Jack Kevorkian: Doctor Death and Assisted Suicide Advocate Dies at 83

Jack Kevorkian was an American pathologist and euthanasia activist. Born on May 26, 1928, in Pontiac, Michigan, he was the child of Armenian immigrants.

He claimed to have helped more than 130 terminally ill patients die from 1990 to 1998, using devices he built. In 1998 a videotape of him giving a lethal injection to a man with ALS aired on 60 Minutes, and he was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999.

He served eight years of a 10-to-25-year sentence and was paroled in 2007. Kevorkian died of pulmonary thrombosis in Royal Oak, Michigan, on June 3, 2011, at age 83.

Achievements: Assisted suicide activist, convicted of second-degree murder (1999).

Birth: May 26, 1928 - Pontiac, Michigan.

Profession: Physician.

Interesting Facts: He was portrayed by Al Pacino in You Don't Know Jack.