Henri Désiré Landru [SEP] date of death
Henri Désiré Landru
Henri Désiré Landru (12 April 1869 – 25 February 1922) () was a French serial killer. He was nicknamed "The Bluebeard of Gambais" by the French press, after the mythical medieval nobleman who murdered his wives and the village of Gambais near Paris where Landru killed at least seven women between December 1915 and January 1919. Landru also killed at least three other women, plus a young man, at a house he rented from December 1914 to August 1915 in the town of Vernouillet, 35
died 1988)
Births Full date unknown.
- Jean Desclaux, rugby union coach (died 2006)
- Henri Jayer, vintner (died 2006)
Deaths.
- 16 January - Henri Brocard, meteorologist and mathematician (born 1845)
- 21 January - Pierre Giffard, journalist and publisher (born 1853)
- 22 January - Camille Jordan, mathematician (born 1838)
- 10 February - Paul Mounet, actor (born 1847)
- 25 February - Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer