Thursday 6th of November 1406

204th Pope Innocentius VII dies of natural causes at the age of 67 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Thursday 6th of November 1692

Poet Louis Racine is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 6th of November 1814

Musician and musical instrument designer Adolphe Antoine-Joseph Sax known for inventing the saxophone is born in Dinant, Namur, Belgium.

Friday 6th of November 1835

Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso is born in Verona, Veneto, Italy.

Friday 6th of November 1840

Multiple murderer Robert McConaghy is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in State Correctional Institution, 1100 Pike Street, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.

The rope snapped and McConaghy fell on the floor. While a new rope was prepared McConaghy gave a chilling account of his methodical slaughter of his father-in-law’s wife and five children.

Saturday 6th of November 1880

Modernist writer Robert Mathias Musil known for his novel ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’ is born in Bahnhofstraße 50, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kärnten, Austria.

Monday 6th of November 1893

Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies of cholera at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

While Tchaikovsky's death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier from the local river, some have theorized that his death was a suicide.

Thursday 6th of November 1919

Bandleader and composer Ray Joseph Raymond Conniff is born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States.

Wednesday 6th of November 1929

Cop killer Rollin Davisson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Livingston, Montana, United States.

Davisson had killed Chief of Police Peter Holt because the latter had told him to forget about 50 cents an employer owed him.

Thursday 6th of November 1930

Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Psychiatrische Klinik der Universitären Psychiatrischen Dienste Bern, Bolligenstrasse 111, Waldau, Mittelland, Switzerland.

Friday 6th of November 1931

Film and theatre director Mike Nichols is born as Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Wednesday 6th of November 1946

Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder is born as Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Bartsch was an illegitimate child whose birth mother died of tuberculosis soon afterward, and he spent the first months of his life being cared for by nurses. At 11 months he was adopted by a butcher and his wife in Langenberg, who gave him the name Jürgen Bartsch.

Sunday 6th of November 1955

Spree killer Alton Coleman is born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 6th of November 1956

Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Paul Alain Dutroux is born in Brussel, Elsene, Brabant, Belgium.

Thursday 6th of November 1958

16-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) takes her first communion and receives a white prayer book from uncle Bert and auntie Kath Maybury in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Years later, a ticket found in this book led the police to a locker in the railwaystation where Hindley's lover Ian Brady kept pictures and tape-recordings of their crimes.

Saturday 6th of November 1965

Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse aka The Stratospheric Colossus of Sound dies of natural causes at the age of 82 in New York City, New York, United States.

Monday 6th of November 1967

Model and actress Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer is born in Eugene, Oregon, United States.

Wednesday 6th of November 1974

45-year-old Carswell Carr is stabbed to death by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.

Wednesday 6th of November 1974

15-year-old Amanda Beth Carr is strangled by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.

Knowles attempted to engage in necrophilia with her corpse after murdering Amanda, but his attempts were unsuccessful.

Sunday 6th of November 1977

22-year-old Lissa Elissa Teresa Kastin is abducted and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 703 East Colorado Street, Glendale, California, United States.

Kastin's nude body was left on a highway embankment near the Chevy Chase Country Club in Glendale.

Tuesday 6th of November 1984

18-year-old Virginia Lee Johnson is found strangled by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Zephyrhills, Florida, United States.

Tuesday 6th of November 1990

22-year-old Svetlana Korostik is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Donleskhoz, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Chikatilo removed the tip of Korostik's tongue and nipples and ate them at the scene before he covered her naked body with leaves. Korostik was Chikatilo's 53rd and last victim, he was arrested on 20 November 1990 because a policeman had noticed Chikatilo approach a well and wash his face after he left the scene of the murder.

Thursday 6th of November 1997

Murderer Aaron Lee Fuller is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Sunday 6th of November 2005

Be respectful towards your vehicle and treat it as an instrument given to you by God for your convenience. So treat your vehicle with respect. The builder's vehicle at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.