| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ethan Allen |
Military |
10-Jan-1739 |
12-Feb-1789 |
Fighter with the Green Mountain Boys |
| Aldrich Ames |
Spy |
26-Mar-1941 |
|
CIA agent, divulged names to the Soviets |
| Anthony Babington |
Criminal |
24-Oct-1561 |
20-Sep-1586 |
Plotted to overthrow Elizabeth I |
| Nathaniel Bacon |
Politician |
2-Jan-1647 |
26-Oct-1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
| Vasco Nuñez de Balboa |
Explorer |
1475 |
12-Jan-1519 |
Discovered Pacific Ocean |
| John Ball |
Activist |
? |
15-Jul-1381 |
Instigator of 1381 peasant revolt |
| Abu Bakar Bashir |
Terrorist |
17-Aug-1938 |
|
Spiritual Leader of Jemaah Islamiah |
| Celal Bayar |
Head of State |
16-May-1883 |
22-Aug-1986 |
President of Turkey, 1950-60 |
| Charles Bedaux |
Business |
26-Oct-1887 |
18-Feb-1944 |
Industrial efficiency expert |
| Lavrenty Beria |
Government |
29-Mar-1899 |
23-Dec-1953 |
Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| William Blake |
Poet |
28-Nov-1757 |
12-Aug-1827 |
English romantic poet and artist |
| Léon Blum |
Head of State |
9-Apr-1872 |
30-Mar-1950 |
Thrice Prime Minister of France |
| Boethius |
Philosopher |
c. 470 AD |
524 AD |
Consolation of Philosophy |
| Emperor Bokassa I |
Royalty |
22-Feb-1921 |
3-Nov-1996 |
Central African Emperor |
| Anne Boleyn |
Royalty |
c. 1507 |
19-May-1536 |
Wife of English King Henry VIII |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
Head of State |
15-Aug-1769 |
5-May-1821 |
Emperor of France |
| Georges Boulanger |
Military |
29-Apr-1837 |
30-Sep-1891 |
French general-turned-politician |
| John Brown |
Activist |
9-May-1800 |
2-Dec-1859 |
Led the raid on Harpers Ferry |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Hubert de Burgh |
Judge |
? |
1243 |
Chief Justiciar of England |
| Aaron Burr |
Politician |
6-Feb-1756 |
14-Sep-1836 |
Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
| Julius Caesar |
Head of State |
13-Jul-100 BC |
15-Mar-44 BC |
Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC |
| 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 |
| Fidel Castro |
Head of State |
13-Aug-1926 |
|
Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years |
| Catherine of Braganza |
Royalty |
25-Nov-1638 |
31-Dec-1705 |
Consort of English King Charles II |
| King Charles I |
Royalty |
19-Nov-1600 |
30-Jan-1649 |
King of England, Scotland, Ireland 1625-49 |
| Lord Clarendon |
Government |
18-Feb-1609 |
9-Dec-1674 |
The Clarendon Code |
| Thomas Cranmer |
Religion |
2-Jul-1489 |
21-Mar-1556 |
First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Thomas Cromwell |
Government |
c. 1485 |
28-Jul-1540 |
Advisor to Henry VIII |
| Cuauhtemoc |
Head of State |
1495 |
28-Feb-1525 |
Last Aztec Emperor |
| Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
| Édouard Daladier |
Head of State |
18-Jun-1884 |
10-Oct-1970 |
Three-time Prime Minister of France |
| Jefferson Davis |
Head of State |
3-Jun-1808 |
6-Dec-1889 |
President of the Confederacy |
| Charles de Gaulle |
Head of State |
22-Nov-1890 |
9-Nov-1970 |
President of France, 1958-69 |
| Eamon de Valera |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1882 |
29-Aug-1975 |
President of Ireland, 1959-73 |
| Demades |
Diplomat |
c. 380 BC |
319 BC |
Brokered Macedonian/Athenian peace |
| Everard Digby |
Criminal |
16-May-1578 |
30-Jan-1606 |
Gunpowder Plot |
| Alfred Dreyfus |
Victim |
9-Oct-1859 |
12-Jul-1935 |
Dreyfus Affair scapegoat |
| José Napoleón Duarte |
Head of State |
23-Nov-1925 |
23-Feb-1990 |
President of El Salvador, 1984-89 |
| Friedrich Ebert |
Head of State |
4-Feb-1871 |
28-Feb-1925 |
German Chancellor, 1918-19 |
| 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 |
| Frederick the Great |
Royalty |
24-Jan-1712 |
17-Aug-1786 |
King of Prussia 1740-86 |
| Wilhelm Frick |
Government |
12-Mar-1877 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Authored the Nuremberg Laws |
| Adam Gadahn |
Terrorist |
1-Sep-1978 |
|
Al-Qaeda terrorist, indicted for treason |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi |
Military |
4-Jul-1807 |
2-Jun-1882 |
Privateer, Italian hero |
| John Gibbon |
Military |
20-Apr-1827 |
6-Feb-1896 |
Led the Civil War's Iron Bigade |
| Owen Glendower |
Royalty |
c. 1359 |
20-Sep-1415 |
Self-proclaimed Prince of Wales |
| Carl Goerdeler |
Politician |
31-Jul-1884 |
2-Feb-1945 |
Politician, hanged by the Nazis |
| Hermann Goering |
Military |
12-Jan-1893 |
15-Oct-1946 |
Founder of the Gestapo |
| Lady Jane Grey |
Royalty |
12-Oct-1537 |
12-Feb-1554 |
Queen of England for nine days |
| Franz Halder |
Military |
30-Jun-1884 |
2-Apr-1972 |
Nazi general |
| Knut Hamsun |
Novelist |
4-Aug-1859 |
19-Feb-1952 |
Norwegian novelist, Sult |
| Robert Hanssen |
Spy |
18-Apr-1944 |
|
Russian mole inside the FBI |
| 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 |
| Lord Haw-Haw |
Radio Personality |
24-Apr-1906 |
3-Jan-1946 |
WWII propagandist hanged in England |
| Adolf Hitler |
Head of State |
20-Apr-1889 |
30-Apr-1945 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45 |
| Lazare Hoche |
Military |
24-Jun-1768 |
18-Sep-1797 |
French General |
| Thomas Holcroft |
Playwright |
10-Dec-1745 |
23-Mar-1809 |
The Road to Ruin |
| Erich Honecker |
Head of State |
25-Aug-1912 |
29-May-1994 |
East German leader, 1971-89 |
| Chun Doo Hwan |
Head of State |
18-Jan-1931 |
|
President of South Korea, 1980-88 |
| Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf |
Head of State |
29-Oct-1938 |
|
President of Liberia |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner |
Military |
4-Oct-1903 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Commanded the Reich Central Security Office |
| Pyotr Krasnov |
Military |
22-Sep-1869 |
17-Jan-1947 |
Ataman of the Don Cossacks, betrayed by Churchill |
| Bruno Kreisky |
Head of State |
22-Jan-1911 |
29-Jul-1990 |
Chancellor of Austria, 1970-83 |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Ryszard Kuklinski |
Spy |
13-Jun-1930 |
10-Feb-2004 |
Polish Cold War era spy who worked with CIA |
| Marquis de Lafayette |
Military |
6-Sep-1757 |
20-May-1834 |
French revolutionary in America |
| James Henry Lane |
Politician |
22-Jun-1814 |
11-Jul-1866 |
US Senator from Kansas, 1861-66 |
| William Laud |
Religion |
7-Oct-1573 |
10-Jan-1645 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45 |
| José P. Laurel |
Head of State |
9-Mar-1891 |
6-Nov-1959 |
3rd President of the Philippines |
| Henry Laurens |
Politician |
24-Feb-1724 |
8-Dec-1792 |
Captured negotiating treaty with Holland |
| Pierre Laval |
Head of State |
28-Jun-1883 |
15-Oct-1945 |
Prime Minister of Vichy France |
| Robert E. Lee |
Military |
19-Jan-1807 |
12-Oct-1870 |
Confederate General |
| Louis XVI |
Royalty |
23-Aug-1754 |
21-Jan-1793 |
King of France, 1774-91 |
| Albert Lutuli |
Activist |
c. 1898 |
21-Jul-1967 |
ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Nelson Mandela |
Head of State |
18-Jul-1918 |
|
President of South Africa, 1994-99 |
| Bradley Manning |
Military |
17-Dec-1987 |
|
Pled guilty to releasing classified documents |
| Marie Antoinette |
Royalty |
2-Nov-1755 |
16-Oct-1793 |
Cake proponent |
| Christopher Marlowe |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1564 |
30-May-1593 |
Doctor Faustus |
| José Martí |
Activist |
28-Jan-1853 |
19-May-1895 |
Cuban hero |
| Mary I of Scotland |
Royalty |
8-Dec-1542 |
8-Feb-1587 |
Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Andrew Melville |
Religion |
1-Aug-1545 |
1622 |
Scottish Reform Church |
| Lambdin P. Milligan |
Criminal |
24-Mar-1812 |
21-Dec-1899 |
Ex Parte Milligan |
| Sir Thomas More |
Philosopher |
7-Feb-1477 |
6-Jul-1535 |
Utopia |
| Mohammed Mossadegh |
Head of State |
19-May-1882 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53 |
| Imre Nagy |
Head of State |
7-Jun-1896 |
16-Jun-1958 |
Twice Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Otto Neurath |
Sociologist |
10-Dec-1882 |
22-Dec-1945 |
Vienna Circle positivist |
| Michel Ney |
Military |
10-Jan-1769 |
7-Dec-1815 |
Napoleonic General |
| Raila Odinga |
Head of State |
7-Jan-1945 |
|
Prime Minister of Kenya |
| Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| James Otis |
Government |
5-Feb-1725 |
23-May-1783 |
Massachusetts patriot and pamphleteer |
| 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 |
| Philippe Pétain |
Head of State |
24-Apr-1856 |
23-Jul-1951 |
Leader of Vichy France |
| Albert Pike |
Military |
29-Dec-1809 |
2-Apr-1891 |
Confederate general, Freemason |
| Johannes Popitz |
Government |
2-Dec-1884 |
2-Feb-1945 |
Prussian finance minister 1933-44 |
| Pol Pot |
Head of State |
19-May-1925 |
15-Apr-1998 |
Leader of the Khmer Rouge |
| Ezra Pound |
Poet |
30-Oct-1885 |
1-Nov-1972 |
The Cantos |
| Casimir Pulaski |
Military |
7-Mar-1745 |
11-Oct-1779 |
Polish General in the American Revolution |
| Ludwig Quidde |
Activist |
23-Mar-1858 |
4-Mar-1941 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Vidkun Quisling |
Head of State |
18-Jul-1887 |
24-Oct-1945 |
Norwegian president, Nazi collaborator |
| Sayyid Qutb |
Philosopher |
9-Oct-1906 |
29-Aug-1966 |
Muslim Brotherhood philosopher |
| Sir Walter Raleigh |
Explorer |
c. 1552 |
29-Oct-1618 |
Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I |
| Comte de Rochambeau |
Military |
1-Jul-1725 |
12-May-1807 |
French hero of American Revolution |
| Ernst Roehm |
Government |
28-Nov-1887 |
1-Jul-1934 |
Organizer of Hitler's Brownshirts, the SA |
| Erwin Rommel |
Military |
15-Nov-1891 |
14-Oct-1944 |
The Desert Fox |
| Antonio López de Santa Anna |
Military |
21-Feb-1794 |
21-Jun-1876 |
Hero of Tampico |
| Oskar Schindler |
Activist |
28-Apr-1908 |
9-Oct-1974 |
Saved over 1000 from Nazis |
| Algernon Sidney |
Politician |
1622 |
7-Dec-1683 |
Dangerous English parliamentarian |
| Joseph Smith |
Religion |
23-Dec-1805 |
27-Jun-1844 |
Founded the Mormon faith |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Author |
11-Dec-1918 |
3-Aug-2008 |
The Gulag Archipelago |
| Robert Southwell |
Religion |
c. 1561 |
21-Feb-1595 |
Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn |
| Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
| Hans Speidel |
Military |
28-Oct-1897 |
28-Nov-1984 |
German general, NATO commander |
| Gregor Strasser |
Politician |
31-May-1892 |
30-Jun-1934 |
Loyal Nazi, devout socialist |
| William Strode |
Politician |
1598 |
9-Sep-1645 |
Opponent of King Charles I |
| Thomas Stucley |
Military |
c. 1525 |
4-Aug-1578 |
English military adventurer |
| Themistocles |
Military |
c. 523 BC |
c. 458 BC |
Athenian general |
| Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky |
Biologist |
20-Sep-1900 |
28-Mar-1981 |
Russian geneticist |
| Iva Toguri |
Radio Personality |
4-Jul-1916 |
26-Sep-2006 |
Never actually was Tokyo Rose |
| Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
| John Trumbull |
Painter |
6-Jun-1756 |
10-Nov-1843 |
American Revolutionary painter |
| Morgan Tsvangirai |
Government |
10-Mar-1952 |
|
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe |
| William Tyndale |
Religion |
1492 |
6-Oct-1536 |
Bible translator, burnt at the stake |
| Mordechai Vanunu |
Activist |
13-Oct-1954 |
|
Blew whistle on Israel's nukes |
| 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 |
| Albrecht von Wallenstein |
Military |
24-Sep-1583 |
25-Feb-1634 |
Attempted to unite Germany |
| Erwin von Witzleben |
Military |
4-Dec-1881 |
8-Aug-1944 |
German general, tried to overthrow Hitler |
| William Wallace |
Military |
1272 |
23-Aug-1305 |
Basis of fictional biopic Braveheart |
| Roh Tae Woo |
Head of State |
4-Dec-1932 |
|
President of South Korea, 1988-93 |
| Sir Thomas Wyat |
Poet |
1503 |
6-Oct-1542 |
Introduced sonnet to England |
| Leyla Zana |
Politician |
3-May-1961 |
|
Imprisoned for speaking Kurdish |
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Government |
23-Sep-1883 |
25-Aug-1936 |
Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
