- John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. - Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, … - Huey Long
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893-September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator from 1932 to 1935. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, … - Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16 1971 - September 13 1996), also known by his stage names: 2Pac, Makaveli, or simply Pac, was an American artist renowned for his rap music, movie roles, poetry, and his social activism. He is recognized in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the best selling hip-hop artist, with over seventy-five million albums sold worldwide including over fifty million in the United States alone. - Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana. Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington and grew up with a troubled childhood, which he frequently addressed in his songs and interviews. Known for his abrasive and often disturbing songwriting as well as his distinctive vocal style, Cobain is often cited among the most influential musicians of his time. Cobain formed Nirvana in 1986 with Krist Novoselic. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman (born as Philip Edward Hartmann) (September 24, 1948 - May 28, 1998) was a Canadian/American actor, voice artist, comedian, graphic artist and writer. He first came to widespread attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his roles on the sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live", afterwards going on to motion pictures, frequent roles on the animated "The Simpsons", … - Stonewall Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 - May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most revered Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. He is most famous for his audacious Valley Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. - Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist. One of America's foremost constitutional lawyers, he was a leader in calling the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787; he was one of the two chief authors of the "Federalist Papers", the most important interpretation of the United States Constitution. Hamilton served chiefly as aide-de-camp to General George Washington, … - Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim; he also founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. - Joseph Smith Jr.
Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 - June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, a restorationist movement also known as Mormonism. Smith's followers declared him to be the first latter-day prophet, whose mission was to restore the original Christian church, said to have been lost soon after the death of Apostles because of an apostasy. - Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders. - Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw and the most famous member of the James-Younger gang. He became a figure of folklore after his death. He is sometimes labeled a gunfighter, mostly inaccurately. - William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, … - Fat Pat
Fat Pat (born Patrick Lamont Hawkins, February 21, 1970 - February 3, 1998) was a rapper from Houston, Texas and an original member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click. Also known as Mr. Fat Pat and P-A-T, he was most prolific in the mid-1990s alongside his brother Big Hawk and longtime friend Lil' Keke. Fat Pat was signed to Wreckshop Records. - Darrent Williams
Darrent Williams (September 27 1982 - January 1 2007), was an American football player for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Williams was also the owner and CEO of independent record label RYNO Entertainment in Fort Worth, Texas. - Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 - June 11 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. - Meir Kahane
Rabbi Meir David Kahane (also known by the pseudonyms Michael King, David Sinai and Hayim Yerushalmi, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, author, political activist, and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political and nationalist views, … - Charles Whitman
Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot and killed 14 people (including those who survived the initial shooting but later died as a result of their injuries) and wounded 31 others from the observation deck of the University's Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother, and before being shot by Austin police. - Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (August 6, 1902 - October 24, 1935) was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and '30s. Born Arthur Flegenheimer into a Jewish German family in the Bronx, he made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging illegal alcohol and the numbers racket in Harlem. He is most famous today for the rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologue he gave police in a hospital as he lay dying of a gunshot wound. - The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a gangster in the 1975 film "Let's Do It Again"), Big Poppa, Frank White (from the film "King of New York"), and his primary stage name, The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game), was an American rapper and hip hop artist. - Andrew Goodman
Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 - June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist who was murdered by gunshot in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Andrew Goodman was born and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, the middle of three sons of Robert and Carolyn Goodman, in a family and community steeped in intellectual and socially-progressive activism. - Michael Schwerner
Michael Schwerner, called Mickey by friends and colleagues, was a CORE field worker killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan in response to the civil-rights work he coordinated, which included promoting registration to vote among Mississippi African Americans. Born and raised in New York, he attended Michigan State University, originally intending to become a veterinarian. He transferred to Cornell University, however, and switched his major to sociology, … - Billy The Kid
Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 - July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney. He was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. He was reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life. McCarty was 5'8" with blue eyes, smooth cheeks, and prominent front teeth. - Allison Krause
Allison Krause (April 23, 1951 - May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University, Ohio when she was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting the Vietnam war. The Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 106 meters (345 feet). Krause was shot in the back at about 105 meters (343 feet) fatally wounding her. - George Moscone
George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929-November 27, 1978) (pronounced "mos-"cone"-ee") was the mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. - Haing S. Ngor
Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 - February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician and actor who is best known for winning a 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie "The Killing Fields", in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in 1970s Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He was an ethnic Chinese whose family came from Chaozhou, China. - Big Hawk
John Edward Hawkins (November 1, 1969 - May 1, 2006), better known as Big Hawk or H.A.W.K was a rapper from Houston, Texas and a founding member of the late DJ Screw's rap group the Screwed Up Click. He was also the older brother of Fat Pat, who was killed in 1998. Hawk, 36, was recently married and had two young sons. In 1994 Hawk, Fat Pat, DJ Screw and some of their friends, KK and Koldjack, … - Huey P. Newton
Dr. Huey Percy Newton, was co-founder and inspirational leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, a black internationalist/racial equality organization that began in October 1966. - Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946 - July 15, 1997) was an accomplished Italian designer of both clothing and theater costumes. He was influenced by Andy Warhol, Ancient Roman and Greek art as well as modern abstract art; he is considered one of the most colorful and talented designers of the late 20th century. Gianni was the founder of famous fashion tag Versace. The first boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. - Ennis Cosby
Ennis Cosby was the son of actor Bill Cosby and Camille Hanks. He had four sisters. Cosby aspired to become a special education teacher after he overcame dyslexia. While he was a student at Teachers College, Columbia University, Cosby was murdered by a man named Mikhail Markhasev on January 16, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. He was 27 years old. Cosby had pulled his Mercedes to the side of Interstate 405 to change a flat tire when he was confronted by Markhasev. - John Dillinger
John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 - July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized him as a latter-day Robin Hood. He gained this reputation (and the nickname "Jackrabbit") for his graceful movements during bank heists, such as leaping over the counter (a movement he supposedly copied from the movies) and narrow getaways from police. His exploits, along with those of other criminals of the 1930s Depression era, … - Salvatore Maranzano
Salvatore Maranzano (1868-September 10, 1931) was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Mafia boss in the United States. He was known as a "Boss of Bosses" and controlled all Mafia activity within the US. As a youngster he had wanted to become a priest and even studied to become one, but later became associated with the Mafia in his homeland. - Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was an American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed in his apartment by a corrupt tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Hampton’s murder was chronicled in The Murder of Fred Hampton. - Baby Face Nelson
Lester Joseph Gillis, aka George Nelson but better known as Baby Face Nelson, due to his youthful appearance, was a diminutive (5' 4" tall) bank robber in the 1930s. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lester Gillis began his criminal career stealing cars and spending time with future members of the gang of Roger "Terrible" Touhy. Nelson also worked for a time as an enforcer for Chicago gangster Al Capone, … - George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell (March 9, 1918-August 25, 1967) was a United States Navy Commander and founder of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was a major figure in the Neo-Nazi movement in post-war United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among white nationalists and neo-Nazis. - James E. Davis
James E. Davis was a New York City police officer, corrections officer and councilmember. He was killed by a fellow politician in New York's City Hall, in a bizarre instance of political rivalry gone awry. Davis was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a corrections officer and a registered nurse. He spent his early childhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant before his family moved to Crown Heights. - Rachel Scott
Rachel Joy Scott was the first victim of the Columbine High School massacre, which claimed the lives of 12 children and a teacher, along with the two perpetrators, in one of the deadliest school slayings in U.S. history. Scott has since been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for "Rachel’s Challenge", a nationwide school outreach program for the prevention of teen violence, … - Joe Hill
Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies. He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. After his death, he became the subject of a folksong.
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