- -48
| Sep 28 | -BC- On landing in Egypt, Pompey, Roman warrior, is murdered on the orders of Ptolemy. | Ref: 2 |
- -44
| Mar 15 | -BC- The Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, is assassinated by a group of nobles that include Brutus and Cassius. | Ref: 70 |
- -43
| Dec 07 | -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head & right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers. | Ref: 68 |
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- 41
| Jan 24 | Shortly after declaring himself a god, Caligula is assassinated (at age 28) by two Praetorian tribunes. (Also 52) | Ref: 2 |
- 69
| Jan 15 | Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), killed by Praetorian guard in the Forum Rome, at 70. | Ref: 5 |
- 192
| Dec 31 | Lucius Aurelius Commodus Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31. | Ref: 5 |
- 193
| Mar 28 | Publius Helvius Pertinax Roman Emperor (192-93), is assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | The Roman emperor, Marcus Didius, is murdered in his palace. | Ref: 2 |
- 217
| Apr 08 | Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoniius] Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29. | Ref: 5 |
- 235
| Mar 18 | Marcus Aurelius Alexander Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 238
| May 10 | Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered | Ref: 2 |
- 392
| May 15 | Valentinianus II emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21. | Ref: 5 |
- 455
| May 31 | Petronius Maximus senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched. | Ref: 5 |
- 535
| Apr 30 | Amalaswintha queen of Ostrogoten, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 628
| Apr 03 | Chosroes II emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son. | Ref: 5 |
- 644
| Nov 04 | Umar of Arabia is assassinated at Medina and is succeeded as caliph by Uthman. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 08 | Omar I 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 661
| Jan 24 | Ali ibn Abu Talib kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 820
| Dec 25 | Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine general/Emperor (813-20), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 924
| Apr 07 | Berengarius I Emperor of Italy, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 978
| Mar 18 | Edward the Martyr, King of England, the King of the English is assassinated at age 15, by orders from his step-mother, who wanted her son Aethelred to become king. | Ref: 5 |
- 987
| May 22 | Louis V le Faineant the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20. | Ref: 5 |
- 1034
| Apr 11 | Romanus III Argyrus Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife. | Ref: 5 |
- 1079
| May 09 | Stanislaus Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1124
| May 06 | Balak Emir of Aleppo, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1136
| Dec 14 | Harald IV "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1176
| May 22 | Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo. | Ref: 5 |
- 1204
| Feb 01 | Alexius IV Angelus regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1250
| May 02 | Toeransa sultan of Egypt, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1282
| Dec 11 | Llywelyn ab Gruffydd monarch of North Wales (1246-77), is ambushed and killed by the order of Edward I. | Ref: 5 |
- 1291
| Mar 05 | Sa'ad al'Da'ulah Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1306
| Aug 04 | King Wenceslas III, King of Hungary (1301-4), is assassinated at age 16. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 08 | King Wenceslas of Poland is murdered. | Ref: 2 |
- 1308
| May 01 | King Albrecht I van Habsburg German King (1298-1308), is murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands. | Ref: 5 |
- 1369
| Mar 23 | Pedro the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1389
| Mar 31 | Everhard Tserclaes sheriff of Brussels, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1419
| Sep 10 | John the Fearless is murdered at Montereau, France, by supporters of the dauphine, at age 48. | Ref: 2 |
- 1437
| Feb 20 | King James I of Scotland murdered by Sir Robert Graham at Perth. | Ref: 17 |
- 1453
| May 29 | Constantine XI Dragases last Byzantine Emperor, is killed at 49. | Ref: 5 |
- 1471
| May 21 | Henry VI king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71) is killed in the Tower of London. Edward IV takes the throne. | Ref: 2 |
- 1478
| Apr 26 | Giuliano de' Medici Medeheerser of Florence, murdered by Pazzi conspirators at about age 24. | Ref: 5 |
- 1536
| Mar 16 | Ibrahim Pasha grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45. | Ref: 5 |
- 1537
| Jan 05 | Alessandro de'Medici, Duke of Florence and the last male of elder branch of his family, is assassinated. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 07 | Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, is assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1546
| Mar 29 | Cardinal Beaton English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Cardinal Beaton English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1563
| Feb 24 | François Guise French General/duke, assassinated at 44. | Ref: 5 |
- 1570
| Jan 23 | Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out. | Ref: 5 |
- 1578
| Mar 31 | Juan de Escobedo Secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1584
| Jul 10 | William of Orange is assassinated by Balthazar Gerand. | Ref: 52 |
- 1589
| Aug 01 | Henry III of France is assassinated by Jacques Clement. | Ref: 52 |
| Aug 02 | During France's religious war, a fanatical monk stabs King Henry II to death. | Ref: 2 |
- 1591
| May 15 | Dimitri Ivanovitch Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9. | Ref: 5 |
- 1606
| May 17 | Forges Dimitri czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1610
| May 14 | Henry IV (of Navarre), first Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610) and successor to Henry III, is assassinated at age 56 by Francois Ravaillac, a fanatical monk. | Ref: 52 |
- 1639
| Jan 24 | George Jenatsch Grisons leader, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1648
| Aug 08 | Ibrahim, the sultan of Istanbul, is thrown into prison, then assassinated. | Ref: 2 |
- 1649
| May 12 | Isaac Doreslaer English lawyer/diplomat, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1703
| May 01 | Kiva Yoshinaka Japanese monarch, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1718
| Nov 30 | Charles XII King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead. | Ref: 17 |
| Dec 11 | Charles XII King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead. | Ref: 5 |
- 1747
| Jul 10 | Persian ruler Nadir Shah is assassinated at Fathabad. | Ref: 2 |
- 1757
| Jan 04 | Robert Francois Damiens makes an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis XV of France. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 05 | Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens. | Ref: 5 |
- 1768
| Jul 27 | Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary, assassin of Jean Paul Marat, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1792
| Mar 16 | Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera. | Ref: 5 |
- 1793
| Jul 13 | Jean Paul Marat, one of the three key leaders of Frances Reign of Terror, is assassinated by Charlotte Corday. | Ref: 52 |
| Jul 17 | Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary assassin of Jean-Paul Marat is executed by guillotine at age 24. | Ref: 68 |
- 1800
| May 15 | King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt. | Ref: 5 |
- 1801
| Mar 23 | Paul I tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at 46. | Ref: 5 |
- 1812
| May 11 | British Prime Minister Spencer Percival, is assassinated by Bellingham, a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons. | Ref: 2 |
- 1835
| Jul 28 | King Louis Napoleon of France survives an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Maria Fleschi, who had rigged 25 guns together and fired them all with the pull of a single trigger. | Ref: 2 |
- 1842
| May 30 | John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria. | Ref: 5 |
- 1849
| May 19 | Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by William Hamilton. | Ref: 62 |
| Aug 22 | The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies. | Ref: 2 |
- 1857
| Jan 03 | Archbishop Sebour of Paris is assassinated by Verger, a priest. | Ref: 17 |
- 1864
| May 16 | Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | Solomon George Washington Dill poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC. | Ref: 5 |
- 1866
| Apr 16 | Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. | Ref: 5 |
- 1868
| Jun 10 | Prince Michael III Obrenovic of Serbia is assassinated in Belgrade after freeing Serbia from Ottoman rule. | Ref: 17 |
| Oct 26 | B F Randolph SC state senator, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1869
| Jul 15 | A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1870
| Dec 30 | Prim Spanish general, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1880
| Feb 17 | In Russia, Czar Alexander II narrowly survives an assassination attempt when a bomb explodes in the imperial dining room at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. | Ref: 3 |
- 1881
| Mar 13 | Tsar Alexander II, 63, is assassinated when a bomb is thrown at him near his palace. | Ref: 68 |
- 1882
| May 06 | Lord Frederick Cavendish assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Thomas Henry Burke assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin. | Ref: 5 |
- 1887
| Mar 23 | Felix Felixovitch Yussupov Russian prince/murderer of Rasputin, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Alexander Ulyanov brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar. | Ref: 5 |
- 1892
| Dec 01 | ? De Bruyne, Belgian sergeant in Congo, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 01 | Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1894
| Jun 24 | French President Sadi Carnot is assassinated by the anarchist Santo Caserio. | Ref: 52 |
- 1895
| Jul 15 | Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, is murdered by Macedonian rebels. | Ref: 2 |
- 1896
| May 01 | Naser ed-Din shah of Persia (1848-96), murdered at 65. | Ref: 5 |
- 1900
| Jan 29 | King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by anarchist Gaetana Bresci. He is succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III. | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 04 | Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Edward VII King, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | Umberto I, Italian king assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci. | Ref: 18 |
- 1901
| Mar 06 | A would-be assassin tries to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen. | Ref: 2 |
- 1902
| Apr 08 | Sipyagain Russian minister of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1903
| Jun 10 | King Alexander of Serbia and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by Colonel Apis and members of the Serbian army. | Ref: 17 |
- 1906
| May 31 | King Alfonso XIII assassinated in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Victoria von Battenberg assassinated in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
- 1908
| Feb 01 | At a public square in Lisbon, Portugal, revolutionaries assassinate King Carlos I of Portugal (1889-1908) and his eldest son. | Ref: 3 |
| Feb 28 | Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran. | Ref: 5 |
- 1909
| Oct 26 | Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean. | Ref: 5 |
- 1911
| Jan 17 | Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 14 | Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev opera house. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 18 | Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff. | Ref: 2 |
- 1912
| Mar 14 | An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempts to kill Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome. | Ref: 2 |
- 1913
| Jan 23 | Nazim Pasha Turkey's PM assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Suarez Mexican vice President, assassinated in a military coup. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Francisco Indalecio Madero Mexican President, assassinated in military coup at 39. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | George I king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67. | Ref: 5 |
- 1914
| Jul 30 | Jean Jaures leading socialist, assassinated in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
- 1916
| Dec 16 | Gregory Rasputin, 45, the monk who'd wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen. | Ref: 5 |
- 1918
| Apr 29 | Gavrilo Princip Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 19 | Evelle Jansen Younger prosecutor of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 16 | Russia's Czar Nicholas the Second, his empress Alexandra, 46, and their five children are executed by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 30 | Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot by Fanya Kaplan & sister, a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin was only wounded, but the assassination attempt set off a wave of reprisals by the Bolsheviks. | Ref: 10 |
| Oct 31 | Count Stephen Tisza Hungarian PM assassinated by soldiers. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 14 | Sidonio Pais prince of Portugal, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1919
| Jan 15 | German socialist rebels Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | Habib Ullah Chan emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), is murdered at age 46. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (socialist), murdered at 51. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican guerrilla in the Mexican Revolution of 1911-7, is assassinated at age 39 in Chinameca, Mexico. | Ref: 68 |
- 1920
| Mar 20 | Venustiano Carranza President of Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60. | Ref: 5 |
- 1921
| Mar 08 | Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while leaving Parliament in Madrid. | Ref: 2 |
- 1922
| Jun 22 | Field Marshal Sir Henry H Wilson murdered in London. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Gabriel Narutowicz first President of Poland (December 7-16, 1922), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1923
| May 10 | Vaslav Vorovsky Russian delegate, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 29 | General JC Gomez Venezuala's first VP, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 20 | Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary guerrilla leader, is assassinated at age 45. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 27 | Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan. | Ref: 5 |
- 1924
| Jun 10 | Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist leader assassinated by the Fascists in Rome at age 39. | Ref: 70 |
- 1927
| Jul 10 | Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, is assassinated at age 35. | Ref: 5 |
- 1928
| Mar 10 | James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther King Jr), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 12 | Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 17 | General Alvaro Obreg¢n pres of Mexico, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1930
| Nov 14 | Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi. | Ref: 2 |
- 1932
| Feb 09 | Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Paul Doumer President of France (1931-32), assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Ki Inukai premier Japan (1931-32), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Ki Imukai premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1933
| Mar 06 | Anton J Cermak US mayor of Chicago, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 21 | Giuseppe (Joseph) Zangara, who attempted to assassinate FDR, was electrocuted for the murder of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 30 | Luis Sanchez Cerro President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 08 | King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 29 | Joh Georghe Duca premier of Romania, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1934
| Oct 09 | King Alexander I of Yugoslavia is assassinated in Marseilles France by Vlada Chernozmaky, a professional assassin in the employ of Ante Pavelic, who escaped. | Ref: 52 |
| Dec 01 | Sergey Kirov, another leading Bolshevik, is assassinated in his Leningrad office at the instigation of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin was to use this death as a pretext for eliminating Stalin's enemies in seven separate trials. | Ref: 3 |
- 1935
| Sep 08 | Huey P Long (Sen-LA) is shot at the Baton Rouge Capitol building allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. He dies two days later. (XDG, p 4A, 9/8/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 10 | Huey P. Long, Louisiana politician who served as governor and U.S. senator, known as "The Kingfish, dies at age 42 as a result of an assassin's bullet. | Ref: 68 |
- 1936
| Dec 20 | Baron De Borchgrave Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
- 1939
| Jan 26 | Professor Cristescu Romania's iron guard leader, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Armand Calinescu Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 08 | An assassination attempt on Hitler fails. | Ref: 36 |
- 1940
| Aug 20 | After a previous machine gun attack failed, exiled Russian Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City, with an alpine ax to the back of the head by Stalin agent Frank Jackson. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 21 | Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin. | Ref: 68 |
- 1942
| Jan 05 | Yves Paringaux French chief of staff, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | Jean Darlan French admiral, murdered by gaullists. | Ref: 5 |
- 1943
| Mar 27 | Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau. | Ref: 5 |
- 1944
| Oct 01 | Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 05 | British official Lord Moyne is assassinated in Cairo Egypt by the Zionist Stern Gang. (XDG, p 4A, 11/05/2003) | Ref: 83 |
- 1945
| Feb 24 | Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament. | Ref: 5 |
- 1946
| Jun 09 | King Ananda of Siam is murdered in his bed. His assassins were never apprehended. | Ref: 52 |
- 1948
| Jan 30 | Mahatma Gandhi India spiritual and political leader, assassinated by a Hindu extremist in New Delhi, at age 78. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 09 | Jorge Elecier Gaitán Colombian politician, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Walter P Reuther President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 20 | UAW president Walter P Reuther was shot and seriously wounded by would-be assassins. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Christos Ladas Greek minister of Justice, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 17 | Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, is assassinated in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists at age 53. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel. | Ref: 2 |
- 1949
| Feb 04 | Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia. | Ref: 5 |
- 1951
| Mar 07 | Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 20 | King Abdullah (Ibn Hussein) of Jordan is assasinated. | Ref: 15 |
| Oct 06 | Henry Gurney British high commissioner to Malaya assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 16 | Liaquat Ali Khan PM of Pakistan, assassinated by Said Akbar. | Ref: 5 |
- 1952
| Mar 27 | Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer. | Ref: 5 |
- 1955
| Jan 02 | José Antonio Remon, President of Panamá (1952-55), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Mark David Chapman assassin of John Lennon, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1956
| Sep 21 | Anastasio Somoza Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez. | Ref: 5 |
- 1957
| May 02 | Attempted murder of Mafia Don Frank Costello by Vincent the Chin Gigante shifts balance of power. | Ref: 10 |
- 1958
| May 08 | Nasni Matni Lebanese journalist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | King Faisal II PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 17 | King Faisl II of Iran is assassinated by General Qassim. | Ref: 52 |
- 1959
| Sep 25 | S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 26 | PM Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) is assassinated by a Buddhist monk. | Ref: 68 |
- 1960
| Jan 02 | Friedrich Adler Austria social-democrat, assasinated PM Stürgkh, dies in Zürich at 80. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed in México. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 29 | Hazza el-Majali PM of Jordan is assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1961
| Jan 17 | (date uncertain) Patrice Lumumbas, 34, of the Congo is murdered by agents of President Joseph Kasavubu. | Ref: 52 |
| Mar 27 | Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina government leader: president/dictator of Dominican Republic; is assassinated by a group led by Pedro Pedeno. | Ref: 68 |
| May 31 | Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1962
| Jan 07 | Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails. | Ref: 5 |
- 1963
| Feb 08 | Abdul Karim Kassem PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Lambrakis Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 12 | NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, 37, is murdered in the doorway of his home in Jackson, MS. In 1994 Byron DeLaBeckwith was convicted of his murder and sentenced to life in prison. DeLaBeckwith died in 2001.Ref | |
- 1964
| Jan 02 | Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana. | Ref: 5 |
- 1965
| Jan 15 | Pierre Ngendandumwe premier of Burundi, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | Malcolm X [Little], black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is shot to death in Harlem in front of 400 people, at age 39. It is believed his assailants are Black Muslims, a faith that Malcolm had recently abandoned. Ref | |
- 1966
| Jun 06 | James Meredith, Black activist, was shot as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | Last of at least 31 attempts to assassinated French President Charles de Gaulle; bomb in Paris car. | Ref: 10 |
| Sep 06 | South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1967
| Apr 23 | James Earl Ray escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary by hiding in a bread crate inside a delivery truck. He is recaptured four days later. | Ref: 52 |
| Aug 25 | George Lincoln Rockwell head of American Nazi Party, is assassinated. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 09 | Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution, by Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier. | Ref: 17 |
- 1968
| Jan 01 | Criswell was at it again, predicting that a black civil rights leader would be assassinated before October. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in April. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 04 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated at age 39 by a sniper in Memphis, Tennesse. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. | Ref: 5 |
- 1969
| Mar 10 | James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King and is sentenced to 99 years in jail. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 05 | Tom Mboya economics minister, assassinated in Narobi Kenya. | Ref: 5 |
- 1970
| Jan 05 | Joseph A. Yablonski, unsuccessful reform candidate to unseat "Tough Tony" Boyle as President of the United Mine Workers, is murdered, along with his wife and daughter, in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania home by assassins acting on Boyle's orders. Boyle was later convicted of the killing. West Virginia miners went on strike the following day in protest. | Ref: 5 |
- 1971
| May 03 | James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt. | Ref: 2 |
| May 05 | Petro Scaglione Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 28 | Wasfi Tal Jordan's PM, assassinated in Cairo. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | Jack Barnhill Northern Ireland senator, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
| Mar 15 | Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Abeid Karume Tanzanian sheik/President, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | Ntare V deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | Ntare V king of Burundi, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 07 | Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant who was then shot dead by her bodyguards. (XDG, p 4A, 12/07/2002) | Ref: 83 |
- 1973
| Mar 02 | Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | Sir Richard Sharples Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 20 | Luis Carrero Blanco PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA. | Ref: 5 |
- 1974
| Mar 12 | Billy Fox Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 15 | South Korean President Park Chung-hee escaped an assassination attempt in which his wife was killed. | Ref: 5 |
- 1975
| Mar 25 | King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. (The nephew was beheaded the following June.) | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 26 | Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 18 | Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 24 | Ismail Erez Turkish ambassador killed by car bomb in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
- 1976
| May 11 | J Anaya Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 16 | Francis E Meloy Jr US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 21 | Christopher Ewart-Biggs Brit ambassador to Ireland is assassinated by a land mine. | Ref: 5 |
- 1977
| Mar 15 | Kamal Joemblat Lebanese politician, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Marien Ngouabi President of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Congo President Marien Ngouabi is killed by a suicide commando. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 07 | Siegfried Buback German Federal Republic procureur-General, murdered Attorney-General. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 13 | James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison. | Ref: 5 |
- 1978
| Jan 10 | Pedro Joaquín Chamorro of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | Mohammed Daud premier/President of Afghánistán, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | The bullet-riddled body of Aldo Moro, 61, Italy's former Prime Minister who had been abducted by Red Brigade terrorists, is found in the center of Rome. (XDG, p 4A, 5/09/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 13 | James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 19 | Indira Gandhi ambushed in India. | Ref: 5 |
- 1979
| Mar 02 | Sir Richard Sykes British ambassador is assassinated in Holland. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | ... Sykes British ambassador in The Hague, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Airey Neave British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 27 | British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion; the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 26 | Korean President Park Chung Hee is assassinated by Korean CIA chief Kim Jue Kyu in a failed coup attempt. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 07 | Prince Chahryar Shafik Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 27 | President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years. | Ref: 2 |
- 1980
| Mar 24 | El Salvador's leading human rights activist, Archbishop Oscar Romero, 62, was assassinated by a sniper while saying mass in a hospital chapel. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League president. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 17 | Former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza is assassinated in Paraguay. | Ref: 70 |
- 1981
| Jan 16 | In Northern Ireland, Protestant gunmen shot and wounded Irish nationalist leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband. | Ref: 6 |
| May 30 | The president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, was assassinated by a group of rebel officers in a failed military coup. (TWA, 1982) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 30 | Mohammad Javad Bahonar prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 30 | Mohammad Ali Rajai president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 05 | Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 06 | Nobel Peace Prize-winner Anwar el-Sadat, the President of Egypt, is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt. Sadat was reviewing a military parade when the attack by Islamic fundamentalists occurred. | Ref: 68 |
- 1982
| Sep 14 | Bashir Gemayel Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb. | Ref: 5 |
- 1983
| Apr 06 | Ana Maria Salvador guerilla leader, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Issam Sartawi PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 21 | Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr, 50, ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, is shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport. | Ref: 17 |
| Oct 19 | Maurice Bishop prime minister of Grenada & others murdered in coup | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 07 | Edgar Graham member of Northern Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA. | Ref: 5 |
- 1984
| Mar 28 | Kenneth Whitty, first Secretary at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 12 | Margaret Thatcher survives IRA assassination attempt; 5 others are killed. | Ref: 10 |
| Oct 31 | Indira Gandhi (Nehru) Prime Minister of India [1966-1977 and 1980-84] is assassinated by her security guards, two Sikh men. Her position as prime minister was filled by her son, Rajiv. | Ref: 4 |
- 1985
| Aug 20 | Harchand Singh Longowai Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists. | Ref: 5 |
- 1986
| Jan 13 | Abdel Fattah Ismail President of South-Yemen (1969-80), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Swedish Prime Minister (1969-76, 82-86) Sven Olaf Palme, 59, is shot to death while walking from a movie theater in central Stockholm | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | Zafer Masri mayor of Nablus, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 02 | Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 17 | Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death by leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris. | Ref: 2 |
- 1987
| Apr 28 | Ben Linder development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 26 | Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads. | Ref: 5 |
- 1988
| Apr 16 | Abu Jihad [Khalil al-Wazzir], PLO-leader, military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 08 | Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 17 | Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination. (TWA, 1989) | Ref: 95 |
- 1989
| May 01 | David Webster South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Hassan Khaled sheik of Lebanon, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 18 | In Colombia, leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated outside Bogota; the Medellin drug cartel is strongly suspected. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1990
| Jan 12 | Civil Rights activist Reverand Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Brooklyn. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 26 | Carlos Pizarro Leongomez Colombian presidential candidate, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Moelvi Mohammed Farouk Indian spiritual leader, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 10 | Samuel Kanyon Doe president of Liberia, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | Meir Kahane founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 | Ref: 5 |
- 1991
| Jan 14 | Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 21 | Rajiv Gandhi former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | The prime minister of India from 1984 until 1989, Rajiv Gandhi, 46, was in the midst of a campaign rally in Madras, India, for reelection when a bomb exploded in his hand. Like his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. The bomb was hidden in a bouquet of flowers handed to Rajiv by a so-called admirer, who was also killed in the explosion. | Ref: 4 |
| May 24 | The remains of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated by a suicide bomber, were cremated. (TWA, 1992) | Ref: 95 |
- 1992
| Feb 16 | Abbas Musawi leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | Giovanni Falcone anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1993
| Jan 05 | Nyamuisi Muvingi Zaire minister of Culture, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 08 | Hakija Turajlic Bosnian vice-premier, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Djilalli Lyabès Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Mohammed Hussein Nagdi Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Laadi Flici Algerian MP, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Chris Hani Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Sam Ntombani ANC-Secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | Lalith Athulathmudali Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | Top-ranked women's tennis play Monica Seles is stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg Germany, by a man who described himself as a fan of second-ranked Steffi Graff. The man, convicted of causing grievous bodily harm, was given a suspended sentence. (XDG, p 4A, 4/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| May 01 | Ranasinghe Premadasa President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68, along with 25 others in a bomb attack. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Jesus Posadas Ocampo Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 11 | Antoine Izmery, a prominent supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is shot and killed outside a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The UN mission accuses Haitian armed forces of involvement. (XDG, p 4A, 9/11/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 25 | Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escapes an attempt on his life when Islamic militants detonate a car bomb near his motorcade. (XDG, p 4A, 11/25/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 06 | Rouaz Lakhdar Algerian supreme court justice, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Bentri Seddik Algerian court judge, murdered at 46. | Ref: 5 |
- 1994
| Jan 26 | A scare occurs during a visit to Sydney, Australia by Britain's Prince Charles as a young man lunges at the prince, firing two blank shots from a starter's pistol. (XDG, p 4A, 1/26/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 19 | Giuseppe Diana Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexico’s ruling party’s presidential candidate, is gunned down during a campaign rally in the northern border town of Tijuana. The murder is officially unsolved. | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 24 | Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexican politician, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 26 | Constantine Koukouchkine Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at 41. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Agatha Uwilingiyimana Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Cyprian Niayamira President of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Juvénal Habayarimana President of Rwanda (1973), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Agathe Uwilingiyimana PM of Rwanda, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | Raouf Khayrat Egyptian General-Major, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | Taleb Ali al-Suheil Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Selometsi Baholo vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 25 | Talaat Yassin Hamman militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 03 | Giorgi Chanturia President of Georgia, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1995
| Jan 22 | Mahmoud Sayed Selim Egyptian Muslim leader, shot to death at 29. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 04 | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was gunned down as he was about to enter his car after speaking at a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli law student Yigal Amir, confessed to killing Rabin because he opposed Rabin’s ongoing efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians, saying Rabin wanted to “to give our country to the Arabs.” | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 04 | Itzhak Rabin PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1996
| Mar 27 | An Israeli court convicts Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 12 | Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain). | Ref: 5 |
- 1997
| Feb 15 | Lee Il Nam, a relative of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, is shot in the head and chest outside his Seoul apartment eight months after he his book about growing up in President Kim's household. North Korean assassins are believed to be the killers. (WSJ, p A1, 10/10/2003) | Ref: 33 |
| Mar 27 | Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., met with James Earl Ray, the man in prison for the assassination of the civil rights leader. Ray denied having anything to do with the shooting, to which King replied, "I believe you." | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt. | Ref: 5 |
- 1998
| Feb 09 | Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and then insisted he was framed, dies at a Nashville hospital at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 26 | Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera, a leading human rights activist in Guatemala, was bludgeoned to death two days after a report he'd compiled on atrocities during Guatemala's 36-year civil war was made public. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 24 | A funeral is held in St Petersburg, Russia for the liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starvoitova, who had been assassinated four days earlier. (XDG, p 4A, 1124/2003) | Ref: 83 |
- 2001
| Jan 21 | Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist convicted three decades after the fact for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died in Jackson, MS, at age 8l. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 01 | The king, queen and seven other members of Nepal's royal family were slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then mortally wounded himself. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 09 | Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 17 | Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death in the first-ever assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians. | Ref: 70 |
- 2002
| Mar 16 | Gunmen killed Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino, a prominent critic of Colombia's leftist guerrillas, in Cali. | Ref: 70 |
| May 06 | Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch politician who attacked immigration and high taxes, shifting the political agenda of the Netherlands, is shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands at age 54. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 05 | Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt in Kandahar. | Ref: 70 |
- 2003
| Mar 12 | Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated in Belgrade. Two suspects were immediately taken into custody. (USA Today, p 2A, 3/13/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Mar 27 | Serbian police killed two major suspects in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 10 | Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, a leading advocate of the euro, is stabbing while shopping in downtown Stockholm by a man dressing in camouflaged clothing. (WSJ, p A3, 9/12/2003) | Ref: 33 |
| Dec 25 | Pakistani President Perves Musharraf escapes unharmed in the second assassination attempt in 11 days. Suicide attackers detonate two bombs that kill 14 and injure 46 others. (USA Today, p 3A, 12/26/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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