List of assassinations

This is a list of assassinations, sorted by location.

For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious, political or monetary reasons.

Africa

See also: List of assassinations in Africa

The Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Date	Victim(s)	Method	Assassin(s)	Notes
December 7, 1710	Daniel Parke, British governor of the Leeward Islands	Beating	Several members of a mob.	An angry mob captured Parke in his house, beat him severely, and dragged him out to die of his wounds. His last words to his tormentors, as he lay dying, were reported as: "Gentlemen, you have no sense of honor left, pray have some of humanity."

Argentina

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1828	Manuel Dorrego, Governor of Buenos Aires Province	Juan Lavalle
1835	Facundo Quiroga, Governor of La Rioja Province
1838	Alejandro Heredia, Governor of Tucumán Province
1841	José Cubas, Governor of Catamarca Province	Mariano Maza
1841	Marco Avellaneda, Governor of Tucumán Province	Mariano Maza
1861	Antonino Aberastain, Governor of San Juan Province
1870	Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina and Governor of Entre Ríos Province
1909	Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police	Simón Radowitzky	Assassinated by anarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers.
1921	Amable Jones, Governor of San Juan Province
1929	Carlos Washington Lencinas, former Governor of Mendoza Province
1935	Enzo Bordabehere, National Senator for Santa Fe Province	Ramón Valdez Cora	Killed during a session of the Argentine Senate.
1969	Augusto Vandor, Metalworkers Union (UOM) Secretary General		Killed in commando attack by the Ejército Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Army), a far-left Peronist splinter group.
1970	Pedro Aramburu, former de facto president of Argentina		Executed by the Peronist guerrilla Montoneros in revenge for the abduction of Evita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a 1956 failed uprising, during Aramburu's dictatorship.
1970	José Alonso, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1972	Oberdan Sallustro, Director of FIAT Argentina	ERP
1973	José Ignacio Rucci, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1973	Juan Manuel Irrazábal, Governor of Misiones Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance	Killed with Vice-Governor César Ayrault by bomb placed in Beechcraft Queen Air plane.
1974	Arturo Mor Roig, former Interior Minister	Montoneros
1974	Carlos Mugica, Catholic Third World priest	Rodolfo Almirón (Argentine Anticommunist Alliance)
1974	Rodolfo Ortega Peña, National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Atilio López, former Vice-Governor of Córdoba Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Silvio Frondizi, University of Buenos Aires law professor	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Carlos Prats, exiled Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army	Michael Townley	Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship
1975	Hipólito Acuña, National Deputy for Santa Fe Province	Montoneros
1975	John Egan, U.S. Honorary Consul in Córdoba	Montoneros
1975	Ramón Rojas, National Deputy for San Juan Province	Fernando Otero	Killed at the behest of Vineyard Workers' Federation (FOEVA) leader Delfor Ocampo.
1975	Alberto Manuel Campos, Mayor of General San Martín Partido, Buenos Aires Province	Montoneros
1976	Miguel Ragone, former Governor of Salta Province	Army Gen. Luciano Menéndez	Abducted and killed by right-wing task force made of up of Army and provincial police officers led by Menéndez.
1976	Zelmar Michelini, exiled Uruguayan senator, founder of the Broad Front		Was killed after the 1976 Argentine coup as part of Operation Condor involving the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone.
1976	Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, exiled former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives		Killed alongside Zelmar Michelini
1976	Juan José Torres, exiled former military President of Bolivia		Was killed as part of Operation Condor
1976	Enrique Angelelli, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja	Luis Estrella	Beaten to death after Angelelli's car was run off the road on orders from III Army Corps Chief Luciano Menéndez.
1977	Juan Carlos Casariego de Bel, Chief Foreign Investments Adviser at Economy Ministry	Army Capt. Héctor Vérgez	Casariego had objected to a $400 million payout for the nationalization of the bankrupt CIADE electric company - one of whose top shareholders was the Economy Minister, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz.
1978	Miguel Tobías Padilla, Undersecretary for Coordination at Economy Ministry	Montoneros
1985	Osvaldo Sivak, banker	José Benigno Lorea, police officer	Killed following ransom kidnapping by the Aníbal Gordon gang led by former Argentine Anticommunist Alliance operatives.
1997	José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist for leading Argentine news weekly Noticias.	"Los Horneros" gang, led by Buenos Aires Provincial Police Inspector Gustavo Prellezo	Killed on orders from businessman Alfredo Yabrán.
2012	Carlos Soria, Governor of Río Negro Province	Susana Freydoz	Killed by his wife.
2019	Héctor Enrique Olivares, National Deputy for La Rioja Province	Juan Jesús Fernández and Juan José Navarro Cádiz	Killed in attack directed at Olivares' aide, Miguel Yadón (dead on arrival), by businessman Rafael Cano Carmona.

Bermuda

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1973	Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda	Erskine "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn	Shot outside Bermuda's Government House. Sharples's aide-de-camp Captain Hugh Sayers was also killed.

Bolivia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1 January 1829	Pedro Blanco Soto, President of Bolivia
11 June 1849	Eusebio Guilarte, former acting President of Bolivia
23 October 1861	Jorge Córdova, former President of Bolivia
23 March 1865	Manuel Isidoro Belzu, former President of Bolivia
27 November 1872	Agustín Morales, President of Bolivia
27 February 1894	Hilarión Daza, former President of Bolivia
17 June 1917	José Manuel Pando, former President of Bolivia
21 July 1946	Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia
9 October 1967	Ernesto "Che" Guevara	Bolivian Special Forces	Captured the previous day, and was shot 9 times and executed.
24 May 1989	Elders Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson, LDS Missionaries
25 August 2016	Rodolfo Illanes, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Bolivia	Protesting miners

Brazil

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1915	Pinheiro Machado, Senator for Rio Grande do Sul
1930	João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, Governor of Paraíba	João Duarte Dantas
1964	Adib Shishakli, exiled Syrian military dictator	Nawaf Ghazaleh
1975	Vladimir Herzog, journalist
1976	Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and critic of the Military dictatorship in Brazil
1988	Francisco Alves "Chico" Mendes Filho, environmental activist	Darci Alves da Silva	Shot on the orders of the assassin's father, rancher Darly Alves da Silva
1996	Paulo César Farias, President Fernando Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer
2001	Antonio da Costa Santos, Mayor of Campinas
2002	Celso Daniel, Mayor of Santo André, São Paulo
2002	Tim Lopes, journalist	Elias "Maluco" Pereira da Silva André "Capeta" da Cruz Barbosa Cláudio "Ratinho" Orlando do Nascimento Maurício "Boizinho" de Lima Matias Claudino "Xuxa" dos Santos Coelho Elizeu "Zeu" Felício de Souza Ângelo "Primo" da Silva Reinaldo "Cadê" Amaral de Jesus Fernando "Frei" Sátyro da Silva	Murdered by drug traffickers connected to Comando Vermelho and Amigos dos Amigos
2005	Dorothy Stang, American nun		Killed by business interests
2016	Kyriakos Amiridis, former Greek ambassador to Brazil	Françoise de Sousa Oliveira and Sergio Gomes	Murdered by Gomes on the orders of Oliveira, and corpse burnt in an arson attack on a rental car.
2018	Marielle Franco, human rights activist and City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro	Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira and Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega	Assassination suspected to be linked with local militias
2022	Marcelo Arruda, treasurer of Workers' Party	Jorge Guaranho	Killed because the photo of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seen on birthday party was target of fury

Canada

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1868	Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Father of Canadian Confederation	Patrick J. Whelan
1872	William End, Magistrate in northern New Brunswick		He and his office set aflame by ex-convict.
1880	George Brown, Father of Canadian Confederation	George Bennett
1914	William C. Hopkinson, immigration officer, British intelligence agent	Mewa Singh, Ghadarite sympathizer
1970	Pierre Laporte, Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec	Bernard Lortie, Paul Rose, Jacques Rose, Francis Simard	Kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ.
1982	Atilla Altıkat, Turkish diplomat		Assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa

Chile

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1818	Luis Carrera and his brother Juan José Carrera, independence war heroes	attributed to the head of the government, Bernardo O'Higgins
1818	Manuel Rodriguez, lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile	attributed to the head of the government, Bernardo O'Higgins
1837	Diego Portales, entrepreneur, statesman and Minister of War	Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre
1970	René Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army		Was kidnapped and killed by far-right paramilitary squads, due to his opposition to any intervention of the armed forces to block the election of left-wing candidate Salvador Allende in 1970.
1971	Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, former Secretary of Interior Affairs
1973	Victor Jara, left-wing singer		Killed after the coup of 1973.
1982	Eduardo Frei Montalva, former President of Chile and opponent of the Pinochet dictatorship		Although he officially died by sepsis after a low-risk surgery, recent research suggests he was poisoned by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional. However, there is no absolute certainty about the real causes of his death.
1982	Tucapel Jiménez, trade-unionist		Killed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
1991	Jaime Guzmán, right-wing Senator and former adviser to the Pinochet dictatorship		Killed by far-left guerrillas after the return of democracy.

Colombia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1830	Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier	Juan Gregorio Sarria, José Erazo, and three peons
1914	Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier
1948	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader
1984	Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1985	Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, Judge who had indicted Pablo Escobar
1985	Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of the Supreme Court.		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Fabio Calderon Botero, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Pedro Elias Serrano Abadia, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Dario Velasquez Gaviria, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Jose Eduardo Gnecco Correa, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Ricardo Medina Moyano, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, Supreme Court Justice.		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Carlos Medellin Forero, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Fanny Gonzalez Franco, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Manuel Gaona Cruz, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Horacio Montoya Gil, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Carlos Horacio Uran Rojas, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Lizandro Juan Romero Barrios, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Emiro Sandoval Huertas, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Julio Cesar Andrade Andrade, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Jorge A Correa Echeverry, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1986	Guillermo Cano Isaza, Director of El Espectador newspaper		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1987	Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
1987	Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
1989	Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party	Jaime Rueda	The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
1989	Jorge Enrique Pulido, journalist, Director of Mundovision		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1990	Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party	Andres Arturo Gutierrez
1989	Waldemar Franklin Quintero, Commander of the Police of Antioquia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1990	Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party
1991	Enrique Low Murtra, former Ambassador to Switzerland		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1994	Andrés Escobar, footballer
1994	Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party
1995	Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper		FARC has claimed responsibility for the assassination
1999	Jaime Garzón, journalist and satirist
2000	Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones, Colombian Army General		Assassinated by members of FARC
2003	Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia

Cuba

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 8, 1935	Antonio Guiteras, Revolutionary Socialist leader

Curaçao

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 5, 2013	Helmin Wiels, leader of the Sovereign People party.	Elvis Kuwas

Dominican Republic

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
July 26, 1899	Ulises Heureaux, president of the Dominican Republic
November 19, 1911	Ramón Cáceres, president of the Dominican Republic
May 30, 1961	Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, Dominican Republic dictator		Shot in ambush
February 16, 1973	Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó, military officer and former de facto leader
June 6, 2022	Orlando Jorge Mera, Environment Minister	Favsto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota	shot dead, and attack case of unknown motive

Ecuador

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1875	Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador	Faustino Rayo	Shot outside Quito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views.
1999	Jaime Hurtado and Pablo Tapia, communist legislators		Killed in Quito

El Salvador

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1913	Manuel Enrique Araujo, President of El Salvador
1975	Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary
1977	Rutilio Grande García, S.J., Roman Catholic priest
1977	Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, Roman Catholic priest
1978	Ernesto Barrera, Roman Catholic priest
1979	Octavio Ortiz Luna, Roman Catholic priest
1979	Rafael Palacios, Roman Catholic priest
1979	Alirio Napoleón Macías, Roman Catholic priest
1980	Óscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador		Killed by right-wing death squad
1980	Enrique Álvarez Córdova and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials)		Captured and killed by government aligned security forces.
1980	Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, American Roman Catholic nuns		Killed by the National Guard of El Salvador.
1983	Marianella García Villas, human rights lawyer and activist		Killed by the Salvadoran Armed Forces
1983	Albert Schaufelberger, senior U.S. Naval representative
1989	Ignacio Ellacuría, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	Ignacio Martín-Baró, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	Segundo Montes, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	María Cristina Gómez, teacher and community leader

Grenada

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1983	Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada		Killed along with seven other politicians and businessmen in a coup that led to the United States invasion of Grenada a few days later

Guatemala

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1898	José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala
1957	Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala		killed by bodyguard
1970	Karl von Spreti, West German ambassador in Guatemala
1979	Alberto Fuentes Mohr, Social Democratic Party leader
1979	Manuel Colom Argueta, Mayor of Guatemala City
1980	Hugo Rolando Melgar Melgar, Law professor at San Carlos University and leftist leader	Efrain Rios Montt regime	Ambushed on his way to work by the Guatemalan Army
1993	Jorge Carpio Nicolle, journalist and founder of the National Centre Union
1998	Juan José Gerardi Conedera, Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala
2012	Valentín Leal, legislator and former Governor of Alta Verapaz
2013	Carlos Castillo Medrano, Mayor of Jutiapa

Guyana

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
18 November 1978	Leo Ryan, Member of the US House of Representatives	Members of the People's Temple in Jonestown	Was shot to death in Guyana while investigating human rights violations by members of the People's Temple.
13 June 1980	Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
22 April 2006	Satyadeow Sawh, Agriculture Minister		Murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues

Haiti

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
17 October 1806	Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti
28 July 1915	Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, President of Haiti		Killed by a mob
14 July 1963	Clément Barbot, aide to President François Duvalier		Killed after launching a failed coup
11 September 1993	Antoine Izméry, businessman and Lavalas supporter
14 October 1993	Guy Malary, minister of justice
3 April 2000	Jean Dominique, journalist
14 July 2005	Jacques Roche, journalist
7 July 2021	Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti		Killed by Colombian mercenaries posing as US Drug Enforcement Administration agents

Honduras

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1862	José Santos Guardiola, President of Honduras
1966	Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, former President of El Salvador
2008	Mario Fernando Hernández, deputy speaker of the National Congress for the Liberal Party
2016	Berta Cáceres, environmental and indigenous rights activist	David Castillo, former military intelligence officer
2021	Francisco Gaitán, Mayor of Cantarranas	Wilfredo Velásquez

Mexico

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
June 29, 1520	Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, Emperor of the Aztec Alliance
February 22, 1913	Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico		Killed in a coup along with Vice-President José María Pino Suárez. See Ten Tragic Days
March 7, 1913	Abraham González, revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa
April 10, 1919	Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary	Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo	Shot at Hacienda de San Juan in Chinameca, Morelos
May 20, 1920	Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico		Killed in a revolt led by Álvaro Obregón
July 20, 1923	Francisco "Pancho" Villa, revolutionary	Unknown	Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral, Chihuahua. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed.
January 3, 1924	Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatán
July 17, 1928	Álvaro Obregón, President-elect	José de León Toral	Killed by a pro-Catholic sympathizer as part of the Cristero War
January 10, 1929	Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary
August 20, 1940	Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian communist leader	Ramón Mercader, an agent of the NKVD	Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe.
June 3, 1974	Octavio Muciño, footballer	Jaime Antonio Muldoon Barreto	Shot at a local Guadalajara restaurant , reports at the time stated that Barreto and Muciño exchanged insults which then resulted in a physical altercation. Muldoon Barreto, however, immediately shot Muciño point-blank 3 times with a .25 ACP, once in the head, thorax, and shoulder. Muldoon Barreto then sped off the area evading capture. Muciño was taken to Hospital México Americano where he was in a coma for 3 days. At approximately 5:30 in the morning on June 3, 1974, Muciño died from his injuries. Muldoon Barreto then fled to Spain and was never charged upon his return to Mexico in 1980, the perpetrator's freedom is widely attributed to the influence and power possessed by the Muldoon Barreto family within the Mexican government.
May 30, 1984	Manuel Buendía, journalist and political columnist		Suspicions and reports indicated that PRI party members and sympathizers wanted him killed.
February 9, 1985	Enrique Camarena, U.S. DEA Agent		Abducted and killed by the Guadalajara Cartel with the assistance of figures within the Mexican government and law enforcement agencies
February 7, 1986	Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and former Governor of Yucatán
May 24, 1993	Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara	Suspicions indicate that Sinaloa Cartel boss, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán may have also been involved.	Shot at Guadalajara Airport, along with 6 other people, by cocaine drug gang Tijuana Cartel using the Logan Heights (San Diego, CA) street gang, either as a mistaken attack on the Sinaloa Cartel or to silence Posadas regarding possible corrupt connections between government and drug cartels; some more recent speculation that an anti-church group was involved.
March 23, 1994	Luis Donaldo Colosio, Presidential candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional	Mario Aburto	Assassinated at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a neighborhood in Tijuana.
September 28, 1994	José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional	Daniel Aguilar Treviño	Was murdered just outside Hotel Casa Blanca, located at Lafragua street crossing Paseo de la Reforma, an avenue in the center of Mexico City. The incident occurred while Ruiz Massieu was boarding his vehicle after attending a PRI party meeting held at Casa Blanca. Days after the murder, on September 30, 1994, PRI deputy Fernando Rodríguez González was arrested in Zacatecas and confessed to authorities that he himself hired Aguilar Treviño and his cousin to commit the murder. Daniel Aguilar Treviño confessed to authorities that he was paid US$500,000 (equivalent to $914,000 in 2021) by Rodríguez González himself to commit the crime.
June 7, 1999	Paco Stanley, comedian	Luis Alberto Salazar Vega
October 19, 2001	Digna Ochoa, human rights lawyer
June 22, 2004	Francisco Ortiz Franco, contributing editor to Zeta Magazine
June 19, 2010	Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua
June 28, 2010	Rodolfo Torre Cantú, former member of the Chamber of Deputies and gubernatorial candidate in Tamaulipas
June 8, 2018	Fernando Purón Johnston, former mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila		Shot while leaving a debate hall while running for Mexico's general election.

Nicaragua

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
February 21, 1934	Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary	National Guard members led by Anastasio Somoza García
September 21, 1956	Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua	Rigoberto López Pérez
January 10, 1978	Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, newspaper editor and anti-Somoza opposition leader
February 16, 1991	Enrique Bermúdez, founder and former commander of the Contras

Panama

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
January 2, 1955	José Antonio Remón Cantera, President of Panama		Killed at racetrack by machine gun
July 31, 1981	Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera, Governor Head of Panama		Killed at an Aircraft accident by a radio detonated bomb

Paraguay

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 12, 1877	Juan Bautista Gill, President of Paraguay		Killed in a plot instigated by Juan Silvano Godoi
December 31, 1878	Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, former President of Paraguay
September 17, 1980	Anastasio Somoza Debayle, exiled former President of Nicaragua	7 Sandinistas
March 23, 1999	Luis María Argaña, vice president of Paraguay		Ambushed

Peru

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
26 June 1541	Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador		Killed in a power struggle between fellow conquistadores
23 November 1871	Mariano Melgarejo, exiled former President of Bolivia
26 July 1872	Jose Balta, President of Peru		Ordered shot by Tomás Gutiérrez in retaliation for his brother's death
26 July 1872	Tomás Gutiérrez, interim President of Peru		Killed by a mob
2 February 1873	Mariano Herencia Zevallos, former interim President of Peru
16 November 1878	Manuel Pardo, former President of Peru and President of the Peruvian Senate
30 April 1933	Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, president of Peru	Abelardo de Mendoza	Shot by a member of the suppressed American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
15 February 1992	María Elena Moyano, a community organizer in Villa El Salvador

Suriname

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
8 December 1982	Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist		Victim of the December murders
8 December 1982	Eddy Hoost, former Minister of Justice and Police		Victim of the December murders
8 December 1982	André Kamperveen, athlete and former minister		Victim of the December murders
8 December 1982	Gerard Leckie, academic		Victim of the December murders
8 December 1982	Surendre Rambocus, military officer		Victim of the December murders

United States

See also: List of assassinated American politicians and List of assassinations by the United States

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 7, 1837	Elijah Parish Lovejoy, minister, editor, and abolitionist		Killed by a pro-slavery mob.
June 22, 1839	Major Ridge, Cherokee leader	Bird Doublehead and James Foreman	Killed by a group of people who blamed Ridge, who signed the Treaty of New Echota, for the deaths of 4,000 Cherokees on the Trail of Tears. His son, John, and his nephew, Elias Boudinot, were also killed.
June 27, 1844	Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism		Armed mob killed him and his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois, jail.
April 14, 1865	Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States	John Wilkes Booth	Was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin in the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning on April 15 across the street in a boarding house. Booth and accomplice David Herold hid in a barn in Virginia. Herold surrendered. When Booth refused to go out, the troops set the barn on fire, which killed him.
October 22, 1868	James M. Hinds, U.S. Representative from Arkansas	George Clark	Killed by a Ku Klux Klan member as part of intimidation of Republicans.
July 2, 1881	James A. Garfield, President of the United States	Charles J. Guiteau	Shot by Guiteau while waiting for a train at a Washington train station. Garfield did not die until September 19, 1881.
October 15, 1890	David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans
October 28, 1893	Carter Harrison Sr., Mayor of Chicago	Patrick Eugene Prendergast	Killed after assailant was rejected for appointment to a patronage position.
February 3, 1900	William Goebel, Governor of Kentucky	Unknown political opponents	Uncertain, but killed in the context of a disputed, fraudulent election
September 6, 1901	William McKinley, President of the United States	Leon Czolgosz	Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was shaking hands at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Died on September 14.
December 30, 1905	Frank Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho	Harry Orchard	Killed by a mining company informant in an attempt to cast blame on a labor union
March 6, 1933	Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago	Giuseppe Zangara	Disputed; suspected of striking Cermak instead of intended target President Franklin Roosevelt
September 8, 1935	Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana	Carl Weiss	Shot with a handgun in the abdomen after attending a meeting at the State Capital building to help pass "House Bill Number One" by the son-in-law of Long's long-time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, and died two days later. Weiss was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards
January 11, 1943	Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer
February 9, 1960	Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company	Joseph Corbett, Jr.	Murdered in failed kidnap-for-ransom attempt
June 12, 1963	Medgar Evers, African-American U.S. civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi.	Byron De La Beckwith	Shot by a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994.
November 22, 1963	John F. Kennedy, President of the United States	Lee Harvey Oswald	Shot while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. See Assassination of John F. Kennedy
November 24, 1963	Lee Harvey Oswald	Jack Ruby	Revenge for killing John F. Kennedy
February 21, 1965	Malcolm X, black Muslim leader	Talmadge Hayer, a member of the Nation of Islam	Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech. See Assassination of Malcolm X
August 25, 1967	George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party	John Patler, a former aide	Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat.
April 4, 1968	Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. civil rights activist.	James Earl Ray	Ray pleaded guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted restaurant owner Loyd Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot. See Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 5, 1968	Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from New York and leading Democratic presidential candidate.	Sirhan Sirhan	Shot after giving a speech after winning the California primary. Died 26 hours later on June 6. Sirhan was convicted on April 17, 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.
December 4, 1969	Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party	Chicago Police Department, with involvement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Killed by the Chicago Police Department in a raid. The status of this as an assassination is somewhat disputed; however many sources see this as an assassination or at least a politically-motivated extrajudicial execution, with support from the FBI's COINTELPRO program.
November 6, 1973	Marcus Foster, School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA	Donald DeFreeze, Joe Remiro and Russ Little	Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army
June 30, 1974	Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin, church deacon	Marcus Chenault	Killed while her husband was preaching.
September 21, 1976	Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States during the administration of President Salvador Allende	Michael Townley	Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents.
November 27, 1978	Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist, and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco	Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy	See Moscone–Milk assassinations
December 8, 1980	John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles	Mark David Chapman	Shot and killed by a former fan of The Beatles, who got angry when Lennon said that they were "more popular than Jesus." See Murder of John Lennon.
June 18, 1984	Alan Berg, radio talk-show host	Jean Craig, David Lane, Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari	Killed by members of the white nationalist group The Order.
October 15, 1984	Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer	Wu Tun and Tung Kuei-sen	Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
October 11, 1985	Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader		Killed when a bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
April 29, 1986	Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman		Killed in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
July 17, 1988	Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler	José González	Stabbed backstage during a wrestling event in Puerto Rico. González was acquitted of murder in 1989 after a jury accepted that he was acting in self-defense. Another wrestler, Tony Atlas, says he witnessed the stabbing in the locker room showers, but the knife used in the stabbing was not recovered. Atlas and Dutch Mantel were called to testify, however the subpoenas were mailed late, arriving ten days after the trial ended.
July 18, 1989	Rebecca Schaeffer, actress and model	Robert John Bardo	Shot and killed at her home in West Hollywood
August 22, 1989	Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party	Tyrone Robinson	Killed by member of the Black Guerrilla Army (BGA).
November 5, 1990	Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist	El Said Nosair	Killed by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, "the blind sheik", Al Qaeda's point man in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil.
May 21, 1991	Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas		Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School Swift Hall, allegedly due to opposition to his writings.
March 10, 1993	David Gunn, abortion provider	Michael F. Griffin	Shot outside his clinic.
July 29, 1994	John Britton, physician, abortion provider	Paul Jennings Hill	Shot at his clinic.
March 31, 1995	Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, singer and songwriter	Yolanda Saldívar	Shot in Corpus Christi, Texas by fan club manager
September 13, 1996	Tupac Shakur, rapper	Orlando Anderson (suspected)	Shot in Las Vegas after leaving a boxing match
March 9, 1997	Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, rapper	Wardell Fouse (suspected)	Shot in Los Angeles
July 15, 1997	Gianni Versace, fashion designer	Andrew Cunanan	Shot on his home's front steps in Miami
May 28, 1998	Phil Hartman, actor, comedian and producer	Brynn Omdahl (wife)	Shot in his sleep by wife after a heated argument the night before. Shortly afterward, Omdahl committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot.
October 23, 1998	Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider	James Charles Kopp	Shot in his kitchen.
August 2, 2007	Chauncey Bailey, Oakland Tribune journalist	Devaughndre Broussard	Shot on the street in Oakland.
February 7, 2008	Mike Swoboda, Mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri	Charles "Cookie" Thornton	See Kirkwood City Council shooting
May 31, 2009	George Tiller, physician	Scott Roeder	Shot by anti-abortion extremist as he ushered at his church.
June 10, 2016	Christina Grimmie, singer	Kevin Loibl	Shot while signing autographs in Florida
June 18, 2018	Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy, rapper and singer	Michael Boatwright	Shot while in his car in Florida
March 31, 2019	Nipsey Hussle, rapper and producer	Eric Ronald Holder, Jr.	Shot in front of his clothing store, Marathon Clothing, in South Los Angeles

Uruguay

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
February 19, 1868	Bernardo P. Berro, former President of Uruguay
February 19, 1868	Venancio Flores, former President of Uruguay
August 25, 1897	Juan Idiarte Borda, President of Uruguay	Avelino Arredondo	Shot by a supporter of José Batlle y Ordóñez
February 23, 1965	Herberts Cukurs, Latvian aviator and suspect in the Holocaust	Mossad
August 10, 1970	Dan Mitrione, U.S. Office of Public Safety torturer	Tupamaros
November 15, 1992	Eugenio Berríos, Chilean chemist who worked for the DINA during the Pinochet dictatorship	Chilean Government	Killed in Uruguay by Chilean secret services for "knowing too much".

Venezuela

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 13, 1950	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela	Rafael Simón Urbina
November 13, 1950	Rafael Simón Urbina, opponent of President Juan Vicente Gómez and assassin of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
October 21, 1952	Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, member and one of the founders of Acción Democrática	Dirección de Seguridad Nacional	Assassinated by dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez's political police
November 18, 2004	Danilo Anderson, state prosecutor
October 1, 2014	Robert Serra, member of the National Assembly
January 15, 2018	Óscar Alberto Pérez, Venezuelan rebel leader and Investigator for the Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas.	Venezuelan National Guard

Asia

Main article: List of assassinations in Asia

Europe

Main article: List of assassinations in Europe

Oceania

Australia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
2 June 1802	Pemulwuy, Aboriginal resistance fighter	Henry Hacking	Shot and killed by British sailor Henry Hacking under orders by Governor Phillip Gidley King
12 February 1894	William Paisley, Mayor of Burwood, New South Wales	William Redfearn	Murder-suicide by Redfearn
23 June 1975	Shirley Finn, brothel keeper, nightclub operator and socialite		Very likely murdered by corrupt police.
4 July 1975	Juanita Nielsen, newspaper publisher, journalist and urban heritage activist		Disappeared. Ruled a murder at a 1983 coronial inquest.
15 July 1977	Donald Mackay, anti-drugs campaigner
17 December 1980	Şarık Arıyak, Turkish Consul General	Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
10 January 1989	Colin Winchester, Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police
5 September 1994	John Newman, New South Wales State Member for Cabramatta	Phuong Ngo, local club owner and political opponent

New Caledonia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 4, 1989	Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak independence leader	Djubelly Wéa

Samoa

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
July 16, 1999	Luagalau Levaula Kamu, Minister of Public Works	Eletise Leafa Vitale, son of the victim's disgraced predecessor Leafa Vitale

Palau

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
June 30, 1985	Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau	Unknown

West Papua

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 26, 1984	Arnold Ap, songman and ethnomusicologist		Shot in back by an Indonesian military unit upon release from prison
March 14, 1996	Thomas Wainggai, Independence leader		Allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers in Cipinang prison.
November 10, 2001	Theys Eluay, West Papuan Independence movement leader		Assassinated by Kopassus officers after attending a military dinner in Jayapura
December 16, 2009	Kelly Kwalik, West Papuan guerrilla leader		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Timika
June 14, 2012	Mako Tabuni, Chairman of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB)		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura

See also

• List of assassinated anticolonialist leaders
• List of assassinations by car bombing
• List of assassinated and executed heads of state and government
• List of assassinated serving ambassadors
• List of Israeli assassinations
• List of Iranian assassinations
• List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts
• List of people who survived assassination attempts
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of fictional assassins
• List of assassinations by the Assassins