Angel of Death

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Angel of Death may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

People

• Angel of Death (wrestler) (David Sheldon, 1953–2007), American wrestler
• Common media nickname for health care professionals convicted of murdering patients, including
  • Beverley Allitt (born 1968), British nurse who murdered four children in 1991
  • Charles Cullen (born 1960), American nurse who murdered at least 29 patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey medical centers over a 16-year career
  • Kristen Gilbert (born 1967), American nurse who murdered four patients in Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Donald Harvey (1952–2017), American orderly and convicted serial killer who claims to have murdered 87 people
  • Orville Lynn Majors (1961–2017), American nurse who murdered at least 6, possibly 130, elderly patients
  • Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German SS officer and Nazi concentration camp doctor
  • Colin Norris (born 1976), British nurse and serial killer
  • Harold Shipman (1946–2004), British doctor who murdered up to 250 elderly patients
• Allison Black, American military officer who fought in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom
• August Miete (1908–1987), German SS officer and Nazi extermination camp officer
• Robledo Puch (born 1952), Argentine serial killer
• Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794), French revolutionary organizer of the Reign of Terror
• Charles Heatherly (born 1942), American bureaucrat who fired six regional administrators who opposed plans for elimination of the agency

Religion

• Azrael, or Malak al-Maut, in Islam
• Destroying angel (Bible) in the Hebrew Bible
• Dumah (angel), in Rabbinical and Islamic literature
• Michael (archangel), in some religions
• Mot (god), an angel of death from the Hebraic Book of Habakkuk
• Nasirdîn and Sejadin, in Yazidism
• Samael, in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore
• Saureil, in Mandaeism
• Sariel in some understandings
• Remiel in some understandings

Other uses

• Angel of death (criminology), a type of serial killer
• Amanita ocreata or angel of death, a species of poisonous mushroom
• "Angel of Death", AC130 gunship's nickname
• "Angel of Death", putative vector of the 1995 Dungarvan AIDS panic

See also

• All pages with titles containing Angel of Death
• Angels of Death (disambiguation)
• Personifications of death
• Death angel (disambiguation)
• Destroying angel (disambiguation)
• Exterminating Angel (disambiguation)
• Alfredo Astiz (born 1951), Argentine Navy officer known as the "Blond Angel of Death"
• Death and the Sculptor, also known as Angel of Death and the Sculptor, a sculpture by Daniel Chester French
• Santa Muerte, a sacred figure venerated primarily in Mexico
• Shinigami, god or spirit of death in Japanese mythology
• Thanatos, the personification of death in Greek mythology
• Yama, lord of death, in early Rigvedic Hinduism

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