1. Bertrand Meyer
Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan
2. Dorothea Puente
The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security
3. John Christie
Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse
4. Andrei Chikatilo
The “Butcher of Rostov” murdered and mutilated more than 50 people, mostly small children. He was told as a child that villagers had eaten his brother
5. John Mauchly
Co-designed the first electronic general-purpose computer and created Short Code, the first programming language actually used on a computer
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