Monday 21st of June 1002

152nd Pope Leo IX is born as Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg in Eguisheim, Alsace, France.

Saturday 21st of June 1377

King of England Edward III dies of a stroke at the age of 65 in Sheen Palace, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 21st of June 1527

Political philosopher and poet Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli aka The Prince dies of unknown causes at the age of 58 in Sant'Andrea in Percussina, Toscana, Italy.

Sunday 21st of June 1891

Structural engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete is born in Sondrio, Lombardia, Italy.

Wednesday 21st of June 1905

Writer, philosopher, political activist and critic Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 21st of June 1908

Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov dies of angina pectoris at the age of 64 in Luga, Pskov Oblast, Russia.

Friday 21st of June 1935

Writer Françoise Sagan is born as Françoise Quoirez in Cajarc, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

Wednesday 21st of June 1944

Musician Ray Raymond Douglas Davies known from The Kinks is born in 6 Denmark Terrace, London, Muswell Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 21st of June 1946

32-year-old Margery Aimee Brownell Gardner is tortured and suffocated by sex killer Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo in Pembridge Court Hotel, 34 Pembridge Gardens, London, Notting Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom.

There were 17 lash marks on Gardner's body, her nipples had been savagely bitten, and an instrument had been inserted into her vagina.

Tuesday 21st of June 1949

Member of the 'Manson Family' Linda Kasabian is born as Linda Darlene Drouin in Biddeford, Maine, United States.

Sunday 21st of June 1953

Benazir Bhutto is born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Tuesday 21st of June 1955

German neo-Nazi leader Michael Aloysius Alfons Kühnen is born in Bonn, Beuel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 21st of June 1970

Members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin fly to Beirut in Flughafen Berlin Schönefeld, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

From Beirut they moved on via Syria to Amman in Jordan to get a terrorist training at an 'El Fatah' camp.

Saturday 21st of June 1975

24-year-old Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano aka Blind Fury marries 22-year-old hairdresser Mickey Michalina Gionfriddo in Prince of Peace Catholic Church, 600 S Nova Rd, Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

Thursday 21st of June 1979

Musician, poet and occultist Angus MacLise known from The Velvet Underground dies of starvation and pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.

Saturday 21st of June 1980

Spree killer Daniel Julian Gonzalez aka The Freddy Krueger Killer is born in Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Sunday 21st of June 1981

13-year-old Ada Anita Court is abducted and hammered to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

Sunday 21st of June 1981

23-year-old Serial killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer is arrested while giving a press-conference proclaiming his innocence in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Monday 21st of June 1982

27-year-old Would-be assassin John Warnock Hinckley known for his obsession with Jodie Foster is found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Thursday 21st of June 1990

30-year-old Larry Parham is attacked by serial killer Heriberto Seda aka The New York Zodiac Killer in Central Park, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Parham was shot in the chest. The bullet missed his aorta and exited his body through his right armpit.

Wednesday 21st of June 1995

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

Saturday 21st of June 2003

Writer Leon Marcus Uris dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Shelter Island, New York, United States.

Thursday 21st of June 2007

Neon lights on a restaurant in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

Monday 21st of June 2010

Start of the trial against 39-year-old Murderer and cannibal Nicolas Cocaign aka Le Cannibale de Rouen for killing his 41-year-old cellmate Thierry Baudry in 2007 and eating part of his lung which he presumed to be his heart in Rouen, Haute-Normendie, France.