Saturday 19th of May 1296

192nd Pope Celestinus V dies of poor health at the age of 81 in Castello di Fumone, Fumone, Lazio, Italy.

After Celestinus V's resignation he was imprisoned by his successor Pope Boniface VIII.

Tuesday 19th of May 1536

Second wife of King Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is executed by beheading at the age of 35 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

She had been charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. She knelt upright, in the French style of executions. The execution consisted of a single stroke.

Monday 19th of May 1856

Victim of Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor Benjamin Freelon Pitezel is born in Galva, Illinois, United States.

Thursday 19th of May 1870

Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Thursday 19th of May 1881

Army officer, revolutionary and first President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk aka Father of the Turks is born in Islahhane Street, Salonica, Macedonia, Greece.

Monday 19th of May 1890

Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh aka Nguyễn Tất Thành aka Nguyễn Ái Quốc is born as Nguyễn Sinh Côn in Hoàng Trù, Kim Liên, Nam Đàn, Nghệ An, Vietnam.

Saturday 19th of May 1894

21-year-old Eugénie Delomme is raped and strangled by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Beaurepaire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Vacher also severed Delomme's right breast. She was his first deadly victim.

Thursday 19th of May 1910

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Vinayak Godse is born in Baramati, Maharashtra, India.

Friday 19th of May 1916

Murderer Francisco Rodriguez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Sunday 19th of May 1918

Artist Ferdinand Hodler dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Genève, Romandie, Switzerland.

Saturday 19th of May 1923

Murderer Angel P. Serna is born in Franklin, Arizona, United States.

Tuesday 19th of May 1925

Revolutionary black activist Malcolm X aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz is born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

Saturday 19th of May 1928

195 die in Mather Collieries coal mine explosion in Mather, Pennsylvania, United States.

Saturday 19th of May 1928

Cambodian socialist revolutionary and leader of the Khmer Rouge Pol Pot is born as Saloth Sar in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thom, Cambodia.

Friday 19th of May 1933

Murderer Claude Buffet is born in Reims, Marne, France.

Friday 19th of May 1933

Murderer Luke Nichols is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

Sunday 19th of May 1935

Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia dies due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days earlier at the age of 47 in Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom.

Saturday 19th of May 1945

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Pete Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend known from the rock band the Who is born in Chiswick, West London, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 19th of May 1948

Model, singer-songwriter and actress Grace Beverly Jones aka Grace Mendoza is born in Spanish Town, Middlesex, Jamaica.

Saturday 19th of May 1951

Musician Joey Ramone is born as Jeffrey Ross Hyman in Forest Hills, New York, Queens, New York, United States.

Wednesday 19th of May 1954

Modernist composer Charles Edward Ives dies of a stroke at the age of 80 in New York City, New York, United States.

Monday 19th of May 1969

Film director Thomas Vinterberg known for co-founding the Dogme 95 movement is born in Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

Wednesday 19th of May 1971

23-year-old Serial killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire Rapist is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The day before Boden raped and strangled 33-year-old high school teacher Elizabeth Anne Porteous in her apartment. Her breasts were mutilated with bite marks and amid the wreckage the police discovered Boden's broken cufflink under her body.

Wednesday 19th of May 1971

The fresh corpse of 40-year-old Kenneth Whitacre is found on the ranch of 37-year-old Serial killer Juan Vallejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer in Yuba City, California, United States.

In the next days a total of 24 bodies was excavated from Corona's ranch.

Friday 19th of May 1972

17 people are injured in a bomb attack by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Axel Springer Hochhaus, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 20, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

The 2 Juni Kommando claimed responsability for the attack.

Friday 19th of May 1972

Radical left organisation the Weather Underground places a bomb in the women's bathroom in the Air Force wing in The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States.

The damage caused flooding that destroyed computer tapes holding classified information.

Tuesday 19th of May 1981

17-year-old Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner is abducted, raped and beaten to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Tuesday 19th of May 1987

13-year-old Oleg Makarenkov is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Revda Station, Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

Makarenkov's body was not found until 1991, after Chikatilo's arrest.

Tuesday 19th of May 1987

Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree Jr. commits suicide a shot in the head at the age of 72 in McLean, Virginia, United States.

Sheldon shot dead her invalid and blind 84-year-old husband Huntingdon in his sleep first. Sheldon herself was suffering health issues caused by a lifetime of smoking.

Thursday 19th of May 1994

Cyclist Luis Ocaña commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 49 in Nogaro, Gers, France.

Ocaña was depressed over financial matters and was also suffering from liver cirrhosis, hepatitis C and cancer.

Thursday 19th of May 1994

First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy dies of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 65 in 1040 Fifth Avenue, New York, Upper East Side, New York, United States.

Monday 19th of May 1997

Triple murderer Richard Gerry Drinkard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Drinkard's last meal request was for a cheeseburger, french fries, Coca-Cola and strawberry ice cream.

Tuesday 19th of May 1998

Rapist and murderer Pedro Cruz Muniz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Saturday 19th of May 2001

Pressure gauges at an abandoned factory in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Sunday 19th of May 2002

The fortress where Marquis de Sade was imprisoned in 1777 and where he remained until February 1784 when it was closed and de Sade was transferred to the Bastille in Château de Vincennes, Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France.

Thursday 19th of May 2005

Murderer Richard Michael 'Rich' Cartwright is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Cartwright's last meal request was for fried chicken, a cheeseburger, onion rings, french fries, bacon, sausage, cheesecake and cinnamon rolls.

Saturday 19th of May 2007

48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Wie Man dem Zerrissenen Hasen die Aktionskunst Erklärt' in Kulttuuritalo Annis, Annankatu 6, Pori, Satakunta, Finland.

I took a wooden crate with 15kgs of dirt from my hole on the airplane and buried it close to the culture center. The performance started with digging up the crate to everybody’s amazement. I carried the crate inside and hacked it to pieces with a spade. I took a toy hare and removed the filling with my mouth. Then I filled the empty hare with dirt, also using my mouth to do that. Then I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art where I spread the dirt in several spaces. The empty hare was left behind at night in a children’s playground.

Saturday 19th of May 2012

53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Fatal Motorcycle Bumper Pull Up of Ho Chi Minh and Joey Ramone as if Composed by Charles Ives' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Mu.ZEE, Romestraat 11, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

A music performance of Club Moral with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven whereby I screamed with my head in a bucket filled with water crawled on the floor between the audience and ate dirt from my hole. On 19 May Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, Grace Jones and Joey Ramone were born and Lawrence of Arabia, Charles Ives and Jackie Kennedy died.

Wednesday 19th of May 2021

Murderer Quintin Philippe Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Sunday 19th of May 2024

75-year-old Serial killer Robert William 'Willie' Pickton aka The Pig Farmer Killer is assaulted by fellow inmate Martin Charest in Port-Cartier Institution, Airport Rd, Port-Cartier, Quebec, Canada.

Pickton was "speared" in the head with a "broken broom-like handle" and suffered fatal injuries. Pickton died in hospital on 31 May 2024