Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime. Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos, was convicted in the United Kingdom.

28 September 1915

Born on the same birth day (28 September): Adam Thompson • Bruce Crampton • Carl Clauberg • Diosdado Macapagal • Emeka Okafor • Hilda Geiringer • Kōko Tsurumi • Majid Khan (cricketer) • Nolwenn Leroy • Sascha Maassen • Seymour Cray • Théodore de Mayerne • Wenceslao Vinzons • William S. Paley

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