Thursday 25th of June 1767

Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies of a chest ailment at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Thursday 25th of June 1835

Painter Antoine-Jean Gros commits suicide by drowning at the age of 64 in Sèvres, Île-de-France, France.

A note hidden in Gros' hat read: "Las de la vie, et trahi par les dernières facultés qui la lui rendaient supportable, il avait résolu de s’en défaire."

Friday 25th of June 1852

Architect Antoni Gaudí aka God's Architect is born as Antoni Gaudí i Cornet in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.

Friday 25th of June 1875

Double murderer Louis H. F. Wagner aka The Smuttynose Axe Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Maine State Prison, Thomaston, Maine, United States.

Monday 25th of June 1894

57-year-old Sadi Marie François Carnot is stabbed to death by anarchist and assassin Sante Geronimo Caserio in Parc de la Tête d'or, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Monday 25th of June 1900

1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten is born in Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

Thursday 25th of June 1903

Writer George Orwell is born as Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, Bihar, India.

Monday 25th of June 1923

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

Ehrenberg was the son of Haarmann's neighbour.

Wednesday 25th of June 1924

Film director Sidney Arthur Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Sunday 25th of June 1933

American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becoming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.

Tuesday 25th of June 1940

Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by an overdose of Aspirin at the age of 72 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Stekel wanted to end the pain of his prostate and diabetic gangrene.

Wednesday 25th of June 1941

The Soviet Union unleashes a major air offensive against 18 cities with 460 planes, mainly striking airfields but seriously damaging civilian targets as well in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi, Finland.

As a result Finland declares war on Russia.

Thursday 25th of June 1942

Serial killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Wandsworth, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 25th of June 1945

Singer-songwriter Carly Elisabeth Simon is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Thursday 25th of June 1959

Spree killer Charles Raymond Starkweather aka Little Red is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 21 in Nebraska State Penitentiary, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Saturday 25th of June 1960

19-year-old Gerhard Habel is shot dead by serial killer Peter Hößl aka Der Wochenendmörder in München, Bayern, Germany.

Thursday 25th of June 1964

Furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Monday 25th of June 1979

Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness for the Chi-Omega murders in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.

Wednesday 25th of June 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Diagonal - 1', 'Diagonal - 2' with Ria Pacquée and 'Installation - 4' in Galerie Diagonale, Boulevard Edgar Quinet, Paris, XIVe, Île-de-France, France.

I was laying with my back naked in the middle of the room. Ria Pacquée spray-painted a diagonal through the space and over my back. Then she removed the paint from my back with sandpaper. On the floor I wrote: “I don’t belong here”.

Monday 25th of June 1984

Philosopher Michel Paul Foucault dies of AIDS at the age of 58 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, XIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 25th of June 1985

Psychotic murderer Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

Tuesday 25th of June 1985

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

Monday 25th of June 1990

Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States.

Simmons killed 16 relatives over a week-long period in 1987.

Friday 25th of June 1993

20 die in private psychiatric hospital fire in Clinique Saint-François-d'Assise, Haut-Carcé, Bruz, Bretagne, France.

All the patients, mostly depressed young women, were severely sedated and locked up behind barred windows. 30 patients were heavily burned. The fire started when a nurse, who also died in the disaster, helped escape a patient who set fire to solitary confinement room 22 and forgot to close the door.

Wednesday 25th of June 1997

Murderer William Lyle Woratzeck is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Friday 25th of June 1999

AMVK at the opening of her Nursing Care, in Melancholy Stupor exhibition in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 25th of June 2002

Mass murderer Robert Otis Coulson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Coulson killed five members of his family in Houston on 13 November 1992 and set the house on fire.

Sunday 25th of June 2006

Bartholomeus van der Helst's 'Schuttersmaaltijd ter viering van de Vrede van Münster' is splashed with lighter fuel and set on fire by 69-year-old Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann in Rijksmuseum, Museumplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Thursday 25th of June 2009

Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett known for her role in ‘Charlie’s Angels’ dies of anal and liver cancer at the age of 62 in Saint John's Health Center, 2121 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, United States.

Thursday 25th of June 2009

Singer-songwriter and actor Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop dies of an overdose of propofol, along with two anti-anxiety benzodiazepines: lorazepam and midazolam at the age of 51 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Thursday 25th of June 2015

Actor Patrick Daniel Macnee aka John Steed known from The Avengers dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, United States.