CRIME

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Atahualpa	Royalty	c. 1502	29-Aug-1533	Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro
Kofi Awoonor	Poet	13-Mar-1935		Rediscovery
Nnamdi Azikiwe	Head of State	16-Nov-1904	11-May-1996	First President of Nigeria, 1963-66
Hastings Banda	Head of State	1898	25-Nov-1997	First President of Malawi
Victor L. Berger	Politician	28-Feb-1860	7-Aug-1929	Socialist Rep. from Wisconsin
Anne Braden	Activist	28-Jul-1924	6-Mar-2006	Southern Civil Rights Activist
Charles Bradlaugh	Activist	26-Sep-1833	30-Jan-1891	Atheistic Iconoclast
Richard G. Butler	Activist	23-Feb-1918	8-Sep-2004	Founder of the Aryan Nations
Robert Capa	Photographer	22-Oct-1913	25-May-1954	War photographer
Thomas Cartwright	Religion	c. 1535	27-Dec-1603	English Puritan divine
Michel Chartrand	Labor Leader	20-Dec-1916	12-Apr-2010	Quebec nationalist labor activist
Father Charles Coughlin	Religion	25-Oct-1891	27-Oct-1979	Radio opponent of FDR
Kim Dae-Jung	Head of State	3-Dec-1925	18-Aug-2009	South Korean President, 1998-2003
Honoré Daumier	Artist	20-Feb-1808	11-Feb-1879	Caricaturist and satirist
Eamon de Valera	Head of State	14-Oct-1882	29-Aug-1975	President of Ireland, 1959-73
Eugene V. Debs	Labor Leader	5-Nov-1855	20-Oct-1926	Labor leader ran for President five times
Daniel Defoe	Author	Sep-1660	24-Apr-1731	Robinson Crusoe
Floyd Dell	Journalist	28-Jun-1887	23-Jul-1969	Moon-Calf
Max Eastman	Author	12-Jan-1883	25-Mar-1969	Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Mathematician	21-Mar-1768	16-May-1830	Fourier series
Peter Fraser	Head of State	28-Aug-1884	5-Aug-1950	Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1940-49
Mahatma Gandhi	Activist	2-Oct-1869	30-Jan-1948	Proselytizer of nonviolence
William M. Gwin	Politician	9-Oct-1805	3-Sep-1885	US Senator from California
Big Bill Haywood	Labor Leader	4-Feb-1869	18-May-1928	Industrial Workers of the World
Jesus Christ	Religion	c. 4 BC	7-Apr-30 AD	Carpenter, evangelist
Ben Jonson	Playwright	11-Jun-1572	6-Aug-1637	Volpone
Rosa Luxemburg	Activist	5-Mar-1871	15-Jan-1919	Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
Ricardo Flores Magón	Anarchist	16-Sep-1873	21-Nov-1922	Agitator behind Mexican revolution
Elijah Muhammad	Religion	7-Oct-1897	25-Feb-1975	Nation of Islam
Daniel O'Connell	Politician	6-Aug-1775	15-May-1847	Irish hero, called The Liberator
Titus Oates	Criminal	15-Sep-1649	12-Jul-1705	Popish Plot
Thomas Paine	Activist	29-Jan-1737	8-Jun-1809	Common Sense
Georgios Papadopoulos	Head of State	5-May-1919	27-Jun-1999	Dictator of Greece, 1967-73
Leyla Qasim	Activist	1952	5-Dec-1974	Kurdish martyr
Jack Reed	Activist	22-Oct-1887	19-Oct-1920	Ten Days That Shook the World
William E. Riker	Religion	1873	3-Dec-1969	Holy City cult leader
José Rizal	Activist	19-Jun-1861	30-Dec-1896	Philippine national hero
Bertrand Russell	Mathematician	18-May-1872	2-Feb-1970	Mathematician, atheist, and social critic
Flavio Sosa	Politician	1953		Jailed APPO councilman
Wole Soyinka	Playwright	13-Jul-1934		Politically-charged Nigerian author
Sukarno	Head of State	6-Jun-1901	21-Jun-1970	President of Indonesia, 1945-67
Mahmoud Muhammad Taha	Religion	c. 1909	18-Jan-1985	Progressive Islamic theologian
Anna Walentynowicz	Activist	13-Aug-1929	10-Apr-2010	Catalyst for the Solidarnosc union
John Wilkes	Politician	17-Oct-1725	26-Dec-1797	Colorful London radical
John Peter Zenger	Journalist	c. 1697	28-Jul-1746	Sedition against the Crown

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