Friday 6th of February 1665

Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland Anne Stuart is born in St James's Palace, London, Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 6th of February 1740

246th Pope Clemens XII dies of complications from gout at the age of 88 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Wednesday 6th of February 1895

Baseball player George Herman Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat is born in 216 Emory Street, Baltimore, Pigtown, Maryland, United States.

Saturday 6th of February 1897

18-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is diagnosed as suffering from an incurable mental disease in Provinzial Heil- und Pflegeanstalt, Langenhagen, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Between 1918 and 1924 Haarmann killed 27 boys and young men in Hannover.

Saturday 6th of February 1897

Mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc Louis Buchalter is born as Lepke in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Monday 6th of February 1899

Actor Ramon Novarro aka Latin Lover is born as José Ramón Gil Samaniego in Durango, Durango, Mexico.

Monday 6th of February 1905

Communist activist and politician Władysław Gomułka is born in Krosno, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

Monday 6th of February 1911

Actor and 40th president of the United States Ronald Wilson Reagan is born in Graham Building, Tampico, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 6th of February 1912

Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

Tuesday 6th of February 1917

Actress Zsa Zsa Gábor aka Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

Wednesday 6th of February 1918

Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt known from the Wiener Secession dies of a stroke and pneumonia due to the influenza epidemic of that year at the age of 56 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Monday 6th of February 1922

Actor Patrick Daniel Macnee aka John Steed known from The Avengers is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Thursday 6th of February 1930

60-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac marries Estella Wilcox in Waterloo, New York, United States.

Fish and Wilcox divorced after only one week.

Saturday 6th of February 1932

Film director François Roland Truffaut is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

Truffaut was born to an unknown father. His mother Jeanine de Monferrand married Roland Truffaut on 9 November 1933.

Tuesday 6th of February 1934

Murderer Ernest Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Armley Gaol, Gloucester Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Saturday 6th of February 1943

Spree killer George Ronald York is born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

Tuesday 6th of February 1945

Musician Bob Robert Nesta Marley is born in Nine Mile, Middlesex, Jamaica.

Tuesday 6th of February 1945

Writer and journalist Robert Brasillach is executed by the firing squad at the age of 36 in Fort de Montrouge, Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France.

Many personalities including Jean Cocteau, Arthur Honegger, Paul Valéry, François Mauriac and Albert Camus petitioned for a reprieve for Brasillach. It was not granted by President De Gaulle.

Wednesday 6th of February 1946

Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle known for Complainte pour Ste Catherine is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Thursday 6th of February 1947

49-year-old Frau Sch. is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher in Dudersieben, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Friday 6th of February 1948

Murderer Stanislaw Myszka is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 24 in Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Sunday 6th of February 1949

Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Angela DeAngelis Atwood aka General Gelina is born in North Haledon, New Jersey, United States.

Wednesday 6th of February 1952

Cop killer Alfred Moore is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 36 in Armley Gaol, Gloucester Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Sunday 6th of February 1955

Victim of Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler Susan Hellams is born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Saturday 6th of February 1965

25-year-old Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler performs his first Aktion 'Hochzeit' in Wien, Wien, Austria.

'Hochzeit' took place in the apartment of his fellow student Heinz Cibulka, who played an active role, Günter Brus' wife Anni acted as bride, Schwarzkogler himself was the main actor. In addition to his closest circle of friends, including Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus, three photographers were present to document the course of the action.

Monday 6th of February 1967

Actress Martine Carol dies of a heart attack at the age of 47 in Hôtel de Paris, Place du Casino, Monte-Carlo, Monaco.

Carol died amidst the shooting of the film 'Hell is Empty'.

Friday 6th of February 1970

23-year-old Member of Zentralrat der Umherschweifenden Haschrebellen and Bewegung 2. Juni Georg von Rauch is arrested with Thomas Weissbecker on charges of assaulting a journalist from Quick magazine in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Tuesday 6th of February 1973

29-year-old Annick Delisle is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Allée Paul Verlaine, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France.

Saturday 6th of February 1982

Noise music band Club Moral play their ninth concert at the 'Bangkok' festival in Montevideo, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Minutes before the performance was to kick off DDV was hit by a steel door which dropped down from the 5m high stage and was taken to hospital with head injuries.

Thursday 6th of February 1986

17th Duke of Veragua Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal y Maroto is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 61 in Calle de Balbina Valverde, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

de Carvajal's 55-year-old driver Manuel Trillo was also killed in the attack.

Sunday 6th of February 1994

Actor Joseph Cheshire Cotten dies of pneumonia and complications of throat cancer at the age of 89 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Monday 6th of February 1995

Eighth bomb attack by 46-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Stinatz, Burgenland, Austria.

Two people were injured.

Thursday 6th of February 2003

Murderer Henry Earl Dunn is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Dunn's last meal request was for a cheeseburger with extra cheese, pickles, onion, lettuce and salad dressing, tray of french fries, ketchup, 25 fried shrimp, 4 cans of pineapple juice, 2 banana splits with a bottle of Hershey's syrup and one jar of apple butter jam.

Friday 6th of February 2004

Devotees of all kind gathering for the Thaipoosam Festive Days at the festival grounds in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

Tuesday 6th of February 2007

Singer and actor Frankie Laine aka Old Leather Lungs dies of heart failure at the age of 94 in Scripps Mercy Hospital, 4077 5th Avenue, San Diego, California, United States.

Thursday 6th of February 2020

Mass murderer Abel Revilla Ochoa is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

On 4 August 2002 Ochoa shot and killed his 32-year-old wife Cecelia, their daughters 7 year-old Crystal and 9-month-old Ana, his 56-year-old father-in-law Bartolo Alivizo and his 20-year-old sister-in-law Jacqueline Saleh.