Thursday 22nd of August 1241

178th Pope Gregorius IX dies of unknown causes at the age of 96 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Thursday 22nd of August 1280

188th Pope Nicholaus III dies of apoplexy at the age of 55 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.

Friday 22nd of August 1760

252nd Pope Leo XII is born as Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga in Genga, Marche, Italy.

Friday 22nd of August 1862

Composer Claude Achille Debussy is born in 38 Rue au Pain, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 22nd of August 1891

Artist Jacques Lipchitz is born as Chaim Jacob Lipschitz in Druskininkai, Dzūkija, Lithuania.

Friday 22nd of August 1902

Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 22nd of August 1908

Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson aka The Master of Candid Photography is born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Sunday 22nd of August 1920

Science fiction writer Ray Douglas Bradbury known for his dystopian novel ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 22nd of August 1922

Black Parks Banks is lynched after a verbal disagreement with a Ku-Klux-Klan member in Yazoo City, Mississippi, United States.

Wednesday 22nd of August 1928

58-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is arrested for petty larceny in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Wednesday 22nd of August 1928

Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Burg Mödrath, Mödrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Friday 22nd of August 1952

Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

Tuesday 22nd of August 1961

34-year-old Lieutenant-colonel and military air weaponry engineer Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry known for attempting to assassinate President De Gaulle attempts to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle in Rue Charles Debry, Clamart, Île-de-France, France.

De Gaulle's Citroën DS and some nearby shops were raked with machine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his wife and entourage escaped uninjured.

Tuesday 22nd of August 1961

37-year-old Michael Gregsten is shot dead by murderer James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer in Deadman's Hill, Clophill, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Gregsten's 22-year-old girlfriend Valerie Storie was raped and shot four times in the left shoulder and once in the neck.

Sunday 22nd of August 1965

25-year-old Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Duisburg, Großenbaum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Schmitz' girlfriend Marion Veen escaped unharmed.

Tuesday 22nd of August 1967

Pop idol Yukiko Okada aka Yukko is born as Kayo Satō in Ichinomiya, Chūbu, Japan.

Sunday 22nd of August 1976

Lutheran pastor Oskar Brüsewitz known for his protest against the repression of religion in the Communist state of East Germany dies of of his severe burns due to his self-immolation on 18 August 1976 in front of his church at the age of 47 in Michaeliskirche, Michaeliskirchhof 9, Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

On the day of his protest suicide Brüsewitz carried pamphlets accusing the communists of repression. "Funkspruch an alle: Die Kirche in der DDR klagt den Kommunismus an! Wegen Unterdrückung in Schulen an Kindern und Jugendlichen."

Friday 22nd of August 1980

47-year-old Margo Marguerite Walls is beaten and strangled by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in New Street, Farnley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Monday 22nd of August 1983

Furniture designer, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament sympathiser and art vandal James Gore-Graham dies from suffering 90% burns at the age of 37 in Queen Mary's Hospital, London, Roehampton, Greater London, United Kingdom.

The day before Gore-Graham was caught running in flames having set fire to David Mach's 'Polaris' sculpture that was made of about 6.000 car tyres outside the Royal Festival Hall.

Friday 22nd of August 1986

Murderer Larry Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Monday 22nd of August 1988

4-year-old Mari Konno is abducted, killed and cut to pieces by serial killer, cannibal and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer in Tokyo, Iruma, Kantō, Japan.

Miyazaki sat alongside the girl for a half-hour before murdering her. He then engaged in sexual acts with the corpse and left her corpse in the hills near his home. He allowed Konno's corpse to decompose for a while before later returning to remove the hands and feet which he kept in his closet. He charred her remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder and sent them to her family in a box along with several of her teeth, photos of her clothes and a postcard which read: "Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove."

Tuesday 22nd of August 1989

Founder of the Black Panther Party Huey Percy Newton is fatally shot by 24-year-old Black Guerilla Family member Tyrone Robinson at the age of 47 in 1400 Block, 9th Street, Oakland, California, United States.

Newton's last words as he stood facing his killer were "You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"

Thursday 22nd of August 1991

Murderer Derick Lynn Peterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Boydton, Virginia, United States.

Thursday 22nd of August 1996

Rapist and murderer Luis Morine Mata is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Mata's last meal request was for two beef burritos, two pork chops, French fries (big order) and a few jalapenos.

Tuesday 22nd of August 2000

Murderer Richard Wayne Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Friday 22nd of August 2003

Murderer William Quentin Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Jones' last meal request was for tossed salad with shredded carrots and cheese, thousand island dressing and a soda.

Tuesday 22nd of August 2006

170 die in Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 Tupolev Tu-154M crash in Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Wednesday 22nd of August 2018

Abstract colourfield painted facades down the street where Goethe lived in Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.