Saturday 14th of June 1349

Anti-king Günther XXI von Schwarzburg dies of bubonic plague at the age of 45 in Johanniterkloster, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

Monday 14th of June 1497

2nd Duke of Gandia Giovanni Borgia is presumably stabbed to death by his brother Cesare at the age of 22 in Piazza della Giudecca, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Saturday 14th of June 1856

Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Stafford Goal, Gaol Road, Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

Some 30.000 people were present to see Palmer's hanging in public by George Smith.

Tuesday 14th of June 1864

Psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer is born in Marktbreit, Bayern, Germany.

Friday 14th of June 1907

Architect and engineer William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper dies of unknown causes at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Tuesday 14th of June 1921

52-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is moved from Prison de la Sante to await trial in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

It was Landru's last ride through the streets of Paris.

Thursday 14th of June 1923

Prime Minister of Bulgaria Aleksandar Stamboliyski is tortured and executed by members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization after a coup d'état at the age of 44 in Slavovitsa, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.

Stamboliyski's hand that signed the Treaty of Niš was cut off. His head was sent to Sofia in a box of biscuits.

Saturday 14th of June 1924

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

Thursday 14th of June 1928

Marxist revolutionary, guerrilla leader and military theorist Ernesto Che Guevara is born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Thursday 14th of June 1928

Political activist and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst dies of deteriorating health at the age of 70 in London, Hampstead, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sunday 14th of June 1931

459 die in Saint-Philibert excursion steamer shipwreck in Pointe Saint-Gildas, Préfailles, Pays de la Loire, France.

There were 8 survivors.

Wednesday 14th of June 1933

Writer Jerzy Kosiński is born as Józef Lewinkopf in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland.

Thursday 14th of June 1945

Artist Jörg Immendorff is born in Bleckede, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Friday 14th of June 1946

Actor Charles Butterworth commits suicide by a car crash at the age of 50 in Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Wednesday 14th of June 1961

Musician Boy George is born as George Alan O'Dowd in Barnehurst Hospital, Bexley, Kent, United Kingdom.

Thursday 14th of June 1962

55-year-old Anna Slesers is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 77 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Monday 14th of June 1976

Start of the trial against 40-year-old Multiple murderer Donald Neilson aka The Black Panther for the kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle in Crown Court, St Aldates, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Saturday 14th of June 1980

14-year-old Regina Barthel is stabbed to death by serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder in Dietzenbach, Hessen, Germany.

Saturday 14th of June 1986

86-year-old Ludmilla Liberman is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 61 Avenue General Leclerc, Paris, XIVe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 14th of June 1988

Murderer Edward R. Byrnes is executed by at the age of 28 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, United States.

Byrne killed 25-year-old service station cashier Roberta Johnson with a hammer during a robbery on 14 August 1984. "I don't know exactly what it is that I can say to y'all. I was planning to rob this woman all along. It was all set up. There were no flaws that I could see. I just attempted to knock her unconscious. It didn't work. She didn't become unconscious. I just kept hitting her until she did."

Wednesday 14th of June 1989

72-year-old Actress Zsa Zsa Gábor aka Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt is arrested for slapping motorcycle police agent Paul Kramer in the face when he stopped her for a traffic violation at 8551 Olympic Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Gabor was later sentenced to 72 hours in jail.

Thursday 14th of June 1990

38-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Werner Bernhard Lotze is arrested along with Christine Dümlein in Senftenberg, Brandenburg, Germany.

On 31 January 1991 Lotze was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for murder, attempted murder, bank robbery and a bomb attack.

Thursday 14th of June 1990

28-year-old Edward Eddie Smith aka The Sheik is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Dahmer acidified Smith's skeleton; his skull was destroyed unintentionally when placed in the oven in an effort to remove moisture.

Tuesday 14th of June 1994

Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Wednesday 14th of June 2000

Murderer John Albert Burks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Burks' last words were "And it's going to be alright. That's it and it's time to roll up out of here. It's going down, let's get it over with. That's it.”

Thursday 14th of June 2001

Murderer Jay D. Scott is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

Saturday 14th of June 2003

Noise music band Club Moral play their 94th concert on the occasion of the release of their 'Cerebrale Pathologie' 10" record in Crazy Cabaret, Schepenenvijverstraat 2, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Saturday 14th of June 2003

Audience lining up to see Club Moral perform live at the presentation of a 10" vinyl release in Crazy Cabaret, Schepenenvijverstraat 2, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Thursday 14th of June 2007

9th President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 89 in Wien, Wien, Austria.