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2012 Event - China announces its plan to phase-out the practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners 2001 Event - Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed at least 168 1998 Death - Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38 1998 Death - Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38 1997 Death - Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana 1997 Death - Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45 1997 Death - Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42 1997 Death - William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51 1997 Death - Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35 1997 Death - Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47 1996 Death - Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party 1986 - 1990, executed 1994 Death - David Lawson, executed in North Carolina (wanted execution shown on Donahue) 1994 Death - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52 1994 Death - Andrei Tsjikatilo, Rostov Ripper, Russian mass murdered, executed 1992 Death - Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34 1992 Death - Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39 1989 Death - Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed 1989 Death - Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed 1989 Event - Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25) 1989 Death - Elena Ceaucescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed 1989 Death - Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed 1989 Death - Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed 1989 Death - Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42 1988 Death - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for U.S., executed 1986 Death - Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed 1985 Death - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed 1982 Death - Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas 1982 Death - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran 1982 Death - 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed 1982 Death - Wilfred Hawker, Suriname Sergeant-major, executed 1979 Death - Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed 1979 Death - Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed 1978 Death - Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed 1977 Death - Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st U.S. execution since 1967 1974 Event - 60 Ethiopia government officials executed 1969 Event - 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria 1968 Death - Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed 1967 Death - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-born guerrilla, executed in Bolivia 1966 Death - Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed 1963 Death - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs 1960 Event - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba 1959 Death - Charles Starkwether, murderer, executed 1958 Death - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed 1958 Death - Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed 1958 Death - Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed 1956 Death - T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed 1955 Death - Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging 1954 Death - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed 1953 Death - Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed 1953 Death - Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries 1953 Death - Julius Rosenberg, New York City, 1st U.S. civilian executed for espionage at 37 1952 Death - A J Pieters, SS-Untersturmfuhrer, executed 1952 Death - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed 1951 Death - Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed 1950 Death - Robert W. Lehnhoff, Executioner of Groningen, SS fuhrer, executed 1949 Death - Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed 1949 Death - Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon 1949 Death - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed 1949 Death - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 1949 Death - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54 1948 Death - 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens 1948 Death - Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42 1947 Death - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed 1947 Death - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed 1947 Death - Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed 1946 Death - J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed 1946 Death - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 1946 Death - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed 1946 Death - Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed 1946 Death - August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67 1946 Death - Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed 1946 Death - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61 1945 Death - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 1945 Death - Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 1945 Event - Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge 1945 Death - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed 1945 Death - Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed 1945 Death - Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed 1945 Death - J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death - Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed 1945 Death - Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63 1945 Event - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands 1945 Death - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1945 Event - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers 1945 Event - 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers 1945 Death - Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Event - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm 1945 Death - Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm 1945 Death - Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Death - ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death - Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39 1945 Death - Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Death - Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death - Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death - Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25 1945 Death - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 1944 Event - In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis 1944 Death - Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25 1944 Death - Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Death - Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22 1944 Death - Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1944 Event - 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen 1944 Death - Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death - Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1944 Event - 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught 1944 Death - Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 1944 Death - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death - Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death - Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death - Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 Death - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, resister, executed at 41 1944 Death - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28 1944 Event - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad 1944 Death - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Death - Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 1944 Death - ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 1944 Death - J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death - Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death - H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed 1943 Death - Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 1943 Death - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 1943 Death - Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Death - Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Death - Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1943 Death - Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Death - Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death - Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Death - Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Death - Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Death - Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Death - Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Death - Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 1943 Death - John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Death - Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Death - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 1943 Death - Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Death - Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Death - Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Death - Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 1943 Death - Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 1943 Death - Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 1943 Death - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 Death - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 1943 Death - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death - Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death - Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed 1942 Death - Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of Admiral Darlan, executed at 24 1942 Death - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed 1942 Death - Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed 1942 Event - 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris 1942 Event - 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel 1942 Event - 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. 1942 Death - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32 1942 Event - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis 1942 Death - Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62 1942 Death - Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50 1942 Event - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1942 Death - Johan H Westerveld, Lt-colonel/leader Order Service, executed 1942 Death - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58 1941 Death - Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California 1941 Death - Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Death - Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36 1941 Death - Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35 1941 Death - Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London 1941 Event - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania 1941 Death - Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46 1941 Death - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46 1941 Death - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death - Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed 1941 Death - Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed 1939 Death - Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed 1938 Death - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 1936 Death - Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed 1936 Death - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed 1936 Death - Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52 1934 Death - Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46 1927 Death - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass 1924 Death - Gee John, U.S. mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies 1922 Event - 6 old minsters in Greece, executed 1920 Death - Alexander Koltsjak, Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed 1918 Death - Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13 1918 Death - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17 1918 Death - Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50 1917 Death - William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 1917 Death - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris 1917 Death - Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17 1917 Death - Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed 1916 Death - Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 1916 Death - Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1916 Death - Padraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad 1916 Death - Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1915 Death - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder 1915 Death - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) 1915 Birthday - Julius Rosenberg, New York City, 1st U.S. civilian executed for espionage 1914 Death - Eugene Odene, French mayor of Senlis, executed 1914 Death - Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks 1914 Event - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad 1912 Death - General Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed 1910 Death - Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed 1909 Death - Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed 1906 Death - Johann Hoch, U.S. murderer, executed 1902 Death - Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed 1890 Death - John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1885 Death - Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 1885 Death - Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51 1865 Death - Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty 1858 Event - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1850 Death - Bab, Baha'i prophet, executed in Tabriz Iran 1829 Death - William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh 1815 Death - Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards 1815 Death - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed 1811 Death - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish 1811 Death - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed 1810 Death - Andreas Hofer, military leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 1803 Death - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed 1799 Death - Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed 1795 Death - Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed 1794 Death - Robespierre, and 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers 1793 Death - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napoleon), executed at 53 1776 Death - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed 1775 Death - Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia 1760 Death - Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward 1759 Death - Marquis and Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed 1757 Death - John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 1751 Event - Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch 1739 Event - Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing 1738 Death - Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed 1738 Death - Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed 1732 Death - Pieter Vuyst, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon, executed 1722 Event - 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed 1721 Death - Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery 1719 Death - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59 1699 Event - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow 1692 Event - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass 1685 Death - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 2, executed 1683 Death - Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed 1674 Death - Franciscus van Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker, executed at 72 1671 Death - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow 1661 Death - Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed 1647 Death - Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass 1642 Death - Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed 1632 Death - Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed 1606 Death - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35 1601 Death - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth 1600 Birthday - Charles I, king of England, 1625-49, ; executed by Parliament 1596 Death - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico 1594 Death - Michel Renichon, priest, executed 1593 Death - John Penry, English congressionalist, executed 1587 Death - Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed 1587 Death - Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed 1586 Death - Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24 1580 Death - Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed 1572 Death - Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36 1570 Death - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed 1570 Death - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 1559 Death - Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed 1554 Death - Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed 1547 Death - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason 1540 Death - Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 1538 Birthday - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth, 1572 1536 Event - Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed 1535 Death - Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57 1535 Death - John Houghton, English, executed 1525 Death - Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1505 Death - John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed 1495 Death - William Stanley, English lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy 1481 Event - 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV 1456 Event - Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted 1440 Death - Bluebeard, pirate, executed 1419 Event - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows 1141 Death - Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed 468 Death - Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita 388 Death - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed 31 Death - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed |
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