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Notorious Figures

All Notorious Figures

Role: Any Criminal 18 Assassin 6 Financier 4 Fraudster 4 Intelligence Officer 4 Legislator 4

Order: Most notable By term A–Z Born earliest Born latest Longest lived Shortest lived

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John Wilkes Booth 1838–1865Notorious FiguresActor who assassinated President Lincoln in 1865 — altering the course of Reconstruction.

Lee Harvey Oswald 1939–1963Notorious FiguresAssassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963

James Earl Ray 1928–1998Notorious FiguresConvicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Charles J. Guiteau 1841–1882Notorious FiguresAssassinating President James A. Garfield

Alexander Berkman 1870–1936Notorious FiguresAnarchist who shot and stabbed Henry Clay Frick in 1892 and wrote Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.

Leon Czolgosz 1873–1901Notorious FiguresAnarchist whose assassination of William McKinley put Theodore Roosevelt in the White House.