Jules-Henri Desfourneaux (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ɑ̃ʁi defuʁno]; 17 December 1877 – 1 October 1951) was a French executioner who served as the 5th Monsieur de Paris from 1939 until 1951. He was the last executioner to officiate in public.

Yevgeny Nikolaevich Petrov (Russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Петро́в; born 17 December 1975), known as The Novouralsk Ripper (Russian: Новоуральский потрошитель), is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile.

Raymond Martinez Fernandez (December 17, 1914 – March 8, 1951) and Martha Jule Beck (May 6, 1920 – March 8, 1951) were an American serial killer couple. They were convicted of one murder, are known to have committed two more, and were suspected of having killed up to twenty victims during a spree between 1947 and 1949.

Amirhossein Pourjafar (also stylised as Amir Hossein Pourjafar, 17 December 1999 – 4 January 2018) was an Iranian juvenile offender who was sentenced to death and executed for the 2016 rape and murder of Setayesh Ghoreyshi, a 7-year-old girl from Iran's Afghan community. Pourjafar was 16 years old at the time of the murder and was executed shortly after his 18th birthday.

Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.

Ondrej Rigo (17 December 1955 – 14 June 2022) was a Slovak serial killer and necrophile who targeted women in Bratislava, Munich and Amsterdam from 1990 to 1992. He served a life sentence until his death for nine murders and one attempted murder in Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia.