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LIST OF PRISON DEATHS

This is a 'list of famous people who have died in prison' (in alphabet order), not those who were executed as punishment of their crimes.

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.

Yuri Galanskov, (death from an operation by a doctor with no surgical qualifications), 1972, Russian poet, historian, and human rights activist, imprisoned for his writings

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, 1995 - 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 strike. See 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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

Nikolai Vavilov, (death of malnutrition in prison), 1943 - prominent Russian botanist and geneticist who was imprisoned for his struggle against pseudoscience

Raoul Wallenberg, (extrajudicial punishment in Soviet Lefortovo prison), 1947 or later - prominent humanitarian worker who saved tens of thousands of Jews from extermination by Nazi

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

Graham Young, (heart attack) 1990 - poisoner, died in Parkhurst prison. Heart attack official cause but there has been speculation that other prisoners may have been responsible.

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