December is the twelfth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It has 31 days.

Births[]

• December 1 — Bill Doi (victim) is born in 1919.
• December 1 — Robert Breton is born in 1946.
• December 1 — Luis Raúl Menocchio is born in 1959.
• December 1 — Gholamreza Khoshroo Kurdieh is born in 1965.
• December 1 — Johnny Avalos is born in 1986.
• December 2 — Wilson Chouest is born in 1951.
• December 3 — Fernando Caro is born in 1949.
• December 3 — José Antonio Rodríguez Vega is born in 1957.
• December 3 — Wayne Adam Ford is born in 1961.
• December 3 — Scott Williams is born in 1963.
• December 3 — Alexander Artyomov is born in 1972.
• December 4 — Emil Schutte is born in 1867.
• December 4 — Billy Richardson is born in 1946.
• December 4 — Cesar Barone is born in 1960.
• December 5 — Lê Thanh Vân is born in 1956.
• December 5 — Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs is born in 1960.
• December 5 — Farit Gabidullin and Timur Gabidullin are born in 1972.
• December 6 — Edward William Pritchard is born in 1825.
• December 6 — Richard Speck is born in 1941.
• December 6 — Dana Sue Gray is born in 1957.
• December 6 — Darrell Samson (victim) is born in 1957.
• December 6 — Harvey Miguel Robinson is born in 1974.
• December 7 — Bradley Edwards is born in 1968.
• December 8 — Richard Eberling is born in 1929.
• December 8 — Rudy Bladel is born in 1932.
• December 8 — Loren Herzog is born in 1965.
• December 8 — Li Guangjun is born in 1969.
• December 8 — Billy Chemirmir is born in 1972.
• December 8 — Dmitry Golubev is born in 1972.
• December 9 — Harry Greenwell is born in 1944.
• December 9 — James Edward Wood is born in 1947.
• December 9 — John Martin Scripps is born in 1959.
• December 9 — Nicholas Brent Gibson is born in 1986.
• December 10 — Luísa de Jesus is born in 1748.
• December 10 — William Coffey is born in 1874.
• December 10 — Harvey Glatman is born in 1927.
• December 10 — Robert Breton is born in 1946.
• December 10 — Rocky Beamon is born in 1977.
• December 11 — Joseph Kallinger is born in 1935.
• December 11 — Dámaso Rodríguez Martín is born in 1944.
• December 11 — Robert Boyd Rhoades is born in 1952.
• December 11 — Joaquín Villalón Díez is born in 1955.
• December 11 — Reuben Smith is born in 1959.
• December 11 — Larry Hall is born in 1962.
• December 11 — James David Martin is born in 1971.
• December 11 — Peter Barber died in 1980.
• December 12 — Arnold Sodeman is born in 1899.
• December 12 — Eddie Leonski is born in 1917.
• December 12 — Gilbert Paul Jordan is born in 1931.
• December 12 — Dick Marquette is born in 1934.
• December 12 — José Paz Bezerra is born in 1945.
• December 12 — Richard Allen Jensen is born in 1946.
• December 12 — Ahmad Suradji is born in 1952.
• December 12 — Dorothy Williams is born in 1954.
• December 12 — José Victor Fortes is born in 1963.
• December 12 — Martin Ney is born in 1970.
• December 13 — Carl Großmann is born in 1863.
• December 13 — Garry Artman is born in 1957.
• December 13 — Francisco Benitez is born in 1963.
• December 14 — George Chapman is born in 1865.
• December 14 — Jake Bird is born in 1901.
• December 14 — Akira Nishiguchi is born in 1925.
• December 14 — Billy Lee Chadd is born in 1954.
• December 14 — Jorge Beltrão Negromonte da Silveira is born in 1961.
• December 14 — Jerome Dennis is born in 1966.
• December 14 — Steven Grieveson is born in 1970.
• December 14 — Jesse Matthew is born in 1981.
• December 15 — Ralph Von Braun Selz is born in 1909.
• December 15 — Muthukutty Chandran is born in 1950.
• December 16 — Koos Hertogs is born in 1949.
• December 16 — Gustavo Romero Tercero is born in 1971.
• December 17 — Raymond Fernandez is born in 1914.
• December 17 — Stephen McCoy is born in 1948.
• December 17 — Jerry Spraggins is born in 1954.
• December 17 — Frederick Hammer is born in 1959.
• December 17 — Joseph Sutherland is born in 1961.
• December 17 — Simon Rochford is born in 1967.
• December 17 — Yevgeny Petrov is born in 1975.
• December 18 — George Brassell is born in 1855.
• December 18 — Linda Hazzard is born in 1867.
• December 18 — Arthur Leigh Allen (Suspect) is born in 1933.
• December 18 — Paul Stine (Victim) is born in 1939.
• December 18 — James Winkles is born in 1940.
• December 18 — Ed Kemper is born in 1948.
• December 19 — William Choyce is born in 1953.
• December 20 — Sarah Makin is born in 1845.
• December 20 — Alexey Ryzhkov is born in 1972.
• December 20 — Timofey Podshivalov is born in 1991.
• December 21 — Larry Eyler is born in 1952.
• December 21 — Oleg Rylkov is born in 1966.
• December 22 — Thaddeus Lewingdon is born in 1936.
• December 22 — Robert Frederick Carr is born in 1943.
• December 22 — Earl Daughtrey is born in 1950.
• December 22 — Scott Erskine is born in 1962.
• December 22 — Nikolai Dudin is born in 1973.
• December 23 — Antonio Boggia is born in 1799.
• December 23 — Terry Rasmussen is born in 1943.
• December 23 — Michael Fogt is born in 1964.
• December 24 — John Franklin Gilman is born in 1829.
• December 24 — Elmer Helm is born in 1885.
• December 24 — Dean Corll is born in 1939.
• December 24 — Charles Ng is born in 1960.
• December 24 — Stephen Griffiths is born in 1969.
• December 24 — Yoni Palmier is born in 1978.
• December 24 — James Vlassakis is born in 1979.
• December 24 — Brogan Rafferty is born in 1994.
• December 25 — Lao Rongzhi is born in 1974.
• December 25 — Aleksandr Rubel is born in 1980.
• December 26 — Randall Woodfield is born in 1950.
• December 26 — Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez is born in 1953.
• December 26 — Lyle Brummett is born in 1956.
• December 27 — John Robinson is born in 1943.
• December 27 — Ivan Milat is born in 1944.
• December 27 — Juana Barraza is born in 1957.
• December 28 — Anatoly Slivko is born in 1938.
• December 28 — Charles Gary Sullivan is born in 1945.
• December 28 — Leon Means is born in 1952.
• December 28 — Tony Ables is born in 1954.
• December 28 — Don Miller is born in 1954.
• December 28 — Vernon Lee Clark is born in 1955.
• December 28 — Thor Nis Christiansen is born in 1957.
• December 28 — George Adorno is born in 1958.
• December 29 — Sadame Sugimura is born in 1911.
• December 29 — Werner Ferrari is born in 1946.
• December 29 — Sergei Ryakhovsky is born in 1962.
• December 29 — Aleksei Rjabkov is born in 1964.
• December 30 — Ray Copeland is born in 1914.
• December 30 — Michael Downes is born in 1944.
• December 30 — Pierre Bodein is born in 1947.
• December 30 — Niels Högel is born in 1976.
• December 31 — Joseph Nissensohn is born in 1950.
• December 31 — John Allen Muhammad is born in 1960.
• December 31 — Jeong Du-yeong is born in 1968.
• December 31 — Nicolae Vlad is born in 1986.
• ? — Robert Smallwood is born in 1973.

Deaths[]

• December 1 — Johann Eichhorn died in 1939.
• December 1 — Péter Kovács died in 1968.
• December 1 — Walter E. Ellis died in 2013.
• December 2 — Hassan Orangi died in 1951.
• December 2 — Vyacheslav Solovyov died in 2008.
• December 2 — Israel Keyes died in 2012.
• December 3 — Harvey Collins died in 1957.
• December 3 — Gerard Schaefer died in 1995.
• December 3 — James Ray Cable died in 2013.
• December 4 — Anjette Lyles died in 1977.
• December 4 — Jesse Sumner died in 2005.
• December 4 — Bradley Steckman died in 2012.
• December 4 — Jack Bokin died in 2021.
• December 5 — Hirai Gonpachi died in 1679.
• December 5 — John Bishop died in 1831.
• December 5 — Thomas Williams died in 1831.
• December 5 — Mary Elizabeth Wilson died in 1962.
• December 5 — Richard Speck died in 1991.
• December 5 — Zoltán Szabó died in 2016.
• December 6 — T. J. Hampton died in 1901.
• December 6 — Martha Marek died in 1938.
• December 6 — Carroll Cole died in 1985.
• December 6 — Daniel Hittle died in 2000.
• December 7 — Delphine LaLaurie died in 1849.
• December 7 — Anna Marie Hahn died in 1938.
• December 7 — Charles Ray Hatcher died in 1984.
• December 7 — Edward Castro died in 2000.
• December 7 — Bilal Musa died in 2000.
• December 7 — Darryl Kemp died in 2024.
• December 8 — Edward Heberling died in 1944.
• December 8 — Yuri Raevsky died in 1973.
• December 8 — David Martin Long died in 1999.
• December 9 — Sek Kim Wah died in 1988.
• December 9 — Carol Bundy died in 2003.
• December 9 — Curtis Anderson died in 2007.
• December 9 — Harold Meade died in 2007.
• December 9 — Roger Herbert Haglund died in 2011.
• December 10 — Hendrikje Doelen died in 1847.
• December 10 — Charles Clément died in 1957.
• December 10 — Sergey Maduev died in 2000.
• December 11 — Akira Nishiguchi died in 1970.
• December 11 — José Luis Calva died in 2007.
• December 11 — Manuel Pardo died in 2012.
• December 12 — Martin Gray died in 1933.
• December 12 — Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi died in 1954.
• December 12 — Bruce Davis died in 1988.
• December 12 — Arthur Gatter died in 1990.
• December 12 — Robert Stansbury died in 2003.
• December 13 — Ángel Nieves Díaz died in 2006.
• December 13 — Lawrence Bittaker died in 2019.
• December 14 — Manuel Blanco Romasanta died in 1863.
• December 15 — Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer died in 1969.
• December 15 — Hermann Duft died in 1969.
• December 15 — Alan Wilmer died in 2017.
• December 15 — Roscoe Artis died in 2020.
• December 16 — Bogdan Arnold died in 1968.
• December 16 — David Mark Pruett died in 1993.
• December 16 — Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour died in 2010.
• December 16 — Richard Valenti died in 2020.
• December 17 — Karl Svensson-Sjögren died in 1975.
• December 17 — Lorenzo Montoya died in 2006.
• December 17 — Donato Bilancia died in 2020.
• December 18 — Paul John Knowles died in 1974.
• December 18 — Donald Neilson died in 2011.
• December 18 — Vaughn Greenwood died in 2020.
• December 18 — Lao Rongzhi died in 2023.
• December 19 — Noah Arnold died in 1924.
• December 19 — Dorothy Williams died in 2020.
• December 19 — Claude Lastennet died in 2023.
• December 20 — Danny Figueroa died in 1998.
• December 20 — Mahin Qadiri died in 2010.
• December 21 — Ane Cathrine Andersdatter died in 1861.
• December 22 — Karl Denke died in 1924.
• December 22 — Billy Glaze died in 2015.
• December 23 — Poral Stefoff died in 1909.
• December 23 — Dallen Bounds died in 1999.
• December 23 — Faye Copeland died in 2003.
• December 23 — András Pándy died in 2013.
• December 24 — William Burkitt died in 1956.
• December 25 — Muchio Fukuoka died in 2005.
• December 25 — Vladimir Dolin died in 2009.
• December 26 — Richard Chase died in 1980.
• December 26 — Huang Yong died in 2003.
• December 26 — John Dwight Canaday died in 2012.
• December 27 — Boris Gusakov died in 1970.
• December 27 — Toshihiko Hasegawa died in 2001.
• December 27 — Jia Jianhu died in 2004.
• December 27 — Heinrich Pommerenke died in 2008.
• December 27 — Phillip Jablonski died in 2019.
• December 28 — Robert Willie died in 1984.
• December 28 — Fa Ziying died in 1999.
• December 28 — Terry Rasmussen died in 2010.
• December 28 — Karl Myers died in 2012.
• December 28 — Garry Artman died in 2023.
• December 29 — Johann Mayer died in 1923.
• December 29 — Monroe Hickson died in 1967.
• December 29 — Shim Young-gu died in 1992.
• December 30 — Shinkichi Sakurada died in 1931.
• December 30 — Daisy de Melker died in 1932.
• December 30 — Franklin Click died in 1950.
• December 30 — Harry Lanham died in 1973.
• December 30 — Paul Mason died in 1989.
• December 30 — Kim Sun-ja died in 1997.
• December 30 — John Arthur Ackroyd died in 2016.
• December 30 — Samuel Little died in 2020.
• December 31 — Joseph Vacher died in 1898.
• December 31 — Louise Vermilya died in 1913.
• December 31 — Michael Nicholaou died in 2005.
• ? — Hoshang Amini died in 1963.
• ? — Joe Fischer died in 1991.
• ? — Alun Kyte is apprehended in 1997.

Captures[]

• December 1 — Jamey Harris is apprehended in 1998.
• December 1 — Ronald Dominique is apprehended in 2006.
• December 1 — Kirsten Duckert is apprehended in 2007.
• December 2 — "Schultz" is apprehended in 1920.
• December 2 — Wilmon Goodwin is apprehended in 1953.
• December 2 — Jerrid Powell is apprehended for the "Los Angeles homeless shootings" in 2023.
• December 3 — Sadakichi Shimizu is apprehended in 1886.
• December 3 — David Fuller is apprehended in 2020.
• December 4 — Cayetano Santos Godino is apprehended in 1912.
• December 4 — Bruce George Peter Lee is apprehended in 1979.
• December 4 — William Dean Christensen is apprehended in 1983.
• December 4 — Lucius Crawford is apprehended in 2012.
• December 5 — Charles Routley is apprehended in 1828.
• December 5 — Richard Macek is apprehended in 1975.
• December 5 — Alejandro Henriquez is apprehended in 1990.
• December 5 — Josephine Gray is apprehended in 2001.
• December 5 — Ronis de Oliveira Bastos is apprehended in 2011.
• December 6 — Harvey Miguel Robinson is apprehended in 1993.
• December 6 — Óscar García Guzmán is apprehended in 2019.
• December 7 — Michael Darnell Harris is apprehended in 1982.
• December 7 — Kwon Jae-chan is apprehended in 2021.
• December 8 — Eugène Weidmann is apprehended in 1937.
• December 8 — Gary Lewingdon is apprehended in 1978.
• December 8 — David Emery Misch is apprehended in 1989.
• December 8 — Marc Hoffmann is apprehended in 2004.
• December 9 — Posteal Laskey is apprehended in 1966.
• December 9 — Gennady Mikhasevich is apprehended in 1985.
• December 9 — Stella Nickell is apprehended in 1987.
• December 9 — Gregory McKnight is apprehended in 2000.
• December 9 — Abdufatto Zamanov is apprehended in 2004.
• December 10 — Alfred Gaynor is apprehended in 1966.
• December 10 — David Maust is apprehended in 2003.
• December 10 — Roberto Fernandes died in 2005.
• December 10 — Sailson José das Graças is apprehended in 2014.
• December 11 — Harold Meade is apprehended in 1970.
• December 11 — Bernard Giles is apprehended in 1973.
• December 11 — Thaddeus Lewingdon is apprehended in 1978.
• December 11 — Winford Stokes is apprehended in 1978.
• December 11 — Mitchell Bacom is apprehended in 2017.
• December 12 — Sokichi Furutani is apprehended in 1965.
• December 12 — Robert Biehler is apprehended in 1975.
• December 12 — James Phillip Barnes is apprehended in 1997.
• December 12 — Ramati Sathyanarayana is apprehended in 2023.
• December 13 — Albert Fish is apprehended in 1934.
• December 13 — Kyriakos Papachronis is apprehended in 1982.
• December 13 — Nathaniel Bar-Jonah is apprehended in 1999.
• December 13 — David Lefèvre is apprehended in 2011.
• December 13 — Roberto José Carmona is apprehended in 2022.
• December 14 — Marcel Barbeault is apprehended in 1976.
• December 14 — Nuri Çalışır is apprehended in 2007.
• December 14 — Dmitry Dilschneider is apprehended in 2007.
• December 15 — Nikolay Sakharov is apprehended in 1977.
• December 15 — Joe Metheny is apprehended in 1996.
• December 15 — Charles Cullen is apprehended in 2003.
• December 15 — Sonya Caleffi is apprehended in 2004.
• December 15 — Venera Obolashvili is apprehended in 2009.
• December 15 — Theodore Johnson is apprehended in 2016.
• December 18 — Marcelo Costa de Andrade is apprehended in 1991.
• December 18 — Douglas Baptista is apprehended in 2015.
• December 18 — Somkid Pumpuang is apprehended in 2019.
• December 19 — John Bodkin Adams is apprehended in 1956.
• December 19 — Michael Sumpter is apprehended in 1973.
• December 19 — Álex Maquera Atencio is apprehended in 2004.
• December 19 — Steven Wright is apprehended in 2006.
• December 20 — Samuel D. Richards is apprehended in 1878.
• December 20 — Karl Denke is apprehended in 1924.
• December 20 — Louise Peete is apprehended in 1944.
• December 21 — John Wayne Gacy is apprehended in 1978.
• December 21 — Antanas Varnelis is apprehended in 1992.
• December 22 — Frank Masini is apprehended in 1992.
• December 22 — William Patrick Fyfe is apprehended in 1999.
• December 22 — Bradley Edwards is apprehended in 2016.
• December 23 — Sergey Chyorny is apprehended in 1999.
• December 23 — Willy Maceo is apprehended in 2021.
• December 24 — Ronald Lee Moore is apprehended in 2007.
• December 25 — Yuri Krinitsyn is apprehended in 1975.
• December 25 — Toshihiko Hasegawa and Masamichi Ida are apprehended in 1983.
• December 26 — Yadira Narváez is apprehended in 2011.
• December 26 — Murad Nurmagomedov is apprehended in 2016.
• December 27 — Surinder Koli is apprehended in 2006.
• December 27 — Mail Malpartida Achón is apprehended in 2007.
• December 27 — David Haulman is apprehended in 2020.
• December 28 — Andrei Evseev is apprehended in 1977.
• December 28 — Anatoly Slivko is apprehended in 1985.
• December 28 — Joseph Magaletti is apprehended in 2000.
• December 28 — Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña is apprehended in 2006.
• December 28 — Yeyson Liendo Mamani and Sonia Gaona Yaguno are apprehended in 2018.
• December 29 — Sadame Sugimura is apprehended in 1960.
• December 29 — Clarence Victor is apprehended in 1987.
• December 29 — Moninder Singh is apprehended in 2006.
• December 30 — Elizabeth Báthory is apprehended in 1610.
• December 30 — Louis Gaskin is apprehended in 1989.
• December 30 — Javed Iqbal is apprehended in 1999.
• December 31 — Hayato Imai is apprehended in 2014.
• ? — Maria Swanenburg is apprehended in 1883.
• ? — Lyda Ambrose is apprehended in 1920 (allegedly).
• ? — David Allen Lucas is apprehended in 1984.
• ? — Donald Neilson is apprehended in 1975.
• ? — Carlton Gary is apprehended in 1978.
• ? — Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood ("The Lethal Lovers") are apprehended in 1988.
• ? — Isabel Padilla Maiquez is apprehended in 1991.
• ? — William Darrell Lindsey is apprehended in 1996.
• ? — Alexander Ershov is apprehended in 1997.
• ? — Émile Louis is apprehended in 2000.
• ? — Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito is apprehended in 2003.
• ? — Alexey Tigoyev is apprehended in 2003.
• ? — Waisale Waqanivalu is apprehended in 2003.
• ? — Dmitry Kuleshov is apprehended in 2006.
• ? — Vladimir Dolin is apprehended in 2008.
• ? — Ramiro Adame López is apprehended in 2013.
• ? — Bartolomeo Gagliano is apprehended in 2013.
• ? — Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez is apprehended in 2015.
• ? — Silas Boston is apprehended in 2016.
• ? — Nikolay Tishov is apprehended in 2020.
• ? — Jason Thornburg is apprehended in 2021.

Victims Murdered[]

• December 12 — Roberto Gerardo Castro Mora and Francis Eduviges Salazar Suárez are murdered by "El Psicópata" in 1986.
• December 24 — Colleen Brockman is murdered by "Green River Killer" in 1982.

Other Events[]

• December 2 — Abdelaâli Hadi is sentenced to Death in 2004.
• December 9 — Robert Lee Walden is sentenced to Death in 1992.
• December 13 — "The Long Island Serial Killer"'s victim, Megan Waterman is found in 2010.
• December 13 — "The Long Island Serial Killer"'s suspected victim, Shannan Gilbert is found in 2011.
• December 15 — "Green River Killer"'s victim, Kimi-Kai Pitsor is found in 1983.
• December 15 — Antonio Rodriguez's victim, Casey Mahoney, is found in 2010.
• December 17 — Gary Rardon is released from federal prison.
• December 26 — John Wayne Gacy's victim, Timothy McCoy is found in 1978.