August 17, 1988 - Jihadi John
His appearances in Islamic State execution videos in 2014 and 2015 made him one of the most recognizable figures in the group's propaganda campaign, his masked presence and English accent carrying deliberate psychological weight aimed at Western audiences. The videos, which documented the killings of journalists and aid workers, were understood as sophisticated media productions as much as acts of violence. He was killed in a targeted drone strike in Raqqa in November 2015.
From Wikipedia
Mohammed Emwazi (born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri; Arabic: محمد جاسم عبد الكريم عليان الظفيري), commonly referred to as Jihadi John (17 August 1988 – 12 November 2015), was a British militant of Kuwaiti origin seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group Islamic State (IS) showing the beheadings of a number of captives in 2014 and 2015. A group of his hostages nicknamed him "John" since he was part of a four-person terrorist cell with English accents whom they called 'The Beatles'; the press later began calling him "Jihadi John".
On 12 November 2015, US officials reported that he had been hit by a drone strike in Raqqa, Syria. His death was confirmed by IS in January 2016.
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