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2009 Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau

2007 Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

2007 Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54

1996 Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58

1995 Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated

1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians

1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73

1995 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated

1995 Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73

1995 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone

1994 Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated

1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi

1994 Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated

1994 Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated

1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated

1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44

1993 Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated

1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68

1993 Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50

1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73

1992 Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated

1991 Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb

1991 Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated

1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46

1991 Sallah Kharaf, Abu Iyad, co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated

1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58

1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated

1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated

1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon

1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos

1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads

1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59

1984 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated

1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66

1983 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma

1981 [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62

1981 Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated

1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb

1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb

1981 Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated

1980 John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40

1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay

1979 Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated

1979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA

1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland

1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists

1978 Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua

1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated

1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church

1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated

1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA

1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated

1973 Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated

1971 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated

1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo

1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65

1968 Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42

1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39

1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated

1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64

1965 Malcolm X, Little, black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39

1963 John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46

1963 Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48

1961 ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69

1960 Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated

1959 Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated

1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60

1959 S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk

1958 Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies

1958 Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad

1956 Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez

1955 Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated

1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar

1951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated

1951 Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated

1951 Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated

1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated

1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, India's pacifist, assassinated

1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament

1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala

1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia, assassinated

1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard

1935 Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building

1934 Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad

1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis

1934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard

1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard

1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza

1933 Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami

1932 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated

1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated

1927 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47

1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated

1927 Olof Palme, Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated

1926 S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard

1926 Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47

1925 Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass, D-Sen-NY, AG; assassinated

1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists

1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated

1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated

1923 Pamela Sharples, born in England, Baroness Sharples, BConservative Party, made a Life Peer of Chawton in the County of Hampshire, after husband, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated

1922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated

1919 Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated

1918 Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers

1917 Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated

1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated

1916 Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated

1914 Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris

1914 Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated

1914 Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated

1913 George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67

1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39

1913 Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup

1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated

1911 Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov

1909 Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean

1908 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44

1906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid

1906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid

1903 Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated

1903 Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated

1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist

1902 Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated

1901 Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa, 1958-66, assassinated

1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci

1900 Edward VII, King, assassinated

1882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin

1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin

1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62

1869 A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated

1868 B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated

1865 Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865

1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC

1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated

1639 George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated

1628 George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36

1589 Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37

1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed

1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out

1563 Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44

1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima

1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated

1327 Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43

1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated

1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II

1126 Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated

1092 Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated

193 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated

41 Caligula, G C Germanicus, Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28


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