Hiba Al Akkad (standing) embracing her famous mother.
Mahmoud Al Issawi was hanged at Wadi el-Natrun prison outside Cairo on this date in 2014.
In 2008, he stabbed to death Hiba Al Akkad, the 23-year-old daughter of Moroccan star singer Laila Ghofran, along with Heba’s friend Nadine Gamal, in the course of a botched burglary in Cairo’s affluent Sheikh Zayed suburb.
On this day..
- 2013: Li Xingpong, party official
- 1944: Seisaku Nakamura, Hamamatsu Deaf Killer
- 1985: Kent Bowers, the last hanged in Belize
- 1996: Daren Lee Bolton
- 1857: George Sharpe and John Johnson, Edwardsville murderers
- 1936: Arthur Gooch, the only execution under the Lindbergh Law
- 1699: Madame Tiquet, "nothing more beautiful"
- 1784: Jean Saint Malo, New Orleans Maroon
- 1937: Jan Sten, Stalin's tutor
- 1312: Piers Gaveston
- 1867: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, "Archdupe"
- 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, "the first victims of American fascism"