CRIME

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Nouri al-Maliki	Head of State	c. 1950		Prime Minister of Iraq
Benigno Aquino	Politician	27-Nov-1932	21-Aug-1983	Philippine opposition leader
Reinaldo Arenas	Novelist	16-Jul-1943	7-Dec-1990	El Mundo Alucinante
Abu Bakar Bashir	Terrorist	17-Aug-1938		Spiritual Leader of Jemaah Islamiah
Lavrenty Beria	Government	29-Mar-1899	23-Dec-1953	Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46
Alexander Blok	Poet	16-Nov-1880	7-Aug-1921	Russian Silver Age poet
Nikolai Bukharin	Economist	9-Oct-1888	15-Mar-1938	Soviet theoretical economist
Felix Dzerzhinsky	Government	11-Sep-1877	20-Jul-1926	The Black Pope of Bolshevism
Zviad Gamsakhurdia	Head of State	31-Mar-1939	31-Dec-1993	First elected President of Georgia
Terry George	Film Director	20-Dec-1952		Hotel Rwanda
Vo Nguyen Giap	Military	25-Aug-1911		North Vietnamese General, Minister of Defense
Xanana Gusmão	Head of State	20-Jul-1946		President of East Timor, 2002-07
Nikolai Krylenko	Government	2-May-1885	29-Jul-1938	Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Ann Lee	Religion	29-Feb-1736	8-Sep-1784	Mother Ann, Founder of the Shakers
Maxim Litvinov	Government	17-Jul-1876	31-Dec-1951	Soviet foreign minister, ousted in nod to Hitler
Giuseppe Mazzini	Activist	22-Jun-1805	10-Mar-1872	Italian patriot, agitator
Stjepan Mesic	Head of State	24-Dec-1934		President of Croatia
Oswald Mosley	Politician	16-Nov-1896	3-Dec-1980	Founder of the British Union of Fascists
Kgalema Motlanthe	Head of State	19-Jul-1949		Deputy President of South Africa
Robert Mugabe	Head of State	21-Feb-1924		President of Zimbabwe
Raila Odinga	Head of State	7-Jan-1945		Prime Minister of Kenya
Jafar Panahi	Film Director	11-Jul-1960		The White Balloon
Pramoedya Ananta Toer	Novelist	20-Feb-1925	30-Apr-2006	The Fugitive
Kim Young Sam	Head of State	20-Dec-1927		President of South Korea, 1993-98
Hussain al-Shahristani	Government	1942		Iraqi Minister of Oil
Franjo Tudjman	Head of State	14-May-1922	11-Dec-1999	First President of Croatia
Robert Vesco	Criminal	4-Nov-1935	23-Nov-2007	Fugitive financier
Liu Xiaobo	Activist	28-Dec-1955		Chinese human rights activist
Grigory Zinoviev	Government	23-Sep-1883	25-Aug-1936	Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge

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