Sunday 10th of October 1813

Composer Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi is born in Via della Processione 1, Le Roncole, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Thursday 10th of October 1889

Art forger Han Henricus Antonius van Meegeren is born in Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands.

Wednesday 10th of October 1894

8-year-old Howard Robert Pitezel is strangled by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in Indianapolis, Irvington, Indiana, United States.

Thursday 10th of October 1901

Sculptor Alberto Giacometti is born in Borgonovo, Graubünden, Switzerland.

Wednesday 10th of October 1923

Murderess Susan Newell is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Newell was the last woman to be hanged in Scotland.

Friday 10th of October 1924

Cult film director Ed Edward Davis Wood aka The Worst Director of All Time is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

Wood's mother Lillian would dress him in girl's clothing when he was a child because she had always wanted a daughter. For the rest of his life Wood became a heterosexual crossdresser infatuated with the feel of angora on his skin.

Saturday 10th of October 1925

Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio is born in Zagreb, Zagrebačka županija, Croatia.

In his later years Barichievich claimed that he was an extraterrestrial.

Saturday 10th of October 1925

26-year-old Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann marries 27-year-old Anna Schoeffler in New York City, New York, United States.

Friday 10th of October 1930

Writer and playwright Harold Pinter is born in London, Hackney, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 10th of October 1931

39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is arrested in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Tuesday 10th of October 1933

Hair stylist and victim of the Manson Family Jay Sebring is born as Thomas John Kummer in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

Jay after the first initial of his middle name and Sebring after the famous Florida car race.

Tuesday 10th of October 1939

New York State Electrician aka executioner Robert Greene Elliott dies of coronary embolism at the age of 65 in Richmond Hill, 132-10 Ninety-fourth Avenue, New York, Queens, New York, United States.

Thursday 10th of October 1940

Executioner Alwin Engelhardt dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Schmölln, Thüringen, Germany.

During his time as an executioner Engelhardt executed over 100 people.

Sunday 10th of October 1948

Victim of John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place Geraldine Evans is born in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 10th of October 1949

20-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is convicted of forgery for a $10 check at a gas station in Maryville, Missouri, United States.

Hatcher was sentenced to three years imprisonment in Missouri State Penitentiary.

Monday 10th of October 1949

22-year-old Double murderer Daniel Raven batters his wealthy parents-in-law 49-year-old Leopold Goodman and 47-year-old Esther to death with the heavy base of a television aerial in Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

Thursday 10th of October 1963

Singer Édith Piaf aka La Môme Piaf dies of an aneurism at the age of 48 in Chemin de la Rouree, Plascassier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Sunday 10th of October 1965

27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 13. Aktion in the house of Heinz Cibulka in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Saturday 10th of October 1970

Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the traffic-court building in support for the prison riots in New York, Queens, New York, United States.

Friday 10th of October 1980

30-year-old Cherie Lynn Ayers is raped and killed by serial killer Randall Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Woodfield was linked by DNA technology to the murder of Ayers in 2005.

Thursday 10th of October 1985

Actor Yul Brynner dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in New York City, New York, United States.

Thursday 10th of October 1985

Actor and film director Orson George Welles dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Friday 10th of October 1986

51-year-old Gerold 'Gero' Hermann Johannes Edler von Braunmühl is shot dead by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Buchholzstraße 39, Bonn, Ippendorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

The Ingrid Schubert Commando claims responsability. The main suspects in his murder are Rote Armee Fraktion members Barbara and Horst Meyer but there is no evidence. In the forensic examination of the projectiles a revolver of the Smith & Wesson type was identified, most likely the same gun with which West German business leader Hanns Martin Schleyer was executed.

Sunday 10th of October 1993

292 die in MV Seohae ferry sinking in Wido, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea.

Monday 10th of October 1994

Wife of Bruno Richard Hauptmann Anna Schoeffler dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Lancaster General Hospital, 555 N Duke Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

Sunday 10th of October 2004

Actor Christopher D'Olier Reeve known for portraying Superman dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 52 in Northern Westchester Hospital, 400 Main Street, Mount Kisco, New York, United States.

Monday 10th of October 2005

The remains of what once was a stairway in a demolished house in a hutong also gone in Shanghai, China.