List of assassinated persons

This is a list of persons that were assassinated for political and other reasons.

Please note the annual sorting order.

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Assassinations in Africa 2 Assassinations in Canada 3 Assassinations in France 4 Assassinations in Ireland and the U.K. 5 Assassinations in India 6 Political assassinations in Japan 7 Political assassinations in Mexico 8 Assassinations in Russia 9 Assassinations in the United States 10 Other Assassinated heads of state and heads of government 11 Other Political assassinations 12 Other Assassinations of well known persons 13 People who died under suspicious circumstances

Assassinations in Africa

• Patrice Lumumba, (1961), Prime Minister of the Congo
• Hendrik Verwoerd[?], (1966), Prime Minister of South Africa
• Murtala Ramat Mohammed[?], (1976), President of Nigeria
• Anwar Sadat, (1981), President of Egypt
• Thomas Sankara, (1987), military leader of Burkina Faso
• Juvénal Habyarimana[?], (1994), President of Rwanda
• Cyprien Ntaryamira[?], (1994), President of Burundi
• Laurent-Desire Kabila, (2001), president of the DRC 1997-2001

Assassinations in Canada

• Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1868) Canadian father of Confederation
• Pierre Laporte (1970) Quebec Minister of Labour, assassinated by FLQ

Assassinations in France

• Henri III, King of France (1589)
• Henri IV, King of France (1610)
• Jean-Paul Marat, (1793), revolutionary
• Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (1894)
• Jean Léon Jaurès, (1914), politician, pacifist
• Paul Doumer, (1932), President of France

Assassinations in Ireland and the U.K.

• Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1811)
• Lord Frederick Cavendish, (1836-1882), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1882
• T.H. Burke[?], Under Secretary for Ireland (1882)
• Charles Lenox Richardson[?], English diplomat (1862)
• Michael Collins, (1922), assassinated President of the Provisional Government[?]
• Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland (1976)
• Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (1978)
• Airey Neave, British Conservative politician (1979)
• Earl Mountbatten, (1979), Vice-admiral
• Ian Gow[?], British Conservative politician (1990)
• Rev. Robert Bradford[?], Unionist MP in Northern Ireland

Assassinations in India

• Mohandas Gandhi, (1948), Independence leader
• Indira Gandhi, (1984), Indian prime minister
• Rajiv Gandhi, (1991), Indian prime minister

Political assassinations in Japan

Including heads of state and heads of government

• Takahashi Korekiyo, (1936), Japanese author
• Inukai Tsuyoshi, Japanese Prime Minister (1932)
• Ito Hirobumi, Japanese Prime Minister (1909)
• Okubo Toshimichi, Japanese Prime Minister (1878)
• Sirosawa Saneomi[?], Japanese political activist (1871)
• Yokoi Shonai[?], Japanese political activist (1869)
• Sakamoto Ryoma[?], (1867), Japanese author
• Ikeuchi Daigaku[?], Japanese politican (1864)
• Sakuma Shozan[?], Japanese politican (1864)
• Kusaka Gen'nai[?], Japanese politican (1864)
• Serizawa Kamo[?], a chief of Shinsen-gumi[?] (1863)
• Yoshida Toyo[?], Japanese political activist (1863)
• Ii Naosuke[?], Japanese politican (1860)
• Tokugawa Nariaki[?], Japanese daimyo, a relative of Tokugawa shoguns. (1860)
• Shimazu Nariaki[?], Japanese daimyo in Satsuma, now Kogoshima prefecture[?] (1858)
• Oda Nobunaga, (1582), samurai warlord
• The Sogas[?], Japanese political family (645)
• Emperor Sushun of Japan, Emperor of Japan (592)
• Matsudaira Hirotada[?], feudal leader in Japan
• Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Shogan[?], feudal leader in Japan
• Oda Nobuyuki, Japanese samurai, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga
• Ouchi Yoshitaka[?], daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
• Mimura Iechika[?], daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
• Yamanaka Shikanosuke[?], Japanese samurai
• Hashimoto Sanai[?], Japanese political activist
• Hara Kei[?], Japanese political activist

Political assassinations in Mexico

• Francisco I. Madero, (1913), President of Mexico
• Venustiano Carranza[?], (1920), President of Mexico
• Francisco "Pancho" Villa, (1923), revolutionary
• Alvaro Obregon[?], (1928), President-elect
• Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader
• Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta[?], 1994, Presidential candidate

Assassinations in Russia

• Peter III of Russia, (1762), czar of Russia
• Alexander II of Russia, Tsar (1881)
• Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov[?], Governor-General of Finland (1904
• Peter Stolypin, Russian Prime Minister (1911)
• Grigori Rasputin, (1916), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
• Nicholas II of Russia, former Tsar of All the Russias (1918)

Assassinations in the United States

• Henry Heusken[?], American diplomat (accompanying Townsend Harris[?] from Amsterdam) (1861)
• Abraham Lincoln, (1865), U.S. president
• James Garfield, (1881), U.S. president
• William McKinley, President of the United States (1901)
• John F. Kennedy, (1963), U.S. President
• Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
• Malcolm X, (1965), (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little), leader
• Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), U.S. politician
• Martin Luther King Jr., (1968), U.S. civil rights activist
• Harvey Milk, gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California (1978)
• John Lennon, (1980), singer
• Tupac Shakur, (1997), American rapper
• The Notorious BIG, rap singer (1997)

Other Assassinated heads of state and heads of government

• Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia (2003)
• Birendra and Aiswary, King and Queen of Nepal (along with 9 other members of the royal family) (2001)
• Vasgen Sarkissian[?], Prime Minister of Armenia (1999)
• Yitzhak Rabin, (1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
• Ranasinghe Premadasa[?], President of Sri Lanka (1993)
• Olof Palme, (1986), Swedish prime minister
• Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (1979)
• Faisal of Saudi Arabia, (1975), king
• Ngo Dinh Diem, (1963), first president of South Vietnam
• Faisal I, (1958), King of Iraq
• Abdullah I , (1951), King of Jordan
• Alexander[?], King of Yugoslavia (1930)
• Gabriel Narutowicz[?], (1922), President of Poland
• George I of Greece, (1912), king
• Charles of Portugal, (1908), king
• Umberto I of Italy, (1900), king
• Pius VIII, Pope (1830)
• Gustav III, King of Sweden (1792)
• William I of Orange, (1584), stadtholder
• Nero, (68), Roman emperor
• Caligula, (41]), Roman emperor
• Gaius Julius Caesar, (44 BC), common form of reference to Julius Caesar
• Philip II of Macedon, (336 BC), king

Other Political assassinations

• Mohammed Ahmad al-Rasheed[?], Saudi Arabian ambassador to the Ivory Coast, (2003)
• Pim Fortuyn, (2002), Dutch politician
• Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan (2001)
• Andrey Lukanov[?], former Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1996)
• Khalil Wazir[?], military leader of the PLO
• Reinhard Heydrich, (1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
• Franz Ferdinand of Austria, (1914), Archduke of Austria-Hungary
• Elisabeth, (1898), ("Sisi")
• Conrad of Montferrat, 1192, leader in the Third Crusade
• Germanicus, Roman military leader (20)

Other Assassinations of well known persons

• Elvis Alvarez[?], (1994), world champion boxer, murdered
• Alejandro Gonzalez Malave, (1986), famous undercover policeman
• Jose Cheito Ruiz[?] world champion boxer from Puerto Rico, (1993)
• Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records & far right wing political activist
• Haing S. Ngor[?], actor and doctor
• Selena Quintanilla, (1994), murdered tejano singer
• Samantha Runyon, (2002), young victim of crime
• Peter Tosh, (1944-1987), Jamaican reggae singer
• Luis Vigoreaux, (1983), slain producer, show host

People who died under suspicious circumstances

• Salvador Allende, (1973), Chilean president
• Pope John Paul I (1978)
• Bison Dele[?] NBA player (2002)
• Charles XII, (1718), Swedish military commander
• Pope Alexander VI, (1492-1503), Roman pope of the 15th century
• Warren Harding, President of the United States
• Dag Hammarskjöld, (1905-1961), United Nations Secretary General
• King Jean I of France
• Emperor Komei of Japan, (1771-1840), Emperor of Japan
• Agnès Sorel
• Stephen Knight[?]

See also: List of people who survived assassination attempts, List of murdered people, Assassin, List of assassins, Terrorist