Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s...

Charles Becker (July 26, 1870 - July 30, 1915) was a New York LT police officer in the 1890s and 1910s and he was executed for ordering the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker was the first American police officer to receive the...

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin...

Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American communists who were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in...

Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that arose in the U.S. state of California in the later 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders,...

Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebutante, television personality, actress, singer, model, and businesswoman. She is best known through the television series The Simple Life. She has appeared in several minor film...

Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1200 – March 1, 1244) was the illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great ("Llywelyn Fawr"). As far as is known, he was Llywelyn's eldest son. As a boy, Gruffydd was one of the hostages taken by King John of England as a pledge...

Edward V (4 November 1470 – 1483?) was the King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later. His reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III. Along with his...

Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk (17 August 1473 – 1483?) was the sixth child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. He was born in Shrewsbury.He was a younger brother of Elizabeth of York...

John II (16 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good , was Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, and Duke of Normandy from 1332, Count of Poitiers from 1344, Duke of Aquitaine from 1345, and King of France from 1350 until his death, as well as...

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...

Ranulf Flambard, also known as Ralph Flambard or Ranulph Flambard and sometimes Ranulf Passiflamme, (c. 1060–September 5 1128) was a medieval Norman Bishop of Durham and an influential government minister of King William Rufus of England. He was the...

William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North America colony and the future U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and...

Titus Oates (September 15, 1649 – July 12/13, 1705) was a 17th century perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. Titus Oates was born in Oakham. His father, Samuel, was the rector of Marsham...