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116 famous people found
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Charles Henri SANSON
French executioner
1739 - 1806 -
Louis MANDRIN
French smuggler (highwayman) from Dauphiné
1725 - 1755 -
Rebecca NURSE
Executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
1621 - 1692 -
William Few
American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist
1748 - 1828 -
François-Jean LEFEBVRE DE LA BARRE
French nobleman tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso
1745 - 1766 -
Pierre MARTIN
French murderer
1766 - 1833 -
Louis Pierre LOUVEL
French murderer
1783 - 1820 -
Giuseppe FIESCHI
Chief conspirator in an attempt on the life of King Louis-Philippe of France in July 1835
1790 - 1836 -
François RAVAILLAC
French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide
1578 - 1610 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Robert François DAMIENS
Frenchman who attained notoriety by attempting to assassinate Louis XV of France
1715 - 1757 -
Marquise de BRINVILLIERS
French murderer
1630 - 1676 -
Gaspard DE BESSE
French highwayman
1757 - 1781 -
Robert SURCOUF
French privateer and slave trader
1773 - 1827 -
MALESHERBES
French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI
1721 - 1794 -
Robert Catesby
Leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605
1573 - 1605 -
René DE LONGUEIL
Surintendant des Finances under Louis XIII
1596 - 1677 -
Jean-Claude-Luc MICHOUD
French politician
1781 - 1828 -
Jean-Baptiste LACOSTE
French politician
1753 - 1821 -
François-André ISAMBERT
French lawyer, historian, and politician
1792 - 1857