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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Terrorist
22-Dec-1986   Nigerian underwear bomber
Mehmet Ali Agca
Assassin
9-Jan-1958   In 1981, shot Pope John Paul II
G. G. Allin
Musician
29-Aug-1956 28-Jun-1993 Hated
Shoko Asahara
Religion
2-Mar-1955   Leader, Aum Shinrikyo cult
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Criminal
15-Feb-1957 13-Apr-2008 Cannibal child killer, sentenced to 130 years
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Rapper
15-Nov-1968 13-Nov-2004 Profoundly deranged rapper, Wu-Tang Clan
Brendan Behan
Playwright
9-Feb-1923 20-Mar-1964 The Hostage
Charles Bickford
Actor
1-Jan-1891 9-Nov-1967 The Song of Bernadette
Willie Bosket
Criminal
9-Dec-1962   Inspired the Juvenile Offender Act of 1978
Arthur Bremer
Assassin
21-Aug-1950   Shot Governor George Wallace
Todd Bridges
Actor
27-May-1965   Diff'rent Strokes
Martin Bryant
Criminal
7-May-1967   Killed 35 in a shooting spree in Tasmania
Young Buck
Rapper
15-Mar-1981   Straight Outta Cashville
Claus von Bulow
Socialite
11-Aug-1926   Allegedly tried to kill wife Sunny
C-Murder
Rapper
9-Mar-1971   Rapper, serving life for murder
Harvey Carignan
Criminal
18-May-1927   The Want-Ad Killer
Eldridge Cleaver
Activist
31-Aug-1935 1-May-1998 Black Panther turned Republican
Oscar Collazo
Assassin
20-Feb-1914 21-Feb-1994 Attempted assassin of Truman
Charles Cullen
Criminal
1960   Claimed to have killed 30-40 patients
Robert-François Damiens
Assassin
9-Jan-1715 28-Mar-1757 Attacked Louis XV of France
Colin Ferguson
Criminal
14-Jan-1958   Long Island Railroad Massacre
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Assassin
1790 19-Feb-1836 Attempted assassin of Louis-Philippe
Amy Fisher
Criminal
21-Aug-1974   Long Island Lolita
Flavor Flav
Rapper
16-Mar-1959   Public Enemy
Squeaky Fromme
Assassin
22-Oct-1948   Attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford
Bernhard Goetz
Criminal
7-Nov-1947   Subway vigilante
Nidal Malik Hasan
Military
8-Sep-1970   Fort Hood shooting
David Hicks
Military
7-Aug-1975   Australia's answer to John Walker Lindh
John Hinckley
Assassin
29-May-1955   Shot President Reagan
H. H. Holmes
Criminal
16-May-1860 7-May-1896 The Devil in the White City
Jim Jeffords
Politician
11-May-1934   US Senator from Vermont, 1989-2007
George Jones
Country Musician
12-Sep-1931 26-Apr-2013 Country singer, White Lightning
Suge Knight
Business
19-Apr-1965   Rap mogul and ex-con
Leadbelly
Guitarist
29-Jan-1885 6-Dec-1949 Goodnight Irene
Abu Faraj al-Libbi
Terrorist
c. 1963   Third in command of al-Qaeda
Jared Loughner
Assassin
10-Sep-1988   Tucson Safeway shooter
Shelley Malil
Actor
23-Dec-1964   Actor, incarcerated for attempted murder
Lee Malvo
Criminal
18-Feb-1985   One of the two Washington Snipers
Charles S. McNeer
Business
8-Apr-1926   CEO of Wisconsin Energy, 1982-91
Sara Jane Moore
Assassin
15-Feb-1930   Tried to kill President Ford
Huey Newton
Activist
17-Feb-1942 22-Aug-1989 Black Panther
Charles Ng
Criminal
24-Dec-1960   On death row in California
Felice Orsini
Assassin
1819 13-Mar-1858 Attempted assassin of Napoleon III
Leonard Peltier
Criminal
12-Sep-1944   Native American political prisoner
Sean Penn
Actor
17-Aug-1960   Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Carmine Persico
Criminal
8-Aug-1933   Boss, Colombo Crime Family
Lawrence Phillips
Football
12-May-1975   Troubled former pro football player
Chopper Read
Criminal
17-Nov-1954   Earless Australian killer, author
Richard Reid
Terrorist
12-Aug-1973   Shoe bomber
Slick Rick
Rapper
14-Jan-1965   Eyepatch-sporting rapper on Def Jam
Barret Robbins
Football
26-Aug-1973   Superbowl XXXVII no-show
Eric Rudolph
Criminal
19-Sep-1966   White supremacist, Olympic Park Bomber
Beanie Sigel
Rapper
6-Mar-1974   Rapper, Protege of Jay-Z
Valerie Solanas
Activist
9-Apr-1936 26-Apr-1988 Shot Andy Warhol
Griselio Torresola
Assassin
1925 1-Nov-1950 Attempted assassin of Truman
Bryan Uyesugi
Criminal
1959   Shot 7 Xerox coworkers to death in Honolulu
Claus von Stauffenberg
Military
15-Nov-1907 20-Jul-1944 Tried to kill Hitler in 1944
Walter Wanger
Film/TV Producer
11-Jul-1894 18-Nov-1968 Joan of Arc
Giuseppe Zangara
Assassin
7-Sep-1900 20-Mar-1933 Tried to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt


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