Sunday 28th of October 1466 (+) — Humanist and theologian Desiderius Erasmus is born
Friday 26th of May 1899 (+) — War criminal and art collector Pieter Menten is born
Sunday 24th of April 1904 (+) — Abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning is born
Friday 24th of November 1944 (+) — Poet and writer Jules Deelder is born
Wednesday 22nd of July 1964 (-) — Victim of Hans van Zon Elly Hager-Segov is strangled and her throat cut by Hans van Zon aka
Sunday 28th of April 1974 (-) — Stripper Johanna Nilissen is killed by a lion during a striptease-act
Angelique was dancing in a cage while the lion was performing under direction of tamer Alfred Burckhardt.
Wednesday 31st of January 2007 — The Eyes Had it: The neon sign on top of the Central Railway Station
Thursday 19th of December 2019 (-) — Poet and writer Jules Deelder dies of a short illness