Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Emperor Akihito |
Royalty |
23-Dec-1933 |
|
Emperor of Japan |
Anwar al-Awlaki |
Religion |
22-Apr-1971 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Yemeni video cleric, AQAP |
Jaber III al-Sabah |
Royalty |
29-Jun-1926 |
15-Jan-2006 |
Emir of Kuwait, 1977-2006 |
Tsar Alexander II |
Royalty |
17-Apr-1818 |
13-Mar-1881 |
Tsar of Russia, 1855-81 |
Alfonso XII |
Royalty |
28-Nov-1857 |
25-Nov-1885 |
King of Spain, 1874-85 |
Alfonso XIII |
Royalty |
17-May-1886 |
28-Feb-1941 |
King of Spain, 1902-31 |
Iyad Allawi |
Head of State |
1945 |
|
Iraqi Prime Minister, 2004-05 |
Hafizullah Amin |
Head of State |
1-Aug-1929 |
27-Dec-1979 |
President of Afghanistan, 1979 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1953 |
|
Twice overthrown president of Haiti |
Almazbek Atambayev |
Head of State |
17-Sep-1956 |
|
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan |
Kemal Ataturk |
Head of State |
12-Mar-1881 |
10-Nov-1938 |
President of Turkey, 1923-38 |
Caesar Augustus |
Royalty |
23-Sep-63 BC |
19-Aug-14 AD |
Roman Emperor, 23 BC to 14 AD |
Shaukat Aziz |
Head of State |
6-Mar-1949 |
|
Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Tariq Aziz |
Government |
28-Apr-1936 |
5-Jun-2015 |
Ex-Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister |
Massoud Barzani |
Head of State |
16-Aug-1946 |
|
President of Iraqi Kurdistan |
Boris Berezovsky |
Business |
23-Jan-1946 |
23-Mar-2013 |
Russian oligarch, Putin critic |
Silvio Berlusconi |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1936 |
|
Former Prime Minister of Italy |
Benazir Bhutto |
Head of State |
21-Jun-1953 |
27-Dec-2007 |
Former prime minister of Pakistan |
Otto von Bismarck |
Head of State |
1-Apr-1815 |
30-Jul-1898 |
Unifier of Germany |
Emperor Bokassa I |
Royalty |
22-Feb-1921 |
3-Nov-1996 |
Central African Emperor |
Simón Bolívar |
Military |
24-Jul-1783 |
17-Dec-1830 |
El Libertador |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Head of State |
15-Aug-1769 |
5-May-1821 |
Emperor of France |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1937 |
|
President of Algeria |
François Bozizé |
Government |
14-Oct-1946 |
|
President, Central African Republic 2003-13 |
Buddha |
Religion |
563 BC |
477 BC |
Enlightened One |
George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
George W. Bush |
Head of State |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
43rd US President, 2001-09 |
Bill The Butcher |
Boxing |
Jul-1821 |
8-Mar-1855 |
Inspired Gangs of New York |
Arsenio Martinez Campos |
Head of State |
14-Dec-1831 |
23-Sep-1900 |
Spanish Governor of Cuba |
Venustiano Carranza |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1859 |
21-May-1920 |
President of Mexico, 1917-20 |
Giacomo Casanova |
Author |
2-Apr-1725 |
4-Jun-1798 |
World-renowned paramour |
Fidel Castro |
Head of State |
13-Aug-1926 |
|
Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years |
Ahmed Chalabi |
Government |
30-Oct-1944 |
3-Nov-2015 |
Prominent on the Iraqi Provisional Council |
Jacques Chirac |
Head of State |
29-Nov-1932 |
|
President of France, 1995-2007 |
Anatoly Chubais |
Government |
16-Jun-1955 |
|
Oligarch, heads Russian electric utility |
Cicero |
Author |
Jan-106 BC |
7-Dec-43 BC |
Roman orator and rhetorician |
Clarence 13X |
Religion |
21-Feb-1928 |
13-Jun-1969 |
Nation of Gods and Earths |
Cassius Marcellus Clay |
Politician |
19-Oct-1810 |
22-Jul-1903 |
Kentucky anti-slavery advocate |
Georges Clemenceau |
Politician |
28-Sep-1841 |
24-Nov-1929 |
French Prime Minister, 1917-20 |
Voltairine de Cleyre |
Anarchist |
17-Nov-1866 |
20-Jun-1912 |
Anarchist without an adjective |
Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
Commodus |
Royalty |
31-Aug-161 AD |
31-Dec-192 AD |
Roman Emperor, 177-192 AD |
Father Charles Coughlin |
Religion |
25-Oct-1891 |
27-Oct-1979 |
Radio opponent of FDR |
Francesco Crispi |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1819 |
12-Aug-1901 |
Sicilian patriot, Italian premier |
Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
Charles de Gaulle |
Head of State |
22-Nov-1890 |
9-Nov-1970 |
President of France, 1958-69 |
Suleyman Demirel |
Head of State |
1-Nov-1924 |
17-Jun-2015 |
President of Turkey, 1993-2000 |
Bernadette Devlin |
Politician |
23-Apr-1947 |
|
Northern Ireland nationalist |
Engelbert Dollfuss |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1892 |
25-Jul-1934 |
Austrian Chancellor murdered by Nazis |
Wyatt Earp |
Government |
19-Mar-1848 |
13-Jan-1929 |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
Isabelle Eberhardt |
Author |
17-Feb-1877 |
21-Oct-1904 |
Transvestite Muslim author |
King Edward VII |
Royalty |
9-Nov-1841 |
6-May-1910 |
King of England, 1901-1910 |
Hermann Eilts |
Diplomat |
23-Mar-1922 |
12-Oct-2006 |
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1973-79 |
Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
Gnassingbe Eyadema |
Head of State |
26-Dec-1937 |
5-Feb-2005 |
Dictator of Togo, 1967-2005 |
Franz Ferdinand |
Royalty |
18-Dec-1863 |
28-Jun-1914 |
Assassination touched off WWI |
Stephen J. Field |
Judge |
4-Nov-1816 |
9-Apr-1899 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1863-97 |
Larry Flynt |
Business |
1-Nov-1942 |
|
Publisher of HUSTLER |
Gerald Ford |
Head of State |
14-Jul-1913 |
26-Dec-2006 |
38th US President, 1974-77 |
Brigitte Gabriel |
Activist |
21-Oct-1964 |
|
American Congress for Truth |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Activist |
2-Oct-1869 |
30-Jan-1948 |
Proselytizer of nonviolence |
Marcus Garvey |
Activist |
17-Aug-1887 |
10-Jun-1940 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
William Jay Gaynor |
Politician |
1849 |
10-Sep-1913 |
NYC mayor, shot in throat |
Pierre Gemayel |
Politician |
6-Nov-1905 |
29-Aug-1984 |
Founder of the Kataeb/Phalange |
Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman from Arizona, 2007-12 |
Kenneth Grahame |
Novelist |
8-Mar-1859 |
6-Jul-1932 |
The Wind in the Willows |
Charles Guiteau |
Assassin |
8-Sep-1841 |
30-Jun-1882 |
Assassin of President Garfield |
Ismail Haniyeh |
Activist |
1962 |
|
Prime Minister of Palestine, 2006-07 |
Thomas W. Hardwick |
Politician |
9-Dec-1872 |
31-Jan-1944 |
Senator and Governor from Georgia |
Park Chung Hee |
Head of State |
30-Sep-1917 |
26-Oct-1979 |
President of South Korea, 1961-79 |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar |
Head of State |
1947 |
|
Prime Minister of Afghanistan |
King Henry IV |
Royalty |
3-Apr-1367 |
20-Mar-1413 |
King of England, 1399-1413 |
Emperor Hirohito |
Royalty |
29-Apr-1901 |
7-Jan-1989 |
Emperor of Japan 1926-89 |
Adolf Hitler |
Head of State |
20-Apr-1889 |
30-Apr-1945 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45 |
Erich Honecker |
Head of State |
25-Aug-1912 |
29-May-1994 |
East German leader, 1971-89 |
José Ramos Horta |
Politician |
26-Dec-1949 |
|
President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
John Hume |
Politician |
18-Jan-1937 |
|
Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient |
Sol Hurok |
Theatre Producer |
9-Apr-1888 |
5-Mar-1974 |
American impresario |
King Hussein I |
Royalty |
14-Nov-1935 |
7-Feb-1999 |
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
Saddam Hussein |
Head of State |
28-Apr-1937 |
30-Dec-2006 |
President of Iraq, 1979-2003 |
Uday Hussein |
Royalty |
18-Jun-1964 |
22-Jul-2003 |
Saddam Hussein's barbarous eldest son |
Chun Doo Hwan |
Head of State |
18-Jan-1931 |
|
President of South Korea, 1980-88 |
Juzo Itami |
Film Director |
15-May-1933 |
20-Dec-1997 |
Tampopo |
Andrew Jackson |
Head of State |
15-Mar-1767 |
8-Jun-1845 |
7th US President, 1829-37 |
King James I |
Royalty |
19-Jun-1566 |
27-Mar-1625 |
King of England, 1603-25 |
King James II |
Royalty |
14-Oct-1633 |
16-Sep-1701 |
King of England, 1685-88 |
Pope John Paul II |
Religion |
18-May-1920 |
2-Apr-2005 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005 |
U. Alexis Johnson |
Diplomat |
17-Oct-1908 |
24-Mar-1997 |
Career US Ambassador |
Goodluck Jonathan |
Head of State |
20-Nov-1957 |
|
President of Nigeria |
Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Advisor to Bill Clinton |
Hamid Karzai |
Head of State |
24-Dec-1957 |
|
President of Afghanistan |
Ayub Khan |
Head of State |
14-May-1907 |
19-Apr-1974 |
President of Pakistan, 1958-69 |
Martin Luther King |
Activist |
15-Jan-1929 |
4-Apr-1968 |
Pacifist civil rights activist |
John Kiriakou |
Government |
9-Aug-1964 |
|
CIA torture whistleblower |
José P. Laurel |
Head of State |
9-Mar-1891 |
6-Nov-1959 |
3rd President of the Philippines |
Pierre Laval |
Head of State |
28-Jun-1883 |
15-Oct-1945 |
Prime Minister of Vichy France |
Jean-Marie Le Pen |
Politician |
20-Jun-1928 |
|
French nationalist |
Vladimir Lenin |
Head of State |
22-Apr-1870 |
21-Jan-1924 |
Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union |
Pope Leo X |
Religion |
11-Dec-1475 |
1-Dec-1521 |
Excommunicated Martin Luther |
Leopold II |
Royalty |
9-Apr-1835 |
17-Dec-1909 |
King of Belgium, 1865-1909 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
Louis XV |
Royalty |
15-Feb-1710 |
10-May-1774 |
King of France, 1715-74 |
Ricardo Flores Magón |
Anarchist |
16-Sep-1873 |
21-Nov-1922 |
Agitator behind Mexican revolution |
Malcolm X |
Activist |
19-May-1925 |
21-Feb-1965 |
Nation of Islam |
Imelda Marcos |
First Lady |
2-Jul-1929 |
|
Former First Lady of the Philippines |
Georgi Markov |
Victim |
1-Mar-1929 |
11-Sep-1978 |
Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella |
Bob Marley |
Singer/Songwriter |
6-Feb-1945 |
11-May-1981 |
No Woman No Cry |
Thomas R. Marshall |
Politician |
14-Mar-1854 |
1-Jun-1925 |
Vice President under Wilson |
Khaled Mashaal |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Hamas bureau chief in Damascus |
Joe Masseria |
Criminal |
1879 |
15-Apr-1931 |
NY mobster, killed by Luciano |
Lorenzo de Medici |
Government |
1-Jan-1449 |
8-Apr-1492 |
Ruler of Florence, patron of the arts |
Empress Michiko |
Royalty |
20-Oct-1934 |
|
Empress of Japan |
François Mitterrand |
Head of State |
26-Oct-1916 |
8-Jan-1996 |
President of France, 1981-95 |
Henry Morgentaler |
Doctor |
19-Mar-1923 |
28-May-2013 |
Abortion rights in Canada |
Hosni Mubarak |
Head of State |
4-May-1928 |
|
President of Egypt, 1981-2011 |
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 |
Napoleon III |
Royalty |
20-Apr-1808 |
9-Jan-1873 |
Emperor of France, 1852-70 |
Gamal Abdel-Nasser |
Head of State |
15-Jan-1918 |
28-Sep-1970 |
President of Egypt, 1956-70 |
Eliot Ness |
Government |
19-Apr-1903 |
16-May-1957 |
Treasury Agent, The Untouchables |
Richard Neville |
Military |
22-Nov-1428 |
14-Apr-1471 |
Earl of Warwick |
Tsar Nicholas II |
Royalty |
18-May-1868 |
17-Jul-1918 |
Last of the Russian Tsars |
Richard M. Nixon |
Head of State |
9-Jan-1913 |
22-Apr-1994 |
37th US President, 1969-74 |
Kwame Nkrumah |
Head of State |
21-Sep-1909 |
27-Apr-1972 |
First President of Ghana |
Milton Obote |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1924 |
10-Oct-2005 |
Two-time President of Uganda |
A. Mitchell Palmer |
Government |
4-May-1872 |
11-May-1936 |
US Attorney General, Palmer Raids |
Georgios Papadopoulos |
Head of State |
5-May-1919 |
27-Jun-1999 |
Dictator of Greece, 1967-73 |
Enver Pasha |
Government |
22-Nov-1881 |
4-Aug-1922 |
Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities |
Pope Paul II |
Religion |
23-Feb-1417 |
26-Jul-1471 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1464-71 |
Pope Paul VI |
Religion |
26-Sep-1897 |
6-Aug-1978 |
The pilgrim pope |
Donald Payne |
Politician |
16-Jul-1934 |
6-Mar-2012 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1989-2012 |
Evita Peron |
First Lady |
7-May-1919 |
26-Jul-1952 |
Don't cry for her |
Augusto Pinochet |
Head of State |
25-Nov-1915 |
10-Dec-2006 |
Overthrew Chile with CIA's help |
Pope Pius IV |
Religion |
31-Mar-1499 |
9-Dec-1565 |
Roman Catholic Pope 1560-65 |
Jerzy Popieluszko |
Activist |
23-Sep-1947 |
19-Oct-1984 |
Priest murdered by Polish government |
Romano Prodi |
Politician |
9-Aug-1939 |
|
Prime Minister of Italy, 2006-07 |
Vladimir Putin |
Head of State |
7-Oct-1952 |
|
President of Russia |
Anthony Quainton |
Diplomat |
4-Apr-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1989-92 |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
Head of State |
25-Aug-1934 |
|
President of Iran, 1989-97 |
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh |
Religion |
11-Dec-1931 |
19-Jan-1990 |
Holy man, owned 93 Rolls-Royces |
Ronald Reagan |
Head of State |
6-Feb-1911 |
5-Jun-2004 |
40th US President, 1981-89 |
Walter Reuther |
Labor Leader |
1-Sep-1907 |
9-May-1970 |
UAW and CIO labor leader |
Mel Reynolds |
Politician |
8-Jan-1952 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1993-95 |
Paul Robeson |
Singer |
9-Apr-1898 |
23-Jan-1976 |
20th Century renaissance man |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1882 |
12-Apr-1945 |
US President during WWII |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Head of State |
27-Oct-1858 |
6-Jan-1919 |
26th US President, 1901-09 |
William A. Rugh |
Diplomat |
10-May-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1984-87 |
Ibrahim Rugova |
Government |
2-Dec-1944 |
21-Jan-2006 |
President of Kosovo, 1992-2006 |
Mikhail Saakashvili |
Head of State |
21-Dec-1967 |
|
President of Georgia, 2004-13 |
Saladin |
Royalty |
c. 1137 |
4-Mar-1193 |
Retook Jerusalem in 1187 |
Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Head of State |
21-Mar-1942 |
|
President of Yemen |
Paolo Sarpi |
Activist |
14-Aug-1552 |
14-Jan-1623 |
Venetian patriot, church reformer |
King Ibn Saud |
Head of State |
1876 |
9-Nov-1953 |
Founder of Saudi Arabia |
Jonas Savimbi |
Military |
3-Aug-1934 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Angolan UNITA rebel |
Wolfgang Schäuble |
Politician |
18-Sep-1942 |
|
CDU Chairman, 1998-2000 |
Philipp Scheidemann |
Head of State |
26-Jul-1865 |
29-Nov-1939 |
German Chancellor, 1919 |
William Henry Seward |
Politician |
16-May-1801 |
10-Oct-1872 |
Mastermind behind Seward's Folly |
Shah of Iran |
Royalty |
26-Oct-1919 |
27-Jul-1980 |
Last Shah of Iran |
Eduard Shevardnadze |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1928 |
7-Jul-2014 |
President of Georgia, 1995-2003 |
Chen Shui-bian |
Head of State |
18-Feb-1950 |
|
President of Taiwan, 2000-08 |
George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
Bugsy Siegel |
Criminal |
28-Feb-1906 |
20-Jun-1947 |
Brought the mob to Las Vegas |
William D. Stephens |
Politician |
26-Dec-1859 |
25-Apr-1944 |
Governor of California, 1917-23 |
Alfredo Stroessner |
Head of State |
3-Nov-1912 |
16-Aug-2006 |
Dictator of Paraguay, 1954-89 |
Sukarno |
Head of State |
6-Jun-1901 |
21-Jun-1970 |
President of Indonesia, 1945-67 |
Emory C. Swank |
Diplomat |
29-Jan-1922 |
3-Jun-2010 |
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1970-73 |
Margaret Thatcher |
Head of State |
13-Oct-1925 |
8-Apr-2013 |
UK Prime Minister, 1979-90 |
George Tiller |
Doctor |
8-Aug-1941 |
31-May-2009 |
Late-term abortionist |
Stephen Timms |
Politician |
29-Jul-1955 |
|
Labour MP for East Ham, stabbed |
Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
Harry S. Truman |
Head of State |
8-May-1884 |
26-Dec-1972 |
33rd US President, 1945-53 |
Morgan Tsvangirai |
Government |
10-Mar-1952 |
|
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe |
Umberto I |
Royalty |
14-Mar-1844 |
29-Jul-1900 |
King of Italy, 1878-1900 |
Kim Jong Un |
Head of State |
8-Jan-1984 |
|
Great Successor |
Ernest van den Haag |
Scholar |
15-Sep-1914 |
21-Mar-2002 |
Punishing Criminals |
Franz von Papen |
Diplomat |
29-Oct-1879 |
2-May-1969 |
Nazi ambassador |
Edwin A. Walker |
Military |
10-Nov-1909 |
31-Oct-1993 |
Ultraconservative activist |
George Wallace |
Politician |
25-Aug-1919 |
13-Sep-1998 |
Governor of Alabama, crippled by assassin |
Alexander F. Watson |
Diplomat |
8-Aug-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1986-89 |
Simon Wiesenthal |
Activist |
31-Dec-1908 |
20-Sep-2005 |
Nazi hunter |
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin |
Religion |
18-Dec-1936 |
21-Mar-2004 |
Hamas spiritual leader |
Viktor Yushchenko |
Head of State |
23-Feb-1954 |
|
President of Ukraine, 2005-10 |
Mahmoud Zahar |
Activist |
1945 |
|
Hamas co-founder, spokesman |
King Zog |
Royalty |
8-Oct-1895 |
9-Apr-1961 |
King of Albania |