Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace. He was still serving his life sentence at the time of his suicide in 1987.

26 April 1894

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Carol Burnett • Chris Perry (English footballer) • Edmund C. Tarbell • Eric Campbell (actor) • Frank D'Rone • James Rouse • Jason Bargwanna • Jimmy Giuffre • Joan Chen • John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute • Ma Rainey • Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs • Thomas Reid

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