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383 Notable deaths
 by hanging

Kanno Sugako

Japanese journalist.

Born June 7th, 1881 in Osaka.

Died January 25th, 1911 at 29 years old in Ichigaya Prison (hanging).

August Schmidhuber

German general.

Born May 8th, 1901 in Augsburg.

Died February 19th, 1947 at 45 years old in Belgrade (hanging).

Hans Bernd von Haeften

German jurist and resistance fighter against nazism.

Born December 18th, 1905 in Charlottenburg.

Died August 15th, 1944 at 38 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).

Vladimír Clementis

Slovak nation politician, member of czechoslovak national parliament and czechoslovak minister of foreign affairs (1902-1952).

Born September 20th, 1902 in Tisovec. [ref]

Died December 3rd, 1952 at 50 years old in Prague (hanging).

Hans Loritz

Ss officer (1895-1946).

Born December 21st, 1895 in Augsburg.

Died January 31st, 1946 at 50 years old in Neumünster (hanging).

Adolf Reichwein

German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the spd, and resistance fighter in nazi germany (1898-1944).

Born October 3rd, 1898 in Bad Ems. [ref]

Died October 20th, 1944 at 46 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).

Koçi Xoxe

Albanian politician.

Born May 1st, 1911 in Florina Prefecture.

Died June 11th, 1949 at 38 years old in Tirana (hanging).

Cesare Battisti

Italian irrendentist (1875-1916).

Born February 4th, 1875 in Trento. [ref]

Died July 12th, 1916 at 41 years old in Trento (hanging).

Ljubo Miloš

Croatian fascist war criminal.

Born February 25th, 1919 in Šamac.

Died August 20th, 1948 at 29 years old in Zagreb (hanging).

Joachim Mrugowsky

German physician, ss officer, chief of hygiene institute of the waffen-ss and convicted war criminal (1905-1948).

Born August 15th, 1905 in Rathenow.

Died June 2nd, 1948 at 42 years old in Landsberg Prison (hanging).

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