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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Aesop
Author
c. 620 BC c. 560 BC Purported author of Fables
Hafizullah Amin
Head of State
1-Aug-1929 27-Dec-1979 President of Afghanistan, 1979
Ion Antonescu
Head of State
15-Jun-1882 1-Jun-1946 Pro-Nazi dictator of Romania
Atahualpa
Royalty
c. 1502 29-Aug-1533 Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro
The Báb
Religion
20-Oct-1819 9-Jul-1850 Forerunner of Baha'i
Isaac Babel
Author
1-Jul-1894 27-Jan-1940 Soviet master of short stories
Anthony Babington
Criminal
24-Oct-1561 20-Sep-1586 Plotted to overthrow Elizabeth I
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Astronomer
15-Sep-1736 12-Nov-1793 Histoire de l'Astronomie
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Explorer
1475 12-Jan-1519 Discovered Pacific Ocean
John Ball
Activist
? 15-Jul-1381 Instigator of 1381 peasant revolt
Robert Barnes
Religion
1495 30-Jul-1540 English reformer and martyr
Naaman Belkind
Spy
1889 16-Dec-1917 Israeli spy
Nick Berg
Victim
2-Apr-1978 May-2004 US contractor, beheaded on Iraq videotape
Lavrenty Beria
Government
29-Mar-1899 23-Dec-1953 Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Head of State
5-Jan-1928 4-Apr-1979 Head of Pakistan, hanged
Thomas Bilney
Religion
c. 1495 19-Aug-1531 English martyr, influenced Latimer
John Birch
Religion
28-May-1918 25-Aug-1945 Missionary to China killed during WW2
Arthur Gary Bishop
Criminal
1951 10-Jun-1988 Utah serial killer of boys
Maurice Bishop
Head of State
29-May-1944 19-Oct-1983 Prime Minister of Grenada. 1979-83
Boethius
Philosopher
c. 470 AD 524 AD Consolation of Philosophy
Anne Boleyn
Royalty
c. 1507 19-May-1536 Wife of English King Henry VIII
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion
4-Feb-1906 9-Apr-1945 Lutheran theologian, opponent of Hitler
John Brown
Activist
9-May-1800 2-Dec-1859 Led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Giordano Bruno
Scientist
1548 17-Feb-1600 Heretic cosmologist
Nikolai Bukharin
Economist
9-Oct-1888 15-Mar-1938 Soviet theoretical economist
Ted Bundy
Criminal
24-Nov-1946 24-Jan-1989 Serial killer, blamed pornography
William Burke
Criminal
1792 28-Jan-1829 Cheap cadavers for science
Edmund Campion
Religion
24-Jan-1540 1-Dec-1581 Jesuit martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Wilhelm Canaris
Military
1-Jan-1887 9-Apr-1945 Nazi spymaster, tried to kill Hitler
Roger Casement
Activist
1-Sep-1864 3-Aug-1916 Irish revolutionary, gay diarist
St. Catherine of Alexandria
Religion
c. 3rd c. AD c. 4th c. AD Patron saint of virgins and nuns
Edith Cavell
Victim
4-Dec-1865 12-Oct-1915 British nurse, shot by the Germans
Jacques Cazotte
Author
17-Oct-1719 25-Sep-1792 Diable Amoureux
Nicolae Ceausescu
Head of State
26-Jan-1918 25-Dec-1989 Dictator of Romania
St. Cecilia
Religion
? c. 180 AD Patron saint of music, the blind
Beatrice Cenci
Criminal
6-Feb-1577 11-Sep-1599 Italian beauty, murdered her father
King Charles I
Royalty
19-Nov-1600 30-Jan-1649 King of England, Scotland, Ireland 1625-49
Chemical Ali
Government
1941 25-Jan-2010 Cousin of Saddam Hussein
André de Chénier
Poet
30-Oct-1762 25-Jul-1794 Greatest 18th c. French poet
Cicero
Author
Jan-106 BC 7-Dec-43 BC Roman orator and rhetorician
Eli Cohen
Spy
26-Dec-1924 18-May-1965 Israel's greatest spy
Thomas Cranmer
Religion
2-Jul-1489 21-Mar-1556 First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
Davy Crockett
Military
17-Aug-1786 6-Mar-1836 King of the Wild Frontier
Thomas Cromwell
Government
c. 1485 28-Jul-1540 Advisor to Henry VIII
Cuauhtemoc
Head of State
1495 28-Feb-1525 Last Aztec Emperor
Leon Czolgosz
Assassin
1873 29-Oct-1901 President McKinley's assassin
Robert-François Damiens
Assassin
9-Jan-1715 28-Mar-1757 Attacked Louis XV of France
Georges Jacques Danton
Activist
26-Oct-1759 5-Apr-1794 Key figure in French Revolution
Demades
Diplomat
c. 380 BC 319 BC Brokered Macedonian/Athenian peace
Jacques DeMolay
Military
c. 1244 18-Mar-1314 Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar
St. Denis
Religion
? c. 250 AD Patron saint of France
Camille Desmoulins
Author
2-Mar-1760 5-Apr-1794 Touched off the French Revolution
Hugh le Despenser
Aristocrat
1262 27-Oct-1326 Favorite of King Edward II
Didius Julianus
Royalty
c. 135 AD 1-Jun-193 AD Roman Emperor, 193 AD
Everard Digby
Criminal
16-May-1578 30-Jan-1606 Gunpowder Plot
Adolf Eichmann
Criminal
19-Mar-1906 31-May-1962 Nazi war criminal
Ruth Ellis
Criminal
9-Oct-1925 13-Jul-1955 Last woman hanged in England
Sir Richard Empson
Government
? 17-Aug-1510 Taxman for Henry VII of England
Guy Fawkes
Criminal
13-Apr-1570 31-Jan-1606 Tried to blow up British Parliament
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Assassin
1790 19-Feb-1836 Attempted assassin of Louis-Philippe
Albert Fish
Criminal
19-May-1870 16-Jan-1936 Serial killer and cannibal
Hans Frank
Military
23-May-1900 16-Oct-1946 Nazi King of Poland
Wilhelm Frick
Government
12-Mar-1877 16-Oct-1946 Authored the Nuremberg Laws
John Wayne Gacy
Criminal
17-Mar-1942 10-May-1994 28 dead boys in his crawlspace
Federico García Lorca
Poet
5-Jun-1898 18-Aug-1936 Lament for a Bullfighter
Gary Gilmore
Criminal
4-Dec-1940 17-Jan-1977 Executed by firing squad in Utah
Nathuram Vinayak Godse
Assassin
19-May-1910 15-Nov-1949 Assassinated Gandhi
Carl Goerdeler
Politician
31-Jul-1884 2-Feb-1945 Politician, hanged by the Nazis
Amon Goeth
Criminal
12-Nov-1908 13-Sep-1946 Ran concentration camp at Plaszow
Lady Jane Grey
Royalty
12-Oct-1537 12-Feb-1554 Queen of England for nine days
Che Guevara
Activist
14-Jun-1928 9-Oct-1967 Revolutionary icon
Charles Guiteau
Assassin
8-Sep-1841 30-Jun-1882 Assassin of President Garfield
Ludwig Haetzer
Religion
c. 1500 4-Feb-1529 Translator of Prophets
Nathan Hale
Spy
1756 22-Sep-1776 Had but one life to give for his country
Patrick Hamilton
Religion
1504 29-Feb-1528 Scottish Lutheran martyr
François Hanriot
Military
3-Dec-1759 28-Jul-1794 Led French revolutionary forces
Mata Hari
Spy
7-Aug-1876 15-Oct-1917 Framed by the Germans
Arvid Harnack
Spy
24-May-1901 22-Dec-1942 Hanged by the Nazis for espionage
Mildred Fish Harnack
Spy
16-Sep-1902 16-Feb-1943 Guillotined by the Gestapo
David Harris
Criminal
19-Oct-1960 30-Jun-2004 Copkiller in The Thin Blue Line
Bruno Hauptmann
Criminal
26-Nov-1899 3-Apr-1936 Lindbergh Baby kidnapper
Lord Haw-Haw
Radio Personality
24-Apr-1906 3-Jan-1946 WWII propagandist hanged in England
Jacques René Hébert
Activist
15-Nov-1757 24-Mar-1794 Revolutionary of the Paris Commune
Gary Heidnik
Criminal
22-Nov-1943 6-Jul-1999 Sex torturer, murderer
Miguel Hidalgo
Religion
8-May-1753 30-Jul-1811 Father of Mexican independence
Joe Hill
Labor Leader
7-Oct-1879 19-Nov-1915 Labor leader, convicted of murder
Hippolytus
Religion
c. 170 AD 235 AD Writer of the early church
Andreas Hofer
Military
22-Nov-1767 20-Feb-1810 Tirolese patriot, insurgent
H. H. Holmes
Criminal
16-May-1860 7-May-1896 The Devil in the White City
John Hooper
Religion
c. 1495 9-Feb-1555 Zwinglian bishop of Gloucester
Sir John Hotham
Politician
? 3-Jan-1645 English parliamentarian
Catherine Howard
Royalty
c. 1520 13-Feb-1542 Fifth wife of Henry VIII
Jan Hus
Religion
c. 1373 6-Jul-1415 Czech reformer and martyr
Saddam Hussein
Head of State
28-Apr-1937 30-Dec-2006 President of Iraq, 1979-2003
Hypereides
Attorney
c. 390 BC 9-Oct-322 BC Athenian logographer
Ignatius of Antioch
Religion
c. 35 AD c. 110 AD Early Church Father
Agustín de Iturbide
Military
27-Sep-1783 19-Jul-1824 Emperor of Mexico, 1822-23
St. Januarius
Religion
? c. 305 AD Patron saint of Naples
Jesus Christ
Religion
c. 4 BC 7-Apr-30 AD Carpenter, evangelist
Jezebel
Royalty
? 842 BC Wife of King Ahab
Joan of Arc
Religion
6-Jan-1412 30-May-1431 Maid of Orleans, burned at the stake
Alfred Jodl
Military
10-May-1890 16-Oct-1946 Signed Germany's unconditional WWII surrender
St. John of Nepomuk
Religion
c. 1345 20-Mar-1393 Patron saint of Bohemia
John the Baptist
Religion
? c. 28 AD Precursor to Jesus Christ
Justin Martyr
Religion
c. 100 AD c. 165 AD Apology
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Military
4-Oct-1903 16-Oct-1946 Commanded the Reich Central Security Office
Mir Aimal Kasi
Terrorist
10-Feb-1964 14-Nov-2002 Killed two CIA employees at HQ
Wilhelm Keitel
Military
22-Sep-1882 16-Oct-1946 Just following orders
Ned Kelly
Criminal
Jun-1855 11-Nov-1880 Iron-clad Australian outlaw
William Kemmler
Criminal
9-May-1860 6-Aug-1890 First man executed by electric chair
Noor Inayat Khan
Spy
1-Jan-1914 13-Sep-1944 British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis
Aleksandr Kolchak
Military
16-Nov-1874 7-Feb-1920 Supreme Ruler of the Russian State, 1918-20
Pyotr Krasnov
Military
22-Sep-1869 17-Jan-1947 Ataman of the Don Cossacks, betrayed by Churchill
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Henri Landru
Criminal
1869 25-Feb-1922 Bluebeard murderer of 10 widows
Hugh Latimer
Religion
c. 1490 16-Oct-1555 English Reformation
William Laud
Religion
7-Oct-1573 10-Jan-1645 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45
Pierre Laval
Head of State
28-Jun-1883 15-Oct-1945 Prime Minister of Vichy France
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Chemist
26-Aug-1743 8-May-1794 Father of modern chemistry
Louis Lepke
Criminal
6-Feb-1897 4-Mar-1944 Head of Murder, Inc.
Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orléans
Royalty
13-Apr-1747 6-Nov-1793 Philippe Égalité
Louis XVI
Royalty
23-Aug-1754 21-Jan-1793 King of France, 1774-91
Cyril Lucaris
Religion
13-Nov-1572 27-Jun-1638 Greek church reformer
Patrice Lumumba
Head of State
2-Jul-1925 17-Jan-1961 First Prime Minister of Congo
Marie Antoinette
Royalty
2-Nov-1755 16-Oct-1793 Cake proponent
Mary I of Scotland
Royalty
8-Dec-1542 8-Feb-1587 Mary, Queen of Scots
Maximilian
Royalty
6-Jul-1832 19-Jun-1867 Emperor of Mexico, 1864-67
Timothy McVeigh
Terrorist
23-Apr-1968 11-Jun-2001 Oklahoma City Bomber
Sir Thomas More
Philosopher
7-Feb-1477 6-Jul-1535 Utopia
Jose Maria Morelos
Military
30-Sep-1765 22-Dec-1815 Mexico's war for independence
John Allen Muhammad
Criminal
31-Dec-1960 10-Nov-2009 Beltway sniper
Thomas Münzer
Religion
c. 1490 27-May-1525 German Protestant religious fanatic
Benito Mussolini
Head of State
29-Jul-1883 28-Apr-1945 Fascist Dictator of Italy
Imre Nagy
Head of State
7-Jun-1896 16-Jun-1958 Twice Prime Minister of Hungary
Mohammad Najibullah
Head of State
1947 28-Sep-1996 President of Afghanistan, 1987-92
Michel Ney
Military
10-Jan-1769 7-Dec-1815 Napoleonic General
Tsar Nicholas II
Royalty
18-May-1868 17-Jul-1918 Last of the Russian Tsars
Friedrich Olbricht
Military
4-Oct-1888 20-Jul-1944 German general, failed coup plotter
Sir John Oldcastle
Military
c. 1378 14-Dec-1417 Lollard rebel leader
Felice Orsini
Assassin
1819 13-Mar-1858 Attempted assassin of Napoleon III
Carl Panzram
Criminal
28-Jun-1891 5-Sep-1930 Relentless sociopath, serial killer
Albert Parsons
Activist
20-Jun-1848 11-Nov-1887 Haymarket Martyr
St. Paul
Religion
c. 10 AD 29-Jun-65 AD First Christian evangelist
Clara Petacci
Relative
28-Feb-1912 28-Apr-1945 Mussolini's mistress
St. Peter
Religion
? 67 AD First Bishop of Rome
Martha M. Place
Criminal
c. 1855 20-Mar-1899 First woman executed by electric chair
Johannes Popitz
Government
2-Dec-1884 2-Feb-1945 Prussian finance minister 1933-44
Emelian Pugachev
Anarchist
1740 10-Jan-1775 Bloody insurrectionist in southern Russia, 1773-74
Leyla Qasim
Activist
1952 5-Dec-1974 Kurdish martyr
Vidkun Quisling
Politician
18-Jul-1887 24-Oct-1945 Norwegian president, Nazi collaborator
Sayyid Qutb
Philosopher
9-Oct-1906 29-Aug-1966 Muslim Brotherhood philosopher
Gilles de Rais
Criminal
10-Nov-1404 26-Oct-1440 Fifteenth-century child killer
Sir Walter Raleigh
Explorer
c. 1552 29-Oct-1618 Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
Sidney Reilly
Spy
24-Mar-1874 5-Nov-1925 Ace of Spies
Nicholas Ridley
Religion
c. 1500 16-Oct-1555 Anglican Bishop and martyr
José Rizal
Activist
19-Jun-1861 30-Dec-1896 Philippine national hero
Robespierre
Head of State
6-May-1758 28-Jul-1794 Presided over the Reign of Terror
Ernst Roehm
Government
28-Nov-1887 1-Jul-1934 Organizer of Hitler's Brownshirts, the SA
Jeanne-Marie Roland
Relative
17-Mar-1754 8-Nov-1793 French woman of intrigue
Alfred Rosenberg
Politician
12-Jan-1893 16-Oct-1946 Nazi Minister for Occupied Territories
Ethel Rosenberg
Relative
28-Sep-1915 19-Jun-1953 Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg
Spy
12-May-1918 19-Jun-1953 Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR
Nicola Sacco
Anarchist
22-Apr-1891 27-Aug-1927 Sacco and Vanzetti
Fritz Sauckel
Military
27-Oct-1894 16-Oct-1946 Reich slavemaster
Girolamo Savonarola
Religion
21-Sep-1452 23-May-1498 Italian monk and martyr
Michael Servetus
Religion
c. 1511 27-Oct-1553 De Trinitatis Erroribus
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Government
22-Jul-1892 16-Oct-1946 Reich Commissar of Austria, Netherlands
Jack Sheppard
Criminal
1702 16-Nov-1724 English scoundrel, escapee
Algernon Sidney
Politician
1622 7-Dec-1683 Dangerous English parliamentarian
Simon of Sudbury
Religion
? 14-Jun-1381 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1375-81
Eddie Slovik
Military
18-Feb-1920 31-Jan-1945 US soldier executed for desertion
Perry Smith
Criminal
27-Oct-1928 14-Apr-1965 In Cold Blood
Ruth Snyder
Criminal
1895 12-Jan-1928 Electrocuted for murdering husband
Richard Sorge
Spy
4-Oct-1895 7-Nov-1944 Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa
Robert Southwell
Religion
c. 1561 21-Feb-1595 Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Charles Starkweather
Criminal
24-Nov-1938 25-Jun-1959 Spree killer
Pope Stephen VI
Religion
? Aug-897 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 896-7
Avraham Stern
Military
23-Dec-1907 12-Feb-1942 Founder of Lohamei Herut Israel
Flavius Stilicho
Military
365 AD 22-Aug-408 AD Roman general and diplomat
Gregor Strasser
Politician
31-May-1892 30-Jun-1934 Loyal Nazi, devout socialist
Julius Streicher
Journalist
12-Feb-1885 16-Oct-1946 Editor of Der Stuermer 1923-45
Johann Friedrich Struensee
Government
5-Aug-1737 28-Apr-1772 Puppetmaster of Christian VII
Publius Sulpicius Rufus
Politician
c. 124 BC 88 BC Roman orator and politician
Violette Szabo
Spy
26-Jun-1921 5-Feb-1945 British secret agent, fought with French Resistance
Mahmoud Muhammad Taha
Religion
c. 1909 18-Jan-1985 Progressive Islamic theologian
Nur Muhammad Taraki
Head of State
15-Jul-1913 14-Sep-1979 President of Afghanistan, 1978-79
Hideki Tojo
Head of State
30-Dec-1884 23-Dec-1948 Prime Minister of Japan, 1941-44
Tantia Topi
Military
c. 1819 18-Apr-1859 Indian Mutiny rebel leader
Karla Faye Tucker
Criminal
18-Nov-1959 3-Feb-1998 First woman executed in Texas since 1863
Nat Turner
Military
2-Oct-1800 11-Nov-1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion
Dick Turpin
Criminal
1706 7-Apr-1739 English highwayman
William Tyndale
Religion
1492 6-Oct-1536 Bible translator, burnt at the stake
Valerian
Royalty
c. 190 AD 260 AD Roman Emperor, 253-60 AD
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Anarchist
11-Jun-1888 27-Aug-1927 Sacco and Vanzetti
La Voisin
Paranormal
? 20-Feb-1680 French sorceress, affaire des poisons
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Diplomat
30-Apr-1893 16-Oct-1946 Reich Foreign Minister
Claus von Stauffenberg
Military
15-Nov-1907 20-Jul-1944 Tried to kill Hitler in 1944
Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel
Military
2-Jan-1886 30-Aug-1944 Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler
Erwin von Witzleben
Military
4-Dec-1881 8-Aug-1944 German general, tried to overthrow Hitler
William Walker
Military
8-May-1824 12-Sep-1860 American "filibuster"
William Wallace
Military
1272 23-Aug-1305 Basis of fictional biopic Braveheart
Perkin Warbeck
Hoaxer
c. 1474 23-Nov-1499 Pretender to English throne
Tookie Williams
Criminal
29-Dec-1953 13-Dec-2005 Co-Founder, West Side Crips
George Wishart
Religion
c. 1513 1-Mar-1546 Scottish religious reformer and martyr
Aileen Wuornos
Criminal
29-Feb-1956 9-Oct-2002 Notorious serial killer
Huang Yong
Criminal
c. 1974 26-Dec-2003 Prolific Chinese serial killer
Giuseppe Zangara
Assassin
7-Sep-1900 20-Mar-1933 Tried to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yang Zhiya
Criminal
c. 1968 14-Feb-2004 Chinese serial killer, charged 65 murders
Grigory Zinoviev
Government
23-Sep-1883 25-Aug-1936 Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge



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