(+) Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is born in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, United Kingdom.
387 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1626
(+) Queen of Sweden Christina is born in Sweden.
154 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 December 1859
(-) Writer Thomas de Quincey dies at the age of 74 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
152 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 December 1861
(+) Film pioneer Georges Meliès is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
149 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 December 1864
(+) Artist Camille Claudel is born in Fère-en-Tardenois, France.
149 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 December 1864
(-) Mathematician George Boole dies of a fever attack at the age of 49 in Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland.
148 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 December 1865
(+) Composer Jean Johan Julius Christian Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1909
(-) Murderer Abel Atherton is executed by hanging at the age of 30.
(+) Poet Delmore Schwartz aka The European Son, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 December 1916
(+) Filmmaker Richard O. Fleischer is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1925
(+) Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr is born in New York, New York, United States.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1926
(+) Writer and biographer of Adolf Hitler Joachim Clemens Fest is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 December 1930
(+) Actor Maximillian Schell is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1936
(+) Actor David Carradine aka Kwai Chang Caine, is born in Hollywood, California, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1937
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is arrested in Villa La Voulzie in Paris, La Celle Saint Cloud, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 December 1941
(x) The United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the USA declare war to Japan.
70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1943
(+) Musician Jim James Douglas Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, United States.
69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 December 1944
(-) Murderer Richard Harry Layton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 36 in Oregon, United States.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1953
(+) Actress Kim Basinger is born in Athens, Georgia, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1954
(-) Mary Hogan is shot dead and parts of her body made into various artefacts by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States.
47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 December 1966
(+) Musician Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor is born in Dublin, Ireland.
47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 December 1966
(x) 217 Die in Heraklon ferry shipwreck in Kreta, Greece.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 December 1969
(x) 93 Die in Olympic Airways DC-6B crash in Athens, Greece.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 December 1973
(-) Betty Satlow dies of carbon monoxide poisoning in Hoquiam, Washington, United States.
Her body was taken to the mortuary where it was discovered later, burning inside the coffin.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1976
(-) Murderess Patty Bolin commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 40 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
She killed several members of her family.
35 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 December 1978
(-) Founder of the State of Israel Golda Meir originally Golda Mabovitz or Golda Myerson, dies of cancer at the age of 80 in Jerusalem, Israël.
33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 December 1980
(-) Beatle John Winston Lennon is shot dead by 25-year-old David Mark Chapman at the age of 40 in New York, Dakota Building, New York, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1981
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is beaten up by Hillside Strangler Angelo Buono and John W. Stinson in his prison cell in California, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1987
(-) Mass Murderer Frank Vitkovic commits suicide by jumping through an office window at the age of 22 in Melbourne, Queen Street, Victoria, Australia.
He went on a shooting rage, killing 8 people as he walked through the building.
23 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 December 1990
(-) Artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor dies at the age of 75 in Krakow, Poland.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 December 1998
(-) Murderer Jeff Emery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 1999
(-) Multiple murderer David Long is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 December 2000
(-) Murderer Claude Howard Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 2004
(-) Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is shot dead during a performance by a member of the audience at the age of 38 in Columbus, Alrosa Villa Nightclub, Ohio, United States.
Three other people were also fatally shot before the police killed the gunman
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 December 2010
(x) Over 80 inmates Die in prison fire in San Miguel, Chile.
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