Saturday 13th of September 1321

Poet and writer Dante Alighieri aka Il Sommo Poeta dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Monday 13th of September 1475

Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

According to some sources Borgia was born in April 1476. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja aka Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei.

Monday 13th of September 1875

Composer Arnold Schönberg is born in Obere Donaustraße 5, Wien, Leopoldstadt, Wien, Austria.

Tuesday 13th of September 1904

Mother of Martin Luther King Alberta Williams King is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Wednesday 13th of September 1916

Writer Roald Dahl known for his Tales of the Unexpected is born in Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, Cardiff, Llandaff, Wales, United Kingdom.

Sunday 13th of September 1931

24 people die and 120 others are injured in a bomb-attack and subsequent derailment of the Nachtschnellzuges Budapest–Wien by 39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker in Biatorbágy, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

Wednesday 13th of September 1944

Actress Jacqueline Winifred Fraser Bisset is born in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Friday 13th of September 1946

Murderer Kenneth W. M. Bailey is executed by the gas chamber in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Saturday 13th of September 1947

Victim of Theodore Kaczynski aka The Unabomber Hugh Campbell Scrutton is born in Sacramento, California, United States.

Thursday 13th of September 1956

Irish republican hunger striker Martin Edward Hurson is born as Mairtin O hUrsain in Cappagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Saturday 13th of September 1958

Serial killer Daniel Lee Corwin is born in Orange County, California, United States.

Tuesday 13th of September 1966

20-year-old Ursula Rohling is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Försterbusch, Marl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Tuesday 13th of September 1966

41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Ten Rounds for Cassius Clay' with Günter Brus and Susan Khan at the 'Destruction In Art Symposium' in St Bride Institute, Bride Lane, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 13th of September 1967

Dora 'Betje' Woortmeijer is robbed and beaten by serial killer Hans van Zon in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Woortmeijer survived and led to van Zon's arrest on 13 December 1967.

Wednesday 13th of September 1967

War leader Abdel Hakim Mohamed Amer commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 48 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

Amer was approached by high-ranking Egyptian officers and was given a choice to stand trial for treason, which would inevitably have ended with his conviction and execution, or die an honourable death by taking poison. Amer chose the latter option and received a full military burial.

Monday 13th of September 1971

After 4 days of riots 63-year-old Businessman, philanthropist, public servant and politician Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller orders New York State Police troopers and former prison officers to drop tear gas and retake the prison in Attica Prison, Attica, New York, United States.

The troopers opened fire non-stop for two minutes into the smoke. By the time the facility was retaken, nine hostages and 29 inmates had been killed.

Friday 13th of September 1974

The imprisoned members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe start their third hungerstrike in several prisons, announced by Ulrike Meinhof while she stood trial for the freeing of Andreas Baader in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Berlin, Moabit, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 13th of September 1975

11-year-old Liane Woessner is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Saturday 13th of September 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Simpletones in de Bajes' with The Simpletones in an old prison in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

The performance happened in a cell of an old prison and the audience had to look through the spy-hole to see anything. While the Simpletones played their music I tried to pull myself upside down all the time by use of a pulley. After about one and a half hour the door of the cell opened and I threw up in the hallway.

Thursday 13th of September 1984

Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Thursday 13th of September 1984

48-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is arrested and charged with theft in Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

At the trial three weeks later Chikatilo was released due to lack of evidence.

Wednesday 13th of September 1995

Murderer Jimmie Wayne Jeffers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Jeffers had a last meal request for 3 pounds of prime rib, cooked medium rare; a pound of king crab legs; and three lobster tails complete with drawn butter, but prison officials called the request unreasonable due to issues of quantity and availability. Instead he got a 10 ounce steak, peas, rolls with butter, one baked potato with shredded Cheddar cheese, strawberry pie with whipped cream and a large chocolate malt. Before his execution Jeffers let loose a string of obscenities and gave his executioners the finger.

Friday 13th of September 1996

Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac dies of internal bleeding at the age of 25 in University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Shakur had been shot several times in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh in a drive-by shooting on 7 September.

Thursday 13th of September 2001

A warning sign in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday 13th of September 2007

Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Alexander Yuryevich 'Sasha' Pichushkin aka The Chessboard Killer aka The Bitsa Park Maniac in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Pichushkin asked a Russian court to add an additional 11 victims to his body count, bringing his claimed death toll to 60, and 3 surviving victims.

Tuesday 13th of September 2011

Pop artist Richard William Hamilton dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 13th of September 2014

AMVK in front of a painting by Richard Serra in Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Sunday 13th of September 2015

Noise music band Club Moral play their 145th concert on the occasion of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK's exhibition 'Love Shack' in Le Parvis de Bagnolet, 27 Rue Adélaïde Lahaye, Bagnolet, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 13th of September 2022

Film director Jean-Luc Godard aka the Father of the Nouvelle Vague film movement dies of assisted suicide at the age of 92 in Rolle, Vaud, Switzerland.

Wednesday 13th of September 2023

Singer-songwriter Roger Whittaker dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 87 in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France.