Monday 6th of January 1412

Heroine Jeanne d'Arc aka La Pucelle d'Orléans is born in Ferme de Jacques d'Arc, Domrémy, Lorraine, France.

This is an educated guess, some scholars suggest that her actual birthdate is the 7th.

Saturday 6th of January 1540

49-year-old King of England Henry VIII of England marries 25-year-old Anna von Kleve in Palace of Placentia, London, Greenwich, Greater London, United Kingdom.

It was not long before Henry wished to annul the marriage so he could marry another. Anna did not argue, and confirmed that the marriage had never been consummated.

Monday 6th of January 1851

Elizabeth Palmer is poisoned by serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

Elizabeth was about two and a half months old at the time of death.

Tuesday 6th of January 1852

Inventor Louis Braille dies of tuberculosis at the age of 43 in Paris, VIe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 6th of January 1852

Henry Palmer is poisoned by serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners in Rugeley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

Henry was about one month old at the time of death.

Saturday 6th of January 1872

Pianist and composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Sunday 6th of January 1884

Biologist and Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel dies of chronic nephritis at the age of 62 in Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

Saturday 6th of January 1912

New Mexico is admitted as 47th U.S. state in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.

Monday 6th of January 1919

26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt aka Teddy dies after a blood clot had detached from a vein and traveled to his lungs at the age of 61 in Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Cove Neck, New York, United States.

Roosevelt's last words were "Please put out that light, James" to his family servant James Amos.

Thursday 6th of January 1938

Singer and actor Adriano Celentano is born in Via Gluck 14, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

Sunday 6th of January 1946

Musician Syd Roger Keith Barrett known from Pink Floyd is born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Friday 6th of January 1950

Double murderer Daniel Raven is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, London, Islington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

On 10 October 1949 he killed his wealthy in-laws, 49-year-old Leopold Goodman and his 47-year-old wife Esther by beating with the heavy base of a television aerial in Edgware, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom.

Thursday 6th of January 1955

Actor Rowan Sebastian Atkinson known as Mr. Bean is born in Consett, Durham, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 6th of January 1960

Mass murderer Julian Andrew Frank detonates a bomb on National Airlines Flight 2511 at the age of 33 in W Ridge Road, Bolivia, North Carolina, United States.

Frank had taken a life insurance for almost one million dollars, payable to his wife, to take care of a money deal that went wrong. His body was eventually found sixteen miles away at a place called Snow's Marsh west of the Cape Fear River. An autopsy showed that he had been fatally injured by a dynamite explosion originating either in his lap or (more likely) immediately under his seat. All other 33 on board were killed as well.

Wednesday 6th of January 1965

31-year-old Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges performs a self-trepanation with a Black & Decker power drill, a surgical knife and a hypodermic syringe for local anesthetic in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Friday 6th of January 1967

Over 100 Roman Catholic pilgrims die in bus collision and crash into a ravine in Taal, Batangas, Philippines.

57 buses were in a convoy traveling to Ternate to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany when the 9th bus' brakes failed and rammed the bus ahead.

Thursday 6th of January 1972

45-year-old Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is arrested in Siemianowice Śląskie, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

Monday 6th of January 1975

Mary Rudolph is assaulted by serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker in Dumont, New Jersey, United States.

Kallinger's son Michael also takes part in the attack.

Tuesday 6th of January 1976

20-year-old Françoise Jakubowska is battered, shot and stabbed to death by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Villers-Saint-Paul, Oise, France.

Wednesday 6th of January 1982

Start of the trial against 24-year-old Serial killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Monday 6th of January 1986

61-year-old Double murderer John Dale Cavaness aka Doc is sentenced to death for the murder of his 22 year old son Sean on 13 December 1984 in a scheme to collect $148,000 in insurance benefits in St. Louis County Circuit Court, 7900 Carondelet Avenue, Clayton, Missouri, United States.

He also killed his 22 year old son Mark Dale on 7 April 1977. At the time Cavaness collected $40,000 on an insurance policy on Mark`s life.

Monday 6th of January 1986

77-year-old Andrée Ladam is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in Rue Baillou, Paris, XIVe, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 6th of January 1989

Rapist and murderer George C. Mercer aka Tiny is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.

Mercer became the first person to be executed in Missouri since 1965. His execution was carried out in the former gas chamber which was converted to use lethal injection.

Wednesday 6th of January 1993

Ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev dies of cardiac complications due to AIDS at the age of 55 in Hôpital Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours, 4, rue Kléber, Levallois-Perret, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 6th of January 1993

Musician and bandleader Dizzy John Birks Gillespie dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States.

Sunday 6th of January 2002

With AMVK for a winter walk near the Fortress in Fort van Oelegem, Oelegem, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 6th of January 2004

Multiple murderer Ynobe Katron Matthews is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Matthews' last meal request was for three pieces of fried chicken, one pork chop, two pieces of fried fish, strawberry ice cream, a six-pack of Coke and a pack of Newport cigarettes. The request for the cigarettes was denied because of a 'no tobacco policy'.

Tuesday 6th of January 2004

Murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States.

Thursday 6th of January 2022

Actor Sidney Poitier dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 95 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.

Thursday 6th of January 2022

Film director Peter Bogdanovich dies of at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California, United States.