Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Anwar al-Awlaki |
Religion |
22-Apr-1971 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Yemeni video cleric, AQAP |
Tsar Alexander II |
Royalty |
17-Apr-1818 |
13-Mar-1881 |
Tsar of Russia, 1855-81 |
Benigno Aquino |
Politician |
27-Nov-1932 |
21-Aug-1983 |
Philippine opposition leader |
Arius |
Religion |
256 AD |
336 AD |
Founder of the Christian doctrine of Arianism |
Aurelian |
Royalty |
c. 214 AD |
275 AD |
Roman Emperor, 270-75 AD |
Abdullah Azzam |
Educator |
1941 |
24-Nov-1989 |
Gatekeeper of the Jihad |
Hassan al-Banna |
Activist |
14-Oct-1906 |
12-Feb-1949 |
Founder of The Muslim Brotherhood |
Thomas Becket |
Religion |
c. 1118 |
29-Dec-1170 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-70 |
Benazir Bhutto |
Head of State |
21-Jun-1953 |
27-Dec-2007 |
Former prime minister of Pakistan |
Julius Caesar |
Head of State |
13-Jul-100 BC |
15-Mar-44 BC |
Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC |
Caligula |
Royalty |
31-Aug-12 AD |
24-Jan-41 AD |
Roman Emperor, 37-41 AD |
Carinus |
Royalty |
? |
285 AD |
Roman Emperor, 283-85 AD |
Venustiano Carranza |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1859 |
21-May-1920 |
President of Mexico, 1917-20 |
Carus |
Royalty |
? |
283 AD |
Roman Emperor, 282-83 |
Anton J. Cermak |
Politician |
9-May-1873 |
6-Mar-1933 |
Mayor of Chicago, assassinated in office |
Clarence 13X |
Religion |
21-Feb-1928 |
13-Jun-1969 |
Nation of Gods and Earths |
Michael Collins |
Activist |
16-Oct-1890 |
22-Aug-1922 |
Irish Nationalist, spymaster |
Rodger P. Davies |
Diplomat |
7-May-1921 |
19-Aug-1974 |
US Ambassador to Cyprus, 1974 |
Dion |
Royalty |
408 BC |
353 BC |
Tyrant of Syracuse |
Samuel Doe |
Head of State |
6-May-1951 |
9-Sep-1990 |
President of Liberia, 1980-90 |
Engelbert Dollfuss |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1892 |
25-Jul-1934 |
Austrian Chancellor murdered by Nazis |
Dzhokhar Dudayev |
Military |
15-Apr-1944 |
21-Apr-1996 |
Head of the Chechen rebellion |
Edward the Martyr |
Royalty |
c. 962 AD |
18-Mar-978 AD |
King of England 975-78 AD |
Alois Estermann |
Government |
29-Oct-1954 |
4-May-1998 |
Swiss Guard, murdered |
King Faisal |
Royalty |
1904 |
25-Mar-1975 |
King of Saudi Arabia, 1964-75 |
Franz Ferdinand |
Royalty |
18-Dec-1863 |
28-Jun-1914 |
Assassination touched off WWI |
Pim Fortuyn |
Government |
19-Feb-1948 |
6-May-2002 |
Assassinated Dutch parliamentary candidate |
Galba |
Royalty |
24-Dec-3 BC |
15-Jan-69 AD |
Roman Emperor, 68-69 AD |
Indira Gandhi |
Head of State |
19-Nov-1917 |
31-Oct-1984 |
First Female Prime Minister of India |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Activist |
2-Oct-1869 |
30-Jan-1948 |
Proselytizer of nonviolence |
Rajiv Gandhi |
Head of State |
20-Aug-1944 |
21-May-1991 |
Prime Minister of India 1984-9 |
James Garfield |
Head of State |
19-Nov-1831 |
19-Sep-1881 |
20th US President, 1881 |
George I |
Royalty |
24-Dec-1845 |
18-Mar-1913 |
King of Greece, 1863-1913 |
William J. Goebel |
Politician |
4-Jan-1856 |
3-Feb-1900 |
Kentucky Governor, assassinated |
Theo Van Gogh |
Film Director |
23-Jul-1957 |
2-Nov-2004 |
Controversial Director of Submission |
Maxim Gorky |
Playwright |
28-Mar-1868 |
17-Jun-1936 |
The Lower Depths |
Gratian |
Royalty |
18-Apr-359 AD |
25-Aug-383 AD |
Western Roman Emperor, 375-83 AD |
Fred Hampton, Sr. |
Activist |
30-Aug-1948 |
4-Dec-1969 |
Black Panther leader assassinated by police |
Rafik Hariri |
Head of State |
1-Nov-1944 |
14-Feb-2005 |
Billionaire, Lebanese Prime Minister |
Park Chung Hee |
Head of State |
30-Sep-1917 |
26-Oct-1979 |
President of South Korea, 1961-79 |
Henri III |
Royalty |
19-Sep-1551 |
2-Aug-1589 |
King of France, Poland |
Henri IV |
Royalty |
13-Dec-1553 |
14-May-1610 |
King of France, 1589-1610 |
Reinhard Heydrich |
Military |
7-Mar-1904 |
4-Jun-1942 |
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia |
Ito Hirobumi |
Government |
14-Oct-1841 |
26-Oct-1909 |
Began the modernization of Japan |
Itcho Ito |
Politician |
23-Aug-1945 |
18-Apr-2007 |
Mayor of Nagasaki, 1995-2007 |
Jean Jaurès |
Politician |
3-Sep-1859 |
31-Jul-1914 |
French socialist leader |
Kamal Jumblatt |
Politician |
6-Dec-1917 |
16-Mar-1977 |
Former Leader of the Druze |
Akhmad Kadyrov |
Politician |
23-Aug-1951 |
9-May-2004 |
President of Chechnya |
Meir Kahane |
Activist |
1-Aug-1932 |
5-Nov-1990 |
Founder of Jewish Defense League |
John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
Robert F. Kennedy |
Politician |
20-Nov-1925 |
6-Jun-1968 |
Slain Presidential candidate |
Martin Luther King |
Activist |
15-Jan-1929 |
4-Apr-1968 |
Pacifist civil rights activist |
Paul Klebnikov |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1963 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
John Lennon |
Musician |
9-Oct-1940 |
8-Dec-1980 |
Beatle |
Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
Anna Lindh |
Government |
19-Jun-1957 |
11-Sep-2003 |
Swedish Foreign Minister |
Huey Long |
Politician |
30-Aug-1893 |
10-Sep-1935 |
Governor and Senator from Louisiana |
Francisco Madero |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1873 |
22-Feb-1913 |
El loquito President of Mexico, 1911-13 |
Malcolm X |
Activist |
19-May-1925 |
21-Feb-1965 |
Nation of Islam |
Jean-Paul Marat |
Activist |
24-May-1743 |
13-Jul-1793 |
French revolutionary |
Georgi Markov |
Victim |
1-Mar-1929 |
11-Sep-1978 |
Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella |
William McKinley |
Head of State |
29-Jan-1843 |
14-Sep-1901 |
25th US President, 1897-1901 |
Mehmed the Conqueror |
Royalty |
29-Mar-1432 |
3-May-1481 |
Ottoman Sultan, destroyed Byzantine empire |
John Gordon Mein |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1913 |
28-Aug-1968 |
US Ambassador to Guatemala, 1965-68 |
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. |
Diplomat |
28-Mar-1917 |
16-Jun-1976 |
US Ambassador to Lebanon, assassinated |
Harvey Milk |
Politician |
22-May-1930 |
27-Nov-1978 |
Openly gay SF city supervisor |
George Moscone |
Politician |
24-Nov-1929 |
27-Nov-1978 |
Mayor of San Francisco, 1976-78 |
Lord Mountbatten |
Military |
25-Jun-1900 |
27-Aug-1979 |
Last Viceroy of India |
Imad Fayez Mugniyah |
Terrorist |
7-Dec-1962 |
12-Feb-2008 |
Hezbollah International terror wing |
Murad I |
Royalty |
1326 |
28-Jun-1389 |
First Ottoman Sultan, 1359-1389 |
Nicephorus II Phocas |
Royalty |
912 AD |
10-Dec-969 AD |
Byzantine Emperor, 963-69 AD |
Cleo A. Noel, Jr. |
Diplomat |
6-Aug-1918 |
2-Mar-1973 |
US Ambassador to Sudan, 1972-73 |
Álvaro Obregón |
Head of State |
19-Feb-1880 |
17-Jul-1928 |
President of Mexico, 1920-24 |
Omar |
Royalty |
c. 581 AD |
3-Nov-644 AD |
Second Caliph, 634-44 |
Hamaguchi Osachi |
Head of State |
1-Apr-1870 |
26-Aug-1931 |
Prime Minister of Japan, 1929-31 |
Lee Harvey Oswald |
Assassin |
18-Oct-1939 |
24-Nov-1963 |
Assassin of John F. Kennedy |
Olof Palme |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1927 |
28-Feb-1986 |
Swedish Prime Minister, assassinated |
Tsar Paul I |
Royalty |
1-Oct-1754 |
24-Mar-1801 |
Tsar of Russia, 1796-1801 |
Spencer Perceval |
Head of State |
1-Nov-1762 |
11-May-1812 |
UK Prime Minister, 1809-12 |
Pertinax |
Royalty |
1-Aug-126 AD |
28-Mar-193 AD |
Roman Emperor, 193 AD |
Tsar Peter III |
Royalty |
21-Feb-1728 |
17-Jul-1762 |
Tsar of Russia, 1762 for six months |
Francisco Pizarro |
Explorer |
c. 1471 |
26-Jun-1541 |
Conqueror of the Inca |
Jerzy Popieluszko |
Activist |
23-Sep-1947 |
19-Oct-1984 |
Priest murdered by Polish government |
Yitzhak Rabin |
Head of State |
1-Mar-1922 |
4-Nov-1995 |
Twice Prime Minister of Israel |
Mujibur Rahman |
Head of State |
17-Mar-1920 |
15-Aug-1975 |
President, Prime Minister of Bangladesh |
Ziaur Rahman |
Head of State |
19-Jan-1936 |
30-May-1981 |
President of Bangladesh, 1977-81 |
Abdel Aziz Rantisi |
Activist |
23-Oct-1947 |
17-Apr-2004 |
Hamas co-founder |
George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
Leo Ryan |
Politician |
5-May-1925 |
18-Nov-1978 |
Congressman assassinated in Guyana |
Anwar Sadat |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1918 |
6-Oct-1981 |
President of Egypt, 1970-81 |
U Aung San |
Government |
13-Feb-1915 |
19-Jul-1947 |
Secured independence from Britain for Burma |
Haile Selassie |
Royalty |
23-Jul-1892 |
27-Aug-1975 |
Last Emperor of Ethiopia |
Shaka Zulu |
Military |
c. 1785 |
23-Sep-1828 |
King of the Zulu, 1816-28 |
Sitting Bull |
Military |
c. 1831 |
15-Dec-1890 |
Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
Anastasio Somoza |
Head of State |
5-Dec-1925 |
17-Sep-1980 |
Dictator of Nicaragua |
Antonio José de Sucre |
Military |
3-Feb-1795 |
4-Jun-1830 |
South American revolutionary |
Tarquinius Priscus |
Religion |
fl. 6th c. BC |
fl. 6th c. BC |
Fifth king of Rome |
George Tiller |
Doctor |
8-Aug-1941 |
31-May-2009 |
Late-term abortionist |
Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo |
Head of State |
24-Oct-1891 |
30-May-1961 |
Dictator of the Dominican Republic |
Umberto I |
Royalty |
14-Mar-1844 |
29-Jul-1900 |
King of Italy, 1878-1900 |
Justo José de Urquiza |
Head of State |
18-Oct-1801 |
11-Apr-1870 |
President of Argentina, 1854-60 |
Pancho Villa |
Military |
5-Jun-1878 |
20-Jul-1923 |
Revolutionary, invaded United States |
Xerxes the Great |
Royalty |
519 BC |
465 BC |
King of Persia, attempted to invade Greece |
Isoroku Yamamoto |
Military |
4-Apr-1884 |
18-Apr-1943 |
Commander of the Japanese Navy |
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev |
Head of State |
12-Sep-1952 |
13-Feb-2004 |
President of Republic of Chechnya 1996-1997 |
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin |
Religion |
18-Dec-1936 |
21-Mar-2004 |
Hamas spiritual leader |
Emiliano Zapata |
Activist |
8-Aug-1879 |
10-Apr-1919 |
Mexican patriot, revolutionary |