Thursday 25th of October 1838

Composer Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet known for Carmen is born in 26 Rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, Paris, IXe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 25th of October 1864

Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan, United States.

Saturday 25th of October 1879

Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Tuesday 25th of October 1881

Artist Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso is born in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.

Thursday 25th of October 1894

13-year-old Alice Etta and 10-year-old Nellie Rosa Pitezel are gassed and stuffed in a trunk by 33-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in 16 St. Vincent Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Saturday 25th of October 1913

SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon is born in Bad Godesberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Monday 25th of October 1920

Irish republican hunger striker Terence James MacSwiney dies after 73 days of hungerstriking at the age of 41 in Brixton Prison, London, Lambeth, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.

Thursday 25th of October 1923

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

Friday 25th of October 1929

34-year-old Hubertine Meurer is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Hellweg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Passersby found Meurer and took her to the hospital.

Friday 25th of October 1929

26-year-old Klara Wanders is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Ananasberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Wanders was raped and hit with a hammer several times. The hammer broke and flew into the bush where Kürten couldn't find it anymore.

Sunday 25th of October 1936

Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset is born in Trøndelag, Norway.

Saturday 25th of October 1941

Painter Robert Delaunay known for founding the Orphism art movement dies of cancer at the age of 56 in Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

Monday 25th of October 1943

Murderer Ruffie Lundon is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

Friday 25th of October 1957

Painter, architect and interior designer Henry Clemens Van de Velde dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

Friday 25th of October 1957

Victim of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Donna Ann Lauria is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Friday 25th of October 1957

Mobster and hitman Albert Anastasia aka The One-Man Army is sprayed with bullets by two men with scarves covering their faces at the age of 55 in Park Sheraton Hotel Barber Shop, 56th Street and 7th Avenue, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

No one was ever charged with Anastasia's murder.

Tuesday 25th of October 1960

Murderer and necrophiliac William Hamilton Little is born in Harris County, Texas, United States.

Monday 25th of October 1965

24-year-old Teresa Tosza is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

Thursday 25th of October 1973

Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila known for winning an Olympic marathon while running barefoot dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 41 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Saturday 25th of October 1980

20-year-old Maureen Lea is battered with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Lea survived.

Thursday 25th of October 1990

39-year-old Brunhilde Masser is stabbed and strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Masser's body was found on 5 January 1991.

Monday 25th of October 1993

Actor Vincent Leonard Price dies of lung cancer at the age of 82 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Saturday 25th of October 1997

29-year-old Robin M. Atkins is asphyxiated by serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

Friday 25th of October 2002

Our oldskool kitchen as core of a dinner party in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Monday 25th of October 2004

Disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist John Peel dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Cusco, Cusco, Peru.

Tuesday 25th of October 2005

Mass murderer Willie James 'Flip' Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

Wednesday 25th of October 2006

Serial killer Danny Harold Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

Wednesday 25th of October 2006

Gregory Lynn Summers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Summers' last meal request was for salad, onion rings, chili dogs, and sweet iced tea.