Lois Irene Scott Roden (August 1, 1916 – November 10, 1986) was an American religious leader who was president of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church, an apocalyptic Christian sect which her husband, Benjamin Roden founded. The sect began in Texas in 1955 as a secession from the Shepherd's Rod movement led by Victor T.

Angel Maturino Reséndiz (August 1, 1959 – June 27, 2006), known as The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s, some of which involved sexual assault. He had become known as "The Railroad Killer", as most of his crimes were committed near railroads, where he had jumped off the trains which he was using to travel.

Valery Nikolaevich Skoptsov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Скопцо́в; 1 August 1951 – 12 April 2004), known as The Villain of all Trades (Russian: Злодей на все руки), was a Russian criminal and serial killer, who was known for committing a variety of crimes around the USSR and then after Russia, ranging from thefts to murders.

Joseph A. "Socks" Lanza (1904 – October 11, 1968) was a New York labor racketeer and a member of the Genovese crime family, who controlled the Fulton Fish Market in Lower Manhattan through the United Seafood Worker's Union local 359 from 1923 to 1968.

Roland E. Clark (August 1, 1911 – March 23, 1972) was an American medical doctor, suspected of being a serial killer.

Anthony Megale (August 1, 1953 – July 21, 2015), also known as "The Genius" was a mobster, caporegime and later acting underboss of the Gambino crime family. His base of operations was in southwest Connecticut.

Aladár Donászi (August 1954 – August 10, 2001) was a Hungarian robber and serial killer, who was one of the most sought-after Hungarian fugitives in the 1990s.

Eliasz Klimowicz (2 August 1864 – 1940 or later), also referred to as Prorok Ilja ("Ilja the Prophet") and Ilja Grzybowski ("Ilja of Grzybowszczyzna"), was a Polish-Belarusian peasant and a dissident Eastern Orthodox religious leader, active in the Podlachia region.

Lieutenant général des armées navales Jean-Baptiste du Casse (2 August 1646 – 25 June 1715) was a French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 to 1700. Born on 2 August 1646 in Saubusse, France to a Huguenot family, du Casse enlisted in the French merchant navy before joining the French East India Company and the Compagnie du Sénégal.

Sai Maa (birth name unknown), also known as Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi Mishra, is a spiritual guru, businesswoman, energy healer and author. She is known among her followers as the 'Embodiment of the Divine Feminine' and has purported both omnipotence and omniscience.

Ulla Erna Frieda Jürß (born 2 August 1923) was a Nazi and concentration camp guard. It is unclear in her file when Jürß became a camp guard (estimated between 1942 and 1944).

Jitender Mann "Gogi" (2 August 1983 – 24 September 2021) was an Indian gangster operating in National Capital Region, India. He was a resident of Alipur village, Delhi and is infamous for Burari Shootout and the murder of haryanvi singer Harshita Dhaiya.

Karl-Otto Koch (German: [kɔx]; 2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews.

Antone Charles "Tony" Costa (August 2, 1944 – May 12, 1974), sometimes referred to as the Cape Cod Vampire or the Cape Cod Cannibal was an American serial killer who was active in and around the town of Truro, Massachusetts, during 1968–1969. The dismembered remains of four women were found in or near a forest clearing where Costa grew marijuana.

May Otis Blackburn (August 2, 1881, Storm Lake, Iowa – June 17, 1951, Los Angeles, California) was the founder and self-appointed Queen and High Priestess of the 1920s Los Angeles new religious movement, "The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven." The organization was also known as the "Blackburn Cult," the "Cult of the Great Eleven," and the "Great Eleven Club." She is notable as an ultimately successful defendant in an unusual legal case turning on whether her failure to publish and print a promised book was knowingly fraudulent as contended by the complaining witness, Clifford Dabney.

Lieutenant général des armées navales Jean-Baptiste du Casse (2 August 1646 – 25 June 1715) was a French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 to 1700. Born on 2 August 1646 in Saubusse, France to a Huguenot family, du Casse enlisted in the French merchant navy before joining the French East India Company and the Compagnie du Sénégal.

Jean Pâris de Monmartel (3 August 1690 at Moirans, Dauphiné – 10 September 1766 at his château at Brunoy) was a French financier. He was the youngest of the four Pâris brothers, who were financiers under Louis XIV and Louis XV.

Jose Luis Saenz, known as Joe Saenz, is an American gangster and former fugitive charged with four murders, rape, kidnapping, parole violation and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. On October 19, 2009, he was named by the FBI as the 492nd fugitive to be placed on the list of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

John Newton (; 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725 – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist.

Daniel Anthony Mitrione (August 4, 1920 – August 10, 1970) was a U.S. government official in Latin America, where he taught torture techniques to local authoritarian regimes.

Knut Hamsun (; 4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.

Oto Biederman (born 5 August 1973) is a Czech serial killer and member of the "Kolínský Gang", sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 5 people.

Zhang Jun (Chinese: 张君; pinyin: Zhāng Jūn; August 5, 1966 – May 20, 2001) was a Chinese robber and serial killer. From June 1993 to September 2000, Zhang and his associates robbed a total of 22 stores in Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan and Guangxi, killing 28 people and wounding 23.

Andrei Ivanovich Barausov (Russian: Андрей Иванович Бараусов; born 5 August 1961), known as The Lensky Maniac (Russian: Ленский маньяк), is a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 7 underage girls in Sakha from 1983 to 1997. Most of these killings remained unsolved until early January 2023, when Barausov, now serving a sentence for serial rape, confessed to them.

Marco Bergamo (6 August 1966 – 17 October 2017), known as The Monster of Bolzano, was an Italian serial killer who murdered five women between 1985 and 1992.

Alexander Grigorievich Dudnik (Kazakh: Александр Григорьевич Дудник; Russian: Александр Григорьевич Дудник; 6 August 1939 – 5 April 1996) was a Kazakhstani serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 3 women in and around Vishnevka between 1993 and 1994. Before committing a series of murders, Dudnik had been convicted of rape three times during the Soviet era.

William Palmer (6 August 1824 – 14 June 1856), also known as the Rugeley Poisoner or the Prince of Poisoners, was an English doctor and murderer. A court convicted him for the 1855 murder of his friend John Cook, whom he had poisoned with strychnine.

Samuel Flores Borrego (a.k.a. Metro 3; 6 August 1972 – 2 September 2011) was a Mexican drug lord and high-ranking lieutenant of the Gulf Cartel.

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːrɑɱ vɑn dər ˈsloːt]; born 6 August 1987) is a Dutch murderer, extortionist, con man, and drug trafficker who was convicted in the 2010 killing of Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru. He first came to public attention as the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005.

Marvin Gayle Gray (August 7, 1954 – July 23, 2013) was an American serial killer. Being a powerlifter, Gray, while imprisoned, achieved incredible results in powerlifting, almost breaking world records.

Adam Leroy Lane (born August 7, 1964) is a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who was dubbed the Highway Killer because his crimes took place near highways, which he frequently traveled due to his job as a truck driver.

Anna Margaretha Zwanziger (7 August 1760 – 17 September 1811) was a German serial killer. She used arsenic, which she referred to as "her truest friend".

Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed (Hungarian: Báthori Erzsébet, pronounced [ˈbaːtori ˈɛrʒeːbɛt]; Slovak: Alžbeta Bátoriová, 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the powerful House of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia). Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women from 1590 to 1610.

Kurt-Werner Wichmann (8 July 1949 – 25 April 1993) was a German serial killer who was possibly linked to the Göhrde Murders.

On March 21, 2005, a school shooting occurred at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. That afternoon at 2:00 p.m., 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe tribal police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at their lakeside home.

Carmine John Persico Jr. (Italian: [ˈkarmine ˈpɛrsiko]; August 8, 1933 – March 7, 2019), also known as "Junior", "The Snake" and "Immortal", was an American mobster and the longtime boss of the Colombo crime family in New York City from 1973 until his death in 2019.

Hiroshi Maeue (前上 博, Maeue Hiroshi; August 8, 1968 – July 28, 2009) was a Japanese serial killer who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005. Also known as the "Suicide Website Murderer", Maeue suffered from a paraphilic psychosexual disorder that translated into being unable to achieve sexual release in the absence of performing an act of strangulation.

Patrick Tracy Burris (August 8, 1967 – July 6, 2009) was an American spree killer responsible for at least five known murders in Cherokee County, South Carolina in 2009. Over a span of six days, he shot and killed five people.

Manohar Arjun “Manya” Surve (8 August 1944 – 11 January 1982), was an Indian gangster based in Mumbai. He was one of the educated gangsters who graduated from college and was well known for challenging and defeating existing gangs.

Shawn Michael Grate (born August 8, 1976) is an American serial killer and rapist who was sentenced to death for the murders of five young women in and around northern Ohio from 2006 to 2016. Grate was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder on May 7, 2018, in Ashland County, pleaded guilty to two additional murders on March 1, 2019, in Richland County, and pleaded guilty to an additional murder on September 11, 2019, in Marion County.

André Albert Obrecht (9 August 1899 – 30 July 1985) was a French executioner who served as the 6th Monsieur de Paris from 1951 until 1976. He participated in a total of 322 executions.

Johannes Søbøtker (9 May 1777 – 23 March 1854) was a Danish merchant, planter and colonial administrator who served as Governor of St. Thomas and St.

Dallen Forrest Bounds (August 9, 1971 – December 23, 1999) was an American serial killer who killed four people in Greenville and Easley, South Carolina - two during robberies and another two out of personal animosity - between June and December 1999. The killings led to a manhunt resulting in him taking two women hostage and his eventual suicide to avoid arrest by authorities.

Jacques-Louis de Pourtalès (from 14 February 1750 Jacques-Louis de Pourtalès, also Jakob Ludwig von Pourtalès; (1722-08-09)9 August 1722 in Geneva – (1814-03-20)20 March 1814 in Neuchâtel), was a plantation owner, entrepreneur and private banker.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kashintsev (Russian: Сергей Александрович Кашинцев; 9 August 1940 – 17 January 1992) was a Soviet serial killer. Originally convicted of a single murder in 1975, he was later released and committed at least seven additional killings across the country.

Marcel Henri Barbeault (born 10 August 1941) is a French serial killer who murdered eight people in Nogent-sur-Oise in the 1970s. He is responsible for the murder of seven women and one man.

Charles Frederick Albright (August 10, 1933 – August 22, 2020) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer known as the Eyeball Killer. He was charged with the murders of four women (Rhonda Bowie, Mary Lou Pratt, Susan Peterson, and Shirley Williams) who were killed between 1988 and 1991 in Dallas, Texas.

Atiq Ahmed, (also spelled as Atique Ahmed; 10 August 1962 – 15 April 2023) was a notorious Indian gangster, criminal and politician. He served as a member of the Indian Parliament and the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Samajwadi Party.

Uwe Mundlos (11 August 1973 – 4 November 2011) was a German neo-Nazi, right-wing terrorist and serial killer. Together with Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe, he formed the nucleus of the terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU), which was responsible for 10 murders, 43 attempted murders, 3 explosive attacks, and 15 bank robberies in Germany between 1998 and 2011.

Paul Durousseau (born August 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who murdered seven young women (two of whom were pregnant) in the southeastern United States between 1997 and 2003. German authorities suspect he may have also killed several local women when he was stationed there with the United States Army during the early 1990s.