(-) 136th Pope John XIV originally Peter, dies of starvation or poison in Rome, Italy.
190 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1823
(-) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
180 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1833
(+) 23rd president of the USA Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio, USA.
123 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1890
(+) Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1900
(x) Family-murderer Franz Theodore Wallert kills his wife and his 4 children in Minnesota, USA.
101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1912
(-) Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth dies at the age of 83 in London, Hadley Wood, United Kingdom.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 August 1914
(-) 257th Pope Pius X originally Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
(+) Musician Jim James Travis Reeves is born in Carthage, Texas, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1929
(-) Anne Goldhausen is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1937
(+) Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1937
(x) The concentration camp of Buchenwald is inaugurated by 36-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Weimar, Germany.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1940
(-) Revolutionary leader Leon Leb Davidowitsch Bronstein Trotsky is hacked to death by Jaime Ramon Mercader Del Rio Hernandes aka Frank Jacson aka Jacques Mornard at the age of 60 in Coyoacan, Mexico.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 August 1942
(+) Musician Isaac Hayes is born in Covington, Tennessee, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1946
(-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Hof, Guterbahnhof, Germany.
65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1948
(+) Musician Robert Anthony Plant is born in West Bromwich, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 August 1950
(+) Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is born in California, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1962
(-) Murderer Leeroy Sanford McGahuey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 40 in Oregon, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 August 1962
(-) Jane Sullivan is strangled and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 67 in Boston, Dorchester, 435 Columbia Road, Massachussets, USA.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 August 1966
(+) Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is born in Arlington, Texas, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1971
(-) Linda Dudley is stabbed to death by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1976
(-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 23 in Bath, Avon, United Kingdom.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 August 1978
(-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 54 in Biddeford, Maine, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1980
(-) Musician Joe Joseph Ira Dassin dies of a heart attack at the age of 41 in Tahiti.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 5" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 August 1981
(-) Christopher Williams is choked to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1982
(-) Mass Murderer Carl Robert Brown is shot dead by Mark Kram while cycling away from the crime scene at the age of 51 in Miami, near Miami International Airport, Florida, USA.
Minutes before he killed eight people in Bob Moore's Welding & Machine Service Inc.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1986
(-) Mass-murderer Patrick Henry Sherril commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA.
He first shot 14 people in the post-office where he used to work.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 1986
(-) Murderer Randy Woolls is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
As an experienced drug addict, he helped the executioner to find a good vein.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 August 1993
(-) Murderer Carl Kelly is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 1996
(-) Musician Ralph Christian Möbius aka Rio Reiser, dies of heart failure at the age of 46 in Fresenhagen, Nordfriesland, Germany.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 August 2002
(-) Murderer Gary Wayne Etheridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 August 2008
(x) 154 Die in Spanair Flight 5022 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crash in Madrid, Barajas Airport, Spain.
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