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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Joan Vollmer Adams
Victim
1924 6-Sep-1951 Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
Randall Adams
Victim
1949   Innocent man in The Thin Blue Line
Fatty Arbuckle
Actor
24-Mar-1887 29-Jun-1933 Keystone Cop
Gavin Arvizo
Victim
Dec-1989   Michael Jackson's special friend
Bonny Lee Bakley
Victim
7-Jun-1956 4-May-2001 Baretta's wife, got whacked
Steve Bartman
Victim
c. 1977   Cubs fan, grasped for wrong baseball
Nick Berg
Victim
2-Apr-1978 May-2004 US contractor, beheaded on Iraq videotape
John Wayne Bobbitt
Victim
23-Mar-1967   Penectomy survivor
Carlie Brucia
Victim
16-Mar-1992 1-Feb-2004 Little girl kidnapped and killed
Edith Cavell
Victim
4-Dec-1865 12-Oct-1915 British nurse, shot by the Germans
Azaria Chamberlain
Victim
11-Jun-1980 17-Aug-1980 Reportedly eaten by dingoes
Jordy Chandler
Victim
11-Jan-1980   Boy who got $15.3M from Michael Jackson
Ray Chapman
Baseball
15-Jan-1891 17-Aug-1920 Fatally hit by pitch
Darva Conger
Victim
21-Sep-1965   Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?
Rachel Corrie
Activist
10-Apr-1979 16-Mar-2003 US activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer
Joseph Force Crater
Victim
5-Jan-1889 6-Aug-1930 NY State Judge vanished
Melissa DeHart
Victim
Jul-1974   58-pound celebrity anorexic
John Demjanjuk
Criminal
3-Apr-1920 17-Mar-2012 Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past
Reginald Denny
Victim
21-Apr-1953   Truck driver beaten in Rodney King riots
Amadou Diallo
Victim
2-Sep-1975 4-Feb-1999 Shot dead by the NYPD
Annette Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934   Canadian quintuplets put on display
Cecile Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934   Canadian quintuplets put on display
Emilie Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934 6-Aug-1954 Canadian quintuplets put on display
Marie Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934 27-Feb-1970 Canadian quintuplets put on display
Yvonne Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934 23-Jun-2001 Canadian quintuplets put on display
Joel Dorius
Educator
4-Jan-1919 14-Feb-2006 Professor fired for gay porn arrest
Alfred Dreyfus
Victim
9-Oct-1859 12-Jul-1935 Dreyfus Affair scapegoat
Medgar Evers
Activist
2-Jul-1925 12-Jun-1963 Civil rights activist murdered in 1963
Katelyn Kristine Faber
Victim
18-Jun-1985   Kobe Bryant's accuser
Frances Farmer
Actor
19-Sep-1913 1-Aug-1970 Hollywood actress, institutionalized
Anne Frank
Victim
12-Jun-1929 Mar-1945 The Diary of Anne Frank
Leo Frank
Victim
17-Apr-1884 17-Aug-1915 Innocent man, lynched by mob
Kitty Genovese
Victim
7-Jul-1935 13-Mar-1964 Allegedly killed by collective apathy
Ron Goldman
Victim
2-Jul-1968 12-Jun-1994 Murder victim, OJ Simpson trial
Elian Gonzalez
Victim
6-Dec-1993   Cuban boy tug-o-war
Jessica Hahn
Victim
7-Jul-1959   Had sex with Jim Bakker
Patty Hearst
Victim
20-Feb-1954   Kidnapped by SLA
Keith Henson
Victim
1942   Scientology Victim
Anita Hill
Victim
30-Jul-1956   Former colleague of Clarence Thomas
Natalee Holloway
Victim
21-Oct-1986 30-May-2005 Disappeared in Aruba
Ishi
Oddity
c. 1860 25-Mar-1916 Last of an extinct tribe
Steve Jackson
Business
c. 1952   Game publisher raided by the Secret Service
Richard Jewell
Victim
17-Nov-1962 29-Aug-2007 Innocent security guard blamed for bombing
Joan of Arc
Religion
6-Jan-1412 30-May-1431 Maid of Orleans, burned at the stake
Alan Johnston
Journalist
17-May-1962   Kidnapped BBC journalist
Paula Jones
Victim
17-Sep-1966   Sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment
Nancy Kerrigan
Victim
13-Oct-1969   Figure skater hit by baton
Rodney King
Victim
2-Apr-1965 17-Jun-2012 Subject of filmed LAPD beatdown
Polly Klaas
Victim
3-Jan-1981 Nov-1993 Murdered by Richard Allen Davis
Leon Klinghoffer
Victim
24-Sep-1916 7-Oct-1985 Shot and thrown overboard by terrorists
Mary Jo Kopechne
Victim
26-Jul-1940 18-Jul-1969 Dead woman in Ted Kennedy's car
Wen Ho Lee
Victim
21-Dec-1939   Allegedly spied for China
Chandra Levy
Victim
14-Apr-1977 1-May-2001 Gary Condit's dead intern
Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
Victim
22-Jun-1930 Mar-1932 The Lindbergh Baby
Abner Louima
Victim
24-Nov-1966   New York's Rodney King
Jessica Lynch
Victim
26-Apr-1983   PFC captured by Iraq, rescued
Clara Maass
Activist
28-Jun-1876 24-Aug-1901 Human experiments with yellow fever
Andrea Mackris
Victim
c. 1971   Allegedly harassed by Bill O'Reilly
Georgi Markov
Victim
1-Mar-1929 11-Sep-1978 Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella
Trayvon Martin
Victim
5-Feb-1995 26-Feb-2012 Shot and killed by George Zimmerman
Christopher McCandless
Victim
12-Feb-1968 18-Aug-1992 Subject of Into the Wild
Jessica McClure
Victim
26-Mar-1986   Baby Jessica, rescued from well
Christoph Meili
Victim
21-Apr-1968   Whistleblower, fired by Union Banque Suisse
Martha Moxley
Victim
16-Aug-1960 30-Oct-1975 Murdered by Michael Skakel
Merhan Karimi Nasseri
Victim
c. 1950   Trapped at De Gaulle Airport since 1988
Haing S. Ngor
Victim
22-Mar-1940 25-Feb-1996 The Killing Fields
Leonard Peltier
Criminal
12-Sep-1944   Native American political prisoner
Laci Peterson
Victim
4-May-1975 23-Dec-2002 Pregnant mother's body found in bay
Jerzy Popieluszko
Activist
23-Sep-1947 19-Oct-1984 Priest murdered by Polish government
JonBenét Ramsey
Victim
6-Aug-1990 26-Dec-1996 6-year-old murdered pageant winner
Robert C. Randall
Victim
23-Jan-1948 2-Jun-2001 First recipient of federal marijuana
Virginia Rappe
Victim
7-Jul-1891 9-Sep-1921 Fatty Arbuckle scandal
David Reimer
Victim
1965 4-May-2004 Boy raised as a girl
Rick Rescorla
Victim
27-May-1939 11-Sep-2001 Anticipated both WTC attacks, died in 9/11
Audrey Santo
Victim
19-Dec-1983 14-Apr-2007 Miracle girl in a coma
Terri Schiavo
Victim
3-Dec-1963 31-Mar-2005 Human vegetable, 1990-2005
Dred Scott
Victim
c. 1799 17-Sep-1858 Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court
Giuliana Sgrena
Activist
20-Dec-1948   Marxist journalist, kidnapped in Iraq
Matthew Shepard
Victim
1-Dec-1976 12-Oct-1998 Gay hate crime victim
Craig Shergold
Victim
24-Jun-1979   Subject of Internet chain letters
Elizabeth Short
Victim
29-Jul-1924 15-Jan-1947 The Black Dahlia
Karen Silkwood
Victim
19-Feb-1946 13-Nov-1974 Nuclear whistleblower
Nicole Brown Simpson
Victim
19-May-1959 12-Jun-1994 OJ's murdered ex-wife
Elizabeth Smart
Victim
3-Nov-1987   Kidnap victim
Edward Smith
Victim
27-Jan-1850 15-Apr-1912 Captain of the RMS Titanic
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Author
11-Dec-1918 3-Aug-2008 The Gulag Archipelago
Nancy Spungen
Victim
27-Feb-1958 12-Oct-1978 Sid Vicious's girlfriend
Steven Stayner
Victim
18-Apr-1965 16-Sep-1989 Boy kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell
Emmett Till
Victim
25-Jul-1941 28-Aug-1955 Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi
Iva Toguri
Radio Personality
4-Jul-1916 26-Sep-2006 Never actually was Tokyo Rose
David Vetter
Victim
21-Sep-1971 22-Feb-1984 The Boy in the Bubble
Sunny von Bulow
Victim
1-Sep-1932 6-Dec-2008 Heiress in a coma for 28 years
Terry Waite
Victim
31-May-1939   Hostage negotiator, then hostage
Randy Weaver
Victim
3-Jan-1948   Ruby Ridge Incident
Horst Wessel
Activist
9-Oct-1907 23-Feb-1930 Nazi martyr
Ryan White
Victim
6-Dec-1971 8-Apr-1990 Suburban kid, AIDS activist





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