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Not who you're looking for? Others named John Savage: American actor · engraver active in England in the 17th century · Canadian politician, premier of Nova Scotia, (1932–2003) · American baseball coach, born 1965
John Savage (died 20 September 1586) was an English Catholic, who was one of the conspirators executed for his involvement in the Babington Plot, a plot in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic, on the English throne. A former soldier, Savage was to have been the man who would personally assassinate Elizabeth.
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