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