Friday 9th of September 1087

First Norman King of England William the Conqueror aka William the Bastard dies of peronitis at the age of 59 in Abbaye de la Trinité, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, France.

During the funeral at Abbaye-aux-Hommes in Caen the ulcer in William's intestines broke open and the outrageous stench drove away all the guests.

Thursday 9th of September 1543

1-year-old Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is crowned at the age of nine months in Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 9th of September 1828

Writer Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is born in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russia.

Monday 9th of September 1839

Serial poisoner Maria Catherina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Friday 9th of September 1898

Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies of a spasm of the larynx at the age of 56 in Vulaines-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Friday 9th of September 1898

7-year-old Hannelore Heidemann and her schoolfriend Else Langemeier is stabbed to death and dismembered by serial killer Ludwig Tessnow aka The Mad Carpenter in Lechtingen, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Monday 9th of September 1901

Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dies from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis at the age of 37 in Château Malromé, Saint-André-du-Bois, Aquitaine, France.

Friday 9th of September 1910

Double murderer Isaac Joseph Newton Ike Harrell is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Harrell's neck was cut by the rope.

Saturday 9th of September 1911

SS Sturmbannführer and commander of Auschwitz KZ Richard Baer is born in Floß, Bayern, Germany.

Friday 9th of September 1921

Murderer Nichan Martin is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Martin's last words were “I am the happiest man in the world, best regards to everybody, good-bye.”

Friday 9th of September 1921

Model and actress Virginia Rappe known for her death after attending a party with actor Fatty Arbuckle dies of peritonitis due to a ruptured bladder after being violently raped, 4 days earlier, by filmmaker ‘Fatty’ Roscoe Conklin Arbuckle at the age of 30 in St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

Sunday 9th of September 1928

Conceptual artist Sol Solomon LeWitt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Tuesday 9th of September 1941

Singer-songwriter Otis Ray Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia, United States.

Friday 9th of September 1949

31-year-old Mass murderer Albert Joseph Guay kills his wife Rita Morel and 22 others aboard Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108 by planting a dynamite time bomb in her luggage.  in Cap Tourmente, Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec, Canada.

Guay wanted to bypass a divorce, obtain life insurance money and elope with his 19-year-old mistress waitress Marie-Ange Robitaille.

Thursday 9th of September 1954

Mass murderer Robert Jordan shoots four fellow-workers because they laughed at his fear to serve with the army in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States.

Wednesday 9th of September 1959

Serial killer Harrison 'Marty' Graham is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Friday 9th of September 1966

Child killer Daren Lee Bolton is born in Champaign, Illinois, United States.

Sunday 9th of September 1973

13-year-old Jewry Billings is assaulted and raped with a hammer by serial killer Harvey Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

When Billings' ordeal was over Carignan released his battered captive but the incident was so humiliating that the girl maintained it as a closely-guarded secret for a period of several months.

Thursday 9th of September 1976

Communist revolutionary and father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong aka Mao Tse-Tung aka Chairman Mao dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Beijing, Hebei, China.

Mao was rendered an invalid by a third heart attack on 5 September.

Sunday 9th of September 1979

17-year-old Dave Louis Murillo is sodomised, beaten and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in La Mirada, California, United States.

Tuesday 9th of September 1980

Journalist and writer John Howard Griffin known for his book Black Like Me dies of diabetes at the age of 60 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 9th of September 1981

Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Émile Lacan dies of renal failure at the age of 80 in 74 Rue d'Assas, Paris, VIe, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 9th of September 1983

24-year-old Wilhelm Friedrich Horst Meyer and his friend Jens Uwe Rüsch is shot dead by unidentified serial killer Il Mostro di Firenze in Firenze, Galluzzo, Toscana, Italy.

Both seniors at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Osnabrück, traveling in Italy to celebrate an important scholarship Meyer had just won. Rüsch's long blond hair and his small build could have deceived the killer into thinking he was a female.

Sunday 9th of September 1984

Film director and murderer Yılmaz Güney dies of gastric cancer at the age of 47 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 9th of September 1987

56-year-old Gerrit Jan Heijn is kidnapped and shot dead by kidnapper and murderer Ferdi Elsas in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Elsas kept a part of Heijn's finger and his glasses and demanded 7,7 million Gulden ransom. The money was delivered on 27 November. Elsas was arrested on 6 april 1988 because he kept spending marked banknotes in the same shops.

Tuesday 9th of September 1997

Triple child killer James Carl Lee Davis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Davis beat his neighbour children 15-year-old Yvette, 6-year-old Tyron and 4-year-old Tom Johnson to death with a lead pipe during a burglary of their home.

Wednesday 9th of September 1998

Murderer Delbert Boyd Teague is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Teague's last words were "I have come here today to die, not make speeches.  Today is a good day for dieing Est Sularus Oth Mithas (My Honor Is My Life)."

Friday 9th of September 2005

Serial killer John Wayne Glover aka The Granny Killer aka The Monster of Mosman commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 73 in Lithgow Correctional Centre, Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.

Saturday 9th of September 2017

My somewhat abandoned 'Diggin' for Gordon' Hole in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 9th of September 2020

Sex researcher Shere Hite dies of corticobasal degeneration at the age of 78 in London, Tottenham, Greater London, United Kingdom.