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March 5, 1900 - Johanna Langefeld

Johanna Langefeld (née May; 5 March 1900, Kupferdreh, Germany – 26 January 1974) was a Nazi German guard and supervisor at three Nazi concentration camps: Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz. She was arrested and imprisoned for her role in the Holocaust, but she escaped prison and was never tried.

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March 5, 1947 - Ottis Toole

Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American serial killer who was convicted of six counts of murder. Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas, Toole made confessions which resulted in murder convictions, and which he later recanted.

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March 5, 1971 - Shi Yuejun

Between 24 September and 29 September 2006, twelve people were killed and five were wounded others in a series of knife attacks in Tonghua, Jilin, China. The killings are collectively referred to as the Tonghua 9·24 mass murder case (Chinese: 通化9·24特大系列杀人案).

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March 5, 1939 - Peter Woodcock

David Michael Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath. He gained notoriety for the murders of three young children in Toronto in the late 1950s, as well as for a murder in 1991 on his first day of unsupervised release from the psychiatric institution in which he had been incarcerated for his earlier crimes.

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March 5, 1925 - Kenichi Yamamoto

Kenichi Yamamoto (山本 健一, Yamamoto Ken'ichi; March 5, 1925 – February 4, 1982) was a Japanese yakuza boss who founded the Yamaken-gumi, the largest and most powerful affiliate gang of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest crime syndicate. By the time of his death, Yamamoto had risen to the rank of wakagashira (the number-two boss) and was considered the heir apparent to the Yamaguchi-gumi's third godfather, Kazuo Taoka.

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