Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset

male, deceased (1552)
executed under the Tudors, governor of jersey, Lord High Treasurer of England, Duke in the Peerage of England, Queen consort, somerset house…executedbydecapitation, executed for treason
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1506 - January 22, 1552) was Lord Protector of England in the period between the death of King Henry VIII...
Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

male, deceased (1618)
poet, explorer, execution, "The Lost Colony", Roanoke Colony, governor of jersey…executedbydecapitation, executed for treason
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 or 1554 – 29 October, 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for es...

William Brereton

male, deceased (1536)
executed under the Tudors, executed for treason, groom, tudor, English, execution…executedbydecapitation
William Brereton, (May 17,1536), who came from a Cheshire landowning family, was a groom of the privy chamber of Henry VIII. He was caught up in...

James Douglas 4th Earl of Morton

male, deceased (1581)
House of Douglas and Angus, buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, execution, buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, Soldier…executedbydecapitation
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1525 - June 2, 1581), was the last, and arguably the most successful, of the four regents of Scotland during...
Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro

male, deceased (1538)
Pizarro brother, spanish conquistador, Colonial Peru, Explorer of South America, new world, panama…executedbydecapitation
Diego de Almagro (Almagro, Spain, ca. 1475 - Cuzco, Peru, July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish...
Ankokuji Ekei

Ankokuji Ekei

male, deceased (1600)
Japanese, executedbydecapitation, execution, Iyo Province, kyoto, Buddhism…Decapitation
Ankokuji Ekei was a daimyo of Aki Province in Japan, as well as a Buddhist monk following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 16th century. He went...
Francis Weston

Francis Weston

male, deceased (1536)
executed under the Tudors, Sir Francis Weston, Queen Anne Boleyn, executedbydecapitation, execution, English
Sir Francis Weston (1513? - 1536) was a wealthy gentleman-in-waiting to King Henry VIII of England. Francis was born into a very rich and...
Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl

female, deceased (1943)
weisse rose, third reich, Walhalla enshrinee, Nazi Germany, activist, resistance…executed, executedbydecapitation, condemned by Nazi court, executed by guillotine
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 - 22 February 1943), along with her brother Hans Scholl, were members of the White Rose non-violent resistance...

Mark Smeaton

male, deceased (1536)
henry viii, flemish, organ, cardinal wolsey, lute, tudor…executedbydecapitation, executed for treason, executed under the Tudors
Mark Smeaton (ex. 17 May 1536) was one of four men executed for alleged adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn. Smeaton was a handsome musician and dancer...
Sante Geronimo Caserio

Sante Geronimo Caserio

male, deceased (1894)
Motta Visconti, Coraggio compagni - evviva l' anarchia!, from the Province of Milan, emile henry, Italian anarchist, lyon…executedbydecapitation, executed
Sante Geronimo Caserio was an Italian anarchist, assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic. Caserio was born i...