Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Ferhat Abbas |
Head of State |
24-Oct-1899 |
23-Dec-1985 |
President of Algeria, 1962-63 |
Jack Abramoff |
Government |
28-Feb-1958 |
|
Casino Jack |
Robert B. Anderson |
Government |
4-Jun-1910 |
14-Aug-1989 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61 |
Laura Antonelli |
Actor |
28-Nov-1941 |
22-Jun-2015 |
The Divine Nymph |
Ion Antonescu |
Head of State |
15-Jun-1882 |
1-Jun-1946 |
Pro-Nazi dictator of Romania |
Yasser Arafat |
Politician |
24-Aug-1929 |
10-Nov-2004 |
Palestinian leader, former terrorist |
Vincent Auriol |
Head of State |
27-Aug-1884 |
1-Jan-1966 |
President of France, 1947-54 |
The Báb |
Religion |
20-Oct-1819 |
9-Jul-1850 |
Forerunner of Baha'i |
Ol' Dirty Bastard |
Rapper |
15-Nov-1968 |
13-Nov-2004 |
Profoundly deranged rapper, Wu-Tang Clan |
Elizabeth Báthory |
Royalty |
Aug-1560 |
21-Aug-1614 |
Hungary's infamous Bloody Lady |
Belisarius |
Military |
505 AD |
565 AD |
Byzantine general |
Ahmed Ben Bella |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1918 |
11-Apr-2012 |
President of Algeria, 1963-65 |
Benazir Bhutto |
Head of State |
21-Jun-1953 |
27-Dec-2007 |
Former prime minister of Pakistan |
Juan Maria Bordaberry |
Head of State |
17-Jun-1928 |
17-Jul-2011 |
President of Uruguay, 1972-76 |
Ferdinand Braun |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1850 |
20-Apr-1918 |
Rectifier effect in semiconductors |
William Calley |
Military |
8-Jun-1943 |
|
Led the My Lai Massacre |
Jose Canseco |
Baseball |
2-Jul-1964 |
|
Troubled Oakland A's player |
Benvenuto Cellini |
Sculptor |
1-Nov-1500 |
13-Feb-1571 |
Florentine Mannerist goldsmith and sculptor |
Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
Marquis de Sade |
Author |
2-Jun-1740 |
2-Dec-1814 |
120 Days of Sodom |
Dr. Dre |
Music Producer |
18-Feb-1965 |
|
Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang |
Alfred Dreyfus |
Victim |
9-Oct-1859 |
12-Jul-1935 |
Dreyfus Affair scapegoat |
Galileo Galilei |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1564 |
8-Jan-1642 |
Copernican observational astronomer |
Leopoldo Galtieri |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1926 |
12-Jan-2003 |
Invaded Falklands, ran death squads |
Wladyslaw Gomulka |
Head of State |
6-Feb-1905 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Head of Polish Communists, 1956-70 |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1931 |
|
Final leader of the Soviet Union |
Maxim Gorky |
Playwright |
28-Mar-1868 |
17-Jun-1936 |
The Lower Depths |
Kelsey Grammer |
Actor |
21-Feb-1955 |
|
Frasier |
Matt Hale |
Religion |
27-Jul-1971 |
|
White supremacist |
Domino Harvey |
Relative |
7-Aug-1969 |
27-Jun-2005 |
Laurence Harvey's daughter |
Sheikh Hasina |
Head of State |
28-Sep-1947 |
|
Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 1996-2001 |
Erich Honecker |
Head of State |
25-Aug-1912 |
29-May-1994 |
East German leader, 1971-89 |
Victoriano Huerta |
Head of State |
23-Mar-1854 |
13-Jan-1916 |
El chacal President of Mexico, 1913-14 |
T. I. |
Rapper |
25-Sep-1980 |
|
Dirty south rapper, Trap Muzik |
Janet Jagan |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1920 |
28-Mar-2009 |
President of Guyana, 1997-99 |
King James II |
Royalty |
14-Oct-1633 |
16-Sep-1701 |
King of England, 1685-88 |
Etta James |
Singer |
25-Jan-1938 |
20-Jan-2012 |
Soul Diva |
Mother Jones |
Activist |
1-Aug-1837 |
30-Nov-1930 |
The grandmother of all agitators |
Chief Keef |
Rapper |
15-Aug-1995 |
|
I Don't Like |
Abdul Qadeer Khan |
Physicist |
1935 |
|
Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb |
Yahya Khan |
Head of State |
4-Apr-1917 |
10-Aug-1980 |
President of Pakistan, ordered Bengali genocide |
Nikita Khrushchev |
Head of State |
5-Apr-1894 |
11-Sep-1971 |
Deposed leader of the Soviet Union |
Jay C. Kim |
Politician |
27-Mar-1939 |
|
Congressman from California, 1993-99 |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
Activist |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
Burmese activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Leopold III |
Royalty |
3-Nov-1901 |
25-Sep-1983 |
Abdicated King of Belgium |
Lindsay Lohan |
Actor |
2-Jul-1986 |
|
Mean Girls |
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 |
Marie Antoinette |
Royalty |
2-Nov-1755 |
16-Oct-1793 |
Cake proponent |
Carlos Menem |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1930 |
|
President of Argentina, 1989-99 |
Efraín Ríos Montt |
Head of State |
16-Jun-1926 |
|
President of Guatemala, 1982-83 |
Oswald Mosley |
Politician |
16-Nov-1896 |
3-Dec-1980 |
Founder of the British Union of Fascists |
Mohammed Mossadegh |
Head of State |
19-May-1882 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53 |
Robert Mugabe |
Head of State |
21-Feb-1924 |
|
President of Zimbabwe |
Pervez Musharraf |
Head of State |
11-Aug-1943 |
|
President of Pakistan, 2001-08 |
Benito Mussolini |
Head of State |
29-Jul-1883 |
28-Apr-1945 |
Fascist Dictator of Italy |
Tsar Nicholas II |
Royalty |
18-May-1868 |
17-Jul-1918 |
Last of the Russian Tsars |
William of Ockham |
Philosopher |
c. 1285 |
9-Apr-1348 |
Occam's Razor |
Raila Odinga |
Head of State |
7-Jan-1945 |
|
Prime Minister of Kenya |
Tito Ortiz |
Martial Arts |
23-Jan-1975 |
|
UFC / mixed martial arts fighter |
Georgios Papadopoulos |
Head of State |
5-May-1919 |
27-Jun-1999 |
Dictator of Greece, 1967-73 |
George Papandreou |
Head of State |
18-Feb-1888 |
1-Nov-1968 |
Former Prime Minister of Greece |
Carlos Andres Perez |
Head of State |
27-Oct-1922 |
25-Dec-2010 |
Twice President of Venezuela, impeached |
Isabel Peron |
Head of State |
4-Feb-1931 |
|
Dancer, President of Argentina, 1974-76 |
Augusto Pinochet |
Head of State |
25-Nov-1915 |
10-Dec-2006 |
Overthrew Chile with CIA's help |
Roman Polanski |
Film Director |
18-Aug-1933 |
|
Chinatown |
Pol Pot |
Head of State |
19-May-1925 |
15-Apr-1998 |
Leader of the Khmer Rouge |
Ziaur Rahman |
Head of State |
19-Jan-1936 |
30-May-1981 |
President of Bangladesh, 1977-81 |
David Hans Schmidt |
Business |
27-May-1960 |
28-Sep-2007 |
Celebrity porn broker |
Haile Selassie |
Royalty |
23-Jul-1892 |
27-Aug-1975 |
Last Emperor of Ethiopia |
Beanie Sigel |
Rapper |
6-Mar-1974 |
|
Rapper, Protege of Jay-Z |
Norodom Sihanouk |
Royalty |
31-Oct-1922 |
15-Oct-2012 |
King of Cambodia |
Moses Sithole |
Criminal |
1964 |
|
South African serial killer |
Martha Stewart |
Business |
3-Aug-1941 |
|
Professional housekeeper, insider trader |
Darryl Strawberry |
Baseball |
12-Mar-1962 |
|
Troubled former baseball player |
Suharto |
Head of State |
8-Jun-1921 |
27-Jan-2008 |
President of Indonesia, 1967-98 |
Sukarno |
Head of State |
6-Jun-1901 |
21-Jun-1970 |
President of Indonesia, 1945-67 |
Lionel Tate |
Criminal |
30-Jan-1987 |
|
Florida's wrestling death teen |
Randall Terry |
Activist |
25-Apr-1959 |
|
Operation Rescue founder |
Mark Thatcher |
Relative |
15-Aug-1953 |
|
Margaret Thatcher's ne'er-do-well son |
Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
Moise Tshombe |
Head of State |
10-Nov-1919 |
29-Jun-1969 |
Katanga secessionist |
Mordechai Vanunu |
Activist |
13-Oct-1954 |
|
Blew whistle on Israel's nukes |
Ai Weiwei |
Artist |
18-May-1957 |
|
Chinese contemporary artist |
Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin |
Religion |
18-Dec-1936 |
21-Mar-2004 |
Hamas spiritual leader |
Todor Zhivkov |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1911 |
5-Aug-1998 |
Leader of Bulgaria, 1954-89 |
Georgi Zhukov |
Military |
1-Dec-1896 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Soviet commander during WWII |
Khaleda Zia |
Head of State |
15-Aug-1945 |
|
Twice Prime Minister of Bangladesh |
Zhao Ziyang |
Politician |
17-Oct-1919 |
16-Jan-2005 |
6th Chinese Premier sought reforms |