List of serial killers before 1900
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The following is a list of known serial killers before 1900, in roughly chronological order.
- Gilles de Rais (1404–1440)
- Gilles Garnier (?-1573)
- Peter Stumpp (?-1589)
- Elizabeth Báthory (1560–1614)
- La Quintrala (1604–1665)
- Marie de Brinvilliers (1630–1676)
- Darya Saltykova (1730–1801)
- Anna Maria Zwanziger (1760–1811)
- Harpe Brothers (1768–1799, and 1770–1804)
- William Burke (1792–1829, and William Hare (c. 1804–?)
- Delphine LaLaurie (c. 1775–1842)
- Thug Behram (1765–1840)
- William Palmer (1824–1856)
- Mary Ann Cotton (1832–1873)
- The Bloody Benders (active 1872–1873)
- Thomas Neill Cream (active 1881–1892)
- Servant Girl Annihilator (active 1884–1885)
- Jane Toppan (active 1885–1901)
- Jack the Ripper (active 1888)
- H. H. Holmes (1860–1896)
- Joseph Vacher (1869–1898)
- George Chapman (active 1897–1902)
- Johann Otto Hoch (1862–1906)
