Thursday 25th of November 1819

Robber John Henley is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 25th of November 1822

Sodomite John Holland is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Holland was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.

Monday 25th of November 1822

Sodomite William King is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

King was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.

Monday 25th of November 1844

Automobile designer and manufacturer Carl Benz is born as Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant in Rheinstraße 22 Quartier, Mühlburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Friday 25th of November 1881

Giovanni XXIII aka Il Papa Buono is born as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, Lombardia, Italy.

Monday 25th of November 1895

8th President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Ludvík Svoboda is born in Hroznatín, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

Sunday 25th of November 1900

SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss is born in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Monday 25th of November 1901

Lagerkommandant in KZ Auschwitz and Majdanek Arthur Liebehenschel is born in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland.

Sunday 25th of November 1906

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

Wednesday 25th of November 1914

Baseball player Joe Joseph Paul DiMaggio aka Joltin' Joe aka The Yankee Clipper is born as Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio in Martinez, California, United States.

Thursday 25th of November 1915

Dictatorial president Augusto Pinochet is born as Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile.

Wednesday 25th of November 1936

Start of the trial against 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

Friday 25th of November 1938

Cop killer George Washington Pingley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

Monday 25th of November 1946

Serial killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Torso Killer is born in New York, Bronx, New York, United States.

Wednesday 25th of November 1964

21-year-old Margaret Mary Flemming McGowan aka Frances Brown aka Ann Sutherland aka Susan Edwards aka Frances Quinn is found naked and choked to death by unidentified serial killer Jack the Stripper in Hornton Street, London, Kensington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 25th of November 1967

Sculptor Ossip Zadkine dies after undergoing abdominal surgery at the age of 79 in Paris, VIe, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 25th of November 1970

Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima commits suicide by Seppuku at the age of 45 in Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces Headquarters, Tokyo, Shinjuku, Kantō, Japan.

The act was to end in Mishima's ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit Seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.

Sunday 25th of November 1973

Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is stabbed through the heart in the prison infirmary by Robert Wilson at the age of 42 in Walpole State Prison, Walpole, Massachusetts, United States.

Tuesday 25th of November 1975

29-year-old Julia Goncalves is shot dead and violated by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Parc Hébert, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France.

Wednesday 25th of November 1981

Victim of Marc Dutroux Laetitia Delhez is born in Bertrix, Luxembourg, Belgium.

Tuesday 25th of November 1986

25-year-old Josefina Rivera is abducted and held imprisoned by serial killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

"I was hustling on the corner of 3rd and Girard at about 11 pm. A 1987 Caddy Coupe de Ville pulled up. The driver of the car and I discussed price. We came to an agreement of $20. He drove me to 3520 North Marshall Street and we went into the house. He identified himself to me as Gary Heidnik. We went up to the second-floor front bedroom and he gave me a $20 bill. Then we took off our clothes and we had sex on his water bed." Rivera was held captive in a pit in the basement of Heidnik's house along other women he abducted until 24 March 1987 when she managed to escape.

Wednesday 25th of November 1987

87-year-old Berthe Finalteri is attacked and tortured by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in Rue d’Alsace, Paris, Xe, Île-de-France, France.

Finalteri unexpectedly recovered and was able to give an accurate description of her attacker, "a mix-race man in his twenties, with hair like Carl Lewis and an earring in his left ear".

Wednesday 25th of November 1987

79-year-old Rachel Cohen is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 46 Rue du Château d’eau, Paris, Xe, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 25th of November 1989

29-year-old Elizabeth Liz Gibson is abducted and strangled by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York, United States.

Thursday 25th of November 1993

10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Thursday 25th of November 2010

A worn out medieval piece of wood looking like some Gold Coast in my workshop in Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Friday 25th of November 2016

15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro dies of unknown causes at the age of 90 in Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.

Friday 25th of November 2016

Photographer and film director David Hamilton commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 83 in Paris, VIe, Île-de-France, France.

Hamilton was facing allegations of rape by his former model Flavie Flament.

Saturday 25th of November 2023

A prestigious cosy corner in Thermae Palace Hotel, Koningin Astridlaan 7, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.