- [July 6] Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging.
- Marie Antoinette was guillotined at 12:15 p.m. on 16 October 1793.
- On 21 January 1793, Louis XVI, at age 38, was beheaded by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution.
- On 22 February 1943, Scholl, her brother, Hans, and their friend, Christoph Probst, were found guilty of treason and condemned to death.
- Prison officials were impressed by the condemned prisoners’ bravery, and let them smoke cigarettes together before they were executed.
There is nothing to forgive, I die for you with joy in my heart!
Last words of Hans Hermann von Katte to Frederick the Great
