1996 Death Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72 1989 Death Robert Webber, actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74 1988 Event Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia 1984 Death Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53 1982 Event Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins 1978 Event James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu 1977 Event Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured 1975 Death John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55 1974 Death Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57 1968 Event James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured 1967 Death Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55 1957 Death Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26 1955 Birthday Mark David Chapman, assassin, John Lennon 1943 Event Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight 1940 Birthday James Brady, press secretary, wounded during Reagan assassin attempt 1939 Birthday Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin, John F. Kennedy 1933 Death Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig 1932 Event Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1932 Death Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov 1929 Birthday Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress, Assassin, Crimson Pirate 1928 Birthday James Earl Ray, assassin, Martin Luther King, Jr. 1924 Birthday Michel Galabru, Safi Morocco, actor, Judge and the Assassin 1919 Birthday Richard Todd, born in Ireland, actor, Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident 1911 Birthday Eileen Way, actress, Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin 1910 Death Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot and killed 1901 Death Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted 1894 Birthday Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin, arch duke Ferdinand 1887 Birthday Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, 1908-10 1882 Death Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged 1866 Event German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt 1865 Death John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln
