NNDB
This is a beta version of NNDB
Search: for
Battery

CRIME

See also Assault, Assault and Battery, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Sexual Assault and Sexual Battery.

Presence on this list implies merely that, to the best of our knowledge, charges were filed against the people in question, or in some cases, a civil suit. It is not meant to imply guilt, and in fact many of the individuals listed may have been found innocent of said charges or claims. Some details of the charge in question can often be found inside the specific profiles linked.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball
16-Apr-1947   NBA records for most minutes, most points
King Ad-Rock
Rapper
31-Oct-1966   Beastie Boys
Steven Adler
Drummer
22-Jan-1965   Former Guns N' Roses drummer
Chris Albrecht
Business
c. 1951   Former HBO Chairman and CEO
Rodney Alcala
Criminal
23-Aug-1943   The Dating Game killer
Lynn Anderson
Singer
26-Sep-1947   Rose Garden
Charles Barkley
Basketball
20-Feb-1963   NBA player scored over 23,000 points
Danny Bonaduce
Actor
13-Aug-1959   The Partridge Family
Willie Bosket
Criminal
9-Dec-1962   Inspired the Juvenile Offender Act of 1978
Russell Brand
Actor
4-Jun-1975   Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Nicholas Brendon
Actor
12-Apr-1971   Xander Harris on Buffy
Preston S. Brooks
Politician
5-Aug-1819 27-Jan-1857 Beat Charles Sumner with a cane
Bobby Brown
Singer
5-Feb-1969   My Prerogative
Foxy Brown
Rapper
6-Sep-1978   Ill Na Na
Jim Brown
Football
17-Feb-1936   Cleveland Browns RB
James Caan
Actor
26-Mar-1940   Vegas
Luther Campbell
Rapper
22-Dec-1960   2 Live Crew, Luke Records founder
Jose Canseco
Baseball
2-Jul-1964   Troubled Oakland A's player
Caravaggio
Painter
28-Sep-1573 18-Jul-1610 Temperamental painter
G. Harrold Carswell
Judge
22-Dec-1919 31-Jul-1992 Failed US Supreme Court nominee
Gary Coleman
Actor
8-Feb-1968 28-May-2010 Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes
Coolio
Rapper
1-Aug-1963   Gangsta's Paradise
Andy Dick
Comic
21-Dec-1965   Matthew from NewsRadio
Bernardine Dohrn
Activist
12-Jan-1942   Weather Underground leader
Gary Dourdan
Actor
11-Dec-1966   Warrick Brown on CSI
Dr. Dre
Music Producer
18-Feb-1965   Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang
Fred Durst
Musician
20-Aug-1970   Lead singer of Limp Bizkit
James Farentino
Actor
24-Feb-1938 24-Jan-2012 The Final Countdown
Jamie Foxx
Comic
13-Dec-1967   Ray
John Fund
Columnist
8-Apr-1957   The Wall Street Journal
Edward Furlong
Actor
2-Aug-1977   Terminator 2 and Pecker
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actor
6-Feb-1917   Cop-slapping Gabor sister
John Wayne Gacy
Criminal
17-Mar-1942 10-May-1994 28 dead boys in his crawlspace
Dave Gahan
Musician
9-May-1962   Depeche Mode
Lane Garrison
Actor
23-May-1980   Tweener on Prison Break
Mel Gibson
Actor
3-Jan-1956   Mad Max
Dwight Gooden
Baseball
16-Nov-1964   Pitcher, New York Mets
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Actor
2-Jan-1968   Show him the money already
Matt Hale
Religion
27-Jul-1971   White supremacist
Joey Heatherton
Actor
14-Sep-1944   1960s sex kitten
Adolf Hitler
Head of State
20-Apr-1889 30-Apr-1945 Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Shannon Hoon
Musician
26-Sep-1967 21-Oct-1995 Frontman for Blind Melon
Allen Iverson
Basketball
7-Jun-1975   Detroit Pistons point guard
Jenna Jameson
Pornstar
9-Apr-1974   Got naked with Howard Stern in Private Parts
Warren Jeffs
Religion
3-Dec-1955   Head of FLDS polygamist clan
Don Johnson
Actor
15-Dec-1949   Miami Vice, Nash Bridges
George Jones
Country Musician
12-Sep-1931 26-Apr-2013 Country singer, White Lightning
Juvenile
Rapper
25-Mar-1975   Back That Ass Up
Meir Kahane
Activist
1-Aug-1932 5-Nov-1990 Founder of Jewish Defense League
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Singer
20-May-1959 26-Jun-1997 Hawaiian ukulele musician
John Mark Karr
Criminal
11-Dec-1964   JonBenét Ramsey murder suspect
Patrick Joseph Kennedy
Politician
14-Jul-1967   Congressman from Rhode Island, 1995-2011
Norma Khouri
Hoaxer
c. 1970   Author of Forbidden Love
Rodney King
Victim
2-Apr-1965 17-Jun-2012 Subject of filmed LAPD beatdown
Evel Knievel
Daredevil
17-Oct-1938 30-Nov-2007 Daredevil and one-time action figure
Suge Knight
Business
19-Apr-1965   Rap mogul and ex-con
Ronnie Kray
Criminal
24-Oct-1933 17-Mar-1995 Kray brothers
Adam Lambert
Singer
29-Jan-1982   American Idol
Artie Lange
Comic
11-Oct-1967   MADtv, Howard Stern
Wallace Langham
Actor
11-Mar-1965   Phil on The Larry Sanders Show
Martin Lawrence
Comic
16-Apr-1965   Martin
Alex Lifeson
Guitarist
27-Aug-1953   Guitarist for Rush
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
Singer
27-May-1971 25-Apr-2002 Member of TLC
Trini Lopez
Musician
15-May-1937   If I Had A Hammer
Courtney Love
Singer
9-Jul-1964   Kurt Cobain's widow, Hole
Bill Maher
Talk Show Host
20-Jan-1956   Politically Incorrect
Marilyn Manson
Singer
5-Jan-1969   Goth shock rocker
John Matuszak
Football
25-Oct-1950 17-Jun-1989 Oakland Raider turned actor
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Boxing
24-Feb-1977   WBC Welterweight boxing champion
Mindy McCready
Country Musician
30-Nov-1975 17-Feb-2013 Troubled country music singer
Russell Means
Activist
10-Nov-1939 22-Oct-2012 American Indian Movement
Tom Mix
Actor
6-Jan-1880 12-Oct-1940 Old-time silent movie cowboy
Eddie Money
Singer/Songwriter
21-Mar-1949   Take Me Home Tonight
Randy Moss
Football
13-Feb-1977   San Francisco 49ers WR
Vince Neil
Singer
8-Feb-1961   Mötley Crüe vocalist
Brian Nichols
Criminal
10-Dec-1971   Allegedly killed judge, deputy during escape
Lisa Nowak
Astronaut
10-May-1963   According to lawyer, no diaper
Jose Padilla
Terrorist
18-Oct-1970   Convicted of conspiracy
Michael Parenti
Critic
1933   Make-Believe Media
Sean Penn
Actor
17-Aug-1960   Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fred Phelps
Activist
13-Nov-1929   Convinced that God hates fags
Lawrence Phillips
Football
12-May-1975   Troubled former pro football player
Bob Probert
Hockey
5-Jun-1965 5-Jul-2010 Red Wings and Blackhawks bad boy
Richard Pryor
Comic
1-Dec-1940 10-Dec-2005 Stand-up comic, Stir Crazy
Chopper Read
Criminal
17-Nov-1954   Earless Australian killer, author
Geraldo Rivera
Journalist
4-Jul-1943   Fox News commentator
Barret Robbins
Football
26-Aug-1973   Superbowl XXXVII no-show
Kid Rock
Musician
17-Jan-1971   Rocker for Middle America
Dennis Rodman
Basketball
13-May-1961   Eccentric ex-pro basketball player
Alfonso Rodriguez
Criminal
18-Feb-1953   Multiple rapist, alleged murderer
Tupac Shakur
Rapper
16-Jun-1971 13-Sep-1996 All Eyez on Me
Gary Sheffield
Baseball
18-Nov-1968   Atlanta Braves, Yankees outfielder
Beanie Sigel
Rapper
6-Mar-1974   Rapper, Protege of Jay-Z
Tom Sizemore
Actor
29-Nov-1961   Heat, Robbery Homicide Division
Christian Slater
Actor
18-Aug-1969   Kuffs, True Romance
Shepard Smith
TV Personality
14-Jan-1964   Fox News anchor
Phil Spector
Music Producer
26-Dec-1940   Creator of the Wall of Sound
Steve-O
Daredevil
13-Jun-1974   Jackass
Sticky Fingaz
Musician
3-Apr-1970   Black Trash
Quentin Tarantino
Film Director
27-Mar-1963   Pulp Fiction
Lionel Tate
Criminal
30-Jan-1987   Florida's wrestling death teen
Sean Taylor
Football
1-Apr-1983 27-Nov-2007 Washington Redskins safety, murdered 2007
David S. Terry
Judge
8-Mar-1823 14-Aug-1889 California Chief Justice, 1857-59
Mike Tyson
Boxing
30-Jun-1966   Erratic heavyweight champion
Michael Vick
Football
26-Jun-1980   Football quarterback and dog fighter
Jan-Michael Vincent
Actor
15-Jul-1944   Airwolf
Estella Warren
Model
23-Dec-1970   Synchronized swimmer turned model
Jack Whittaker
 
c. 1947   Powerball winner, $111,681,349 after taxes
Wendy O. Williams
Singer
28-May-1949 6-Apr-1998 Singer for The Plasmatics
Sean Young
Actor
20-Nov-1959   Replicant in Blade Runner


Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile



Copyright ©2013 Soylent Communications

NNDB MAPPER


Wayne to Lance


Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.


Bibliographies

NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. They may be accessed by the "Bibliography" tab at the top of most pages, or via the "Related Topics" box in the sidebar. Please feel free to suggest books that might be critical omissions.