Category
page 1People acquitted of treason
Nelson Mandela
First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
Aaron Burr
vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived (1756–1836)
Erich Ludendorff
German Army officer (1865–1937)
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
South African politician (1898–1967)
Morgan Tsvangirai
former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1952-2018)
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
3rd President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008

Silvio Gesell
German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)

Walter Sisulu
South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (1912-2003)

Han van Meegeren
Dutch painter and art forger (1889-1947)

Ruth First
South African politician (1925-1982)

Francesco Morosini
Doge of Venice (1619–1694)
Ahmed Kathrada
South African politician (1929-2017)
Miloš Jakeš
Czechoslovak politician (1922-2020)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
English politician and founder of the Whig party (1621-1683)
Said Halim Pasha
Ottoman grand vizier (1865–1921)
Joe Slovo
South African politician (1926-1995)
Aulus Gabinius
Roman statesman and general
Jozef Lenárt
Slovak politician (1923–2004), member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council
Pierre Cambronne
French general (1770-1842)
Paul Déroulède
French author and politician (1846-1914)

Helen Joseph
British-born South African activist (1905-1992)
László Almásy
Hungarian desert explorer and aviator (1895-1951)
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
English politician (1661-1724)
Hikmat Abu Zayd
Egyptian politician and academic
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen
German general (1901-1949)
Robert William Wilcox
Hawaiian soldier, revolutionary and politician (1855-1903)
Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
British politician (1879-1943)
Alex La Guma
South African novelist and politician (1925–1985)
Edward Oxford
failed assassin of Queen Victoria (1822–1900)
Robert Rogers
American loyalist soldier
Jan Krukowiecki
Polish general
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
Royal Navy admiral (1725-1786)
John Horne Tooke
British politician (1736-1812)
Yusuf Dadoo
South African activist (1909-1983)

Anton Reinthaller
Austrian member of the Nazi party (1895–1958)
Adolf Fischhof
writer and politician (1816-1893)

Claro M. Recto
Filipino statesman (1890–1960)

Lord George Gordon
British politician (1752-1793)

Victor Hugues
French colonial governor
Nykyta Budka
Ukrainian bishop, Blessed (1877–1949)
Joe Modise
South African politician (1929-2001)
Guido Schmidt
Austrian politician (1901-1957)
Alexander Nikitin
Russian environmentalist
Lionel Bernstein
South African activist (1920-2002)
Z. K. Matthews
Bamangwato academic in South Africa (1901-1968)
Simon Nkoli
South African gay rights, AIDS, and anti-apartheid activist (1957-1998)
Walter Pfrimer
Austrian politician (1881-1968)
John Thelwall
British writer (1764-1834)
Elizabeth Cellier
English midwife
Moses Kotane
South African politician (1905–1978)
Raffaello Carboni
Italian writer (1817-1875)

Billy Nair
South African politician
Appuleia Varilla
granddaughter of Octavia Major
Lucio Blanco
Mexican military officer (1879–1922)
Erling Sandberg
Norwegian banker and politician (1879-1956)

Christopher Love
English minister (1618-1651)
Eduard von der Heydt
banker, art collector, Nazi (1882-1964)

Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares
priest (1836-1923)
Langalibalele
Langalibalele (isiHlubi: meaning 'The blazing sun', also known as Mthethwa, Mdingi (c 1814 – 1889), was king of the amaHlubi, a Bantu tribe in what is the modern-day province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.