# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dimitri-tsafendas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:45.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dimitri-tsafendas"
name: "Dimitri Tsafendas"
slug: "dimitri-tsafendas"
description: "Dimitri Tsafendas was a Greek–Mozambican political militant and the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd. On 6 September 1966, while working as a parliamentary messenger, Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd – commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid – to death during a sitting of the House of Assembly in Cape Town."
tagline: "Assassin of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1918–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dimitri_Tsafendas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1918-01-14"
deathDate: "1999-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.719057333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Цафендас, Димитрис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Tsafendas"
    title: "Demetrios Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ديمتري تسافينداس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tsafendas"
    title: "Dimitri Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Tsafendas"
    title: "Demetrios Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Δημήτρης Τσαφέντας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tsafendas"
    title: "Dimitri Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tsafendas"
    title: "Dimitri Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tsafendas"
    title: "Dimitri Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tsafendas"
    title: "Dimitri Tsafendas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3642716"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump