Tuesday 23rd of April 1016 (-) — King of the English Æthelred the Unready dies of unknown causes
Friday 11th of June 1509 (x) — King of England Henry VIII of England marries Catalina de Aragón
Wednesday 25th of January 1533 (x) — King of England Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn
Saturday 2nd of May 1536 (x) — Second wife of King Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is arrested and charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft
Tuesday 9th of July 1540 (x) — King of England Henry VIII of England divorces his fourth wife Anna von Kleve
Henry claimed she was so unattractive he could barely sleep with her. They had been married for 6 months only.
Tuesday 13th of November 1635 (-) — Celebrity Thomas Parr choked on some food and died at the table while eating with King Charles I
Monday 9th of December 1641 (-) — Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck dies of unknown causes
Wednesday 27th of April 1667 (x) — The blind and impoverished Poet, polemicist, man of letters and civil servant John Milton sells the copyright of his epic poem for ten Pounds
Thursday 8th of November 1674 (-) — Poet, polemicist, man of letters and civil servant John Milton dies of kidney failure
Tuesday 24th of April 1731 (-) — Trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy Daniel Defoe dies of lethargy
Sunday 7th of June 1778 (+) — Men’s fashion pioneer Beau Brummell is born
Friday 1st of October 1847 (+) — Theosophist, writer and women's rights activist Annie Besant is born
Monday 21st of February 1848 (x) — Economist and revolutionary communist Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Tuesday 16th of April 1850 (-) — Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud dies of natural causes
Saturday 18th of October 1851 (x) — The novel 'Moby Dick' by Writer Herman Melville is first published as 'The Whale' by Richard Bentley
Saturday 12th of February 1853 (+) — Founder of the Protestant Truth Society John Kensit is born
Saturday 16th of January 1864 (x) — Victim of Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols marries John Nichols
Between 1866 and 1879, the couple had five children: Edward John, Percy George, Alice Esther, Eliza Sarah, and Henry Alfred.
Saturday 1st of December 1866 (-) — Surveyor and geographer George Everest dies of natural causes
Wednesday 14th of March 1883 (-) — Economist and revolutionary communist Karl Marx dies of pleurisy
Monday 10th of September 1888 (x) — Polish Jewish bootmaker John Pizer is arrested
Pizer was suspected of being Jack the Ripper. He was cleared of suspicion when it turned out that he had alibis for two of the murders.
Monday 3rd of December 1888 (-) — Jack the Ripper suspect Montague Druitt commits suicide by drowning
A note written by Druitt and addressed to his brother William was found in his room in Blackheath. It read "Since Friday I felt that I was going to be like mother, and the best thing for me was to die."
Monday 1st of October 1888 (x) — Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper sends a 'Saucy Jacky' postcard to the Central News Agency
I was not codding dear old Boss when I gave you the tip, you'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work tomorrow double event this time number one squealed a bit couldn't finish straight off. Had not got time to get ears off for police thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again.
Jack the Ripper
Thursday 27th of September 1888 (x) — Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper writes his 'Dear Boss' letter to the Central News Agency
Dear Boss,
I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits. I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to start again. You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I cant use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. The next job I do I shall clip the ladys ears off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you. Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work, then give it out straight. My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good Luck. Yours trulyJack the Ripper
Dont mind me giving the trade name
PS Wasnt good enough to post this before I got all the red ink off my hands curse it No luck yet. They say I'm a doctor now. ha ha
Tuesday 16th of October 1888 (x) — Unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, "From Hell" to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee
Wednesday 29th of May 1889 (+) — Artist and radical lesbian Marlow Moss is born
Monday 5th of August 1895 (-) — Philosopher Friedrich Engels dies of throat cancer
Saturday 25th of May 1895 (x) — Poet and writer Oscar Wilde is convicted of 'committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons' and sentenced to two years hard labour
Judge Justice Wills described the sentence, the maximum allowed, as "totally inadequate for a case such as this" and that the case was "the worst case I have ever tried". Wilde's response was "And I? May I say nothing, my Lord?"
Friday 24th of April 1896 (+) — Victim of Louise Masset Manfred Masset is born
Saturday 4th of April 1896 (x) — Baby farm murderess Amelia Dyer is arrested
Thursday 14th of February 1901 (-) — Victim of George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner Bessie Taylor is poisoned with tartar-emetic by George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner
Monday 20th of October 1902 (-) — Victim of George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner Maud Marsh is poisoned with tartar-emetic by George Chapman aka The Borough Poisoner
Tuesday 10th of May 1904 (-) — Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley dies of unknown causes
Monday 13th of May 1907 (+) — Writer and playwright Daphne du Maurier is born
Monday 20th of February 1911 (-) — Mass poisoner John Hutchinson commits suicide by Prussic acid poisoning
Saturday 8th of August 1914 (+) — Aristocratic socialite and devotee of Adolf Hitler Unity Mitford is born
Mitford was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario where her family had gold mines.
Tuesday 26th of June 1917 (x) — Presumed murderess Marguerite Steinheil marries Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger
Saturday 16th of April 1921 (+) — Actor, writer, filmmaker, theatre and opera director Peter Ustinov is born
Thursday 29th of December 1921 (+) — Founder of the Solar Lodge secret society Georgina Brayton is born
Monday 6th of February 1922 (+) — Actor Patrick Macnee is born
Monday 22nd of September 1924 (x) — Serial killer John Christie is sentenced to 3 and 6 months imprisonment for larceny
Thursday 19th of September 1929 (+) — Victim of John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place Beryl Evans is born
Tuesday 23rd of May 1933 (+) — Actress Joan Collins is born
Saturday 15th of April 1933 (+) — Photographer and film director David Hamilton is born
Sunday 8th of July 1934 (+) — Comedian and actor Marty Feldman is born
A BBC documentary explained that a botched operation for Feldman's Graves' disease resulted in his eyes being more protruded and misaligned.
Saturday 18th of January 1936 (-) — Writer Rudyard Kipling dies of a perforated duodenal ulcer
Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
Wednesday 4th of January 1939 (-) — 11-month-old Peter Seaton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion
Seaton was found in his cot in an inferno of blazing flames strong enough to push back a rescuer who had heard him screaming. After the firemen had put the flames out investigators revealed that nothing was found that could have caused the fire. What was especially remarkable was that the surrounding furniture was hardly damaged.
Saturday 15th of June 1940 (x) — Biochemist Jack Drummond marries his 32-year-old secretary Anne Wilbraham
Saturday 7th of September 1940 (x) — Nazi Germany starts 'The Blitz', a series of systematic bombings by the Luftwaffe for 56 of the following 57 days and nights
Tuesday 25th of June 1940 (-) — Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by an overdose of Aspirin
Stekel wanted to end the pain of his prostate and diabetic gangrene.
Monday 5th of May 1941 (+) — Artist and pioneer independent artist's book publisher Guy Schraenen is born
Monday 16th of February 1942 (x) — Serial killer Gordon Cummins is arrested
Saturday 14th of February 1942 (x) — Victim of Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper Greta Hayward is attacked by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper
Hayward survived. Cummins had left behind his gas mask after the interrupted attack. The gas mask had the service number 525987 on the side which identified the possessor as Cummins.
Monday 20th of December 1948 (+) — Musician and audio engineer Alan Parsons is born
Saturday 8th of April 1950 (-) — Ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky dies of a kidney disease
Friday 11th of March 1955 (-) — Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist Alexander Fleming dies of a heart attack
Saturday 8th of September 1956 (+) — Musician Frank Tovey is born
Tuesday 14th of October 1958 (+) — Musician Thomas Dolby is born
Tuesday 26th of May 1959 (x) — 'The Outsider' by Angry Young Writer Colin Wilson is first published by Victor Gollancz
Sunday 24th of January 1965 (-) — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill dies of a stroke
Wednesday 7th of June 1967 (-) — Bride of gangster Ronnie Kray Frances Shea commits suicide by acute barbiturate poisoning
Saturday 20th of January 1968 (x) — Film director Roman Polanski marries 25-year-old actress Sharon Tate
Tuesday 21st of May 1968 (x) — Rolling Stone Brian Jones is arrested for possession of cannabis in his apartment
The jury found Jones guilty but the judge had sympathy for him, instead of jailing him he fined him £50 plus £105 in costs and told him: "For goodness sake, don't get into trouble again or it really will be serious".
Tuesday 11th of February 1975 (x) — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher becomes Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition
Tuesday 1st of September 1981 (-) — Nazi architect Albert Speer dies of a stroke
Speer was in London to participate in the BBC Newsnight programme.
Sunday 29th of August 1982 (-) — Actress Ingrid Bergman dies of breast cancer
Friday 22nd of June 1984 (-) — Film director Joseph Losey dies of unknown causes
Saturday 16th of May 1992 (-) — Astrologer Howard Sasportas dies of AIDS
Thursday 29th of April 1993 (-) — Guitarist, songwriter, arranger and producer Mick Ronson dies of liver cancer
Sunday 17th of September 1995 (-) — Philosopher Karl Popper dies of natural causes
Wednesday 28th of August 1996 (x) — Princess of Wales Diana Spencer divorces from Prince Charles
Diana received a lump sum settlement of £17 million as well as £400.000 per year.
Friday 14th of March 1997 (-) — Film director Fred Zinneman dies of a heart attack
Thursday 20th of November 1997 (x) — Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor Michael Howard that Serial killer Myra Hindley would serve her life sentence or tariff in full and die in jail,
Hindley had requested a judicial review of her sentence.
Tuesday 4th of February 1997 (x) — Serial killer Myra Hindley is given notice that she will never leave prison during her life
Thursday 5th of November 1998 (x) — Serial killer Myra Hindley loses an appeal against the government's decision that she must spend the rest of her life in jail
Monday 20th of April 1998 (x) — die Rote Armee Fraktion send an eight page fax to Reuters declaring the dissolving of the group
"Vor fast 28 Jahren, am 14. Mai 1970, entstand in einer Befreiungsaktion die RAF. Heute beenden wir dieses Projekt. Die Stadtguerrilla in Form der RAF ist nun Geschichte."
Wednesday 16th of June 1999 (-) — Musician David Sutch commits suicide by hanging
Monday 7th of May 2001 (x) — Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs returns voluntarily to Britain after being on the run for 25 years
Wednesday 3rd of April 2002 (-) — Musician Frank Tovey dies of a heart attack
Saturday 13th of November 2004 (-) — Musician John Balance falls to his death from a two story balcony under the influence of alcohol at his home
Saturday 21st of October 2006 (-) — Writer and biographer of Aleister Crowley John Symonds dies of natural causes
Sunday 17th of January 2010 (-) — Writer Erich Segal dies of a heart attack
Sunday 27th of November 2011 (-) — Film director Ken Russell dies of natural causes
Tuesday 13th of September 2011 (-) — Pop artist Richard Hamilton dies of undisclosed causes
Sunday 24th of August 2014 (-) — Actor Richard Attenborough dies of heart failure
Friday 27th of January 2017 (-) — Actor John Hurt dies of pancreatic cancer
Thursday 10th of September 2020 (-) — Actress Diana Rigg dies of cancer
