CRIME

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Atahualpa	Royalty	c. 1502	29-Aug-1533	Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro
Kofi Awoonor	Poet	13-Mar-1935		Rediscovery
Victor L. Berger	Politician	28-Feb-1860	7-Aug-1929	Socialist Rep. from Wisconsin
Charles Bradlaugh	Activist	26-Sep-1833	30-Jan-1891	Atheistic Iconoclast
Richard G. Butler	Activist	23-Feb-1918	8-Sep-2004	Founder of the Aryan Nations
Father Charles Coughlin	Religion	25-Oct-1891	27-Oct-1979	Radio opponent of FDR
Kim Dae-Jung	Head of State	3-Dec-1925		South Korean President, 1998-2003
Eamon de Valera	Head of State	14-Oct-1882	29-Aug-1975	President of Ireland, 1959-73
Eugene V. Debs	Labor Leader	5-Nov-1855	20-Oct-1926	Labor leader ran for President five times
Daniel Defoe	Author	Sep-1660	24-Apr-1731	Robinson Crusoe
Max Eastman	Author	12-Jan-1883	25-Mar-1969	Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Peter Fraser	Head of State	28-Aug-1884	5-Aug-1950	Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1940-49
Mahatma Gandhi	Activist	2-Oct-1869	30-Jan-1948	Proselytizer of nonviolence
William M. Gwin	Politician	9-Oct-1805	3-Sep-1885	US Senator from California
Jesus Christ	Religion	c. 4 BC	7-Apr-30 AD	Carpenter, evangelist
Ben Jonson	Playwright	11-Jun-1572	6-Aug-1637	Volpone
Rosa Luxemburg	Activist	5-Mar-1871	15-Jan-1919	Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
Ricardo Flores Magón	Anarchist	16-Sep-1873	21-Nov-1922	Agitator behind Mexican revolution
Elijah Muhammad	Religion	7-Oct-1897	25-Feb-1975	Nation of Islam
Daniel O'Connell	Politician	6-Aug-1775	15-May-1847	Irish hero, called The Liberator
Titus Oates	Criminal	15-Sep-1649	12-Jul-1705	Popish Plot
Thomas Paine	Activist	29-Jan-1737	8-Jun-1809	Common Sense
Leyla Qasim	Activist	1952	5-Dec-1974	Kurdish martyr
William E. Riker	Religion	1873	3-Dec-1969	Holy City cult leader
Flavio Sosa	Politician	1953		Jailed APPO councilman
Sukarno	Head of State	6-Jun-1901	21-Jun-1970	President of Indonesia, 1945-67
Mahmoud Muhammad Taha	Religion	c. 1909	18-Jan-1985	Progressive Islamic theologian
John Wilkes	Politician	17-Oct-1725	26-Dec-1797	Colorful London radical

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