- 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, … - Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 - June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal trials in U.S. history. The daughter of Juditha and Louis Brown, Nicole (like her older sister) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but the family moved to Dana Point, California, where she grew up, … - 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, … - Black Dahlia
Elizabeth "Betty" Short, was an aspiring actress, today better known as the Black Dahlia. She was the victim of a gruesome and unsolved murder at the age of 22. - Proof
DeShaun Dupree Holton (October 2 1973-April 11 2006), better known as Proof, was an American rapper and member of the rap group D12. Proof was a long time friend and publicity assistant of Eminem, and was also nicknamed Big Proof, P, Dirty Harry, and Oil Can Harry. Proof began his career in Detroit's Hip Hop Shop organizing freestyle tournaments, … - Robert McCartney
Robert McCartney was the victim of a murder in Belfast, Northern Ireland, allegedly carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was a father of two small children and was engaged to be married in June 2005 to his long-term partner, Bridgeen Hagans. He was a Catholic and lived in the predominantly nationalist Short Strand area of East Belfast and was said by some to be a supporter of Sinn Féin. - Laci Peterson
Laci Peterson, born Laci Denise Rocha (May 4, 1975 - ca. December 24 2002), was the subject of one of the most discussed missing-person cases in United States history, after she went missing while eight months pregnant with her first child. Laci was last seen alive on December 23, 2002. Her husband, Scott Peterson was eventually convicted of her murder and is currently on death row at San Quentin Prison. - Matthew Shepard
Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was fatally attacked near Laramie, Wyoming, on the night of October 6 – October 7, 1998 in what was widely reported by international news media as a savage beating due to his homosexuality. Shepard died from severe head injuries at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12. - 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. - Benazir Bhutto
She was elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with her mother, and when free elections were finally held in 1988, she herself became Prime Minister. At 35, she was one of the youngest chief executives in the world, and the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country. - Ronald Goldman
Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 - June 12, 1994) was an aspiring actor and part-time model who was murdered in Los Angeles, California, in 1994 at the age of 25. Also found murdered was his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. The subsequent criminal investigation and trial was called by some the "trial of the century". - Sharon Tate
Sharon Marie Tate was a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. During the 1960s she played small roles in television, before starting her film career. She appeared in several films that highlighted her beauty, and after receiving positive reviews for her comedic performances, was hailed as one of Hollywood's promising newcomers. Tate's celebrity status increased following her marriage to the film director, Roman Polański, … - 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. - Paris
Paris was an actor in Rome in the 1st century AD. Born in Egypt, he came to Rome in the reign of Domitian, where his skills as a pantomimus won him popular favour, noblewomen as lovers, influence within the imperial court and the power to promote his favourites within the court. - Elizabeth Bain
Elizabeth Bain, born July 1967, was murdered in 1989, a 22-year-old university student in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, disappeared and was presumed murdered on June 19, 1990. Her car was later discovered with a bloodstain in the backseat, but her body was never found. Bain's boyfriend, Robert Baltovich, was convicted of her murder on March 31, 1992; however, his conviction was set aside 12 years later, … - 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. - 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. - Chandra Levy
Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977 - May 2001) was an intern who worked at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in the spring of 2001 and was subsequently found murdered in Rock Creek Park. The investigation into her disappearance uncovered an affair with then-U.S. Representative Gary Condit, a Democrat representing California's 18th congressional district and a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. - John Gibson
Detective John Michael Gibson was a United States Capitol Police officer assigned to the dignitary protection detail of Congressman Tom DeLay. He was shot and killed after confronting Russell Eugene Weston Jr., who had shot and killed officer Jacob Chestnut seconds earlier. Detective Gibson, who was in plainclothes, was shot after the suspect entered the office of Congressman DeLay. - Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager living in London, UK, who was murdered in April 1993 at the age of 18. While waiting at a bus stop with his friend Duwayne Brooks, he was attacked by a group of young white males who on catching sight of them both; screamed; "WHAT? WHAT! N****R!" as they charged at him, with one pulling out a knife which was then used to stab Stephen to death. - Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and performer who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning his career at Motown in 1961, Gaye quickly became Motown's top solo male artist and scored numerous hits during the 1960s, among them "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", … - Sean Taylor
Sean Michael Taylor (born April 1, 1983 in Miami, Florida) is an American football player who currently plays free safety for the Washington Redskins of the NFL. Due to his ferocious style of hitting, his teammates have nicknamed him "Meast". This a reference to him being "half-man, half beast. - Mickey Spillane
Michael Spillane much better known as Mickey Spillane (July 13th 1934-May 13th 1977) was an Irish-American mobster from Hell's Kitchen, New York. Spillane, who was called the "last of the gentleman gangsters", was a marked contrast to the violent Westies gang members who succeeded him in Hell's Kitchen. - James Bulger
James "Jamie" Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 - 12 February 1993) was a two-year old toddler who was abducted and murdered by two 10 year-old boys, Jon Venables (born 8 August 1982) and Robert Thompson (born August 23, 1982), in Merseyside, England. The murder of a child by two other children caused an immense public outpouring of shock, outrage and grief, particularly in Liverpool and surrounding towns. - Dru Sjodin
Dru Kathrina Sjodin (September 26, 1981 - November 22, 2003), a student of the University of North Dakota (UND), was a victim of kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder. Her disappearance garnered great media coverage throughout the United States and prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry. - James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd, Jr. (May 2, 1949 - June 7, 1998) was an African-American murdered in 1998 by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King, in Jasper, Texas. - Brandon Teena
Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1993), born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska, and known simply as Brandon, was a physiological female living as a transsexual man who was raped and eventually murdered in one of the most infamous American hate crimes of the 1990s. Brandon is the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry", … - Jane Creba
Jane Creba was a 15-year-old from Toronto, Canada, who was mortally shot on one of Toronto's busiest streets while shopping on Boxing Day, 2005. The story generated national news in Canada and impacted upon the then-underway 2006 federal election campaign on the issues of gun crime and street violence. A Riverdale Collegiate Institute Grade 10 student, Creba was killed while shopping with her sister on Toronto’s Yonge Street, … - Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and the Putin administration. She held Russian and US citizenship. She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on 7 October 2006. Politkovskaya made her name reporting from Chechnya for Russia's liberal newspaper, "Novaya Gazeta". The BBC described her writing as "often polemical, … - Lana Clarkson
Lana Clarkson (April 5, 1962 - February 3, 2003) was an American actress. She was born in Long Beach, California. Clarkson is best known for her film work with Roger Corman, appearing first in his fantasy epic "Deathstalker" (1983). Her work as a sword weilding vixen led to her being offered the title role in Corman's next film, the cult classic "Barbarian Queen" (1985), … - Christa Worthington
Christa Worthington (1956 - 6 January, 2002) was a United States fashion writer who worked for "Women's Wear Daily", "Cosmopolitan", "ELLE", "Harper's Bazaar", and the "New York Times". She was also a co-author of several books on fashion. Worthington was raped and stabbed to death at her home in Truro, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). Her body was found on January 6, 2002, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, clinging to her body. - Gwen Araujo
Gwen Amber Rose Araujo was a transgendered teenager who died during or shortly after being attacked by multiple individuals. The events leading up to Araujo's death were the subject of a pair of criminal trials in which it was alleged that the attackers were angered by the discovery that Araujo - who, at the time, was living as female - was biologically male. In the most recent trial, two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, … - Jill Dando
Jill Dando (9 November 1961 - 26 April 1999) was a British television presenter who worked for the BBC for over fifteen years. She was murdered in April 1999, and police mounted a high-profile hunt for her killer. The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science is named after her in recognition of her contribution to the fight against crime. - Jay Sebring
Jay Sebring (October 10,1933 - August 9, 1969) was a successful international American hair stylist to American celebrities. - Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh (July 23, 1957–November 2, 2004) was a Dutch film director, television producer, publicist and actor. He was a descendant of Theo van Gogh, the brother of painter Vincent van Gogh. He was murdered by islamist Mohammed Bouyeri in 2004. - Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 - August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. After fighting in the Union Army during the American Civil War, he became a famous army scout, and later, a lawman and gunfighter. - Abigail Folger
Abigail Anne Folger was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee. - Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi. - Daniel Faulkner
Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955-December 9, 1981) was a police officer in the American city of Philadelphia who was shot and killed in the line of duty. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist, political activist, and member of the Black Panther Party and supporter of MOVE, was arrested and convicted of Faulkner's murder. Abu-Jamal's conviction has since led to a decades-long controversy. - Joe Cole
Joe Cole (April 10 1961 - December 19 1991) was a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was also the best friend and roommate of the musician/author/actor Henry Rollins. His memoirs were published posthumously by 2.13.61 publishing, "Planet Joe", in which he documented his experiences on the last Black Flag tour and first Rollins Band tour. He was shot and killed in a robbery at their home on December 19, 1991, as the pair returned from the video rental store.
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