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18th Pope Pontianus dies due to maltreatment in exile by Emperor Maximinus Thrax in the mines in Montevecchio, Sardinia, Italy.

Sunday 30th of October 1735

2nd President of the United States John Adams is born in 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.

Friday 30th of October 1857

Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette is born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Poitou-Charentes, France.

Friday 30th of October 1863

Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.

Monday 30th of October 1871

Poet and philosopher Paul Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry is born in Sète, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

Friday 30th of October 1885

Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.

Sunday 30th of October 1910

Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies of unknown causes at the age of 18 in Heiden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.

Dunant's final words were "Where has humanity gone?"

Friday 30th of October 1931

Cop killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Sunday 30th of October 1932

Film director Louis Marie Malle is born in Thumeries, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Saturday 30th of October 1937

Film director Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouche is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 30th of October 1938

23-year-old Actor and film director Orson George Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" in CBS studio, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York City, New York, United States.

Welles' broadcast was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel 'The War of the Worlds' (1898).

Thursday 30th of October 1941

Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Sunday 30th of October 1949

Kidnapper and multiple murderer Larry Gene Bell is born in Ralph, Alabama, United States.

Sunday 30th of October 1966

18-year-old Cheri Jo Josephine Bates is stabbed to death by unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer in Riverside City College, Riverside, California, United States.

There were similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death but no real proof she was killed by Zodiac.

Sunday 30th of October 1966

Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is born as Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan.

Wednesday 30th of October 1968

Actor Ramon Novarro aka Latin Lover is murdered by 22-year-old Paul and 17-year-old Tom Ferguson at the age of 69 in Hollywood, Laurel Canyon, California, United States.

Novarro had hired the Ferguson brothers from an agency to come to his home for sex but the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house. Novarro died as a result of asphyxiation - having choked to death on his own blood after being beaten. Some say Novarro had in fact been suffocated with a lead dildo given to him 45 years earlier by Rudolph Valentino.

Thursday 30th of October 1969

29-year-old Helen Puttock is strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in 95 Earl Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United States.

Friday 30th of October 1970

27-year-old Singer-songwriter and poet Jim James Douglas Morrison aka The Lizard King aka Mr. Mojo Risin' known from The Doors is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.

Thursday 30th of October 1975

28-year-old Wilma McCann is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Prince Philip Playing Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

McCann was Sutcliffe's first deadly victim.

Sunday 30th of October 1977

15-year-old Judy Judith Ann Miller is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in Railway Diner, 8300 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California, United States.

Miller's body was found naked, face up on a parkway in a residential area in the La Crescenta neighborhood northeast of downtown Los Angeles on 1 November 1977.

Tuesday 30th of October 1979

Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Étang Rompu, Rambouillet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France.

Boulin's final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."

Friday 30th of October 1981

17-year-old Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Teufelsmoor, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, .

Schilling was found naked and her clothes scattered on 6 November 1981.

Friday 30th of October 1981

Noise music band Club Moral play their fourth concert in Devotion Pictures, Kattenberg 122, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Saturday 30th of October 1982

Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Joliet, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 30th of October 1984

Cop killer Thomas Andy Barefoot is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Barefoot shot 31-year-old police officer Carl LeVin in the head in an attempt to avoid arrest after he raped a 3-year-old girl.

Wednesday 30th of October 1985

25-year-old Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist shoots 2-year-old Recife Cosmen, Earl Trout and Augustus Ferrara in a shooting spree because "My family makes me nervous" in Springfield Mall, 1250 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

Seegrist also wounded seven people.

Tuesday 30th of October 1990

Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States.

As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time.

Tuesday 30th of October 1990

16-year-old Viktor Wadim Tishchenko is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Tishchenko fought hard for his life, biting and breaking Chikatilo's finger.

Thursday 30th of October 1997

Film director Samuel Michael Fuller dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Hollywood, California, United States.

Saturday 30th of October 2004

Noise music band Club Moral play their 108th concert in De Kroon, Kerkstraat 91, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Sunday 30th of October 2005

Enjoying a tasty meal at the 'Happy Forest' village restaurant with Belgian cyclists Bavo and Sofie in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.

Friday 30th of October 2009

Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies of a heart attack at the age of 101 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 30th of October 2018

Musician and founder of The Residents Hardy Winfred Fox dies of brain cancer at the age of 73 in San Anselmo, California, United States.

Sunday 30th of October 2022

141 die in bridge collapse in Jhulto Pul Suspension Bridge, Morbi, Gujarat, India.

The 19th-century bridge had reopened four days earlier in time for Diwali and the Gujarati New Year following a lengthy closure for repairs.