Joseph Francel (September 2, 1895 – January 25, 1981) was an American electrician from Cairo, New York, who was the state of New York's executioner from October 12, 1939 until 1953.

During the weekend of July 4, 1999, white supremacist Benjamin Smith targeted ethnic and racial minorities (with victims including nine Orthodox Jews, two African-American men, and a Korean man), in a three-day drive-by shooting rampage in the U.S. states of Illinois and Indiana, after which he committed suicide.

Robert “Bob” Zarinsky (September 2, 1940 – November 28, 2008) was an American serial killer who killed three teenage girls in Monmouth County, New Jersey, between 1965 and 1969. Convicted of one of these murders and sentenced to life in prison, he was also a suspect in four other murders, including the 1958 murder of a police officer in Rahway, but he was later acquitted for that crime.

Zhao Zhihong (simplified Chinese: 赵志红; traditional Chinese: 趙志紅; pinyin: Zhào Zhìhóng; 5 September 1972 – 30 July 2019), nicknamed The Smiling Killer and Demon, was a Chinese serial killer and rapist. He admitted to committing a total of 20 serious crimes between 1996 and 2005, including raping and killing eleven women in Ulanqab and Hohhot in Inner Mongolia.

Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (2 September 1878 – 13 March 1946) was a German field marshal and politician who served as the first Minister of War in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1938. Blomberg had served as Chief of the Truppenamt, equivalent to the German General Staff, during the Weimar Republic from 1927 to 1929.