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<td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor convicted of funding terrorism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/358/000022292/">Kofi Annan</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Secretary General of the UN, 1997-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/403/000022337/">Yasser Arafat</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-2004</tt></td> <td>Palestinian leader, former terrorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000027388/">Willie Bosket</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1962</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Inspired the Juvenile Offender Act of 1978</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/589/000207965/">Roy Bourgeois</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>School of the Americas Watch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/992/000027911/">Ian Brady</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>British serial killer, convicted of Moors Murders</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000159626/">Nikolai Bukharin</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Soviet theoretical economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000113739/">Stokely Carmichael</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1998</tt></td> <td>Black separatist, Pan-Africanist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/118/000023049/">Fidel Castro</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000025338/">Mark David Chapman</a></td> <td><center>Assassin</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Assassin of Beatle John Lennon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000089042/">Cesar Chavez</a></td> <td><center>Labor Leader</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1993</tt></td> <td>Mastermind of the California grape boycott</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/495/000048351/">Dorothy Day</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1980</tt></td> <td>Founder of the Catholic Worker movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/327/000045192/">John Demjanjuk</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-2012</tt></td> <td>Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000117021/">Katherine Dunham</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-2006</tt></td> <td>Dunham School of Dance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/201/000112862/">Guillermo Endara</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>President of Panama, 1989-94</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/667/000024595/">Mia Farrow</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Rosemary's Baby</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000065458/">Mahatma Gandhi</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Proselytizer of nonviolence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/209/000022143/">Gary Gilmore</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1977</tt></td> <td>Executed by Utah firing squad</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000023575/">Dick Gregory</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Autobiography: NIGGER!</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000129630/">Tony P. Hall</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Ohio, 1979-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000220055/">George V. Hansen</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-2014</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Idaho</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000025344/">John Hinckley</a></td> <td><center>Assassin</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Shot President Reagan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000024893/">John Holmes</a></td> <td><center>Pornstar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1988</tt></td> <td>Life-support system for a 10-inch penis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000089927/">John Hume</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000022626/">Saddam Hussein</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-2006</tt></td> <td>President of Iraq, 1979-2003</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000050167/">Carlos the Jackal</a></td> <td><center>Terrorist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>International terrorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/555/000110225/">Rick Jason</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-2000</tt></td> <td>Lt. Gil Hanley on Combat!</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000055785/">Warren Jeffs</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Head of FLDS polygamist clan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/325/000094043/">Meir Kahane</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1990</tt></td> <td>Founder of Jewish Defense League</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/272/000023203/">Jack Kevorkian</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-2011</tt></td> <td>Euthanasia enthusiast</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/092/000025017/">Alan Keyes</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Illinois carpetbagger</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/633/000025558/">Mikhail Khodorkovsky</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder of Yukos, now jailed</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/178/000057007/">Arthur Koestler</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1983</tt></td> <td>Darkness at Noon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/979/000090709/">Aung San Suu Kyi</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Burmese activist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/349/000023280/">G. Gordon Liddy</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Watergate criminal, talk-show-host</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000023222/">Nelson Mandela</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-2013</tt></td> <td>President of South Africa, 1994-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000171183/">Adam Michnik</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Gazeta Wyborcza</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/008/000109678/">Evo Morales</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Bolivia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/815/000025740/">John Allen Muhammad</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-1960</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-2009</tt></td> <td>Beltway sniper</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000027395/">Terry Nichols</a></td> <td><center>Terrorist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Timothy McVeigh's partner in crime</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/320/000104008/">Osceola</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1804</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1838</tt></td> <td>Seminole Indian chief</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000092621/">Emmeline Pankhurst</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td>Militant suffragette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000107467/">Alice Paul</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1977</tt></td> <td>Suffragette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000083113/">Leonard Peltier</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Native American political prisoner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000034580/">James Earl Ray</a></td> <td><center>Assassin</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1998</tt></td> <td>Pled guilty in Martin Luther King's assassination</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000115109/">Jack Reed</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1920</tt></td> <td>Ten Days That Shook the World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000120422/">Randall Robinson</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>What America Owes to Blacks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000024882/">Anwar Sadat</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1981</tt></td> <td>President of Egypt, 1970-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000079586/">Andrei Sakharov</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1989</tt></td> <td>Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000109004/">Bobby Sands</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1981</tt></td> <td>Irish hunger striker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/281/000025206/">Al Sharpton</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Minister, Presidential hopeful</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000101308/">Cindy Sheehan</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Peace Mom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/618/000039501/">Chen Shui-bian</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Taiwan, 2000-08</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/434/000141011/">Perry Smith</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1965</tt></td> <td>In Cold Blood</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000091538/">Josip Broz Tito</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1980</tt></td> <td>Communist dictator of Yugoslavia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000062800/">Gloria Trevi</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mexican Madonna</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000023188/">Mike Tyson</a></td> <td><center>Boxing</center></td> <td 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