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History Assassinations

Assassinations

This category covers people in the public eye who were murdered, or assaulted, for political or ideological reasons – or, in some cases, simply by attention–seekers.

Where the victim's name (and their occupation or claim to fame) are in italics, this means that the assassination attempt was unsuccessful.

I haven't hidden the identities of the culprits, where they aren't known (or particularly well–known). Similarly, I haven't hidden the locations, where they're either fairly unremarkable (for example, if it was in the capital city of the victim's home country) or if they're particularly obscure. In other words, if I don't think they're likely to be asked in quizzes.

Who When Where By whom
Click to show or hide the answer Archbishop of Canterbury29 Dec 1170 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Conquistador of Peru; founder of Lima26 Jun 1541 Click to show or hide the answer Followers of his rival, Diego de Almagro
Click to show or hide the answer King of France14 May 1610 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer French revolutionary leader13 July 1793 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Emperor of Haiti (Jacques I)17 Oct 1806  Near Port–au–Prince Opposition supporters
Click to show or hide the answer Prime Minister of Great Britain11 May 1812 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer King of the Zulus9 Sep 1828   Near Stanga (now KwaDukuza) Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Queen of Great Britain etc.10 Jun 1840 Click for more information London Edward Oxford
30 May 1842   St. James's Park, London John Francis
3 Mar 1842   The Mall, London John William Bean
1849   Constitution Hill, London William Hamilton
1850   Outside Cambridge House, Piccadilly Robert Pate
29 Feb 1872   Outside Buckingham PalaceArthur O'Connor
2 Mar 1882   Windsor station Roderick Maclean
20 Jun 1887   Westminster Abbey – 'the Jubilee Plot' Irish anarchists (ostensibly)
Click to show or hide the answer Founder of the Mormon Church27 Jun 1844 Click to show or hide the answer Mob attack
Click to show or hide the answer President of the USA15 Apr 1865 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Sioux leader5 Sep 1877 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer President of the USA2 Jul 1881 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer British Chief Secretary for Ireland6 May 1882 Click to show or hide the answer Irish Nationalist Invincibles
Click to show or hide the answer Under–Secretary to the above
Click to show or hide the answer President of France24 Jun 1894 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer King of Italy29 Jul 1900 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer President of the USA6 Sep 1901 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer King of Portugal1 Feb 1908 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Crown prince of Portugal
Click to show or hide the answer Prime minister of Egypt20 Feb 1910   Cairo   Ibrahim Nassif al–Wardani (nationalist)
Click to show or hide the answer Archduke of Austria – heir to the Austro–Hungarian throne 28 Jun 1914 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Click to show or hide the answer French social democrat leader31 Jul 1914  Paris (Le Croissant café)  Raoul Villain (wanted war with Germany)
Click to show or hide the answer Russian mystic16 Dec 1916 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Mexican revolutionary10 Apr 1919   Chinameca, Ayala municipality Bounty hunters
Click to show or hide the answer Irish nationalist politician22 Aug 1922 Click to show or hide the answer Opponents of the Anglo–Irish Treaty
Click to show or hide the answer General of the Mexican revolution20 Jul 1923  Parral, Chihuahua Unknown
Click to show or hide the answer King of Albania21 Feb 1931 Click to show or hide the answer Aziz Çami (Albanian army officer)
Click to show or hide the answer US President–elect15 Feb 1933 Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information Giuseppe Zangara
Click to show or hide the answer Austrian dictator25 Jul 1934   ViennaAustrian Nazis
Click to show or hide the answer Senator; former governor of Louisiana10 Sep 1935 Click to show or hide the answer Carl Weiss (son–in–law of a political opponent)
Click to show or hide the answer Spanish poet19 Aug 1936 Click to show or hide the answer Nationalist partisans
Click to show or hide the answer German diplomat7 Nov 1938 Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information Herschel Grynszpan
Click to show or hide the answer Russian Communist leader21 Aug 1940 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer German "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia27 May 1942 Click to show or hide the answer British–trained Czech agents
Click to show or hide the answer Italian Fascist leader28 Apr 1945 Click to show or hide the answer Italian partisans
Click to show or hide the answer Mistress of Benito Mussolini28 Apr 1945 Click to show or hide the answer Italian partisans
Click to show or hide the answer Civil rights leader30 Jan 1948 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer US president1 Nov 1950 Click to show or hide the answer Griselio Torresloa, Oscar Collazo
Click to show or hide the answer Prime Minister of Pakistan16 Oct 1951 Click to show or hide the answer Saad Akbar
Click to show or hide the answer Prime Minister of Ceylon26 Sep 1959 Colombo Talduwe Somarama (a Buddhist monk)
Click to show or hide the answer President of the USA22 Nov 1963 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy24 Nov 1963 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Black activist21 Feb 1965 Click to show or hide the answer Talmadge Hayer (and allegedly others)
Click to show or hide the answer Prime Minister of South Africa6 Sep 1966   South African Parliament, Cape Town Dimitri Tsafendas (Parliamentary messenger)
Click to show or hide the answer Marxist revolutionary9 Oct 1967 Click to show or hide the answer Bolivian soldiers (allegedly CIA–backed)
Click to show or hide the answer US human rights campaigner4 Apr 1968 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer US Presidential candidate6 Jun 1968 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Quebec Labour MinisterOct 1970   In or near Montreal Front de Liberation de Quebec (FLQ)
Click to show or hide the answer Governor of Alabama,
US Presidential candidate
15 May 1972 Click to show or hide the answer Arthur Bremer (self–publicist)
Click to show or hide the answer Prime minister of Spain20 Sep 1973   MadridETA bomb
Click to show or hide the answer King of Saudi Arabia25 Mar 1975   Riyadh Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer President and PM of Bangladesh15 Aug 1975  Dacca (at his home) Military coup
Click to show or hide the answer President of the USA5 Sep 1975 Click for more information Sacramento, California Click to show or hide the answer
22 Sep 1975 San Francisco Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Records compiler and publisher27 Nov 1975 Click to show or hide the answer Shot by the IRA
Click to show or hide the answer UK ambassador to Dublin21 Jul 1976 Click to show or hide the answer Landmine (assumed planted by the IRA)
Click to show or hide the answer Prime minister of Italy9 May 1978   In or near Rome Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Conservative MP30 Mar 1979 Click to show or hide the answer INLA car bomb
Click to show or hide the answer Last Viceroy of India27 Aug 1979 Click to show or hide the answer IRA bomb (Thomas McMahon)
Click to show or hide the answer Former Beatle8 Dec 1980 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Archbishop24 Mar 1980 Click to show or hide the answer Right–wing death squad
Click to show or hide the answer President of the USA30 Mar 1981 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Pope13 May 1981 Click to show or hide the answer Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer President of Egypt6 Oct 1981   CairoMembers of his own armed forces
Click to show or hide the answer Prime Minister of India31 Oct 1984   New DelhiSikh guards (Satwant Singh and Beant Singh)
Click to show or hide the answer Polish priest19 Oct 1984   At or near Wloklawek reservoir Polish security forces
Click to show or hide the answer US ethologist (gorilla expert)26 Dec 1985 Click to show or hide the answer Unknown
Click to show or hide the answer Prime Minister of Sweden28 Feb 1986   StockholmUnknown
Click to show or hide the answer British naturalist20 Aug 1989 Click to show or hide the answer Somali bandits
Click to show or hide the answer Conservative MP30 Jul 1990 Click to show or hide the answer IRA car bomb
Click to show or hide the answer Prime minister of India, 1984–921 May 1991 Click to show or hide the answer Sriperumbudur, near Madras Click for more information Thenmozhi Rajaratnam
Click to show or hide the answer Mexican Presidential candidate24 Mar 1994   Tijuana, Mexico Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Prime minister of Israel4 Nov 1995   Tel Aviv Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Irish investigative journalist26 Jun 1996 Newlands Cross, Dublin Unknown (drug–related crime)
Click to show or hide the answer Fashion designer15 Jul 1997 Click for more information Miami Beach, Florida Andrew Cunanan
Click to show or hide the answer King of Nepal1 Jun 2001   Kathmandu Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Dutch right wing politician6 May 2002   Hilversum Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Leader and co–founder of Hammas8 Mar 2003 Click to show or hide the answer Israeli forces
Click to show or hide the answer Swedish foreign minister11 Sep 2003   Stockholm Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Leader and founder of Hammas22 Mar 2004 Click to show or hide the answer Israeli gun attack from a helicopter
Click to show or hide the answer Leader of Hammas 17 Apr 2004 Click to show or hide the answer Israeli forces
Click to show or hide the answer Dutch film director2 Nov 2004   Amsterdam Click to show or hide the answer
Click to show or hide the answer Former Prime Minister of Pakistan27 Dec 2007 Click to show or hide the answer Suicide bomb; al–Qaeda suspected

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