For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9883-01-01117 BC |
Hiempsal, co-ruler of Numidia |
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| 01942-12-24December 24, 1942 |
François Darlan, senior figure of Vichy France |
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| 01957-03-10March 10, 1957 |
Larbi Ben M'Hidi, Algerian nationalist and FLN leader |
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| 01957-06-21June 21, 1957 |
Maurice Audin, Pied-noir and PC millitant |
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| 01957-06-21June 21, 1957 |
Larbi Tbessi, Nationalist and Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema (fr) president |
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| 01957-03-23March 23, 1957 |
Ali Boumendjel, Algerian lawyer |
French army |
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| 01960-02-02February 2, 1960 |
Esther John, Pakistani Christian nurse |
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| 01963-04-11April 11, 1963 |
Mohamed Khemisti (fr), Algerian foreign minister[1] |
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| 01987-02-03February 3, 1987 |
Mustafa Bouyali, Islamic fundamentalist |
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| 01992-06-29June 29, 1992 |
Mohamed Boudiaf, Head of State of Algeria |
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Shot at Annaba[2] |
| 01993-06-02June 2, 1993 |
Tahar Djaout, poet |
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| 01993-08-22August 22, 1993 |
Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria |
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| 01994-03-10March 10, 1994 |
Abdelkader Alloula, playwright |
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| 01994-09-29September 29, 1994 |
Cheb Hasni, singer |
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| 01995-09-28September 28, 1995 |
Aboubakr Belkaid (fr), politician |
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| 01996-03-27March 27, 1996 |
Seven monks of the Trappistes of Tibérine |
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See Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine |
| 01996-08-01August 1, 1996 |
Pierre Claverie (fr), Catholic bishop of Oran |
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| 01994-12-03December 3, 1994 |
Saïd Mekbel (fr), journalist |
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Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian, Algiers |
| 01998-06-25June 25, 1998 |
Lounès Matoub, berberist singer |
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| 01999-11-22November 22, 1999 |
Abdelkader Hachani, Islamic fundamentalist |
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| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9952-01-0148 BC |
Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician |
Achillas, Lucius Septimius and Salvius |
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| 01121-01-011121 |
Al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of Fatimid Egypt |
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| 01130-01-011130 |
Al-Amir, Fatimid Caliph |
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| 01260-01-011260 |
Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt |
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| 01800-01-011800 |
Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general |
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| 01910-01-011910 |
Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt |
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| 01924-01-011924 |
Lee Stack, Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan |
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| 01944-01-011944 |
Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East |
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| 01945-02-24February 24, 1945 |
Ahmed Maher Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt[5] |
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| 01948-12-28December 28, 1948 |
Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, Prime Minister of Egypt[6] |
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| 01949-01-011949 |
Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood |
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| 01971-11-28November 28, 1971 |
Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan |
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Shot during visit to Cairo[4] |
| 01981-10-06October 6, 1981 |
Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt |
Khalid Islambouli |
Shot while reviewing military parade;[4] see Assassination of Anwar El Sadat |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Rifaat al-Mahgoub, speaker of Egyptian parliament |
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| 01992-01-011992 |
Farag Foda, Egyptian politician and intellectual |
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| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01870-01-011870 |
Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina |
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| 01909-01-011909 |
Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police |
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Assassinated by anarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers. |
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Mariano Ferreyra, demonstrator |
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See Murder of Mariano Ferreyra |
| 01970-01-011970 |
Pedro Aramburu, former de facto president of Argentina |
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Executed by the peronist guerrilla Montoneros in revenge for the abduction of Evita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a failed uprising fifteen years before, during Aramburu's dictatorship. |
| 01974-01-011974 |
Carlos Prats, Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army |
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Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship, during his exile in Argentina. |
| 01976-01-011976 |
Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan senator, founder of the Broad Front |
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Exiled in Argentina as a result of the 1973 Uruguayan coup, he was killed after the 1976 Argentine coup, under the Operation Condor, which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone. |
| 01976-01-011976 |
Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives |
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Killed alongside Zelmar Michelini, while exiled in Argentina. |
| 01976-01-011976 |
Juan José Torres, former military President of Bolivia |
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Exiled in Argentina after his overthrow by Hugo Banzer. He was killed after the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, under the Operation Condor, which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone. |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01830-01-011830 |
Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier |
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| 01914-01-011914 |
Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier |
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| 01948-01-011948 |
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader |
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| 01984-01-011984 |
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice |
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The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, Judge who had indicted Pablo Escobar |
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| 01985-01-011985 |
Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of the Supreme Court. |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Fabio Calderon Botero, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Pedro Elias Serrano Abadia, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Dario Velasquez Gaviria, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Jose Eduardo Gnecco Correa, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Ricardo Medina Moyano, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, Supreme Court Justice. |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Carlos Medellin Forero, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Fanny Gonzalez Franco, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Manuel Gaona Cruz, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Horacio Montoya Gil, Supreme Court Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Carlos Horacio Uran Rojas, State Council Assistant Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Lizandro Juan Romero Barrios, State Council Assistant Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Emiro Sandoval Huertas, State Council Assistant Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Julio Cesar Andrade Andrade, State Council Assistant Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Jorge A Correa Echeverry, State Council Assistant Justice |
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Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| 01986-01-011986 |
Guillermo Cano Isaza, Director of El Espectador newspaper |
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The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| 01987-01-011987 |
Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party |
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| 01987-01-011987 |
Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia |
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The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel. |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party |
|
The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel. |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Jorge Enrique Pulido, journalist, Director of Mundovision |
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The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| 01990-03-22March 22, 1990 |
Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party[4] |
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Waldemar Franklin Quintero, Commander of the Police of Antioquia |
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The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party |
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| 01991-01-011991 |
Enrique Low Murtra, former Colombian Ambassador to Switzerland |
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The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| 01991-01-011991 |
Diana Turbay, journalist and daughter of former Colombian president Julio César Turbay Ayala |
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Assassinated after a kidnapping by the Medellin Cartel |
| 01994-01-011994 |
Andrés Escobar, international footballer |
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| 01994-01-011994 |
Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party |
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| 01995-01-011995 |
Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper |
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| 01999-01-011999 |
Jaime Garzón, journalist and satirist |
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| 02000-01-012000 |
Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones, Colombian Army General |
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Assassinated by members of FARC |
| 02003-01-012003 |
Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia |
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| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01913-01-011913 |
Manuel Enrique Araujo, President of El Salvador |
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| 01932-01-011932 |
Farabundo Martí, communist leader and peasant revolt organizer |
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| 01975-01-011975 |
Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary |
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| 01977-01-011977 |
Rutilio Grande García, S.J., Roman Catholic priest |
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| 01977-01-011977 |
Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, Roman Catholic priest |
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| 01978-01-011978 |
Ernesto Barrera, Roman Catholic priest |
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| 01979-01-011979 |
Octavio Ortiz Luna, Roman Catholic priest |
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| 01979-01-011979 |
Rafael Palacios, Roman Catholic priest |
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| 01979-01-011979 |
Alirio Napoleón Macías, Roman Catholic priest |
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| 01980-01-011980 |
Óscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador |
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Killed by right-wing death squad |
| 01980-01-011980 |
Enrique Álvarez Córdova and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials) |
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Captured and killed by government aligned security forces. |
| 01980-01-011980 |
Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, Roman Catholic nuns |
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Killed by the National Guard of El Salvador. |
| 01983-01-011983 |
Albert Schaufelberger, senior U.S. Naval representative |
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| 01989-01-011989 |
Ignacio Ellacuría, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest |
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Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Ignacio Martin-Baro, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest |
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Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Segundo Montes, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest |
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Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army |
| 01989-01-011989 |
María Cristina Gómez, teacher and community leader |
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| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01520-01-011520 |
Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, Mexica Emperor |
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| 01913-02-23February 23, 1913 |
Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico, Nov 6, 1911 to Feb 19, 1913. [1] |
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| 01913-03-07March 7, 1913 |
Abraham González, revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa |
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| 01919-01-011919 |
Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary |
Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo |
Shot at his hacienda in Mexico. |
| 01920-05-20May 20, 1920 |
Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico[1] |
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| 01923-07-20July 20, 1923 |
Doroteo Arango a.k.a. Pancho Villa, revolutionary[11] |
Unknown |
Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral in Mexico. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed. |
| 01924-01-011924 |
Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatán |
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| 01928-07-17July 17, 1928 |
Álvaro Obregón, President-elect[11] |
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| 01929-01-011929 |
Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary |
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| 01940-08-20August 20, 1940 |
Leon Trotsky, Russian communist leader[11] |
Ramón Mercader |
Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Enrique Camarena, policeman |
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| 01986-01-011986 |
Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and State governor |
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| 01993-01-011993 |
Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara |
Unknown |
Assassinated at the Guadalajara Airport, among 6 other people, by anti-church group. |
| 01994-03-23March 23, 1994 |
Luis Donaldo Colosio, Presidential candidate[4] |
Mario Aburto |
Assassinated rally at campaign in Tijuana. |
| 01994-01-011994 |
Francisco Ortiz Franco, contributing editor to Zeta |
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| 01994-01-011994 |
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional |
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| 01999-01-011999 |
Paco Stanley, comedian |
|
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| 02001-01-012001 |
Digna Ochoa, human rights lawyer |
|
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| 02010-01-012010 |
Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor of Guadalupe |
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| 02010-01-012010 |
Rodolfo Torre Cantú, politician |
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| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01837-01-011837 |
Elijah P. Lovejoy, editor of an abolitionist newspaper, the "Alton Observer" |
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Killed by a mob of pro-slavery advocates. |
| 01882-04-03April 3, 1882 |
Jesse James, outlaw |
Robert Ford |
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| 01890-01-011890 |
David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans |
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| 01926-01-011926 |
Don Mellett, newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime |
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| 01935-12-09December 9, 1935 |
Walter Liggett, Minnesota newspaper editor |
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| 01943-01-011943 |
Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer |
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| 01955-01-011955 |
Curtis Chillingworth, a Florida judge |
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| 01963-06-12June 12, 1963 |
Medgar Evers, U.S. civil rights activist.[4] |
Byron De La Beckwith |
Evers, an African American activist and NAACP leader, was shot by De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994. |
| 01963-11-24November 24, 1963 |
Lee Harvey Oswald |
Jack Ruby |
Shot and killed in Dallas Police Precinct station. First live murder ever seen on US television. |
| 01965-02-21February 21, 1965 |
Malcolm X, black Muslim leader |
Norman 3X Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson, Talmadge Hayer |
Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech. |
| 01967-08-25August 25, 1967 |
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder and flamboyant spokesman of the American Nazi Party |
John Patler, a former aide |
Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat. |
| 01968-04-04April 4, 1968 |
Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. civil rights activist.[4] |
Uncertain, believed to be James Earl Ray or Loyd Jowers |
Ray was convicted on a guilty plea but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot.[12] See Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 01969-01-011969 |
Fred Hampton, Deputy Chair of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party |
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Shot and killed by Chicago police with FBI involvement. Tensions with the Police and American Government. |
| 01970-01-011970 |
Dan Mitrione, former policeman & FBI agent |
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Went to South America to teach military regimes techniques of "advanced counterinsurgency techniques" (e.g. electric shock torture) assassinated by members of the guerrilla movement Tupamaros. |
| 01973-01-011973 |
Marcus Foster School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA |
|
Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army |
| 01974-06-30June 30, 1974 |
Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr. |
Marcus Chenault |
Killed while her husband was preaching mass. |
| 01975-01-011975 |
Anna Mae Aquash, a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became the highest-ranking woman in the American Indian Movement |
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| 01976-06-13June 13, 1976 |
Don Bolles, investigative reporter for Arizona Republic |
|
Killed in car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties. |
| 01976-09-21September 21, 1976 |
Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States for the administration of Chile's democratically-elected President Salvador Allende |
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Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents. |
| 01980-12-08December 8, 1980 |
John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles |
Mark David Chapman |
See Assassination of John Lennon. |
| 01984-06-18June 18, 1984 |
Alan Berg, radio talk-show host |
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Killed by Neo-Nazis |
| 01984-10-15October 15, 1984 |
Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer |
|
Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader |
|
Killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office |
| 01986-01-011986 |
Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman |
|
Killed in Bayamón |
| 01989-08-22August 22, 1989 |
Huey Newton, founder of Black Panther Party |
|
Killed by member of Black Guerrilla Army (BGA). |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, Founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist |
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| 01991-01-011991 |
Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas |
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Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught Swift Hall, allegedly because of opposition to his writings. |
| 01993-01-011993 |
David Gunn, abortion provider |
|
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| 01994-01-011994 |
John Britton, physician, abortion provider |
|
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| 01998-01-011998 |
Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider |
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| 02001-01-012001 |
Thomas C. Wales, federal prosecutor and gun control advocate |
|
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| 02007-01-012007 |
Chauncey Bailey, Oakland Tribune journalist |
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| 02009-01-012009 |
George Tiller, late-term abortion doctor |
|
Shot as he ushered at his church. |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01919-01-011919 |
Habibullah Khan, emir of Afghanistan |
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| 01933-11-08November 8, 1933 |
Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan[13] |
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| 01978-01-011978 |
Mohammed Daoud Khan, president of Afghanistan |
|
Killed in communist coup |
| 01979-02-14February 14, 1979 |
Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan[4] |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Nur Mohammad Taraki, communist president |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Hafizullah Amin, communist Prime Minister of Afghanistan |
|
|
| 01987-01-011987 |
Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan |
|
|
| 01996-01-011996 |
Mohammed Najibullah, president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992 |
|
Killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul |
| 02001-01-012001 |
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance |
|
|
| 02001-01-012001 |
Abdul Haq, Afghan Northern Alliance commander |
|
Killed by remnants of the Taliban |
| 02001-01-012001 |
Mohammed Atef, alleged military chief of al-Qaeda |
|
|
| 02001-01-012001 |
Juma Namangani, co-founder of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan |
|
|
| 02002-07-06July 6, 2002 |
Abdul Qadir, vice-president of Afghanistan[4] |
|
|
| 02002-02-14February 14, 2002 |
Abdul Rahman, Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism[4] |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Dadullah, Taliban's senior military commander |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan |
|
|
| 02009-01-012009 |
Tohir Yo‘ldosh, co-founder of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan |
|
|
| 02011-01-012011 |
Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan |
Unknown, possibly members of the Taliban or the Haqqani network |
Assassinated while leading peace negotiations between the internationally recognized Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and the Taliban. |
| 02011-01-012011 |
Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai |
Sardar Mohammad |
Shot twice in the head and chest by his security guard as he was coming out of his bathroom |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9815-01-01185 BC |
Brihadratha Maurya, last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty |
|
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| 01602-01-011602 |
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar |
|
|
| 01872-01-011872 |
Richard Bourke, Viceroy of India |
Sher Ali Afridi |
Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. |
| 01948-01-30January 30, 1948 |
Mohandas K Gandhi, Father of the Nation, independence leader and key proponent of non-violence |
Nathuram Godse |
|
| 01984-10-31October 31, 1984 |
Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister |
Satwant Singh and Beant Singh |
Assassinated by personal bodyguards. See Assassination of Indira Gandhi. |
| 01986-08-10August 10, 1986 |
Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986 |
|
|
| 01988-03-08March 8, 1988 |
Amar Singh Chamkila, controversial Punjabi singer/song-writer |
|
|
| 01991-05-21May 21, 1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian prime minister |
Thenmuli Rajaratnam |
Killed in an explosion triggered by a LTTE suicide bomber. First head of state to be killed by a suicide bomber. See Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. |
| 01995-01-011995 |
Beant Singh, chief minister of Punjab |
|
|
| 02001-07-25July 25, 2001 |
Phoolan Devi, bandit queen turned politician |
|
|
| 02002-01-012002 |
Abdul Ghani Lone, moderate Kashmiri Muslim separatist leader |
|
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| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9535-01-01465 BC |
Xerxes I, Persian king |
|
Killed by guards |
| -9577-01-01423 BC |
Xerxes II, Persian king |
Sogdianus, Xerxes' half-brother |
|
| -9577-01-01423 BC |
Sogdianus, Persian king |
Darius II, Sogdianus' half-brother |
|
| 01092-01-011092 |
Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks |
|
|
| 01747-01-011747 |
Nader Shah, Shah of Persia |
Army officers |
He was able to kill two of the assassins before dying. |
| 01896-01-011896 |
Nasser-al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia |
Mirza Reza Kermani |
Assassinated on the day of his fiftieth kingship ceremony. |
| 01930-01-011930 |
Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III, Iranian diplomat and politician |
|
|
| 01933-01-011933 |
Teymourtash, Iranian statesman |
|
|
| 01947-01-011947 |
Qazi Muhammad, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader |
|
Killed in Mahabad |
| 01951-01-011951 |
Ali Razmara, Prime Minister of Iran |
Khalil Tahmasebi |
Shot in a mosque. |
| 01965-01-21January 21, 1965 |
Hassan Ali Mansur, Prime Minister of Iran[11] |
|
|
| 01981-01-011981 |
Mohammad Beheshti |
|
Killed along with 71 others in bombing |
| 01981-01-011981 |
Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran |
|
|
| 01981-01-011981 |
Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran |
|
Killed in bombing with Rajai |
| 02012-01-012012 |
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, a department supervisor |
|
Killed by a bomber from a motorcycle |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9319-01-01681 BC |
Sennacherib, Assyrian king |
Arda Mulissi |
Stabbed to death while at prayer in a temple, or possibly crushed under a winged child angelica.[14] |
| 00244-01-01244 |
Gordian III, Roman emperor |
|
Killed near Circesium (modern day Abu Sera) by his troops |
| 00661-01-01661 |
Ali ibn Abi Talib |
Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam |
|
| 01958-07-14July 14, 1958 |
Faisal II, King of Iraq[11] |
|
|
| 01958-07-14July 14, 1958 |
Nuri Pasha as-Said, Prime Minister of Iraq[1] |
|
|
| 01978-07-09July 9, 1978 |
Abdul Razak al-Naif, former Prime Minister of Iraq |
|
Killed in London[11] |
| 01980-01-011980 |
Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, former Grand Ayatollah |
|
|
| 01980-01-011980 |
Bint al-Huda, Iraqi educator and political activist |
|
Killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr |
| 01988-01-011988 |
Mahdi al-Hakim, prominent figure in the Iraqi opposition |
|
Assassinated in the lobby of the Hilton in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, his companion Halim Abd-alWahhab was wounded in the leg. |
| 01999-01-011999 |
Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, former Grand Ayatollah |
|
Killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf along with two of his sons |
| 02003-01-012003 |
Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative in Iraq |
|
|
| 02003-01-012003 |
Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, highly influential Shi'ite ayatollah |
|
|
| 02003-01-012003 |
Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi Governing Council member |
|
|
| 02003-01-012003 |
Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, Shia cleric |
|
|
| 02003-01-012003 |
Ahmad Shawkat, Iraqi journalist |
|
|
| 02004-01-012004 |
Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist |
|
|
| 02004-01-012004 |
Hatem Kamil, deputy governor of Baghdad Province |
|
|
| 02004-01-012004 |
Ezzedine Salim, acting chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council, Iraqi MP |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, Iraqi MP |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Lamiya Abed Khadawi, Iraqi MP |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Ihab al-Sherif, Egyptian envoy to Iraq |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Ali al-Haidari, governor of Baghdad Province |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Hadi Saleh, Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Maysoon al-Hashemi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party women's department |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Atwar Bahjat, Iraqi journalist |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Ali Jaafar, Iraqi journalist |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, Sunni tribal leader |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Mohammed Awad, Iraqi MP |
|
Killed in the 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing |
| 02007-01-012007 |
Fasal al Gaood, former governor of Al Anbar Province |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Khalil Jalil Hamza, governor of Al-Qādisiyyah Province |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Mohammed Ali al-Hasani, governor of Muthanna Province |
|
|
| 02008-01-012008 |
Mohamed Moumou, Number 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and senior leader in Northern Iraq |
|
|
| 02008-01-012008 |
Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul |
|
|
| 02009-01-012009 |
Harith al-Obeidi, Iraqi MP |
|
|
| 02009-01-012009 |
Riad Abdel Majid, Brigadier General in the Iraqi Army[15] |
|
|
| 02010-01-012010 |
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) |
|
|
| 02013-01-012013 |
Ayfan Sadoun al-Essawi, prominent Sunni MP and an important member of the Sahwa committee in Fallujah, as well as part of the opposition to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. [16] |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9000-01-011000 BC c. 1000 BC |
Ish-bosheth, King of Israel |
|
Killed by two of his captains |
| -9000-01-011000 BC c. 1000 BC |
Abner, commander of Ish-bosheth's army |
Joab, commander of David's army |
|
| -9000-01-011000 BC c. 1000 BC |
Amnon, son of King David |
|
Killed by servants of Absalom, his brother |
| -9000-01-011000 BC c. 1000 BC |
Absalom, son of King David |
Joab, commander of David's army |
|
| -9090-01-01910 BC c. 910 BC |
Nadab, King of Israel |
Baasha, one of Nadab's military commanders |
Baasa succeeded Nadab to the throne |
| -9114-01-01886 BC c. 886 BC |
Elah, King of Israel |
Zimri, captain of his chariot corps |
Killed during a drinking party by Zimri, who succeeded him |
|
Jehoram, King of Israel |
Jehu, one of his chariot commanders |
Jehu succeeded Jehoram to the throne |
|
Ahaziah, King of Judah |
Jehu |
Killed at the same time as Jehoram of Israel |
|
Athaliah, Queen of Judah |
|
Killed during a conspiracy of priests in favor of the boy Jehoash, who succeeded her |
| -9200-01-01800 BC c. 800 BC |
Jehoash, King of Judah |
|
Killed by his servants |
| -9232-01-01768 BC c. 768 BC |
Amaziah, King of Judah |
|
Killed by unknown conspirators |
| -9248-01-01752 BC c. 752 BC |
Zechariah, King of Israel |
Shallum |
Publicly assassinated by Shallum, who succeeded him |
| -9248-01-01752 BC c. 752 BC |
Shallum, King of Israel |
Menahem, one of his generals |
Menahem succeeded Shallum to the throne |
| -9263-01-01737 BC c. 737 BC |
Pekahiah, King of Israel |
Pekah, one of his military commanders |
Pekah succeeded Pekahiah to the throne |
| -9268-01-01732 BC c. 732 BC |
Pekah, King of Israel |
Hoshea |
Hoshea succeeded Pekah to the throne |
| -9349-01-01651 BC c. 651 BC |
Amon, King of Judah |
|
Killed by his servants |
| -9865-01-01135 BC |
Simon Maccabaeus, Hasmonean king |
Ptolemy, his son-in-law |
|
| 01134-01-011134 |
Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa |
|
|
| 01174-01-011174 |
Miles of Plancy, regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem |
|
|
| 01192-01-011192 |
Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade |
|
|
| 01924-01-011924 |
Jacob Israël de Haan, pro-Orthodox Jewish diplomat |
|
|
| 01933-01-011933 |
Haim Arlosoroff, Zionist leader in the British Mandate of Palestine |
|
|
| 01948-01-011948 |
Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul General in Jerusalem |
|
|
| 01948-01-011948 |
Folke Bernadotte, Middle East peace mediator |
|
Assassinated by Lehi[1] |
| 01957-01-011957 |
Rudolf Kastner, Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis |
|
|
| 01981-01-011981 |
Hamad Abu Rabia, Member of the Knesset |
|
|
| 01995-01-011995 |
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient[4] |
Yigal Amir |
Attack carried out by Israeli opposed to Oslo Accords. See Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. |
| 02000-01-012000 |
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, son of Meir David Kahane, leader of Kahane Chai, Zionist |
|
|
| 02001-01-012001 |
Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli general and politician |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 00456-01-01456 |
Emperor Ankō, Emperor of Japan |
|
|
| 00592-01-01592 |
Emperor Sushun, Emperor of Japan |
|
|
| 00645-01-01645 |
The Sogas, Japanese political family |
|
|
| 01160-01-011160 |
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of Minamoto clan, father of Minamoto no Yoritomo |
|
|
| 01219-01-011219 |
Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate |
|
|
| 01441-01-011441 |
Ashikaga Yoshinori, the sixth shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate |
|
|
| 01486-01-011486 |
Ōta Dōkan, samurai, architect and builder of Edo Castle |
|
|
| 01507-01-011507 |
Hosokawa Masamoto, shugo daimyo of Ashikaga Shogunate |
|
|
| 01535-01-011535 |
Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan |
|
|
| 01551-01-011551 |
Ōuchi Yoshitaka, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan |
|
|
| 01557-01-011557 |
Oda Nobuyuki, Japanese samurai, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga |
|
|
| 01565-01-011565 |
Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Shogun, feudal leader in Japan |
|
|
| 01566-01-011566 |
Mimura Iechika, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan |
|
|
| 01578-01-011578 |
Yamanaka Shikanosuke, Japanese samurai |
|
|
| 01582-01-011582 |
Oda Nobunaga, samurai warlord |
Akechi Mitsuhide |
|
| 01669-01-011669 |
Shakushain, Ainu chieftain |
|
|
| 01703-01-011703 |
Kira Yoshinaka, master of ceremonies |
|
|
| 01860-01-011860 |
Ii Naosuke, Japanese politician |
|
|
| 01862-01-011862 |
Charles Lennox Richardson, English diplomat |
|
Killed by Shimazu Hisamitsu's samurai in Namamugi. Called the Namamugi Incident. |
| 01863-01-011863 |
Serizawa Kamo, a chief of Shinsen-gumi |
|
|
| 01864-01-011864 |
Sakuma Shozan, Japanese politician |
|
|
| 01867-01-011867 |
Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese author |
|
|
| 01869-01-011869 |
Ōmura Masujirō, military leader and theorist |
|
|
| 01869-01-011869 |
Yokoi Shōnan, scholar and politician |
|
|
| 01878-01-011878 |
Okubo Toshimichi, Home Minister of Japan, briefly most powerful man in Japan |
|
|
| 01889-01-011889 |
Mori Arinori, First Education Minister |
|
|
| 01909-10-26October 26, 1909 |
Ito Hirobumi, First Prime Minister of Japan[13] |
|
|
| 01921-01-011921 |
Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan |
|
|
| 01921-01-011921 |
Yasuda Zenjirō, entrepreneur who founded Yasuda zaibatsu, great-grand father of Yoko Ono |
|
|
| 01931-01-011931 |
Hamaguchi Osachi, Prime Minister of Japan |
|
|
| 01932-01-011932 |
Dan Takuma, zaibatsu leader |
|
|
| 01932-01-011932 |
Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime Minister of Japan |
|
|
| 01932-01-011932 |
Yoshinori Shirakawa, general of the Imperial Japanese Army |
|
|
| 01935-01-011935 |
Tetsuzan Nagata, general of the Imperial Japanese Army |
|
|
| 01936-01-011936 |
Saitō Makoto, admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy |
|
|
| 01936-01-011936 |
Takahashi Korekiyo, Prime Minister of Japan |
|
|
| 01960-01-011960 |
Inejiro Asanuma, Socialist Party of Japan chairman |
Otoya Yamaguchi |
Asanuma was pierced to assassin's bayonet while making a speech. |
| 01985-01-011985 |
Kazuo Nagano, Japanese chairman |
|
|
| 01991-01-011991 |
Hitoshi Igarashi, translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese |
|
|
| 01995-01-011995 |
Hideo Murai, one of the leading members of Aum Shinrikyo |
|
|
| 02002-01-012002 |
Koki Ishii, Japanese politician |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01152-01-011152 |
Raymond II of Tripoli, count of Tripoli |
|
|
| 01192-01-011192 |
Conrad of Montferrat |
Hashshashin |
|
| 01270-01-011270 |
Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre |
|
|
| 01950-01-011950 |
Sami al-Hinnawi, Syrian head of state |
|
|
| 01976-06-16June 16, 1976 |
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. and Robert O. Waring, US Ambassador and US Economic Councelor to Lebanon and their driver Zuhair Mohammed Moghrabi |
|
|
| 01977-01-011977 |
Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese Druze leader |
|
|
| 01978-01-011978 |
Tony Frangieh, Lebanese Christian leader |
|
|
| 01982-01-011982 |
Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon |
Habib Tanious Shartouni |
Bomb explosion in the Phalange's Beirut headquarters.[4] |
| 01987-06-01June 1, 1987 |
Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon |
|
Killed by bomb aboard helicopter, planted by the Lebanese Forces.[4] |
| 01989-01-011989 |
René Moawad, President of Lebanon |
|
|
| 01990-01-011990 |
Dany Chamoun, son of late president Camille Chamoun |
|
|
| 02002-01-012002 |
Elie Hobeika, Lebanese militia leader |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and billionaire |
Unknown, presumed to be Hezbulla in concert with Syrian intelligence services |
Assassination via car bomb in Beirut. |
| 02005-01-012005 |
Samir Kassir, columnist at "An Nahar" daily Lebanese newspaper, long a fiery critic of Syria |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
George Hawi, former chief of Lebanese Communist Party |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Gibran Tueni, Editor in Chief of "An Nahar" daily Lebanese newspaper |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Pierre Gemayel, Minister of Industry of Lebanon |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Walid Eido, member of the National Assembly |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Antoine Ghanim, member of the National Assembly |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
François al-Hajj, Lebanese Military General |
|
|
| 02008-01-012008 |
Wissam Eid, National Security, Information Sector |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01951-10-16October 16, 1951 |
Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan[4] |
|
|
| 01975-01-011975 |
Hayat Sherpao, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province |
|
Killed by Afghan extremist |
| 01988-08-17August 17, 1988 |
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 10-year President of Pakistan and 12-year Chief of Army Staff |
|
Killed in a mysterious aircraft accident which seemed to be a bomb blast (traced to a crate of mangoes placed into his aircraft). |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, militant Islamist |
|
Killed near Peshawar |
| 01991-01-011991 |
Fazle Haq, former governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985 |
|
|
| 01993-09-01September 1993 |
Ghulam Haider Wyne, former Chief Minister of Punjab |
|
|
| 01995-01-011995 |
Iqbal Masih, 13-year-old anti-child labor activist |
|
Killed in Rakh Baoli |
| 01998-01-011998 |
Hakim Said, founder of Hamdard Foundation and Hamdard University, Karachi; former Governor of Sindh |
|
|
| 02001-01-012001 |
Siddiq Khan Kanju, former foreign minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993 |
|
|
| 02007-12-27December 27, 2007 |
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (first and only lady Prime minister of Pakistan) |
Unknown, widely believed to be Islamic militants |
Killed while entering a vehicle upon leaving a political rally for the Pakistan People's Party in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. See Assassination of Benazir Bhutto. |
| 02009-01-012009 |
Baitullah Mehsud, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan |
|
|
| 02011-01-04January 4, 2011 |
Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab |
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri |
Killed by one of his security guards due to Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws |
| 02011-03-02March 2, 2011 |
Shahbaz Bhatti, Minorities Minister |
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan |
Killed due to his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws |
| 02012-01-012012 |
Abu Yahya al-Libi, high-ranking al-Qaeda member, alleged member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, former detainee at the Parwan Detention Facility, from where he escaped in 2005 |
|
|
| 02013-01-012013 |
Maulvi Nazir, high-ranking Pakistani Taliban member in South Waziristan |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01719-01-011719 |
Fernando Manuel de Bustamante, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines |
|
|
| 01763-01-011763 |
Diego Silang, early rebel leader |
|
|
| 01899-01-011899 |
Antonio Luna, a leader of the Filipino army during Philippine-American War |
|
|
| 01935-01-011935 |
Julio Nalundasan, Ilocos Congressman |
|
Young Ferdinand Marcos tried but acquitted for the slaying |
| 01949-01-011949 |
Aurora Quezon, former First Lady of the Philippines |
|
|
| 01949-01-011949 |
Ponciano Bernardo, mayor of then Philippine capital Quezon City |
|
|
| 01980-01-011980 |
Joe Lingad, former Pampanga governor |
|
|
| 01980-08-21August 21, 1980 |
Benigno Aquino, Jr., senator and politician, leader of the opposition against Ferdinand Marcos[4] |
Rogelio B. Moreno |
Believed to have been ordered by then President Ferdinand Marcos. |
| 01984-01-011984 |
Cesar Climaco, Mayor of Zamboanga City and prominent opposition leader |
|
|
| 01986-01-011986 |
Evelio Javier, Antique governor and ally of then presidential candidate Corazon Aquino |
|
|
| 01986-01-011986 |
Emma Henry, police officer and film actress |
|
|
| 01987-01-011987 |
Lean Alejandro, prominent student activist leader |
|
|
| 01988-01-011988 |
Roy Padilla, Sr., Camarines Norte Governor, Father of Robin Padilla |
|
|
| 01989-01-011989 |
James N. Rowe, US Military advisor |
|
|
| 02001-01-012001 |
Filemon 'Ka Popoy' Lagman, founder of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Alberto Ramento, bishop of the Philippine Independent Church |
|
|
| 02007-01-012007 |
Wahab Akbar, Congress Representative of Basilan |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01959-09-25September 25, 1959 |
Solomon Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan prime minister |
Talduwe Somarama, a Buddhist monk who later converted to Christianity[4] |
|
| 01975-01-011975 |
Alfred Duraiyapah, former Mayor, Jaffna |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Vijaya Kumaratunga, movie actor turned SLFP-SLMP politician |
|
Killed by JVP |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Rohana Wijeweera, founder of JVP |
|
Killed by Sri Lankan Armed Forces |
| 01989-01-011989 |
Appapillai Amrithalingam, founder of separatist party TULF |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 01991-01-011991 |
Ranjan Wijeratne, Foreign minister & Minister of State for Defence |
|
Killed by Ltte |
| 01993-01-011993 |
Lalith Athulathmudali, former cabinet minister |
|
Purportedly killed by LTTE |
| 01993-01-011993 |
Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka |
|
Killed by a suicide bomber on May Day parade. The attack was purportedly carried out by LTTE (but was possibly revenge for his own orchestrating murder of political rival Lalith Athulathmudali, to whom he feared losing election). |
| 01994-01-011994 |
Gamini Dissanayake, Presidential candidate, UNP, member of Parliament |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 01998-01-011998 |
Sarojini Yogeswaran, Jaffna Mayor |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 01998-01-011998 |
Ponnudurai Sivapalan, Jaffna Mayor |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 01999-01-011999 |
Neelan Thiruchelvam, Member of Parliament (MP) and TULF leader |
|
|
| 01999-01-011999 |
Lakshman Algama, UNP politician |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 02000-01-012000 |
C. V. Gunaratne, cabinet minister |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 02005-01-012005 |
Joseph Pararajasingham, Tamil MP in Batticalo |
|
Killed by GoSL supported para-military Karuna Group |
| 02005-01-012005 |
Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 02006-01-012006 |
Parami Kulatunga, army general |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 02006-01-012006 |
Nadarajah Raviraj, MP and Tamil National Alliance politician |
|
Killed by GoSL paramilitary Group |
| 02008-01-012008 |
T. Maheswaran, UNP Tamil MP for voicing human rights violations of GoSL |
|
Killed by Sri Lanka IB associate |
| 02008-01-012008 |
D. M. Dassanayake, Nation Building Minister and SLFP MP |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 02008-01-012008 |
K. Sivanesan, TNA Tamil MP |
|
Killed by Sri Lankan Army DPU |
| 02008-01-012008 |
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, Minister of Highways and Road Development and SLFP MP |
|
Killed by LTTE |
| 02009-01-012009 |
Lasantha Wickrematunge, journalist (The Sunday Leader) |
Unknown |
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9754-01-01246 BC |
Antiochus II Theos, Seleucid king |
|
|
| -9777-01-01223 BC |
Seleucus III Ceraunus, Seleucid king |
|
|
| -9824-01-01176 BC |
Seleucus IV Philopator, Seleucid king |
|
|
| -9854-01-01146 BC |
Alexander Balas, Seleucid king |
|
|
| -9862-01-01138 BC |
Antiochus VI Dionysus, Seleucid heir to the throne |
|
|
| 00285-01-01285 |
Numerian, Roman emperor |
Arrius Aper, his father-in-law |
Killed in Emesa (modern-day Homs) |
| 01146-01-011146 |
Zengi, ruler of Aleppo and Mosul and founder of the Zengid Dynasty |
|
|
| 01940-01-011940 |
Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, Syrian nationalist |
|
|
| 02008-01-012008 |
Muhammad Suleiman, Syrian general and security adviser to president Bashar al-Assad |
|
|
| 02008-01-012008 |
Imad Mughniyah, senior member of Hezbollah |
|
|
| 02012-01-012012 |
Syria's Defense Minister General Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, former Defense Minister General Hasan Turkmani, and Intelligence and National Security Chief Hisham Ikhtiyar |
Either Liwa al Islam or the Free Syrian Army (both claimed responsibility) |
Killed either with a remotely detonated bomb or via suicide attack as part of the Syrian civil war. Several other leading government officials may have been injured or killed. |
| 02012-01-012012 |
Hassan Turkmani, chief of staff of the Syrian Armed Forces |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01984-04-26April 26, 1984 |
Arnold Ap, songman and ethnomusicologist |
|
Shot in back by Indonesian military unit upon release from prison [18] |
| 01996-03-14March 14, 1996 |
Thomas Wainggai, Independence leader |
|
Allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers in Cipinang prison.[18] |
| 02001-11-10November 10, 2001 |
Theys Eluay, West Papuan Independence movement leader |
|
Assassinated by Kopassus officers after attending a military dinner, Jayapura, Papua [18] |
| 02009-12-16December 16, 2009 |
Kelly Kwalik, legendary West papuan guerrilla leader |
|
Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Timika, West Papua [18] |
| 02012-06-14June 14, 2012 |
Mako Tabuni, Chairman of main civil resistance independence organisation, West Papua National Committee(KNPB) |
|
Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura, West Papua [19] |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01895-01-011895 |
Stefan Stambolov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
|
|
| 01907-01-011907 |
Dimitar Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
|
|
| 01923-01-011923 |
Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
|
|
| 01995-01-011995 |
Vasil Iliev, insurance boss, owner of "VIS-2", former wrestler |
|
|
| 01996-10-02October 2, 1996 |
Andrey Lukanov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria[4] |
|
|
| 02003-01-012003 |
Iliya Pavlov, president of Multigroup corporation, former wrestler, the wealthiest man in Bulgaria |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Georgi Iliev, football club owner, brother of the assassinated Vasil Iliev |
|
|
| 02005-01-012005 |
Emil Kyulev, banker, ex-professional swimmer, voted Mr. Economics in Bulgaria for 2002 |
|
|
| 02006-01-012006 |
Ivan "Doktora" Todorov, businessman alleged of smuggling |
|
|
| 02008-01-012008 |
Borislav Georgiev, CEO of "Atomenergoremont" nuclear plant repair company |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01354-01-011354 |
Charles d'Espagne, constable of France |
|
|
| 01407-01-011407 |
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans |
|
|
| 01419-01-011419 |
John the Fearless |
|
|
| 01572-01-011572 |
Gaspard de Coligny |
|
|
| 01589-01-011589 |
Henri III, King of France |
Jacques Clément |
Religious-political antagonism. |
| 01610-01-011610 |
Henri IV, King of France |
François Ravaillac |
Religious-political antagonism. |
| 01789-01-011789 |
Jacques de Flesselles, Provost of Paris |
|
|
| 01793-01-011793 |
Jean-Paul Marat, revolutionary |
Charlotte Corday |
Stabbed in his bathtub. Later often seen as a patriotic act. |
| 01820-02-13February 13, 1820 |
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of the future King Charles X |
Louis Pierre Louvel |
|
| 01894-06-24June 24, 1894 |
Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France |
Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist |
Stabbed to death after a speech in Lyon. |
| 01914-07-30July 30, 1914 |
Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist[21] |
Raoul Villain |
The assassin was tried and acquitted in 1919. |
| 01932-05-06May 6, 1932 |
Paul Doumer, President of France |
Paul Gorguloff |
Shot at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris.[20] |
| 01934-01-011934 |
Alexander I of Yugoslavia, king of Yugoslavia |
Vlado Chernozemski |
Killed in Marseille during a state visit. |
| 01934-01-011934 |
Louis Barthou, foreign minister of France |
|
Killed along with King Alexander I of Yugoslavia at Marseille |
| 01938-01-011938 |
Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat in France |
|
|
| 01944-01-011944 |
Constant Chevillon, head of FUDOFSI |
|
Killed by Gestapo in Lyon |
| 01944-01-011944 |
Philippe Henriot, State secretary for Information and Propaganda of Vichy government |
|
Killed by French resistants in Paris |
| 01944-01-011944 |
Georges Mandel, former radical-socialist minister and French resistant |
|
Killed by miliciens in forest of Fontainebleau |
| 01944-01-011944 |
Eugène Deloncle, milicien and former leader of clandestine far-right organisation La Cagoule |
|
Killed by Gestapo |
| 01965-01-011965 |
Mehdi Ben Barka, Moroccan socialist leader and Third-World Tricontinental leader |
|
Disappeared in Paris |
| 01973-01-011973 |
Outel Bono, Chadian medical doctor and anti-Tombalbaye activist |
|
|
| 01976-01-011976 |
Jean de Broglie, former minister and one of the French negotiators of the Évian Accords |
|
|
| 01978-01-011978 |
Henri Curiel, anticolonialist activist |
|
|
| 01978-01-011978 |
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana "Argala", Basque leader |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Pierre Goldman, left-wing activist |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Robert Boulin, minister of Labor and many times minister since 1961 |
|
Officially suicide, but a lot of anomalies revealed since. |
| 01980-01-011980 |
Joseph Fontanet, former minister |
|
|
| 01980-01-011980 |
Salah al-Din Bitar, Syrian Baath politician |
|
|
| 01980-01-011980 |
Yehia El-Mashad, Egyptian atomic scientist |
|
|
| 01982-01-011982 |
Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude, right-wing activist and criminal |
|
|
| 01986-01-011986 |
Georges Besse, Renault executive |
|
Shot while emerging from his car in Paris, by far-left activists of Action directe |
| 01988-01-011988 |
Dulcie September, African National Congress representative |
|
Killed in Paris. |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Joseph Doucé, activist for sexual minorities |
|
|
| 01991-01-011991 |
Shapour Bakhtiar, Prime Minister of Iran briefly in 1979 |
|
Stabbed to death at his home in France. |
| 01995-01-011995 |
Abdelbaki Sahraoui, co-founder of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front |
|
Killed in Paris. |
| 01998-01-011998 |
Claude Erignac, prefect of Corsica |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 00235-01-01235 |
Alexander Severus, Roman emperor |
|
Killed near Moguntiacum (present-day Mainz) by his troops. |
| 00268-01-01268 |
Postumus, Gallic emperor |
|
Killed in Mainz |
| 00268-01-01268 |
Laelianus, Gallic emperor |
|
Killed in Mainz |
| 01208-01-011208 |
Philipp von Hohenstaufen, Emperor, in Bamberg |
|
|
| 01225-01-011225 |
Engelbert I. von Köln, Archbishop of Cologne |
|
|
| 01233-01-011233 |
Konrad von Marburg, inquisitor |
|
|
| 01919-01-011919 |
Rosa Luxemburg, socialist writer |
|
Killed in Berlin. |
| 01919-01-011919 |
Karl Liebknecht, socialist lawyer and politician |
|
Killed in Berlin. |
| 01919-01-011919 |
Kurt Eisner, Prime Minister of Bavaria |
|
|
| 01921-01-011921 |
Talat Pasha, former Ottoman Minister of Interior Affairs |
|
Killed in Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian. |
| 01921-01-011921 |
Matthias Erzberger, politician |
|
|
| 01922-06-24June 24, 1922 |
Walther Rathenau, German foreign minister[21] |
|
|
| 01934-01-011934 |
Ernst Röhm, leader of the Sturm Abteilung (SA) |
|
|
| 01934-01-011934 |
Kurt von Schleicher, former German chancellor |
|
Murdered by the SS. |
| 01959-01-011959 |
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader |
|
Assassinated by Bohdan Stashynsky in Munich. |
| 01970-01-011970 |
Belkacem Krim, Algerian politician |
|
|
| 01977-01-011977 |
Siegfried Buback, German attorney general |
|
|
| 01977-01-011977 |
Jürgen Ponto, CEO Dresdner Bank |
|
|
| 01977-01-011977 |
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, president of the German employers' organization |
|
|
| 01989-01-011989 |
Alfred Herrhausen, Deutsche Bank CEO |
|
|
| 01991-01-011991 |
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, director of Treuhandanstalt for former East Germany |
|
|
| 01992-01-011992 |
Sadeq Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, Nouri Dehkordi, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leaders |
|
Killed in Berlin (see Mykonos restaurant assassinations). |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9539-01-01461 BC |
Ephialtes, leader of the radical democracy movement in Athens |
|
|
| -9596-01-01404 BC |
Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician |
|
|
| -9664-01-01336 BC |
Philip II of Macedon, king of Macedon |
Pausanias of Orestis |
Killed in Pella |
| -9719-01-01281 BC |
Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid dynasty |
|
Killed near Lysimachia. |
| -9749-01-01251 BC |
Abantidas, tyrant of Sicyon |
|
|
| 01831-01-011831 |
Ioannis Capodistrias, first President of Greece |
|
|
| 01905-06-13June 13, 1905 |
Theodoros Deligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece |
|
|
| 01907-03-08March 8, 1907 |
Marinos Antypas, Greek politician |
|
|
| 01913-03-18March 18, 1913 |
George I of Greece, King of Greece[4] |
Alexandros Schinas |
Possible conspiracy. |
| 01948-05-01May 1948 |
George Polk, American journalist critical of US aid to rightist Greek government |
|
|
| 01963-01-011963 |
Grigoris Lambrakis, leader of anti-fascist movement in Greece |
|
|
| 01975-01-011975 |
Richard Welch, CIA Station Chief |
|
|
| 01988-01-011988 |
Hagop Hagopian, Armenian leader of ASALA |
|
|
| 01988-01-011988 |
William Nordeen, Tsantes successor as U.S. military attaché in Athens |
|
|
| 01989-01-011989 |
Pavlos Bakoyannis, New Democracy politician |
|
|
| 02000-01-012000 |
Stephen Saunders, Brigadier and British military attaché in Athens |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| -9252-01-01748 BC |
Titus Tatius, Sabine king |
|
Killed in Rome. |
| -9421-01-01579 BC |
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus), Etruscan king of Rome |
|
Killed in Rome by the sons of Ancus Marcius. |
| -9466-01-01534 BC |
Servius Tullius, Etruscan king of Rome |
Tarquin II |
Killed in Rome. |
| -9867-01-01133 BC |
Tiberius Gracchus, Roman tribune |
|
Killed in Rome by Roman senators. |
| -9956-01-0144 BC |
Julius Caesar, Roman general and dictator |
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and other members of the Roman Senate |
Resulted in Civil War and indirectly in the end of the Roman Republic. |
| -9957-01-0143 BC |
Cicero, Roman orator |
|
Killed outside of Rome under orders from Mark Antony. |
| 00041-01-0141 |
Caligula, Roman Emperor |
Cassius Chaerea, members of the Praetorian Guard, and others |
|
| 00054-01-0154 |
Claudius, Roman Emperor |
Uncertain, reputed to be Agrippina the Younger on behalf of Nero |
|
| 00069-01-0169 |
Vitellius, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Flavian army. |
| 00069-01-0169 |
Galba, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders from Otho. |
| 00096-01-0196 |
Domitian, Roman Emperor |
Stephanus, steward to Julia Flavia |
Killed in Rome. |
| 00192-01-01192 |
Commodus, Roman Emperor |
Narcissus, wrestler |
Killed in Rome. |
| 00193-01-01193 |
Pertinax, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. |
| 00193-01-01193 |
Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. |
| 00212-01-01212 |
Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by centurions under orders of Caracalla. |
| 00217-01-01217 |
Caracalla, Roman Emperor |
Martialis |
Killed between Edessa and Carrhae (modern-day Sanli Urfa and Harran), possibly under orders of Macrinus. |
| 00222-01-01222 |
Elagabalus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders of Julia Maesa and Julia Mamaea. |
| 00238-01-01238 |
Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed outside Aquileia by his troops. |
| 00238-01-01238 |
Pupienus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors. |
| 00238-01-01238 |
Balbinus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors. |
| 00253-01-01253 |
Volusianus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed near Interamna by his troops. |
| 00253-01-01253 |
Trebonianus Gallus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed near Interamna by his troops. |
| 00275-01-01275 |
Aurelian, Roman Emperor |
Mucapor and members of the Praetorian Guard |
Killed near Caenophrurium (modern-day Corlu). |
| 00276-01-01276 |
Florianus, Roman Emperor |
|
Killed near Tarsus. |
| 01412-01-011412 |
Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan[22] |
|
|
| 01478-01-011478 |
Giuliano de' Medici, co-ruler of Florence |
Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Bandini |
Giuliano was stabbed 19 times, in an incident known as the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo de' Medici was also attacked, but escaped with his life. |
| 01497-01-011497 |
Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, son of Pope Alexander VI |
|
|
| 01848-01-011848 |
Pellegrino Rossi, Papal States Minister of Justice |
|
|
| 01900-07-29July 29, 1900 |
Umberto I of Italy, King of Italy[11] |
Gaetano Bresci |
He was shot four times with a revolver. The reason was the royal decoration of the general Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, who ordered a bloody repression in Milan in 1898. Influenced Leon Czologsz to kill William McKinley in 1901. |
| 01921-01-011921 |
Said Halim Pasha, former Ottoman Prime Minister |
|
|
| 01924-06-10June 10, 1924 |
Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist politician[21] |
|
|
| 01925-01-011925 |
Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian independence leader |
|
Killed in Bari. |
| 01945-04-28April 28, 1945 |
Benito Mussolini, fascist, former Prime Minister of Italy[13] |
|
|
| 01962-01-011962 |
Enrico Mattei, Italian public head officer, head of Eni oil company, supported Algerian independence |
|
|
| 01975-01-011975 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer, poet and film director |
|
|
| 01978-01-011978 |
Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy |
|
Kidnapped and later killed by the Red Brigades. See Kidnapping of Aldo Moro. |
| 01978-01-011978 |
Giuseppe Impastato, anti-mafia activist |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Cesare Terranova, magistrate |
|
|
| 01982-01-011982 |
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, General of the Carabinieri Corps, investigating on the mafia |
|
|
| 01983-01-011983 |
Rocco Chinnici, magistrate |
|
|
| 01992-01-011992 |
Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge |
|
|
| 01992-01-011992 |
Paolo Borsellino, anti-mafia judge |
|
|
| 01992-01-011992 |
Salvo Lima, politician |
|
|
| 02002-01-012002 |
Marco Biagi, Italian Labor Ministry advisor |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01870-01-011870 |
Juan Prim, Prime Minister of Spain and Governor of Puerto Rico |
|
|
| 01897-01-011897 |
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain |
Michele Angiolillo |
Shot in a spa in Mondragón, Guipúzcoa. |
| 01912-01-011912 |
José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain |
|
|
| 01921-01-011921 |
Eduardo Dato Iradier, Prime Minister of Spain |
|
|
| 01936-01-011936 |
José Castillo, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lieutenant in the Assault Guards |
|
|
| 01936-01-011936 |
José Calvo Sotelo, right-wing politician |
|
|
| 01936-01-011936 |
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist |
|
Killed by fascists. |
| 01936-01-011936 |
Raoul Villain, assassin of Jean Jaurès |
|
|
| 01937-01-011937 |
Andrés Nin, Spanish Communist revolutionary |
|
|
| 01967-01-011967 |
Mohamed Khider, Algerian politician |
|
Killed in Madrid |
| 01968-01-011968 |
Melitón Manzanas, secret police officer |
|
|
| 01973-12-20December 20, 1973 |
Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish prime minister[6] |
ETA |
The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco was, according to ETA, then to intensify existing divisions within the Franco regime between the "openness" and "purists". |
| 01997-01-011997 |
Miguel Ángel Blanco, Basque politician |
|
Killed by ETA |
| 02000-01-012000 |
Fernando Buesa Blanco, Basque politician and party leader |
ETA |
Car bombing. |
| 02000-01-012000 |
Ernest Lluch Martín, former Spanish minister |
|
|
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01913-01-011913 |
Mahmud Şevket Pasha, prime minister |
|
|
| 01921-01-011921 |
Mustafa Suphi, communist leader |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Abdi Ipekçi, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of Milliyet newspaper |
|
Killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca in Istanbul. |
| 01979-01-011979 |
Metin Yüksel, Islamic political activist |
|
|
| 01979-01-011979 |
Cavit Orhan Tütengil, academician and writer |
|
|
| 01980-01-011980 |
Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, writer and TV producer |
|
|
| 01980-01-011980 |
Kemal Türkler, labor union leader |
|
Killed by Grey Wolves in Istanbul. |
| 01980-01-011980 |
Nihat Erim, former Prime Minister of Turkey |
|
Killed by a Dev Sol operative in Istanbul. |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Muammer Aksoy, University professor in Law |
|
Killed in Ankara. |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Bahriye Üçok, University professor in Islam Studies and women's rights activist |
|
Killed in Istanbul. |
| 01990-01-011990 |
Turan Dursun, Islamic scholar, author, and journalist |
|
Killed in Ankara, unresolved. |
| 01992-01-011992 |
Musa Anter, dissident Kurdish activist and writer |
|
Killed in Diyarbakır, unresolved, attributed to Turkish military intelligence (JITEM). |
| 01993-01-011993 |
Uğur Mumcu, a journalist of Cumhuriyet newspaper |
Unknown |
Killed in Ankara. |
| 01995-01-011995 |
Onat Kutlar, writer, poet, founder of Cinemateque Istanbul, columnist for Cumhuriyet newspaper |
|
Killed in Istanbul. |
| 01996-01-011996 |
Özdemir Sabancı, prominent industrialist and member of Sabancı family |
|
|
| 01998-01-011998 |
Konca Kuriş, Islamic feminist author |
|
Kidnapped and tortured to death in Mersin. |
| 01999-01-011999 |
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, politician, former Minister of Culture, Ankara University professor in Political Science, Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist |
|
|
| 02001-01-012001 |
Üzeyir Garih, Turkish Jewish businessman and industrialist |
|
|
| 02002-01-012002 |
Necip Hablemitoğlu, Professor of history at Ankara University |
|
His assassination is unresolved. |
| 02006-01-012006 |
Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, High Judge at Council of State |
Alparslan Arslan |
Killed in Ankara. |
| 02006-01-012006 |
Andrea Santoro, Roman Catholic priest |
|
Murdered in the Santa Maria Church in Trabzon. |
| 02007-01-012007 |
Hrant Dink, Turkish Armenian journalist, publisher of Agos newspaper |
Ogün Samast |
Fired three shots at Dink's head from the back at point blank range before fleeing the scene on foot. See Assassination of Hrant Dink. |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 00293-01-01293 |
Carausius, usurper of the Western Roman Empire |
|
|
| 00946-01-01946 |
Edmund I, King of England |
|
Stabbed at a banquet |
| 00978-01-01978 |
Edward the Martyr, King of England |
|
|
| 01170-01-011170 |
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury |
|
|
| 01306-01-011306 |
John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch |
Robert the Bruce |
|
| 01381-01-011381 |
Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer |
|
Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| 01381-01-011381 |
Simon of Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London |
|
Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| 01381-01-011381 |
John Cavendish, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge |
|
Beheaded in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| 01437-01-011437 |
King James I of Scotland |
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl |
Killed at Perth on the night of 20–1 February in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart. |
| 01452-01-011452 |
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas |
James II of Scotland |
|
|
Henry VI of England, King of England |
|
Killed in the Tower of London likely on the orders of Edward IV of England. |
| 01488-01-011488 |
King James III of Scotland |
|
Killed by rebels. |
| 01567-01-011567 |
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots |
|
|
| 01570-01-011570 |
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland |
James Hamilton |
The first assassination carried out with a firearm. |
| 01679-01-011679 |
James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews |
|
Killed in Fife, near St Andrews. |
| 01812-01-011812 |
Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
John Bellingham |
The only British prime minister to be assassinated. |
| 01916-01-011916 |
Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War |
|
Killed on the HMS Hampshire after the cruiser struck a mine off Orkney. His body was never recovered. Some claim that Kitchener was deliberately assassinated; Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a German spy, claimed to have orchestrated the sinking of the Hampshire. |
| 01922-06-22June 22, 1922 |
Henry Hughes Wilson, British field marshal, retired Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Conservative politician[21] |
|
|
| 01940-01-011940 |
Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab |
Udham Singh, a Punjabi revolutionary |
Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall, London. |
| 01972-01-011972 |
Paddy Wilson, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician |
|
|
| 01975-01-011975 |
Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records and right wing political activist |
|
|
| 01977-01-011977 |
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri, past prime minister of Yemen Arab Republic |
|
Killed in London. |
| 01978-01-011978 |
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident |
|
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| 01979-01-011979 |
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, former Governor-General of India |
Thomas McMahon |
Killed along with three others while on a fishing trip with his family by a bomb planted onto his boat by McMahon. McMahon was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| 01979-01-011979 |
Airey Neave, British Conservative politician |
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Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster, by members of the Irish National Liberation Army |
| 01981-01-011981 |
Sir Norman Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician |
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| 01981-01-011981 |
Sir James Stronge, 9th Baronet, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician |
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| 01981-01-011981 |
Robert Bradford, Unionist MP in Northern Ireland |
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| 01982-01-011982 |
Shlomo Argov, Israeli Ambassador to the Court of St. James's |
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Although Argov survived this assassination attempt, the injuries he sustained in the attack resulted in his death in 2003. |
| 01983-01-011983 |
Edgar Graham, Ulster Unionist politician |
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| 01987-01-011987 |
George Seawright, Northern Ireland politician |
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| 01989-01-011989 |
Patrick Finucane, solicitor |
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| 01990-01-011990 |
Ian Gow, British Conservative politician |
IRA members |
Killed by a car bomb near his house. |
| 01997-01-011997 |
Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader |
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| 01999-01-011999 |
Rosemary Nelson, Irish Catholic solicitor and human rights advocate |
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| 01999-01-011999 |
Jill Dando, British television presenter |
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| 02006-01-012006 |
Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer and critic of Vladimir Putin |
Unknown, though believed to be figures within the government of Russia |
Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210. See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. |
| 02010-09-16September 16, 2010 |
Dr Imran Farooq, founding member of the All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organization (APMSO) |
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Killed in Edgware, London, by Altaf Hussain through conspiracy. |
| Date |
Victim(s) |
Assassin(s) |
Notes |
| 01762-01-011762 |
Peter III of Russia, Emperor of Russia |
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| 01801-01-011801 |
Paul of Russia, Emperor of Russia |
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| 01825-01-011825 |
Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, military Governor of Saint Petersburg |
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| 01878-01-011878 |
Nikolay Vladimirovich Mezentsev, Executive Director of the Third Section |
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| 01881-03-13March 13, 1881 |
Alexander II of Russia, Tsar of All the Russias[20] |
Ignacy Hryniewiecki |
Assassination plot concluded with bombs. |
| 01893-01-011893 |
Nikolay Alekseyev, Mayor of Moscow |
|
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| 01902-04-08April 8, 1902 |
Dmitry Sipyagin, Russian Interior Minister[21] |
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| 01904-01-011904 |
Vyacheslav Pleve, Russian Interior Minister |
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| 01905-01-011905 |
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, former Governor-General of Moscow |
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| 01911-09-14September 14, 1911 |
Peter Stolypin, Russian Prime Minister |
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Killed in theater in Kiev[21] |
| 01916-12-30December 30, 1916 |
Grigori Rasputin, controversial friar and mystic[11] |
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| 01918-07-16July 16, 1918 |
Tsar Nicholas II and his family: Tsarina Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexei, and the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia |
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| 01918-07-18July 18, 1918 |
Elizabeth (Ella) of Hesse, Grand Duchess of Russia, sister of Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of tsar Nicholas II |
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| 01918-01-011918 |
V. Volodarsky, revolutionary |
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| 01918-01-011918 |
Wilhelm von Mirbach, German Ambassador in Moscow |
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| 01934-12-01December 1, 1934 |
Sergei Kirov, Bolshevik party leader in Leningrad[21] |
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| 01948-01-011948 |
Solomon Mikhoels, Chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee[23] |
|
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| 01991-01-011991 |
Igor Talkov, singer-songwriter, anti-Soviet activist |
|
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| 01995-01-011995 |
Vladislav Listyev, a Russian journalist and head of the ORT TV Channel |
|
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| 01996-01-011996 |
Dzhokhar Dudayev, first Chechen separatist President and anti-Russian guerrilla leader |
|
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| 01998-01-011998 |
Valeriy Hubulov, South Ossetian politician, former prime minister |
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| 01998-01-011998 |
Galina Starovoitova, influential politician, then member of Russian parliament (Duma) |
|
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| 01998-01-011998 |
Otakhon Latifi, Tajik journalist and opposition figure |
|
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| 02003-01-012003 |
Sergei Yushenkov, Russian politician |
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Killed in Moscow[24] |
| 02003-01-012003 |
Yuri Shchekochikhin, Russian journalist |
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Killed in Moscow[25] |
| 02004-01-012004 |
Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine |
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| 02004-01-012004 |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Kremlin-backed President of the Chechen Republic |
Presumed to be Chechen Islamists |
Killed along with about 30 others in a football stadium during a Soviet Victory Day parade, by a bomb that had been built into the concrete of one of the stadium's supporting columns. |
| 02005-01-012005 |
Aslan Maskhadov, President of separatist Chechnya |
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| 02005-01-012005 |
Anatoly Trofimov, former FSB deputy director |
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| 02005-01-012005 |
Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan |
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| 02005-01-012005 |
Bayaman Erkinbayev, Kyrgyz MP |
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| 02006-01-012006 |
Altynbek Sarsenbayev, Kazakh politician |
|
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| 02006-01-012006 |
Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, President of separatist Chechnya |
|
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| 02006-01-012006 |
Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights campaigner |
Unknown; many theories |
Shot in the elevator block of her apartment in Moscow. See Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. |
| 02008-01-012008 |
Vitaly Karayev, mayor of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania |
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| 02008-01-012008 |
Kazbek Pagiyev, former mayor of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania |
|
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| 02008-01-012008 |
Nina Varlamova, mayor of Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast |
|
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| 02009-01-012009 |
Stanislav Markelov, human rights lawyer |
|
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| 02009-01-012009 |
Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, interior minister of Dagestan |
|
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| 02009-01-012009 |
Aza Gazgireyeva, deputy chair of Ingushetia Supreme Court |
|
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| 02009-01-012009 |
Bashir Aushev, former deputy prime minister of Ingushetia |
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| 02009-01-012009 |
Natalia Estemirova, human rights activist |
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| 02011-01-012011 |
Gadzhimurat Kamalov, journalist |
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