulf Air Flight 771 Boeing 737-2P6 terrorist bombing in Mina Jebel Ali, Dubai.
The bomb was apparently planted by the Abu Nidal organization.

1985 (x)  31-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, is sentenced to life without parole for 25 years in Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.

1987 (-)  Filmmaker Bob Robert Louis Fosse dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1994 (-)  Writer Robert Albert Bloch aka Psycho, dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1997 (-)  Magali Sirotti is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, at the age of 19 in Paris, France.

1997 (-)  Murderer Jessel Turner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-)  Murderer Kenneth Stewart is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

1998 (-)  Murderer David Castillo is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.


2008 (-)  Mass murderer Matti Juhani Saari commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 22 in Kauhajoki, Finland.
He killed 10 people at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences. Saari left behind two handwritten notes in his school dormitory stating that his motive for the shooting was: "I hate the human race".

2010 (-)  Double murderess Teresa Lewis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Jarratt, Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, USA.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

22 September 1989 - Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline Dies

1515 (+)   Fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1692 (x)  Mary Esty, Martha Cory, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd, and Margaret Scott are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, USA.

1774 (-)  249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.

1776 (-)  America’s first spy Nathan Hale is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1791 (+)   Physicist Michael Faraday is born in London, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1835 (x)  26-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe secretly marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

1885 (+)   Actor and filmmaker Erich Oswald von Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate, is born in Vienna, Austria.

1903 (+)   Chief informer against the Cosa Nostra Joseph ‘Joe Cargo’ Valachi aka Charles Chanbano aka Anthony Sorge, is born in Harlem, New York, USA.

1903 (+)   Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Koch is born in Hannover, Germany.

1906 (+)   KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is born in Dresden, Germany.

1914 (x)  49-year-old Artist Camille Claudel is admitted to the Asile de Montdevergues. in Montfavet, France.
She spent the last 30 years of her life there.

1924 (x)  26-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 and 6 months imprisonment for larceny in London, United Kingdom.

1927 (-)  Composer Giannotto Bastianelli commits suicide at the age of 44 in Tunis, Tunisia.

1934 (x)   265 Die in coal-mine explosion in Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom.

1939 (-)  Murderer Frank Connor is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1948 (x)   135 Die in chemical warehouse explosion in Hong Kong.

1949 (x)  44-year-old Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, has his life sentence commuted to 85 years in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1957 (-)  Singer and Actress Zhou Xuan originally Su Pu aka Beautiful Jade, dies of encephalitis following a nervous breakdown at the age of 39 in a mental asylum in Shanghai, China.

1958 (+)   Musician Joan Jett originally Joan Marie Larkin, is born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA.

1975 (x)  62-year-old 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford is attacked by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, California, USA.

1977 (x)  25-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
In the shootout policeman Arie Kranenburg is shot dead.

1984 (x)  55-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of Michelle Steel in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1984 (x)  25-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "La Chute des Anges Rebelles" in Brussels, 1693 Waversesteenweg, Brabant, Belgium.


1989 (-)  Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, dies at the age of 101 in New York, New York, USA.

1992 (-)  Triple Murderer James Demouchette is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1995 (-)  Double murderer Philip Ingle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

1998 (-)  Lanett White is found murdered by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 25 in Lodi, California, USA.

2007 (-)  Actor Marcel Marceau dies at the age of 84 in Cahors, France.

2007 (x)  48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Macht Kaputt was Euch Kaputt Macht" in Hasselt, Z33, Limburg, Belgium.

Friday, September 21, 2012

21 September 1962 - Ulrike Marie Meinhof Gives Birth to Twins

1832 (-)  Writer Walter Scott dies of anemia at the age of 61 in Abbotsford, United Kingdom.
As a result his brain shriveled up.

1860 (-)  Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer dies of heart failure at the age of 72 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

1866 (+)   Writer Herbert George Wells is born in London, Bromley, United Kingdom.

1921 (-)  Wolfchild Amala dies of a kidney infection at the age of 3 in Midnapore, India.

1921 (x)   Over 600 Die in ammonium nitrate explosion in Oppau, BASF plant, Germany.

1931 (+)   Actor Larry Hagman aka JR Ewing, is born in Weatherford, Texas, USA.

1934 (+)   Musician Leonard Norman Cohen is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1947 (+)   Mass Murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1947 (+)   Writer Stephen King is born in Portland, New Mexico, USA.

1952 (+)   Cellules Communistes Combattantes leader Pierre Carette is born in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

1952 (+)   Demonic possessed woman Anneliese Michel is born in Klingenberg, Bavaria, Germany.

1956 (x)   121 Die in train collision in Secunderbad, India.


1962 (x)  27-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof gives birth to twins Regine and Bettina by Cesarian after 6 months of pregnancy in Hamburg, Frauenklinik, Germany.
She had to give birth early due to complications of a brain tumour, four weeks later she would be operated.

1974 (-)  An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Sequin, Nevada, USA.

1975 (-)  André Breugnot is drugged and drowned in a bathtub by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 56 in Chiang Mai, Chiang Inn Hotel, Room 207, Thailand.

1982 (-)  Irina Karabelnikowa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 19 in Schachnaja-Kirpitschnaja, Russia.

1999 (-)  Murderer Richard W. Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-)  Murderer Andrew Perez Flores is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

20 September 2000 - Gherman Stepanovich Titov Dies

1519 (x)  39-year-old Explorer Ferdinand Magellan sets sail in the first attempt to circumnavigate the earth in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Andalusia, Spain.

1822 (+)   Inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhofer is born in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.

1853 (+)   5th King of Thailand Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.

1859 (+)   Writer Cyriel Cyrillus Gustave Emile Buysse is born in Nevele, Belgium.

1863 (-)  Philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm dies at the age of 78 in Berlin, Germany.

1880 (+)   Prostitute cum serial killer Louise Lofie Peete is born in Bienville, Louisiana, USA.

1913 (x)  The first stone for 52-year-old Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, his Goetheaneum is laid in Dornach, Germany.

1916 (+)   Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf August Oetker is born in Bielefeld, Germany.

1918 (x)  31-year-old Stigmatized Monk Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, has his first occurence of stigmata while kneeling before a cross in the Chuch of the Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy.
This phenomenon continued for fifty years, until his death in 1968.

1924 (x)  Germany decides to change its official writing from Gothic to Latin.

1925 (+)   8th King of Thailand Rama VIII originally Ananda Mahidol aka Phra Paramenthara Maha Ananda Mahidol Phra Athama Ramathibodinthra, is born in Heidelberg, Germany.

1929 (+)   Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, is born in Vienna, Austria.

1932 (x)  63-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, starts hungerstriking in prison in Poona, India.

1933 (-)  Theosophist Annie Wood Besant dies at the age of 86 in Adyar, Tamil Hadu, India.

1933 (-)  Assassin of SA-Leader Horst Wessel, Albrecht Höhler is abducted and shot to pieces by an SA commando at the age of 35 in Berlin, Germany.

1934 (+)   Actress Sophia Loren originally Sophia Scicoloni, is born in Rome, Italy.

1936 (+)   Murderer Roger Bontemps is born in Aydoilles, France.

1937 (+)   Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, is born in Breslau, Poland.

1940 (x)  The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by 37-year-old Commander of Breendonk-KZ Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt in Breendonk, Belgium.

1940 (-)  Frau Lausche is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Karlshorst, Germany.
She survived.

1942 (+)   Filmmaker Robbe De Hert is born in Farnborough, United Kingdom.

1945 (-)  Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, commits suicide by drug-overdose at the age of 61 in Rhinebeck, New York, USA.

1945 (-)  Chief Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz KZ Eduard Wirths commits suicide by hanging at the age of 41 in Staumühle, Germany.

1946 (x)   The first Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France.

1947 (x)  22-year-old Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, marries Beryl Suzanna Thornley in London, Kensington Registry Office, United Kingdom.

1948 (-)  Ravensbrück KZ guard Emma Anna Maria Zimmer originally Mezel, is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Hameln, Germany.
She was known for her extreme sadistic behaviour.

1951 (x)  Rhesus monkey Yorick aka Albert VI, and 11 mouse crewmates are recovered from a Aerobee missile flight in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA.
He was the first animal to survive a space flight, but died 2 hours later.

1954 (x)  32-year-old Serial Killer Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Mainz, Germany.

1957 (-)  Composer Jean Johan Julius Christian Sibelius dies at the age of 91 in Jarvenpaa, Lappi, Finland.

1958 (x)  29-year-old Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., is stabbed in the upper left side of his chest with a letter opener by 42-year-old mentally disturbed Izola Ware Curry while signing copies of his book "Stride Toward Freedom" at Blumstein's Department Store in New York, Harlem, New York, USA.

1959 (+)   Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, is born in Vilvoorde, Brabant, Belgium.

1959 (x)  43-year-old Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in Paris, Beat Hotel, France.

1959 (x)  19-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, starts his travel to Russia when boarding the SS Marion Lykes in New Orleans, USA.
He first arrived in Le Havre, from there to London, then Helsinki where he got a 6-day-visa for the Soviet Union.

1959 (x)  43-year-old Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, breaks down on stage with internal bleedings in New York, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, USA.

1961 (+)   Consensual victim of Robert Frederick Glass, Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, is born in Hampstead, Maryland, USA.

1964 (+)   Wong Kar-Wai star actress Maggie Man-Yuk Cheung is born in Hong Kong.

1965 (x)  36-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for burglary in Maitland, Missouri, USA.

1966 (x)  The US Surveyor 2 spacecraft is launched in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
Two days later it crashed onto the Moon surface near Copernicus Crater.

1967 (x)  38-year-old Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, shoots his film "16/67:20. September" aka "the legendary eating, drinking, pissing, shitting film" with Viennese Actionist Günter Brus in Vienna, Austria.

1970 (+)   Bankrobber Larry Eugene Jr. Phillips is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1972 (x)  30-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, has his death-sentence voided by the Supreme Court in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1972 (x)  37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Ossendorf Prison to Zweibrücken Prison to take part in an identification line-up in Zweibrücken, Germany.
Determined to ruin the process, she screams "Ich bin die Meinhof - mich sollt ihr identifizieren!" upon which the police instructs the 5 other women in the line-up to do the same.

1973 (-)  Singer-songwriter Jim James Joseph Croce dies in a plane crash at the age of 30 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.

1974 (-)  Thy Miller is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 15 in Dalbo, Minnesota, USA.

1977 (x)  Andrew Dupay, who delivered the mail to 24-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, commits suicide by blasting a shotgun through his head in Yonkers, Lincoln Terrace, New York, USA.
He told a friend “Sometimes a mailman learns things about the people on his route he’d be better off not knowing, and he sees things he’d be better off not seeing”.

1979 (-)  8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svoboda dies at the age of 83 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

1979 (x)  58-year-old Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa his reign is overthrown in a military "Operation Barracuda" in Moyen-Congo.
It was France's 'last colonial expedition'.

1989 (-)  Murderer James SK Paster aka Skip, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1994 (-)  Double Murderer George Lott aka The Fort Worth Courthouse Gunman, is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-)  First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, dies of leukemia at the age of 67 in Munster University Hospital, Germany.


2000 (-)  Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Moscow, USSR.
He was the second person to orbit the earth.

2004 (x)  School attacker Jia Qingyou injures 24 schoolchildren with a knife in No. 1 Experimental Primary School in Shandong, China.

2005 (-)  Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies at the age of 96 in Vienna, Austria.

2005 (x)  An inquest in the death of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner told that he had deliberately handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys out of reach in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier and his skeleton was found in april.

2006 (x)  47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Corner Push Re-Formance" in Antwerpen, Bastard Art Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

19 September 1961 - Betty and Barney Hill are Abducted by Aliens

1805 (-)  Murderer Charles Cunningham is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in York, Pennsylvania, USA.

1869 (x)  Hortense Kinck and her 5 children are strangled and beaten to death by 20-year-old Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann in Paris, France.

1881 (-)  20th president of the USA James Abraham Garfield dies of wounds suffered in an attack by Charles Guiteau 3 months earlier at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.

1891 (+)   Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz is born in Grünau, Germany.

1902 (x)   115 Die in a stampede after a presumed church fire in Birmingham, Alaska, USA.

1909 (+)   Victim of Leopold & Loeb aka The Perfect Murderers, Bobby Franks is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1911 (+)   Writer Sir William Gerald Golding known for “Lord of the Flies”, is born in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

1912 (+)   Nazi Doctor in Buchenwald and typhoid-expert Erwin Ding-Schuler is born in Bitterfeld, Germany.

1929 (+)   Sadist Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

1933 (+)   Actor David McCallum is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1934 (x)  34-year-old Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is arrested and charged with the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr in New York, The Bronx, 222nd Street, New York, USA.

1934 (+)   Beatles manager Brian Samuel Epstein is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1941 (+)   Musician Cass ‘Mama’ Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

1947 (+)   Symbionese Liberation Army member Nancy Ling Perry aka Nancy Devote aka Lynn Ledworth aka Fahizah, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1948 (+)   Actor Jeremy Irons is born in Cowes, United Kingdom.

1949 (+)   Model Leslie Hornby aka Twiggy, is born in London, United Kingdom.


1961 (x)  Betty and Barney Hill are believed to be abducted for several hours by extraterrestials in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.
It was the first widely published UFO abduction case in the USA.

1976 (x)   154 Die in Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 crash in Karatepe mountains, Turkey.

1977 (x)  14-year-old Serial Killer Christine Laverne Slaughter Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, is married in Blountstown, Florida, USA.

1978 (-)  Polish priest Rolf Gunther commits suicide by self-immolation in Falkenstein’s church, Germany.

1981 (x)   Over 300 Die in Sobral Santos capsizing in the Amazone River, Brazil.

1986 (-)  Murderer John William Rook is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

1987 (-)  Debbie Davis is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

1989 (x)   170 Die in UTA Flight 772 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 crash in the Sahara.
The crash was due to a terrorist bomb explosion by a rebel Jihad group.

1995 (-)  Murderer Carl Jr. Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-)  Murderer William P. Davis is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

18 September 1970 - Jimi Johnny Allen Hendrix Dies

1765 (+)   254th Pope Gregorius XVI originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro, is born in Belluno, Italy.

1868 (-)  Murderer Melvin E. Baughn is executed by hanging in Seneca, Kansas, USA.

1906 (+)   Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1906 (-)  Murderer John C. Barnes is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Oregon, USA.

1931 (-)  Hitler’s niece and supposed secret lover Geli Angela Maria Raubal commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in München, Prinzregentenplatz, Germany.
She used Hitler’s personal Walther 7.65 revolver.

1933 (+)   Actor Robert Blake originally Michael Gubitosi, is born in Nutley, New Jersey, USA.

1943 (x)  60-year-old Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, calls out th Fascist Republic in Salo, Italy.

1952 (+)   Punk Rocker Dee Dee Ramone originally Douglas Glenn Colvin, is born in Vancouver, Canada.

1953 (-)  Murderess Louisa Merrifield is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

1961 (-)  Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash at the age of 56 in Ndola, Rhodesia.

1965 (x)  Murderer Palle Mogens Sörensen kills 4 cops in Roskilde, Denmark.

1968 (+)   Murderer Charles Daniel Thacker is born in Texas, USA.


1970 (-)  Musician Jimi Johnny Allen Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27 in London, United Kingdom.

1974 (-)  Sally Versoi is abducted by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 18 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
She escaped.

1974 (-)  Emmet Johnson is shot through the head by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Ely, Nevada, USA.

1975 (x)  38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is found guilty of robbery, burglary and kidnapping, and sentenced to 30 to 80 years imprisonment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

1975 (x)  21-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is arrested in San Francisco, California, USA.

1981 (-)  Malcolm Barlow is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 24 in London, United Kingdom.

1985 (x)   60 members of the ATA tribe are poisoned by their leader “so they could see better the image of god” in Mindanao, the Fillipines.

1996 (-)  Multiple Murderer Raymond Lee Stewart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.

1996 (-)  Murderer Joe Gonzales is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2001 (-)  Murderer James Roy Joseph Knox is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-)  Murderer Ron Scott Shamburger is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (x)  92-year-old Collaborator and right wing politician Maurice Papon is released from prison in less than three years into his ten years term in Paris, Prison de la Santé, France.

2004 (-)  Filmmaker Russel Albion Meyer aka King of the Nudies, dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.

Monday, September 17, 2012

17 September 1980 - Anastasio Somoza is Shot Dead

1550 (+)   233rd Pope Paulus V originally Camillo Borghese, is born in Rome, Italy.

1895 (-)  Murderer Isaac Edwards is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.

1901 (+)   Sailor Francis Chichester is born in Barnstaple, Devon, United Kingdom.

1922 (+)   President of Angola Agostinho Antonio Neto is born in Bengo, Angola.

1923 (+)   Musician Hank Hiram King Williams is born in Georgiana, Alabama, USA.

1925 (x)  18-year-old Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, is involved in a bus accident in Mexico City, Mexico.
She is discovered with a metal pole protruding from her body and suffered a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, a fractured pelvis, 2 broken ribs, 11 fractures in her right leg and a dislocated and crushed right foot.

1925 (-)  Murderer Julius Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.

1925 (+)   Mass murderer John Emil List is born in Bay City, Michigan, USA.

1928 (+)   Actor Roddy Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall is born in London, United Kingdom.

1929 (+)   Formula One Racer Stirling Moss is born in London, United Kingdom.

1931 (+)   Actress Anne Bancroft originally Anna Maria Louise Italiano, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1935 (+)   Writer Ken Kenneth Elton Kesey is born in La Junta, Colorado, USA.

1947 (-)  Murderer Charles Henry Jenkins is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1947 (-)  Murderer Christopher James Geraghty is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1949 (x)   120 Die in Noronic cruiser fire in Toronto, Canada.

1956 (-)  Marion Watt is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 45 in Burnside, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Her 16-year-old daughter Vivienne and sister Margaret were also found dead.

1967 (x)   40 Die in soccer riot during the game Kayseri-Sivas in Turkey.

1968 (x)  Fictional Artist John Fare has removed a thumb, 2 fingers, an eye, 8 toes, both testicles and some pieces of skin, which are all replaced by plastic substitutes in Toronto, Isaacs Gallery, Canada.

1971 (x)  Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the New York Department of Corrections to protest the killing of 29 inmates at Attica State Penitentiary in Albany, New York, USA.


1980 (-)  Dictator Anastasio Somoza is shot dead in a grenade-attack in Asuncion, Paraguay.

1983 (x)  24-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Nu Ben Ik de Dood / Now I Am Death" with ProduKtion in Gent, Campo Santo & Gele Zaal, East Flanders, Belgium.

1985 (-)  Fashion designer Laura Ashley originally Laura Mountney, dies from injuries suffered in falling off the stairs 10 days before at the age of 60 in Wales, United Kingdom.

1995 (-)  Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper dies at the age of 93 in London, United Kingdom.

1996 (-)  Politician Spiro Agnew dies of leukemia at the age of 77 in Berlin, Maryland, USA.

2002 (-)  Murderer Jessie Joe Patrick is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He was sentenced to death for the burglary and murder of an 80-year-old Dallas woman.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

16 September 2012 - Marc Bolan Dies

1736 (-)  Physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies at the age of 50 in The Hague, the Netherlands.

1782 (-)  Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, dies at the age of 77 in Bologna, Italy.

1887 (+)   Artist Jean / Hans Arp is born in Strassburg, Germany.

1921 (x)   Over 100 Die in bomb-attack in New York, US Assay building, New York, USA.
The attack is claimed by anarchists.

1922 (-)  Reverend Edward Hall and his 34-year-old lover Eleanor Mills are killed by throatcutting by persons unknown at the age of 41 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Their love-letters are strewn about around the dead bodies.

1924 (+)   Actress Lauren Bacall originally Betty Joan Perske, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1925 (+)   Musician B. B. Riley King aka The King of Blues, is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA.

1927 (+)   Actor Peter Michael Falk aka Lieutenant Columbo, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1932 (-)  Actress Peg Lillian Millicent Entwistle commits suicide by jumping off "HollywoodLand’"Mount Lee at the age of 24 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1935 (+)   Minimal Artist Carl Andre is born in Quincy, Massachussets, USA.

1956 (+)   Magician David Copperfield originally David Seth Kotkin, is born in Metuchen, New Jersey, USA.

1956 (+)   Actor Mickey Rourke is born in Schenectady, New York, USA.

1977 (-)  Soprano Maria Callas originally Mengeghini-Calogeropoulou, dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Paris, France.


1977 (-)  Musician Marc Bolan aka Tyrannosaurus Rex, dies in a car crash at the age of 29 in London, United Kingdom.

1979 (x)  Killer Groupie Veronica ‘Ver Lyn’ Compton tries to strangle an unidentified girl in an attempt to make a cover-up for Serial Killer Kenneth Alessio Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellingham, Shangri-La Motel, Washington, USA.

1980 (-)  Psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget dies at the age of 84 in Genève, Switzerland.

1980 (x)  51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the Regional Mental Health Center in Norfolk, Nebraska, USA.

1987 (-)  An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in St. Petersburg, Lembolowo station, Russia.

1987 (-)  Murderer Joseph Starvaggi is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1988 (x)  36-year-old Cellules Communistes Combattantes leader Pierre Carette starts hungerstriking in the prison of St. Gilles in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1992 (-)  Double murderer Willie Leroy is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 34 in Jarratt, Virginia, USA.

1994 (-)  Murderer Jesse Gutierrez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-)  Serial Killer Archibald Thomson Hall aka Roy Fontaine aka The Monster Butler, dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Portsmouth, Kingston Prison, United Kingdom.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

15 September 2006 - Oriana Fallaci Dies

1254 (+)   Explorer Marco Polo is born in Venice, Italy.

1440 (x)  36-year-old Serial Killer Gilles De Rais is arrested in Nantes, France.

1857 (+)   27th president of the USA William Howard Taft is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

1881 (+)   Automobile designer Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti is born in Milan, Italy.

1890 (+)   Writer Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie is born in Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom.

1894 (+)   Filmmaker Jean Renoir is born in Paris, France.

1911 (+)   Murderess Lea Papin is born in Le Mans, France.

1919 (+)   Cycling legend Fausto Angelo Coppi aka Il Campionissimo, is born in Catsellania, Italy.

1935 (-)  Isabella “Belle” Kerr is strangled by Buck Ruxton in Lancaster, Dalton Square 2, United Kingdom.
In order to prevent their housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, from discovering his crime before he could dispose of the body, he suffocated her too.

1941 (-)  Britain’s oldest bachelor Alfred Arnold dies at the age of 112 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1942 (+)   Murderer Leon Jerome Moser is born in Pennsylvania, USA.

1945 (-)  Composer Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern is shot dead by US-soldiers during curfew at the age of 61 in Vienna, Austria.

1946 (+)   Filmmaker Oliver Stone is born in New York, New York, USA.

1970 (x)  The Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen helps 49-year-old Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary escape from the California Men's Colony prison where he had been locked up for four years for the possession of marihuana in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.

1974 (x)   71 die when hi-jackers blow up a Boeing 727 in the air in Phan Rang, Vietnam.

1977 (-)  Robert Gilroy is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1978 (-)  Airplane designer and pioneer Wilhelm Emil Messerschmidt dies at the age of 80 in München, Germany.

1987 (-)  Stephen Tuomi is strangled and cut to pieces as second victim by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in Milwaukee, Ambassador Hotel, Wisconsin, USA.

1996 (-)  Serial Killer and accomplice to Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Elwood Toole aka The Hand of Death, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 49 in Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.

1997 (x)  43-year-old Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise kills four co-workers at the R.E. Phelon Lawn Mower Company in Alken, South Carolina, USA.
Afterwards he swallowed insecticide in a suicide attempt, but survived.

1999 (-)  Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Horst Ludwig Meyer is shot dead by the police during his arrest at the age of 43 in Vienna, Austria.
His girlfriend was arrested. Meyer was the last RAF member to die violently during the organisation's lifetime.

2004 (-)  Punk Rocker Johnny Ramone originally John William Cummings, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA.


2006 (-)  Journalist Oriana Fallaci dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Florence, Italy.

Friday, September 14, 2012

14 September 1982 - Grace Patricia Kelly Dies

1523 (-)  218th Pope Adrianus VI originally Adriaan Lorenszoon Boeyens, dies at the age of 64 in Rome, Italy.

1715 (-)  Benedictine Monk Dom Pérignon dies at the age of 77 in Epernay, Abbey of Hautvilliers, France.

1849 (+)   Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov is born in Ryazan, Russia.

1898 (-)  Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs I dies at the age of 43 in Citronelle, Alabama, USA.

1901 (-)  25th president of the USA William McKinley dies of coldfire due to gunshot wounds suffered in an attack by Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz 8 days earlier at the age of 58 in Buffalo, New York, USA.

1927 (-)  Choreographer Isadora Angela Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, dies in a car crash at the age of 49 in Nice, France.
Her long shawl got tangled in the wheel of the car she drove and she was strangled while driving into a collision.

1932 (-)  Assassin of the 13th President of France Paul Doumer, Paul Gorgoelov is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, France.

1951 (+)   IRA-member Joe McDonnel originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill, is born in Belfast, Ireland.

1967 (-)  War leader Marshall Abdel Hakim Amer commits suicide by poisoning at the age of 47 in Egypt.
While imprisoned he was given the choice by high-renking officials between conviction and execution for treason of honourable death by suicide.

1972 (-)  Aiko Koo is strangled and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in San Francisco, California, USA.

1974 (-)  Gwen Burton is assaulted and raped with a hammer by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

1974 (-)  Stefania Pettini is shot dead and mutilated as third and fourth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy.

1975 (x)  Rembrandt’s ‘Nightwatch’ is attacked by Arie Van Dijck with a knife in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.
Van Dijck commits suicide 6 months later.

1982 (-)  President of Lebanon Bachir Pierre Gemayel dies in a bomb attack at the age of 34 in Achrafieh, Kataeb Headquarters, Lebanon.
25 other people were also killed.


1982 (-)  Actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Patricia Kelly dies in a car crash at the age of 52 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Her daughter Stephanie, who supposedly was driving the Rover P6, is injured.

1998 (x)  Start of the trial against 36-year-old Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng in Santa Ana, California, USA.

1999 (-)  Murderer Willis Barnes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-)  Family murderess Frances Elaine Newton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
She shot her 32-year-old husband Adrian, her 7-year-old son Alton and her 21-month-old daughter Farrah.

2009 (-)  Actor Patrick Wayne Swayze dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

13 September 1996 - Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac Dies

1321 (-)  Poet Dante Alighieri originally Durente degli Alighieri, dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Italy.

1475 (+)   Lord, cardinal and Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is born in Rome, Italy.

1739 (+)   Statesman Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin is born in Smolensk, Russia.

1874 (+)   Composer Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria.

1904 (+)   Mother of Martin Luther, Alberta Christine Williams King is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1916 (+)   Writer Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, Wales, United Kingdom.

1931 (x)  22 die in a bomb-attack and subsequent derailment of the Orient Express by Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, on a viaduct in Torbagy, Hungary.

1944 (+)   Actress Jacqueline Winifred Fraser Bisset is born in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1946 (-)  Murderer Kenneth W. M. Bailey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.

1956 (+)   IRA-member Martin Edward Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, is born in Cappagh, Tyrone, Ireland.

1966 (-)  Ursula Rohling is killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 20 in Marl, Försterbusch Park, Germany.

1971 (x)  After 4 days of riots 63-year-old Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller orders 1000 State Troopers and National Guardsmen to storm Attica Prison in New York, New York, USA.
Over 40 people including 11 hostage prison guards died.

1974 (x)  The members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion start their third hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.
It was announced by Ulrike Meinhof while she stood trial for the freeing of Andreas Baader in Berlin.

1975 (-)  Liane Woessner is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 11 in Bruchsal, Germany.

1980 (x)  20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Simpletones in de Bajes" with The Simpletones in an old prison in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1984 (x)  47-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is arrested and charged with theft in Rostow, Russia.
At the trial, three weeks later, he is released due to lack of evidence.

1984 (x)  Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1986 (x)   250 Die in overloaded ferry shipwreck in Barisal, Bangladesh.

1995 (-)  Murderer Jimmie Wayne Jeffers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.


1996 (-)  Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 25 in Las Vegas, University Medical Center, Nevada, USA.
He had been shot four times in a drive-by shooting six days earlier.

2007 (x)  Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Alexander Pichushkin aka The Bitsevsky Maniac, in Moscow, Russia.
He is accused of 62 murders, his plan was to kill 64, one for each square on a chess board.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

12 September 1992 - Anthony Perkins aka Norman Bates Dies

1362 (-)  199th Pope Innocentus VI originally Etienne Aubert, dies in Avignon, France.

1812 (+)   The Mountain Meadows Massacre Perpetrator, John Doyle Lee is born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, USA.

1857 (x)   426 Die in SS Central America sinking in a hurricane in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA.
The ship also carried 15 tons of gold.

1888 (+)   Actor and musician Maurice Auguste Chevalier is born in Paris, France.

1892 (x)  18-year-old Gangster Kate “Ma” Barker originally Arizona Clark, marries George Elias Barker in Aurora, Missouri, USA.

1913 (+)   Olympic legend Jesse James Cleveland Owens is born in Lawrence County, Alabama, USA.

1921 (+)   Science Fiction writer Stanislaw Lem known for “Solaris”, is born in Lwow, Poland.

1943 (+)   Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, Christiane Herreman is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1944 (+)   Musician Barry Eugene White originally Barrence Eugene Carter aka The Walrus of Love, is born in Galveston, Texas, USA.

1951 (+)   Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is born in Schenectady, New York, USA.
He was originally named Paul, but 9 months later he was given up for adoption.

1956 (+)   Musician Leslie Kwok-Wing Cheung originally Cheung Fat Chung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother), is born in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

1968 (-)  Revolutionary teacher Ryszard Siwiec dies in hospital after setting himself on fire four days earlier at the age of 59 in Warsaw, Dziesieciolecia, Poland.
It was a protest against the Soviet invasion in Czechoslowakia

1973 (x)  27-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Through the Night Softly" in Los Angeles, Main Street, California, USA.

1977 (-)  Nationalist Leader Steve Stephen Bantu Biko dies of a brain hemorrhage from massive injuries to the head at the age of 30 in Pretoria, Soweto Prison, South Africa.
He was interrogated and tortured in a coma for 22 hours in Police Room 619 in Port Elizabeth on 21 August 1977.

1980 (x)  20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "I Wanna Be Injured", "Gibt Mir Dein Hand", "I'm Suffocating", "Power-Drill!" and "Out" with The Simpletones in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Amsterdam, Art Something, the Netherlands.

1990 (-)  Murderer Charles Walker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.


1992 (-)  Actor Anthony Perkins aka Norman Bates, dies of AIDS at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1994 (-)  Army Veteran and Suicide Pilot Frank Eugene Corder commits suicide by an airplane crash at the age of 38 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
He had stolen the Cessna 150 a day earlier and intended to crash onto the White House, instead he crashed into South Lawn.

2003 (-)  Double murderer Henry L. Hunt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2003 (-)  Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, dies of diabetes at the age of 71 in Nashville, Baptist Hospital, Tennessee, USA.

2006 (-)  Murderer Farley Matchett is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

11 September 1971 - Nikita Sergeyewitsch Krushchev Dies

1816 (+)   Optician Carl Zeiss is born in Weimar, Germany.

1862 (+)   Serial Killer Harvey Hawley Crippen is born in Coldwater, Michigan, USA.

1881 (+)   Actress Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen is born in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1885 (+)   Writer David Herbert Richards Lawrence is born in Eastwood, United Kingdom.

1903 (+)   Social theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

1917 (+)   Dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos is born in Sarrat, the Philippines.

1922 (+)   Murderer Elisandro L. Macias is born in Arizona, USA.

1935 (+)   Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov is born in Verhnee Zhilino, USSR.
He became the second person to orbit the earth.

1939 (x)   Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war to Nazi Germany..

1940 (+)   Filmmaker Brian DePalma is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

1945 (+)   Murderer William Lyle Woratzeck is born in Arizona, USA.

1967 (x)  32-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson records 14 tracks of his music in San Francisco, California, USA.
All tracks appear on the Lp "Lie: The Love and Terror Cult" that was distributed during his trial for the Tate/LaBianca murders in 1970.

1968 (x)   95 Die in Air France Caravelle crash in Nice, France.

1969 (-)  Mary Pickens is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, at the age of 59 in the USA.
Putt is arrested within hours.


1971 (-)  USSR-leader Nikita Sergeyewitsch Krushchev dies of a heart attack at the age of 77 in Moscow, Russia.

1972 (x)  Start of the trial against 38-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, in Fairfield, California, USA.

1973 (-)  President of Chile Salvador Isabelino Gossens Allende commits suicide by a shot in the head during a military coup at the age of 65 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
He used an automatic AK-47 rifle which was given to him as a present by Fidel Castro.

1974 (x)   72 Die in Eastern Airlines Flight 212 Douglas DC-9-31 crash in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
10 people survived.

1978 (-)  Medical photographer Janet Parker dies of smallpox at the age of 40 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
She was accidently infected by a mislaid sample of the virus at the University Medical School, and the last person to die of smallpox.

1978 (-)  Dissident writer Georgi Ivanov Markov dies after being jabbed in the leg with a poisonous umbrella by Bulgarian secret agents at the age of 49 in London, United Kingdom.

1981 (+)   Mass Murderer Dylan Bennet Klebold aka The Columbine High School Killer, is born in Lakewood, Colorado, USA.

1985 (-)  Murderer Charles Rumbaugh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1987 (-)  Musician Peter Tosh originally Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Stepping Razor, is shot dead by burglars at the age of 42 in Kingston, Jamaïca.

1988 (-)  Anna Steffen is found strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 28 in Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.

1990 (x)   Over 150 Die in overloaded ferry capsizing in Uttar Pradesh, India.

2001 (-)  9/11 Terrorist Mohamed Elamir awad al-Sayed Atta crashes into Tower 1 of the World Trade Center with a hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 Boeing 767-223ER at the age of 33 in New York, New York, USA.

2001 (-)  9/11 Terrorist Yousef al-Shehhi Marwan crashes into Tower 2 of the World Trade Center with a hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 Boeing 767-222 at the age of 23 in New York, New York, USA.

2001 (-)  9/11 Terrorist Hani Saleh Hanjour crashes into the Pentagon with a hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 Boeing 757-223 at the age of 29 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

2001 (-)  9/11 Terrorist Ziad Samir Jarrah crashes with a hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 Boeing 757-222 at the age of 26 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, USA.
He planned to crash into the White House.

2006 (-)  Writer and biographer of Adolf Hitler, Joachim Clemens Fest dies at the age of 79 in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.

2008 (-)  Murderer Yoshiyuki Mantani is executed by hanging at the age of 68 in Osaka, Japan.

2008 (-)  Murderer Mineteru Yamamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 68 in Osaka, Japan.

2008 (-)  Murderer Isamu Hirano is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

Monday, September 10, 2012

10 September 1971 - Pier Angeli originally Anna Maria Pierangeli Commits Suicide

1404 (+)   Serial Killer Gilles De Rais is born in Champtoce, France.

1487 (+)   221st Pope Julius III originally Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, is born in Rome, Italy.

1585 (+)   Composer Ercole Porta is born in Italy.

1659 (+)   Composer Henry Purcell is born in Westminster, St. Anne's Lane, Old Pye Street, United Kingdom.

1886 (+)   Poet Hilda Doolittle aka H. D., is born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.

1888 (x)  38-year-old Murderer John Pizer aka Leather Apron, is arrested in London, United Kingdom.
He’s suspected of being Jack the Ripper.

1890 (+)   Writer Franz Werfel is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

1896 (-)  Marie Mossier is murdered as tenth victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 19 in France.

1897 (+)   Writer and philosopher Georges Bataille is born in Billom, Puy-de-Dôme, France.

1918 (+)   German Shepherd dog movie star Rin Tin Tin is born in Lorraine, France.

1920 (-)  Actress Olive Thomas originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy, dies of accidently drinking mercury bichloride in a drunken mood at the age of 25 in Paris, Hotel Crillon, Place de la Concorde, France.

1926 (-)  Murderer Henry Jackson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in West Virginia, USA.

1932 (-)  Murderer Clay Fogelman is executed in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

1933 (+)   Fashion designer Karl Otto Lagerfeld is born in Hamburg, Germany.

1936 (x)  The dismembered body of an unidentified woman is found, she’s the sixth victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Kingsbury Run, East 37th Street, Ohio, USA.

1939 (x)   Canada declares war to Nazi Germany..

1945 (+)   Musician José Féliciano is born in Lares, Puerto Rico.

1961 (x)   83 Die in President Airlines DC-6 crash in Shannon, Ireland.


1971 (-)  Actress Pier Angeli originally Anna Maria Pierangeli, commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates at the age of 39 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
She couldn’t bear the death of James Dean with whom she was romantically involved.

1974 (x)  Start of the trial against 39-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof considering her part the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Germany.

1976 (x)   176 Die in British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and Inex-Adria DC-9 collision in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1977 (-)  Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 28 in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, France.
He was the last man to be executed by the Guillotine in France.

1979 (-)  President of Angola Agostinho Antonio Neto dies of blood cancer at the age of 57 in Moscow, Russia.

2002 (-)  Double murderer Tony Lee Walker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-)  Double murderer Larry Allen Hayes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

9 September 1987 - Gerrit-Jan Heijn is Kidnapped and Shot Dead

1087 (-)  King of England William I aka The Conquerer, dies of peritonitis at the age of 59 in Rouen, St Gervais convent, France.
At the funeral the ulcer in his intestines broke open and the outrageous stench drove away all the guests.

1543 (x)  Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is crowned at the age of nine months in Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1828 (+)   Writer Leonid Lev Nikolayewitsch Tolstoy is born in Yasna Polyana, Russia.

1839 (+)   Serial poisoner Maria Catharina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1898 (-)  Hannelore Heidemann is butchered by Ludwig Tessnow at the age of 7 in Lechtingen, Germany.

1898 (-)  Poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies of a spasm of the larynx at the age of 56 in Valvins, France.

1901 (-)  Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dies of alcohol-paralysis at the age of 36 in Paris, France.

1910 (-)  Murderer Harrell Isaac Newton is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in Oregon, USA.

1911 (+)   Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer is born in Floss, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany.

1921 (-)  Film-extra Virginia Rappe dies of peritonitis due to a ruptured bladder after being violently raped, 4 days earlier, by filmmaker ‘Fatty’ Roscoe Conklin Arbuckle at the age of 30 in San Francisco, St. Francis Hotel, California, USA.

1921 (-)  Murderer Nichan Martin is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1928 (+)   Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

1941 (+)   Musician Otis Redding known for “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”, is born in Dawson, Georgia, USA.

1944 (-)  William McSwann is beaten to death and solved in acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, in London, 79 Gloucester Road, United Kingdom.

1954 (x)  Mass Murderer Robert William Jordan shoots 4 fellow-workers because they laughed at his fear to serve with the army in Elisabeth City, North Carolina, USA.

1961 (-)  Murderer Hendryk Niemasz is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in the United Kingdom.

1967 (+)   Pornographic actress Anna Malle originally Hotop, is born in Havana, Illinois, USA.

1973 (-)  Jerry Billings is attacked and raped with a hammer by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 13 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

1976 (-)  Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 82 in Beijing, China.

1979 (-)  David Murillo is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 15 in La Mirada, California, USA.

1980 (-)  Journalist John Howard Griffin known for “Black Like Me”, dies of diabetes at the age of 60 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

1981 (-)  Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Emile Lacan dies at the age of 80 in Paris, France.

1983 (-)  Wilhelm Meyer is shot dead as eleventh and twelfth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 24 in Florence, Galluzo, Italy.

1984 (-)  Filmmaker and murderer Yilmaz Guney dies of stomach cancer at the age of 47 in Paris, France.

1985 (x)  58 die in a poisonous rite, ordered by their leader Cult-leader Mangayon Botawag in the Fillipines.


1987 (-)  Industrialist Gerrit-Jan Heijn is kidnapped and shot dead by 45-year-old architect Ferdi Elsas in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Elsas collected the ransom money and was arrested merely by accident because he kept spending the large notes in the same store over and over.

1988 (x)  Cellules Communistes Combattantes leader Pascal Vandegeerde starts hungerstriking in the prison of Vorst in Brussels, Brabant, USA.

1997 (-)  Triple Murderer James Lee Davis is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-)  Murderer Delbert Jr. Teague is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-)  Serial Killer John Wayne Glover aka The North Shore Granny Killer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 72 in Lithgow Jail, New South Wales, Australia.