List of assassinated people

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

Please note the annual sorting order.

Assassinated heads of state and heads of government

• Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia (2003)
• Laurent-Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, (2001)
• Vasgen Sarkissian, Prime Minister of Armenia (1999)
• Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (1995)
• Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (1994)
• Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (1994)
• Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka (1993)
• Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1991)
• Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso (1987)
• Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1986)
• Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984)
• Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (1979)
• Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1973)
• John F. Kennedy, President of the United States (1963)
• Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam, (1963)
• Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, (1961)
• Alexander, King of Yugoslavia (1930)
• Michael Collins, President of the Irish Provisional Government (1922)
• Jean Léon Jaurès, President of France (1914)
• William McKinley, President of the United States (1901)
• James Garfield, President of the United States (1881)
• Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (1865)
• Pius VIII, Pope (1830)
• Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1811)
• Gustav III, King of Sweden (1792)
• Henri IV, King of France (1610)
• Henri III, King of France (1589)
• William I of Orange, stadthouder of the Netherlands (1584)
• Gaius Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic (44 BC)

Political assassinations

• Pim Fortuyn, party leader and prime ministerial candidate in the Netherlands (2002)
• Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan (2001)
• Andrey Lukanov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1996)
• Earl Mountbatten, statesman (1979)
• Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (1978)
• Harvey Milk, gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California (1978)
• Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier & Cabinet Minister of Quebec, Canada (1970)
• Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney general of the United States (1968)
• Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader in the United States (1968)
• Malcolm X, civil rights leader in the United States (1965)
• Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader (1948)
• Leon Trotsky, Communist leader (1940)
• Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Archduke and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne (1914)
• Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary (1898)
• Lord Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland (1882
• T.H. Burke, Under Secretary for Ireland (1882)
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian member of Parliament (1868)
• Charles Lenox Richardson, English diplomat (1862)
• Henry Heusken, American diplomat (accompanying Townsend Harris from Amsterdam) (1861)
• Jean-Paul Marat, French politician (1793)
• Rev. Robert Bradford, Unionist MP in Northern Ireland

Political assassinations in Japan

Including heads of state and heads of government

• Takahashi Korekiyo, Japanese Prime Minister (1936)
• 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, Japanese political activist (1867)
• 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, feudal leader in Japan (1582)
• 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 Nobugana
• Matsunaga Hisahide, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
• 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

Assassinations of well known persons

• John Lennon, singer, songwriter and member of the Beatles (1980)
• Grigori Rasputin, (1916)
• Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records & far right wing political activist
• Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer
• Marvin Gaye, singer.

People who died under suspicious circumstances

• Pope John Paul I (1978)
• Charles XII, King of Sweden (1718)
• Pope Alexander VI
• Warren Harding, President of the United States
• Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary General
• King Jean I of France
• Emperor Komei of Japan, Emperor of Japan
• Agnès Sorel

Survivors of assassination attempts

• Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris, France (2002)
• Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan (2002)
• Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada (1995)
• Margaret Thatcher, with the entire British cabinet (1987)
• Pope John Paul II (1981)
• Ronald Reagan, President of the United States (1981)
• Pope Paul VI (1970)
• Edward VII of the United Kingdom, as Prince of Wales (1900)
• Louis XV of France (1757)
• Gerald Ford, President of the United States
• Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
• Harry Truman, President of the United States
• Charles, Prince of Wales
• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• Victoria of the United Kingdom (numerous attempts)
• Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer
• Itagaki Taisuke Japanese liberal activist
• Adolf Hitler, German dictator
• Shi Huang Di, Chinese Emperor

See also: Assassin, List of assassins, Terrorist