Birth

1859 Billy the Kid - Outlaw & Gunfighter

1925 John List - American mass murderer

1939 Joseph D. Pistone - FBI Agent who went undercover as Donnie Brasco

1942 Robert Graysmith - Author and authority on the Zodiac murders

1978 Stephan Letter - German serial killer

Death

1898 Mary Cowan - American serial killer who was known as The Borgia of Maine

1997 Benjamin Atkins - American serial killer & rapist

Event

1859 James Donnelly is sentenced to hang for murdering Patrick Farrell, but a petition for clemency reduces his sentence to 7 years in Kingston penitentiary

1997 Dr Sam Sheppards body exhumed for a DNA test

2012 Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn condom

2018 US border control agent confesses to the murder of 4 women and assault of another in Laredo, Texas