Thursday 3rd of December 1857

Writer Joseph Conrad is born as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.

Monday 3rd of December 1883

Composer Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Webern is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Monday 3rd of December 1888

Jack the Ripper suspect Montague John Druitt commits suicide by drowning at the age of 31 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

A note written by Druitt and addressed to his brother William was found in his room in Blackheath. It read "Since Friday I felt that I was going to be like mother, and the best thing for me was to die."

Monday 3rd of December 1888

Optician Carl Zeiss dies of a stroke at the age of 72 in Jena, Thüringen, Germany.

Tuesday 3rd of December 1889

Film director and Jean Harlow’s husband Paul Bern is born as Paul Levy in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Monday 3rd of December 1894

Writer Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson known for his novel ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44 in Villa Vailima, Vailima, Tuamasaga, Samoa.

Sunday 3rd of December 1911

Composer Nino Giovanni Rota is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

Wednesday 3rd of December 1919

Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 78 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Saturday 3rd of December 1927

Singer Andy Howard Andrew Williams aka The Moon River Singer is born in Wall Lake, Iowa, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of December 1930

Film director Jean-Luc Godard aka the Father of the Nouvelle Vague film movement is born in 2 Rue Cognacq-Jay, Paris, VIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 3rd of December 1939

34-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes for the second time in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Judd was recaptured a few days later.

Wednesday 3rd of December 1947

Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Friday 3rd of December 1948

Musician and television personality Ozzy John Michael Osbourne known from Black Sabbath is born in 14 Lodge Road, Aston, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

Monday 3rd of December 1956

Constructivist and productivist artist Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Sunday 3rd of December 1961

Murderer Bobby Glen Cook is born in Corsicana, Texas, United States.

Sunday 3rd of December 1961

Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer is born in Petaluma, California, United States.

Saturday 3rd of December 1966

Cop killer Jesús García Romero aka Ríos Romero is executed by the garotte at the age of 23 in Prisión Provincial Carabanchel, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

Sunday 3rd of December 1967

54-year-old Louis Washkansky known for becoming the recipient of the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant becomes the first man to have a human-to-human heart transplantation in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.

Washkansky lived for 18 days.

Sunday 3rd of December 1972

155 die in Spantax Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado Flight 275 crash in Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain.

Tuesday 3rd of December 1974

39-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker and his son Mike terrorize Helen Bogin, Ethel Fisher-Cohen, Thelma Suden and Anna Pearl-Frankston for several hours in Bogin's house in Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

Saturday 3rd of December 1977

23-year-old Agnes Cooney is strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in Snipe Road, Caldercruix, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

Monday 3rd of December 1979

21-year-old Kenneth Ockendon is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Nilsen kept the body in his bed for several days.

Monday 3rd of December 1979

11 die in The Who concert stampede in Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

Twenty-three other fans were injured in the rush for seating at the opening of the sold-out concert.

Wednesday 3rd of December 1980

Founder of the British Union of Fascists Oswald Ernald Mosley aka The British Führer dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Orsay, Île-de-France, France.

Thursday 3rd of December 1981

20-year-old Ilse Blumenthaler is attacked and raped by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

Blumenthaler survived.

Monday 3rd of December 1984

At least 3787 die in Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant gas leak in Union Carbide India Limited, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. There are estimates of 8000 deaths within two weeks and up to 8000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases.

Wednesday 3rd of December 1986

23-year-old Sandra Lindsay is abducted and held imprisoned by serial killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Lindsay was tortured and killed in February 1987.

Friday 3rd of December 1993

First bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Hartberg, Steiermark, Austria.

51-year-old priest August Janisch gets injured. Also at the Viennese ORF-Centrum a bomb explodes, 40-year-old Silvana Meixner gets injured.

Sunday 3rd of December 1995

Serial killer Gerard John Schaefer is stabbed to death by fellow inmate Vincent Rivera at the age of 49 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

Friday 3rd of December 1999

A sculpture by Messieurs Delmotte in Window Gallery, St. Antoniusstraat 12, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 3rd of December 2003

Double murderer Richard Charles Duncan is executed by lethal injection at the age of 61 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.