2006 Event Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad 1994 Death John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59 1985 Death Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 1985 Death Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76 1979 Death Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51 1975 Death Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder 1965 Death Perry E Smith, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged 1965 Death Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged 1962 Death Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56 1962 Death Nazi Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel for crimes against Jews in WW II 1951 Death Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair and Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged 1950 Death Milada Horakova, Czechoslovakian advocate/anti fascist, hanged 1949 Death Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged 1948 Death Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64 1948 Death Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged 1947 Death Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged 1946 Event 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials 1946 Death Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged 1946 Death Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54 1946 Death Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged 1946 Death Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged 1946 Death Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Death Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal, hanged 1946 Death William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason 1945 Death Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," and 10 others, hanged 1945 Event Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 1945 Death Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged 1945 Death Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged 1945 Death Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged 1945 Death Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged 1945 Death Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60 1944 Event 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis 1944 Death Richard Sorge and Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo 1944 Death Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 1944 Death Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 1944 Death Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged 1944 Death 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS 1943 Death Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Death Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Death Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1936 Death Rainey Bethea, hanged, last U.S. public execution 1927 Death Horace Alderman, U.S., murderer, hanged 1918 Event 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 1917 Event 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot 1905 Death Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged 1887 Death Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar 1882 Death Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged 1876 Death Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US 1865 Death Mary Surratt, and 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged 1862 Event 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising 1862 Death 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato 1862 Event General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint 1862 Death William B Mumford, 1st U.S. citizen hanged for treason, at 42 1862 Death Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in New York City for stealing 1,000 slaves 1860 Death Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged 1859 Death John Brown, U.S. abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59 1842 Death Philip Spencer, 1st U.S. naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged 1831 Death Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA 1831 Death Nat Turner, and 19 associates, hanged at 31 1826 Death Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 1822 Death Denmark Vesey, and 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, South Carolina 1822 Event House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) 1817 Event Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon 1800 Death French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged 1780 Death John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) 1780 Death John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 1776 Death Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 1776 Death Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged 1772 Death Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged 1755 Birthday Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country 1748 Death Marretje Arends, Matje of Nieuwendijk, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged 1748 Death Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged 1724 Death Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged 1701 Death William Kidd, English / U.S. buccaneer, hanged 1701 Death William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock 1692 Event Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in U.S. (Salem Mass) 1692 Death Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged 1691 Death Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason 1688 Death Reverend James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian 1661 Death William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston 1659 Death Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged 1650 Death James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged 1630 Death John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged 1625 Event 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria 1605 Event Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged 1595 Death Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest 1595 Death Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged 1593 Death Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged 1593 Death John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged 1580 Death Edmund Campion, English jesuit, hanged at 42 1573 Death Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged 1572 Event 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum 1572 Event 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged 1572 Death Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged 1572 Death Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged 1572 Death Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged 1572 Death Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged 1572 Death Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged 1517 Death Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged 1499 Death Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged 1498 Death Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 1440 Death Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged 1417 Death John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned 1381 Death John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged 1305 Death William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled and beheaded 1278 Event 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
