Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, president and prime minister of Pakistan in the 1970s and father to Benazir Bhutto, founded the Pakistan People’s Party and was executed.
Roger Ebert is an American film critic best known as one half of the popular Siskel and Ebert film critic television show.
Barney Ewell was one of the leading sprinters of the 1940s, and won three medals at the 1948 Olympics.
James Hanratty was hanged in 1962 after being convicted of shooting a couple near London, but his guilt is still disputed.
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States (1841) and the first to die in office.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a 20th century clergyman and U.S. representative who was a major force in establishing civil rights for African Americans.
Artist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth became the king of California custom car culture in the 1950s and '60s with his Beatnik Bandit model and characters like Rat Fink.