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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ethan Allen
Military
10-Jan-1739 12-Feb-1789 Fighter with the Green Mountain Boys
Aldrich Ames
Spy
26-Mar-1941   CIA agent, divulged names to the Soviets
Anthony Babington
Criminal
24-Oct-1561 20-Sep-1586 Plotted to overthrow Elizabeth I
Nathaniel Bacon
Politician
2-Jan-1647 26-Oct-1676 Bacon's Rebellion
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Explorer
1475 12-Jan-1519 Discovered Pacific Ocean
John Ball
Activist
? 15-Jul-1381 Instigator of 1381 peasant revolt
Abu Bakar Bashir
Terrorist
17-Aug-1938   Spiritual Leader of Jemaah Islamiah
Celal Bayar
Head of State
16-May-1883 22-Aug-1986 President of Turkey, 1950-60
Charles Bedaux
Business
26-Oct-1887 18-Feb-1944 Industrial efficiency expert
Lavrenty Beria
Government
29-Mar-1899 23-Dec-1953 Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46
William Blake
Poet
28-Nov-1757 12-Aug-1827 English romantic poet and artist
Léon Blum
Head of State
9-Apr-1872 30-Mar-1950 Thrice Prime Minister of France
Boethius
Philosopher
c. 470 AD 524 AD Consolation of Philosophy
Emperor Bokassa I
Royalty
22-Feb-1921 3-Nov-1996 Central African Emperor
Anne Boleyn
Royalty
c. 1507 19-May-1536 Wife of English King Henry VIII
Napoleon Bonaparte
Head of State
15-Aug-1769 5-May-1821 Emperor of France
Georges Boulanger
Military
29-Apr-1837 30-Sep-1891 French general-turned-politician
John Brown
Activist
9-May-1800 2-Dec-1859 Led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Nikolai Bukharin
Economist
9-Oct-1888 15-Mar-1938 Soviet theoretical economist
Hubert de Burgh
Judge
? 1243 Chief Justiciar of England
Aaron Burr
Politician
6-Feb-1756 14-Sep-1836 Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
Julius Caesar
Head of State
13-Jul-100 BC 15-Mar-44 BC Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC
Edmund Campion
Religion
24-Jan-1540 1-Dec-1581 Jesuit martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Wilhelm Canaris
Military
1-Jan-1887 9-Apr-1945 Nazi spymaster, tried to kill Hitler
Roger Casement
Activist
1-Sep-1864 3-Aug-1916 Irish revolutionary, gay diarist
Fidel Castro
Head of State
13-Aug-1926   Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years
Catherine of Braganza
Royalty
25-Nov-1638 31-Dec-1705 Consort of English King Charles II
King Charles I
Royalty
19-Nov-1600 30-Jan-1649 King of England, Scotland, Ireland 1625-49
Lord Clarendon
Government
18-Feb-1609 9-Dec-1674 The Clarendon Code
Thomas Cranmer
Religion
2-Jul-1489 21-Mar-1556 First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Cromwell
Government
c. 1485 28-Jul-1540 Advisor to Henry VIII
Cuauhtemoc
Head of State
1495 28-Feb-1525 Last Aztec Emperor
Kim Dae-Jung
Head of State
3-Dec-1925 18-Aug-2009 South Korean President, 1998-2003
Édouard Daladier
Head of State
18-Jun-1884 10-Oct-1970 Three-time Prime Minister of France
Jefferson Davis
Head of State
3-Jun-1808 6-Dec-1889 President of the Confederacy
Charles de Gaulle
Head of State
22-Nov-1890 9-Nov-1970 President of France, 1958-69
Eamon de Valera
Head of State
14-Oct-1882 29-Aug-1975 President of Ireland, 1959-73
Demades
Diplomat
c. 380 BC 319 BC Brokered Macedonian/Athenian peace
Everard Digby
Criminal
16-May-1578 30-Jan-1606 Gunpowder Plot
Alfred Dreyfus
Victim
9-Oct-1859 12-Jul-1935 Dreyfus Affair scapegoat
José Napoleón Duarte
Head of State
23-Nov-1925 23-Feb-1990 President of El Salvador, 1984-89
Friedrich Ebert
Head of State
4-Feb-1871 28-Feb-1925 German Chancellor, 1918-19
Sir Richard Empson
Government
? 17-Aug-1510 Taxman for Henry VII of England
Guy Fawkes
Criminal
13-Apr-1570 31-Jan-1606 Tried to blow up British Parliament
Frederick the Great
Royalty
24-Jan-1712 17-Aug-1786 King of Prussia 1740-86
Wilhelm Frick
Government
12-Mar-1877 16-Oct-1946 Authored the Nuremberg Laws
Adam Gadahn
Terrorist
1-Sep-1978   Al-Qaeda terrorist, indicted for treason
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Military
4-Jul-1807 2-Jun-1882 Privateer, Italian hero
John Gibbon
Military
20-Apr-1827 6-Feb-1896 Led the Civil War's Iron Bigade
Owen Glendower
Royalty
c. 1359 20-Sep-1415 Self-proclaimed Prince of Wales
Carl Goerdeler
Politician
31-Jul-1884 2-Feb-1945 Politician, hanged by the Nazis
Hermann Goering
Military
12-Jan-1893 15-Oct-1946 Founder of the Gestapo
Lady Jane Grey
Royalty
12-Oct-1537 12-Feb-1554 Queen of England for nine days
Franz Halder
Military
30-Jun-1884 2-Apr-1972 Nazi general
Knut Hamsun
Novelist
4-Aug-1859 19-Feb-1952 Norwegian novelist, Sult
Robert Hanssen
Spy
18-Apr-1944   Russian mole inside the FBI
Mata Hari
Spy
7-Aug-1876 15-Oct-1917 Framed by the Germans
Arvid Harnack
Spy
24-May-1901 22-Dec-1942 Hanged by the Nazis for espionage
Mildred Fish Harnack
Spy
16-Sep-1902 16-Feb-1943 Guillotined by the Gestapo
Lord Haw-Haw
Radio Personality
24-Apr-1906 3-Jan-1946 WWII propagandist hanged in England
Adolf Hitler
Head of State
20-Apr-1889 30-Apr-1945 Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Lazare Hoche
Military
24-Jun-1768 18-Sep-1797 French General
Thomas Holcroft
Playwright
10-Dec-1745 23-Mar-1809 The Road to Ruin
Erich Honecker
Head of State
25-Aug-1912 29-May-1994 East German leader, 1971-89
Chun Doo Hwan
Head of State
18-Jan-1931   President of South Korea, 1980-88
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Head of State
29-Oct-1938   President of Liberia
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Military
4-Oct-1903 16-Oct-1946 Commanded the Reich Central Security Office
Pyotr Krasnov
Military
22-Sep-1869 17-Jan-1947 Ataman of the Don Cossacks, betrayed by Churchill
Bruno Kreisky
Head of State
22-Jan-1911 29-Jul-1990 Chancellor of Austria, 1970-83
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Ryszard Kuklinski
Spy
13-Jun-1930 10-Feb-2004 Polish Cold War era spy who worked with CIA
Marquis de Lafayette
Military
6-Sep-1757 20-May-1834 French revolutionary in America
James Henry Lane
Politician
22-Jun-1814 11-Jul-1866 US Senator from Kansas, 1861-66
William Laud
Religion
7-Oct-1573 10-Jan-1645 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45
José P. Laurel
Head of State
9-Mar-1891 6-Nov-1959 3rd President of the Philippines
Henry Laurens
Politician
24-Feb-1724 8-Dec-1792 Captured negotiating treaty with Holland
Pierre Laval
Head of State
28-Jun-1883 15-Oct-1945 Prime Minister of Vichy France
Robert E. Lee
Military
19-Jan-1807 12-Oct-1870 Confederate General
Louis XVI
Royalty
23-Aug-1754 21-Jan-1793 King of France, 1774-91
Albert Lutuli
Activist
c. 1898 21-Jul-1967 ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient
Nelson Mandela
Head of State
18-Jul-1918   President of South Africa, 1994-99
Bradley Manning
Military
17-Dec-1987   Pled guilty to releasing classified documents
Marie Antoinette
Royalty
2-Nov-1755 16-Oct-1793 Cake proponent
Christopher Marlowe
Playwright
6-Feb-1564 30-May-1593 Doctor Faustus
José Martí
Activist
28-Jan-1853 19-May-1895 Cuban hero
Mary I of Scotland
Royalty
8-Dec-1542 8-Feb-1587 Mary, Queen of Scots
Andrew Melville
Religion
1-Aug-1545 1622 Scottish Reform Church
Lambdin P. Milligan
Criminal
24-Mar-1812 21-Dec-1899 Ex Parte Milligan
Sir Thomas More
Philosopher
7-Feb-1477 6-Jul-1535 Utopia
Mohammed Mossadegh
Head of State
19-May-1882 5-Mar-1967 Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53
Imre Nagy
Head of State
7-Jun-1896 16-Jun-1958 Twice Prime Minister of Hungary
Otto Neurath
Sociologist
10-Dec-1882 22-Dec-1945 Vienna Circle positivist
Michel Ney
Military
10-Jan-1769 7-Dec-1815 Napoleonic General
Raila Odinga
Head of State
7-Jan-1945   Prime Minister of Kenya
Robert Oppenheimer
Physicist
22-Apr-1904 18-Feb-1967 Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project
James Otis
Government
5-Feb-1725 23-May-1783 Massachusetts patriot and pamphleteer
Thomas Paine
Activist
29-Jan-1737 8-Jun-1809 Common Sense
Georgios Papadopoulos
Head of State
5-May-1919 27-Jun-1999 Dictator of Greece, 1967-73
Philippe Pétain
Head of State
24-Apr-1856 23-Jul-1951 Leader of Vichy France
Albert Pike
Military
29-Dec-1809 2-Apr-1891 Confederate general, Freemason
Johannes Popitz
Government
2-Dec-1884 2-Feb-1945 Prussian finance minister 1933-44
Pol Pot
Head of State
19-May-1925 15-Apr-1998 Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
Casimir Pulaski
Military
7-Mar-1745 11-Oct-1779 Polish General in the American Revolution
Ludwig Quidde
Activist
23-Mar-1858 4-Mar-1941 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Vidkun Quisling
Head of State
18-Jul-1887 24-Oct-1945 Norwegian president, Nazi collaborator
Sayyid Qutb
Philosopher
9-Oct-1906 29-Aug-1966 Muslim Brotherhood philosopher
Sir Walter Raleigh
Explorer
c. 1552 29-Oct-1618 Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
Comte de Rochambeau
Military
1-Jul-1725 12-May-1807 French hero of American Revolution
Ernst Roehm
Government
28-Nov-1887 1-Jul-1934 Organizer of Hitler's Brownshirts, the SA
Erwin Rommel
Military
15-Nov-1891 14-Oct-1944 The Desert Fox
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Military
21-Feb-1794 21-Jun-1876 Hero of Tampico
Oskar Schindler
Activist
28-Apr-1908 9-Oct-1974 Saved over 1000 from Nazis
Algernon Sidney
Politician
1622 7-Dec-1683 Dangerous English parliamentarian
Joseph Smith
Religion
23-Dec-1805 27-Jun-1844 Founded the Mormon faith
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Author
11-Dec-1918 3-Aug-2008 The Gulag Archipelago
Robert Southwell
Religion
c. 1561 21-Feb-1595 Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Wole Soyinka
Playwright
13-Jul-1934   Politically-charged Nigerian author
Hans Speidel
Military
28-Oct-1897 28-Nov-1984 German general, NATO commander
Gregor Strasser
Politician
31-May-1892 30-Jun-1934 Loyal Nazi, devout socialist
William Strode
Politician
1598 9-Sep-1645 Opponent of King Charles I
Thomas Stucley
Military
c. 1525 4-Aug-1578 English military adventurer
Themistocles
Military
c. 523 BC c. 458 BC Athenian general
Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky
Biologist
20-Sep-1900 28-Mar-1981 Russian geneticist
Iva Toguri
Radio Personality
4-Jul-1916 26-Sep-2006 Never actually was Tokyo Rose
Leon Trotsky
Activist
26-Oct-1879 21-Aug-1940 Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin
John Trumbull
Painter
6-Jun-1756 10-Nov-1843 American Revolutionary painter
Morgan Tsvangirai
Government
10-Mar-1952   Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
William Tyndale
Religion
1492 6-Oct-1536 Bible translator, burnt at the stake
Mordechai Vanunu
Activist
13-Oct-1954   Blew whistle on Israel's nukes
Claus von Stauffenberg
Military
15-Nov-1907 20-Jul-1944 Tried to kill Hitler in 1944
Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel
Military
2-Jan-1886 30-Aug-1944 Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Military
24-Sep-1583 25-Feb-1634 Attempted to unite Germany
Erwin von Witzleben
Military
4-Dec-1881 8-Aug-1944 German general, tried to overthrow Hitler
William Wallace
Military
1272 23-Aug-1305 Basis of fictional biopic Braveheart
Roh Tae Woo
Head of State
4-Dec-1932   President of South Korea, 1988-93
Sir Thomas Wyat
Poet
1503 6-Oct-1542 Introduced sonnet to England
Leyla Zana
Politician
3-May-1961   Imprisoned for speaking Kurdish
Grigory Zinoviev
Government
23-Sep-1883 25-Aug-1936 Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge


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