Thursday 4th of July 0965 (-) — 132nd Pope Benedictus V dies of unknown causes
Benedictus V was disposed by the Roman Emperor Otto and served only 33 days in 964. His pontificate occurred at the end of a period known as the Saeculum Obscurum.
Thursday 25th of June 1767 (-) — Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies of a chest ailment
Wednesday 18th of June 1806 (+) — Poet Charlotte Stieglitz is born
Thursday 25th of May 1882 (+) — Anti-war protester Alice Herz is born
Tuesday 3rd of December 1889 (+) — Film director and Jean Harlow’s husband Paul Bern is born
Friday 24th of March 1893 (+) — Second wife of Hermann Göring Emma Sonnemann is born
Thursday 2nd of February 1905 (-) — Child killer Elisabeth Wiese is executed by the Guillotine by Alwin Engelhardt
Between 1902 and 1903 Wiese poisoned five young children.
Sunday 10th of September 1933 (+) — Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is born
Sunday 15th of November 1936 (+) — Singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann is born
Saturday 11th of January 1936 (+) — Postminimal sculptor Eva Hesse is born
Sunday 26th of October 1941 (+) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Meins is born
Thursday 7th of May 1942 (+) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Sigurd Debus is born
Sunday 4th of June 1950 (+) — Singer Dagmar Krause is born
Wednesday 16th of August 1950 (+) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Petra Schelm is born
Thursday 1st of March 1951 (+) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Susanne Albrecht is born
Tuesday 26th of March 1957 (-) — Film director Max Ophüls dies of rheumatic heart disease
Wednesday 13th of August 1958 (-) — Circus acrobat and fantasist Otto Witte dies of unknown causes
Tuesday 20th of December 1960 (x) — SS Sturmbannführer and commander of Auschwitz KZ Richard Baer is arrested as Karl Egon Neumann
Tuesday 10th of April 1962 (-) — Musician Stuart Sutcliffe dies of a cerebral hemorrhage
The cause of Sutcliffe's ruptured aneurysm resulting in cerebral paralysis due to bleeding into the right ventricle of the brain, is believed to have been started by an earlier head injury as he was either kicked in the head or thrown head first against a brick wall during a fight outside Lathom Hall, after a performance in January 1961.
Monday 20th of December 1976 (x) — Serial killer Fritz Honka is convicted to 15 years imprisonment and sent to a mental asylum for life
Honka was released from prison in 1993 and spent his last years under the name of Peter Jensen in a nursing home.
Tuesday 16th of January 2007 (-) — Food entrepreneur Rudolf-August Oetker dies of pneumonia
Monday 19th of January 2009 (-) — Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann dies of cancer
