List of assassinated persons

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

Please note the annual sorting order.

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