Thursday 6th of December 1421

King of England Henry VI of England is born in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

Friday 6th of December 1630

53-year-old Painter Peter Paul Rubens marries 16-year-old Hélène Fourment in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Friday 6th of December 1658

Writer and philosopher Baltasar Gracián y Morales dies of physical decline at the age of 57 in Tarazona, Aragón, Spain.

Friday 6th of December 1805

Painter, balloonist, army officer and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté known for his invention of the modern pencil dies of unknown causes at the age of 50 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 6th of December 1825

Doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard is born in Southsea, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Friday 6th of December 1907

362 die in coal mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, United States.

Sunday 6th of December 1908

Gangster Baby Face John Nelson is born as Lester Joseph Gillis in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Friday 6th of December 1912

49-year-old Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt discovers the buste of Queen Nefertete in Achet-Aton, Minya, Egypt.

Thursday 6th of December 1917

2000 die in SS Mont-Blanc explosion in The Narrow, Halifax, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the SS Mont-Blanc ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District.

Thursday 6th of December 1917

Kamal Fouad Jumblatt is born in Moukhtara, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

Thursday 6th of December 1923

19-year-old Adolf Hennies is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Thursday 6th of December 1928

Murderer Chung-yi Miao is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 28 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 6th of December 1938

Serial poisoner Martha Marek is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 34 in Wiener Landesgericht, Landesgerichtsstraße 11, Wien, Josefstadt, Wien, Austria.

Marek poisoned her husband Emil, her daughter Ingeborg, an elderly relative Suzanne Lowenstein and Felicitas Kittsteiner, a lodger in her house.

Saturday 6th of December 1941

Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell is born in Kirkwood, Illinois, United States.

Saturday 6th of December 1941

Artist Bruce Nauman is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.

Sunday 6th of December 1942

Writer and political activist Peter Handke is born in Griffen, Kärnten, Austria.

Monday 6th of December 1943

Madge Knight dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 45 in Aldingbourne, Sussex, United Kingdom.

On the night of 18 November 18 Knight's screams woke her husband and sister in their home. They discovered Knight writhing in pain in her bed with her skin peeling off her back under her bedclothes. A doctor that was called identified the wounds as some form of burn and gave Knight morphine. She died from toxaemia.

Wednesday 6th of December 1961

Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon dies of leukemia at the age of 36 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

Fanon's body was moved to a martyrs' chouhada graveyard at Ain Kerma in eastern Algeria.

Sunday 6th of December 1964

16-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer is committed to a maximum-security facility for the shooting of his grandparents on 27 August 1964 in Atascadero State Hospital, Atascadero, California, United States.

Tests during Kemper's time at Atascadero revealed that he had an I.Q. of 136. Later during adulthood he tested at 145. Kemper was released from prison in 1969 after serving fewer than five years. At the time of his release he had grown to 2,06 m and weighed close to 130 kg.

Monday 6th of December 1965

125 die in bus collision in Sotouboua, Centrale, Togo.

Two buses crashed into a crowd of dancers.

Saturday 6th of December 1969

Bombing of several Chicago police cars parked in a precinct parking lot by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

It was a protest of the fatal police shooting of Illinois Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on 4 December 1969.

Saturday 6th of December 1969

Black art student and music fan Meredith Curly Hunter aka Murdock is stabbed to death by Hells Angel Alan Passaro at the age of 18 in Altamont Speedway Free Festival, Altamont, California, United States.

During a scuffle in front of the stage Hunter took s long-barreled black .22 caliber revolver from his jacket and pointed it in the air. Passaro stabbed Hunter five times in the upper back. Witnesses also reported Hunter was stomped on by several Hells Angels while he was on the ground.

Thursday 6th of December 1973

39-year-old Serial killer Juan Vallejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer is stabbed 32 times in his cell for bumping into a fellow inmate in California Medical Facility, Vaccaville, California, United States.

Corona's left eye was removed in surgery.

Friday 6th of December 1985

Twenty-seventh bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on a Nato-pipeline in Wortegem-Petegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

It was the fifth action in their 'Campagne Pierre Akkerman'.

Friday 6th of December 1985

Serial killer Carroll Edward Cole aka Silent Rage is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Nevada State Prison, 3301 E. 5th Street, Carson City, Nevada, United States.

Tuesday 6th of December 1988

Singer-songwriter Roy Kelton Orbison aka Big O dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Caudill Drive 166, Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States.

Wednesday 6th of December 1989

Mass murderer Marc Lépine aka The Women-Hating Rambo commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 25 in École Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In the twenty minutes before Lépine shot dead fourteen women and injured fourteen people more. Lépine separated the women from about 50 men, instructing the men to leave and stated that he was "fighting feminism" and opened fire. Lépine continued through the second and third floors, targeting women only. The victims were 21-year-old Geneviève Bergeron, 23-year-old Hélène Colgan, 23-year-old Nathalie Croteau, 22-year-old Barbara Daigneault, 21-year-old Anne-Marie Edward, 29-year-old Maud Haviernick, 25-year-old Maryse Laganière, 23-year-old Maryse Leclair, 22-year-old Anne-Marie Lemay, 28-year-old Sonia Pelletier, 21-year-old Michèle Richard, 23-year-old Annie St-Arneault, 20-year-old Annie Turcotte and 31-year-old Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. Lépine's inside jacket pocket contained a suicide letter containing a list of nineteen Quebec women whom Lépine apparently wished to kill because he considered them feminists.

Thursday 6th of December 1990

30-year-old Heidemarie Heidi Hammerer is strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.

Hammerer was found on 31 December 1990.

Monday 6th of December 1993

Four bomb-letters by 44-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs arrive at various locations in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Three of Fuchs' letters were detected before they explode on opening the fourth, one women got injured.

Tuesday 6th of December 1994

Serial rapist and murderer Robert Charles Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

At the time of his arrest Clark was wanted for the rape of 33 women. Clark later confessed to the police that he had actually raped and attacked more than 100 women.

Wednesday 6th of December 1995

Murderer Bernard Eugene Amos is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 6th of December 1995

39-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Paul Alain Dutroux is imprisoned for car theft in Prison de Jamioulx, Rue Vandamme 120, Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Hainaut, Belgium.

While Dutroux is in prison, kidnapped 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starve to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle. Dutroux' wife Michelle Martin allegedly fed her husband's German shepherd dogs but did not follow his orders to feed the girls.

Wednesday 6th of December 1995

Neo-Nazi and double murderer Robert Earl O'Neal is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Missouri State Penitentiary, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson, Missouri, United States.

O'Neal was the first white man executed for the murder of a black man, inmate Arthur Dade on 2 February 1984.

Monday 6th of December 1999

A bouncer on one of the 'Four Floors' in Orchard Towers, Singapore, Singapore.

Wednesday 6th of December 2000

Multiple murderer and cop killer Daniel Joe Hittle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

When 48-year-old Garland police officer Gerald Walker stopped Hittle for speeding, Hittle shot him in the chest at close range. He then proceded to Mary Goss' home, kicked in the door and opened fire, killing 39-year-old Goss, 36-year-old Richard Cook Jr. and 19-year-old Raymond Gregg. After reloading Hittle shot Goss' 4-year-old daughter Christy Condon. Hittle was on parole for killing his adoptive parents at the time of the murders.

Friday 6th of December 2002

Murderer Ernest West Basden is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Wednesday 6th of December 2017

Singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Hallyday aka The French Elvis dies of lung cancer at the age of 74 in La Savannah, Marnes-la-Coquette, Île-de-France, France.