20th-century murderers

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed the "King of Cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest conventional criminals in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by his death, while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the US in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Bosnian assassin (1894–1918)

2nd president (1966–76) and emperor (r. 1976–79) of the Central African Republic

former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia

Turkish contract killer (born 1958)

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)

NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky

Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)

Austrian politician (1879-1960)

Colombian serial killer

Spanish militant anarchist (1948–1974)

Armenian who assassinated convicted war criminal Talaat Pasha (1896–1960)

former North Korean agent

Vietnamese police chief (1930–1998)

Argentine boxer (1942-1995)

Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918–1987)

Dutch poet (1905–1962)

South Korean military officer (1926-1980)

Austrian serial killer (1950–1994)

Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)

Croatian Jew (1909-1982)

Turkish general and statesperson (1877–1940)

Egyptian military officer (1955-1982)

Serbian politician and criminal (1886-1944)

Danish serial child killer (1887–1929)

Turkish drug trafficker (1956–1996)

Colombian mob boss (1947-1989)

female group of murderers in Hungary

Ecuadorian serial killer murder in 1994

Nicaraguan poet, music composer and assassin of Anastasio Somoza García (1929–1956)

Spaniard

Swedish murderer

Egyptian al-Qaeda member (1944–2001)

Colombian contract killer under Pablo Escobar (1962-2020)

political activist (1908-1932)

Palestinian female freedom fighter and member of the PLO (1959-1978)

assassin of Afghan king Mohammed Nadir Shah (1933)

South African freedom fighter and anti-apartheid activist (1956–1979)

SS Danish Officer

Romanian serial killer (1903–1960)

Colombian drug trafficker (1951-1998)

Assassin of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1918–1999)

African spree killer, killed 57 people at two separate slayings in 1954 and 1957

Romanian revolutionary (1898–1924)

Japanese military officer of the Imperial Japanese Army (1889–1936)

Vietnamese activist

Malaysian rebel

Hungarian-Belgian serial killer and pastor

Irish republican (1902–1920)

Spanish republican

Pakistani murderer

Burmese politician (1900–1948)

Belgian figure skater (1902-1952)

Hungarian mass murderer

two Egyptian serial killers

Egyptian Terrorist

Nigerian military personnel

hit-man

South Korean failed assassin (1951–1974)