Find out which notorious serial killer you share a birthday with. It’s always interesting to know which infamous cold-blooded murderer is your birthday twin. Could you imagine finding out you celebrate the same day as Ed Kemper?
JANUARY
Born on January 14th, 1946, Dr. Harold Shipman became known as ‘Doctor Death’ in the media after he killed 250 patients (although the real victim count is believed to be much higher). He was labeled “kind and thoughtful” by his colleagues but behind closed doors, he had murder on his mind.
2nd: Ian Brady
3rd: Phillip Carl Jablonski
6th: Vincent ‘The Brooklyn Strangler’ Johnson
7th: Israel Keyes
8th: William George Bonin
9th: Dorothea Puente
13th: Jeremy Bamber
14th: Dr. Harold Shipman
20th: Joel Rifkin
25th: Luis Garavito
31st: Robert Berdella
31st: Jerry Brudos
FEBRUARY
Serial killers Richard ‘The Night Stalker’ Ramirez and Aileen Wuornos share the same leap year birthday on February 29th. Both killers have been the subject of many Hollywood movies about their brutal crimes; most notably Charlize Theron’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Aileen in ‘Monster’ (2003).
6th: Billy Gohl
15th: Robert Hansen
16th: David John Birnie
18th: Gary ‘Green River Killer’ Ridgway
22nd: Stephen ‘The Grindr Killer’ Port
22nd: Charles Cullen
29th: Richard Ramirez
29th: Aileen Wuornos
MARCH
If your birthday falls on March 17th, then you share the big day with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. A successful and respected member of the community who cheered up sick children in hospital dressed as ‘Pogo The Clown’, Gacy was one of the most prolific serial killers in criminal history. In his suburban home police found the remains of teenage boys – all brutally tortured and murdered.
5th: Ottis Toole
7th: Mikhail Popkov
9th: Dennis ‘BTK’ Rader
10th: Doug Clark
13th: Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins Jr.
16th: Colin Ireland
17th: John Wayne Gacy
19th: Randy Kraft
20th: Andre Crawford
29th: John Martin Crawford
APRIL
Standing at 6-foot-5, Richard Kuklinski was a natural born killer known as ‘The Iceman’. Kuklinski presented himself as a hard-working businessman who was a doting father and husband, yet in reality; he was torturing, dismembering, and disposing of victims only hours after fixing toys for his children. He shares a birthday with those born on April 11th.
2nd: Leslie ‘The Mad Dog Killer’ Irvin
3rd: Roberto Succo
6th: Keith Hunter Jesperson
7th: Herbert Richard “Herb” Baumeister
8th: John Christie
9th: Alexander ‘Chessboard Killer’ Pichushkin
11th: Richard ‘The Iceman’ Kuklinski
12th: Henri Desire Landru
13th: Joseph Paul Franklin
15th: Donald Harvey
17th: Paul ‘Casanova Killer’ Knowles
18th: Herbert William Mullin
21st: Robert Black
MAY
Born on May 16th, 1861, an attractive, charming, and charismatic pharmacist by the name of Herman Webster Mudgett later adopted the alias Dr. H. H. Holmes. He built a hotel in Chicago that was constructed to deceive and torture unsuspecting victims across a labyrinth of disorientating passageways, dangerous rooms, doors to brick walls, and trap doors with greased shoots to the basement.
4th: Karla Homolka
6th: Martha ‘Lonely Hearts Killer’ Beck
9th: Carroll Edward Cole
12th: Earle Nelson
16th: Dr. H. H. Holmes
17th: Levi ‘The Bus Stop Strangler’ Bellfield
19th: Albert Fish
21st: Jeffrey Dahmer
22nd: Kenneth Bianchi
22nd: Ted ‘Unabomber’ Kaczynski
23rd: Richard Chase
23rd: Catherine Birnie
26th: Peter Kürten
26th: Mary Bell
27th: Robert Lee Yates
JUNE
Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. He confessed to killing 93 victims across several states between 1970 and 2005 selecting female sex workers and drug addicts who were vulnerable as he believed these deaths would go unnoticed. If you were also born on June 7th, then you share a birthday with the worst of the very worst.
1st: David Berkowitz
2nd: Peter ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ Sutcliffe
6th: Arthur Shawcross
7th: Samuel Little
11th: Trevor Hardy
26th: Robert Maudsley
28th: Tommy Lynn Sells
28th: Charles ‘Carl’ Panzram
JULY
Born on July 23rd, 1942, Myra Hindley – alongside her partner Ian Brady – murdered five children aged between 10 and 17 and buried the victims in graves on Saddleworth Moor, North West England. Hindley delighted in carrying around a cord that she used to strangle one victim and playing with it in front of people.
2nd: John Joubert
6th: Peter Dupas
15th: Glen Edward Rogers
17th: Pedro Rodrigues Filho
23rd: Myra Hindley
24th: John George Haigh
26th: Joseph Christopher
AUGUST
Countess Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Unlike Elizabeth I, however, Bathory used her status to command a team of servants to bring local peasant girls to her castle where they were killed in cold blood. Her kill count is believed to be more than 650 victims and those born on August 7th share a birthday.
4th: Faye Copeland
7th: Countess Elizabeth Báthory
10th: Charles ‘The Eyeball Killer’ Albright
12th: Karl Denke
16th: Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger
19th: Anthony Sowell
23rd: Rodney Alcala
23rd: Henry Lee Lucas
27th: Paul Bernado
27th: Ed Gein
30th: Lonnie David Franklin, Jr.
SEPTEMBER
Born on September 29th, 1941, Fred West was an English serial killer who murdered 12 young women between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, the majority with his second wife, Rose West. Finally, in 1995, they were convicted of murder and sentenced to life behind bars. Fred killed himself while in custody pending his trial and Rose continues to live out the rest of her days in prison.
3rd: Albert DeSalvo
4th: John ‘The Bullseye Killer’ Cooper
7th: Graham ‘The Teacup Poisoner’ Young
9th: Harrison Graham
15th: Norbert Hans ‘The Hammer Killer’ Poehlke
24th: Patrick Kearney
25th: Patrick MacKay
29th: Fred West
OCTOBER
If your birthday falls on October 16th, then you share this day with Andrei ‘Butcher of Rostov’ Chikatilo. Known as a family man and former teacher, Chikatilo was eventually captured and he confessed to murdering and mutilating at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in Russia.
5th: Angelo Buono Jr.
8th: Pedro López
8th: Javed Iqbal Mughal
16th: Andrei Chikatilo
23rd: Velma ”Death Row Granny’ Barfield
24th: Robert “Willy” Pickton
25th: Fritz Haarmann (October 25)
29th: Leonard Lake
31st: Mary Ann Cotton
NOVEMBER
If you are born on November 24th then you can now tell people you share a birthday with Ted Bundy. Between 1974 and 1978, he brutally murdered 30 women and teenage girls in seven different states. There are few other serial killers who manage to fascinate, terrify, and disturb people more than Bundy. He even described himself as ‘the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.’
4th: Nannie Doss
7th: Carl Eugene Watts
8th: Joseph James ‘Golden State Killer’ DeAngelo
11th: Belle Gunness
12th: Charles Manson
13th: Kristen Gilbert
15th: William ‘The Lipstick Killer’ Heirens
15th: Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
17th: Moses Sithole
22nd: Gary Hilton
23rd: Dennis Nilsen
24th: Ted Bundy
24th: Charles ‘Charlie’ Starkweather
25th: Richard Cottingham
26th: John Wayne Glover
29th: Rose West
DECEMBER
Standing at 6ft 9inches tall, Ed Kemper is a truly frightening serial killer who murdered 10 people between 1964 and 1973. Known as the ‘co-ed killer’, he also killed his paternal grandparents and decapitated his own mother. Born on December 18th, 1948, if you share this day then you’re still able to send a birthday card as he remains behind bars even to this day.
6th: Richard Speck
10th: Harvey Glatman
17th: Raymond ‘Lonely Hearts Killer’ Fernandez
18th: Ed Kemper
24th: Dean Corll
24th: Charles Ng
25th: Janie Lou Gibbs
27th: Juana Barraza
27th: Ivan Milat
30th: Ray Copeland
