1996 Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58
1995 Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1995 Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1995 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, VP of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated
1995 Beant Singh, PM of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73
1994 Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM 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 Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44
1993 Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
1993 Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73
1992 Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated
1991 Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb
1991 Shapur Bahktiar, PM of Iran (1979), assassinated
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
1991 Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated
1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads
1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at 66
1983 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1981 [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1981 Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1980 John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40
1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
1979 Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
1979 Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1978 Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
1973 Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
1971 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated
1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65
1968 Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42
1968 Martin Luther King Jr, (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39
1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64
1965 Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39
1963 John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46
1963 Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48
1961 ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69
1960 Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated
1959 PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, PM of Ceylon (1956-59), assassinated at 60
1959 S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1958 Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies
1958 Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad
1956 Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez
1955 Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated
1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar
1951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1951 Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
1951 Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated
1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated
1948 Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi
1948 Mahatma Gandhi, India's pacifist, assassinated
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala
1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia, assassinated
1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1935 Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1934 Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard
1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
1933 Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami
1932 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated
1927 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1927 Olof Palme, Stockholm, PM of Sweden, 1969-76, 1982-86, assassinated
1926 S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard
1926 Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1925 Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass, D-Sen-NY, AG; assassinated
1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
1922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated
1919 Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated
1918 Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM (-1917), assassinated by soldiers
1917 Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated
1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated
1916 Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
1914 Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated
1914 Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
1913 George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
1913 Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
1911 Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov
1909 Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
1908 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
1906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
1906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
1903 Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
1903 Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1902 Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1901 Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated
1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
1900 Edward VII, King, assassinated
1882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1869 A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated
1868 B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated
1865 Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated
1639 George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated
1628 George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
1589 Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37
1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
1563 Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima
1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1327 Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43
1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
1126 Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1092 Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
193 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated
41 Caligula, [G C Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28
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