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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mad Frankie Fraser
Criminal
13-Dec-1923   Notorious British bank robber
Jean Genet
Novelist
19-Dec-1910 15-Apr-1986 Theatre of the Absurd
Charles Ng
Criminal
24-Dec-1960   On death row in California
Wilhelm Pieck
Head of State
3-Jan-1876 7-Sep-1960 President of East Germany, 1949-60
Eddie Slovik
Military
18-Feb-1920 31-Jan-1945 US soldier executed for desertion
François Truffaut
Film Director
6-Feb-1932 21-Oct-1984 Last Metro
Eugène François Vidocq
Government
23-Jul-1775 11-May-1857 Criminal-turned-criminologist


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