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1996 Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72

1989 Robert Webber, actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74

1988 Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia

1984 Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53

1982 Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins

1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu

1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured

1975 John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55

1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57

1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured

1967 Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55

1957 Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26

1955 Mark David Chapman, assassin, John Lennon

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

1940 James Brady, press secretary, wounded during Reagan assassin attempt

1939 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin, John F. Kennedy

1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig

1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death

1932 Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov

1929 Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress, Assassin, Crimson Pirate

1928 James Earl Ray, assassin, Martin Luther King, Jr.

1924 Michel Galabru, Safi Morocco, actor, Judge and the Assassin

1919 Richard Todd, born in Ireland, actor, Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident

1911 Eileen Way, actress, Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin

1910 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot and killed

1901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted

1894 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin, arch duke Ferdinand

1887 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, 1908-10

1882 Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged

1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt

1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27

1838 John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln


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