Friday 22nd of February 1732

Founding Father and 1st President of the United States George Washington is born in Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.

Friday 22nd of February 1788

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Heiligegeistgasse, Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

Wednesday 22nd of February 1797

Baron Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in Bodenwerder, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Saturday 22nd of February 1868

Executioner Carl Franz Friedrich Gröpler aka Der Rote Richter is born in Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Friday 22nd of February 1884

Occultist, explorer, traveller, cannibal and journalist William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York is born in Westminster, Maryland, United States.

Saturday 22nd of February 1896

Poet and writer Paul Leopold Andreas Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830 is born in Lange Leemstraat 47, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 22nd of February 1899

Actor Dwight Iliff Frye aka The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare aka The Man of a Thousand Deaths known from several Dracula and Frankenstein movies is born in Salina, Kansas, United States.

Thursday 22nd of February 1900

Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel aka Le Chien Andalou is born as Buñuel Portolés in Calanda, Teruel, Spain.

Monday 22nd of February 1915

The right leg of 71-year-old Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt aka The Divine Sarah is amputated because of gangrene due to an accident in 1905 in Clinique Saint-Augustin, 114 Avenue d'Ares, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.

Bernhardt reportedly refused a $10.000 offer by a showman to display her amputated leg as a medical curiosity. In December 2008 the leg was found in the basement of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.

Wednesday 22nd of February 1928

Founder of the Five-Percent Nation Clarence 13X aka The Father is born as Clarence Edward Smith in Danville, Virginia, United States.

Monday 22nd of February 1937

29-year-old Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor is considered mentally ill and sent to psychiatric care for life in Västerås, Västmanlands Län, .

The other members of Thurnemann's Sala Gang Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg were sentenced to life imprisonment. Thurnemann was imprisoned at the Asylum of Säter and released in the 1960s.

Sunday 22nd of February 1942

Writer Stefan Zweig commits suicide by an overdose of Veronal at the age of 39 in Casa Stefan Zweig, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Zweig was found the next day hand in hand with his wife Lotte Altmann, also dead.

Sunday 22nd of February 1942

The first ‘low-pressure’ experiments are carried out on prisoners of war by 33-year-old Nazi doctor Sigmund Rascher known for his ‘freezing experiments’ on behalf of the Luftwaffe in Konzentrationslager Dachau, Dachau, Bayern, Germany.

Monday 22nd of February 1943

Model and topless showgirl Christine Margaret Keeler known from the Profumo Affair is born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

Monday 22nd of February 1943

Founding member of the Weiße Rose resistant group Sophie Magdalena Scholl is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 22 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stadelheim, Stadelheimer Straße 12, München, Giesing, Bayern, Germany.

Scholl's brother Hans and their friend Christoph Probst were also executed, convicted of high treason after having been found distributing their sixth anti-Nazi political resistance leaflet at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on 18 February 1943.

Tuesday 22nd of February 1944

Film director Jonathan Robert Demme known for his movie The Silence of the Lambs is born in Baldwin, New York, United States.

Tuesday 22nd of February 1949

Formula One racer Niki Andreas Nikolaus Lauda is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Wednesday 22nd of February 1950

Musician, performance artist and occultist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge known from the industrial band Throbbing Gristle is born as Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, Victoria Park, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Friday 22nd of February 1952

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Werner Bernhard Lotze is born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 22nd of February 1953

Student and hero of the Lithuanian resistance Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes is born in Alytus, Dzūkija, Lithuania.

Tuesday 22nd of February 1955

Cult victim Arlis Kay Perry is born in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States.

Monday 22nd of February 1960

134 die in Karl Marx coal mine explosion and fire in Steinkohlenwerk Karl Marx, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany.

Thursday 22nd of February 1968

25-year-old Patricia Docker is raped and strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in Carmichael Place, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Thursday 22nd of February 1973

Over 200 die in ferry and Japanese Bombary Maru cargo ship collision in Rangoon, Yangon, Burma.

Friday 22nd of February 1974

24-year-old Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer is arrested and charged with public indecency in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Friday 22nd of February 1974

Tire salesman and would-be assassin Samuel Joseph Byck known for attempting to assassinate President Richard Nixon commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 44 in Baltimore–Washington International Airport, Glen Burnie, Maryland, United States.

Byck shot and killed Maryland Aviation Administration Police officer George Neal Ramsburg before storming aboard Delta Air Lines DC-9 Flight 523 to Atlanta, which he wanted to crash on the White House to kill President Nixon. When pilots Reese Doug Loftin and Fred Jones told him they could not take off until wheel blocks were removed he shot them both. After a standoff with police Byck committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Friday 22nd of February 1980

Artist Oskar Kokoschka dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.

Wednesday 22nd of February 1984

Noise music band Club Moral play their 30th concert in Paard van Troje/De Kapel, Prinsegracht 12, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Sunday 22nd of February 1987

Pop artist Andy Warhol aka The Pope of Pop dies of a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia at the age of 59 in New York Hospital, New York City, New York, United States.

Warhol had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder surgery before dying in his sleep. Warhol's family sued the hospital for inadequate care, saying that the arrhythmia was caused by improper care and water intoxication. The malpractice case was quickly settled out of court and Warhol's family received an undisclosed sum of money.

Monday 22nd of February 1988

Suspected serial killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostro di Firenze dies of cardiac arrest due to a fatal combination of drugs at the age of 63 in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

Friday 22nd of February 2002

53-year-old Serial killer Robert William 'Willie' Pickton aka The Pig Farmer Killer is arrested in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

During his trial in 2007 Pickton confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate.

Sunday 22nd of February 2004

Probably not very obvious, but yet a homecoming from Asia party at our house in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday 22nd of February 2007

Double murderer Newton Burton Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Anderson's last meal request was for pork chops, fried chicken, tacos, baked potatoes, potato salad and french fries.

Saturday 22nd of February 2020

DDV and AMVK in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

Thursday 22nd of February 2024

Murderer Syed Jamal is executed by shot dead by the relatives of his victims in Ghazni, Ali Lala, Ghazni, Afghanistan.

15 bullets were fired at Jamal by the victims' family.

Thursday 22nd of February 2024

Murderer Gul Khan is executed by shot dead by the relatives of his victims in Ghazni, Ali Lala, Ghazni, Afghanistan.

7 bullets were fired at Khan by the victims' family.