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Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud , forgery , swindling , three or four ...
The "Beast of Chicago", H.H. Holmes, confessed to 28 murders -- but many experts suspect he may have had a hand in the gruesome deaths of as many as 200 people.. Herman Webster Mudgett was born on ...
H. H. Holmes (MED: MD 1884), born Herman Webster Mudgett, 19th-century serial killer; one of the first documented American serial killers; confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed; actual body count could be as high as 250; took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; his story was novelized by ...
May 7 – Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, serial killer, executed (born 1861) May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner, novelist and poet (born 1855) May 13 – Nora Perry, poet, journalist and children's author (born 1831) May 31 – Homer V. M. Miller, U.S. Senator in Georgia from 1871 (born 1814)
Mudgett, an English-language family name and place name in America, may refer to: Mudgett Township, Minnesota Herman Webster Mudgett , a.k.a. H. H. Holmes , 19th-century American serial killer
May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, serial killer (died 1896) May 20 – Henry Gantt, project engineer (died 1919) May 25 – Julia Boynton Green, poet (died 1947) June 2 – Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the U.S. as wife of the 27th president, William Howard Taft (died 1943)
Josef Mengele (1911–1979) – known as the Angel of Death; Nazi human experimentation; Samuel Mudd (1833–1883) – condemned to prison for setting the leg of Abraham Lincoln's assassin; Herman Webster Mudgett (1860–1896) – American serial killer; Conrad Murray – convicted of involuntary manslaughter in death of pop star Michael Jackson
May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett, serial killer (d. 1896) June 22 – Tom O'Brien, baseball player (died 1921) July 3 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist novelist (died 1935) July 4 – Idah McGlone Gibson, journalist (died 1933) July 14 – Owen Wister, Western fiction writer and historian (died 1938)