A gangster named Henri “Le Tigre” Olivier was guillotined in Lille on this date in 1925.
According to eyebrow-raising (but widely circulated) reports, once the Tiger was reduced to a Cadaver, he joined the august line of medicalized corpses for, as noted in the papers of the executioner Anatole Deibler, “In the cemetery, a professor from the Faculty of Lille removed the thyroid gland from him, for transplant to a young girl suffering from paralysis, the operation succeeded perfectly, the child was saved.”
On this day..
- Feast Day of Saint Pigmenius
- 1673: La Chaussee, for the giblet pie
- 1823: John Newton, wife-beater
- 1823: John Newton, violent spouse
- 1950: Johann Trnka, the last executed in Austria
- 1873: Mary Ann Cotton, serial poisoner
- 1936: George W. Barrett, the first to hang for killing an FBI man
- 2010: Modise Mokwadi Fly, Botswana pol
- 1882: William Heilwagner, onion weeder
- 1794: Jacques Hebert and his followers
- 1945: Max Schlichting, for realism
- 1944: Ardeatine Massacre