Monday 30th of September 1861

Chewing gum industrialist William Wrigley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Saturday 30th of September 1882

Physicist Hans Johannes Wilhelm 'Gengar' Geiger known for inventing the Geiger counter is born in Neustadt an der Haardt, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Sunday 30th of September 1888

45-year-old Elizabeth Stride aka Long Liz is throatcut by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper in Dutfield's Yard, Berner Street, London, Whitechapel, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sunday 30th of September 1888

46-year-old Catherine Kate Eddowes is stabbed to death, her throat cut, her body ripped open and her uterus removed from the abdomen by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper in Mitre Square, London, Whitechapel, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 30th of September 1902

Murderer John McDonald is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 23 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, London, Islington, Greater London, United Kingdom.

McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world".

Thursday 30th of September 1909

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Ernst Ehrenberg is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Friday 30th of September 1921

Double murderer Carl Otto Wanderer known for The Case of the Ragged Stranger is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Wanderer sang 'Dear Old Pal O' Mine' before being hanged, causing the hangman to remark, "That son-of-a-bitch should have been a song plugger."

Sunday 30th of September 1923

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

Tuesday 30th of September 1924

Writer and playwright Truman Capote known for inventing the ‘nonfiction novel’ is born as Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Wednesday 30th of September 1931

Actress Angie Dickinson is born as Angeline Brown in Kulm, North Dakota, United States.

Friday 30th of September 1932

Murderer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster dies of unknown causes at the age of 73 in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States.

Tuesday 30th of September 1947

Singer-songwriter and musician Marc Bolan known from T. Rex is born as Mark Feld in 25 Stoke Newington Common, London, Hackney, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 30th of September 1949

Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Rosalind Heather Thorpe is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Friday 30th of September 1955

Actor James Byron Dean known from Rebel Without a Cause dies in a head-on car crash in his Porsche 550 Spyder at the age of 24 in Route 466/41 Junction, Paso Robles, California, United States.

Dean crashed into 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed who made a left turn onto Route 41 in a 1950 Ford Tudor. Dean had been extricated from the Spyder's mangled cockpit, his left foot having been crushed between the clutch and brake pedal, leaving him severely injured from the crash with a broken neck and several internal and external injuries.

Friday 30th of September 1960

Serial killer Michael Lee Lockhart is born in Walbridge, Ohio, United States.

Sunday 30th of September 1962

Fashion model and beauty queen Hajna de Kaplany dies after 33 days of agony after her husband Geza soaked her with a mixture of hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acid at the age of 25 in Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, 900 Hyde St., San Francisco, California, United States.

Friday 30th of September 1966

Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach are released from prison whereby 72-year-old Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Walter Richard Hess becomes the last imprisoned Nazi leader in Kriegsverbrechergefängnis, Berlin, Spandau, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 30th of September 1978

15-year-old Mary Bell Vincent is raped and mutilated by presumed multiple murderer Lawrence Singleton in Modesto, California, United States.

Singleton raped Vincent and then severed both her forearms with a hatchet and threw her off a 30-foot cliff, leaving her naked and near death. She managed to pull herself back up the cliff and alert a passerby who took her to a hospital.

Friday 30th of September 1983

31-year-old Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer is arrested by Trooper Kenneth Buehrle in Interstate 65, Lowell, Indiana, United States.

Earlier that night Eyler picked up Darl Hayward hitchhiking on the Ontario Street ramp to the Kennedy and Dan Ryan Expressways in Chicago with the intention to kill him.

Monday 30th of September 1985

Actress Simone Signoret dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Auteuil-Anthouillet, Haute-Normendie, France.

Monday 30th of September 1985

Seismologist and physicist Charles Francis Richter known for creating the Richter magnitude scale dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 85 in Pasadena, California, United States.

Tuesday 30th of September 1997

Murderer Johnny William Cockrum is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Saturday 30th of September 2006

Some exhibition opening in Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50-51, Berlin, Moabit, Berlin, Germany.

Friday 30th of September 2011

Serial killer Clifford Robert Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Archambault Hospital Centre, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, Canada.

Thursday 30th of September 2021

Artist Jacques Lizène aka L’Artiste de la Médiocrité dies of unknown causes at the age of 75 in Liège, Liège, Belgium.