Saturday 14th of November 1716

Philosopher and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Monday 14th of November 1831

Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dies of cholera at the age of 61 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 14th of November 1840

Impressionist painter Claude Oscar Monet is born in 45 Rue Laffitte, Paris, IXe, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 14th of November 1863

Chemist Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland aka The Father of the Plastics Industry known for inventing Bakelite is born in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Monday 14th of November 1864

Murderer Franz Müller known for committing the first murder on a British train is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

The public hanging of Müller took place amid scenes of drunkenness and disorderly conduct by 50.000 spectators.

Wednesday 14th of November 1877

3-year-old Clement Swanenburg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Wednesday 14th of November 1900

Composer Aaron Copland is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Thursday 14th of November 1907

Writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren known for her children’s books featuring Pippi Longstocking is born in Fabriksgatan, Vimmerby, Småland, Sweden.

Saturday 14th of November 1908

Anti-Communist and anti-homosexual witch-hunter Joseph Raymond McCarthy is born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States.

Saturday 14th of November 1908

Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor is born as Sven Emil Sigvard Nilsson in Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

Apart from Thurneman, the Sala gang consisted of Bror Hedström, Åke Rangvald Lindberg, Roland Abrahamsson and Karl Herbert Jansson.

Friday 14th of November 1913

Murderer Oswald Hansel is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Thursday 14th of November 1929

Feral girl Kamala known for being raised by a wolf family dies of a kidney infection at the age of 17 in Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

Friday 14th of November 1930

40-year-old Sven Eriksson is shot in the back of the neck by serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor in Sörbobäcken, Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

Thursday 14th of November 1946

Composer Manuel de Falla dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 70 in Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina.

Sunday 14th of November 1948

Prince of Wales Philip Arthur George Charles is born in Buckingham Palace, London, Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 14th of November 1953

Victim of Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker Patty Elaine Higgins is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Thursday 14th of November 1957

19-year-old Serial killer Ian Brady aka The Moors Murderers (with Myra Hindley) is released from the borstal after serving two years for theft in Hull Prison, Kingston upon Hull, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Monday 14th of November 1960

118 die in passenger steam train 608 and diesel railcar 653 collision in Stéblová, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Saturday 14th of November 1964

67-year-old Benjamin Hornberg is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Monday 14th of November 1966

15-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen escapes from the Rosendael reformatory and assaults and rapes an unidentified woman in Rijmenam, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

Thursday 14th of November 1968

62-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America’s Most Bizarre Murderer is found guilty of First Degree Murder in Wautoma, Wisconsin, United States.

Friday 14th of November 1975

42-year-old Serial killer Donald Henry Gaskins aka Pee Wee Gaskins aka the Meanest Man in America is arrested when criminal associate Walter Neeley confessed to police that he had witnessed Gaskins killing 28-year-old Dennis Bellamy and 15-year-old Johnny Knight in Sumter, South Carolina, United States.

On 4 December Gaskins led police to land he owned in Prospect where police discovered the bodies of eight of his victims.

Friday 14th of November 1980

21-year-old Hijacker Michel Strée aka Chevalier de Wallonie and his brothers Mark and Frank-Roger hi-jack a schoolbus and demand a national TV-broadcast and a discussion with the King about common injustice in RTBf, Boulevard Auguste Reyers, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

In the TV-studio they are raided by a special police task-force.

Saturday 14th of November 1981

22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs with Etat Brut in V2, Vughterstraat 234, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

Saturday 14th of November 1987

War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Wednesday 14th of November 1990

Spree killer David Malcolm Gray known for The Aramoana Massacre is shot dead by the Anti-Terrorist Squad after shooting 13 people to death in a 22-hour shooting spree at the age of 34 in Aramoana, Otago, New Zealand.

The massacre began on 13 November at 7:30 p.m. when Gray confronted neighbour Garry Holden about one of Holden's dogs wandering onto his property. At around 5:50 p.m. on 14 November Gray ran out of the house, shooting from the hip and shouting "Kill me! Fucking kill me, you bastards!" He took several steps before being struck and knocked down by ATS gunfire. Gray was hit five times: in the eye, neck, chest and twice in the groin. Even with these injuries he struggled fiercely against police, breaking free of plastic handcuffs before being re-handcuffed, while berating police for not having killed him. Gray died from his wounds on the way to the hospital.

Friday 14th of November 1997

35-year-old Serial killer Daniel Joseph Blank aka The Parish River Killer is arrested in Onalaska, Texas, United States.

Blank confessed to the murders of 41-year-old Victor Rossi, 58-year-old Barbara Bourgeois, 71-year-old Lillian Philippe, 76-year-old Sam Arcuri and his 69-year-old wife Louella and 55-year-old Joan Brock.

Friday 14th of November 1997

33-year-old Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is sentenced to death for the rape-murders of 6 women in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Geralds dumped the bodies in the trash near his house.

Tuesday 14th of November 2000

Murderer Stacey Lamont Lawton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 21 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 14th of November 2001

Murderer Jeffery Eugene Tucker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Friday 14th of November 2003

Murderer John Dennis Daniels is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Daniels' last meal request was for ribeye steak, baked potato with sour cream and butter, pecan pie, soda, roll and hush puppies.

Friday 14th of November 2003

The tower of the Belgian National Broadcast Company where I was a guest in a talkshow with Jan Fabre and Jan Hoet in VRT, Reyerslaan, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Sunday 14th of November 2004

Composer Michel Colombier aka Fusion-sama dies of cancer at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Monday 14th of November 2005

The advantage of not speaking Chinese and yet wandering as an unwary nobody into the forbidden wing of the museum in Museum of Natural History, 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Beijing, Dongcheng, Hebei, China.

Tuesday 14th of November 2006

Fashion model Ana Carolina Macan Reston dies of an infection caused by eating disorder at the age of 21 in Hospital Municipal dos Servidores Publicos, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brazil.

At the time of her death Reston weighed just 40kg at a height of 1,68m and had been hospitalized since 25 October for kidney malfunction due to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which included a diet consisting only of apples and tomatoes.