List of assassinated people
This is a list of assassinated political leaders and other well known persons:
Political leaders
- Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia (2003)
- Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (1995)
- Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1991)
- Olof Palme, Prime Minister from Sweden (1986)
- Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984)
- Pierre Laporte, Quebec cabinet member (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)
- John F. Kennedy, President of the United States (1963)
- Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader (1948)
- Takahashi Korekiyo, Japanese Prime Minister (1936)
- Inukai Tsuyoshi, Japanese Prime Minister (1932)
- King Alexander of Yugoslavia (1930)
- Michael Collins, President of the Irish Provisional Government (1922)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne (1914)
- Ito Hirobumi, Japanese Prime Minister (1909)
- William McKinley, President of the United States (1901)
- James Garfield, President of the United States (1881)
- Okubo Toshimichi, Japanese Prime Minister (1878)
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian member of Parliament (1868)
- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (1865)
- Pope Pius VIII (1830)
- Spencer Percival, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1811)
- Oda Nobunaga, feudal leader in Japan (1582)
- the Sogas, Japanese politican family (645)
- Emperor Sushun of Japan, Emperor of Japan (592)
- Ii Naosuke, Japanese politican
- Sakuma Shozan, Japanese politican
- 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
- Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese political activist
- Tokugawa Nariaki, Japanese daimyo, a relative of Tokugawa shoguns.
- Serizawa Kamo, a chief of Shinsen-gumi
Other well known persons
- John Lennon, singer, songwriter and member of the Beatles (1980)
- Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records & far right wing political activist
- Harvey Milk, gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California
- Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer
- Hara Kei, Japanese liberalist
- Henry Heusken, American diplomat accompanying Townsend Harris from Amsterdam
- Charles Lenox Richardson
Survivors of assassination attempts
- 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)
- Gerald Ford, President of the United States
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris, France
- Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer
- Itagaki Taisuke Japanese liberalist
- Harry Truman, President of the United States
- Adolph Hitler, German leader
- Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
- Shi Huang Di, Chinese Emperor
Rumors; those who might be assasinated
See also: assassin, List of assassins