Thursday 19th of January 1809

Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe is born in 62 Carver Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Saturday 19th of January 1839

Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France.

Wednesday 19th of January 1848

Swimmer Matthew Webb known for swimming the Channel is born in Dawley, Shropshire, United Kingdom.

Friday 19th of January 1866

Serial killer Martha Grinder aka The Pittsburgh Poisoner is executed by hanging at the age of 51 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

"I loved to see death in all its forms and phases and left no opportunity to gratify my tastes for such sights."

Friday 19th of January 1866

Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

Wednesday 19th of January 1870

Mass murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Prisons de la Roquette, Paris, XIe, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 19th of January 1879

Writer and revolutionary Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Wednesday 19th of January 1916

Artist, writer and sound poet Brion John Clifford Gysin aka The Father of Cut-up is born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 19th of January 1921

Writer Patricia Mary Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

Highsmith's parents divorced ten days before their daughter's birth.

Thursday 19th of January 1922

Film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwoździec, Stanisławów Voivodeship, Poland.

Sunday 19th of January 1930

Actress and animal rights activist Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States.

For much of her career Hedren's year of birth was listed as 1935, although in 2004 she acknowledged that she was actually born in 1930.

Thursday 19th of January 1933

Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

Thursday 19th of January 1939

Musician Phil Everly known from The Everly Brothers is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 19th of January 1943

Singer-songwriter Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.

Saturday 19th of January 1946

Singer-songwriter, actress and philanthropist Dolly Rebecca Parton is born in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States.

Sunday 19th of January 1947

392 die in Himera ocean liner explosion in Athens, Attica, Greece.

The ship struck a forgotten WWII mine.

Monday 19th of January 1948

Double murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd is born in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States.

Monday 19th of January 1953

25-year-old Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 19th of January 1954

Photographer Cindy Cynthia Morris Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States.

Friday 19th of January 1962

21-year-old Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell marries 15-year-old Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, United States.

In January 1966 Malone filed for divorce.

Sunday 19th of January 1969

Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 dies due to injuries after his self-immolation protest three days earlier at the age of 21 in Charles University Faculty Hospital, Studničkova 2028/7, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Friday 19th of January 1973

Actress Karen Lancaume known from the crime-thriller Baise-moi is born as Karine Bach in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Saturday 19th of January 1974

18-year-old Cathy Lee Scharf is found beaten and strangled by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Titusville, Florida, United States.

Wednesday 19th of January 1977

33-year-old Serial killer Vaughn Orrin Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher is sentenced to life imprisonment in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Greenwood was convicted of nine counts of murder. Greenwood's victims had their throats cut from ear to ear. There was evidence that the killer drank the blood of the victims. Greenwood left cups of blood and rings of salt around the corpses. The judge recommended that Greenwood never be released because "His presence in any community would constitute a menace."

Monday 19th of January 1981

Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a loft window at the age of 23 in New York City, New York, United States.

Tuesday 19th of January 1982

Mass murderer Alvin Lee King III aka The Daingerfield Church Shooter commits suicide by hanging at the age of 47 in Morris County Jail, 502 Union St, Daingerfield, Texas, United States.

King used strips torn from his towel to fabricate the hanging rope.

Tuesday 19th of January 1982

Organizer of the Soviet spy ring Rote Kapelle Leopold Trepper dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Wednesday 19th of January 1983

70-year-old SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon is arrested and extradited to France to stand trial in La Paz, Pedro Domingo Murillo, Bolivia.

Monday 19th of January 1998

Singer-songwriter Carl Lee Perkins known for Blue Suede Shoes dies of throat cancer at the age of 66 in Jackson-Madison County Hospital, 620 Skyline Drive, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.

Perkins suffered three strokes in less than 2 months before his death.

Wednesday 19th of January 2005

Snow on a high bridge railing in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

Thursday 19th of January 2006

Singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett aka The Wicked Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Reston, Virginia, United States.

Friday 19th of January 2007

Singer-songwriter and musician Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty known from The Mamas & the Papas dies of kidney failure at the age of 67 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Monday 19th of January 2009

Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann dies of cancer at the age of 72 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.