Saturday 13th of January 1866

Occult teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Shirak, Armenia.

The exact date of Gurdjieff's birth remains unknown – conjectures range from 1866 to 1877.

Monday 13th of January 1908

171 die in Rhoads Opera House fire in Rhoads Opera House, South Washington Street and East Philadelphia Avenue, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, United States.

Nearly 400 people had packed an opera house to watch or perform in a play called 'The Scottish Reformation'. The fire wiped out about 10 percent of the town population.

Wednesday 13th of January 1909

Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe known for the Reichstag fire is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Monday 13th of January 1919

38-year-old Marie-Thérèse Marchadier aka La Belle Mytèse is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

To Marchadier, Landru was known as Lucien Guillet. She was his last victim. Her three dogs were found strangled in the garden.

Monday 13th of January 1919

Actor Robert Charles Langford Modini Stack is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Friday 13th of January 1922

Murderer Ricardo Lauterio is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Friday 13th of January 1922

Murderer Thomas Roman is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Friday 13th of January 1928

Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Vaughan Street Jail, 444 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Friday 13th of January 1928

Murderer Garfield Fuller aka C. R. 'Dad' Davis is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia State Penitentiary, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.

Monday 13th of January 1941

Poet and writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 59 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

On 11 January 1941 Joyce underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. While he at first improved, he relapsed the following day and despite several transfusions fell into a coma. Joyce awoke at 2 a.m. on 13 January and asked for a nurse to call his wife and son before losing consciousness again. They were still on their way when Joyce died 15 minutes later.

Monday 13th of January 1941

25-year-old Lotte Marlow is assaulted by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Marlow survived.

Wednesday 13th of January 1943

Allen M. Small dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 52 in Deer Island, Maine, United States.

The carpet beneath Small's body was scorched but there was no other sign of fire in the house. Small's pipe was unlit and on a shelf and his stove lids were all still in place.

Thursday 13th of January 1944

47-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is released from prison by the French Gestapo in Prison de Fresnes, Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France.

Petiot paid a bond of 100.000 Francs for his release.

Sunday 13th of January 1946

Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 13th of January 1958

31-year-old Serial killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw is arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Friday 13th of January 1961

Mass murderer Jeremy Nevill Bamber aka The White House Farm Murderer is born as Jeremy Paul Marsham in St Mary Abbot's Hospital, London, Kensington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Bamber was born to to Juliet Dorothy Wheeler, a vicar's daughter who had had an affair with British Army Sergeant Major Leslie Brian Marsham.

Saturday 13th of January 1968

36-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in Folsom State Prison, Represa, Folsom, California, United States.

Cash performed two shows at Folsom. The resulting album consisted of fifteen tracks from the first show and two tracks from the second.

Saturday 13th of January 1973

Triple murderer Daniel Lewis Lee is born in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States.

Monday 13th of January 1975

18-year-old Lesley Whittle is kidnapped and killed by multiple murderer Donald Neilson aka The Black Panther in Beech Croft, Bridgnorth Road, Highley, Shropshire, United Kingdom.

Neilson then drove Whittle to Bathpool Park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. There he forced her down into the drainage shaft of the nearby reservoir. Inside the shaft he placed a hood over her head, removed the dressing gown leaving her naked and then tethered her to the side of the shaft by a wire noose. There was a mattress and a sleeping bag. On 6 March 1975 police found Whittle's body hanging from a steel wire only 180mm from the bottom of the 6m deep shaft.

Sunday 13th of January 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Happy Star/Nominette' in 't Fabrieksken, Burchtstraat 20, Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

During a concert by the band ‘Happy Star/Nominette’, I rolled violently through a heap of flour and screamed as loud as I could in a microphone until I was exhausted.

Tuesday 13th of January 1981

52-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

Wednesday 13th of January 1982

78 die in Air Florida Boeing 737-222 Flight 90 crash in 14th Street Bridge, Virginia, United States.

Five people survived.

Friday 13th of January 1984

33-year-old Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano aka Blind Fury is sentenced to life-imprisonment for one murder in Seminole County Courthouse, 101 Bush Boulevard, Sanford, Florida, United States.

It was Stano’s eighth life-sentence and the first time ever that somebody was sentenced for the murder of an unidentified person.

Sunday 13th of January 1985

428 die in express train derailment in Awash, Afar, Ethiopia.

The engineer failed to reduce speed at the curving bridge, plunging the train’s carriages into a ravine.

Sunday 13th of January 1991

K-pop star Goo Ha-ra is born in Gwangju, Honam, South Korea.

Monday 13th of January 1992

Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Friday 13th of January 1995

Drug trafficker Ting Chon Chan aka Steven Chan is executed by the firing squad in Cibubur, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Chan became the first person known to have been executed for drug-related offences in Indonesia. He was sentenced to death for smuggling 420 grams of heroin.

Wednesday 13th of January 1999

Murderer Jess James Gillies is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Gillies' last meal request was for New York steak cooked rare, 1 ½ cups of sliced mushrooms, 2 eggs, 10 strips of bacon, 2 slices wheat toast with butter, 3 tablespoons strawberry preserves, 8 ounces milk, 8 ounces apple juice, 32 ounces chocolate milkshake.

Wednesday 13th of January 1999

Cop killer Troy Dale Farris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 13th of January 1999

Triple murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.

Sunday 13th of January 2002

An abandoned brothel where I performed 'Only the Lonely' in Oudemansstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 13th of January 2004

General practitioner and serial killer Harold Frederick Shipman aka Dr Death commits suicide hanging in his cell at the age of 58 in Wakefield Prison, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 13th of January 2010

Mass murderer John Gilbert Freeman dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 80 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Wednesday 13th of January 2021

Murderess Lisa Marie Montgomery is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.

On 16 December 2004 Montgomery entered the house of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Skidmore, Missouri, strangled her and cut her eight-months infant from her womb. The child was safely recovered.