Saturday 28th of December 1811

Highwayman John Williams aka The Ratcliffe Highway Murderer commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 26 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 28th of December 1827

Murderer Levi Kelley is executed by hanging in Cooperstown, New York, United States.

During Kelley's public execution a temporary wooden scaffold holding hundreds of spectators collapsed and two people were killed.

Tuesday 28th of December 1841

Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess is born in Yngsjö, Skåne, Sweden.

Sunday 28th of December 1856

28th President of the United States Woodrow Thomas Wilson is born in 18–24 North Coalter Street, Staunton, Virginia, United States.

Monday 28th of December 1885

Artist Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin is born in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Friday 28th of December 1888

Expressionist film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau known for the horror film Nosferatu is born as Plumpe in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 28th of December 1924

Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

Monday 28th of December 1925

Actress and singer Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Tuesday 28th of December 1926

29-year-old Germania Harpin is strangled and raped by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Nelson also strangled Harpin's 8-month-old son Robert, his first and only murder of a male victim and of a young child.

Monday 28th of December 1931

Theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International Guy Ernest Debord is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 28th of December 1934

X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in Grasslands Hospital, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, New York, United States.

Fish began to indulge in self-harm since his wife left him for John Straube in January 1917.

Monday 28th of December 1936

Gangster Jacques René Mesrine aka Public Enemy No. 1 is born in 5 Avenue Anatole-France, Clichy-la-Garenne, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 28th of December 1937

Composer, pianist and conductor Maurice Joseph Ravel known for his work ‘Boléro’ dies after surgery in an attempt to stop ventricular dilatation at the age of 62 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 28th of December 1941

Marlboro Man Eric Layton Lawson is born in Glendale, California, United States.

Friday 28th of December 1945

Naturalist writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser known for An American Tragedy dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in Hollywood, California, United States.

Saturday 28th of December 1957

17-year-old Isabelle Cooke is raped and strangled by serial killer Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw in Glasgow, Mount Vernon, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Monday 28th of December 1959

Murderer Johnny Ray Anderson is born in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

Saturday 28th of December 1963

Composer Paul Hindemith dies of pancreatitis at the age of 68 in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

Thursday 28th of December 1972

The skeleton of 72-year-old Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann is found during construction works in Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Bormann committed suicide on 2 May 1945.

Friday 28th of December 1979

20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Death-Interruption - 1' with Frank De Busscher in Ruimte Z, Lovelingstraat 56, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank De Busscher, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.

Tuesday 28th of December 1982

23-year-old Steven Ray Agan is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Newport, Indiana, United States.

Tuesday 28th of December 1982

19-year-old Trevor Simpson is attacked by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, London, Muswell Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 28th of December 1982

The body of 21-year-old Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer John Lee Roach is found in State Road 243 exit, Putnamville, Indiana, United States.

Roach was stabbed to death.

Wednesday 28th of December 1983

Musician Dennis Carl Wilson known from The Beach Boys drowns after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover items he had thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier at the age of 39 in Marina Del Rey, California, United States.

Friday 28th of December 1984

Film director Sam David Samuel Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence dies of heart failure at the age of 59 in Inglewood, California, United States.

Friday 28th of December 1984

Multiple murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, United States.

Monday 28th of December 1987

47-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, United States.

Simmons walked into a law office and killed 24-year-old receptionist Kathy Kendrick; he had been infatuated with her, but she had rejected him. He next went to an oil company office where he shot dead 33-year-old J.D. Chaffin and wounded owner Rusty Taylor. Simmons then drove on to a convenience store where he had previously worked, shooting and wounding two more people. Afterwards he went to the office of the Woodline Motor Freight Company where he shot and wounded a woman. Simmons then simply sat in the office and chatted with one of the secretaries while waiting for the police. In the week before Simmons killed 14 members of his family in two events.

Thursday 28th of December 1989

19-year-old Felicia Stephens is abducted and strangled by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States.

Tuesday 28th of December 1999

A strange staring character on my daily ride home with the last bus n° 123 from Thanon Maharat via Sanam Luang in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

Friday 28th of December 2001

Presumed multiple murderer Lawrence Bernard Singleton dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Northwest Florida Reception Center, 4455 Sam Mitchell Drive, Chipley, Florida, United States.

Friday 28th of December 2001

Heart patient Arne Larsson known for having the first pacemaker implant dies of melanoma at the age of 86 in Nacka, Södermanland, Sweden.

Larsson lived for forty-three years and during that time went through twenty-six pacemakers.

Saturday 28th of December 2002

43-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Parels voor de Zwijnen' in Vermeersch Pig Farm, Zedelgemsesteenweg 64, Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

A handful spectators was led along a muddy path in the dark towards a pig stye where they can enter one by one. The pig stye is divided in partitions that hold seven pigs each, totalling about 100 pigs. At the end of the small corridor that leads through the middle of the stye a film is projected onto my naked body. From several incisions in my body blood is seeping. I hung there for about half an hour. The pigs got excited by the smell of people and blood.

Tuesday 28th of December 2004

Noise music band Club Moral play their 109th concert in Atelier Philip Huyghe, Ommeganckstraat 22, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 28th of December 2004

Writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag dies of complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia at the age of 71 in New York City, New York, United States.