Wednesday 27th of June 1838

Weapon designer Paul Mauser is born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Thursday 27th of June 1844

Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Smith is shot dead by an angry mob at the age of 39 in Carthage Jail, Walnut and N. Fayette Sts., Carthage, Illinois, United States.

Smith's brother Hyrum was also shot dead. Smith attracted thousands of devoted followers before his death and millions in the century that followed.

Sunday 27th of June 1869

Anarchist, political activist and writer Emma Goldman is born in Kovno, Trakai Voivodeship, Lithuania.

Thursday 27th of June 1918

59-year-old Louis Besumer is attacked by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in corner of Dorgenois and Laharpe Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Besumer was in bed with his mistress Harriet Lowe, who died on 5 August 1918, just two days after doctors performed surgery in an effort to repair her partially paralyzed face. Besumer was charged with murder while Lowe was in the hospital and stated that it was Besumer who had attacked her. He served nine months in prison before being acquitted on 1 May 1919 after a ten minute jury deliberation.

Sunday 27th of June 1926

Murderer Geza de Kaplany aka The Acid Doctor is born as Geza F. P. Kaplany de Kaplanyhaza in Makó, Csongrád Megye, Hungary.

As a child de Kaplany lost the sight in an eye during a beating by his father.

Thursday 27th of June 1935

Murderess Eva Coo aka Madame aka The Mallet Murderess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

Friday 27th of June 1941

Mafia pentito Leonardo Vitale is born in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy.

Friday 27th of June 1941

Film director Krzysztof Kieślowski is born in Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

Monday 27th of June 1949

Spree killer and writer Norio Nagayama is born in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan.

Friday 27th of June 1969

30-year-old Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer pleads guilty to 3 charges of first degree murder and is sentenced to 3 consecutive life-sentences in Salem, Oregon, United States.

Sunday 27th of June 1971

King Dipendra of Nepal is born as Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in Narayanhity Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.

Thursday 27th of June 1985

32-year-old Patty Elaine Higgins is throatcut by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in 665 W. Naomi, Los Angeles, Arcadia, California, United States.

Friday 27th of June 1986

73-year-old Frederick Prentice is attacked by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Cedars Rd, London, Clapham, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Prentice was awoken by sounds of someone entering his bedroom. Prentice switched on the light and told the intruder to get out. He was then attacked and was being strangled when he freed one hand and pressed the alarm at the side of his bed. Erskine ran off.

Sunday 27th of June 1993

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Wolfgang Grams presumably shoots himself in the head during a shootout with a GSG-9-Einsatz police squad at the age of 40 in Bahnhof Bad Kleinen, Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

During the shootout Grams killed officer Michael Oskar 'Shorty' Newrzella and suffered five gunshot wounds himself before falling down platform 3/4. During the operation his 36-year-old girlfriend and RAF member Birgit Hogefeld was arrested. Shortly after the operation there were allegations that Grams had not shot himself but was executed with a shot in the head from close range by a GSG 9 officer but they were upheld by five different courts.

Wednesday 27th of June 2001

Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon dies of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Monday 27th of June 2005

60-year-old Serial killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer pleads guilty to 10 counts of murder, giving graphic account of his 'Bind, Torture, Kill' crimes in court in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

Rader described the murders in detail and made no apologies.

Tuesday 27th of June 2006

Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz aka The Railroad Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Monday 27th of June 2016

Writer and futurist Alvin Toffler dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Thursday 27th of June 2024

Child rapist and murderer Richard Norman Rojem is executed by lethal injection at the age of 67 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

According to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Rojem was the state's longest-serving death row prisoner at the time of his execution. Rojem's last meal request was for a small Little Caesars's pizza with double cheese and double pepperoni, eight salt packets, eight crushed red pepper packets, a bottle of ginger ale, a Styrofoam cup and two vanilla ice cream cups.