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Samuel Doe
21st President of Liberia
Muhammad bin Qasim
Umayyad Hijazi general and governor (695–715)
Aleksandar Stamboliyski
Bulgarian prime minister (14 October 1919 – 9 June 1923)
Sumayyah bint Khayyat
Sumeyah (; ) was the first member of the Ummah (community) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad to be killed for her faith, making her the first female martyr () in Islam. Shortly afterward, her husband Yasir ibn Amir was also killed because of his conversion, becoming the first male martyr (). Her full name is given variously as Sumayya bint Khabbat or Sumayya bint Khayyat. She was the mother of Ammar ibn Yasir.
Ali Laarayedh
Tunisian politician
Sarah Aaronsohn
Jewish spy working for the British in World War I (1890–1917)
Balthasar Gérard
assassin of William I of Orange
John Sarkander
Czech saint
Halima Bashir
Sudanese doctor and author
Pierre Mulele
Democratic Republic of the Congo politician (1929-1968)
Giscón
ancient Carthaginian general active 241-239 BC
Umm Shareek
companion of Muhammad
Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun
Abbasid prince and Military leader (died 838 CE)
Primus and Felician
saints
Mustafa Golubić
Serbian and Yugoslav guerrilla fighter, revolutionary and intelligence agent (1889-1941)
Khalid al-Qasri
Umayyad politician
Feliciano Ama
Salvadoran peasant leader (1881-1932)
Febronia of Nisibis
nun and saint
Euthymius of Sardis
Bishop of Sardis
Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat
Abbasid vizier and court official (died c.847)
Michée Chauderon
alleged witch executed in Geneva
Joseph Phuong Nguyen
Canadian Catholic bishop
Al-Nahdiah
Al-Nahdiah (النهضة) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
André Matsoua
Republic of the Congo politician (1899-1942)
Naaman Belkind
Jewish spy
Satur Ocampo
Filipino politician and journalist
Esau Khamati Oriedo
Kenyan politician (1888-1992)
Tula
leader of Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795
Siham Hassan
Sudanese politician and activist
Khamis Abakar
former Governor of West Darfur and politician
Valère Somé
Burkinabe politician (1950–2017)
Juanita Carberry
Kenyan writer (1925-2013)
Simon Cheng
a former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong who alleged he was tortured while being detained in China
Ahmad ibn Ziyadat Allah ibn Qurhub
Emir of Sicily from 0913 to 0916
Ciril Kotnik
Yugoslav diplomat of Slovene ethnicity (1895-1948)