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The figures born on this date span three centuries and several distinct modes of harm: Karl-Otto Koch commanded the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, presiding over systematic brutality on an industrial scale, while fellow SS-era figure Ulla Jürß served as a guard in the same apparatus. Jean-Baptiste du Casse operated in an earlier era as a privateer and slave trader who helped expand France's colonial grip on the Caribbean, profiting directly from the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. Between them stand cult leaders, a convicted serial killer in Tony Costa — whose crimes along Cape Cod in the late 1960s shocked Massachusetts — and a Delhi gangster whose violent career ended in a courtroom shooting. The roster is varied in geography, era, and method, but each figure left a documented record of exploitation or organized violence.

August 2, 1646 - Jean du Casse

Du Casse occupied a rare intersection of imperial violence and state power, moving fluidly between slave trading, privateering, and colonial governance at a moment when France was consolidating its presence in the Caribbean. His tenure as the first governor of Saint-Domingue helped establish the administrative and economic foundations of what would become one of the most brutally exploitative plantation colonies in history. The honors he accumulated — including the Order of the Golden Fleece — reflect how thoroughly his career aligned with the ambitions of competing European crowns.

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August 2, 1953 - Sai Maa

The available source material does not document actions that meet the threshold for inclusion on Evil Birthdays. Sai Maa is described as a spiritual guru and businesswoman who claims omnipotence and omniscience, but no documented pattern of harm, criminal conduct, or large-scale wrongdoing is present in the cited Wikipedia content. No entry has been generated for this subject.

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August 2, 1864 - Eliasz Klimowicz

Klimowicz occupies an unusual position in the catalog of figures featured here — one whose harm was diffuse, institutional, and arguably unintentional, rooted in the collision between genuine popular devotion and the power structures of Orthodox ecclesiastical authority. An illiterate peasant who came to be venerated by thousands across eastern Poland and the western borderlands, he presided over a movement that generated conflict with both clergy and state, drew police investigation for alleged incitement and murder, and fostered a community of followers whose autonomous activities destabilized local religious order across multiple regions.

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August 2, 1923 - Ulla Jürß

Jürß spent years moving through the SS concentration camp system as a trained guard, eventually rising to a supervisory position at Ravensbrück with authority over more than 600 women prisoners. Her reported conduct as a block overseer placed her among those whose everyday administrative violence sustained the camp's operation. What distinguishes her case historically is the decades-long gap between her wartime role and any formal reckoning — more than twenty years passed before she was identified.

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August 2, 1983 - Jitender Mann Gogi

Operating out of the National Capital Region, Gogi built a reputation through targeted violence that extended beyond criminal rivalries into the lives of public figures. His name became most associated with the Burari Shootout and the killing of singer Harshita Dhaiya — the latter underlining how his reach touched civilian and cultural spheres beyond gang conflict.

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August 2, 1897 - Karl-Otto Koch

Koch's career as a concentration camp commandant placed him at the administrative center of mass killing at three separate facilities, including Buchenwald and Majdanek. What distinguishes his case historically is that he was ultimately arrested and executed not by Allied forces but by the SS itself, prosecuted for corruption and embezzlement after systematically looting valuables from victims of the camps he ran.

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August 2, 1944 - Tony Costa

Costa operated in a narrow window of time and geography, but the nature of what he left behind — dismembered bodies concealed in a marijuana plot in the woods near Truro — made the case one of the more disturbing to emerge from late-1960s New England. His victims were young women whose remains were recovered only after investigators were directed to a hidden clearing he had cultivated and controlled.

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August 2, 1881 - May Otis Blackburn

Operating in 1920s Los Angeles, she built a devotional organization around claims of divine authority and spiritual power, extracting money and loyalty from followers who believed in her role as High Priestess of a chosen elect. Her legal entanglement with a defrauded follower produced a California Supreme Court ruling that drew a sharp line between criminal fraud and the state's reluctance to adjudicate sincerely held — or convincingly performed — religious belief. The case stands as an early American example of how courts have struggled to distinguish exploitation from eccentricity when the mechanism is faith.

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August 2, 1646 - Jean-Baptiste du Casse

Du Casse operated at the intersection of colonial expansion, privateering, and the transatlantic slave trade — roles that were mutually reinforcing and institutionally sanctioned by the French crown. His tenure as governor of Saint-Domingue placed him at the administrative center of a colony whose wealth depended entirely on enslaved labor, while his earlier work with the Compagnie du Sénégal placed him directly within the machinery of that trade. The military honors he accumulated, culminating in the Order of the Golden Fleece, reflect how seamlessly such careers could be absorbed into the highest levels of European respectability.

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