Wednesday 24th of November 1632

Philosopher Baruch Spinoza is born as Benedito de Espinosa in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Thursday 24th of November 1740

Rapist and murderer William Duell is executed by hanging at the age of 17 in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Duell's body hung for about 20 minutes before being cut down. It was then brought to the Surgeon's Hall to be anatomized for a medical training college, a common practice at the time. Duell was stripped and laid on the board about to be dissected when one of the servants noticed that he had begun breathing slowly. Duell's breath got quicker and quicker; he was then bled, and in two hours, he was able to sit upright. That night, he was taken back to Newgate Prison. Duell, suffering from a fever and delirium during his trial and execution, had no recollection of the hanging. Along Duell four other criminals were hanged: Thomas Clock, William Meers, Margery Stanton and Eleanor Munoman who all had been convicted of several burglaries and felonies.

Wednesday 24th of November 1784

12th President of the United States Zachary Taylor is born in Barboursville, Virginia, United States.

Thursday 24th of November 1864

Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born as Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa in Château du Bosc, Camjac, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

Thursday 24th of November 1870

Poet Isidore Ducasse de Lautréamont known for Les Chants de Maldoror dies of fever at the age of 24 in 7 Rue de Faubourg-Montmartre, Paris, IXe, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 24th of November 1884

Murderer Kay Howarth is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Monday 24th of November 1884

Murderer Harry Swindells is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 24th of November 1897

Mobster and father of modern organized crime in the United States Charles Luciano aka Lucky Luciano is born as Salvatore Lucania in Lercara Friddi, Sicilia, Italy.

Monday 24th of November 1924

35-year-old Actor and film director Charles Spencer Chaplin marries 16-year-old Lita Grey in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico.

Gray was pregnant, and as Chaplin could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, they married in secret to avoid a scandal.

Wednesday 24th of November 1926

Florence Fithian Monks is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Sunday 24th of November 1929

Major of San Francisco George Richard Moscone is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

Tuesday 24th of November 1931

FBI Special Agent Albert Laurens Ingle is accidently shot dead when a private detective’s gun fell out of his pocket at the age of 28 in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

Special Agent Ingle was working with a private detective to move a package of evidence that possibly related to a federal crime. The private detective had a pistol in his pocket but the pocket apparently had a hole in it and the pistol fell to the ground, firing and fatally striking Ingle. Ingle was the first Special Agent of the FBI to die in the line of duty but in a non-combat situation.

Thursday 24th of November 1938

Spree killer Charles Raymond Starkweather aka Little Red is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Friday 24th of November 1944

Poet and writer Jules Julius Anton Deelder aka De Nachtburgemeester van Rotterdam is born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Sunday 24th of November 1946

Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is born in Elisabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, 76 Glen Road, Burlington, Vermont, United States.

Conceived out of wedlock to a father who disappeared Bundy's mother, Eleanor Cowell, fled to the sanctuary of the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers. After his birth Bundy was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. He was raised for a while to think that they were his parents and his biological mother was his sister.

Sunday 24th of November 1946

Artist László Moholy-Nagy dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Friday 24th of November 1950

Murderer Norman Goldthorpe is executed by hanging by Harry Kirk at the age of 40 in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Saturday 24th of November 1956

12-year-old Franz Stöbich is shot dead by serial killer Peter Hößl aka Der Wochenendmörder in München, Bayern, Germany.

Monday 24th of November 1958

Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Valentina Francesca Suriani is born in New York, Bronx, New York, United States.

Sunday 24th of November 1963

24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald is shot dead by nightclub operator Jack Ruby in Dallas Police Headquarters, 106 S. Harwood, Dallas, Texas, United States.

Thursday 24th of November 1966

82 die in TABSO Ilyushin Il-18B Flight 101 crash in Svätý Jur, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Wednesday 24th of November 1971

Hijacker D.B. Cooper jumps from the back of a Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Boeing 727-051 after securing 200.000 $ ransom and four parachutes in Mount St. Helens, Washington, United States.

Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation D.B. Cooper has never been located or identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history.

Saturday 24th of November 1984

Noise music band Club Moral play their 40th concert in De Aanlegsteiger, Vissersdijk 30, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Sunday 24th of November 1991

Singer-songwriter and musician Freddie Mercury known from Queen dies of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS at the age of 45 in Garden Lodge, 1 Logan Place, London, Kensington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 24th of November 1992

141 die in China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 Flight 3943 crash in Liutang, Guangxi, China.

Saturday 24th of November 2001

My final installation 'Daders van Dodingen' for an unusual presentation on the floor along the corridors of a psychiatric hospital in Psychiatrisch Centrum, Weststraat 135, Sleidinge, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Wednesday 24th of November 2004

School attacker Jia Qingyou is executed by the firing squad at the age of 36 in Jinan, Shandong, China.

Wednesday 24th of November 2004

Writer Arthur Frederick Hailey dies of a stroke at the age of 84 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas.

Wednesday 24th of November 2010

Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy dies peacefully in his sleep at home at the age of 55 in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

Saturday 24th of November 2012

117 die in Tazreen Fashion factory fire in Ashulia, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Friday 24th of November 2017

Noise music band Club Moral play their 149th concert at Reihe M in Stadtgarten, Venloer Straße 40, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 24th of November 2019

K-pop star Goo Ha-ra commits suicide at the age of 28 in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, Gangnam, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea.

On 26 May 2019 Goo attempted suicide in her apartment and was immediately taken to hospital, after which she apologized for worrying her fans.

Thursday 24th of November 2022

Murderer, cannibal and writer Issei Sagawa aka The Loving Cannibal dies of complications from pneumonia at the age of 73 in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

Thursday 24th of November 2022

Writer and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger known for his essay ‘Versuch über den Radikalen Verlierer’ dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 93 in München, Schwabing, Bayern, Germany.