Monday 2nd of December 0537

58th Pope Silverius dies of starvation in Palmarola, Isole Ponziane, Italy.

Silverius was accused of offering to betray Rome to the Goths and banned to the deserted island by his successor Vigilius.

Sunday 2nd of December 1804

35-year-old War leader Napoléon Bonaparte is crowned as King of France in Paris, IVe, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 2nd of December 1814

Revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade aka Marquis de Sade dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 74 in Hôpital Esquirol, Charenton, Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France.

Sade had left instructions in his will forbidding that his body be opened for any reason whatsoever and that it remain untouched for 48 hours in the chamber in which he died, and then placed in a coffin and buried on his property located in Malmaison near Épernon.

Friday 2nd of December 1859

Painter Georges Pierre Seurat is born in 60 Rue de Bondy, Paris, Xe, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 2nd of December 1891

Painter and printmaker Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Dix is born in Gera, Thüringen, Germany.

Friday 2nd of December 1910

Murderer Cesario Sanchez is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Friday 2nd of December 1910

Murderer Rafael Barela is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Barela's neck was not broken and he strangled to death in twenty minutes.

Sunday 2nd of December 1923

Soprano Maria Callas aka La Divina is born as Mengeghini-Calogeropoulou in Flower Hospital, 1249 Fifth Avenue, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Friday 2nd of December 1938

Multiple murderer Robert Lee Cannon is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Cannon was with Albert Kessel the first man to die in the Gas Chamber. Cannon's death took 12 minutes.

Friday 2nd of December 1938

Multiple murderer Albert Kessel is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 28 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Kessel was with Robert Cannon the first man to die in the Gas Chamber. Kessel's death took 15 and a half minutes.

Saturday 2nd of December 1944

Founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 68 in Hotel Excelsior, Via Lungo Lario Manzoni 28, Bellagio, Lombardia, Italy.

Marinetti was in his office working on a collection of poems praising the wartime achievements of the Decima Flottiglia MAS.

Monday 2nd of December 1946

Fashion designer Gianni Giovanni Maria Versace is born in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy.

Monday 2nd of December 1946

Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Tex Charles Watson is born in Copeville, Texas, United States.

Thursday 2nd of December 1948

Murderer George Russell is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Oxford Prison, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 2nd of December 1952

Murderer Jose Roberto Villafuerte is born in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras.

Thursday 2nd of December 1954

33-year-old Mary Holland is shot in the head by serial killer Leslie Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer in Bellemeade Liquor Store, 1656 Bellemeade Avenue, Evansville, Indiana, United States.

Sunday 2nd of December 1956

Serial killer David Edwin Mason is born in Statesboro, Georgia, United States.

Sunday 2nd of December 1956

53-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber plants a bomb, leaving six of the theater's 1.500 occupants injured in Paramount Theatre, intersection of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues, New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

The next day Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy ordered what he called the "greatest manhunt in the history of the Police Department."

Saturday 2nd of December 1972

34-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 40. Aktion in Mercer Arts Center, 673 Broadway, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

It was Nitsch' first 12-hour Aktion.

Thursday 2nd of December 1976

Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Konerak Sinthasomphone is born in Vientiane, Vientiane Province, Laos.

Sunday 2nd of December 1979

22-year-old Deedeh Goodarzi is strangled and cut to pieces by serial killer Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer in Travel Inn Motor Hotel, 515 West 42nd Street, New York City, New York, United States.

Cottingham removed the heads and hands of Goodarzi and another unidentified woman and doused the bodies with lighter fluid and set them alight.

Wednesday 2nd of December 1981

23-year-old Andrea Mona Altiery aka Enchantment aka Fish is abducted and killed by serial killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in Boniface Mall, 5601 Camelot Drive, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

Wednesday 2nd of December 1981

Singer Britney Jean Spears is born in McComb, Mississippi, United States.

Thursday 2nd of December 1982

61-year-old Artificial-heart patient Barney Clark has an artificial Jarvik heart transplantation by William DeVries in University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Clark survived 112 days with the Jarvik device.

Thursday 2nd of December 1982

Comedian and actor Marty Martin Alan Feldman dies of a heart attack at the age of 48 in Hotel Camino Real, Mariano Escobedo 700, Mexico City, Mexico.

On the day before Feldman and Michael Mileham had swam to a small island in a lake in Mexico City where a local was selling lobster and coconuts. Mileham claimed he got shellfish poisoning which also caused Feldman's death. Mel Brooks added that "smoking sometimes 5 packs of cigarettes daily, drinking copious amounts of black coffee, and a diet rich in eggs and dairy products" may have contributed to Feldman's death.

Friday 2nd of December 1983

42-year-old Serial killer Marcel Henri Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre is again sentenced to life-imprisonment after his first sentence was quashed in Cour d’Assises d’Oise, 20 Boulevard Saint-Jean, Beauvais, Oise, France.

Sunday 2nd of December 1984

Mafia pentito Leonardo Vitale is shot dead by persons unknown while leaving Mass with his mother and sister at the age of 43 in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy.

Sunday 2nd of December 1990

Composer Aaron Copland dies of Alzheimer's disease and respiratory failure at the age of 90 in North Tarrytown, New York, United States.

Thursday 2nd of December 1993

Drug lord Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar dies in a gunfight with a Colombian electronic surveillance team aka Search Bloc at the age of 44 in Carrera 79B #45D-94, Medellín, Los Olivos, Antioquia, Colombia.

Escobar suffered gunshots to the leg and torso and a fatal gunshot through the ear.

Friday 2nd of December 2005

Double murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Boyd was the 1000th person executed in the United States after the ban on capital punishment was lifted. His last meal request was for a a medium-well New York strip steak, a baked potato with sour cream, a roll with butter, a salad with ranch dressing and a Pepsi.

Friday 2nd of December 2011

AMVK having breakfast with the locals in Valois, 1518 E 53rd St, Chicago, Hyde Park, Illinois, United States.