On this date in 2013, three young men were hanged in three different public locations around the Iranian city of Karaj. Photos of at least one of the executions were promulgated by official media.
On this day..
- 2015: Khaled al-Asaad, Palmyra archaeologist
- 1885: Pedro Prestan, isthmus rebel
- 1648: Sultan Ibrahim the Mad
- 1746: Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino, Jacobites
- 1899: Armstead Taylor and John Alfred Brown, horribly
- 476: Basiliscus, victim of the fine print
- 1941: 534 Lithuanian Jewish intellectuals
- 2011: Li Lindong, truck driver
- 1634: Urbain Grandier, for the Loudon possessions
- 1775: Thomas Jeremiah, Charleston's wealthiest free black
- 1944: Ernst Thälmann, German Communist
- 1848: Camila O'Gorman and Father Ladislao Gutierrez, for traditional family values