Thursday 1st of December 1521

217th Pope Leo X dies of bronchopneumonia at the age of 46 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Tuesday 1st of December 1761

Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud is born as Anne-Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.

Saturday 1st of December 1866

Surveyor and geographer George Everest dies of natural causes at the age of 76 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 1st of December 1924

33-year-old Mass murderer Fritz Heinrich Angerstein shoots and stabs eight people including his wife, mother in law and several servants in Oranienstadt Dillenburg, Hessen, Germany.

Angerstein then stabbed himself several times, causing severe but not life-threatening wounds and called for help. When help arrived Angerstein claimed he had been attacked by bandits, who had killed everyone in the house and left him for dead. The victims were his wife Käthe Angerstein, his mother-in-law Katharina Barth, his maidservant Minna Stoll, his 18-year-old sister-in-law Ella Barth, his bookkeeper Reinhold Diethardt, his clerk Heinrich Kiehl, his gardener Alex Geiß, and the gardener's assistant Rudi Darr.

Sunday 1st of December 1935

Actor and film director Woody Heywood Allen is born as Allan Stewart Konigsberg in New York, Bronx, New York, United States.

Friday 1st of December 1939

Serial killer and rapist Johann Eichhorn aka Die Bestie aus Aubing is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 33 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stadelheim, Stadelheimer Straße 12, München, Giesing, Bayern, Germany.

Between 1931 and 1939 Eichorn raped over 90 and killed five women.

Tuesday 1st of December 1942

The first transport of jews arrives in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland.

Saturday 1st of December 1945

Singer-songwriter and actress Bette Midler aka The Divine Miss M is born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Monday 1st of December 1947

Victim of Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer Joan Elspeth Schell is born in New Paris, Wisconsin, United States.

Monday 1st of December 1947

Occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter and mountaineer Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast dies of chronic bronchitis aggravated by pleurisy and myocardial degeneration at the age of 72 in Netherwood boarding house, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Thursday 1st of December 1949

Drug lord Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar is born in Rionegro, Oriente Antioqueño, Colombia.

Sunday 1st of December 1957

21-year-old Robert George 'Bobby' Calvert is robbed and shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in Crest Gas Station, 1545 Cornhusker Hwy, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Monday 1st of December 1958

95 children die in Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Our Lady of the Angels School, 909 North Avers Avenue, Chicago, Humboldt Park, Illinois, United States.

A 10-year-old fifth grader at the time of the fire confessed in 1962 to setting the blaze and subsequently recanted his confession.

Friday 1st of December 1961

Murderer and cannibal Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Wednesday 1st of December 1965

The death sentence of 19-year-old Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is commuted to life imprisonment in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Saturday 1st of December 1973

First Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion aka Israel's Founding Father dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 87 in Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Tel HaShomer, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Sunday 1st of December 1974

92 die in Trans World Airlines Boeing 727-231 Flight 514 crash in Mount Weather, Virginia, United States.

Sunday 1st of December 1974

46-year-old Charles Jackson is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Tuesday 1st of December 1981

180 die in Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas MD-81 Flight 1308 crash in Mont San-Pietro, Ajaccio, Corsica, France.

Tuesday 1st of December 1987

Leaders of Action Directe Jean-Marie Rouillan, Nathalie Menigon, Joëlle Aubron and Georges Cipriani start hungestriking in prison in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 1st of December 1987

North Korean Agent Seung Il Kim aka Shinichi Hachiya commits suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 69 in Bahrein International Airport, Muharraq, Bahrein.

He was responsible for the Korean Air Boeing 707-3B5C Flight 858 bombing on 29 November 1987.

Tuesday 1st of December 1987

24-year-old Serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune is arrested in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

Paulin was recognised by a policeman who remembered his description from one of his latest victims.

Thursday 1st of December 2005

Jean-Marie Berckmans performing in Scheld'apen, D'Herbouvillekaai 36, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Saturday 1st of December 2007

57-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man known for organising his own disappearance and presumed death walks into the police station claiming to have no memory of the past five years in West End Central Police Station, 27 Savile Row, London, West End, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Darwin had been missing after a trip on the North Sea on 21 March 2002 and declared dead. On 23 July 2008 John and his wife Anne Darwin were both convicted of fraud. John was sentenced to six years and three months in prison.

Wednesday 1st of December 2010

Edelweiß flowers spring through the snow on our rooftop rock garden in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday 1st of December 2011

Noise music band Club Moral play their 139th and first concert in the U.S. in The Renaissance Society, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Wednesday 1st of December 2021

Composer Alvin Lucier dies of complications of a fall at the age of 90 in 42 Pinewood Ter, Middletown, Connecticut, United States.