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<html> <head> <title>Tortured</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Tortured EVENT See also: <ul> <li><a href="/event/500/000163011/">Branded</a></li> <li><a href="/event/713/000121350/">Burned at the Stake</a></li> <li><a href="/event/591/000108267/">Pilloried</a></li> <li><a href="/event/776/000205161/">Waterboarded</a></li> </ul> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/923/000099626/">Omar Abdel-Rahman</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Blind Sheikh</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/881/000096593/">St. Agatha</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-251 AD</tt></td> <td>Patron saint of Catania</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000091801/">Atahualpa</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1502</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1533</tt></td> <td>Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000100787/">Anthony Babington</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1561</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Sep-1586</tt></td> <td>Plotted to overthrow Elizabeth I</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000110613/">Michelle Bachelet</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Chile</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/557/000114215/">Bahá'u'lláh</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1817</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1892</tt></td> <td>Founder of Baha'i</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000024766/">Mikhail Bakunin</a></td> <td><center>Anarchist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1814</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1876</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of the Anarchist movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/121/000032025/">Menachem Begin</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1992</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Israel, 1977-82</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/226/000101920/">Steve Biko</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1977</tt></td> <td>Father of Black Consciousness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000087578/">Boethius</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 470 AD</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>524 AD</tt></td> <td>Consolation of Philosophy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/516/000171003/">Charles G. Boyd</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Retired General, US Air Force</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/471/000177937/">Pappy Boyington</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1988</tt></td> <td>World War II flying ace</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000094451/">François Bozizé</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Central African Republic 2003-13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000029578/">Giordano Bruno</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1548</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1600</tt></td> <td>Heretic cosmologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000023982/">Lloyd Bucher</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-2004</tt></td> <td>Commander of USS Pueblo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/319/000179779/">Edmund Campion</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1540</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1581</tt></td> <td>Jesuit martyr, hanged at Tyburn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000104653/">Beatrice Cenci</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1577</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1599</tt></td> <td>Italian beauty, murdered her father</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000133678/">Paulo Coelho</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Alchemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000165255/">Eli Cohen</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1965</tt></td> <td>Israel's greatest spy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/775/000095490/">Cuauhtemoc</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1495</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1525</tt></td> <td>Last Aztec Emperor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/952/000096664/">Robert-François Damiens</a></td> <td><center>Assassin</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1715</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1757</tt></td> <td>Attacked Louis XV of France</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/379/000172860/">Bud Day</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-2013</tt></td> <td>Former POW</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000084826/">Jacques DeMolay</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1244</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1314</tt></td> <td>Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/884/000161401/">Jeremiah Denton</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-2014</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Alabama, 1981-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/199/000112860/">José Napoleón Duarte</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1990</tt></td> <td>President of El Salvador, 1984-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/304/000091031/">Adolfo Pérez Esquivel</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nobel Peace Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000027679/">Frances Farmer</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1970</tt></td> <td>Hollywood actress, institutionalized</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000091684/">Guy Fawkes</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1570</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1606</tt></td> <td>Tried to blow up British Parliament</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/455/000024383/">Bobby Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Chess Player</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-2008</tt></td> <td>Eccentric chess grandmaster</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/779/000027698/">Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani</a></td> <td><center>Terrorist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1974</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Charged with bombing US Embassies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/561/000118207/">Arvid Harnack</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1942</tt></td> <td>Hanged by the Nazis for espionage</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000118206/">Mildred Fish Harnack</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1943</tt></td> <td>Guillotined by the Gestapo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000025288/">Patty Hearst</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Kidnapped by SLA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000031622/">David Hicks</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1975</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Australia's answer to John Walker Lindh</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000093128/">Hypatia of Alexandria</a></td> <td><center>Curator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 370 AD</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Mar-415 AD</tt></td> <td>Librarian of Alexandria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/191/000123819/">Hypereides</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 390 BC</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-322 BC</tt></td> <td>Athenian logographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000101522/">Robert Jenkins</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>fl. 1731-45</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>fl. 1731-45</tt></td> <td>War of Jenkins' Ear</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000027693/">Jesus Christ</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 4 BC</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-30 AD</tt></td> <td>Carpenter, evangelist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000103151/">St. John of Nepomuk</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1345</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1393</tt></td> <td>Patron saint of Bohemia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000039290/">Sam Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, Texas 3rd</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000132254/">Noor Inayat Khan</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/169/000025094/">Thomas Kyd</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1558</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Aug-1594</tt></td> <td>The Spanish Tragedy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000125707/">Daulton Lee</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Snowman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/485/000026407/">John Walker Lindh</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1981</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The American Taliban</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000163507/">Danny Lockin</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1977</tt></td> <td>Stage actor, murdered in 1977</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000086073/">Abner Louima</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>New York's Rodney King</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/634/000087373/">Rosa Luxemburg</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1919</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000034552/">Niccolò Machiavelli</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1469</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1527</tt></td> <td>The Prince</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/385/000163893/">Simon Mann</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Executive Outcomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/914/000023845/">John McCain</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Arizona</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000103532/">Aimee Semple McPherson</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>Evangelist, faith healer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/429/000027348/">Khalid Shaikh Mohammed</a></td> <td><center>Terrorist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1964</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Al Qaeda's #3 man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000022679/">Sun Myung Moon</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-2012</tt></td> <td>Head Moonie</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000113732/">Jean Moulin</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td>Martyr of the French Resistance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/908/000112572/">Mohammad Najibullah</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1996</tt></td> <td>President of Afghanistan, 1987-92</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/499/000163010/">James Nayler</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1618</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1660</tt></td> <td>The Quaker Jesus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/093/000063901/">Haing S. Ngor</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1996</tt></td> <td>The Killing Fields</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/295/000023226/">Jose Padilla</a></td> <td><center>Terrorist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1970</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Convicted of conspiracy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/376/000120016/">Pete Peterson</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Vietnam, 1997-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000095087/">Jerzy Popieluszko</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1984</tt></td> <td>Priest murdered by Polish government</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/551/000113212/">Sayyid Qutb</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1966</tt></td> <td>Muslim Brotherhood philosopher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/515/000257741/">Dilma Rousseff</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Brazil</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/631/000094349/">Girolamo Savonarola</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1452</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1498</tt></td> <td>Italian monk and martyr</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000134011/">Hussain al-Shahristani</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Iraqi Minister of Oil</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/705/000052549/">Matthew Shepard</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1976</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1998</tt></td> <td>Gay hate crime victim</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/307/000179767/">Robert Southwell</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1561</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1595</tt></td> <td>Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/969/000022903/">James Stockdale</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-2005</tt></td> <td>H. 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