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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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See also

★ Lists of people by cause of death