1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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], Germ/Neth 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 Engl, 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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