List of assassins
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The following is a list of assassins, individuals who have been convicted of assassination or individuals who historians generally agree committed assassination.
- John Wilkes Booth - assassin of Abraham Lincoln (April 15, 1865), 16th President of the United States.
- Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of James A. Garfield (July 2, 1881 Garfield died 2 months later on September 19, 1881.), 20th President of the United States. [1]
- Leon Czolgosz - assassin of William McKinley (September 14, 1901), 25th President of the United States.
- Saad Akbar Babrak - assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan (October 16, 1951), Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- Frederick Russell Burnham - assassin of Mlimo (1896), the Ndebele religious leader who planned and led the Second Matabele War. [2]
- Fritz Joubert Duquesne - assassin of Lord Kitchener (June 5, 1916), British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War, by sinking the HMS Hampshire while en route to Russia. [3]
- Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha (March 15, 1921), a leader of the Ottoman Empire's ruling Committee of Union and Progress.
- Nathuram Godse - assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (January 30, 1948), a pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement.
- Lee Harvey Oswald - assassin of John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963), 35th President of the United States. Though disputed, he was officially found to be the lone assassin according to the Warren Commission.
- James Earl Ray- assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (April 4, 1968), an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement.
- Sirhan Sirhan- assassin of Robert F. Kennedy (June 6, 1968), United States Senator and leading presidential candidate for the United States presidential election, 1968 from New York.
- Yigal Amir - assassin of Yitzhak Rabin (November 4, 1995), Prime Minister of Israel. [4]
- Ebu Tahir - assassin of Nizam al-Mulk (10 Ramadhan 1092 AD), Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuq Empire.
- Gavrilo Princip - assassin of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (June 28, 1914), the assassination is widely considered the most immediate cause of World War I. [5]
- Mark David Chapman - assassin of John Lennon (December 8, 1980), British musician.
- Thomas Hagan - assassin of Malcolm X (February 21, 1965), African-American human rights activist.
- Prince Felix Yusupov - assassin of Grigory Rasputin (December 29, 1916), Russian Orthodox Christian and political mystic.
- Patrick J. Whelan - assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (April 7, 1868), Canadian journalist and politician.
- Jared Lee Loughner - assassin of John M. Roll (January 8, 2011) Federal Judge
- Scott Philip Roeder - assassin of George Tiller ( May 31, 2009 ) Late term abortion doctor
- Timothy Dale Johnson - assassin of Bill Gwatney (August 14, 2008) Senator from Colorado
- Nathan Gale - assassin of Darrell Abbott (December 8, 2004) Guitarist of Pantera
- James Charles Kopp - assassin of Barnett Slepian (October 23, 1998) Abortion doctor
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Rosenberg, Charles E. (1968). The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-226-72717-3.
- ^ "Killed the Matabele God: Burnham, the American scout, may end uprising" (PDF). New York Times. June 25, 1896. ISSN 0093-1179. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E06E7DF123BEE33A25756C2A9609C94679ED7CF. Retrieved 2007-09-28.
- ^ Wood, Clement (1932). The man who killed Kitchener; the life of Fritz Joubert Duquesne. New York: William Faro, inc.
- ^ Rabin's assassin gets life in prison, Haaretz
- ^ John McCannon, PhD. - AP World History - Copyright 2010, 2008, Barron's Educational Series, Inc. - page 9.
