A list of events in the 1930s related to serial killers.

1930[]

• January 9 — Hugh Morse is born.
• January 22 — Daniel Camargo Barbosa is born.
• January 29 — Willis Brown died.
• February 24 — Franz Schmidt is born.
• April 10 — Tetsuyuki Morikawa is born.
• April 18 — Henry Colin Campbell died.
• May 6 — David Carpenter is born.
• May 20 — Yiya Murano is born.
• May 24 — Peter Kürten is apprehended.
• May 26 — Charles E. Terry is born.
• June 23 — Ensio Koivunen is born.
• September 5 — Carl Panzram died.
• October 2 — Gordon Stewart Northcott died.
• October 22 — John Ingvar Lövgren is born.
• November 7 — William Sloan died.
• ? — Macario Alcalá Canchola is born.
• ? — Johann Bergmann is born.
• ? — Mary E. Hartman is apprehended.
• ? — Petros Koulaxidis is apprehended.
• ? — Dorothy Matajke is born.
• ? — James Wood is apprehended.
• ? — Mehmet Yaman is born.
• ? — Umberto Zadnich is born.
• ? — Czesław Zakrzewski is born.

1931[]

• January 22 — Elfriede Blauensteiner is born.
• February 13 — Leroy Snyder is born.
• March 30 — Shinkichi Sakurada is apprehended.
• May 15 — William A. Renfroe died.
• June 30 — Eugene Barrett is born.
• July 2 — Peter Kürten died.
• September 3 — Albert DeSalvo is born.
• October 11 — William Pierce is born.
• November 27 — Betty Neumar is born.
• December 12 — Gilbert Paul Jordan is born.
• December 30 — Henry Busch is born.
• December 30 — Shinkichi Sakurada died.
• ? — Helen Golay is born.
• ? — Nathaniel Lipscomb is born.
• ? — Rose Veres is apprehended.

1932[]

• January 18 — Clarence McCutcheon is born.
• February 12 — Marine Hedge (victim) is born.
• March 18 — Harry F. Powers died.
• April ? — Daisy de Melker is apprehended.
• June 13 — John Rowles died.
• August 3 — Petros Koulaxidis died.
• September 29 — Jesse Pomeroy died.
• October 29 — Velma Barfield is born.
• November 26 — John Wayne Glover is born.
• December 8 — Rudy Bladel is born.
• December 30 — Daisy de Melker died.
• ? — Anna Allas is apprehended.
• ? — Gerald Thomas Archer is born.
• ? — Yegor Bashkatov is apprehended.
• ? — Yegor Bashkatov died.
• ? — Mary Chalfa is apprehended.
• ? — Viktória Fődi is apprehended.
• ? — "Abu Tubar" is born.
• ? — Gizella Young is apprehended.

1933[]

• January 10 — Robert Spangler is born.
• February 17 — Bogdan Arnold is born.
• February 17 — Blanche Taylor Moore is born.
• March 13 — Donald Gaskins is born.
• April 17 — Joachim Kroll is born.
• June 4 — Audrey Marie Hilley is born.
• June 14 — Edward Edwards is born.
• July 12 — Martin Gray is apprehended.
• July 21 — Santiago Garduno died.
• August 10 — Charles Albright is born.
• December 12 — Martin Gray died.
• December 18 — Arthur Leigh Allen (Suspect) is born.
• ? — Cecile Bombeek is born.
• ? — Oliverio Castañeda Palacios is apprehended.
• ? — Saïb Hachani is born.
• ? — Robert Nicolaus is born.
• ? — Olga Rutterschmidt is born.
• ? — Nikolai Trunov is born.
• ? — Clarence Victor is born.

1934[]

• January 7 — Joseph Naso is born.
• January 10 — William Bayly is apprehended.
• January 11 — Péter Kovács is born.
• January 15 — Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi is born.
• January 21 — Émile Louis is born.
• January ? — Ali Asghar Borujerdi is apprehended.
• February 7 — Juan Corona is born.
• February 21 — Fred Farnham is born.
• July 6 — Ali Asghar Borujerdi died.
• July 20 — William Bayly died.
• July 24 — Sante Kimes is born.
• July ? — Milka Pavlović is apprehended.
• August 5 — Robert Biehler is born.
• October 5 — Angelo Buono is born.
• November 12 — Charles Manson is born.
• November 20 — John Rodney McRae is born.
• December 12 — Dick Marquette is born.
• December 13 — Albert Fish is apprehended.
• ? — Abdullah Aksoy is born.
• ? — Louis Gosden is apprehended.

1935[]

• January 17 — Kiyoshi Ōkubo is born.
• January 28 — Erzsébet Papp is born.
• February 7 — Walter Hill is born.
• March 2 — Winston Moseley is born.
• March 5 — José William Aranguren is born.
• March 7 — Fredric Manalli is born.
• March 18 — William Darrell Lindsey is born.
• April 11 — Richard Kuklinski is born.
• May 18 — Milka Pavlović died.
• June 18 — Taylor Morris Teaford is born.
• July 31 — Fritz Honka is born.
• December 11 — Joseph Kallinger is born.
• ? — Saif Al-Qalam is apprehended.
• ? — Saif Al-Qalam died.
• ? — Antonio Cabrera is born.
• ? — Casimir Dankerque is apprehended.
• ? — Florencio Fernández is born.
• ? — Ivan Maleshoff died.
• ? — Cora Werntz Rendall is apprehended.
• ? — Gary Robbins is born.
• ? — William Schmidt is born.
• ? — Ray Dell Sims is born.
• ? — Vasile Tcaciuc died.

1936[]

• January 16 — Albert Fish died.
• January 24 — Darryl Kemp is born.
• February 27 — Ralph Von Braun Selz is apprehended.
• March 3 — Marcus Powell is apprehended.
• March 14 — Richard Gaikowski (suspect) is born.
• April 20 — André Pauletto is born.
• May 23 — Adolf Seefeldt died.
• June 1 — Arnold Sodeman died.
• June 19 — Louis Gosden died.
• July 7 — Oliverio Castañeda Palacios died.
• July 26 — John Floyd Thomas Jr. is born.
• August 1 — Donald Neilson is born.
• August 13 — Casimir Dankerque died.
• August 23 — Henry Lee Lucas is born.
• October 16 — Andrei Chikatilo is born.
• October 16 — Marie Becker is apprehended.
• October 18 — Francisc Trombițaș is born (Suspect).
• October 25 — Arnfinn Nesset is born.
• November 19 — John Kizer died.
• December 22 — Thaddeus Lewingdon is born.
• ? — Hoshang Amini is born.
• ? — Stanley Bernson is born.
• ? — Vasily Filippenko is born.
• ? — Antoni Gap died.
• ? — John Kizer is apprehended.
• ? — Edgar Smoak is apprehended.
• ? — Gary Addison Taylor is born.

1937[]

• January 9 — Eddie Snowden is born.
• January 9 — Jesse Sumner is born.
• January 21 — Warren James Bland is born.
• February 12 — Charles Jackson is born.
• February 13 — Roy Melanson is born.
• March 12 — Betty Lou Beets is born.
• April 17 — Sokrat Kirshveng died.
• April 25 — Lee Roy Martin is born.
• May 13 — Lester Brockelhurst is apprehended.
• June 13 — Charles Albanese is born.
• July 6 — Heinrich Pommerenke is born.
• July 12 — Marcus Powell died.
• August 22 — Patricia Allanson is born.
• August 26 — Vera Millward (victim) is born.
• October 9 — William Thoresen (suspect) is born.
• December 8 — Eugène Weidmann is apprehended.
• ? — Primo Bisi is born.
• ? — Cornelius Burger is apprehended.
• ? — George Fitzsimmons is born.
• ? — Anna Marie Hahn is apprehended.
• ? — Sokrat Kirshveng is apprehended.
• ? — Agnes Ledford is apprehended.
• ? — Richard McGown is born.
• ? — Stephen Snedegar is born.

1938[]

• January 1 — Boris Gusakov is born.
• January 2 — Ian Brady is born.
• January 23 — Gayno Smith is born.
• February 18 — Edgar Smoak died.
• March 16 — Lillie Mae Curtis apprehended.
• March 18 — Lester Brockelhurst died.
• March 23 — Robert Diaz is born.
• March 26 — Nadir Sedrati is born.
• May 2 — William Paul Thompson is born.
• May 9 — Carroll Cole is born.
• May 18 — Samuel Evans is born.
• May 21 — Marceline Harvey is born.
• May 28 — Robert Nixon is apprehended.
• May 30 — Märt Ringmaa is born.
• June 24 — Linda Hazzard died.
• August 17 — Jane Toppan died.
• September 10 — Jonas Navickis died.
• September 24 — Joe Ball is apprehended.
• September 24 — Joe Ball died.
• October 11 — Clyde Wilkerson is born.
• December 6 — Martha Marek died.
• December 7 — Anna Marie Hahn died.
• December 28 — Anatoly Slivko is born.
• ? — Roscoe Artis is born.
• ? — Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer is born.
• ? — Moulay Hassen is apprehended.
• ? — Hermann Duft is born.
• ? — Yuri Krinitsyn is born.
• ? — Posteal Laskey Jr. is born.
• ? — Martha Marek is apprehended.
• ? — Marianne Nölle is born.

1939[]

• January 29 — Johann Eichhorn is apprehended.
• January 31 — Jerry Brudos is born.
• February 15 — Robert Hansen is born.
• February 18 — Anatoly Biryukov is born.
• February 23 — Melvin Reine is born.
• May 9 — Ramiro Artieda is apprehended.
• May 21 — Roger Kibbe is born.
• May 26 — Harold Bell is born.
• June 12 — Bobby Jack Fowler is born.
• June 16 — Robert Nixon died.
• June 17 — Eugène Weidmann died.
• June 21 — Luiz Baú is born.
• July 3 — Ramiro Artieda died.
• August 18 — Stephen Kiyoshk is apprehended.
• September 24 — Patrick Kearney is born.
• October 15 — Maria LaPine is born.
• October 16 — James P. Watson died.
• October 24 — Vladimir Vinnichevsky is apprehended.
• November 6 — David Parker Ray is born.
• November 30 — Sharon Kinne is born.
• December 1 — Johann Eichhorn died.
• December 18 — Paul Stine (Victim) is born.
• December 24 — Dean Corll is born.
• ? — Harrynauth Beharry is born.
• ? — Ernest Broadnax is born.
• ? — Joseph Francis Bryan is born.
• ? — William Burkitt is apprehended.
• ? — Bice Carrara is apprehended.
• ? — Jürgen Hein is born.
• ? — Kim Sun-ja is born.
• ? — Lydia L. is born.
• ? — Louis Philippe is apprehended.
• ? — Felix Vail is born.