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The unborn fetus fathered by King Charles IV of France, was important only before birth, as Charles IV died on 1 February 1328 leaving a daughter Marie and a pregnant wife. If the fetus were male, he would already be king in utero; if the fetus were female, the throne would pass to Philippe VI of France. On 1 April 1328 Blanche was born, thus ending her importance to history.

Fetus Connor Peterson was at the center of the media blitz surrounding the Laci Peterson murder.

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Julia Drusilla (b. 39), killed along with her father Caligula in 41

Claudia Augusta, died four months, daughter of Emperor Nero

Alfonso IV of Leon, became king of León around the age of 1

King John I of France (1316), lived and ruled for five days

Simon of Trent disappeared aged 2 in 1475; the Jewish community was considered guilty and 15 men were executed at the stake.

Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, December 10, 1820–March 4, 1821, granddaughter of George III of the United Kingdom

Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (1930–1932), kidnapped and murdered

The Dionne Quintuplets, Great Depression babies

Louise Brown (born July 25, 1978); first human birth from in vitro fertilization

Azaria Chamberlain (1980), died in mysterious circumstances.

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Leah King (January 1987-May 1987) Along with twin sister Lynsay, played baby Sarah Louise Platt in Coronation Street. Lynsay continued playing Sarah until 1999, when Tina O Brien took over the role

Christopher (died 13 December 1996 aged eleven weeks) and Harry (died 26 January 1998 aged eight weeks) Clarke, brothers whose deaths led to the conviction of their mother Sally Clark for their murder. Sally was later acquitted and released from prison and it is now thought the boys died of cot death.

Jennifer Jane Brown (28 December 2001-7 January 2002), daughter of the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. She was born seven weeks early and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage.

James Bulger murdered in 1993, the murderers were children themselves.

Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart (born 6 September 2000), first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth.

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Leo II, briefly Byzantine emperor at the age of 7 in 474

Saint William of Norwich (1132-1144), an alleged miracle-worker whose death was used in a blood libel against Jews in Norwich

Frederick V Hohenstaufen (1164-1170), Duke of Swabia

Baldwin V of Jerusalem (1177-1186), King of Jerusalem

Stephen de Cloyes, reputedly organized the Children's Crusade (1212) at the age of 12

Margaret I of Scotland (1283-1290), queen of Scotland

King Edward V of England (Prince in the Tower) (1470-1483)

Richard, duke of York (1473-1483)

The Princes in the Tower; both sons of Edward IV of England and killed during the Wars of the Roses, elder of them see above (Edward), younger of them see below (Richard)

Virginia Dare of the missing Roanoke colony.

Louis XVII of France (March 27, 1785 - June 8, 1795), son of Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution; died in prison

Anne Darwin, born March 2, 1841, died of tuberculosis aged 10.

Henry Pu Yi (1906 – October 17, 1967), last Emperor of China, ascended to the throne at the age of three, deposed by the age of six

Visionaries of Fatima, three Portuguese shepherd children who claim to have seen and spoken to Virgin Mary in 1917; Francisco Marto died in 1919, Jacinta Marto died in 1920, and Lúcia died in 2005

Michael I of Romania - (October 25, 1921), reigned as King of Romania from age 5 to age 8 and again from age 18 to age 26, when he was deposed by the new communist government in 1947.

Simeon II of Bulgaria - (June 16, 1937), reigned as Tsar of Bulgaria from age 6 to age 9, when he was deposed by the new communist government in 1946.

Fuad II of Egypt, king of Egypt. (born in 1952), King Fuad II was less than a year old at the time of his ascension to the throne

Mary Bell - (born May 26, 1957), murderer at the age of 11

Adam Walsh - (November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981), (Kidnapped and murdered. His vigilante father John Walsh launched "America's Most Wanted" to pursue infamous criminals.)

Johnny and Luther Htoo (born c. 1987), Burmese guerrilla warriors

Elián González (born 1993), Cuban boy, involved in a legal dispute, over his custody, between Cuba and the United States

Sarah Payne, kidnapped and murdered at the age of eight years old. Her murder led to her parents campaigning for 'Sarah's Law', which allows people to see if a convicted paedophile is in their area.

Christina of Sweden, became queen regnant of Sweden at the age of 5 (almost 6) on November 6 1632.

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Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt in the 14th century BC, died around 18 years old

King Alexander IV of Macedon (323-309 BC), the posthumous son of Alexander the Great; murdered by Cassander

Caesarion (June 23 47 BC - August, 30 BC), pharaoh of Egypt, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar; killed by Augustus Caesar

Gordian III (January 20 225–February 11, 244), Roman emperor, murdered by mutinous soldiers

Elagabalus (c. 203–March 11, 222), Roman emperor, killed

Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (1055-1071), killed in battle in Saint-Omer, against his uncle Robert the Frisian

William Adelin (1103-1120), son of Henry I of England, died in the White Ship shipwreck

Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187-1203), possibly murdered by John of England

Yolande of Jerusalem (1212-1228), queen of Jerusalem

Conradin, (March 25, 1252 - October 29, 1268), duke of Swabia and king of Jerusalem; executed after excommunication

Frederick I, Margrave of Baden, titular Duke of Austria (1249 - October 29, 1268), executed with his friend Conradin

John I, Count of Holland (1284-1299), with his death Holland is annexed by the count of Hainaut

Philip of Rouvres (1346 - 1361), duke of Burgundy; from the bubonic plague

Olaf III of Denmark (1370-1387), king of Denmark, Norway and titularly of Sweden

Joan of Arc (January 6, 1412 – May 30, 1431), hero of the Hundred Years' War, burned at the stake

Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for 1-2 weeks in 1553 at the age of 15; executed by Mary I of England the following year

Edward VI, king of England (October 12,1537-July 6, 1553)

Francis II of France (1544-1560), King of France and king-consort of Scotland

Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), British poet, committed suicide

Hong Tianguifu, became ruler of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping and died at 16.

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), poet, wrote poetry in his teens, wrote his most important work Une Saison en Enfer at the age of 18

Johnny Gunther, died at age seventeen of a brain tumor: his father, the author John Gunther, wrote a memoir of Johnny's life (Death Be Not Proud) that became a best-seller

Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 - March 1945), killed in the Holocaust: her diary of the years she spent in hiding from the Nazis with her family became a best-selling book

Tanya Savicheva (January 25, 1930 - July 1 1944), died shortly after she was rescued from the Siege of Leningrad, her diary of nine pages was presented at the Nuremberg trials by the prosecutors.

Wilfred Benitez (born 1958) became, in 1976, at the age of seventeen, the youngest world boxing champion in history.

Christiane F. (born May 20, 1962), well known in Germany because of the book "Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" which chronicles her life from 1975 to 1978, when she was aged 12-15.

Samantha Smith (June 29 1972 - August 25 1985), a peacemaker, who wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov during the Cold War, asking for peace, and visited the Soviet Union on his invitation

Heung Jin Moon, second son of Mrs. and Rev. Moon; died in car accident and believed by Unificationists to have thereupon taken charge of the spirit world

Niños Héroes, six military cadets who died defending their academy, Chapultepec Castle, during the battle of Chapultepec.

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Infamous cases of child murder after 1900

Feral children

Lists of people