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June 12, 1823 - Henry Wirz

Captain Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Confederate States Army officer, doctor, and convicted war criminal best known for commanding Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Wirz immigrated to the United States in 1849 after being exiled from the canton of Zurich following a conviction of embezzlement and fraud.

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June 13, 1986 - Thabo Bester

Thabo Bester (born 13 June 1986) is a South African convicted rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. He was on the run for almost a year before being caught in Arusha, Tanzania on 8 April 2023.

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June 13, 1957 - Gennady Laletin

Gennady Vladimirovich Laletin (Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Лалетин; born 13 June 1957), known as Gena the Worm (Russian: Гена-червяк), is a Russian serial killer and rapist. Originally indicted in 1998 for the rape of his stepdaughter in Buryatia, Laletin became a fugitive and committed additional crimes from 2004 to 2010, including five murders.

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June 13, 1911 - Thomas Eboli

Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli (born Tommaso Eboli, Italian: [tomˈmaːzo ˈɛboli]; June 13, 1911 Scisciano, Italy – July 16, 1972 Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York) was a New York City mobster who eventually became the acting boss of the Genovese crime family.

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June 13, 1954 - Richard Allen Davis

Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators. He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances (burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and an attempted lewd act upon a child under the age of 14) of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

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June 14, 1969 - Elroy Chester

Elroy Chester (June 14, 1969 – June 12, 2013) was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar who committed five murders in Port Arthur, Texas, between 1997 and 1998. During the six-month span of the killings, Chester was also responsible for a string of home invasions and sexual assaults in the same area.

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June 14, 1933 - Edward Edwards

Edward Wayne Edwards (born Charles Wayne Murray; June 14, 1933 – April 7, 2011) was an American serial killer, rapist, prison escapee, and fugitive. After committing a series of gas stations holdups in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, leading to his capture in 1962.

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June 14, 1928 - Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna (14 May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

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June 15, 1950 - Genene Jones

Genene Ann Jones (born July 13, 1950) is an American licensed vocational nurse and confessed serial killer, currently serving a sentence of life in prison for the murder of an 11-month-old baby boy in 1981. She was previously convicted in 1984 for the murder of a 15-month-old baby girl and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

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June 16, 2000 - Tay-K

Taymor Travon McIntyre (born June 16, 2000), better known by his stage name Tay-K, is an American convicted murderer and former rapper. He is best known for his 2017 song "The Race", which peaked at number 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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June 16, 1970 - Roman Kobyzev

Roman Valeryevich Kobyzev (Russian: Роман Валерьевич Кобызев; born 16 June 1970) is a Russian serial killer who committed four murders in Stavropol and Krasnodar Krai from 1996 to 1997, and a double murder in 2014. After evading arrest for two decades, he was finally apprehended after his final murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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June 16, 1912 - Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, scholar and writer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South West for the Conservative Party from 1950 to February 1974 and the MP for South Down for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from October 1974 to 1987.

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June 17, 1791 - Roberto Cofresí

Roberto Cofresí y Ramírez de Arellano (June 17, 1791 – March 29, 1825), also known as El Pirata Cofresí, was a Puerto Rican pirate. He was born into a noble family, but the political and economic difficulties faced by the island as a colony of the Spanish Empire during the regional independence wars against the metropole meant that his household was poor.

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June 17, 1924 - Archibald Hall

Archibald Thomson Hall, also known as Roy Fontaine (17 June 1924 – 16 September 2002) was a Scottish serial killer and thief. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he became known as the Killer Butler or the Monster Butler after committing crimes while working in service to members of the British aristocracy.

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June 17, 1954 - Pedro Rodrigues Filho

Pedro Rodrigues Filho (29 October 1954 – 5 March 2023), also known as Pedrinho Matador, Killer Lil' Pedro, Killer Killer Petey, or simply Killer Petey, was a Brazilian serial killer, spree killer, vigilante, and YouTuber known for pursuing and killing other criminals and suspected criminals. He committed most of his crimes as a teenager, between the age of 14 and 19, and was officially sentenced for 71 murders, but claimed to have killed over 100 people, including drug dealers, rapists, and murderers, and served a total of 34 years in prison before his release in 2007.

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June 17, 1900 - Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal. Bormann gained immense power by using his position as Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.

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June 18, 1909 - John Haigh

John George Haigh ( HEYG; 24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer convicted for the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine. Haigh battered to death or shot his victims and disposed of their bodies using sulphuric acid before forging their signatures so he could sell their possessions and collect large sums of money.

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June 19, 1945 - Radovan Karadžić

Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић, pronounced [râdovaːn kâradʒitɕ]; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb former politician who served as the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. He was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

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June 20, 2003 - Payton Gendron

Payton Spencer Gendron (born June 20, 2003) is an American mass murderer, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi who committed a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, in which he killed 10 people and injured 3 others, on May 14, 2022. Gendron, who was 18 years old at the time, had traveled three and a half hours to the supermarket from his hometown of Conklin, New York.

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June 20, 1788 - Maria Leer

Maria Leer (June 20, 1788 – July 3, 1866) was a prophetess and Dutch religious figure, one of the leaders of the Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters (Zwijndrecht New Lighters), a religious community with communist features which opposed social conventions. With Stoffel Muller, a barge skipper, she founded Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters, and along with assistance from Dirk Valk, a Waddinxveen bailiff.

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June 20, 1969 - José Luis Calva

José Luis Calva (June 20, 1969 – December 11, 2007) was a Mexican writer, murderer, and suspected serial killer. He was charged with murdering and consuming his girlfriend in 2007, to which he confessed before killing himself pre-trial, and was suspected in at least two other murders.

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June 20, 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁi lə pɛn]; 20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025) was a French politician. He founded the far-right National Front (now National Rally) party and served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 2011 to 2015.

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June 22, 1947 - Brian Beaucage

Brian Leslie Beaucage (22 June 1947 – 3 March 1991), better known as "Bo" Beaucage, was a Canadian gangster, outlaw biker and convicted criminal best known as one of the leaders of the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot. His plea bargain with the Crown in 1971 is one of the most controversial plea bargains in Canadian legal history.

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June 22, 1936 - Masaru Takumi

Masaru Takumi (宅見 勝 Takumi Masaru; June 22, 1936 – August 28, 1997) was a powerful Japanese organized crime figure assassinated in 1997. Until his death, he was the second-in-command (wakagashira) and financial overseer of Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi.

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June 22, 1973 - Sergey Tsukanov (serial killer)

Sergey Nikolayevich Tsukanov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Цуканов; born 22 June 1973), known as The Cemetery Maniac (Russian: Кладбищенский маньяк), is a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist who raped and killed eight women in Likhvinka and Tula during two distinct periods. The first series of murders occurred between 1989 and 1991 when he was only 16 years old, and the second took place between 1998 and 1999.

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June 22, 1967 - Andrei Golovachyov

Andrei Grigoryevich Golovachyov (Russian: Андрей Григорьевич Головачёв; born 22 June 1967), known as The Apartment Maniac (Russian: Квартирный маньяк), is a Russian serial killer who committed at least 14 murders in six regions of Russia from 1996 to 2000. Arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for five of the murders in 2002, he has since confessed to nine additional killings.

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June 22, 1941 - Ayah Pin

Ariffin Mohammed (22 June 1941 – 22 April 2016), better known as Ayah Pin (Father Pin), was a Malaysian cult leader and founder of the Sky Kingdom (Malay: Kerajaan Langit) religious sect. His movement had a commune based in Besut, Terengganu, which was demolished by the Malaysian government in August 2005.

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June 22, 1950 - Viktor Mokhov

Viktor Vasilyevich Mokhov (Russian: Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Мо́хов; born 22 June 1950 in Skopin, Ryazan Oblast) is a Russian criminal who in 2000 kidnapped two girls, then 14 and 17 years old, kept them in a basement and raped them for almost four years.

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