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2013 Event - Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking number of new Catholic Church saints; Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI submitted the 813 'Martyrs of Otranto' who were beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam 2012 Event - In the Najran Province of Saudi Arabia, a man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft 1980 Event - 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia 1975 Death - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king 1957 Death - Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26 1955 Death - Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded 1943 Death - Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death - Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death - Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 1943 Death - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded 1943 Event - Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22 1942 Death - W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded 1934 Death - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 1932 Death - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded 1901 Death - Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded 1901 Death - Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded 1795 Death - Ignac Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded 1794 Death - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39 1794 Death - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 1793 Death - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded 1793 Death - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France 1793 Death - Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 1747 Death - Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England 1730 Death - Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded 1718 Death - Jacob F Muller, Sjako/Jaco, German/Netherlands crowd leader, beheaded at 28 1705 Death - Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded 1703 Death - Pieter van Wooden, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded 1703 Death - Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded 1685 Death - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55 1683 Death - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded 1683 Death - Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded 1671 Death - Peter Zrinyi, Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49 1661 Death - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 1649 Death - Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason 1645 Death - lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded 1645 Death - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 1641 Death - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 1632 Death - Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded 1619 Death - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded 1618 Death - Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1587 Death - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 1587 Death - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 1573 Death - Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded 1572 Death - Gaspard de Chatillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded 1568 Death - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47 1568 Death - Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded 1568 Death - Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded 1568 Death - Duke of Alva, and 18 nobles, beheaded 1568 Death - Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded 1554 Death - Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17 1554 Death - Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded 1554 Death - Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule 1553 Death - John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded 1552 Death - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason 1549 Death - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded 1549 Death - Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded 1547 Death - Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 1545 Death - Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded 1542 Death - Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded 1542 Death - Catharine Howard, queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded 1541 Death - Margaretha, duchess of Salisbury, beheaded 1539 Death - Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75 1536 Death - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded 1536 Death - Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded 1535 Death - Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded 1535 Death - John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65 1531 Death - John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded 1531 Death - Sicke Freerks/Frericx, Cutter, Dutch anabaptist, beheaded 1528 Death - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 1522 Death - Martin Siebenburger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded 1521 Death - Juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded 1517 Death - Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41 1512 Death - Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded 1512 Death - Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded 1510 Death - Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded 1510 Death - Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded 1510 Death - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48 1499 Death - Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded 1498 Death - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27 1492 Death - Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded 1489 Death - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded 1483 Death - Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of England, beheaded at 49 1476 Death - Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded 1474 Death - Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded 1381 Death - Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 1312 Death - Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded 1305 Death - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled and beheaded 1268 Death - Konradijn Hohenstaufen, son of Koenraad IV, beheaded in Naples 1268 Death - Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded 922 Death - Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64 680 Death - Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded 309 Death - Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded 303 Death - George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded 303 Death - George, knight of Cappadocie?/saint/patron of England, beheaded 258 Death - Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded 29 Death - John the Baptist, beheaded |
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