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Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

This is an list of persons who were assassinated; that is, important people who were murdered, usually for ideological or political reasons.

Contents 1 Assassinations in Africa 1.1 Algeria 1.2 Angola 1.3 Burkina Faso 1.4 Burundi 1.5 Cameroon 1.6 Chad 1.7 Comoros 1.8 Congo (Brazzaville) 1.9 Congo (Kinshasa) 1.10 Ivory Coast 1.11 Egypt 1.12 Equatorial Guinea 1.13 Ethiopia 1.14 The Gambia 1.15 Guinea 1.16 Kenya 1.17 Lesotho 1.18 Liberia 1.19 Madagascar 1.20 Mozambique 1.21 Niger 1.22 Nigeria 1.23 Rhodesia 1.24 Rwanda 1.25 Somalia 1.26 South Africa 1.27 Sudan 1.28 Tanzania 1.29 Togo 1.30 Tunisia 1.31 Uganda 1.32 Zambia 1.33 Zimbabwe 2 Assassinations in the Americas 2.1 Antigua and Barbuda 2.2 Argentina 2.3 Bermuda 2.4 Bolivia 2.5 Brazil 2.6 Canada 2.7 Chile 2.8 Colombia 2.9 Cuba 2.10 Dominican Republic 2.11 Ecuador 2.12 El Salvador 2.13 Guatemala 2.14 Guyana 2.15 Haiti 2.16 Honduras 2.17 Mexico 2.18 Nicaragua 2.19 Panama 2.20 Paraguay 2.21 Peru 2.22 Suriname 2.23 United States 2.24 Uruguay 2.25 Venezuela 3 Assassinations in Asia 3.1 Afghanistan 3.2 Bangladesh 3.3 Bhutan 3.4 Cambodia 3.5 China 3.6 Georgia 3.7 India 3.8 Iran 3.9 Iraq 3.10 Israel 3.11 Japan 3.12 Jordan 3.13 Korea 3.14 Kuwait 3.15 Lebanon 3.16 Malaysia 3.17 Myanmar/Burma 3.18 Nepal 3.19 Pakistan 3.20 Palestinian Territories 3.21 Philippines 3.22 Qatar 3.23 Saudi Arabia 3.24 Sri Lanka 3.25 Syria 3.26 Turkey 3.27 Vietnam 3.28 Yemen 4 Assassinations in Australia and Oceania 4.1 Australia 4.2 New Caledonia 4.3 Samoa 4.4 Palau 5 Assassinations in Europe 5.1 Albania 5.2 Austria 5.3 Belgium 5.4 Bulgaria 5.5 Cyprus 5.6 Czech Republic 5.7 Denmark 5.8 Finland 5.9 France 5.10 Germany 5.11 Greece 5.12 Hungary 5.13 Ireland 5.14 Italy (and former Roman Empire) 5.15 Malta 5.16 Netherlands 5.17 Norway 5.18 Ottoman Empire 5.19 Poland 5.20 Portugal 5.21 Romania 5.22 Slovakia 5.23 Spain 5.24 Sweden 5.25 Switzerland 5.26 Turkey 5.27 United Kingdom (and predecessor states) 5.28 Serbia and Yugoslavia 5.29 Ukraine 6 Assassinations in Russia and the former Soviet Union 7 Deaths under suspicious circumstances 8 Related articles and lists

• Hiempsal, (117 BC), co-ruler of Numidia
• François Darlan, (1942), senior figure of Vichy France
• Maurice Audin, (1957), communist mathematician
• Mohamed Khemisti, (1963), Algerian foreign minister
• Mustafa Bouyali, (1987), Islamic fundamentalist
• Mohamed Boudiaf, (1992), President of Algeria
• Youcef Sebti, (1993), poet
• Kasdi Merbah, (1993), former Prime Minister of Algeria
• Abdelkader Alloula, (1994), playwright
• Cheb Hasni, (1994), singer
• Lounès Matoub, (1998), singer
• Abdelkader Hachani, (1999), Islamic fundamentalist

• Jonas Savimbi, 2002, Angolan political and rebel leader

• Thomas Sankara, (1987), Head of State of Burkina Faso
• Clément Oumarou Ouédraogo, (1991), opposition leader
• Norbert Zongo, (1998), journalist

• Louis Rwagasore, (1961), Prime Minister of Burundi
• Jean Nduwabike, (1962), trade union leader
• Gabriel Gihimbare, (1964), first Roman Catholic bishop of Hutu descent
• Pierre Ngendandumwe, (1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
• Joseph Bamina, (1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
• Paul Mirerekano, (1965), leading Burundian politician
• Gervais Nyangoma, (1965), politician
• Martin Ndayahoze, (1972), leading army commander and information minister
• Ntare V, (1975), dethroned King of Burundi (disputed circumstances)
• Melchior Ndadaye, (1993), President of Burundi, Founder of The Burundi Workers' Party
• Gilles Bimazubute, (1993),
• Kassi Manlan, (2001), World Health Organisation representative

• Ruben Um Nyobé, (1958), leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC)

• François Tombalbaye, (1975), President of Chad

• Ali Soilih, (1978), former President of Comoros
• Ahmed Abdallah, (1989), President of Comoros

• Marien Ngouabi, (1977), President of the Congo
• Émile Biayenda, (1977), Archbishop of Brazzaville
• Pierre Anga, (1988), rebel leader

• Kabongo Boniface Kalowa, (1960),
• Patrice Lumumba, (1961), former Prime Minister of the Congo
• Maurice Mpolo, (1961), Lumumba associate
• Joseph Okito, (1961), Lumumba associate
• Ferdinand Kabange Numbi, (1964),
• André Lubaya, (1968),
• Laurent Kabila, (2001), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Robert Guéi, (2002), former President of Côte d'Ivoire
• Émile Boga Doudou, (2002), Interior minister
• Muhammad Ahmad alRashid, (2003), Saudi ambassador

• Pompey the Great, (48 BC), Roman politician killed in Egypt
• Germanicus, (19), Roman military leader, poisoned in Alexandria by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Tiberius
• Al-Afdal Shahanshah, (1121), vizier of Fatimid Egypt
• Al-Amir, (1130), Fatimid Caliph
• Qutuz, (1260), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• Khalil, (1293), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• Jean Baptiste Kléber, (1800), French general, in Cairo
• Boutros Ghali, (1910), Prime Minister of Egypt, by Ibrahim El-Wardan
• Sir Lee Stack, (1924), Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in Cairo
• Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, (1944), the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East; killed in Cairo by the Stern Gang
• Ahmed Maher Pasha, (1945), Prime Minister of Egypt, in Cairo by Mahmud Issawy
• Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, (1948), Prime Minister of Egypt, by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Hassan al-Banna, (1949), founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Anwar Sadat, (1981), President of Egypt
• Rifaat al-Mahgoub, (1990), speaker of Egyptian parliament
• Farag Foda, (1992), Egyptian politician and intellectual

• Atanasio Ndongo Miyone, Saturnino Ibongo, Bonifacio Ondó Edu, Armando Balboa, Pastor Torao and many others, (1969), Equatorial Guinean politicians, in murderous crackdown after coup attempt against President Francisco Macías Nguema

• Tilahun Gizaw, (1969), Ethiopian student leader

• Deyda Hydara, (2004), journalist

• Amílcar Cabral, (1973), Pan-African intellectual, in Conakry, Guinea

• Pio Gama Pinto, (1965), socialist politician
• Tom Mboya, (1969), Kenyan politician
• Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, (1975), Kenyan politician
• Robert Ouko, (1990), foreign minister of Kenya
• Karimi Nduthu, (1996), opposition activist

• Selometsi Baholo, Deputy Prime Minister
• Makhele
• Motuba
• Seheri
• Selala Sekhonyana
• Sixishe

• William R. Tolbert, Jr., (1980), president of Liberia killed in military coup
• Samuel Doe, (1990), president of Liberia

• Radama II of Madagascar, (1863), king of Madagascar
• Richard Ratsimandrava, (1975), president of Madagascar killed just days after taking power in military coup

• Eduardo Mondlane, (1969), leader of the independence FRELIMO movement, allegedly killed by the Portuguese branch of Gladio
• Carlos Cardoso, (2000), Mozambican journalist

• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, (1999), President of Niger

• Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, (1966), Prime Minister of Nigeria killed during military coup
• Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, (1966)
• Adekunle Fajuyi, (1966)
• Samuel Akintola, (1966)
• Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, (1966), military head of state
• Murtala Ramat Mohammed, (1976), President of Nigeria
• Dele Giwa, (1986), journalist
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, (1995), activist
• Bola Ige, (2001), justice minister of Nigeria

• Mlimo, (1896), Ndebele spiritual leader and instigator of the Second Matabele War; assassinated by Frederick Russell Burnham, an American scout.

• Dian Fossey, (1985), primatologist, in the province of Ruhengeri; assassination probably planned by Protais Zigiranyirazo
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana, (1994), Prime Minister of Rwanda killed one day after genocide began
• Juvénal Habyarimana, (1994), His plane was shot out of the sky as it approached Kigali airport, and signalled the start of the Rwandan Genocide

• Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, (1969), president of Somalia
• George Adamson, (1989), British naturalist, at Kora

• Shaka, (1828), king of the Zulus, near Stanger (now KwaDukuza) by Dingane and Mhlangana
• Mhlangana, (1828), Zulu prince murdered by Dingane. Shaka, Mhlangana, Dingane, Mpande and others were half-brothers, sons of a Zulu chief Senzangakhona with different his different wives.
• Hendrik Verwoerd, (1966), Prime Minister of South Africa, stabbed in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas
• Onkgopotse Tiro, (1974), South African student leader
• Ruth First, (1982), anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo, by pro-apartheid "Koevoet" leader Craig Williamson
• Vernon Nkadimeng, (1985), South African dissident
• Dulcie September, (1988), head of the African National Congress in Paris, by South African Defense Force sergeant Joseph Klue
• Chris Hani, (1993), leader of the South African Communist Party shot by Janusz Walus
• Johan Heyns, (1995), prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church
• Brett Kebble, (2005), controversial mining magnate

• Cleo Noel Jr and George Curtis Moore, (1973), US Chief of Mission/Deputy Chief ot Mission (see Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)
• Guy Eid, (1973), Belgian Chargé d'affaires (see Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)

• Abeid Amani Karume, (1972), first President of Zanzibar, First Vice President of Tanzania

• Sylvanus Olympio, (1963), first president of independent Togo, in a coup led by dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma
• Tavio Amorin, (1992), socialist leader (shot in Lomé, died in Paris)

• Khalil Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), (1988), military leader of the PLO, in Tunis
• Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad"), (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia

• Benedicto Kiwanuka, (1972), Chief Justice of Uganda
• Janani Luwum, (1977), Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire from 1974 until 1977

• Herbert Chitepo, (1975), Zimbabwean nationalist leader

• Attati Mpakati, (1983), left-wing Malawian politician

• Daniel Parke, (1710), British governor of the Leeward Islands

• Justo José de Urquiza, (1870), former president of Argentina
• Pedro Aramburu, (1970), former president of Argentina executed by the Montoneros
• Carlos Prats, (1974), Chilean general
• Zelmar Michelini, (1976), Uruguayan senator
• Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, (1976), speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives

• Sir Richard Sharples, (1973), governor of Bermuda

• Manuel Isidoro Belzu, (1865), President of Bolivia
• Mariano Melgarejo, (1871), President of Bolivia
• Che Guevara, (1967), Argentinean revolutionary leader
• Juan José Torres, (1976), former President of Bolivia

• João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, (1930)
• Adib Shishakli, (1964), Syrian military dictator
• Chico Mendes, (1988), Brazilian environmental activist
• Daniela Perez, (1992), Brazilian actress
• Dorothy Stang, (2005), American nun killed by business interests
• Pinheiro Machado,(1915), Brazilian politician
• Leon Eliachar, (1987), Egyptian writer
• Zuzu Angel,(1976), Brazillian activist
• Wladmir Herzog,(1975), journalist
• Paulo César Farias, (1996), Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer

• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, (1868), Canadian father of Confederation
• George Brown, (1880), newspaper editor and Senator
• Sergio Pérez Castillo, (1968), Cuban diplomat killed by anti-Castro forces in Montreal
• Pierre Laporte, (1970), Quebec Minister of Labour, was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ
• Atilla Altıkat, (1982), Turkish diplomat assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa
• Tara Singh Hayer, (1998), journalist killed by Sikh separatists

• René Schneider, (1970), Chilean general
• Victor Jara, (1973), singer
• Jaime Guzmán, (1991), Chilean Senator
• Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, (1971), Chilean ex Secretary of interior affairs
• Salvador Allende, (1973), President of Chile (allegedly; may have committed suicide)

• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, (1948), Liberal Party leader
• Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, (1984), Minister of Justice
• Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, (1985), Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
• Alfonso Reyes Echandía, (1985), President of the Supreme Court
• Manuel Gaona Cruz, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Carlos Medellín Forero, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Ricardo Medina Moyano, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• José Eduardo Gnecco Correa, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Alfonso Patiño Roselli, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Pedro Elías Serrano, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Fabio Calderón Botero, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Darío Velásquez Gaviria, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Horacio Montoya Gil, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Fanny González Franco, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
• Hernando Baquero Borda, (1986), Supreme Court Justice
• Jaime Ramírez Gómez, (1986), Head of Antinarcotics Police
• Jaime Pardo Leal, (1987), Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
• Guillermo Cano Isaza, (1986), Director of El Espectador newspaper
• Carlos Mauro Hoyos, (1988), Chief District Attorney
• José Antequera, (1989), Senator, member of the Patriotic Union party
• Antonio Roldán Betancur, (1989), Governor of Antioquia
• Valdemar Franklin Quintero, (1989), Chief of Police of Antioquia
• Luis Carlos Galán, (1989), Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party
• Carlos Ernesto Valencia, (1989), Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
• Jorge Enrique Pulido, (1989), notable Journalist and director of the JEP media network
• Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, (1990), Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
• Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, (1990), Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party
• Diana Turbay (1991), journalist and daughter of former Colombian president Julio César Turbay Ayala
• Enrique Low Murtra, Minister of Justice
• Myriam Rocío Vélez, Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
• Andrés Escobar, (1994), International footballer
• Manuel Cepeda Vargas, (1994), Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party
• Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, (1995), former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper
• Rodrigo Turbay Cote, (1996), Congressman, former president of the House of Representatives
• Fernando Landazábal Reyes, (1998), Minister of Defense
• Eduardo Umaña Mendoza, (1998), union leader and human rights activist, former advisor to the Patriotic Union party
• Jaime Garzón, (1999), Notable journalist and satirist
• Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones (2000), retired Army general, former commander of the 13th Army Brigade
• Isaias Duarte Cancino, 2002, Roman Catholic archbishop
• Guillermo Gaviria Correa, (2003), Governor of Antioquia
• Gilberto Echeverry Mejía, (2003), former Minister of Defense and peace advisor to the governor of Antioquia
• Elson Becerra, (2006), International footballer

• Antonio Guiteras, (1935), Revolutionary Socialist Leader

• Ulises Heureaux, (1899), president of the Dominican Republic
• Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, (1961), Dominican Republic dictator
• Orlando Mazara, (1967)
• Flavio Suero, (1968)
• Henry Segarra, (1969)
• Amín Abel Hasbún, (1970)
• Otto Morales, (1970)
• Amaury Germán Aristy, (1972)
• Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó, (1973)
• Gregorio García Castro, (1973)
• Florinda Soriano, (1974)
• Guido Gil Díaz, (1974)
• Orlando Martínez, (1975)
• Narciso González, (1994)

• Gabriel García Moreno, (1875), president of Ecuador known for his support of the Catholic church
• Jaime Hurtado and Pablo Tapia, (1999), communist legislators, in Quito

• Manuel Enrique Araujo, (1913), President of El Salvador
• Farabundo Martí, (1932), communist leader and peasant revolt organizer.
• Roque Dalton, (1975), poet and revolutionary.
• Rutilio Grande García, S.J., (1977), Roman Catholic priest
• Mauricio Borgonovo Pohl, (1977), Foreign Minister, taken hostage and killed by guerrillas.
• Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, (1977), Roman Catholic priest
• Osmín Aguirre, (1977), former President of El Salvador
• Ernesto Barrera, (1978), Roman Catholic priest
• Octavio Ortiz Luna, (1979), Roman Catholic priest
• Rafael Palacios, (1979), Roman Catholic priest
• Alirio Napoleón Macías, (1979), Roman Catholic priest
• Óscar Arnulfo Romero, (1980), Archbishop of San Salvador, by right-wing death squad
• Enrique Álvarez Córdova, (1980) and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials), captured and killed by government aligned security forces.
• Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, (1980), Roman Catholic nuns, by the National Guard of El Salvador
• Albert Schaufelberger, (1983), senior U.S. Naval representative
• Ignacio Ellacuría, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
• Ignacio Martin-Baro, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
• Segundo Montes, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
• Arnando Lopez, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
• Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
• Juan Ramon Moreno, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army

• Cirilo Flores, (1826), Vice President of Guatemala
• José María Reina Barrios, (1898), President of Guatemala
• Francisco Arana, (1949), presidential candidate
• Carlos Castillo Armas, (1957), president of Guatemala
• Karl von Spreti, (1970), German ambassador in Guatemala
• Alberto Fuentes Mohr, (1979), Social Democratic Party leader
• Manuel Colom Argueta, (1979), Mayor of Guatemala City
• Jorge Carpio Nicolle, (1993), Liberal politician and journalist
• Juan José Gerardi, (1998), Roman Catholic bishop
• Mario Pivaral, (2006), UNE congressman
• Clara Luz López, (2007), local council candidate

• Michael Forde, (1964), PPP activist killed when a bomb he was removing from the party's bookstore exploded
• Leo J. Ryan, (1978), US Congressman (D) from San Mateo, California; killed while investigating religious cult led by American Jim Jones
• Walter Rodney, (1980), Guyanese historian and political figure
• Satyadeow Sawh, (2006), Agriculture Minister was murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues

• Jean-Jacques Dessalines, (1806), Emperor of Haiti
• Antoine Izméry, (1993), businessman and Lavalas supporter
• Guy Mallory, (1993), minister of justice
• Jean-Marie Vincent, (1994), Roman Catholic priest and Lavalas supporter
• Jean Dominique, (2000), journalist
• Jacques Roche, (2005), journalist

• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, (1966), president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944

• Francisco I. Madero, (1913), President of Mexico
• Emiliano Zapata, (1919), revolutionary
• Venustiano Carranza, (1920), President of Mexico
• Doroteo Arango a.k.a. Pancho Villa, (1923), revolutionary
• Felipe Carrillo Puerto, (1924), Governor of Yucatán
• Álvaro Obregón, (1928), President-elect
• Julio Antonio Mella, (1929), Cuban revolutionary
• Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader
• Mauro Angulo, (1948)
• Rubén Jaramillo, (1962), peasant leader
• Enrique Camarena, (1985), policeman
• Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, (1986), Journalist and State governor
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, (1993), Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara, at the Guadalajara Airport
• Luis Donaldo Colosio, (1994), Presidential candidate
• Francisco Ortiz Franco, (1994}, contributing editor to Zeta.
• José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, (1994), Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
• Paco Stanley, (1999), Comedian
• Digna Ochoa, (2001), human rights lawyer
• Mario César Ríos, (2007), congressional deputy

• Benjamín Zeledón, (1912), Liberal revolutionary
• Augusto César Sandino, (1934), Nicaraguan revolutionary
• Anastasio Somoza García, (1956), President of Nicaragua
• Rigoberto López Pérez, (1956), Assassin of Somoza García
• Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, (1978), newspaper editor, Nicaraguan Somoza opposition
• Enrique Bermúdez, (1991)
• Carlos Guadamuz, (2004), Journalist

• José Antonio Remón Cantera, (1955), president of Panama
• Ruben Oscar Miró Guardia, assassinated on 12/31/1969.

• Juan Bautista Gill, (1877), President of Paraguay
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle, (1980), former President of Nicaragua
• Luis María Argaña, (1999), vice president of Paraguay

• Francisco Pizarro, (1541), Spanish conquistador, in Peru
• Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, (1933), president of Peru
• Antonio Miró Quesada, (1935), publisher of El Comercio

• Bram Behr, (1982), Surinamese journalist, in the Decembermoorden

• Joseph Smith, Jr., (1844), Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois and presidential candidate
• Abraham Lincoln, (1865), President of the United States
• Thomas Hindman, (1868), Confederate General
• James Hinds, (1868), U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
• Wild Bill Hickok, (1876), lawman and gunfighter
• James Garfield, (1881), President of the United States
• John M. Clayton (Arkansas), (1889), Congressman from Arkansas
• David Hennessey, (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans
• Carter Harrison, Sr., (1893), Mayor of Chicago
• William Goebel, (1900), Governor of Kentucky
• William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States
• Frank Steunenberg, (1905), former governor of Idaho
• Don Mellett, (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime
• Anton Cermak, (1933), mayor of Chicago
• Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor
• Walter Liggett, 1935, Minnesota newspaper editor
• Carlo Tresca, (1943), anarchist organizer
• Albert Patterson, (1954), Alabama Attorney General
• Curtis Chillingworth, (1955), a Florida judge
• John F. Kennedy, (1963), President of the United States
• Lee Harvey Oswald, (1963), assassin of Kennedy
• Medgar Evers, (1963), U.S. civil rights activist
• Malcolm X, (1965), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech
• George Lincoln Rockwell, (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party
• Martin Luther King Jr., (1968), U.S. civil rights activist
• Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), Presidential candidate and John F. Kennedy's younger brother, shot in Los Angeles
• Fred Hampton, (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
• Dan Mitrione, (1970), FBI agent and torture expert, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros
• Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende
• Harvey Milk, (1978), gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California
• George Moscone, (1978), Mayor of San Francisco.
• John Wood, (1979), first US federal judge killed in the twentieth century
• Allard K. Lowenstein, (1980), Congressman from New York
• John Lennon (1980), musician, activist, former member of the Beatles
• Alan Berg, (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis
• Chiang Nan, (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
• Alex Odeh, (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
• Alejandro González Malavé, (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
• Tommy Burks, (1998), Tennessee State Senator
• James E. Davis, (2003) New York City Councilman assassinated by Othniel Askew a political rival in the Council chambers in City Hall.
• Chauncey Bailey, (2007), journalist

• Bernardo P. Berro, (1868), Uruguayan president
• Venancio Flores, (1868), Uruguayan president (on the same day as Berro, though in completely separate incidents)
• Juan Idiarte Borda, (1897), Uruguayan president

• Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, (1950), chairman of the military junta of Venezuela
• Danilo Anderson, (2004), State prosecutor

• Habibullah Khan, (1919), emir of Afghanistan
• Mohammed Nader Shah, (1933), king of Afghanistan since 1929
• Mohammed Daoud Khan, (1978), president of Afghanistan killed in communist coup
• Adolph Dubs, (1979), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
• Nur Mohammad Taraki, (1979), communist president
• Hafizullah Amin, (1979), communist Prime Minister of Afghanistan killed during Soviet invasion
• Mohammed Najibullah, (1996), president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul
• Ahmed Shah Massoud, (2001), leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance
• Abdul Haq, (2001), Afghan Northern Alliance commander killed by remnants of the Taliban
• Abdul Qadir, (2002), vice-president of Afghanistan
• Abdul Rahman, (2002), Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism
• Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, (2007), former Prime Minister of Afghanistan

• Mujibur Rahman, (1975), president of Bangladesh
• Fazlul Haq Mani, (1975), politician
• Abdur Rab Serniabat, (1975), politician
• Tajuddin Ahmed, (1975), politician
• Syed Nazrul Islam, (1975), politician
• Mohammad Mansoor Ali, (1975), prime minister
• Khaled Mosharraf, (1975), coup organizer
• Ziaur Rahman, (1981), president of Bangladesh

• Jigme Palden Dorji, (1964), Prime Minister of Bhutan

• Ieu Koeus, (1950), briefly prime minister of Cambodia in 1949

• Sidibala, (1323), grand-khan of the Mongol Empire, Emperor of Yuan China
• João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, (1849), Portuguese Governor of Macau
• Ito Hirobumi, (1909), Japanese Resident-General of Korea, in Manchuria
• Chen Qimei, (1916), revolutionary activist
• Liao Zhongkai, (1925)
• Zhang Zuolin, (1928), Manchurian warlord, by officers of the Japanese Guandong Army
• Lu Huanyan, (1930)
• Chen Lu, (1939), foreign minister of Wang Jingwei Government
• Fang Zhenwu, (1941)
• Han Guojun, (1942)
• Wen Yiduo, (1946), Chinese poet and scholar

• Cemal Pasha, (1922), former Ottoman Minister, in Tbilisi, by an Armenian or allegedly by either the NKVD or Cheka.

• Brhadrata, (185 BC), last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
• Abul-Fazel, (1602), vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar
• Mohandas Gandhi, (1948), Independence leader
• Indira Gandhi, (1984), Indian prime minister
• Rajiv Gandhi, (1991), former Indian prime minister, son of Indira
• Beant Singh(Chief Minister), (1995), chief minister of Punjab
• Phoolan Devi, (2001), bandit queen turned politician and activist for people of lower castes
• Abdul Ghani Lone, (2002), moderate leader of Kashmiri Muslims
• General Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986.

• Xerxes I, (465 BC), Persian king killed by guards
• Xerxes II, (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother Sogdianus
• Sogdianus, (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother Darius II
• Khosrow I, (238), Armenian king
• Nizam al-Mulk, (1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks
• Nader Shah, (1747), Shah of Persia
• Nasser-al-Din Shah, (1896), Shah of Persia killed by Mirza Reza Kermani
• Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III, (1930), Iranian Diplomat and Politician
• Abdolhossein Teymourtash, (1933), Iranian Statesman
• Taghi Arani, (1940), Communist intellectual
• Qazi Muhammad, (1947), dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader, in Mahabad
• Ali Razmara, (1951), Prime Minister of Iran
• Hassan Ali Mansur, (1965), Prime Minister of Iran
• Mohammad Beheshti, (1981), killed along with 71 others in bombing
• Mohammad Ali Rajai, (1981), president of Iran
• Mohammad Javad Bahonar, (1981), Prime Minister of Iran, killed in bombing with Rajai

• Gordian III, (244), Roman emperor, near Circesium (modern day Abu Sera) by his troops
• Faisal II, (1958), King of Iraq
• Nuri Pasha as-Said, (1958), Iraqi politician, and
• Ibrahim Hashim, (1958), Jordanian politician, prime minister several times between the 1930s and shortly before his death - the previous three were all killed during the July 14 military coup in Iraq
• Abdul Razak al-Naif, (1978), former Prime Minister of Iraq
• Ali Garmaii, (1996), dissident Kurdish Iranian activist in Halabja
• Mohammad Nanva, (1996), dissident Kurdish Iranian activist, in Sulaymaniyah
• Aquila al-Hashimi, (2003), Iraqi Governing Council member
• Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, (2003), ayatollah
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello, (2003), UN Special Representative in Iraq
• Waldemar Milewicz, (2004), Polish journalist
• Mounir Bouamrane, (2004), Algerian-Polish TV operator, killed alongside with Milewicz
• Hatem Kamil, (2004), deputy governor of Baghdad Province
• Ezzedine Salim, (2004), chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council
• Barawiz Mahmoud, (2005), judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal
• Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, (2005), Iraqi MP
• Adel Koskh Khabar and three brothers, (2005), leader of al-Ghadr Brigade
• Ihab al-Sherif, (2005), Egyptian envoy to Iraq
• Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, (2006), al-Zarqawi's spiritual advisor
• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, (2007), Sunni tribal leader

• Hugh II of Le Puiset, (1134), count of Jaffa
• Miles of Plancy, (1174), regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Conrad of Montferrat, (1192), King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade
• Jacob Israël de Haan, (1924), pro-Orthodox Jewish diplomat
• Chaim Arlosoroff, (1933), Zionist leader in the British Mandate of Palestine
• Folke Bernadotte, (1948), Middle East peace mediator, assassinated by Lehi
• Rudolf Kasztner, (1957), Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis
• Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia, (1981), Member of the Knesset
• Yitzhak Rabin, (1995), Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• Rehavam Zeevi, (2001), Israeli general and politician

• Emperor Sushun, (592), Emperor of Japan
• The Sogas, (645), Japanese political family
• Minamoto no Sanetomo, (1219), the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate
• Mimura Iechika, daimyo, feudal l