1927 Birthday Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor", for Senator Joseph McCarthy 1544 Death Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68 1522 Event Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope 1517 Event Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal 1498 Death Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies 1252 Death Peter of Verona, Peter Martyr, Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
