Dimitri Tsafendas

Dimitri Tsafendas (14 January 1918 - 7 October 1999) assassinated South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of that country's apartheid program, on 6 September 1966. Tsafendas claimed that he had a giant tapeworm inside him, which spoke to him. Tsafendas died in Pretoria Central Prison at the age of 81.

Tsafendas' life is described in the book A Mouthful of Glass by Henk van Woerden (ISBN 1862074429). A play written by Anthony Sher and directed by Nancy Meckler, with Sher in the role of Tsafendas, ran at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2003.