Monday 3rd of February 1468

Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer and publisher Johannes Gutenberg known for introducing printing with a printing press dies of natural causes at the age of 68 in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Friday 3rd of February 1809

Composer Felix Mendelssohn is born as Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Große Michaelisstraße 14, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Thursday 3rd of February 1859

Engineer and aircraft designer Hugo Junkers is born in Rheydt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Tuesday 3rd of February 1874

Writer Gertrude Stein is born in 850 Beech Avenue, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.

Thursday 3rd of February 1887

Expressionist poet Georg Trakl is born in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Sunday 3rd of February 1889

Film director Carl Theodor Dreyer is born in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

Dreyer was born illegitimate. His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson and he was put up for adoption by his birth father Jens Christian Torp, a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mother's employer.

Sunday 3rd of February 1889

Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Star is shot dead by persons unknown at the age of 41 in King Creek, Oklahoma, United States.

Starr was riding home from a neighbor's house in Eufaula when she was ambushed. After she fell off her horse she was shot again to make sure she was dead. Her death resulted from shotgun wounds to the back and neck and in the shoulder and face. 

Tuesday 3rd of February 1903

Baby farm murderess Annie Walters aka the Finchley Baby Farmers (with Amelia Sach) is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 34 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Walters was hanged together with Amelia Sach and they became the first women to be hanged at Holloway in what was the only double hanging of women to be carried out in modern times.

Tuesday 3rd of February 1903

Baby farm murderess Amelia Sach aka the Finchley Baby Farmers (with Annie Walters) is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 30 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sach was hanged together with Annie Walters and they became the first women to be hanged at Holloway in what was the only double hanging of women to be carried out in modern times.

Wednesday 3rd of February 1904

Bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is born as Charles Arthur Floyd in Adairsville, Georgia, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of February 1909

Philosopher, mystic and political activist Simone Adolphine Weil is born in 19 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, Xe, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 3rd of February 1913

Writer and wife of Baldur von Schirach Henriette 'Henny' Hoffman is born in München, Schwabing, Bayern, Germany.

Sunday 3rd of February 1924

28th President of the United States Woodrow Thomas Wilson dies of a stroke at the age of 68 in 2340 S Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Thursday 3rd of February 1927

Film director Kenneth Anger is born as Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Sunday 3rd of February 1929

55-year-old Apollonia Kühn is attacked with scissors by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Bertastraße, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Kühn was stabbed 18 times in the face, hand, arms and back of the head, but survived.

Sunday 3rd of February 1935

Engineer and aircraft designer Hugo Junkers dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Gauting, Bayern, Germany.

Sunday 3rd of February 1957

Musician Steven Peter Stapleton aka Nurse With Wound is born in London, Finchley, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 3rd of February 1959

Rock and roll musicians 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens, and 28-year-old J. P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson together with 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson are killed in a plane crash in Juhl's property, Clear Lake, Iowa, United States.

The Civil Aeronautics Board concluded that the accident was due to "the pilot's unwise decision to embark on a flight" that required instrument flying skills he had not proved to have.

Friday 3rd of February 1967

Murderer Ronald Joseph Ryan is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Pentridge Prison, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.

Ryan was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. He shot and killed warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison in 1965.

Wednesday 3rd of February 1971

An unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 20-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Raghenotunnel, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 3rd of February 1975

Singer and actress Umm Kulthum aka The Nightingale of the Nile dies of kidney failure at the age of 77 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

Monday 3rd of February 1975

31-year-old Serial killer Vaughn Orrin Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher is arrested in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Sunday 3rd of February 1980

14-year-old Charles Miranda is sodomised and garotted by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in West Hollywood, California, United States.

Sunday 3rd of February 1980

12-year-old James McCabe is sodomised, beaten and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, California, United States.

McCabe's body was found three days later in the city of Walnut.

Tuesday 3rd of February 1981

37-year-old Donna Lee Eckard is shot dead by serial killer Randall Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer in Holiday Road, Mountain Gate, California, United States.

Eckard's 14-year-old daughter Jarvis Janell was sodomised and also shot dead. The same day a female store clerk was kidnapped, raped and sodomized in a holdup in Redding.

Friday 3rd of February 1989

Noise music band Club Moral play their 78th concert in Les Établissements Phonographiques de l'Est, 115 Rue Du Chemin Vert, Paris, XIe, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 3rd of February 1989

Actor and film director John Nicholas Cassavetes dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of February 1993

Composer Karel Goeyvaerts dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 3rd of February 1998

Double murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Tucker was the first woman to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War. Tucker's last meal request was for a banana, a peach, and a garden salad with ranch dressing.

Wednesday 3rd of February 1999

Murderer Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Monday 3rd of February 2003

Noise music band Club Moral play their 92nd concert in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 3rd of February 2003

41-year-old Lana Jean Clarkson is shot dead by record producer and songwriter Phil Spector in Pyrenees Castle, 1700 S Grandview Drive, Alhambra, California, United States.

Clarkson's body was found slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to her mouth with broken teeth scattered all over the carpet. Spector later told a magazine that Clarkson's death was an "accidental suicide" and that she "kissed the gun".

Tuesday 3rd of February 2004

Murderer John Glenn Roe is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

Roe's final meal request was for a medium-well T-bone steak with steak sauce, onion rings, macaroni and cheese, butter-pecan ice cream and root beer.

Tuesday 3rd of February 2004

A fine selection of shops around Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

Saturday 3rd of February 2007

Driving our car through a carwash tunnel in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Sunday 3rd of February 2008

A view (used on the cover of our 'Club Moral - Felix Culpa' CD) on the pine forest in Bouillon, Luxembourg, Belgium.