2009 Event Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau 2007 Event Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2007 Death Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54 1996 Death Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 1995 Death Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated 1995 Event Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians 1995 Death Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 1995 Death Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated 1995 Death Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73 1995 Death Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Death Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated 1994 Death Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Death Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated 1994 Death Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated 1994 Death Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated 1994 Death Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44 1993 Death Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated 1993 Death Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68 1993 Death Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 1992 Death Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73 1992 Death Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated 1991 Death Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated 1991 Death Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 1991 Death Sallah Kharaf, Abu Iyad, co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated 1990 Death Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 1990 Death Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated 1990 Death Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated 1989 Death Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon 1988 Death Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos 1987 Event Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads 1986 Death Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59 1984 Event Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated 1984 Death Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 1983 Event 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma 1981 Death Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt 1970 - 1981, assassinated at 62 1981 Death Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated 1981 Death Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Death Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Death Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated 1980 Death John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40 1980 Death Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay 1979 Death Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated 1979 Death Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA 1979 Death Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland 1978 Death Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1978 Death Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua 1976 Death Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated 1974 Death Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church 1974 Death Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated 1973 Death Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA 1973 Death Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated 1973 Death Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated 1971 Death Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated 1971 Death Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo 1969 Death Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65 1968 Death Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 1968 Death Martin Luther King, Jr., (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39 1967 Death George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated 1966 Death Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 1965 Death Malcolm X, Little, black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39 1963 Death John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 1963 Event John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1963 Death Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48 1961 Death ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69 1960 Death Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated 1959 Death Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1959 Death Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1959 Death S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk 1958 Death Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies 1958 Death Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad 1956 Death Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez 1955 Death Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated 1951 Death Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar 1951 Death Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated 1951 Death Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated 1951 Death Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated 1948 Death Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated 1948 Death Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated 1945 Death Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament 1944 Event Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala 1942 Death Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia, assassinated 1939 Death Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard 1935 Death Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building 1934 Death Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad 1934 Death Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis 1934 Death Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard 1934 Event Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard 1933 Death Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza 1933 Death Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami 1932 Birthday Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated 1928 Death Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated 1927 Death Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47 1927 Death Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated 1927 Birthday Olof Palme, Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated 1926 Death S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard 1926 Death Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47 1925 Birthday Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass, D-Sen-NY, AG; assassinated 1924 Death Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists 1923 Death J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1923 Death Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated 1923 Birthday Pamela Sharples, born in England, Baroness Sharples, BConservative Party, made a Life Peer of Chawton in the County of Hampshire, after husband, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated 1922 Death Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated 1919 Death Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated 1918 Death Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers 1917 Birthday Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated 1916 Death Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated 1916 Death Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated 1914 Death Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris 1914 Death Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated 1914 Death Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated 1913 Death George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67 1913 Death Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 1913 Death Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup 1913 Death Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated 1911 Death Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov 1909 Death Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean 1908 Death Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44 1906 Death King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid 1906 Death Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid 1903 Death Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated 1903 Death Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated 1902 Event Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist 1902 Death Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1901 Birthday Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated 1900 Death Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci 1900 Death Edward VII, King, assassinated 1882 Death Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1882 Death Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1881 Death Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62 1869 Death A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated 1868 Death B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated 1865 Death Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1864 Death Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC 1837 Birthday Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated 1639 Death George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated 1628 Death George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36 1589 Death Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 1587 Death Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed 1570 Event Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out 1563 Death Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 1541 Death Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima 1537 Death Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated 1327 Death Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43 1291 Death Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 1170 Death Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1126 Death Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated 1092 Death Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated 193 Death Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated 41 Death Caligula, G C Germanicus, Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28
