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January 1, 1946 - Nikolai Fefilov

Nikolai Borisovich Fefilov (Russian: Никола́й Бори́сович Фефи́лов; 24 July 1946 – 30 August 1988), known as The Urals Strangler (Russian: Уральский душитель), was a Soviet serial killer. Between 1982 and 1988, he killed seven women and girls in Sverdlovsk, with six of the murders involving rape.

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January 1, 1903 - David Berman

David Berman (1903 – June 16, 1957) was a Jewish-American organized crime figure active in Sioux City, Iowa, the Twin Cities, and the Las Vegas Strip. He was a casino gambling pioneer in Las Vegas, where he was a partner with mobster Bugsy Siegel at the Flamingo Hotel.

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January 1, 1949 - Susumu Kajiyama

Susumu Kajiyama (梶山 進, Kajiyama Susumu; born around 1950) is a retired yakuza best known for his arrest in 2003, who was dubbed the "loan shark king". He has been introduced as a senior member of the Shizuoka-based Goryo-kai, a secondary organization of Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, although he was technically not a member of the Goryo-kai.

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January 1, 1937 - Rosetta Cutolo

Rosetta Cutolo (Italian pronunciation: [roˈzetta ˈkuːtolo]; 1 January 1937 – 14 October 2023) was an Italian criminal and the sister of the Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo, head of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. As her brother spent most of his time behind bars from where he sent out his instructions, the everyday running of the enterprise was entrusted to his older sister, Rosetta.

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January 1, 1940 - Peter Chiodo

The Lucchese crime family (Italian: [lukˈkeːze; -eːse]) is an Italian American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia. Members refer to the organization as the Lucchese borgata; borgata (or brugard) is Mafia slang for criminal gang, which itself was derived from a Sicilian word meaning close-knit community.

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January 1, 1900 - John Scalise

John Scalise (born Giovanni Scalise, 1900, Castelvetrano, Sicily – May 7, 1929, Chicago) was an American organized crime figure of the early 20th century and, with partner Albert Anselmi, was one of the Chicago Outfit's most successful hitmen in Prohibition-era Chicago.

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January 1, 1951 - Keith Faure

Keith George Faure (June, 1951 - July 2025), from Norlane, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters. He was serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his role in two murders related to the Melbourne gangland killings.

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January 1, 1964 - David Randitsheni

David Randitsheni (1964/65 – 2009) was a South African rapist and serial killer who in 2009 was convicted on 10 counts of murder, 17 counts of rape, 18 counts of kidnapping and one count of indecent assault. He was sentenced to 16 life sentences and 220 years in prison, with the judge stipulating that he could not be considered for parole before serving at least 35 years in prison, by which time he would be 80 years old.

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January 1, 1970 - Pedro Padilla Flores

Pedro Padilla Flores (born in the 1970s), also known as The Rio Bravo Assassin among many other aliases, is a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of killing three women in Ciudad Juárez but is suspected of murdering up to 27 more, some of whom were underage. He was captured and sentenced to prison time for three murders in 1986, but he escaped in 1990 and, after remaining a fugitive from justice, was recaptured in New Mexico and deported back to Ciudad Juárez.

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January 1, 1699 - William Fly

William Fly (died 12 July 1726) was an English pirate who raided New England shipping fleets for three months in 1726 until he was captured by the crew of a seized ship. He was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, and his body publicly exhibited in a gibbet as a warning to other pirates.

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January 1, 1862 - James T. Ellison

The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) was a far-right survivalist anti-government militia which advocated Christian Identity and was active in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. The CSA developed from a Baptist congregation, the Zarephath-Horeb Community Church, which was founded in 1971 in Pontiac, Missouri.

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