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Albert Fournier was guillotined on this date in 1920 in Tours, by France’s ubiquitous early 20th century headsman Anatole Deibler.
The previous August, Fournier murdered a M. Monmarche, his sister Mme. Vouteau, and their servant Marie Thillier, also raping the latter victim’s corpse.
On this day..
- 1998: Three Afghan men under a toppled wall
- 1663: William Dillon, anatomized and diarized
- 1930: Luigi Versiglia and Callistus Caravario, missionary martyrs
- 1984: Ten members of the Tudeh party
- 1881: Edwin C. Hayden, Vermonster
- 1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- 1969: The peasants of Thanh Phong (allegedly)
- 1897: Henri-Osime Basset
- 1716: Four Jacobite rebels at Liverpool
- 1922: Henri Landru, French Bluebeard
- 1536: Jacob Hutter, Anabaptist leader
- 1879: Charles Peace, Victorian cat burglar