Wednesday 5th of January 1876

First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Saturday 5th of January 1895

36-year-old Artillery officer and presumed traitor Alfred Dreyfus is convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana, in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Paris, Ier, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 5th of January 1910

Murderer Jose Lopez is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Monday 5th of January 1914

Actor George Reeves known from Adventures of Superman is born as George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, United States.

Monday 5th of January 1914

Artist Nicolas de Staël is born as Nicolaï Vladimirovitch Staël von Holstein in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Saturday 5th of January 1918

Victim of Albert Fish aka The Cannibal Grace Budd is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Saturday 5th of January 1924

18-year-old Ernst Spiecker is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Tuesday 5th of January 1932

Raisa Gorbachova is born as Raisa Maximovna Titarenko in Rubtsovsk, Altaysky Kray, Russia.

Thursday 5th of January 1933

Serial killer Nestor Pirotte aka Le Tueur Fou is born in Sosoye, Namur, Belgium.

Thursday 5th of January 1933

30th president of the United States Calvin John Coolidge dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 61 in The Beeches, 19-21 Massasoit Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.

Sunday 5th of January 1941

28-year-old Hedwig Ebauer is attacked and thrown out of a train by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Berlin, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Germany.

Ebauer was then five months pregnant. Ogorzow had unsuccessfully attempted to strangle her before throwing her from the train alive. Ebauer succumbed to her injuries later that day in the hospital, never regaining consciousness.

Monday 5th of January 1942

Murderer Henry John Burnett known for becoming the last man to be hanged in Scotland is born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Friday 5th of January 1945

Murderer John Earnest Ransom is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 50 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Friday 5th of January 1945

Murderer Robert E. Lee Folkes is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 22 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Folkes was the first man to walk into the gas chamber without wearing a blindfold.

Saturday 5th of January 1946

Actress Diane Keaton is born as Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Saturday 5th of January 1952

Mass murderer James Lammers is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.

Lammers' last meal consisted of Polish sausage, brown gravy, potatoes, spinach with bacon, gingerbread, cookies, bread, butter and coffee.

Wednesday 5th of January 1955

24-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is arrested for molesting a 9-year-old girl in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Friday 5th of January 1979

Revolutionary thief Mario Roymans aka Tijl van Limburg dies of internal bleeding at the age of 29 in Nerem, Limburg, Belgium.

Roymans was found more dead than alive in his car on 26 December 1978 on an abandoned road near Liège.

Saturday 5th of January 1991

40-year-old Brunhilde Masser is found strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Masser was strangled on 25 October 1990.

Tuesday 5th of January 1993

Child molester and serial killer Westley Allan Dodd aka The Vancouver Child Killer is executed by hanging at his own request at the age of 32 in Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.

Dodd's execution was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965. He also requested that his hanging be televised but that request was denied. Dodd's last meal request was for salmon and potatoes.

Monday 5th of January 1998

Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher dies from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing at the age of 63 in Heavenly Mountain Resort, South Lake Tahoe, California, United States.

Tuesday 5th of January 1999

Serial killer Donald Leroy Evans aka The Rest Area Killer is stabbed to death in the shower by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack at the age of 42 in Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, United States.

Tuesday 5th of January 1999

Murderer Moody Glenn John is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 5th of January 2005

Manager of The Doors Danny Daniel Stephen Sugerman dies of lung cancer at the age of 51 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Friday 5th of January 2007

Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō dies of heart failure at the age of 97 in Osaka, Ikeda, Kinki, Japan.

Andō claimed that the secret of his long life was playing golf and eating Chikin Ramen almost every day. He was said to have eaten instant ramen until the day before he died.

Tuesday 5th of January 2016

Composer Pierre Boulez dies of unknown causes at the age of 91 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.