Sunday 1st of August 1819 (+) — Writer Herman Melville is born
Friday 18th of November 1825 (-) — Murderer James Reynolds is executed by hanging
Reynolds' was one of the last public hangings in New York City.
Monday 4th of July 1831 (-) — 5th President of the United States James Monroe dies of heart failure
Saturday 17th of September 1859 (+) — Outlaw, gunfighter and folk icon Billy the Kid is born
Sunday 12th of August 1866 (+) — Chemist, murderer and playwright Roland Molineux is born
Sunday 12th of June 1881 (+) — Reverend Edward Hall is born
Sunday 6th of June 1886 (+) — Actor Tyler Brooke is born
Friday 23rd of November 1888 (+) — Comedian and actor Harpo Marx is born
Monday 28th of September 1891 (-) — Writer Herman Melville dies of cardiac dilation
Wednesday 1st of March 1893 (+) — Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta is born
Monday 23rd of October 1893 (+) — Vaudeville performer Gummo Marx is born
Monday 20th of January 1896 (+) — Comedian, actor and singer George Burns is born
Monday 25th of December 1899 (+) — Actor Humphrey Bogart is born
Monday 17th of July 1899 (+) — Actor James Cagney is born
Wednesday 6th of August 1902 (+) — Mobster Arthur Flegenheimer is born
Monday 2nd of November 1903 (+) — Electrician George Metesky is born
Friday 22nd of April 1904 (+) — Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer is born
Sunday 29th of January 1905 (+) — Artist Barnett Newman is born
Monday 2nd of March 1908 (+) — Murderer Roland Cochrane is born
Sunday 19th of December 1909 (+) — Unitarian peace activist Florence Beaumont is born
Thursday 29th of June 1911 (+) — Composer Bernard Herrmann is born
Monday 10th of April 1911 (+) — Composer Martin Denny is born
Sunday 24th of October 1915 (+) — Comic book artist Bob Kane is born
Tuesday 28th of September 1915 (+) — American Communist and wife of Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg Ethel Greenglass is born
Tuesday 5th of September 1916 (x) — Actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino is arrested by the New York Vice squad for conducting a 'badger game' in a whorehouse
Saturday 22nd of April 1916 (+) — Violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin is born
Sunday 21st of May 1916 (+) — Writer Harold Robbins is born
Robbins later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys' home whereas in reality he was the son of well-educated Russian- and Polish-Jewish immigrants.
Sunday 12th of May 1918 (+) — American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is born
Saturday 5th of January 1918 (+) — Victim of Albert Fish aka The Cannibal Grace Budd is born
Wednesday 1st of January 1919 (+) — Writer J. D. Salinger is born
Wednesday 14th of January 1920 (-) — Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Dodge dies of influenza
Friday 1st of October 1920 (+) — Actor Walter Matthau is born
Tuesday 15th of May 1923 (+) — Photographer Richard Avedon is born
Wednesday 14th of March 1923 (+) — Photographer Diane Arbus is born
Wednesday 26th of November 1924 (+) — Pop artist George Segal is born
Tuesday 19th of February 1924 (+) — Actor Lee Marvin is born
Saturday 10th of October 1925 (x) — Kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann marries Anna Schoeffler
Wednesday 2nd of February 1927 (+) — Mass murderer Julian Frank is born
Wednesday 25th of May 1927 (+) — Writer Robert Ludlum is born
Sunday 13th of March 1927 (+) — Serial killer Peter Manuel is born
Tuesday 19th of April 1927 (x) — Actress, singer and sex symbol Mae West is sentenced to 10 days imprisonment for obscenity during her play 'Sex'
West got out of jail two days early due to good behaviour.
Friday 16th of September 1927 (+) — Actor Peter Falk is born
Falk's right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma; he wore an artificial eye for most of his life.
Thursday 4th of October 1928 (+) — Writer and futurist Alvin Toffler is born
Monday 9th of December 1929 (+) — Actor and film director John Cassavetes is born
Tuesday 27th of August 1929 (+) — Writer Ira Levin is born
Monday 15th of December 1930 (x) — Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish is committed to the Bellevue Hospital for a 10-day observation after sending obscenities through the mail
Sunday 4th of October 1931 (+) — Philosopher Richard Rorty is born
Monday 4th of April 1932 (+) — Actor Anthony Perkins is born
Thursday 27th of October 1932 (x) — Artist, recurring mental hospital patient and murderer Robert Irwin attends a surgical emergency room, having tried to cut off his penis with a razor
Tuesday 22nd of November 1932 (+) — Actor Robert Vaughn is born
Thursday 29th of June 1933 (-) — Actor Roscoe Arbuckle dies of a heart attack
The night before Arbuckle went out with friends to celebrate his first wedding anniversary where he reportedly said: "This is the best day of my life." He suffered a heart attack later that night and died in his sleep.
Monday 16th of January 1933 (+) — Writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag is born
Thursday 23rd of March 1933 (+) — Psychologist Philip Zimbardo is born
Wednesday 23rd of May 1934 (+) — Electronic music pioneer Robert Moog is born
Tuesday 28th of January 1936 (+) — Actor Alan Alda is born
Saturday 3rd of October 1936 (+) — Minimal composer Steve Reich is born
Saturday 11th of April 1936 (-) — Composer Mitya Stillman dies of unknown causes
Tuesday 21st of December 1937 (+) — Actress, political activist and fitness guru Jane Fonda is born
Wednesday 8th of May 1940 (+) — Writer Peter Benchley is born
Friday 23rd of February 1940 (+) — Actor Peter Fonda is born
Sunday 8th of February 1942 (+) — Musician and record producer Terry Melcher is born
Melcher was born to actress Doris Day. In 1968 Beach Boy Dennis Wilson introduced Melcher to ex-con and aspiring musician Charles Manson.
Thursday 26th of March 1942 (+) — Writer Erica Jong is born
Tuesday 22nd of June 1943 (+) — Artist Gordon Matta-Clark is born
Tuesday 10th of August 1943 (+) — Lead singer of the Ronettes Ronnie Spector is born
Tuesday 1st of February 1944 (-) — Painter Piet Mondriaan dies of pneumonia
Monday 25th of June 1945 (+) — Singer-songwriter Carly Simon is born
Thursday 2nd of May 1946 (+) — Singer Lesley Gore is born
Saturday 6th of July 1946 (+) — Actor and film director Sylvester Stallone is born
Sunday 15th of September 1946 (+) — Film director Oliver Stone is born
Friday 18th of April 1947 (+) — Feminist punk poet Kathy Acker is born
Thursday 1st of April 1948 (+) — Andy Warhol Superstar Andrea Feldman is born
Monday 3rd of April 1950 (-) — Composer Kurt Weill dies of a heart attack
Thursday 29th of March 1951 (x) — American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg and his 35-year-old wife Ethel are convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage
Monday 16th of July 1951 (x) — The novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' by Writer J. D. Salinger is first published by Little, Brown and Company
The Catcher in the Rye was a popular success; within two months of its publication it had been reprinted eight times.
Thursday 25th of September 1952 (+) — Actor Christopher Reeve is born
Wednesday 19th of August 1953 (+) — Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Mary Ann Pesce is born
Sunday 31st of January 1954 (-) — Electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of his apartment
Armstrong was financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA over the FM patent dispute.
Wednesday 19th of May 1954 (-) — Modernist composer Charles Ives dies of a stroke
Monday 18th of August 1958 (x) — The novel 'Lolita' by Writer Vladimir Nabokov is first published in America by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Lolita sold 100.000 copies in the first three weeks of publication.
Sunday 7th of August 1960 (+) — Actor David Duchovny is born
Friday 13th of October 1961 (-) — Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren dies of a brain haemorrhage
Deren's brain haemorrhage was brought on by extreme malnutrition. There were also rumors of a Voodoo curse and the use of suspect vitamin shots from Dr. Max Jacobson aka 'Doctor Feelgood'.
Thursday 12th of January 1961 (x) — Writer Norman Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife
Sunday 13th of May 1962 (-) — Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline dies of a rheumatic heart disease
Tuesday 25th of February 1964 (-) — Artist Alexander Archipenko dies of unknown causes
Tuesday 20th of October 1964 (-) — 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover dies of massive internal bleeding
Friday 6th of March 1964 (x) — Elijah Muhammed announces in a radio message that Boxer Muhammad Ali has joined the Nation of Islam Black Muslims and renamed Muhammad (one who is worthy of praise) Ali (fourth rightly guided caliph)
Monday 31st of May 1965 (x) — Founder of the Five-Percent Nation Clarence 13X is arrested and charged with assault and battery, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, marijuana possession, resisting arrest, and unlawful assembly
Monday 4th of October 1965 (x) — 262nd Pope Paulus VI arrives for the first US Papal visit ever
Saturday 6th of November 1965 (-) — Composer Edgard Varèse dies of natural causes
Thursday 1st of April 1965 (-) — Cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein dies of natural causes
Wednesday 30th of November 1966 (+) — Murderer James Clayton is born
Tuesday 3rd of October 1967 (-) — Singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie dies of Huntington's Disease
Monday 31st of July 1967 (+) — Serial killer Heriberto Seda is born
Thursday 9th of May 1968 (-) — Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta dies of a brain tumour
Friday 20th of December 1968 (-) — Writer John Steinbeck dies of heart disease and congestive heart failure
Friday 29th of May 1970 (-) — Postminimal sculptor Eva Hesse dies of brain cancer
Saturday 4th of July 1970 (-) — Artist Barnett Newman dies of a heart attack
Saturday 5th of December 1970 (x) — Five members of Radical left organisation the Weather Underground are arrested for bomb attacks
All of the Weather Undergrounders plead guilty.
Wednesday 15th of April 1970 (x) — Radical left organisation the Weather Underground members Linda Sue Evans and Dianne Donghi are arrested for trying to forge checks using false identification
Tuesday 9th of June 1970 (x) — Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the police headquarters in response to police brutality
Thursday 20th of April 1972 (x) — Victim of Charlie Chop-off Jimmy Wallace is stabbed and his penis cut off by Charlie Chop-off aka
Wallace survived, his penis was found the next day while some kids were playing with it.
Wednesday 7th of March 1973 (-) — Victim of Charlie Chop-off Luis Ortiz is stabbed to death and his penis severed by Charlie Chop-off aka
Friday 17th of August 1973 (-) — Victim of Charlie Chop-off Steven Cropper is slashed dead by Charlie Chop-off aka
Cropper bled to death from an injury to his arm but his penis was left intact.
Friday 24th of May 1974 (-) — Bandleader and composer Duke Ellington dies of lung cancer and pneumonia
Saturday 25th of May 1974 (x) — After a botched abduction of a Puerto Rican boy on 15 May 1974, Erno Soto is arrested on suspicion of being Unidentified serial killer Charlie Chop-off
He was never brought to trial due to lack of evidence.
Wednesday 24th of December 1975 (x) — Serial killer David Berkowitz attacks Michelle Forman and another unidentified girl with a knife
They both survived.
Friday 21st of November 1975 (x) — Mass murderer Ronald DeFeo is found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder
Thursday 9th of October 1975 (+) — Musician Sean Lennon is born
Sean was born on his father John Lennon's 35th birthday.
Thursday 11th of November 1976 (-) — Sculptor Alexander Calder dies of a heart attack
Monday 12th of June 1978 (x) — Serial killer David Berkowitz is sentenced to 315 years imprisonment and sent to the Attica Correctional Facility
Sunday 27th of August 1978 (-) — Artist Gordon Matta-Clark dies of pancreatic cancer
Wednesday 15th of November 1978 (-) — Anthropologist Margaret Mead dies of pancreatic cancer
Monday 19th of January 1981 (-) — Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a loft window
Wednesday 8th of April 1981 (-) — War leader Omar Bradley dies of cardiac arrhythmia
Tuesday 17th of February 1981 (+) — Heiress and media personality Paris Hilton is born
Friday 14th of October 1983 (+) — Porn actress Vanessa Lane is born
Thursday 10th of October 1985 (-) — Actor Yul Brynner dies of lung cancer
Sunday 5th of November 1989 (-) — Composer Vladimir Horowitz dies of a heart attack
Friday 22nd of September 1989 (-) — Composer Irving Berlin dies of natural causes
Sunday 14th of October 1990 (-) — Composer Leonard Bernstein dies of a heart attack
On the day of Bernstein's funeral procession through the streets of Manhattan, construction workers removed their hats and waved, yelling "Goodbye, Lenny."
Sunday 17th of June 1990 (-) — Fashion model Palmira Henry dies of a cerebral hemorrhage
Tuesday 22nd of May 1990 (-) — Boxer Rocky Graziano dies of cardiopulmonary failure
Wednesday 3rd of August 1994 (x) — Serial killer Heriberto Seda sends a letter to the New York Post claiming the lives of 4 victims
Saturday 31st of August 2002 (-) — Musician and bandleader Lionel Hampton dies of heart failure
Tuesday 28th of December 2004 (-) — Writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag dies of complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia
Wednesday 11th of April 2007 (-) — Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies from head injuries suffered while falling down a flight of stairs in his home
Sunday 8th of April 2007 (-) — Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt dies of cancer
Friday 17th of July 2009 (-) — CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite dies of cerebrovascular disease
Thursday 10th of July 2014 (-) — Conceptual artist On Kawara dies of natural causes
Saturday 16th of July 2016 (-) — Musician Alan Vega dies of natural causes
Friday 31st of March 2017 (-) — Pop artist James Rosenquist dies after a long illness
Saturday 14th of March 2020 (-) — Musician, performance artist and occultist Genesis P-Orridge dies of leukemia
Sunday 31st of May 2020 (-) — Artist Javacheff Christo dies of natural causes
Monday 25th of September 2023 (-) — Actor David McCallum dies of natural causes
Tuesday 18th of June 2024 (-) — Musician James Chance dies of deteriorating health
