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July 24, 1991 - Elliot Rodger

Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger (July 24, 1991 – May 23, 2014) was a British-born American mass murderer who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings, where he murdered six people and injured fourteen others, before he fatally shot himself. The murders he committed, his suicide, and his manifesto have been cited as an early influence on the incel and manosphere subculture.

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July 24, 1857 - Juan Vicente Gómez

Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón (24 July 1857 – 17 December 1935) was a Venezuelan military general, politician and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He only officially served as president on three occasions during this time, ruling as an unelected military strongman behind puppet governments in between.

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July 25, 1850 - Lorenz Schwietz

Lorenz Schwietz (25 July 1850 – May 1925, in Breslau) was Royal Prussian executioner (German: Scharfrichter) from 21 June 1900 to 29 January 1914. Responsible for carrying out capital punishment in the Prussian provinces, he executed a total of 120 to 123 people, primarily by beheading with an axe, but also with guillotines.

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July 25, 1878 - Brother XII

Edward Arthur Wilson (25 July 1878 – 7 November 1934), better known as Brother XII, was an English mystic who, in the late 1920s, founded a spiritual community located just south of the city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.

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July 26, 1970 - Glenn Helzer

Glen Taylor Helzer (born July 26, 1970) is a self-declared prophet, former cult leader and spree killer who founded and led the Children of Thunder. Helzer and his followers murdered five people as part of an extortion plot intended to culminate with Helzer taking over the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and hastening the return of Christ; among their victims was Selina Bishop, daughter of blues guitarist Elvin Bishop.

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July 28, 1971 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (28 July 1971 – 27 October 2019), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Iraqi militant leader and former teacher who was the founder and first leader of the Islamic State (IS), who proclaimed himself caliph in 2014 and stayed in power until his suicide in an American operation in 2019.

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July 28, 1977 - Denis Gorbunov

Denis Alekseevich Gorbunov (Russian: Денис Алексеевич Горбунов; 28 July 1977 – 26 March 2006), known as The Ad Killer (Russian: Убийца по объявлению), was a Russian serial killer who murdered five women during robberies in Chelyabinsk from December 2004 to May 2005. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes, he killed himself two days after his conviction.

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July 29, 1971 - Dmitry Voronenko

Dmitry Petrovich Voronenko (Russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Вороне́нко, Ukrainian: Дмитро Петрович Вороненко; born 29 July 1971), known as The Petersburg Maniac (Russian: Петербургский маньяк), is a Kyrgyzstani-Ukrainian serial killer, who killed four girls and young women in St. Petersburg between 2006 and 2007.

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July 29, 1963 - Richard Evonitz

Richard Marc Edward Evonitz (July 29, 1963 – June 27, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist responsible for the deaths of at least three teenage girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and the abduction of Kara Robinson in Lexington County, South Carolina. Evonitz has been suspected of other murders, and confessed other crimes to his sister, shortly before committing suicide.

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July 29, 1883 - Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded the fascist movement in 1919, with the creation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which became the National Fascist Party (PNF) in 1921.

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July 30, 1853 - Frederick Bailey Deeming

Frederick Bailey Deeming (30 July 1853 – 23 May 1892) was an English serial killer who was convicted and executed for the murder of his entire family in Rainhill, Merseyside, England, and his second wife in Melbourne, Australia. He is remembered today because he was suspected by some of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.

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July 31, 1967 - Heriberto Seda

Heriberto "Eddie" Seda (born July 31, 1967), often referred to as The New York Zodiac or The Brooklyn Sniper, is an American serial killer who was active in New York City from 1990 through 1993. He fatally shot three people and wounded six others (four critically) before being caught on June 18, 1996.

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July 31, 1952 - Hadden Clark

Hadden Irving Clark (born July 31, 1952) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer currently serving two 30-year sentences for the murders of 6-year-old Michele Lee Dorr in 1986, and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in 1992. He was also given a 10-year sentence for robbery after stealing from a former landlord.

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July 31, 1935 - Fritz Honka

Friedrich Paul "Fritz" Honka (31 July 1935 – 19 October 1998), also known as Peter Jensen, was a German serial killer. Between 1970 and 1975 he killed at least four women from Hamburg's red light district, keeping three of the bodies in his flat.

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