Wednesday 29th of May 1439

215th Pope Pius III is born as Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini in Siena, Toscana, Italy.

Monday 29th of May 1606

35-year-old Artist Michelangelo Amerighi Caravaggio kills Ranuccio Tomassoni in a brawl in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

Caravaggio was outlawed and fled to Naples.

Saturday 29th of May 1880

Historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler is born in Blankenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Wednesday 29th of May 1889

Artist and radical lesbian Marlow Marjorie Jewel Moss is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 29th of May 1894

Film director Josef von Sternberg is born as Jonas Sternberg in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Friday 29th of May 1903

Comedian, actor, singer and dancer Bob Hope is born as Leslie Townes Hope in London, Eltham, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 29th of May 1906

Art vandal Walter Menzl is born in Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany.

Thursday 29th of May 1913

'Le Sacre du Printemps' by 31-year-old Composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky premieres in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 15 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, VIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

The avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation and one of the most famous classical music riots in history in the audience. The trouble began when two factions in the audience began attacking each other, but their mutual anger was soon diverted towards the orchestra: "Everything available was tossed in our direction, but we continued to play on". Around forty of the worst offenders were ejected, possibly with the intervention of the police.

Friday 29th of May 1914

1012 die in RMS Empress of Ireland ocean liner and Storstad collier collision in Saint Lawrence River, Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada.

Friday 29th of May 1914

Weapon designer Paul Mauser dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Oberndorf am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Tuesday 29th of May 1917

35th President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy aka JFK is born in 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.

Monday 29th of May 1922

Composer Iannis Xenakis is born in Brăila, Muntenia, Romania.

Tuesday 29th of May 1923

19-year-old Hans Sonnenfeld is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Neue Straße 8, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Wednesday 29th of May 1940

32-year-old Serial killer Bruno Lüdke is sterilised by law in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Lüdke was sterilised under a 1933 German law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, 'Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses'.

Monday 29th of May 1950

Victim of Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner's Song Bennie Jenkins Bushnell is born in Lawndale, California, United States.

Friday 29th of May 1953

34-year-old Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Percival Hillary and Tensing Norkey are the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit in Mount Everest, Sagarmatha, Nepal.

Hillary and Norgay were part of the ninth British expedition to Mount Everest.

Sunday 29th of May 1955

Would-be assassin John Warnock Hinckley known for his obsession with Jodie Foster is born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States.

Wednesday 29th of May 1957

Film director James Whale known for the film ‘Frankenstein’ commits suicide by drowning in his swimming pool at the age of 68 in Hollywood, California, United States.

The future is just old age and illness and pain. Goodbye and thank you for all your love. I must have peace and this is the only way.

Sunday 29th of May 1966

28-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 18. Aktion in his house in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Nitsch' 18. Aktion lasted five hours.

Sunday 29th of May 1966

Child killer Robert James Anderson is born in Great Lakes, Illinois, United States.

Friday 29th of May 1970

67-year-old President of Argentina Perdo Eugenio Aramburu is snatched from his apartment by two members of the radical organization Montoneros posing as young army officers in Operación Pindapoy in Carlos Tejedor, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Aramburu's disappearance kept Argentinian society on tenterhooks for a month before it was discovered that Aramburu had been murdered three days after his abduction, following a mock trial and his corpse hidden inside a farmhouse near Timote, Carlos Tejedor.

Friday 29th of May 1970

Postminimal sculptor Eva Hesse dies of brain cancer at the age of 34 in New York City, New York, United States.

Saturday 29th of May 1971

14-year-old David William Hilligiest is abducted and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 3200 Mangum Road, Houston, Texas, United States.

Hilligiest was last seen alongside his friend Gregory Malley Winkle climbing into a white van.

Saturday 29th of May 1971

16-year-old Gregory Malley Winkle is abducted and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 3200 Mangum Road, Houston, Texas, United States.

Winkle's body was found in the boat shed with the cord used to strangle him knotted around his neck.

Tuesday 29th of May 1973

23-year-old Mauricette Maria Van Hyfte is shot dead by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Ancien Cimetière, Laigneville, Oise, France.

Tuesday 29th of May 1973

25-year-old Eugène Stephan is shot dead by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Ancien Cimetière, Laigneville, Oise, France.

Tuesday 29th of May 1979

Actress Mary Pickford aka The Girl with the Curls dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Friday 29th of May 1981

22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'My Coat is My House' in Künstlerhaus, Weidenallee 10b, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

I made an installation with paper coats in the shape of a house and did a music performance over the telephone.

Wednesday 29th of May 1985

39 die in retaining wall between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus F.C. fans collapse in Heysel Stadium, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Over 600 people were injured.

Wednesday 29th of May 1985

83-year-old Mabel Bell is attacked by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in Monrovia, California, United States.

Bell and her invalid 81-year-old sister Florence Lang were found by 78-year-old gardener Carlos Valenzuela on 1 June 1985. Bell died of massive body trauma on 15 July 1985. Lang survived but could no longer speak and was hospitalized indefinitely.

Thursday 29th of May 1986

Noise music band Club Moral play their 55th concert in Musikforum, Kyrkogatan 6, Sundsvall, Medelpad, Sweden.

Also played: Blood ov Christ (aka Jesus Christ Bulldozer), 1/2 Kokt i Folie.

Friday 29th of May 1987

Murderer William Boyd Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Highway 36, Jackson, Georgia, United States.

Tuesday 29th of May 1990

33-year-old Raymond Lamont Smith aka Ricky Beeks 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.

Sunday 29th of May 1994

General Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party Erich Honecker dies of liver cancer at the age of 82 in La Reina, Región Metropolitana, Chile.

Friday 29th of May 1998

The California Board of Prison Terms takes 20 minutes to deny parole to 49-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States.

Sunday 29th of May 2005

Dennis Tyfus and Eva Van Deuren performing in Scheld'apen, D'Herbouvillekaai 36, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Saturday 29th of May 2010

Actor and film director Dennis Lee Hopper known from the film ‘Easy Rider’ dies of prostate cancer at the age of 74 in 330, 334 and 326 Indiana Boulevard, Venice, California, United States.