319 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1694
(+) Writer Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
318 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1695
(-) Composer Henry Purcell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 36 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
284 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1729
(-) Highwayman William Gordon is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, London City of, United Kingdom.
Before the execution a Dr. Chovot secretly opened Gordon's windpipe. Afterwards Gordon was cut down and rushed to a hospital where a vein was opened and the blood ran freely. Gordon groaned and died.
202 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1811
(-) Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich Bernd Wilhelm von Kleist commits suicide by a gunshot at the age of 34 in Potsdam, on the shore of the Wannsee, Germany.
He first shot Henriette Vogel, with whose intellectual accomplishments he was captivated.
197 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1816
(-) Murderer Robert Smith is executed by hanging in Wapping Execution Dock, United Kingdom.
197 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1816
(-) Murderer Charles Feeney is executed by hanging in Wapping Execution Dock, United Kingdom.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Highwayman Isaac Celebia is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Highwayman George Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Thief William Gorton is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Thief William Harding is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
He had stolen a sheep.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Forger Thomas Tupley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Forger Edward Sparrow is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
192 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1821
(-) Forger Josiah Cadman is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
186 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1827
(-) Murderer Levi Kelley is executed by hanging in Cooperstown, New York, United States.
During the public execution a temporary wooden stand, holding hundreds of spectators, collapsed and 2 people were killed.
164 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1849
(+) ‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree is born in Bartelshagen, Germany.
159 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 November 1854
(+) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, is born in Genova, Italy.
136 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1877
(-) Murderer Thomas Grey is executed by hanging in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1881
(-) Murderer Alfred Gough is executed by hanging in Derby, United Kingdom.
126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1887
(-) Murderer Joseph Morley is executed by hanging at the age of 17 in Chelmsford, United Kingdom.
125 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1888
(-) Murderers Jake and Joe Tobler is executed by hanging in Wichita, Kansas, United States.
115 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1898
(+) Artist René François Ghislain Magritte is born in Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.
114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 November 1899
(-) Murderer George Nunn is executed by hanging in Ipswich, United Kingdom.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1929
(-) Aloïs Ortner is attacked by Kurt Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, in Ingolstadt, Germany.
He survived.
74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 November 1939
(+) Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer is born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1941
(-) Murderess Juanita Eithel Leta Spinelli aka The Duchess, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin, California, United States.
She’s the first woman to die in the San Quentin Gas Chamber.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1943
(+) Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1957
(-) Murderer David Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 November 1960
(-) Murderer Oscar Wimis is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, United States.
50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1963
(-) Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, dies at the age of 73 in Springfield, Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, United States.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1968
(x) 35-year-old Artist Yoko Ono has a miscarriage.
45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1968
(x) 21-year-old Actress Marianne Faithfull has a miscarriage.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1969
(-) James Sharp is presumably slashed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 15 in Thetan Manor Scientology commune, California, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1974
(x) 20 die in two bomb-attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army on pubs in Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
As a result, the IRA is declared an unlawful organisation.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1975
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Patrick David Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, is sentenced to life imprisonment in London, The Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1975
(x) 24-year-old Mass-murderer Ronald Joseph Butch DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is sentenced to 6 terms of 25 years to life in New York, New York, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 November 1979
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Saeed al-Ghamdi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1980
(x) 84 Die in MGM hotel fire in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 November 1985
(x) Twenty-fifth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Motorola factory, Brussels, Belgium.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 November 1987
(-) Diane Cho is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, at the age of 15 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1993
(x) 116 Die in Avio Impek Yak-42 crash in Ohrid, Greece.
20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1993
(-) Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby dies of prostate cancer at the age of 59 in Century City, California, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1997
(-) Mass Murderer Joseph Gautsch commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 36 in Mauterndorf, Austria.
Before he killed 6 people in a shooting spree.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1997
(x) Artist Barnett Newman 's painting "Cathedra" is attacked by 44-year-old G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 November 1997
(-) Murderer Charles Livingston is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 November 1999
(-) Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, dies at the age of 90 in Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, United Kingdom.
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