Famous People who have Died in Prison


				Famous People who have Died in Prison



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Abu Abbas, (natural causes), 2004 - Militant

Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Holger Meins, and Jan Raspe, all members of the Red Army Faction; dates of death 1974 to 1977

Steve Biko, 1977, South African anti-apartheid activist, bludgeoned to death by South African police

Walter Breen, 1993 - American child molester

Jeffrey Dahmer, (homicide), 1994 - American serial killer; beaten to death by a fellow inmate.

Garry David, Australian, died from wounds caused by self-mutilation

Byron De La Beckwith, (heart attack), 2001 - American assassin

Anthony Van Egmond, 1838 - Dutch war veteran and an early settler in the Huron Tract.

John Gotti, (throat cancer), 2002 - American mafia boss.

John Geoghan, (homicide), 2003 - Catholic priest and child molester

John Wayne Glover, Sydney Granny Murderer

Rudolf Hess, (suicide), 1987 - Nazi.

Myra Hindley, (lung cancer), 2002 - British serial killer.

Ronald Kray, 1994 - British gangster, twin brother of Reginald Kray

Richard Loeb, American murderer

Andrew Martinez, (suicide), 2006, nude activist.

Slobodan Milošević, 2006, Serbian and Yugoslav president.

Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with the murder of John F. Kennedy; killed by Jack Ruby.

Jack Ruby, (cancer), murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald

Bobby Sands, (hunger strike), 1981 - Irish republican.Died along with 9 other Republicans on hunger stike.See 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

Harold Shipman, (suicide), 2004 - British doctor, who killed many of his patients.

Fred West, (suicide), 1995 - Killed himself while awaiting trial for murder