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List of murdered people

This is a list of famous people who have been murdered, assassinated or executed. Sorted alphabetically.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (2004), leader of Hamas.
• Abdul Haq, (2001), Northern Alliance commander killed by remnants of the Taliban.
• Abdul Qadir, (2002), vice-president of Afghanistan.
• Abdul Rahman, (2002), Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism.
• Abdul Razak al-Naif, (1978), former Iraqi prime minister.
• Abdullah I, (1951), King of Jordan.
• Abigail Folger, (1969), coffee heiress.
• Abraham Lincoln, (1865), President of the United States.
• Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, (1966), Prime Minister of Nigeria killed during military coup.
• Adam Walsh, (1981), son of John Walsh.
• Adolph Dubs, (1979), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1994), Prime Minister of Rwanda killed one day after genocide began.
• Agnès Sorel, (1450), mistress of King Charles VII of France.
• Ahmad al-Ghashmi, (1978), president of North Yemen killed by bomb along with envoy from South Yemen.
• Ahmed Abdallah, (1989), president of Comoros.
• Ahmed Shah Massoud, (2001), leader of the Northern Alliance .
• Airey Neave, (1979), British Conservative politician.
• Alan Berg, (1984), Radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis.
• Albrecht von Wallenstein, (1634), Czech general during the Thirty Years' War.
• Alcibiades, (404 BC), Athenian general and politician.
• Aldo Moro, (1978), former Prime Minister of Italy kidnapped and killed by Red Brigades.
• Alejandro González Malave, (1986), famous undercover policeman.
• Alexander Balas, (146 BC), Seleucid king.
• Alexander II of Russia, (1881), Tsar of All the Russias.
• Alexander Severus, (235), Roman emperor.
• Alfred Herrhausen, (1989), Deutsche Bank CEO.
• Ali Garmaii, (1996), dissident Iranian Kurdish activist.
• Ali Rajai, (1981), president and.
• Ali Razmara, (1951), Prime Minister of Iran.
• Ali Shermarke, (1969), president of Somalia.
• Ali Soilih, (1978), president of Comoros.
• Álvaro Obregón, (1928), President-elect.
• Amílcar Cabral, (1973), Pan-African intellectual.
• Anastasio Somoza, (1956), president of Nicaragua.
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle, (1980), former president of Nicaragua.
• André Cools, (1991), Belgian politician.
• André Mécili ("Ali Mécili"), (1987), Algerian opposition leader, in France.
• Andrea Wilborn, (1976), daughter of Priscilla Davis.
• Andreas von Mirbach, (1975), German military attaché in Stockholm.
• Andres Escobar, (1994), footballer.
• Andrey Lukanov, (1996), former Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• Boethius, (524), mathematician.
• Anna Lindh, (2003), Foreign Minister of Sweden.
• Anna Lindh, (2003) foreign minister of Sweden.
• Antiochus II Theos, (246 BC), Seleucid king.
• Antiochus VI Dionysus, (138 BC), Seleucid heir to the throne.
• Anton Cermak, (1933), mayor of Chicago.
• Anwar Sadat, (1981), President of Egypt.
• Aquila al-Hashimi, (2003), Iraqi governing council member.
• Archimedes, (212 BC), scientist.
• Armand Calinescu, (1939), Prime Minister of Romania.
• Ashikaga Yoshiteru, (1565), Shogun, feudal leader in Japan.
• Aubrey Hawkins, (2000), Irving, Texas police officer
• Aung San 1947 Burmese nationalist leader.
• Aurelian, (275), Roman emperor.
• Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Beheshti, (1981), killed along with over 60 others in bomb.

B

• Bachir Gemayel, (1982), president-elect of Lebanon.
• Barnett Slepian, M.D., (1998), abortion provider.
• Beant Singh, (1995), chief minister of Punjab.
• Ben Kiwanuka 1972 chief minister of Uganda from 1961 until 1962.
• Benigno Aquino Jr, (1983), opposition senator in the Philippines.
• Benito Mussolini, (1945), fascist Prime Minister of Italy.
• Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, (1990), Colombian presidential candidate.
• Bishop Henry, (1156) English crusader in Finland.
• Bison Dele, (2002), NBA player.
• Bob Crane, (1978), actor and DJ
• Bola Ige, (2001), Justice Minister of Nigeria.
• Bosko Perosevic, (2000), prefect of Vojvodina.
• Boutros Ghali, (1910), Prime Minister of Egypt.
• Brandon Teena, (1993).

C

• Caligula, (41), Roman emperor.
• Caracalla, (217), Roman emperor.
• Carausius, (293), usurper of the Western Roman Empire.
• Carinus, (284), Roman emperor.
• Carl Switzer, (1959), actor.
• Carlie Brucia, (2004), 11 year-old girl.
• Carlos Castillo Armas, (1957), president of Guatemala.
• Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, (1950), chairman of the military junta of Venezuela.
• Carus, (283), Roman emperor.
• Cassie Bernall, (1999), Columbine High School massacre victim.
• Celal Pasha, (1929), former Ottoman Minister for the Navy.
• Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, (1932), son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
• Charles Lenox Richardson, (1862), English diplomat.
• Charles XII, (1718), Swedish king and military commander.
• Charles of Portugal, (1908), king.
• Chico Mendes, (1988), Brazilian environmental activist.
• Chris Hani, (1993), leader of the South African Communist Party.
• Christopher Ewart-Biggs, (1976), British ambassador to Ireland.
• Christopher Marlowe, (1593), playwright.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, (43 BC), Roman orator.
• Claude Erignac, (1998), prefect of Corsica.
• Claudius, (54), Roman emperor.
• Cleon of Sicyon, (272 BC), tyrant of Sicyon.
• Commodus, (192), Roman emperor.
• Conrad of Montferrat, (1192), leader in the Third Crusade.
• Constant Chevillon, head of FUDOFSI, assassinated in 1944 by Gestapo.
• Costis Peratikos, (1987), Greek shipowner.
• Count von Mirbach, (1918), German ambassador in Moscow.
• Crazy Horse, (1877), Oglala Sioux chief killed by American troops.
• Cyprien Ntaryamira, (1994), President of Burundi, killed in mysterious plane crash; the resulting political instability led to the genocide in Rwanda and the outbreak of full-scale war in Burundi.

D

• Dag Hammarskjöld, (1961), United Nations Secretary General, killed in plane crash in Zaire.
• David Rizzio, (1566), Secretary and confident of Queen Mary I of Scotland.
• Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, (1991), director of Treuhandanstalt for former East Germany.
• Dian Fossey, (1985), naturalist.
• Didius Julianus, (193), Roman emperor.
• Dmitri Sipiagin, (1902), Russian Interior Minister.
• Dominique Dunne, actress
• Domitian, (96), Roman emperor.
• Doris Angleton, (1997), Houston, Texas socialite.
• Dorothy Stratten, (1980), actress.
• Dulcie September, (1988), African National Congress representative, in Paris.
• Dutch Schultz, (1935), gangster.

E

• King Edmund I, (946), king of England, stabbed at a banquet.
• Eduardo Frei Montalva, 1982, president of Chile from 1964 to 1970.
• Edward Canby, (1873), Union General, leader of a peace confrence.
• Elisabeth ("Sisi"), (1898), empress of Austria and queen of Hungary.
• Elizabeth Ann Short, (1947), aka "The Black Dahlia".
• Elvis Alvarez, (1994), world champion boxer, murdered.
• Emile Boga Doudou, (2002), Interior Minister of Côte d'Ivoire killed on the same day as Guei as the country plunged into civil war and street fighting occurred in the cities.
• Emile Zola, (1902), French author.
• Emiliano Zapata, (1919), revolutionary.
• Emperor Komei of Japan, (1840), Emperor of Japan.
• Emperor Sushun of Japan, (592), Emperor of Japan.
• Engelbert Dollfuss, (1934), chancellor of Austria.
• Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, (1436), Swedish statesman.
• Enrique Camarena, (1985), DEA official.
• Ephialtes, (461 BC), leader of the radical democracy movement in Athens.
• Ernest Lluch Martín, (2000), former Spanish minister.
• Ernst Zimmermann, (1985), German industrialist.
• Ernst vom Rath, (1938), German diplomat in France.
• Evelyn Hernandez, (2002).
• Eyvind Kelve, (995), Norwegian pagan leader

F

• Faisal II, (1958), King of Iraq,.
• Faisal of Saudi Arabia, (1975), king.
• Fazle Haq, (1991), governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985.
• Federico García Lorca, (1936), Spanish poet and dramatist.
• Felix Pappalardi, (1983), musician.
• Fernando Buesa Blanco, (2000), Basque politician and party leader.
• Ferreira do Amaral, (1849), Portuguese Governor of Macau.
• Florianus, (276), Roman emperor.
• Folke Bernadotte, (1948), Swedish Middle East peace mediator.
• Francisco I. Madero, (1913), President of Mexico.
• Francisco Tomas y Valiente, (1996), former president of the Spanish Constitutional Court.
• Frank Steunenberg 1905 former governor of Idaho.
• François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, (1975), president of Chad.
• Franz Birnecker, (1923), Austrian labour representative at Semperit.
• Franz Ferdinand of Austria, (1914), Archduke of Austria-Hungary.

G

• Gabriel García Moreno, (1875), president of Ecuador known for his support of the Catholic church.
• Gabriel Narutowicz, (1922), President of Poland.
• Gail Miller, (January 31, 1969), lead to wrongful conviction of David Milgaard, murdered by David Fisher.
• Galba, (69), Roman emperor.
• Gallienus, (268), Roman emperor.
• George I of Greece, (1913), king.
• George Moscone, (1978), Mayor of San Francisco killed along with Milk.
• George Tsantes, (1983), U.S. military attaché in Athens.
• Georges Besse, (1986), Renault executive.
• Georgi Markov, (1978), Bulgarian dissident.
• Gerald Bull, (1990), Canadian developer of the Martlet cannon, assassinated by Israeli agents.
• Germanicus, (19), Roman military leader, poisoned.
• Gerold von Braunmühl, (1986), official in the German Foreign Ministry.
• Gianni Versace, (1997), fashion designer.
• Günter von Drenkmann, (1974), Berlin chief justice.
• Gordian III, (244), Roman emperor.
• Grigori Rasputin, (1916), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker.
• Gustav III, (1792), King of Sweden.

H

• Habibullah Khan, (1919), emir of Afghanistan.
• Hafizullah Amin, (1979), communist prime minister of Afghanistan killed during Soviet invasion.
• Haile Selassie, (1975), Ethiopian emperor who was deposed and imprisoned a year earlier by the military after an eventful reign of over 40 years.
• Haing S. Ngor, (1996), actor.
• Hamaguchi Osachi. (1931), Japanese Prime Minister.
• Hanns-Martin Schleyer, (1977), president of the German employers' organization.
• Hara Takashi, (1921), Japanese Prime Minister.
• Haruo Remeliik, (1985), president of the Pacific island of Palau.
• Harvey Milk, (1978), gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California.
• Hashimoto Sanai, (1859), Japanese political activist.
• Hassan Ali Mansur, (1965), Prime Minister of Iran.
• Heinz Hillegaart, (1975), German diplomat in Stockholm.
• Heinz-Herbert Karry, (1981), minister of economy of Hesse.
• Heliogabalus, (222), Roman emperor.
• Hendrik Verwoerd, (1966), Prime Minister of South Africa, stabbed in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.
• Henry Heusken, (1861), American diplomat (accompanying Townsend Harris from Amsterdam).
• Henry Hughes Wilson, (1922), British field marshal, Conservative politician.
• Henri III, (1589), King of France.
• Henri IV, (1610), King of France.
• Henry Shirley, (1627), dramatist.
• Hiempsal, (117 BC), co-ruler of Numidia.
• Hipparchus, (514 BC), tyrant of Athens.
• Birendra, (2001), King of Nepal (along with Queen Aiswary and 9 other members of the royal family).
• Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor.
• Hypatia of Alexandria, (415), mathematician

I

• Ian Gow, (1990), British Conservative politician.
• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, (1999), President of Niger.
• Ibrahim Hashim, (1958), Jordanian politician, prime minister several times between the 1930s and shortly before his death - the previous three were all killed during the July 14 military coup in Iraq.
• Ibrahim al-Hamadi, (1977), president of North Yemen.
• Ieu Koeus 1950 briefly prime minister of Cambodia in 1949.
• Ii Naosuke, (1860), Japanese politician.
• Ikeuchi Daigaku, (1864), Japanese politician.
• Indira Gandhi, (1984), Indian prime minister.
• Inejiro Asanuma, (1960), Socialist Party of Japan chairman.
• Inukai Tsuyoshi, (1932), Japanese Prime Minister.
• Ioannis Capodistrias, (1831), first president of Greece.
• Ion Duca, (1933), prime minister of Romania.
• Iqbal Masih, (1995), 13-year-old anti-child labor activist.
• Irfan Ljubijankic, (1995), foreign minister of Bosnia.
• Isoroku Yamamoto, (1943), Admiral.
• István Tisza, (1918), former premier of Hungary.
• Ito Hirobumi, (1909), Japanese Resident-General of Korea.

J

• James Garfield, (1881), President of the United States.
• Archbishop Sharp, (1679).
• Jane Stanford, cofounder Stanford University.
• Javid Bahonar, (1981), Prime Minister of Iran respectively, killed 30 August, just weeks after taking office.
• Jay Sebring, 1969, hair stylist, victim of Charles Manson family.
• Jean Jaurès, (1914), politician, pacifist.
• Jean-Jacques Dessalines, (1806), Emperor of Haiti.
• Jean-Paul Marat, (1793), revolutionary.
• Jerzy Popiełuszko, (1984), Polish priest.
• Jesse Dirkhising, (1999), young victim of crime
• Jill Dando, (1999), television presenter.
• JoAnn Thatcher, (1983), ex-wife of Canadian politician Colin Thatcher.
• Joachim Peiper, (1976), German SS commander.
• Joe Orton, (1967), dramatist.
• John F. Kennedy, (1963), President of the United States.
• King Jean I of France, (1316).
• John Lennon, (1980), singer and former Beatle.
• John Lennon, (1980), songwriter and musician.
• John Newman, (1994), New South Wales state minister and member for Cabramatta.
• JonBenét Ramsey, (1996), young beauty queen and young victim of crime
• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, (1948), Colombian Liberal Party leader.
• José Cheito Ruiz, (1993), world champion boxer from Puerto Rico.
• Joseph Bamina, (1965), Burundian prime minister.
• Joseph Smith, Jr, (1844), Mormon leader, Presidential candidate.
• Joseph Stalin, (1953), Soviet leader
• Joy Adamson, (1980), naturalist
• Jürgen Ponto, (1977), CEO Dresdner Bank.
• Juan José Torres, (1976), president of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971.
• Flavius Claudius Julianus, (363), Roman emperor.
• Julius Caesar, (44 BC), Roman emperor.
• Gaius Julius Caesar, (44 BC), common form of reference to Julius Caesar.
• Juvénal Habyarimana, (1994), President of Rwanda, and.

K

• Kamal Jumblatt, (1977), Lebanese Druze leader.
• Karl Graf Stürgkh, (1916), Prime Minister of Austria.
• Karl Heinz Beckurts, (1986), Siemens executive.
• Karl von Spreti, (1970), German ambassador in Guatemala.
• Kazem Rajavi, (1990), Iranian opposition leader.
• Kevin O'Higgins, (1927), Irish politician.
• Khalil Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), (1988), military leader of the PLO.
• Khosrow I, (238), Armenian king.
• King Aed I of Scotland, (878).
• King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, (1934).
• King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand, (1946).
• King Culen I of Scotland, (971).
• King Dubh I of Scotland, (966)
• King Duncan I of Scotland, (1040), murdered by Macbeth.
• King Edward II of England, (1327)
• King Edward V of England, (1470-1483), (probably).
• King Henry VI of England, (1471).
• King Indulf I of Scotland, (962).
• King Kenneth II of Scotland, (995)
• King Kenneth III of Scotland, (1005).
• King Lulach of Scotland, (1058).
• King Malcolm I of Scotland, (954).
• King Richard II of England, (1399)
• King William II of England, (1100), killed by an arrow while hunting.
• Kitty Genovese, (1964), bar manager whose murder instigated the study of the Bystander effect.
• Konrad von Marburg, (1233), German inquisitor.
• Kristen French, (1992), murdered by Paul Bernardo.
• Kusaka Gennai, (1864), Japanese politician.

L

• Laci Peterson, (2002) - Pregnant California woman.
• Laelianus, (268), Gallic emperor.
• Lana Clarkson, (2003), actress.
• Laura Kate Smither, (1997), young victim of crime.
• Laurent-Désiré Kabila, (2001), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997-2001.
• Leamon Hunt, (1984), US chief of the Sinai Multinational Force and Observer Group (assassinated in Rome).
• Lee Harvey Oswald, (1963), alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• Leno & Rosemary LaBianca, 1969, victims of Charles Manson family.
• Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader.
• Leslie Mahaffy, (1991), murdered by Paul Bernardo
• Liaquat Ali Khan, (1951), Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• Lord Darnley, (1567), Henry Stuart, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• Lord Frederick Cavendish, (1882), Chief Secretary for Ireland.
• Louis Barthou, (1934), foreign minister of France killed along with Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille.
• Earl Mountbatten, (1979), Vice-admiral, last viceroy of India.
• Louis Rwagasore, 1961, Burundian prince and prime minister.
• Luis Carlos Galán, (1989), Colombian presidential candidate.
• Luis Carrero Blanco, (1973), Spanish prime minister.
• Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, (1994), Presidential candidate.
• Luis María Argaña, (1999), vice president of Paraguay.
• Luis Sánchez Cerro, (1933), president of Peru.
• Luis Vigoreaux, (1983), slain producer, show host.

M

• Malcolm X, (1965), (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little), leader.
• Marco Biagi, (2002), Italian Labor Ministry advisor.
• Marie François Sadi Carnot, (1894), President of France.
• Marie Trintignant, (2003), French actress.
• Marien Ngouabi, (1977), president of Congo (Brazzaville).
• Martin Luther King Jr, (1968), U.S. civil rights activist.
• Massimo D'Antona, (1999), advisor of the Italian Minister of Labour.
• Matsudaira Hirotada, (1549), feudal leader in Japan.
• Matthew Shepard, (1998), gay student.
• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, (1966), president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944.
• Maximinus Thrax, (238), Roman emperor.
• Maximus of Smyrna, (370), neoplatonist philosopher.
• Medgar Evers, (1963), U.S. civil rights activist.
• Megan Kanka, (1994), young victim of crime.
• Meir Kahane, (1990), leader of the ultra-Zionist Jewish Defense League.
• Mia Zapata, (1993), singer
• Michael Collins, (1922), President of the Provisional Government.
• Mimura Iechika, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan.
• Minister Milorad Draskovic, Yugoslav interior minister killed in 1921 by Communist Alija Alijagic
• Mohammad Nanva, (1996), dissident Iranian Kurdish activist.
• Mohammed Ahmad al-Rasheed, (2003), Saudi Arabian ambassador to the Ivory Coast.
• Mohammed Nader Shah, (1933), king of Afghanistan since 1929.
• Mohammed Najibullah, (1996), president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul.
• Mohandas Gandhi, (1948), Independence leader.
• Monaldesco, (1656), servant of Queen Christina of Sweden.
• Moritz Schlick (1936), Austrian philosopher.
• Muhammad Boudiaf, (1992), president of Algeria.
• Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, (1988), military ruler of Pakistan.
• Mujibur Rahman, (1975), president of Bangladesh.
• Murtala Ramat Mohammed, (1976), President of Nigeria.
• Nader Shah, (1747), Shah of Persia.
• Nancy Spungen, (1978), girlfriend of Sid Vicious.

N

• Ngo Dinh Diem, (1963), first president of South Vietnam.
• Nicholas II of Russia, (1918), deposed Tsar.
• Nicole Brown Simpson, (1994), estranged wife of O. J. Simpson.
• Nida Blanca, (2001), actress.
• Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, (1904), Governor-General of Finland.
• Nikos Momferratos, (1985), Greek newspaper publisher.
• Nukrashi Pasha, (1948), Prime Minister of Egypt.
• Numerian, (284), Roman emperor.
• Nur Mohammad Taraki, (1979), communist president.
• Nuri Pasha as-Said, (1958), Iraqi politician, and.

O

• Oda Nobunaga, (1582), samurai warlord.
• Oda Nobuyuki, (1557), Japanese samurai, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga.
• Okubo Toshimichi, (1878), Japanese Prime Minister.
• Olof Palme, (1986), Swedish prime minister.
• Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende.
• Ouchi Yoshitaka, (1551), daimyo, feudal leader in Japan.

P

• Francisco "Pancho" Villa, (1923), revolutionary.
• Park Chung Hee, (1979), President of South Korea.
• Patrice Lumumba, (1961), Prime Minister of the Congo.
• Patsy Collins, (1976), Deep Purple roadie and bodyguard.
• Paul Castellano, (1985), mafioso.
• Paul Doumer, (1932), President of France.
• Pavle Bulatovic, (2000), defense minister of Yugoslavia.
• Pellegrino Rossi, (1848), Italian Minister of Justice.
• Pertinax, (193), Roman emperor.
• Peter III of Russia, (1762), tsar of Russia.
• Peter Stolypin, (1911), Russian Prime Minister.
• Petra Kelly, (1992), German Green Party leader.
• Phil Hartman, (1998), Canadian actor.
• Philip II of Macedon, (336 BC), king of Macedon.
• Phoolan Devi, (2001), bandit queen turned politician and activist for people of lower castes.
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, (1975), Italian poet and film director.
• Pierre Laporte, (1970), Quebec Minister of Labour.
• Pierre Ngendandumwe, (1965), Burundian prime minister.
• Pierre-Jean Massimi, (1983), secretary of the département Haute-Corse.
• Pim Fortuyn, (2002), Dutch politician.
• Polly Klaas, (1993), young victim of crime.
• Pompey the Great, (48 BC), Roman politician killed in Egypt.
• Pope Alexander VI, (1503), Roman pope of the 15th century.
• Pope John Paul I, (1978).
• Pius VIII, (1830), Pope.
• Postumus, (268), Gallic emperor.
• Probus, (282), Roman emperor.
• Publius Septimius Geta, (212), Roman emperor.
• Balbinus, (238), Roman emperor.
• Pupienus, (238), Roman emperor.
• Pythagoras, (496 BC), mathematician.

R

• Rachel Scott, (1999), Columbine High School massacre victim.
• Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, (1961), Dominican Republic dictator.
• Rajiv Gandhi, (1991), former Indian prime minister, son of Indira.
• Ramon Novarro, (1968), actor.
• Ranasinghe Premadasa, (1993), President of Sri Lanka.
• Rashid Karami, (1987), Prime Minister of Lebanon.
• Raymond II of Tripoli, (1152), count of Tripoli.
• Rebecca Schaffer, (1989), actress.
• Regiomontanus (aka Johannes Müller), (1476), German mathematician and astronomer.
• Reinhard Heydrich, (1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia.
• René Audran, (1985), General.
• René Bousquet, (1994), former Vichy French police chief.
• René Moawad, (1989), president of Lebanon.
• Rev. Robert Bradford, (1981), Unionist MP in Northern Ireland.
• Ricardo Tejero Magro, (1985), Spanish Central Bank director.
• Richard, Duke of York one of the Princes in the Tower.
• Richard Ratsimandrava, (1975), president of Madagascar killed just days after taking power in military coup.
• Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), Presidential candidate.
• Robert Guei, (2002), military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire from 1999 to 2000.
• Roberto Calvi, (1982), CEO of Banco Ambrosiano.
• Roberto Calvi, (1982), banker.
• Ronald Hughes, (1971), celebrity attorney.
• Ronald Lyle Goldman, (1994), actor, murdered with Nicole Brown Simpson.
• Ross McWhirter, (1975), co-author of the Guinness Book of Records and far right wing political activist.
• Rusty Day, (1982), musician.

S

• S. L. MacGregor-Mathers, well-known magician and occultist, died in 1918 bu unknown cause. His death certificate does not give any information. It is known that he had many enemies.
• S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, (1959), Sri Lankan socialist prime minister killed by Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama.
• Sakamoto Ryoma, (1867), Japanese author.
• Sakuma Shozan, (1864), Japanese politician.
• Sal Mineo, (1976), actor.
• Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad"), (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia.
• Salvador Allende, (1973), Chilean president.
• Samantha Runyon, (2002), young victim of crime.
• Samora Machel, (1986), President of Mozambique.
• Samuel Doe, (1990), president of Liberia. A semiliterate army officer who himself overthrew and allowed the assassination of William Tolbert. The instability following his death led to the outbreak of full-scale war.
• Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan, (1978), president of Afghanistan killed in communist coup.
• Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, (2003), ayatollah.
• Selena Quintanilla Perez, (1995), Tejano singer.
• Seleucus I Nicator, (281 BC), founder of the Seleucid dynasty.
• Seleucus III Ceraunus, (223 BC), Seleucid king.
• Seleucus IV Philopator, (176 BC), Seleucid king.
• Sergei Kirov, (1934), Bolshevik party leader in Leningrad.
• Serizawa Kamo, (1863), a chief of Shinsen-gumi.
• Servius Tullius, (534 BC), Etruscan king.
• Shahpur Bakhtiar, (1991), Prime Minister of Iran briefly in 1979, stabbed to death at his home in France.
• Shaka, (1828), king of the Zulus.
• Shanda Sharer, (1992), young victim of crime.
• Sharon Tate, (1969), actress.
• Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (2004), leader of Hamas.
• Shimazu Nariaki, (1858), Japanese daimyo in Satsuma, now Kagoshima prefecture.
• Siddiq Khan Kanju, (2001), foreign minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993.
• Siegfried Buback, (1977), German attorney general.
• Simon Petlyura, (1926), Ukrainian independence leader.
• Sir Richard Sharples, (1973), governor of Bermuda.
• Sirosawa Saneomi, (1871), Japanese political activist.
• Sogdianus, (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother Darius II.
• Sopatrus, (335), neoplatonist philosopher.
• Spencer Perceval, (1812), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, only British prime minister to be assassinated.
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello, (2003), UN Special Representative in Iraq.
• Stan Farr, (1976), boyfriend of Priscilla Davis.
• Stanford White, (1906), architect.
• Stefan Stambulov, (1895), Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• Stephen Saunders, (2000), Brigadier and British military attaché in Athens.
• Steven Parent, 1969, victim of Charles Manson family.
• Sylvanus Olympio, (1963), president of Togo.

T

• T.H. Burke, (1882), Under Secretary for Ireland.
• Takahashi Korekiyo, (1936), Japanese author.
• Takuma Dan, (1932), Japanese zaibatsu leader.
• Talat Pasha, 1921, Former Ottoman Interior Minister.
• The Sogas, (645), Japanese political family.
• Thomas Becket, (1170), Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Thomas Becket, (1170), archbishop.
• Thomas Hindman, (1868), Confederate General.
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, (1868), Canadian father of Confederation.
• Thomas Sankara, (1987), military leader of Burkina Faso.
• Tiberius Gracchus, (133 BC), Roman tribune.
• Tidas, (252 BC), tyrant of Sicyon.
• Titus Tatius, (748 BC), Sabine king.
• Tokugawa Nariaki, (1860), Japanese daimyo, a relative of Tokugawa shoguns.
• Tommy Burks, (1998), Tennessee State Senator
• Trebonianus Gallus, (253), Roman emperor.
• Tutankhamen, (1352 BC), Egyptian pharaoh (probably).

U

• Ulises Heureaux, (1899), president of the Dominican Republic.
• Umberto I of Italy, (1900), king.
• Uwe Barschel, (1987), minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein.

V

• Valentin Tsvetkov, (2002), governor of Magadan.
• Vasgen Sarkissian, (1999), Prime Minister of Armenia.
• Vaslav Vorovsky, (1923), Soviet diplomat assassinated in Lausanne.
• Venustiano Carranza, (1920), President of Mexico.
• Vitellius, (69), Roman emperor.
• Vyacheslav Plehve, (1904), Russian Interior Minister.

W

• Walter Rodney, (1980), Guyanese historian and political figure.
• Wasfi at-Tall, (1971), Prime Minister of Jordan.
• Wilhelm Gustloff, (1936), German leader of the Swiss Nazi party.
• William Desmond Taylor, (1922), film director.
• William I of Orange, (1584), stadtholder.
• William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States.
• William R. Tolbert, Jr, (1980), president of Liberia killed in military coup.

X

• Xerxes I, (465 BC), Persian king killed by guards.
• Xerxes II , (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother Sogdianus.

Y

• Yahya ibn Mohammad, (1948), imam of Yemen.
• Yamanaka Shikanosuke, (1578), Japanese samurai.
• Yitzhak Rabin, (1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Yokoi Shonai, (1869), Japanese political activist.
• Yoshida Toyo, (1863), Japanese political activist.

Z

• Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (2004), President of Chechnya from 1996 until 1997.
• Zeljko Raznatovic ("Arkan"), (2000), Serb paramilitary leader.
• Zengi, (1146), ruler of Aleppo and Mosul and founder of the Zengid Dynasty.
• Ziaur Rahman, (1981), president of Bangladesh.
• Zoran Djindjic, (2003), Prime Minister of Serbia killed by organized crime.
• Zviad Gamsakhurdia, (1993), former president of Georgia - apparent suicide, though nobody really seems to know for sure.

Related articles and lists

• List of people who survived assassination attempts.
• List of assassinations by car bombing.
• List of famous suicides.
• Index of lists of famous deaths by cause
• List of assassins, assassin, terrorist

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