Harry Kendall Thaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American playboy
Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1871
Place of Birth: Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 22-Feb-1947
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Harry Kendall Thaw
- Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) was the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr.
- of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, the younger Thaw is most notable for shooting and killing the renowned architect Stanford White on June 25, 1906, on the rooftop of New York City's Madison Square Garden in front of hundreds of witnesses. Thaw had harbored an obsessive hatred of White, believing he had blocked Thaw's access to the social elite of New York.
- White had also had a previous relationship with Thaw's wife, the model/chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit, when she was 16–17 years old, which had allegedly begun with White plying Nesbit with alcohol (and possibly drugs) and assaulting her while she was unconscious.
- In Thaw's mind, the relationship had "ruined" her.
- Thaw's trial for murder was heavily publicized in the press, to the extent that it was called the "trial of the century".
- After one hung jury, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Plagued by mental illness throughout his life that was evident even in his childhood, Thaw spent money lavishly to fund his obsessive partying, drug addiction, abusive behavior toward those around him, and gratification of his sexual appetites.
- The Thaw family's wealth allowed them to buy the silence of anyone who threatened to make public the worst of Thaw's reckless behavior and licentious transgressions.
- However, he had several additional serious confrontations with the criminal justice system, one of which resulted in seven more years of incarceration in a mental institution.
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