Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Joan Vollmer Adams |
Victim |
1924 |
6-Sep-1951 |
Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs |
Randall Adams |
Victim |
1949 |
|
Innocent man in The Thin Blue Line |
Fatty Arbuckle |
Actor |
24-Mar-1887 |
29-Jun-1933 |
Keystone Cop |
Gavin Arvizo |
Victim |
Dec-1989 |
|
Michael Jackson's special friend |
Bonny Lee Bakley |
Victim |
7-Jun-1956 |
4-May-2001 |
Baretta's wife, got whacked |
Steve Bartman |
Victim |
c. 1977 |
|
Cubs fan, grasped for wrong baseball |
Nick Berg |
Victim |
2-Apr-1978 |
May-2004 |
US contractor, beheaded on Iraq videotape |
John Wayne Bobbitt |
Victim |
23-Mar-1967 |
|
Penectomy survivor |
Carlie Brucia |
Victim |
16-Mar-1992 |
1-Feb-2004 |
Little girl kidnapped and killed |
Edith Cavell |
Victim |
4-Dec-1865 |
12-Oct-1915 |
British nurse, shot by the Germans |
Azaria Chamberlain |
Victim |
11-Jun-1980 |
17-Aug-1980 |
Reportedly eaten by dingoes |
Jordy Chandler |
Victim |
11-Jan-1980 |
|
Boy who got $15.3M from Michael Jackson |
Ray Chapman |
Baseball |
15-Jan-1891 |
17-Aug-1920 |
Fatally hit by pitch |
Darva Conger |
Victim |
21-Sep-1965 |
|
Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? |
Rachel Corrie |
Activist |
10-Apr-1979 |
16-Mar-2003 |
US activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer |
Joseph Force Crater |
Victim |
5-Jan-1889 |
6-Aug-1930 |
NY State Judge vanished |
Melissa DeHart |
Victim |
Jul-1974 |
|
58-pound celebrity anorexic |
John Demjanjuk |
Criminal |
3-Apr-1920 |
17-Mar-2012 |
Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past |
Reginald Denny |
Victim |
21-Apr-1953 |
|
Truck driver beaten in Rodney King riots |
Amadou Diallo |
Victim |
2-Sep-1975 |
4-Feb-1999 |
Shot dead by the NYPD |
Annette Dionne |
Victim |
28-May-1934 |
|
Canadian quintuplets put on display |
Cecile Dionne |
Victim |
28-May-1934 |
|
Canadian quintuplets put on display |
Emilie Dionne |
Victim |
28-May-1934 |
6-Aug-1954 |
Canadian quintuplets put on display |
Marie Dionne |
Victim |
28-May-1934 |
27-Feb-1970 |
Canadian quintuplets put on display |
Yvonne Dionne |
Victim |
28-May-1934 |
23-Jun-2001 |
Canadian quintuplets put on display |
Joel Dorius |
Educator |
4-Jan-1919 |
14-Feb-2006 |
Professor fired for gay porn arrest |
Alfred Dreyfus |
Victim |
9-Oct-1859 |
12-Jul-1935 |
Dreyfus Affair scapegoat |
Medgar Evers |
Activist |
2-Jul-1925 |
12-Jun-1963 |
Civil rights activist murdered in 1963 |
Katelyn Kristine Faber |
Victim |
18-Jun-1985 |
|
Kobe Bryant's accuser |
Frances Farmer |
Actor |
19-Sep-1913 |
1-Aug-1970 |
Hollywood actress, institutionalized |
Anne Frank |
Victim |
12-Jun-1929 |
Mar-1945 |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
Leo Frank |
Victim |
17-Apr-1884 |
17-Aug-1915 |
Innocent man, lynched by mob |
Kitty Genovese |
Victim |
7-Jul-1935 |
13-Mar-1964 |
Allegedly killed by collective apathy |
Ron Goldman |
Victim |
2-Jul-1968 |
12-Jun-1994 |
Murder victim, OJ Simpson trial |
Elian Gonzalez |
Victim |
6-Dec-1993 |
|
Cuban boy tug-o-war |
Jessica Hahn |
Victim |
7-Jul-1959 |
|
Had sex with Jim Bakker |
Patty Hearst |
Victim |
20-Feb-1954 |
|
Kidnapped by SLA |
Keith Henson |
Victim |
1942 |
|
Scientology Victim |
Anita Hill |
Victim |
30-Jul-1956 |
|
Former colleague of Clarence Thomas |
Natalee Holloway |
Victim |
21-Oct-1986 |
30-May-2005 |
Disappeared in Aruba |
Ishi |
Oddity |
c. 1860 |
25-Mar-1916 |
Last of an extinct tribe |
Steve Jackson |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Game publisher raided by the Secret Service |
Richard Jewell |
Victim |
17-Nov-1962 |
29-Aug-2007 |
Innocent security guard blamed for bombing |
Joan of Arc |
Religion |
6-Jan-1412 |
30-May-1431 |
Maid of Orleans, burned at the stake |
Alan Johnston |
Journalist |
17-May-1962 |
|
Kidnapped BBC journalist |
Paula Jones |
Victim |
17-Sep-1966 |
|
Sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment |
Nancy Kerrigan |
Victim |
13-Oct-1969 |
|
Figure skater hit by baton |
Rodney King |
Victim |
2-Apr-1965 |
17-Jun-2012 |
Subject of filmed LAPD beatdown |
Polly Klaas |
Victim |
3-Jan-1981 |
Nov-1993 |
Murdered by Richard Allen Davis |
Leon Klinghoffer |
Victim |
24-Sep-1916 |
7-Oct-1985 |
Shot and thrown overboard by terrorists |
Mary Jo Kopechne |
Victim |
26-Jul-1940 |
18-Jul-1969 |
Dead woman in Ted Kennedy's car |
Wen Ho Lee |
Victim |
21-Dec-1939 |
|
Allegedly spied for China |
Chandra Levy |
Victim |
14-Apr-1977 |
1-May-2001 |
Gary Condit's dead intern |
Charles Lindbergh, Jr. |
Victim |
22-Jun-1930 |
Mar-1932 |
The Lindbergh Baby |
Abner Louima |
Victim |
24-Nov-1966 |
|
New York's Rodney King |
Jessica Lynch |
Victim |
26-Apr-1983 |
|
PFC captured by Iraq, rescued |
Clara Maass |
Activist |
28-Jun-1876 |
24-Aug-1901 |
Human experiments with yellow fever |
Andrea Mackris |
Victim |
c. 1971 |
|
Allegedly harassed by Bill O'Reilly |
Georgi Markov |
Victim |
1-Mar-1929 |
11-Sep-1978 |
Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella |
Trayvon Martin |
Victim |
5-Feb-1995 |
26-Feb-2012 |
Shot and killed by George Zimmerman |
Christopher McCandless |
Victim |
12-Feb-1968 |
18-Aug-1992 |
Subject of Into the Wild |
Jessica McClure |
Victim |
26-Mar-1986 |
|
Baby Jessica, rescued from well |
Christoph Meili |
Victim |
21-Apr-1968 |
|
Whistleblower, fired by Union Banque Suisse |
Martha Moxley |
Victim |
16-Aug-1960 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Murdered by Michael Skakel |
Merhan Karimi Nasseri |
Victim |
c. 1950 |
|
Trapped at De Gaulle Airport since 1988 |
Haing S. Ngor |
Victim |
22-Mar-1940 |
25-Feb-1996 |
The Killing Fields |
Leonard Peltier |
Criminal |
12-Sep-1944 |
|
Native American political prisoner |
Laci Peterson |
Victim |
4-May-1975 |
23-Dec-2002 |
Pregnant mother's body found in bay |
Jerzy Popieluszko |
Activist |
23-Sep-1947 |
19-Oct-1984 |
Priest murdered by Polish government |
JonBenét Ramsey |
Victim |
6-Aug-1990 |
26-Dec-1996 |
6-year-old murdered pageant winner |
Robert C. Randall |
Victim |
23-Jan-1948 |
2-Jun-2001 |
First recipient of federal marijuana |
Virginia Rappe |
Victim |
7-Jul-1891 |
9-Sep-1921 |
Fatty Arbuckle scandal |
David Reimer |
Victim |
1965 |
4-May-2004 |
Boy raised as a girl |
Rick Rescorla |
Victim |
27-May-1939 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Anticipated both WTC attacks, died in 9/11 |
Audrey Santo |
Victim |
19-Dec-1983 |
14-Apr-2007 |
Miracle girl in a coma |
Terri Schiavo |
Victim |
3-Dec-1963 |
31-Mar-2005 |
Human vegetable, 1990-2005 |
Dred Scott |
Victim |
c. 1799 |
17-Sep-1858 |
Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court |
Giuliana Sgrena |
Activist |
20-Dec-1948 |
|
Marxist journalist, kidnapped in Iraq |
Matthew Shepard |
Victim |
1-Dec-1976 |
12-Oct-1998 |
Gay hate crime victim |
Craig Shergold |
Victim |
24-Jun-1979 |
|
Subject of Internet chain letters |
Elizabeth Short |
Victim |
29-Jul-1924 |
15-Jan-1947 |
The Black Dahlia |
Karen Silkwood |
Victim |
19-Feb-1946 |
13-Nov-1974 |
Nuclear whistleblower |
Nicole Brown Simpson |
Victim |
19-May-1959 |
12-Jun-1994 |
OJ's murdered ex-wife |
Elizabeth Smart |
Victim |
3-Nov-1987 |
|
Kidnap victim |
Edward Smith |
Victim |
27-Jan-1850 |
15-Apr-1912 |
Captain of the RMS Titanic |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Author |
11-Dec-1918 |
3-Aug-2008 |
The Gulag Archipelago |
Nancy Spungen |
Victim |
27-Feb-1958 |
12-Oct-1978 |
Sid Vicious's girlfriend |
Steven Stayner |
Victim |
18-Apr-1965 |
16-Sep-1989 |
Boy kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell |
Emmett Till |
Victim |
25-Jul-1941 |
28-Aug-1955 |
Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi |
Iva Toguri |
Radio Personality |
4-Jul-1916 |
26-Sep-2006 |
Never actually was Tokyo Rose |
David Vetter |
Victim |
21-Sep-1971 |
22-Feb-1984 |
The Boy in the Bubble |
Sunny von Bulow |
Victim |
1-Sep-1932 |
6-Dec-2008 |
Heiress in a coma for 28 years |
Terry Waite |
Victim |
31-May-1939 |
|
Hostage negotiator, then hostage |
Randy Weaver |
Victim |
3-Jan-1948 |
|
Ruby Ridge Incident |
Horst Wessel |
Activist |
9-Oct-1907 |
23-Feb-1930 |
Nazi martyr |
Ryan White |
Victim |
6-Dec-1971 |
8-Apr-1990 |
Suburban kid, AIDS activist |