January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It has 31 days.
Births[]
- January 1 — Boris Gusakov is born in 1938.
- January 1 — Clifford Olson is born in 1940.
- January 1 — Donald Broadnax is born in 1961.
- January 1 — Pyotr Gerankov is born in 1962.
- January 1 — Viorel Chirilă is born in 1966.
- January 1 — Patrick Soultana is born in 1977.
- January 1 — Yeyson Liendo Mamani is born in 1986.
- January 2 — Ian Brady is born in 1938.
- January 2 — Gen Sekine is born in 1942.
- January 2 — Anthony Sully is born in 1944.
- January 2 — Robert Willie is born in 1958.
- January 2 — Marcelo Costa de Andrade is born in 1967.
- January 3 — Phillip Jablonski is born in 1946.
- January 3 — Thomas Rung is born in 1961.
- January 4 — Lowell Amos is born in 1943.
- January 4 — David Allen Rundle is born in 1965.
- January 4 — Lucy Letby is born in 1990.
- January 5 — Ted Carr is born in 1915.
- January 5 — Edward Spreitzer is born in 1961.
- January 5 — Alexander Gerashchenko is born in 1971.
- January 6 — Louis Craine is born in 1957.
- January 6 — Vincent Johnson is born in 1969.
- January 7 — Joe Ball is born in 1896.
- January 7 — Robert Askins is born in 1919.
- January 7 — Joseph Naso is born in 1934.
- January 7 — Oleksandr Kornev is born in 1959.
- January 7 — Vladimir Belov is born in 1972.
- January 7 — Israel Keyes is born in 1978.
- January 7 — Mykhailo Kurilik is born in 1984.
- January 8 — Henry Gein (suspected victim) is born in 1901.
- January 8 — Richard Valenti is born in 1943.
- January 9 — Hugh Morse is born in 1930.
- January 9 — Eddie Snowden is born in 1937.
- January 9 — Jesse Sumner is born in 1937.
- January 9 — Ronald Dominique is born in 1964.
- January 9 — He Tiandai is born in 1970.
- January 10 — Gusztáv Léderer is apprehended in 1925.
- January 10 — Robert Spangler is born in 1933.
- January 10 — Kelvin Malone is born in 1961.
- January 10 — Christine Malèvre is born in 1970.
- January 10 — Erasmo Moena is born in 1970.
- January 11 — John Kizer is born in 1871.
- January 11 — George Joseph Smith is born in 1872.
- January 11 — William Peach Young is born in 1898.
- January 11 — Harold Jones is born in 1906.
- January 11 — Péter Kovács is born in 1934.
- January 11 — Raymond Eugene Brown is born in 1946.
- January 11 — Gerald Pizzuto is born in 1956.
- January 12 — Warren Alexander is born in 1951.
- January 12 — Henry Brisbon is born in 1956.
- January 12 — Norman Afzal Simons is born in 1967.
- January 12 — Samuel Cooper is born in 1977.
- January 13 — Michel Bellen is born in 1946.
- January 13 — Susumu Nakayama is born in 1948.
- January 14 — Minnie Wallace Walkup is born in 1869.
- January 14 — Edgar Smoak is born in 1898.
- January 14 — Harold Shipman is born in 1946.
- January 14 — Masakatsu Nishikawa is born in 1956.
- January 14 — David Van Dyke is born in 1959.
- January 15 — Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi is born in 1934.
- January 15 — Robert Alton Harris is born in 1953.
- January 15 — Joseph Robert Miller is born in 1955.
- January 15 — Michael St. Clair is born in 1957.
- January 16 — Joseph Baldi is born in 1941.
- January 16 — Marco Furlan is born in 1960.
- January 16 — Thomas Garner is born in 1960.
- January 17 — Marcel Petiot is born in 1897.
- January 17 — Kiyoshi Ōkubo is born in 1935.
- January 17 — Christopher Worrell is born in 1954.
- January 17 — Oleg Snegov is born in 1968.
- January 18 — Clarence McCutcheon is born in 1932.
- January 18 — Paul Rhoades is born in 1957.
- January 18 — Gregory Peyton is born in 1958.
- January 18 — Megan Waterman (victim) is born in 1988.
- January 19 — Vaughn Greenwood is born in 1944.
- January 19 — Michael Lupo is born in 1953.
- January 19 — Altemio Sanchez is born in 1958.
- January 19 — Cynthia Coffman is born in 1962.
- January 19 — Claude Lastennet is born in 1971.
- January 20 — Girvies Davis is born in 1958.
- January 20 — Joel Rifkin is born in 1959.
- January 20 — Christopher Peterson is born in 1969.
- January 21 — John Bodkin Adams is born in 1899.
- January 21 — Émile Louis is born in 1934.
- January 21 — Warren James Bland is born in 1937.
- January 21 — Cody Legebokoff is born in 1990.
- January 22 — Daniel Camargo Barbosa is born in 1930.
- January 22 — Elfriede Blauensteiner is born in 1931.
- January 22 — Anatoli Neželski is born in 1951.
- January 22 — Robledo Puch is born in 1952.
- January 22 — John Kalhauser is born in 1954.
- January 22 — Oscar Bolin is born in 1962.
- January 22 — François Vérove is born in 1962.
- January 22 — Shelly Andre Brooks is born in 1969.
- January 23 — Gayno Smith is born in 1938.
- January 23 — Andrei Melyukh is born in 1977.
- January 23 — Christopher Clements is born in 1982.
- January 24 — Darryl Kemp is born in 1936.
- January 24 — Tadeusz Kwaśniak is born in 1951.
- January 24 — Jean-Marc Petroff is born in 1962.
- January 24 — Brenda O'Connor (victim) is born in 1965.
- January 25 — Manuel Delgado Villegas is born in 1943.
- January 25 — Donnie Burl Lemons is born in 1949.
- January 25 — Carlos Alberto Topp Collins is born in 1950.
- January 25 — Luis Garavito is born in 1957.
- January 25 — Gary Ray Bowles is born in 1962.
- January 25 — Juan Segundo is born in 1963.
- January 25 — Natalia Baksheeva is born in 1975.
- January 25 — Gustavo Adolfo Morales is born in 1982.
- January 25 — Thiago Lages Fernandes is born in 1985.
- January 26 — Michael Moore is born in 1814.
- January 26 — Edward Castro is born in 1950.
- January 26 — Wayne Donald Horton is born in 1950.
- January 26 — Anatoly Nagiyev is born in 1958.
- January 26 — Terry Milligan (victim) is born in 1966.
- January 26 — Howell Donaldson is born in 1993.
- January 27 — Kevin Sweat is born in 1952.
- January 27 — Firat Samigullin is born in 1959.
- January 27 — Ivan Panchenko is born in 1967.
- January 27 — Lam Kwok-wai is born in 1971.
- January 27 — Dmitry Kuleshov is born in 1978.
- January 28 — Yoshio Kodaira is born in 1905.
- January 28 — James Hall is born in 1921.
- January 28 — Erzsébet Papp is born in 1935.
- January 28 — Anthony Sears (victim) is born in 1965.
- January 28 — Paul Runge is born in 1970.
- January 28 — Dmitry Baksheev is born in 1982.
- January 29 — Willis Brown died in 1930.
- January 29 — Thomas Whisenhant is born in 1947.
- January 29 — Philip Joseph Hughes Jr. is born in 1948.
- January 29 — Bruce Lindahl is born in 1953.
- January 29 — Alex Mengel is born in 1955.
- January 30 — James Paster is born in 1945.
- January 30 — Yuri Tsiuman is born in 1969.
- January 30 — Yevgeny Kolesnikov is apprehended in 2007.
- January 31 — Jerry Brudos is born in 1939.
- January 31 — Robert Berdella is born in 1949.
- January 31 — Darin Kendrick (victim) is born in 1961.
- January 31 — Lee Choon-jae is born in 1963.
- ? — Eunice Brillhart is born in 1926.
- ? — David Spanbauer is born in 1941.
- ? — David James Roberts is born in 1944.
- ? — Liu Mingwu is born in 1960.
Deaths[]
- January 1 — Fred West died in 1995.
- January 1 — Leonard Fraser died in 2007.
- January 2 — Harold Jones died in 1971.
- January 3 — John Robinson died in 1902.
- January 3 — Sarah Jane Robinson died in 1906.
- January 3 — Stephen Kiyoshk died in 1941.
- January 3 — Wayne Horton died in 2010.
- January 3 — Gao Chengyong died in 2019.
- January 4 — Sophie Bouyon died in 1876.
- January 4 — William Kelly died in 1888.
- January 4 — Kate Kelly died in 1888.
- January 4 — William Kelly Jr. died in 1888.
- January 4 — Kit Kelly died in 1888.
- January 4 — James Hall is died in 1946.
- January 5 — Westley Allan Dodd died in 1993.
- January 5 — Donald Evans died in 1999.
- January 5 — Ronald Lee Moore died in 2008.
- January 5 — Lowell Amos died in 2022.
- January 6 — Ynobe Matthews died in 2004.
- January 7 — Antonie Richard died in 1898.
- January 7 — Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira died in 1976.
- January 7 — Oscar Bolin died in 2016.
- January 8 — Joseph Riaud died in 1876.
- January 8 — Matti Haapoja died in 1895.
- January 8 — Farzad Nasser Jourshari died in 2021.
- January 10 — Robert Biehler died in 1993.
- January 10 — Zhang Yongming died in 2013.
- January 10 — Donald Blom died in 2023.
- January 11 — Cai Bin died in 2006.
- January 12 — Robert Black died in 2016.
- January 12 — Samuel Evans died in 2016.
- January 13 — Earle Nelson died in 1928.
- January 13 — Robert Brashers died in 1999.
- January 13 — Kelvin Malone died in 1999.
- January 13 — Harold Shipman died in 2004.
- January 13 — Larry D. Hubbard died in 2008.
- January 14 — Miyuki Ueta died in 2023.
- January 15 — Frances Knorr died in 1894.
- January 15 — Jarvis Catoe died in 1943.
- January 16 — Catalina de los Ríos y Lísperguer died in 1665.
- January 16 — John Thomas died in 1822.
- January 16 — Albert Fish is died in 1936.
- January 16 — Stephen Snedegar died in 1990.
- January 16 — Loren Herzog died in 2012.
- January 16 — Robert Gleason died in 2013.
- January 17 — Sergey Kashintsev died in 1992.
- January 17 — Camille Cléroux died in 2021.
- January 18 — Gilles Garnier died in 1573.
- January 18 — Simeon Fleischer died in 1581.
- January 18 — David Likens died in 1979.
- January 18 — Anthony Allen Shore died in 2018.
- January 19 — Donald Beardslee died in 2005.
- January 19 — Nathaniel Burkett died in 2021.
- January 20 — Robert Liberty died in 1971.
- January 20 — Johnny Peterson died in 1993.
- January 20 — Luo Shubiao died in 1995.
- January 20 — David Maust died in 2006.
- January 21 — Sergei Ryakhovsky died in 2005.
- January 21 — Derrick Todd Lee died in 2016.
- January 22 — Pierre Basson died in 1906.
- January 22 — Herbert Copeland died in 1925.
- January 22 — Kiyoshi Ōkubo died in 1976.
- January 22 — Bartolomeo Gagliano died in 2015.
- January 23 — Erzsébet Papp died in 1962.
- January 23 — Randy Greenawalt died in 1997.
- January 23 — Joseph Atkins died in 1999.
- January 23 — Franklin Floyd died in 2023.
- January 24 — Ted Bundy died in 1989.
- January 24 — Jia Wenge died in 1992.
- January 24 — Joël Matencio died in 2022.
- January 26 — Mike DeBardeleben died in 2011.
- January 27 — Mohammed Sarwar died in 2012.
- January 27 — Malcolm Robbins died in 2023.
- January 28 — William Burke died in 1829.
- January 28 — Akiyoshi Umekawa died in 1979.
- January 28 — Fernando Caro died in 2017.
- January 29 — "Viña del Mar psychopaths" (Jorge José Sagredo and Carlos Alberto Topp Collins) died in 1985.
- January 29 — Stephen Wayne Anderson died in 2002.
- January 29 — Shojiro Nishimoto died in 2009.
- January 29 — Esteban Lorenzo Duarte died in 2020.
- January 31 — Victor Awwad died in 1949.
- January 31 — Ralph Andrews died in 2006.
- January 31 — Eli Stutzman died in 2007.
- January 31 — Harry Greenwell died in 2013.
- ? — Andrew Hellman died in 1844.
- ? — William Schmidt died in 1990.
- ? — Sergey Anoiko died in 2006.
Captures[]
- January 2 — Peter Sutcliffe is apprehended in 1981.
- January 2 — Tommy Lynn Sells is apprehended in 2000.
- January 2 — Anthony Hardy is apprehended in 2003.
- January 3 — Akira Nishiguchi is apprehended in 1964.
- January 3 — Steven Washington is apprehended in 1964.
- January 3 — Mark Cunningham is apprehended in 1985.
- January 4 — William Kelly, Kate Kelly, William Kelly Jr. and Kit Kelly are apprehended in 1888.
- January 4 — Ronald Janssen is apprehended in 2010.
- January 5 — Arthur Shawcross is apprehended in 1990.
- January 5 — Gen Sekine is apprehended in 1995.
- January 5 — Gary Hilton is apprehended in 2008.
- January 6 — James Winkles is apprehended in 1982.
- January 6 — Franklin Alix is apprehended in 1998.
- January 6 — Samuel Sidyno is apprehended in 1999.
- January 6 — Daisuke Mori is apprehended in 2001.
- January 6 — Andrés Castillo is apprehended in 2016.
- January 7 — Masakatsu Nishikawa is apprehended in 1992.
- January 7 — Gustavo Adolfo Morales is apprehended in 1999.
- January 7 — Juan Arreola-Murillo is apprehended in 2022.
- January 8 — Fritz Erbe and Dorothee Buntrock are apprehended in 1892.
- January 8 — Jurn Norris is apprehended in 1980.
- January 8 — John Paul Phillips is apprehended in 1982.
- January 8 — Joshua Andrews is apprehended in 2002.
- January 8 — Baekuni is apprehended in 2010.
- January 9 — William Suff is apprehended in 1992.
- January 10 — Hugo Schenk is apprehended in 1884.
- January 10 — William Bayly is apprehended in 1934.
- January 10 — Waldo Grant is apprehended in 1977.
- January 10 — Singhraj Nagar is apprehended in 2022.
- January 11 — Judy Buenoano is apprehended in 1984.
- January 11 — Sid Ahmed Rezala is apprehended in 2000.
- January 12 — Kenneth Bianchi is apprehended in 1979.
- January 12 — John Joubert is apprehended in 1984.
- January 12 — Claude Lastennet is apprehended in 1994.
- January 12 — Rio Alex Bulo is apprehended in 2001.
- January 12 — Ahn Nam-gi is apprehended in 2010.
- January 13 — Peter Manuel is apprehended in 1958.
- January 13 — Matthew Steven Johnson is apprehended in 2002.
- January 14 — Boonpeng is apprehended in 1918.
- January 14 — Herman Allen is apprehended in 1942.
- January 14 — María de Jesús González and María Delfina González are apprehended in 1964.
- January 14 — David Bullock is apprehended in 1982.
- January 15 — Miyuki Ishikawa is apprehended in 1948.
- January 15 — Edward Castro is apprehended in 1987.
- January 15 — Altemio Sanchez is apprehended in 2007.
- January 15 — Denis Gorin is apprehended in 2012.
- January 16 — Genzo Kurita is apprehended in 1952.
- January 16 — Gary Rardon is apprehended in 1975.
- January 16 — Alexander Elistratov is apprehended in 2007.
- January 17 — Joseph Kallinger is apprehended in 1975.
- January 17 — Jüri Mosin is apprehended in 1997.
- January 17 — Maxim Petrov is apprehended in 2000.
- January 17 — Antonio Rodriguez is apprehended in 2011.
- January 18 — Manuel Delgado Villegas is apprehended in 1971.
- January 18 — Lee Choon-jae is apprehended in 1994.
- January 18 — Bruce McArthur is apprehended in 2018.
- January 19 — Kermit Gosnell is apprehended in 2011.
- January 20 — Timothy Wilson Spencer is apprehended in 1988.
- January 20 — Donald Piper is apprehended in 2000.
- January 20 — Larry Bright is apprehended in 2005.
- January 22 — Thomas D. Carr is apprehended in 1869.
- January 22 — Pierre Basson is apprehended in 1906.
- January 22 — Richard Biegenwald is apprehended in 1983.
- January 22 — Shim Young-gu is apprehended in 1990.
- January 23 — "Ryuichi Tsukamoto" is apprehended in 1967.
- January 23 — Raúl Osiel Marroquín is apprehended in 2006.
- January 24 — Anthony McKnight is apprehended in 1986.
- January 24 — Yoshinori Ueda is apprehended in 1994.
- January 25 — Juana Barraza is apprehended in 2006.
- January 26 — Lauren Porter is apprehended in 1947.
- January 26 — Donald Harding is apprehended in 1980.
- January 26 — Vernon Lee Clark is apprehended in 1990.
- January 26 — Andrew David Edwards is apprehended in 1993.
- January 26 — Orhan Aksoy is apprehended in 2001.
- January 27 — Philipp Tyurin is apprehended in 1947.
- January 27 — Richard Chase is apprehended in 1978.
- January 27 — Kang Ho-sun is apprehended in 2009.
- January 28 — Clarence Hill is apprehended in 1944.
- January 28 — Robert Alston is apprehended in 1994.
- January 28 — Andre Crawford is apprehended in 2000.
- January 29 — Johann Eichhorn is apprehended in 1939.
- January 29 — Denis Waxin is apprehended in 1999.
- January 30 — Alexey Ryzhkov is apprehended in 2001.
- ? — Isaac L. Wood is apprehended in 1857.
- ? — Eugene Byars is apprehended in 1894.
- ? — Ali Asghar Borujerdi is apprehended in 1934.
- ? — "Second Kodaira" is apprehended in 1947.
- ? — Michaiah Shobek is apprehended in 1974.
- ? — Fritz Honka is apprehended in 1975.
- ? — Joseph Christopher is apprehended in 1981.
- ? — Danny Bible is apprehended in 1984.
- ? — Harold Glenn Smith is apprehended in 1986.
- ? — Bert Leroy Hunter is apprehended in 1989.
- ? — Andrei Sibiryakov is apprehended in 1989.
- ? — Roy Melanson is apprehended in 1992.
- ? — Eric Beishline is apprehended in 1993.
- ? — Harnoko Dewantoro is apprehended in 1995.
- ? — Elfriede Blauensteiner is apprehended in 1996.
- ? — Gerald Parker is apprehended in 1996.
- ? — David Mmbengwa is apprehended in 1998.
- ? — Ronald James Ward is apprehended in 2001.
- ? — Gribaldi Handayani is apprehended in 2005.
- ? — Antti Taskinen is apprehended in 2006.
- ? — Davey Mato Butorac is apprehended in 2008.
- ? — Sergiu Băhăian, Valentin Şlepac and Adrian Grigoraş are apprehended in 2010.
- ? — Kanae Kijima is apprehended in 2010.
- ? — Alexander Bychkov is apprehended in 2012.
- ? — Michal Semanský is apprehended in 2012.
- ? — Bryan Patrick Miller is apprehended in 2015.
- ? — Rotherie Durell Foster is apprehended in 2023.
- ? — Natan de Melo Furtado is apprehended in 2023.
- ? — Sushant Singh is apprehended in 2023.
- ? — Shiva Pariyar is apprehended in 2023.
Victims Murdered[]
- January 3 — Timothy McCoy is murdered by John Wayne Gacy in 1972.
- January 3 — Kendra Page is murdered by Raul Meza in 1982.
- January 4 — Radha Thapa is allegedly murdered by Sushant Singh and Shiva Pariyar in 2023 (suspected victim).
- January 4 — Katherine Ann Hall is murdered by Sean Vincent Gillis in 1999.
- January 11 — Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder is murdered by Kenneth Bianchi in 1979.
- January 18 — Darla Ferguson is murdered by William Suff in 1990.
- 21 1990 — Taunja Bennett is murdered by Keith Jesperson in 1990.
- 21 2013 — "LISK's" suspected victim, "Nassau County Jane Doe", is found in 2013.
- January 25 — Ángela Carolina Acosta Flores is murdered by Bryant Rivera in 2022.
- January 28 — Linda Slawson is murdered by Jerry Brudos in 1968.
- January 27 — Eric Church is murdered by Randy Kraft in 1983.
- January 29 — Tana Smith is murdered by "Zebra murderers" in 1974.
- January 30 — Christine Freund is murdered by David Berkowitz in 1977.
- January 30 — Colleen McNamee is murdered by John Bittrolff in 1994.
Other Events[]
- January 2 — Major Morris is sentenced to Life imprisonment in 1997.
- January 25 — Bryant Rivera's victim, Ángela Carolina Acosta Flores, is found in 2022.
- January 31 — Gary Hilton is sentenced to Life imprisonment in Georgia, United States in 2008.
- January 31 — Aileen Wuornos is sentenced to Death for the first time in 1992.