- 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 theRed 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 - Americanassassin
*Anthony Van Egmond , 1838 - Dutchwar veteran and an early settler in theHuron 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 , (throatcancer ), 2002 - Americanmafia boss.
*John Geoghan , (homicide), 2003 -Catholic priest and child molester
*John Wayne Glover , Sydney Granny Murderer
*Ryan Gracie , 2007 - Brazilian mixed martial artist
*Emil Hácha , President of Czechoslovakia, later of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
*Rudolf Hess , (suicide), 1987 - Nazi.
*Myra Hindley , (lung cancer ), 2002 - British serial killer.
*Ronald Kray , 1995 - Britishgangster ,twin brother ofReginald Kray
*Morris Levy , (died before his prison sentence could be decided), 1990 - American music industry executive, who was tried and convicted on charges of extortion.
*Richard Loeb, American murderer
*Andrew Martinez , (suicide), 2006, nude activist.
*Slobodan Milošević , 2006, Serbian and Yugoslav president.
*Lee Harvey Oswald , charged with the murder ofJohn F. Kennedy ; killed byJack 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. See1981 Irish Hunger Strike .
*Harold Shipman , (suicide ), 2004 - British doctor, who killed many of his patients.
*Nikolai Vavilov , (death ofmalnutrition in prison), 1943 - prominent Russianbotanist andgeneticist who was imprisoned for his struggle againstpseudoscience
*Patrick Waite , (natural causes), 1993 - British musician, bassist forMusical Youth - died of a hereditary heart condition while awaiting trial for drug charges stemming from his career committing juvenile crime.
*Raoul Wallenberg , (extrajudicial punishment in SovietLefortovo 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 formurder .
*Graham Young , (heart attack) 1990 - poisoner, died inParkhurst prison. Heart attack official cause but there has been speculation that other prisoners may have been responsible.ee also
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Lists of people by cause of death
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