Wednesday 9th of February 1555

Churchman, Anglican Bishop, Protestant reformer and martyr John Hooper aka Johan Hoperis is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 60 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

Hooper was condemned for heresy by Bishop Gardiner and degraded by Bishop Bonner on 29 January 1555.

Thursday 9th of February 1617

Composer Hans Christoph Haiden dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

Saturday 9th of February 1771

Farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singer-songwriter Daniel Belknap is born in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States.

Tuesday 9th of February 1773

9th President of the United States William Henry Harrison is born in Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Virginia, United States.

Thursday 9th of February 1826

Murderer Francis Kol is born in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Kol was an abandoned child.

Wednesday 9th of February 1881

Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky dies of a pulmonary haemorrhage at the age of 60 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Monday 9th of February 1885

Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Sunday 9th of February 1902

Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink aka Maria Stuckebrock is born as Gertrud Emma Treusch in Adelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Monday 9th of February 1931

Writer Thomas Nicolaas Bernhard is born in Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands.

Tuesday 9th of February 1932

Painter Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden, Sachsen, Germany.

Monday 9th of February 1942

40-year-old Evelyn Hamilton is strangled by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in Montagu Place, London, Marylebone, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 9th of February 1945

Actress and political activist Mia María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Thursday 9th of February 1956

32-year-old Serial killer Leslie 'Joe Goebbels' Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer is arrested while trying to pawn some rings taken in a Los Angeles burglary in San Francisco, California, United States.

Thursday 9th of February 1961

Murderer Georges Riley is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 21 in Dana Prison, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom.

Saturday 9th of February 1963

Dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer Lolo Ferrari known for her ‘largest breasts in the world’ is born as Eve Valois in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France.

Ferrari underwent numerous plastic surgery operations to create a 180-centimetre silicone-enhanced bust. She had 22 enlargements, which is a Guinness world record.

Friday 9th of February 1968

47-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Eurasienstab - 82 min Fluxorium Organum' with Henning Christiansen in Wide White Space Gallery, Plaatsnijdersstraat 1, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 9th of February 1972

26-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'T.V. Hijack' on Channel 3 Cablevision in Irvine, California, United States.

"On January 14 I was asked to do a piece on a local television station by Phyllis Lutjeans. After several proposals were censored by the station or by Phyllis, I agreed to an interview situation. I arrived at the station with my own video crew so that could have my own tape. While the taping was in progress, I requested that the show be transmitted live. Since the station was not broadcasting at the time, they complied. In the course of the interview, Phyllis asked me to talk about some of the pieces I had thought of doing. I demonstrated a T.V. Hijack. Holding a knife at her throat, I threatened her life if the station stopped live transmission. I told her that I had planned to make her perform obcene acts. At the end of the recording, I asked for the tape of the show. I unwound the reel and destroyed the show by dousing the tape with acetone. The station manager was irate, and I offered him my tape which included the show and its destruction, but he refused."

Sunday 9th of February 1975

37-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is released from a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Tóth was immediately deported to Australia and presumably still resides in a nursing home in Strathfield, New South Wales.

Wednesday 9th of February 1977

Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Thursday 9th of February 1978

Sicherheitspolizei commander Herbert Kappler dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Soltau, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Six months earlier Kappler escaped from an Italian prison in a suitcase carried by his wife.

Thursday 9th of February 1978

13-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Lake City, Florida, United States.

Leach's body was found eight weeks later in a state park in Suwannee County, Florida. She was Bundy's last victim.

Friday 9th of February 1979

45-year-old Hélène Lichachevski is robbed and shot dead by mass murderer Freddy Horion aka De Zonnebril in Vliegtuiglaan, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Saturday 9th of February 1980

34-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness marries Carole Boone in Orange County Courthouse, 65 East Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida, United States.

Boone divorced Bundy three years later and changed her and her daughter's name.

Monday 9th of February 1981

Musician Bill William John Clifton Haley dies of a brain tumour at the age of 56 in Harlingen, Texas, United States.

Thursday 9th of February 1984

Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov dies of interstitial nephritis, nephrosclerosis, residual hypertension and diabetes and chronic kidney deficiency at the age of 70 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Friday 9th of February 1996

Double murderer Leo Ernest Jenkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Monday 9th of February 1998

Triple murderer Steven Ceon Renfro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

On 25 August 1996, after taking 70 doses of Valium along with liquor, Renfro put on camouflage clothing, blackened his face and armed himself with 4 guns, including a military assault rifle, and 500 rounds of ammunition. He shot and killed his 36-year-old Rhena Fultner and his 63-year-old aunt Rose Rutledge. Then he went to the nearby trailer of 40-year-old George Counts, against whom he had a grudge, and fired more than 150 rounds into the mobile home.

Tuesday 9th of February 1999

Double murderer Jaturun jay Siripongs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Tuesday 9th of February 1999

Returning from Bangkok into Schiphol airport at 7am in the morning I took up my teaching job at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Sunday 9th of February 2020

Spree killer Jakrapanth Thomma known for the Nakhon Ratchasima shooting is shot dead by police after a two-day shooting spree at the age of 32 in Terminal 21, Korat, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

The day before Thomma shot his commander Colonel Anantharot Krasae at the Surathamphithak army camp. He then shot and killed the commander's mother-in-law. Thomma then stole a Humvee and drove to the Terminal 21 shopping mall where he left the vehicle and began shooting indiscriminately at people before detonating a cooking gas cylinder, killing 26 civilians. He then took sixteen hostages inside the mall on the fourth floor. Thomma live-streamed on Facebook Live during the siege and shared photos and memes on his profile page. Police officers and soldiers stormed the mall and demanded Thomma's surrender, to which he responded by opening fire on them, killing three policemen and a soldier and wounded at least three others.