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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frank Abagnale
Criminal
27-Apr-1948   Catch Me If You Can
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Criminal
3-May-1938   The Blind Sheikh
Abu Bakar Bashir
Terrorist
17-Aug-1938   Spiritual Leader of Jemaah Islamiah
Edward Bunker
Author
31-Dec-1933 19-Jul-2005 Animal Factory
William S. Burroughs, Jr.
Relative
21-Jul-1947 3-Mar-1981 Son of William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
Noelle Bush
Relative
26-Jul-1977   Niece of George W. Bush
Giacomo Casanova
Author
2-Apr-1725 4-Jun-1798 World-renowned paramour
Beth Chapman
TV Personality
29-Oct-1967   Dog Chapman's wife
Richard Allen Davis
Criminal
2-Jun-1954   Murderer of Polly Klaas
Mike Diana
Artist
5-Jun-1969   Boiled Angel
Bobby Driscoll
Actor
3-Mar-1937 30-Mar-1968 Child actor, succumbed to drugs
Stefan Eriksson
Business
14-Dec-1961   Gizmondo exec, crashed Ferrari
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Assassin
1790 19-Feb-1836 Attempted assassin of Louis-Philippe
Gus Hall
Activist
8-Oct-1910 13-Oct-2000 Leader, Communist Party USA
Mark W. Hofmann
Criminal
7-Dec-1954   Forger, murderer
Clifford Irving
Hoaxer
5-Nov-1930   Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
Etta James
Singer
25-Jan-1938 20-Jan-2012 Soul Diva
Edward Kelley
Paranormal
1-Aug-1555 1-Nov-1597 Notorious forger and alchemist
Jerome Kerviel
Criminal
11-Jan-1977   Rogue trader, lost €4.9B for Sociéte Générale
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Business
26-Jun-1963   Founder of Yukos, now jailed
Dennis Kozlowski
Business
16-Nov-1946   Disgraced CEO of Tyco
Friedrich Leibacher
Criminal
21-Jul-1944 28-Sep-2001 Killed 14 Swiss politicians on a rampage
Charles Manson
Criminal
12-Nov-1934   Helter Skelter
John Mitchell
Government
15-Sep-1913 9-Nov-1988 US Attorney General, Watergate figure
Clifford Olson
Criminal
1-Jan-1940 30-Sep-2011 Killed 11 youths in British Columbia
Augusto Pinochet
Head of State
25-Nov-1915 10-Dec-2006 Overthrew Chile with CIA's help
Dana Plato
Actor
7-Nov-1964 9-May-1999 Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes
Charles Ponzi
Criminal
3-Mar-1882 18-Jun-1949 Get-rich-quick schemes
Dorothea Puente
Criminal
9-Jan-1929 27-Mar-2011 Black Widow of Sacramento
James Earl Ray
Assassin
10-Mar-1928 23-Apr-1998 Pled guilty in Martin Luther King's assassination
John Edward Robinson
Criminal
27-Dec-1943   Serial killer incarcerated in Kansas
Harold Shipman
Criminal
14-Jan-1946 13-Jan-2004 Serial killer had 215 victims
Bianca Trump
Pornstar
7-Nov-1972   Rent-a-Butt
Boss Tweed
Politician
3-Apr-1823 12-Apr-1878 Boss of Tammany Hall
Yulia Tymoshenko
Head of State
27-Nov-1960   Prime Minister of Ukraine, 2005
Eugène François Vidocq
Government
23-Jul-1775 11-May-1857 Criminal-turned-criminologist
Voltaire
Author
21-Nov-1694 30-May-1778 Candide
Erich von Däniken
Author
14-Apr-1935   Chariots of the Gods?
Chuck Wepner
Boxing
26-Feb-1939   Supposed inspiration for Rocky
Aileen Wuornos
Criminal
29-Feb-1956 9-Oct-2002 Notorious serial killer


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