Wednesday 2nd of May 1860 (+) — Journalist, playwright, political activist and writer Theodor Herzl is born
Tuesday 24th of March 1874 (+) — Illusionist, magician and escapologist Harry Houdini is born
Saturday 1st of November 1879 (+) — Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary Pál Teleki is born
Monday 13th of April 1885 (+) — Marxist philosopher György Lukács is born
Friday 3rd of November 1899 (+) — Composer Rezső Seress is born
Tuesday 5th of September 1905 (+) — Journalist and writer Arthur Koestler is born
Tuesday 6th of February 1917 (+) — Actress Zsa Zsa Gábor is born
Thursday 13th of July 1944 (+) — Inventor and architect Ernő Rubik is born
Tuesday 29th of January 1952 (+) — Musician Tommy Ramone is born
Monday 6th of March 1967 (-) — Composer Zoltán Kodály dies of natural causes
Thursday 11th of January 1968 (-) — Composer Rezső Seress commits suicide by jumping from the window of his apartment
Seress actually survived jumping out of his window, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire. His song 'Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)' sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933.
Friday 4th of June 1971 (-) — Marxist philosopher György Lukács dies of natural causes
Saturday 5th of October 1985 (x) — Miss Hungary 1985 Csilla Molnár is crowned Miss Hungary
Molnár was the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval. Less than a year later Molnár committed suicide.
Wednesday 18th of July 2012 (x) — Alleged Nazi war criminal László Csatáry is taken into custody for questioning
Csatáry's address was exposed by reporters from The Sun.
Saturday 10th of August 2013 (-) — Alleged Nazi war criminal László Csatáry dies of pneumonia
