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February 9, 1941 - Kermit Gosnell

Kermit Barron Gosnell (February 9, 1941 – March 1, 2026) was an American serial killer and abortion doctor. At his clinic in West Philadelphia, Gosnell provided illegal and unsafe late-term abortions, committed post-labor infanticide after many live births, and ran a prescription pill mill which eventually attracted federal attention.

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February 9, 1982 - William Morva

William Charles Morva (February 9, 1982 – July 6, 2017) was an American-Hungarian man convicted of the 2006 shooting deaths of Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin, 40, and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, 32, in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia. He was sentenced to death for the crime and was executed on July 6, 2017.

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February 9, 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri

Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (15 July 1926 – 12 January 2003) was an Argentine military officer who served as the de facto President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri ruled as a military dictator during the National Reorganization Process as leader of the Third Junta with Jorge Anaya and Basilio Lami Dozo.

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February 10, 1903 - Waldemar Hoven

Waldemar Hoven (10 February 1903 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 2 June 1948.

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February 10, 1922 - Erna Wallisch

Erna Wallisch (née Pfannstiel, 10 February 1922 – 16 February 2008) was a female guard in two Nazi concentration camps, but despite several trials was never convicted. In 2007, she was seventh on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted war criminals that had never been convicted.

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February 10, 1922 - Mestre Gabriel

José Gabriel da Costa, later known as Mestre Gabriel, (1922–1971), is the founder of the União do Vegetal, a religion with Christian and reincarnationist foundations that considers Hoasca (more commonly referred to as "ayahuasca") to be its main sacrament. This beverage is made by boiling two plants, Mariri (Banisteriopsis caapi) and Chacrona (Psychotria viridis), both of which are found in the Amazon rainforest.

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February 10, 1974 - Alexander Pichushkin

Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин; born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bitsa Park Maniac (Битцевский маньяк), is a Russian serial killer and former warehouse worker who is believed to have killed at least forty-nine people, and possibly as many as sixty, between 1992 and 2006. Pichushkin was active in Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found.

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February 11, 1934 - Manuel Noriega

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno ( mahn-WEL NOR-ee-AY-gə; Spanish: [maˈnwel noˈɾjeɣa]; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian military officer and politician who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents.

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February 12, 1912 - Josef Blösche

Josef Blösche (12 February 1912 – 29 July 1969) was a German war criminal and a member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and SD during World War II. Blösche personally executed many Jews, participated in several massacres, and helped send many more to their deaths in extermination camps.

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February 12, 1955 - David Brooks

Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.

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February 12, 1909 - Sigmund Rascher

Sigmund Rascher (12 February 1909 – 26 April 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, to whom his wife Karoline "Nini" Diehl had direct connections.

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February 12, 1960 - Ariel Castro

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and later held them captive in his home at 2207 Seymour Avenue in the city's Tremont neighborhood. All three young women were imprisoned at Castro's home until 2013, when Berry successfully escaped with her six-year-old daughter, to whom she had given birth while captive, and contacted the police.

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February 13, 1948 - Allan Legere

Allan Joseph Legere (February 13, 1948 – March 9, 2026), also known as the Monster of the Miramichi, was a Canadian rapist, arsonist, and serial killer. In 1986, he participated in a home invasion against an elderly couple that ended with the death of the husband and the sexual assault of the wife, for which he was sentenced to prison.

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February 13, 1881 - Zhang Zongchang

Zhang Zongchang (Chinese: 張宗昌; pinyin: Zhāng Zōngchāng; also romanized as Chang Tsung-chang; 1881 – 3 September 1932), courtesy name Xiaokun, was a Chinese warlord who ruled Shandong from 1925 to 1928. A member of the Fengtian clique, Zhang was notorious for his brutal and ruthless behavior, eccentric personality, and extravagant lifestyle, which earned him nicknames such as the "Dogmeat General".

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February 14, 1984 - Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong Un (born 8 January 1982, 1983 or 1984) is a North Korean politician and dictator who serves as both the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the president of the State Affairs Commission, while also holding the highest offices of the North Korean military. A member of the Kim family, he is the third supreme leader of North Korea, as well as the fifth child of Kim Jong Il, his predecessor as supreme leader, and a grandson of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea.

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February 15, 1939 - Robert Hansen

Robert Christian Boes Hansen (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), also known as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983, abducting, raping and murdering at least seventeen women. Many of his victims were released by Hansen into the wilderness and hunted with a Ruger Mini-14 and hunting knives.

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February 15, 1739 - Charles-Henri Sanson

Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɑ̃ʁi sɑ̃sɔ̃]; 15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, as well as high executioner of the First French Republic. He administered capital punishment in Paris for over 40 years.

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February 15, 1943 - Griselda Blanco

Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 14, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel. She was shot dead in Medellín on September 3, 2012, at the age of 69.

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February 16, 1941 - Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong Il (16 February 1941 or 1942 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim Jong Il was declared an Eternal Leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

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February 17, 1933 - Bogdan Arnold

Bogdan Eugeniusz Arnold (17 February 1933 – 16 December 1968) was a Polish serial killer who murdered four women in Katowice from October 1966 to May 1967, hiding their bodies in his apartment. In his testimony, he also admitted to an attempted murder and to torturing his victims.

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February 17, 1962 - Nicolás Maduro

Nicolás Maduro Moros (born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader who has been the de jure president of Venezuela since 2013. On 3 January 2026, US forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; they were transported to the US and charged with drug trafficking to which they pleaded not guilty.

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February 18, 1939 - Anatoly Biryukov

Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryukov (Russian: Анатолий Николаевич Бирюков, 18 February 1939 – 24 February 1979), known as The Baby Hunter (Russian: Охотник за младенцами), was a Soviet serial killer convicted for the killing of five babies in the Moscow area between September and October 1977.

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February 18, 1919 - David Berg

David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919 – October 1, 1994) was a Swedish-American preacher who founded and led the cult generally known as the Children of God and subsequently as The Family International. Berg's group, established in 1968 among the counterculture youth in Southern California, gained notoriety for incorporating sexuality into its spiritual message and recruitment methods.

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