Huey P. Newton was a political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party, a militant African-American activist group. He was the author of To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton, War against the Panthers: A Case of Repression in America and Revolutionary Suicide.

He was later killed during a dispute with a drug dealer.

Full or original name at birth: Huey Percy Newton

Date and place of birth: February 17, 1942, Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Date, time, place and cause of death: August 22, 1989*, at 6:12 a.m., at Highland Hospital, Oakland, California, U.S.A. (Murdered - multiple gunshots)

Marriage #1
Wife: Gwen Fontaine (m. 1974 - 1983) (divorced)
Wedding took place in Cuba.

Marriage #2
Wife: Frederika Slaughter (m. September 14, 1984** - August 22, 1989) (his death)
Wedding took place at the Hearts of Reno Chapel, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.

Parents
Father: Walter Newton (a sharecropper and Baptist preacher)
Mother: Armelia Newton

Burial site: Evergreen Cemetery, 6450 Camden, Oakland, California, U.S.A.

* Some past editions of The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia erroneously report he was still alive well into the 1990s, when he actually died in 1989.

** Source: Huey's widow
Note that his second marriage did not take place in 1981 as some sources erroneously report. He certainly had known his second wife long before they were married, but they were not wed until 1984.