Gaius Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, stabbed to death by Roman senators, 44 BC
Albrecht von Wallenstein, general, run through with a halberd by Walter Devereux, 1634
Alcibiades, general, killed in a shower of arrows, 404 BC
Moctezuma II, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, stoned or stabbed by his people or the Spanish, 1520
Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, shot in the street after seeing a movie, 1986
Jean-Paul Marat, physician and writer, stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday, 1793
Mohandas Gandhi, Indian independence leader, shot three times by Nathuram Godse, 1948
Grigori Rasputin, mystic and royal advisor, poisoned and shot by nobles in the basement of Yusupov Palace, 1916
Sennacherib, King of Assyria, crushed under a stone lamassu by his sons, 681 BC
Zengi, Atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo, killed in his sleep by his Frankish slave Yarankash, 1146
Philip II of Macedon, general, killed by his bodyguard Pausanias of Orestis, 336 BC
Sakamoto Ryōma, samurai, killed in an inn, 1867
Snorri Sturlson, poet and historian, struck down by Arni the Bitter, 1241
Tiberius Gracchus, tribune, beaten to death by Roman senators, 133 BC
William I, Prince of Orange, shot in the chest by Balthasar Gérard, 1557
Gustav III, King of Sweden, shot at a masquerade by Jacob Johan Anckarström, 1792
Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japan Socialist Party, run through with a wakizashi by Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised debate, 1960
Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, cut down by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral, 1170
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, shot from above by James Hamilton, 1570
Alexander Litvinenko, intelligence officer, poisoned by radioactive polonium-210, 2006
Herberts Cukurs, pilot and commando, shot in Uruguay by Mossad agents, 1965
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, killed by his own men, 1806
Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, stabbed in the neck by Dimitri Tsafendas, 1966
Qutuz, Sultan of Egypt, killed by three emirs in Salihiyah, 1260
Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, shot by Todor Kadić while boarding a ship, 1860
Ankō, Emperor of Japan, assassinated as retaliation by Mayowa no Ōkimi, 546
Ōkubo Toshimichi, samurai, set upon and killed by Shimada Ichirō and six other samurai, 1878
João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, Governor of Macau, knocked from his horse and decapitated by seven men, 1849
Anna Mae Aquash, activist, shot execution-style in South Dakota, 1976
Ruth First, journalist, killed by a letter bomb on the orders of Craig Williamson, 1978
Félix-Roland Moumié, leader of Union of the People of Cameroon, poisoned by the French secret services, 1960
Michael Collins, Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government, ambushed and shot by Sonny O'Neill, 1922
Helmin Wiels, leader of Pueblo Soberano, shot while drinking beer on the beach, 2013
Wu Yuanheng, chancellor, decapitated by Zhang Yan and others, 815
Hitoshi Igarashi, scholar, stabbed to death after translating The Satanic Verses, 1991
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, Mongolian member of parliament, stabbed 16 times by men who stole vinegar, 1998
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan, killed on a hunting trip, 1919
Nader Shah, Shah of Iran, stabbed by his captain of guards Salah Bey, 1747
Li Shiming, Communist Party Chief of Xiashuixi Village, stabbed during a meeting by Zhang Xuping, 2008
René Schneider Chereau, general, shot in Santiago, 1970
George Tiller, physician, shot in his church by Scott Roeder, 2009
Huey P. Newton, shot in West Oakland by Tyrone Robinson, 1989
Hadi Saleh, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, tortured and killed in his home, 2005
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, diplomat, shot in his car by the Stern Gang, 1948
José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala, killed by Edgar Zollinger, 1898
Martin Luther King, Jr., minister and activist, killed at a hotel in Memphis by James Earl Ray, 1968
Bunseo, King of Baekje, poisoned by the agents of a Chinese governor, 304
Luis Donaldo Colosio, economist and presidential candidate, shot at close range by Mario Aburto Martinez, 1994
Quinim Pholsena, Foreign Minister of Laos, shot with a submachine gun by Chy Kong, 1963
Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda, killed by a mob of Dominican friars, 1719
Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, killed in a hail of gunfire and an explosion, 2007
Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Valerius Carausius, Emperor of Britain and Northern Gaul, killed by his treasurer Alectus, 296
Antiochus II Theos, King of the Seleucid Empire, poisoned by his repudiated wife Laodice I, 246 BC
Medgar Evers, activist, shot in his driveway by Byron De La Beckwith, 1963
Abdullah I bin al-Hussein, King of Jordan, shot during Friday prayers by Mustafa Ashi, 1951
Gegeen Khan, Emperor of China, killed by Tegshi and his Asud Guards, 1323
Rehavam Ze'evi, general and member of the Knesset, shot in the Jerusalem Hyatt by four men, 2001
Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi, Vizier of the Seljuk Empire, stabbed by a Hashshashin disguised as a dervish, 1092
Miles of Plancy, seneschal of Jerusalem, killed by the Brisebarre brothers in Acre, 1174
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, stabbed by a dervish, 1579
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Consul of the Roman Republic, stabbed on the beach by Achillas, Septimius and Salvius, 48 BC
N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad, killed by a group of soldiers, 1975
Xerxes I, King of Persia, killed by his bodyguard Artabanus with the help of the eunuch Aspamitres, 465 BC
Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, stabbed by Hashashin while walking home from dinner, 1192
Haj Ali Razmara, Prime Minister of Iran, shot in a mosque, 1951
Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan Farah, Somalian Minister of Interior Affairs and National Security, killed in a suicide bomb by his teenaged niece Haboon Abdulkadir Hersi Qaaf, 2011
Myeongseong, Empress of Korea, attacked and killed by men under Miura Gorō, 1895
Dorothy Stang, nun, shot by two men, 2005
Anwar al-Awlaki, imam, killed by a Hellfire missile in a drone strike ordered by Barack Obama, 2011
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, shot by two of her bodyguards, 1984
Marien Ngouabi, President of the Republic of the Congo, killed in a suicidal attack, 1977
Shaka kaSenzangakhona, King of the Zulu, beaten to death by his half-brothers, 1828
Mohamed Boudiaf, Chairman of the Algerian High Council of State, shot while speaking by Lambarek Boumaarafi, 1992
Harvey Milk, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, shot by Dan White in City Hall, 1978
Giuliano de' Medici, Florentine noble, stabbed 19 times in the Duomo of Florence, 1478
Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, killed by the Hashshashin at the gates of Tripoli, 1152
Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, attacked by a Breton knight in Jerusalem while playing dice, 1134
Zelmar Michelini, journalist and senator, abducted, tortured and shot, 1976
Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party, shot by Janusz Waluś, 1993
William McKinley, President of the United States, shot in the stomach by Leon Czolgosz, 1901
Ieu Koeus, Prime Minister of Cambodia, killed by a grenade, 1950
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, shot by Yigal Amir in Kings of Israel Square, 1995
Hiempsal I, King of Numidia, killed on the orders of his cousin Jugurtha, ca. 117 BC
Umberto I, King of Italy, shot four times in Monsa by Gaetano Bresci, 1900
Carlos Cardoso, journalist, shot by men paid by Nyimpine Chissano, 2000
Rafael Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic, ambushed in his Bel Air by Juan Tomás Díaz and others, 1961
Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, shot in his office by Rashidi Muzele, 2001
Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan, castrated and dragged to death through the streets of Kabul, 1996
Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator, shot in the kitchen of the Mabassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, 1968
Ali ibn Abi Talib, Caliph of Islam, cut with a poison-coated sword by Khawarij Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam, 661
Alan Berg, lawyer and radio host, shot in his driveway by members of The Order, 1984
David Hennessy, Chief of New Orleans Police, killed by mafiosos, 1858
Malcolm X, minister and activist, shot by three members of the Nation of Islam while on stage in Manhattan, 1965
Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, shot waiting for a taxi, 1949
Song Jiaoren, President of Kuomintang, shot at the train station in Shanghai by Ying Kuicheng, 1913
James A. Garfield, President of the United States, shot twice by Charles Guiteau, 1881
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, shot in a laundromat by John Patler, 1967
Leo Ryan, congressman, shot on the Kaituma airstrip by Larry Layton and the Peoples Temple, 1978
Antonio Guiteras y Holmes, Cuban Minister of the Interior, killed in Matanzas, 1935
Tabinshwehti, King of Burma, decapitated on a hunting trip, 1550
Yahya Ayyash, bomb maker, killed by an explosive-rigged cell phone given to a friend by Shin Bet, 1995
Pierre Laporte, Deputy Premier of Quebec, killed by the Chénier Cell, 1970
Radama II, King of Madagascar, strangled with a silk sash by officers of the military, 1863
Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army, cut with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader, 1940
Khalil Jalil Hamza, Governor of Al-Qādisiyyah Province, killed in a roadside bomb attack, 2007
John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, shot from a distance by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
Carlo Tresca, Leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, killed by the mafia or the NKVD while crossing Fifth Avenue, 1943
Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, shot with his dog by Erskine "Buck" Burrows, 1972
Anton Lubowski, lawyer, killed by the Civil Cooperation Bureau, 1989
Rail Rzayev, Commander of the Azerbaijani Air Force, killed outside his home, 2009
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, killed by a bomb planted in his boat by Thomas McMahon, 1979
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian member of parliament, killed by Patrick J. Whelan on the threshold of his boarding house, 1868
Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt, shot by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, 1910
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, rabbi, shot in Ofra by Force 17, 2000
Harith al-Obeidi, member of the Iraqi Parliament, shot twice in a mosque by Ahmad Jassem Ibrahim, 2009
Pemulwuy, Aboriginal Australian resistance leader, shot and killed by Henry Hacking, 1802
Jaime Hurtado González, deputy in the Ecuadorian parliament, shot near government buildings, 1999
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian Minister of Justice, shot from a motorcycle by Ivan Dario Guisado, 1984
