Historic Assasinations

B.C. to 1899

• Julius Ceaser, Roman dictator - Stabbed by Brutus in Senate - 44 B.C.

• Thomas a' Becket, English Archbishop - Slain by 4 nkights in a cathedral - Dec. 29, 1170

• Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots - Feb. 10, 1567

• Gustavus III of Sweden - Shot by Johan Ankarstrom - March 29, 1792

• Jean Marat, French Revolutionary - Stabbed by Charlotte Corday - July 13, 1793

• Abraham Lincoln, US President - Shot by John Wilkes Booth - April 14, 1865 - Died the next day

• James Garfield, US President - Shot by Charles Guiteau - July 2, 1881 - Died Sept. 19, 1881

• Antonio Ca'novas del Castillio, Spanish Premier - Shot by anarchist - Aug. 8, 1897

1900 - Present

• Humbert I, king of Italy - At Monza by anarchist - July 29, 1900

• William McKinley, US President - Shot by Leon Czolgosz at Buffalo - Sept. 6, 1901 - Died Sept. 14

• Pyotr Stolypin, Russian Premier - Shot by Dmitri Bogrov - Sept. 14, 1911 - Died Sept. 18

• George I, king of Greece - March 18, 1913

• Francis Ferdinand, archduke of Austria - Shot by Gavrilo Princip (sparked WW I ) - June 28, 1914

• Rasputin, Russian, monk & associate of Tsar Nicolas II - Killed by Russian noblemen - Dec. 31, 1916

• Micheal Collins, Irish Sinn Fein leader - Shot - Aug. 22, 1922

• Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian communist leader - Axed in Mexico by Ramon de Rio - Aug. 21, 1940

• Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Nationalist leader - Shot by Hindu Nathuran Godse

• Rafael Trujillo Molina, Dominican Republic dictator - Machine-gunned in car - May 30, 1961

• John F. Kennedy, US President - Shot in car in Dallas Texas - Nov. 22, 1963

• Malcolm X, US Black Muslim leader - Shot at rally - Feb. 21, 1965

• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., US Civil Rights Leader - Shot by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee - April 4, 1968

• Robert F. Kennedy, US Senator - Shot by Sirhan Sirhan in L.A. California - May 5, 1968

• Lord Mountbatten, uncle of Duke of Edinburgh - Explosion on boat - Aug. 27, 1979

• Park Chung Hee, president of South Korea - Shot by cheif of Korean CIA - Oct. 26, 1979

• Oscar Romeroy Galdamez of El Salvador, Roman Catholic archbishop - Shot while saying Mass - March 24, 1980

• John Lennon, former Beatle - Shot by Mark David Chapman - Dec. 8, 1980

• Anwar al-Sadat, president of Egypt - Shot by rebel soldiers - Oct. 6, 1981

• Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister- Killed by own Sikh bodyguards - Oct. 31, 1984