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==Assassinations in Africa==

=== Algeria ===

* [[Hiempsal I|Hiempsal]] (117 BC), co-ruler of [[Numidia]]
* [[Charles de Foucauld]] (December 1, 1916), French Catholic religious and priest
* [[François Darlan]] (December 24, 1942), senior figure of [[Vichy France]]
* [[Larbi Ben M'Hidi]], (March 10, 1957) Algerian nationalist and [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] leader
* [[Maurice Audin]], (June 21, 1957) [[Pied-noir]] and [[Parti communiste francais|PC]] millitant
* [[Larbi Tbessi]], (June 21, 1957) Nationalist and [[Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema]] president
* [[Ali Boumendjel]] (Mars 23, 1957), Algerian lawyer, assassinated by the French army
* [[Mohamed Khemisti]] (April 11, 1963), Algerian foreign minister<ref name="wa257">''World Almanac 1967'', p257</ref>
* [[Mustafa Bouyali]] (February 3, 1987), Islamic fundamentalist
* [[Mohamed Boudiaf]] (June 29, 1992), Head of State of Algeria, shot at [[Annaba]]<ref>"Historic Assassinations Since 1865," ''The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004'', p156 (''World Almanac 2004'')</ref>
* [[Tahar Djaout]] Poet (June 2, 1993)
* [[Kasdi Merbah]] (August 22, 1993), former Prime Minister of Algeria
* [[Abdelkader Alloula]] (March 10, 1994), playwright
* [[Cheb Hasni]] (September 29, 1994), singer
* [[Aboubakr Belkaid]] (Septembre 28, 1995), Politician
* [[Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine|Seven monks of the Trappistes of Tibérine]] (March 27, 1996)
* [[Pierre Claverie]] (August 1, 1996), Catholic bishop of Oran
* [[Said Mekbel]] (December 3, 1994) Journalist, assassinated with a car bomb in [[Aïn Bénian, Algiers]]
* [[Lounès Matoub]] (June 25, 1998), [[berberism|berberist]] singer
* [[Abdelkader Hachani]] (November 22, 1999), [[Islamic fundamentalism|Islamic fundamentalist]]
* [[Ali Tounsi]] (February 25, 2010), chief of the national police

===Angola===
* [[Jeremias Chitunda]] (November 2, 1992), Vice President of [[UNITA]]
* [[Elias Salupeto Pena]] (November 2, 1992), [[UNITA]] senior advisor

===Burkina Faso===
* [[Thomas Sankara]] (October 15, 1987), Head of State of Burkina Faso
* [[Norbert Zongo]] (December 13, 1998), journalist

===Burundi===
* [[Louis Rwagasore]] (October 13, 1961), Prime Minister of Burundi
* [[Pierre Ngendandumwe]] (January 15, 1965), Prime Minister of Burundi<ref>"Chief Political Assassinations Since 1865," ''The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1967'', p257 (''World Almanac 1967'')</ref>
* [[Joseph Bamina]] (September 30, 1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
* [[Melchior Ndadaye]] (October 21, 1993), President of Burundi, Founder of The Burundi Workers' Party
* [[Cyprien Ntaryamira]] (April 6, 1994), President of Burundi, airplane shot down<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Kassi Manlan]] (November 20, 2001), [[World Health Organisation]] representative

===Cameroon===
* [[Ruben Um Nyobé]] (September 13, 1958), leader of the [[Union of the Peoples of Cameroon]] (UPC)

===Chad===
* [[François Tombalbaye]] (April 13, 1975), [[List of heads of state of Chad|President of Chad]]

===Comoros===
* [[Ali Soilih]] (May 29, 1978), former [[List of heads of state of the Comoros|President of Comoros]]
* [[Ahmed Abdallah]] (November 26, 1989), President of Comoros
* [[Combo Ayouba]] (June 13, 2010), army chief of staff and former interim head of state

===Congo (Brazzaville)===
* [[Marien Ngouabi]] (March 18, 1977), [[List of heads of state of the Republic of the Congo|President of the Congo]], shot in [[Brazzaville]]<ref name="wa156" />

===Congo (Kinshasa)===
* [[Patrice Lumumba]] (1961 January 17), former Prime Minister of the Congo<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Maurice Mpolo]] (1961 January 17), former Youth Minister, and Lumumba associate<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Joseph Okito]] (1961 January 17), Senate Vice-President and Lumumba associate<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Laurent Kabila]] (2001 January 16), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, shot by bodyguard<ref name="wa156" />

===Egypt===
* [[Pompey the Great]] (48 BC), Roman general and politician killed in Egypt
* [[Al-Afdal Shahanshah]] (1121), [[vizier]] of [[Fatimid]] Egypt
* [[Al-Amir]] (1130), Fatimid [[Caliph]]
* [[Qutuz]] (1260), [[Mamluk]] sultan of Egypt
* [[Jean Baptiste Kléber]] (1800), French general
* [[Boutros Ghali]] (1910), [[Prime Minister of Egypt]]
* Sir [[Lee Stack]] (1924), [[Governor-General]] of the [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]]
* [[Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne|Walter Edward Guinness]], Lord Moyne (1944), the [[United Kingdom|UK]]'s Minister Resident in the Middle East
* [[Ahmed Maher Pasha]] (1945 February 24), Prime Minister of Egypt<ref>"Assassinations and Political Murders," ''20th Century Timeline'' (Griesewood & Dempsey, Ltd., 1985) (Crescent Books, 1985) [''20th Century Timeline''] , p119</ref>
* [[Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi]] (1948 December 28), Prime Minister of Egypt<ref name="timeline120">''20th Century Timeline'', p120</ref>
* [[Hassan al-Banna]] (1949), founder of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]
* [[Wasfi al-Tal]] (1971 November 28), [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] shot during visit to Cairo<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Anwar Sadat]] (1981 October 6), [[President of Egypt]], [[Assassination of Anwar El Sadat|shot while reviewing military parade]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Rifaat al-Mahgoub]] (1990), speaker of [[Egypt]]ian parliament
* [[Farag Foda]] (1992), [[Egypt]]ian politician and intellectual

===The Gambia===
* [[Deyda Hydara]] (2004), journalist

===Guinea===
* [[Amílcar Cabral]] (1973), Pan-African intellectual, in [[Conakry]], [[Guinea]]

===Guinea Bissau===
* [[Batista Tagme Na Waie]] (2009), chief of staff of the army
* [[Joao Bernardo Vieira]] (2009, March 2), President of [[Guinea Bissau]]
* [[Baciro Dabó]] (2009), government minister and independent presidential candidate
* [[Hélder Proença]] (2009), former government minister

===Kenya===
* [[Pio Gama Pinto]] (1965), socialist politician
* [[Tom Mboya]] (1969 July 5), [[Kenya]]n Minister of Economic Planning and politician<ref>"Historic Assassinations Since 1865," ''The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1982'' (''World Almanac 1982''), p750</ref>
* [[Josiah Mwangi Kariuki]] (1975), Kenyan politician
* [[Robert Ouko (politician)|Robert Ouko]] (1990), foreign minister of [[Kenya]]
* [[Seth Sendashonga]] (1998), former interior minister of [[Rwanda]]
* [[Oscar Kamau Kingara]] (2009), human rights activist
* [[John Paul Oulo]] (2009), human rights activist

===Liberia===
* [[William R. Tolbert, Jr.]] (1980 April 12), [[president of Liberia]] killed in military coup<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Samuel Doe]] (1990), president of Liberia

===Madagascar===
* [[Radama II of Madagascar]] (1863), king of Madagascar
* [[Richard Ratsimandrava]] (1975 February 11), [[president of Madagascar]] shot 6 days after taking power in military coup<ref name="wa156" />

===Mozambique===
* [[Eduardo Mondlane]] (1969), leader of the independence [[FRELIMO]] movement, allegedly killed by the Portuguese branch of [[Gladio]]
* [[Carlos Cardoso]] (2000), Mozambican journalist

===Namibia===
* [[Clemens Kapuuo]] (1978), [[Herero people|Herero]] chief and politician
* [[Anton Lubowski]] (1989), leading white [[SWAPO]] activist

===Niger===
* [[Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara]] (1999 April 9), [[President of Niger]], ambushed by soldiers<ref name="wa156" />

===Nigeria===
* Sir [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] (1966), [[Prime Minister of Nigeria]] killed during military coup
* Alhaji Sir [[Ahmadu Bello]] (1966)
* [[Adekunle Fajuyi]] (1966)
* [[Samuel Akintola]] (1966)
* [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi]] (1966), military head of state
* [[Murtala Ramat Mohammed]] (1976 February 13), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|President]] of [[Nigeria]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Dele Giwa]] (1986), journalist
* [[Bola Ige]] (2001), justice minister of Nigeria
* [[Modu Bintube]] (2011), [[Borno State|Borno]] state legislator

===Rwanda===
* [[Dian Fossey]] (1985), [[primatologist]], in the province of [[Ruhengeri]]
* [[Agathe Uwilingiyimana]] (1994), Prime Minister of [[Rwanda]] killed one day after genocide began
* [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] (1994 April 6), his plane was shot out of the sky as it approached Kigali airport, and signalled the start of the [[Rwandan Genocide]]<ref name="wa156"/>

===Senegal===
* [[Demba Diop]] (1967), government minister and mayor

===Somalia===
* [[Abdirashid Ali Shermarke]] (1969), [[president of Somalia]]
* [[Abdallah Derow Isaq]] (2006), former acting President of Somalia
* [[Ali Said]] (2009), [[Mogadishu]] police chief
* [[Omar Hashi Aden]] (2009), security minister
* [[Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah]] (2011), interior minister

===South Africa===
* [[Shaka]] (1828), king of the Zulus, near Stanger (now [[KwaDukuza]]) by [[Dingane]] and Mhlangana
* [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] (1966 September 6), [[Prime Minister of South Africa]], stabbed in parliament by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Ruth First]] (1982), anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader [[Joe Slovo]], by pro-apartheid "[[Koevoet]]" leader [[Craig Williamson]]
* [[Vernon Nkadimeng]] (1985), South African dissident
* [[Dulcie September]] (1988), head of the [[African National Congress]] in [[Paris]], by [[South African Defence Force]] sergeant [[Joseph Klue]]
* [[Chris Hani]] (1993), leader of the [[South African Communist Party]] shot by [[Janusz Walus]]
* [[Johan Heyns]] (1995), prominent leader in the [[Dutch Reformed Church]]
* [[Mbongeleni Zondi]] (2009), South African politician

===Sudan===
* [[Cleo A. Noel Jr|Cleo Noel Jr]] and [[George Curtis Moore]] (1973 March 2), US Chief of Mission/Deputy Chief ot Mission (see [[1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations]])<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Guy Eid]] (1973), Belgian Chargé d'affaires (see [[1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations]])
* [[John Granville]] (2008), diplomat for the [[United States Agency for International Development]]
* [[Jimmy Lemi Milla]] (2011), [[Southern Sudan]] government minister

===Swaziland===
* [[Gabriel Mkhumane]] (2008), political opposition leader

===Tanzania===
* [[Abeid Amani Karume]] (1972), first President of [[Zanzibar]], First Vice President of [[Tanzania]]
* [[David Sibeko]] (1979), South African political activist

===Togo===
* [[Sylvanus Olympio]] (1963 January 13), first president of independent [[Togo]], in a coup led by dictator [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]]<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Tavio Amorin]] (1992), socialist leader (shot in [[Lomé]], died in [[Paris]])

===Tunisia===
* [[Khalil Wazir]] ("Abu Jihad") (1988 April 16), military leader of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]], shot by Israeli commandos in [[Tunis]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Salah Khalaf]] ("Abu Iyad") (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia

===Uganda===
* [[Benedicto Kiwanuka]] (1972), Chief Justice of [[Uganda]]
* [[Janani Luwum]] (1977), Archbishop of [[Uganda]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]] and [[Boga-Zaire]] from 1974 until 1977

===Western Sahara===
* [[Mohamed Bassiri]] (1970), [[Sahrawi people|Sahrawi]] leader and journalist, ''[[forced disappearance|disappeared]]'' in [[El Aaiún]]

===Zambia===
* [[Herbert Chitepo]] (1975), [[Zimbabwe]]an nationalist leader

===Zimbabwe===
* [[Attati Mpakati]] (1983), left-wing [[Malawi]]an politician

==Assassinations in the Americas==

===Antigua and Barbuda===
* [[Daniel Parke]] (1710), British governor of the [[Leeward Islands]]

===Argentina===
* [[Justo José de Urquiza]] (1870), former president of Argentina, killed by people from [[Federales (Argentina)|his own party]], who saw him as a traitor.
* [[Ramón Falcón]] (1909), chief of the National Police, assassinated by [[Anarchism in Argentina|anarchists]] as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers.
* [[Murder of Mariano Ferreyra|Mariano Ferreyra]], demonstrator.
* [[Pedro Eugenio Aramburu|Pedro Aramburu]] (1970), former ''de facto'' [[president of Argentina]], executed by the peronist guerrilla [[Montoneros]] in revenge for the abduction of [[Eva Perón|Evita]]'s body and for the execution of those implicated in a [[Juan José Valle|failed uprising]] fifteen years before, during Aramburu's dictatorship.
* [[Carlos Prats]] (1974), Chilean General, former [[Commander-in-chief]] of the [[Chilean Army]]. Killed by the [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|secret service]] of the [[Pinochet dictatorship]], during his exile in Argentina.
* [[Zelmar Michelini]] (1976), Uruguayan senator, founder of the [[Broad Front (Uruguay)|Broad Front]]. Exiled in Argentina as a result of the [[1973 Uruguayan coup d'état|1973 Uruguayan coup]], he was killed after the [[1976 Argentine coup d'état|1976 Argentine coup]], under the ''[[Operation Condor]]'', which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the [[Southern Cone]].
* [[Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz]] (1976), former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives, exiled in Argentina. Killed alongside [[Zelmar Michelini]].
* [[Juan José Torres]] (1976), former military [[President of Bolivia]], exiled in Argentina after his overthrow by [[Hugo Banzer]]. He was killed after the [[1976 Argentine coup d'état]], under the ''[[Operation Condor]]'', which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the [[Southern Cone]].

===Bermuda===
* Sir [[Richard Sharples]] (1973), [[governor of Bermuda]]

===Bolivia===
* [[Pedro Blanco Soto]] (1829), President of Boliva
* [[Manuel Isidoro Belzu]] (1865), [[President of Bolivia|President]] of [[Bolivia]]
* [[Mariano Melgarejo]] (1871), President of Bolivia
* [[Gualberto Villarroel]] (1946), President of Bolivia
* [[René Barrientos Ortuño]] (1969), former President of Bolivia

===Brazil===
* [[Pinheiro Machado (politician)]] (1915), Brazilian politician
* [[João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque]] (1930)
* [[Adib Shishakli]] (1964), Syrian military dictator
* [[Vladimir Herzog]] (1975), Journalist
* [[Zuzu Angel]] (1976), Brazilian activist
* [[Chico Mendes]] (1988), Brazilian environmental activist
* [[Paulo César Farias]] (1996), Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer
* [[Antonio da Costa Santos]] (2001), Mayor of [[Campinas]]
* [[Dorothy Stang]] (2005), American nun killed by business interests

===Canada===
* [[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]] (1868), Father of Canadian Confederation
* [[George Brown (Canadian politician)|George Brown]] (1880), newspaper editor and [[Senate of Canada|Senator]]
* [[W.C. Hopkinson|William C. Hopkinson]] (1914), immigration officer, British intelligence agent, by Ghadarite sympathizer, Mewa Singh
* [[Pierre Laporte]] (1970), [[Quebec]] Minister of Labour, was kidnapped and murdered by the [[Front de libération du Québec|FLQ]]
* [[Atilla Altıkat]] (1982), Turkish diplomat assassinated by Armenian nationalists in [[Ottawa]]

===Chile===
* [[René Schneider]] (1970), Chilean general, Commander-in-Chief of the [[Chilean Army]] at the moment of his assassination. After several attempts, he was kidnapped and killed by [[Fatherland and Liberty|far-right paramilitary squads]], due to his opposition to any intervention of the armed forces to block the election of left-wing candidate [[Salvador Allende]] in 1970.
* [[Edmundo Pérez Zujovic]] (1971), Chilean ex Secretary of Interior Affairs.
* [[Victor Jara]] (1973), Chilean left-wing singer, killed after the coup of 1973.
* [[Eduardo Frei Montalva]] (1982), former [[President of Chile]] and opponent of the [[Pinochet dictatorship]]. Though he officially died by septicemia after a low-risk surgery, recent research suggests he was poisoned by the [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|secret service of Pinochet]]. However, there isn't an absolute certainty about the real causes of his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/reportajes/Veneno/magnicidio/elpepusocdmg/20091227elpdmgrep_7/Tes |title=Veneno para un magnicidio |publisher=Elpais.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-29}}</ref>
* [[Tucapel Jiménez]] (1982), Chilean trade-unionist, killed by the military dictatorship of Pinochet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080117163105/http://www.memoriaviva.com/culpables/criminales%20h/herrera_jimenez_carlos1.htm |title=Habla Mayor (R) Carlos Herrera Jimenez, procesado por el Caso Tucapel |publisher=Web.archive.org |date=2008-01-17 |accessdate=2012-01-29}}</ref>
* [[Jaime Guzmán]] (1991), Chilean ''pinochetist'' Senator, killed by [[FPMR|far-left guerrillas]] after the return of democracy.

===Colombia===
* [[Antonio José de Sucre]] (1830), Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier
* [[Rafael Uribe Uribe]] (1914), Lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier
* [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]] (1948), Liberal Party leader
* [[Rodrigo Lara Bonilla]] (1984), Minister of Justice. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Tulio Manuel Castro Gil]] (1985), Judge who had indicted [[Pablo Escobar]], head of the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Alfonso Reyes Echandia]] (1985), Head of the Supreme Court. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Fabio Calderon Botero]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Pedro Elias Serrano Abadia]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Dario Velasquez Gaviria]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Jose Eduardo Gnecco Correa]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Ricardo Medina Moyano]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Alfonso Patiño Rosselli]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Carlos Medellin Forero]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Fanny Gonzalez Franco]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Manuel Gaona Cruz]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Horacio Montoya Gil]] (1985), Supreme Court Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Carlos Horacio Uran Rojas]] (1985), State Council Assistant Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Lizandro Juan Romero Barrios]] (1985), State Council Assistant Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Emiro Sandoval Huertas]] (1985). State Council Assistant Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Julio Cesar Andrade Andrade]] (1985), State Council Assistant Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Jorge A Correa Echeverry]] (1985), State Council Assistant Justice. Killed during the [[Palace of Justice Siege]]
* [[Guillermo Cano Isaza]] (1986), Director of [[El Espectador]] newspaper. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Hernando Baquero Borda]] (1986), Supreme Court Justice. The assassination was order by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Jaime Pardo Leal]] (1987), Presidential candidate, leader of the [[Patriotic Union (Colombia)|Patriotic Union]] party
* [[Carlos Mauro Hoyos]] (1987), Attorney General of Colombia. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Luis Carlos Galán]] (1989), Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Jorge Enrique Pulido]] (1989), Journalist, Director of Mundovision. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa]] (1990 March 22), Presidential candidate, leader of the [[Patriotic Union (Colombia)|Patriotic Union]] party<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Waldemar Franklin Quintero]], Commander of the Police of [[Antioquia]]. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Carlos Pizarro Leongómez]] (1990), Presidential candidate, leader of the [[19th of April Movement|M-19]] party
* [[Enrique Low Murtra]] (1991), Former Colombian Ambassador to [[Switzerland]]. The assassination was ordered by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Diana Turbay]] (1991), journalist and daughter of former Colombian president [[Julio César Turbay Ayala]]. Assassinated after a kidnapping by the [[Medellin Cartel]]
* [[Andrés Escobar]] (1994), International footballer
* [[Manuel Cepeda Vargas]] (1994), Senator, leader of the [[Patriotic Union (Colombia)|Patriotic Union]] party
* [[Alvaro Gómez Hurtado]] (1995), former presidential candidate and director of [[El Nuevo Siglo]] newspaper
* [[Jaime Garzón]] (1999), Notable journalist and satirist
* [[Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones]] (2000), [[Colombian Army]] General. Assassinated by members of [[FARC]]
* [[Guillermo Gaviria Correa]] (2003), Governor of [[Antioquia]]

===Cuba===
* [[Antonio Guiteras]] (1935), Revolutionary Socialist Leader

===Dominican Republic===
* [[Ulises Heureaux]] (1899), president of the [[Dominican Republic]]
* [[Rafael Leónidas Trujillo]] (1961 May 30), Dominican Republic dictator, shot in ambush
* [[Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó]] (1973)

===Ecuador===
* [[Gabriel García Moreno]] (1875), president of [[Ecuador]] known for his support of the Catholic Church
* [[Jaime Hurtado]] and [[Pablo Tapia]] (1999), communist legislators, in [[Quito]]

===El Salvador===
* [[Manuel Enrique Araujo]] (1913), [[President of El Salvador]]
* [[Farabundo Martí]] (1932), communist leader and peasant revolt organizer.
* [[Roque Dalton]] (1975), poet and revolutionary.
* [[Rutilio Grande|Rutilio Grande García, S.J.]] (1977), Roman Catholic priest
* [[Alfonso Navarro|Alfonso Navarro Oviedo]] (1977), Roman Catholic priest
* [[Ernesto Barrera]] (1978), Roman Catholic priest
* [[Octavio Ortiz|Octavio Ortiz Luna]] (1979), Roman Catholic priest
* [[Rafael Palacios (priest)|Rafael Palacios]] (1979), Roman Catholic priest
* [[Napoleón Macías|Alirio Napoleón Macías]] (1979), Roman Catholic priest
* [[Óscar Arnulfo Romero]] (1980), [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador|Archbishop of San Salvador]], by right-wing death squad
* [[Enrique Alvarez|Enrique Álvarez Córdova]] (1980) and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials), captured and killed by government aligned security forces.
* [[Ita Ford]], [[Maura Clarke]], [[Dorothy Kazel]], and [[Jean Donovan]] (1980), [[Roman Catholic]] [[nun]]s, by the National Guard of [[El Salvador]]
* [[Albert Schaufelberger]] (1983), senior [[U.S. Navy|U.S. Naval]] representative
* [[Ignacio Ellacuría]] (1989), [[Roman Catholic]] [[Jesuit]] [[priest]], by [[Atlacatl Battalion]] of the [[Military of El Salvador|Salvadoran Army]]
* [[Ignacio Martin-Baro]] (1989), [[Roman Catholic]] [[Jesuit]] [[priest]], by [[Atlacatl Battalion]] of the [[Military of El Salvador|Salvadoran Army]]
* [[Segundo Montes]] (1989), [[Roman Catholic]] [[Jesuit]] [[priest]], by [[Atlacatl Battalion]] of the [[Military of El Salvador|Salvadoran Army]]
* [[María Cristina Gómez]], 1989, [[teacher]] and [[community leader]]

===Grenada===
* [[Maurice Bishop]] (1983), Prime Minister of Grenada.

===Guatemala===
* [[José María Reina Barrios]] (1898), President of Guatemala
* [[Carlos Castillo Armas]] (1957), [[president of Guatemala]], killed by bodyguard<ref name="wa257"/>
* [[Karl von Spreti]] (1970), German ambassador in [[Guatemala]]
* [[Alberto Fuentes Mohr]] (1979), Social Democratic Party leader
* [[Manuel Colom Argueta]] (1979), Mayor of [[Guatemala City]]
* [[Jorge Carpio Nicolle]] (1993), Liberal politician and journalist
* [[Juan José Gerardi]] (1998), [[Roman Catholic]] bishop
* [[Valentín Leal]] (2012), legislator

===Guyana===
* [[Leo J. Ryan]] (1978), US Congressman (D) from San Mateo, California; killed while investigating religious cult led by American Jim Jones
* Fr. [[Bernard Darke]], [[Society of Jesus|S.J.]] (1979), [[Roman Catholic]] priest and Scouting pioneer in Guyana
* [[Walter Rodney]] (1980), [[Guyana|Guyanese]] historian and political figure
* [[Satyadeow Sawh]] (2006), Agriculture Minister was murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues

===Haiti===
* [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] (1806), [[Emperor]] of [[Haiti]]
* [[Antoine Izméry]] (1993), businessman and [[Struggling People's Organization|Lavalas]] supporter
* [[Guy Malary]] (1993), minister of justice
* [[Jean Dominique]] (2000), journalist
* [[Jacques Roche]] (2005), journalist

===Honduras===
* [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]] (1966), president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944
* [[Mario Fernando Hernández]] (2008), deputy speaker of Congress for the Liberal Party

===Mexico===
* [[Moctezuma II|Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl]] (1520), [[Tlatoani|Mexica Emperor]]
* [[Francisco I. Madero]] (1913 February 23), [[President of Mexico]]<ref name="wa257" /> plus [[Gustavo A. Madero]] and [[José María Pino Suárez]]
* [[Abraham González (governor)|Abraham González]] (1913 March 7), revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa
* [[Emiliano Zapata]] (1919), revolutionary
* [[Venustiano Carranza]] (1920 May 20), President of Mexico<ref name="wa257" />
* Doroteo Arango a.k.a. [[Pancho Villa]] (1923 July 20), revolutionary<ref name="wa750">''World Almanac 1982'', p750</ref>
* [[Felipe Carrillo Puerto]] (1924), [[Governor of Yucatán]]
* [[Álvaro Obregón]] (1928 July 17), President-elect<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Julio Antonio Mella]] (1929), Cuban revolutionary
* [[Leon Trotsky]] (1940 August 20), Russian [[communist]] leader<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Enrique Camarena Salazar|Enrique Camarena]] (1985), policeman
* [[Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz]] (1986), Journalist and State governor
* [[Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo]] (1993), [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Roman Catholic Cardinal]] of [[Guadalajara, Jalisco|Guadalajara]], at the [[Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport|Guadalajara Airport]]
* [[Luis Donaldo Colosio]] (1994 March 23), Presidential candidate<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Francisco Ortiz Franco]] (1994), contributing editor to [[Zeta (magazine)|Zeta]].
* [[José Francisco Ruiz Massieu]] (1994), Secretary-General of the [[Partido Revolucionario Institucional]]
* [[Paco Stanley]] (1999), Comedian
* [[Digna Ochoa]] (2001), human rights lawyer
* [[Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez]] (2010), Mayor of [[Guadalupe, Chihuahua|Guadalupe]]
* [[Rodolfo Torre Cantú]] (2010), politician

===Nicaragua===
* [[Augusto César Sandino]] (1934), [[Nicaragua]]n revolutionary
* [[Anastasio Somoza García]] (1956 September 21), [[President of Nicaragua]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal]] (1978), newspaper editor, Nicaraguan Somoza opposition
* [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] (1980 September 17), former President, ambushed in Paraguay<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Enrique Bermúdez]] (1991) founder and former top commander of the Nicaraguan Contras.

===Panama===
* [[José Antonio Remón Cantera]] (1955 January 2), [[President of Panama]], killed at racetrack by machine gun<ref name="wa257" />

===Paraguay===
* [[Juan Bautista Gill]] (1877), [[President of Paraguay]]
* [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] (1980), former [[President of Nicaragua]]
* [[Luis María Argaña]] (1999 March 23), vice president of [[Paraguay]], ambushed<ref name="wa156" />

===Peru===
* [[Francisco Pizarro]] (1541), Spanish [[conquistador]], in [[Peru]]
* [[Jose Balta]] (1872), President of Peru
* [[Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro|Luis M. Sánchez Cerro]] (1933), president of Peru
* [[María Elena Moyano]] (1992), a community organizer in [[Villa El Salvador]]

===Puerto Rico===
* [[Arnaldo Darío Rosado]], independence movement supporter
* [[Carlos Soto Arriví]], independence movement supporter
* [[Luis Vigoreaux]], television show host
* [[Alejandro Gonzalez Malave]], undercover policeman involved in the assassinations of Rosado and Soto Arrivi

===Suriname===
* [[Bram Behr]] (1982), Surinamese journalist, in the ''[[Decembermoorden]]''

===United States===
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* [[Elijah P. Lovejoy]] (1837), editor of an abolitionist newspaper, the "[[Alton Observer]]", by a mob of pro-slavery advocates.
* [[Wild Bill Hickok]] (1876), lawman, gambler, "[[Old West]]" [[folk hero|legend]] by [[Jack McCall]].
* [[David Hennessy]] (1890) Police Chief of New Orleans.
* [[Don Mellett]] (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime.
* [[Walter Liggett]] (1935 December 9), Minnesota newspaper editor.
* [[Carlo Tresca]] (1943), anarchist organizer.
* [[Curtis Chillingworth]] (1955), a Florida judge.
* [[Medgar Evers]] (1963 June 12), U.S. civil rights activist.<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] (1963 November 24) shot & killed by [[Jack Ruby]] in Dallas Police Precinct station
* [[Malcolm X]] (1965 February 21), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech.
* [[George Lincoln Rockwell]] (1967 August 25) Founder and flamboyant spokesman of the American Nazi Party, killed by former aide, John Patler.
* [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] (1968 April 4), U.S. civil rights activist.<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Fred Hampton]] (1969), Shot and killed by police. Deputy Chair of the Chicago, IL chapter of the Black Panther Party.
* [[Dan Mitrione]] (1970), former policeman & FBI agent went to South America to teach military regimes techniques of "advanced counterinsurgency techniques" (e.g. electric shock torture) assassinated by members of the guerrilla movement [[Tupamaros]].
* [[Marcus Foster]] (1973), School District Superintendent in Oakland CA, killed by members of the [[Symbionese Liberation Army]].
*[[Alberta Williams King]] (June 30, 1974) Mother of Martin Luther King Jr., killed by deranged gunmen, [[Marcus Chenault]] while her husband was preaching mass.
* [[Anna Mae Aquash]] (1975), a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became the highest-ranking woman in the [[American Indian Movement]].
* [[Don Bolles]] (1976 June 13), Investigative reporter for [[Arizona Republic]], killed in car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties.
* [[Orlando Letelier]] (1976 September 21), Chilean ambassador to the United States for the administration of Chile's democratically-elected President [[Salvador Allende]] who was later ousted & killed in a coup by General Pinochet (See: Chile Assassinations).
* [[John Lennon]] (1980 December 8), British musician, member of [[The Beatles]].
* [[Alan Berg]] (1984 June 18), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-Nazis.
* [[Henry Liu]] (1984 October 15), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents.
* [[Alex Odeh]] (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his [[Santa Ana, California]] office.
* [[Alejandro González Malavé]] (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
* [[Huey Newton]] (1989 August 22), founder of Black Panther Party killed by member of Black Guerrilla Army (BGA).
* [[Meir Kahane|Meir David Kahane]] (1990), Member of the Israeli [[Knesset]], Founder of the [[JDL]] and the [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]] Party, [[Zionist]]
* [[Ioan P. Culianu]] (1991), Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas; killed at the University of Chicago where he taught [[University of Chicago Divinity School|Swift Hall]], allegedly because of opposition to his writings.
* [[David Gunn (doctor)|David Gunn]] (1993), abortion provider.
* [[John Britton (doctor)|John Britton]] (1994), Physician; abortion provider.
* [[Barnett Slepian]] (1998), Physician; abortion provider.
* [[Thomas C. Wales]] (2001), federal prosecutor and gun control advocate.
* [[Chauncey Bailey]] (2007), Oakland Tribune journalist.
* [[George Tiller]] (2009), late-term abortion doctor, shot as he ushered at his church.
* [[John M. Roll]] (2011), federal judge in Arizona.

===Uruguay===
* [[Bernardo P. Berro]] (1868), Uruguayan president
* [[Venancio Flores]] (1868), Uruguayan president (on the same day as Berro, though in completely separate incidents)
* [[Juan Idiarte Borda]] (1897), Uruguayan president
* [[Eugenio Berríos]] (1992), Chilean chemist who worked for the [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] during the [[Pinochet dictatorship]]. Killed in Uruguay by Chilean secret services for him "knowing too much".

===Venezuela===
* Col. [[Carlos Delgado Chalbaud]] (1950 November 13), President of [[Venezuela]]<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Danilo Anderson]] (2004), State prosecutor

==Assassinations in Asia==

===Afghanistan===
* [[Habibullah Khan]] (1919), emir of [[Afghanistan]]
* [[Mohammed Nadir Shah]] (1933 November 8), [[king of Afghanistan]]<ref name="timeline119">''20th Century Timeline'', p119</ref>
* [[Mohammed Daoud Khan]] (1978), [[president of Afghanistan]] killed in communist coup
* [[Adolph Dubs]] (1979 February 14), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Nur Mohammad Taraki]] (1979), communist president
* [[Hafizullah Amin]] (1979), communist [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]] killed during Soviet invasion
* [[Meena Keshwar Kamal]] (1987), [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] founder of the [[Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan]]
* [[Mohammed Najibullah]] (1996), president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, killed by the [[Taliban]] during the capture of [[Kabul]]
* [[Ahmed Shah Massoud]] (2001), leader of the [[Afghan Northern Alliance]]
* [[Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)|Abdul Haq]] (2001), [[Afghan Northern Alliance]] commander killed by remnants of the Taliban
* [[Mohammed Atef]] (2001) alleged military chief of [[al-Qaeda]]
* [[Juma Namangani]] (2001) Co-founder of [[Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan]]
* [[Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)|Abdul Qadir]] (2002 July 6), vice-president of Afghanistan<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Abdul Rahman (Afghan minister)|Abdul Rahman]] (2002 February 14), Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Dadullah]] (2007), [[Taliban]]'s senior military commander
* [[Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani]] (2007), former [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]]
* [[Tohir Yo‘ldosh]] (2009), Co-founder of [[Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan]]
* [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] (2011), former [[President of Afghanistan]]

===Armenia===
* [[Karen Demirchyan]] (1999), Speaker of the [[National Assembly of Armenia]]
* [[Vazgen Sargsyan]] (1999), [[Prime Minister of Armenia]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Leonard Petrosyan]] (1999), [[Karabakh]] politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia

===Azerbaijan===
* [[Ziya Bunyadov]] (1997), [[Azerbaijan]]i historian
* [[Elmar Huseynov]] (2005), [[Azerbaijan]]i journalist
* [[Rail Rzayev]] (2009), commander of the [[Azerbaijani Air Force]]

===Bangladesh===
* Sheikh [[Mujibur Rahman]] (1975 August 15), father of the nation and founder [[President of Bangladesh]], killed in coup<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Muhammad Mansur Ali]] (1975), [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]]
* [[Tajuddin Ahmad]] (1975), former Prime Minister
* [[Syed Nazrul Islam]] (1975), former President
* [[Khaled Mosharraf]] (1975), [[Bangladesh]]i general and coup organizer
* [[Ziaur Rahman]] (1981), President

===Bhutan===
* [[Jigme Palden Dorji]] (1964), [[Prime Minister of Bhutan]]<ref name="wa257" />

===Cambodia===
* [[Ieu Koeus]] (1950), briefly prime minister of [[Cambodia]] in 1949

===China===
* [[Wu Yuanheng]] (815), Chancellor under [[Emperor Xianzong of Tang|Emperor Xianzong]]
* [[Sidibala]] (1323), grand-khan of the [[Mongol Empire]], Emperor of Yuan China
* [[João Maria Ferreira do Amaral]] (1849), Portuguese Governor of [[Macau]]
* [[Ma Xinyi]] (1870), a governor assassinated by [[Zhang Wenxiang]] in the summer of 1870.
* [[Ito Hirobumi]] (1909), [[Governor-General of Korea|Japanese Resident-General of Korea]], in [[Manchuria]]
* [[Song Jiaoren]] (1913), [[Xinhai Revolution|Xinhai]] revolutionary, in [[Shanghai]]
* [[Chen Qimei]] (1916), revolutionary activist
* [[Liao Zhongkai]] (1925)
* [[Zhang Zuolin]] (1928), Manchurian warlord, by officers of the [[Japan]]ese [[Guandong Army]]
* [[Fang Zhenwu]] (1941)
* [[Wen Yiduo]] (1946), Chinese poet and scholar
* [[Li Shiming]] (2008), Chinese government official

===Georgia===
* [[Fatali Khan Khoyski]] (1920), former Prime Minister of the [[Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan]]
* [[Cemal Pasha]] (1922), former Ottoman Navy Minister
* [[Giorgi Chanturia]] (1994), [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] opposition leader

===India===
* [[Brihadratha Maurya]] (185 BC), last ruler of the [[Mauryan]] dynasty
* [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]] (1602), [[vizier]] of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor [[Akbar]]
* [[Mohandas K Gandhi]] (1948 January 30),Father of the Nation, Independence leader and key proponent of non-violence
* [[Indira Gandhi]] (1984 October 31), [[Indian prime minister]]
* General [[Arun Shridhar Vaidya]] (1986 August 10) Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986.
* [[Amar Singh Chamkila]] (1988 March 8), controversial [[Punjabi people|Punjab]]i singer/song-writer
* [[Rajiv Gandhi]] (1991 May 21), [[Indian prime minister]],
* [[Beant Singh(Chief Minister)]] (1995), chief minister of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
* [[Phoolan Devi]] (2001 July 25), bandit queen turned politician
* [[Abdul Ghani Lone]] (2002), moderate [[Kashmir]]i Muslim separatist leader

===Indonesia===
* [[Aubertin Walter Sothern Mallaby|A. W. S. Mallaby]] (1945), a British brigadier during the [[Battle of Surabaya]]
* Lieutenant General [[Achmad Yani]] (1965), as part of the [[30 September Movement]]
* Major General [[Soeprapto (general)|Soeprapto]] (1965), as part of the 30 September Movement
* Major General [[M. T. Haryono]] (1965), as part of the 30 September Movement
* Major General [[Siswondo Parman]] (1965), as part of the 30 September Movement
* Brigadier General [[Donald Izacus Panjaitan]] (1965), as part of the 30 September Movement
* Brigadier General [[Sutoyo Siswomiharjo]] (1965), as part of the 30 September Movement
* First Lieutenant [[Pierre Tandean]] (1965), as part of the 30 September Movement
* [[Dipa Nusantara Aidit]] (1965), leader of the [[Communist Party of Indonesia]]
* [[Munir Said Thalib]] (2004), a human rights and anti-corruption activist

===Iran===
* [[Xerxes I]] (465 BC), [[Persian Empire|Persian]] king killed by guards
* [[Xerxes II]] (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother [[Sogdianus]]
* [[Sogdianus]] (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother [[Darius II of Persia|Darius II]]
* [[Nizam al-Mulk]] (1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks
* [[Nader Shah]] (1747), [[Shah]] of Persia
* [[Nasser-al-Din Shah]] (1896), Shah of Persia killed by [[Mirza Reza Kermani]]
* [[Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III]] (1930), Iranian Diplomat and Politician
* Abdolhossein [[Teymourtash]] (1933), Iranian Statesman
* [[Qazi Muhammad]] (1947), dissident [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] Iranian political leader, in [[Mahabad]]
* [[Ali Razmara]] (1951), [[Prime Minister of Iran]]
* [[Hassan Ali Mansur]] (1965 January 21), Prime Minister of Iran<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Mohammad Beheshti]] (1981), killed along with 71 others in bombing
* [[Mohammad Ali Rajai]] (1981), [[president of Iran]]
* [[Mohammad Javad Bahonar]] (1981), [[Prime Minister of Iran]], killed in bombing with Rajai
* [[Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan]] (2012)A department supervisor killed by a bomber from a motorcycle

===Iraq===
* [[Gordian III]] (244), Roman emperor, near Circesium (modern day Abu Sera) by his troops
* [[Faisal II of Iraq|Faisal II]] (1958 July 14), King of [[Iraq]]<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Nuri Pasha as-Said]] (1958 July 14), Prime Minister of Iraq<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Abdul Razak al-Naif]] (1978 July 9), former [[Prime Minister of Iraq]], killed in London<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr]] (1980), former [[Grand Ayatollah]]
* [[Bint al-Huda]] (1980), Iraqi educator and political activist she was killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr
* [[Mahdi al-Hakim]] (1988), prominent figure in the Iraqi opposition, assassinated in the lobby of the Hilton in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, his companion Halim Abd-alWahhab was wounded in the leg.
* [[Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr]] (1999), former [[Grand Ayatollah]], killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf along with two of his sons.
* [[Sérgio Vieira de Mello]] (2003), [[United Nations|UN]] Special Representative in Iraq
* [[Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]] (2003), ayatollah
* [[Aquila al-Hashimi]] (2003), [[Iraq]]i [[Iraqi Governing Council|Governing Council]] member
* [[Waldemar Milewicz]] (2004), [[Poland|Polish]] journalist
* [[Hatem Kamil]] (2004), deputy governor of [[Baghdad Governorate|Baghdad Province]]
* [[Ezzedine Salim]] (2004), chairman of the [[Iraqi Governing Council]]
* [[Dhari Ali al-Fayadh]] (2005), Iraqi [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
* [[Ihab al-Sherif]] (2005), [[Egypt]]ian envoy to [[Iraq]]
* [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] (2006) leader of [[al-Qaeda in Iraq]] (AQI)
* [[Abdul Sattar Abu Risha]] (2007), Sunni tribal leader
* [[Mohamed Moumou]] (2008), Number 2 leader of [[al-Qaeda in Iraq]] and senior leader in Northern Iraq
* Riad Abdel Majid (2009), [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Iraqi Army]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Iraqi general assassinated |publisher=[[Agence France-Presse]] |date=23 December 2009 |accessdate=26 December 2009 |url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jx22vsEuXSwB5-w_vNW1gFQG2M0g}}</ref>

===Israel===
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* [[Ish-bosheth]] (c1000 BC), King of Israel, by two of his captains
* [[Abner]] (c1000 BC), Commander of Ish-bosheth's army, by [[Joab]], commander of David's army
* [[Amnon]] (c1000 BC), son of [[King David]], by servants of [[Absalom]], his brother
* [[Absalom]] (c1000 BC), son of [[King David]], by [[Joab]], commander of David's army
* [[Nadab of Israel|Nadab]] (c910), King of Israel, by [[Baasha of Israel|Baasha]], one of his military commanders, who succeeded him
* [[King Elah|Elah]] (c886), King of Israel, by [[Zimri (king)|Zimri]], captain of his chariot corps, during a drinking party (Zimri succeeded him)
* [[Jehoram of Israel|Jehoram]], King of Israel, by [[Jehu]], one of his chariot commanders, who succeeded him
* [[Ahaziah of Judah|Ahaziah]], King of Judah, by [[Jehu]], at the same time as that of [[Jehoram of Israel]]
* [[Athaliah]], Queen of Judah, during a conspiracy of priests in favor of the boy [[Jehoash of Judah|Jehoash]], who succeeded her
* [[Jehoash of Judah|Jehoash]] (c800 BC), King of Judah, by his servants
* [[Amaziah of Judah|Amaziah]] (c768 BC), King of Judah, by unknown conspirators
* [[Zechariah of Israel|Zechariah]] (c752 BC), King of Israel, publicly assassinated by [[Shallum of Israel|Shallum]], who succeeded him
* [[Shallum of Israel|Shallum]] (c752 BC), King of Israel, by [[Menahem]], one of his generals, who succeeded him
* [[Pekahiah]] (c737 BC), King of Israel, by [[Pekah]], one of his military commanders, who succeeded him
* [[Pekah]] (c732 BC), King of Israel, by [[Hoshea]], who succeeded him
* [[Amon of Judah|Amon]] (c651 BC), King of Judah, by his servants
* [[Simon Maccabaeus]] (135 BC), [[Hasmonean]] king, by his son-in-law Ptolemy
* [[Hugh II of Le Puiset]] (1134), [[count of Jaffa]]
* [[Miles of Plancy]] (1174), regent of the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]
* [[Conrad of Montferrat]] (1192), [[King of Jerusalem]], leader in the [[Third Crusade]]
* [[Jacob Israël de Haan]] (1924), pro-[[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Jew]]ish diplomat
* [[Haim Arlosoroff]] (1933), [[Zionism|Zionist]] leader in the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]
* [[Thomas C. Wasson]] (1948), US Consul General in [[Jerusalem]]
* [[Folke Bernadotte]] (1948), [[Middle East]] peace mediator, assassinated by [[Lehi (group)|Lehi]]<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Rudolf Kastner]] (1957), Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the [[Kasztner train]] with the Nazis
* Sheikh [[Hamad Abu Rabia]] (1981), Member of the [[Knesset]]
* [[Emil Grunzweig]] (1983), Peace activist, member of [[Peace Now]] movement.
* [[Yitzhak Rabin]] (1995), [[Prime Minister of Israel]] and 1994 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane]] (2000), Son of [[Meir David Kahane]], Leader of [[Kahane Chai]], [[Zionist]]
* [[Rehavam Zeevi]] (2001), [[Israel]]i general and politician

===Japan===
* [[Emperor Ankō]] (456), [[Emperor of Japan]]
* [[Emperor Sushun]] (592), Emperor of Japan
* The [[Soga clan|Sogas]] (645), Japanese political family
* [[Minamoto no Yoshitomo]] (1160), head of [[Minamoto clan]], father of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]]
* [[Minamoto no Sanetomo]] (1219), the third [[shogun]] of the [[Kamakura Shogunate]]
* [[Ashikaga Yoshinori]] (1441), the sixth shogun of the [[Ashikaga Shogunate]]
* [[Ōta Dōkan]] (1486), [[samurai]], architect and builder of Edo Castle
* [[Hosokawa Masamoto]] (1507), [[Daimyo#Shugo daimyo|shugo daimyo]] of Ashikaga Shogunate
* [[Matsudaira Kiyoyasu]] (1535), [[daimyo]], feudal leader in Japan
* [[Matsudaira Hirotada]] (1549), [[daimyo]], son of Matsudaira Kiyoyasu
* [[Ōuchi Yoshitaka]] (1551), daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
* [[Oda Nobuyuki]] (1557), Japanese samurai, younger brother of [[Oda Nobunaga]]
* [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] (1565), [[Shogun]], feudal leader in Japan
* [[Mimura Iechika]] (1566), daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
* [[Yamanaka Shikanosuke]] (1578), Japanese samurai
* [[Oda Nobunaga]] (1582), samurai warlord
* [[Shakushain's Revolt|Shakushain]] (1669), [[Ainu people|Ainu]] chieftain
* [[Kira Yoshinaka]],(1703), master of ceremonies
* [[Shimazu Nariaki]] (1858), Japanese daimyo in [[Satsuma Province]], now [[Kagoshima prefecture]]
* [[Ii Naosuke]] (1860), Japanese politician
* [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] (1860), Japanese daimyo, a relative of [[Tokugawa shogun]]s
* [[Charles Lennox Richardson]] (1862), English diplomat, by [[Shimazu Hisamitsu]]'s samurai in [[Namamugi]]. Called the [[Namamugi Incident]]
* [[Serizawa Kamo]] (1863), a chief of [[Shinsen-gumi]]
* [[Sakuma Shozan]] (1864), Japanese politician
* [[Sakamoto Ryoma]] (1867), Japanese author
* [[Ōmura Masujirō]] (1869), military leader and theorist
* [[Yokoi Shōnan]] (1869), scholar and politician
* [[Okubo Toshimichi]] (1878), Home Minister of Japan, briefly most powerful man in Japan
* [[Mori Arinori]] (1889), First Education Minister
* Prince [[Ito Hirobumi]] (1909 October 26), First Prime Minister of Japan<ref name="timeline119" />
* [[Hara Takashi]] (1921), Prime Minister of Japan
* [[Yasuda Zenjirō]] (1921), entrepreneur who founded [[Yasuda zaibatsu]], great-grand father of [[Yoko Ono]]
* [[Hamaguchi Osachi]] (1931), Prime Minister of Japan
* [[Dan Takuma]] (1932), ''[[zaibatsu]]'' leader
* [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]] (1932), Prime Minister of Japan
* [[Yoshinori Shirakawa]] (1932), general of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]
* [[Tetsuzan Nagata]] (1935), general of the Imperial Japanese Army
* [[Saitō Makoto]] (1936), [[admiral]] of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]
* [[Takahashi Korekiyo]] (1936), Prime Minister of Japan
* [[Inejiro Asanuma]] (1960), [[Socialist Party of Japan]] chairman
* [[Kazuo Nagano]] (1985), Japanese chairman
* [[Hitoshi Igarashi]] (1991), translated ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' into [[Japanese language|Japanese]]
* [[Hideo Murai]] (1995), one of the leading members of [[Aum Shinrikyo]]
* [[Koki Ishii]] (2002), Japanese politician
* [[Iccho Itoh]] (2007), Mayor of [[Nagasaki, Nagasaki|Nagasaki]]

===Jordan===
* [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah I]] (1951 July 20), [[King of Jordan]], when entering the [[Al Aqsa Mosque]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Hazza al-Majali]] (1960 August 29), [[Prime Minister of Jordan]], killed with 10 others by time bomb in office<ref name="wa257" />
* [[Laurence Foley]] (2002), [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] official, by [[Al-Qaeda]] operatives

===Korea===
* [[King Bunseo of Baekje]] (304), King of Baekje during the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea]]
* [[Empress Myeongseong of Korea|Queen Min of Joseon]] (1895), the last empress of Korea
* [[Lyuh Woon-Hyung]] (1947), former head of [[People's Republic of Korea]]
* [[Yuk Yeong-Su]] (1974 August 15), Wife of President Park Chung Hee and [[First Lady]] of South Korea<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Park Chung-Hee]] (1979 October 25), [[President of South Korea]]<ref name="wa156" />

===Kuwait===
* [[Hardan al-Tikriti]] (1971) Former [[Iraq]]i defense minister and vice president

===Laos===
* Quinim Pholsena, foreign minister of Laos (1963 April 1)<ref name="wa257" />

===Lebanon===
* [[Raymond II of Tripoli]] (1152), [[County of Tripoli|count of Tripoli]]
* [[Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre|Philip of Montfort]] (1270), [[Lord of Tyre]]
* [[Sami al-Hinnawi]] (1950), Syrian head of state
* [[Francis E. Meloy, Jr.]] and [[Robert O. Waring]], US Ambassador and US Economic Councelor to Lebanon and their driver Zuhair Mohammed Moghrabi (1976 June 16)<ref name="timeline120" />
* [[Kamal Jumblatt]] (1977), Lebanese Druze leader
* [[Tony Frangieh]] (1978), Lebanese Christian leader
* [[Bachir Gemayel]] (1982), president-elect of Lebanon, killed by bomb<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Rashid Karami]] (1987 June 1), [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]], killed by bomb aboard helicopter<ref name="wa156" />
* [[René Moawad]] (1989), [[List of Presidents of Lebanon|President of Lebanon]]
* [[Dany Chamoun]] (1990), son of late president [[Camille Chamoun]]
* [[Elie Hobeika]] (2002), Lebanese militia leader
* [[Rafik Hariri]] (2005), former Prime Minister of [[Lebanon]]
* [[Bassel Fleihan]] (2005), Lebanese legislator and Minister of Economy and Commerce
* [[Samir Kassir]] (2005), Columnist at "An Nahar" daily Lebanese newspaper, long a fiery critic of Syria
* [[George Hawi]] (2005), former chief of Lebanese Communist Party
* [[Gibran Tueni]] (2005), Editor in Chief of "An Nahar" daily Lebanese newspaper
* [[Pierre Amine Gemayel|Pierre Gemayel]] (2006), Minister of Industry of Lebanon
* [[Walid Eido]] (2007), member of the National Assembly
* [[Antoine Ghanim]] (2007), member of the National Assembly
* [[François al-Hajj]] (2007) Lebanese Military General
* [[Wissam Eid]] (2008) National Security, Information Sector

===Malaysia===
* [[James Wheeler Woodford Birch]] (1875), a British [[Resident Minister]] in the State of Perak
* Sir [[Henry Gurney]] (1951), was British High Commissioner in Malaya (1950–1951), killed by [[Malayan Communist Party]] guerillas
* Sir Duncan Stewart (1949), was Second Governor of [[Sarawak]], a British Crown Colony (1946–1963), killed by the Rukun 13 members, [[Rosli Dhobie]], Awang Ramli Mohd Deli, and Bujang Suntong

=== Maldives ===
* [[Afrasheem Ali]] (2012), legislator and Islamic scholar killed

===Mongolia===
* [[Sanjaasürengiin Zorig]] (1998), politician and democratic activist, stabbed to death in his apartment

===Myanmar (Burma)===
* [[Alaungsithu]] (1112–1167) King of [[Pagan Kingdom]] assassinated by his son [[Narathu]]
* [[Tabinshwehti]] (1550) King of [[Taungoo Dynasty]] assassinated by [[Mon people|Mon]] revival
* [[Anaukpetlun]] (1628) King of Nyaungyan Dynasty
* [[Crown Prince Ka Naung]] (Burmese: ကနောင္‌မင္‌းသား; 1829–1866) was a son of [[Tharrawaddy Min|King Tharrawaddy]] and younger brother of [[King Mindon]]
* [[Aung San]] (1947), Burmese nationalist leader, founder of [[Thirty Comrades]]
* [[U Ba Win]] (1947)
* [[Kenji Nagai]] (2007), Japanese Photojournalist

===Nepal===
* [[Birendra of Nepal|Birendra]] (2001 June 1), King of [[Nepal]] (along with Queen Aiswary and 9 other members of the royal family), killed by crown prince<ref name="wa156" />

===Pakistan===
* [[Liaquat Ali Khan]] (1951 October 16), first [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Hayat Sherpao]] (1975), Former [[Governor of the North-West Frontier Province]] was killed by Afghan extremist.
* [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] (1988 August 17), 10-year [[President of Pakistan]] and 12-year [[Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army|Chief of Army Staff]] in a mysterious aircraft accident which seemed to be a bomb blast (traced to a crate of mangoes placed into his aircraft).
* [[Abdullah Yusuf Azzam]] (1989), militant [[Islamism|Islamist]], near [[Peshawar]]
* [[Fazle Haq]] (1991), former governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985
* Ghulam Haider Wyne (Sep 1993) Former Chief Minister of Punjab
* [[Iqbal Masih]] (1995), 13-year-old anti-child labor activist, in Rakh Baoli
* [[Hakim Said]] (1998), Founder of [[Hamdard Foundation]] and [[Hamdard University]], Karachi. Former Governor of [[Sindh]]
* [[Siddiq Khan Kanju]] (2001), former foreign minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993
* [[Benazir Bhutto]] (2007 December 27), former Prime Minister of Pakistan (first and only lady Prime minister of Pakistan), by unknown assassins
* [[Baitullah Mehsud]] (2009) Leader of [[Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan]]
* [[Salman Taseer]] (2011 January 4), [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan|Governor]] of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]]
* [[Shahbaz Bhatti]] (2011 March 2), Minorities Minister

===Palestinians===
* [[Yahya Ayyash]] (1996), [[Hamas]]' explosives expert
* [[Abu Ali Mustafa]] (2001), leader of [[PFLP]]
* [[Salah Shahade]] (2002), leader of Hamas' military wing
* [[Ibrahim al-Makadmeh]] (2003), co-founder of Hamas
* [[Mekled Hameid]] (2003), [[Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine|Islamic Jihad Movement]] commander
* [[Sheikh Ahmed Yassin]] (2004), leader and founder of Hamas
* [[Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi]] (2004), leader of Hamas
* [[Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil]] (2004), Hamas operative
* [[Adnan al-Ghoul]] (2004), Hamas' explosives expert
* [[Nizar Rayan]] (2009), Senior Hamas leader
* [[Said Seyam]] (2009), Senior Hamas leader
* [[Abu Zakaria al-Jamal]] (2009), Senior Hamas military wing commander

===Philippines===
* [[Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamente y Rueda|Fernando Manuel de Bustamante]] (1719), Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines]]
* [[Diego Silang]] (1763), early rebel leader
* [[Antonio Luna]] (1899), a leader of the Filipino army during [[Philippine-American War]]
* [[Julio Nalundasan]] (1935), [[Ilocos Norte|Ilocos]] Congressman, young [[Ferdinand Marcos]] tried but acquitted for the slaying
* [[Aurora Quezon]] (1949), former [[First Lady of the Philippines]]
* [[Ponciano Bernardo]] (1949), mayor of then Philippine capital [[Quezon City]]
* [[Joe Lingad]] (1980), former [[Pampanga]] governor
* [[Benigno Aquino, Jr.]] (1983 August 21), senator and politician, leader of the opposition against [[Ferdinand Marcos]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Cesar Climaco]] (1984), Mayor of [[Zamboanga City]] and prominent opposition leader
* [[Evelio Javier]] (1986), [[Antique]] governor and ally of then presidential candidate [[Corazon Aquino]]
* [[Emma Henry]] (1986), [[police officer]] and [[actor|film actress]]
* [[Leandro Alejandro|Lean Alejandro]] (1987), prominent student activist leader
* [[Roy Padilla, Sr.]] (1988), [[Camarines Norte]] Governor, Father of [[Robin Padilla]]
* [[James N. Rowe]] (1989), US Military advisor
* [[Filemon Lagman|Filemon 'Ka Popoy' Lagman]] (2001), founder of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP)
* [[Alberto Ramento]] (2006), [[bishop]] of the [[Philippine Independent Church]]
* [[Wahab Akbar]] (2007), Congress Representative of [[Basilan]]

===Qatar===
* [[Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev]] (2004), former President of [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|separatist Chechnya]]

===Saudi Arabia===
* [[Umar ibn al-Khattab]] (644), second [[caliph]]
* [[Uthman Ibn Affan]] (665), third [[caliph]]
* [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia]] (1975 March 25), King of Saudi Arabia, shot by nephew at palace<ref name="wa750" />

===Sri Lanka===
* [[Solomon Bandaranaike]] (1959 September 25), Sri Lankan prime minister, by Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama, who later converts to [[Christianity]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Alfred Duraiyapah]] (1975), former Mayor, [[Jaffna]], by [[LTTE]]
* [[Vijaya Kumaratunga]] (1989), movie actor turned SLFP-SLMP politician, by JVP.
* [[Rohana Wijeweera]] (1989), founder of JVP, by Sri Lankan Armed Forces
* [[Appapillai Amrithalingam]]) (1989), founder of separatist party [[TULF]], by LTTE
* [[Ranjan Wijeratne]] (1991), Foreign minister & [[Minister of State]] for [[Defence minister|Defence]], MP, by LTTE
* [[Lalith Athulathmudali]] (1993), former cabinet minister, MP, purportedly by LTTE
* [[Ranasinghe Premadasa]] (1993), [[President of Sri Lanka]], purportedly by LTTE (but possibly revenge for his own orchestrating murder of political rival Lalith Athulathmudali, to whom he feared losing election)
* [[Gamini Dissanayake]] (1994), [[Presidential candidate]], [[United National Party|UNP]], member of [[Parliament]] [[Sri Lanka]], by LTTE
* [[Sarojini Yogeswaran]] (1998), [[Jaffna]] Mayor, by LTTE
* [[Pon Sivapalan|Ponnudurai Sivapalan]] (1998), [[Jaffna]] Mayor, by LTTE
* [[Neelan Thiruchelvam]] (1999), [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) and [[TULF]] leader
* [[Lakshman Algama]] (1999), [[United National Party|UNP]] politician, by LTTE
* [[C.V.Gunaratne]] (2000), cabinet minister, by LTTE
* [[Joseph Pararajasingham]] (2005), Tamil MP in Batticalo, by GoSL supported para-military Karuna Group
* [[Lakshman Kadirgamar]] (2005), foreign minister, by LTTE
* [[Parami Kulatunga]] (2006), army general, by LTTE
* [[Nadarajah Raviraj]] (2006), MP and [[Tamil National Alliance]] politician, by GoSL paramilitary Group
* [[T. Maheswaran]] (2008), [[United National Party|UNP]] Tamil MP for voicing human rights violations of GoSL, by Sri Lanka IB associate.
* [[D. M. Dassanayake]] (2008), Nation Building Minister and [[SLFP]] MP, by LTTE
* [[K. Sivanesan]] (2008), [[Tamil National Alliance|TNA]] Tamil MP, by Sri Lankan Army DPU.
* [[Jeyaraj Fernandopulle]] (2008),Minister of Highways and Road Development and SLFP MP, LTTE
* [[Lasantha Wickrematunge]] (2009), Journalist (The Sunday Leader), by unknown

===Syria===
* [[Antiochus II Theos]] (246 BC), [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucid]] king
* [[Seleucus III Ceraunus]] (223 BC), Seleucid king
* [[Seleucus IV Philopator]] (176 BC), Seleucid king
* [[Alexander Balas]] (146 BC), Seleucid king
* [[Antiochus VI Dionysus]] (138 BC), Seleucid heir to the throne
* [[Numerian]] (285), Roman emperor, by his father-in-law, [[Arrius Aper]], in Emesa (modern-day [[Homs]])
* [[Zengi]] (1146), ruler of [[Aleppo]] and [[Mosul]] and founder of the [[Zengid Dynasty]]
* [[Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar]] (1940), Syrian nationalist
* [[Muhammad Suleiman]] (2008), Syrian general and security adviser to president [[Bashar al-Assad]]
* [[Imad Mughniyah]] (2008), senior member of [[Hezbollah]]
* [[Dawoud Rajiha]] (2012), Minister of Defense of Syria
* [[Hassan Turkmani]] (2012), chief of staff of the Syrian Armed Forces

===Thailand===
* [[Worawongsathirat|King Worawongsathirat]] (?),King of the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]]
* [[Ananda Mahidol|King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII)]] (1946), the eighth monarch of [[Thailand]] under the [[House of Chakri]].
* [[Laksamilawan|Princess Laksamilawan]] (1961), the royal consort of King [[Vajiravudh]] (or Rama VI) of [[Siam]]
* [[Vibhavadi Rangsit|Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit]] (1977),a Thai royal well known for her fiction writing and her developmental work in rural Thailand.

===United Arab Emirates===
* [[Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh|Mahmoud al-Mabhouh]] (2010), a member of [[Hamas]]

===Vietnam===
* [[Ngo Dinh Nhu]] (1963 November 2), politician<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] (1963 November 2), first president of [[South Vietnam]]<ref name="wa156" />

===Yemen===
* [[Imam Yahya]] (1948), King of [[Yemen]]
* [[Ibrahim al-Hamadi]] (1977), president of [[North Yemen]]
* [[Ahmad al-Ghashmi]] (1978), president of North Yemen killed by bomb along with envoy from South Yemen
* [[Jarallah Omar]] (2002), deputy secretary-general of [[Yemeni Socialist Party]]

==Assassinations in Australia and Oceania==

===Australia===
* [[Pemulwuy]] Early 1802, shot and killed by British sailor Henry Hacking under orders by Governor Phillip Gidley King.
* [[William Paisley]] February 12, 1894, Mayor of Burwood, NSW, Australia
* [[Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)|Donald Mackay]] 15 July 1977, anti-drugs campaigner
* [[Sarik Ariyak]] December 17, 1980 Turkish Consul General,
* [[Colin Winchester]] (1989), Assistant Commissioner of the [[Australian Federal Police]]
* [[John Newman (Australian politician)|John Newman]] (1994), [[New South Wales]] state Member for [[Cabramatta, New South Wales|Cabramatta]]

===New Caledonia===
* [[Jean-Marie Tjibaou]] (1989), Kanak independence leader

===Samoa===
* [[Luagalau Levaula Kamu]] (1999), cabinet minister

===Palau===
* [[Haruo Remeliik]] (1985), president

===West Papua===
* [[Arnold Ap]], April 26, 1984, songman and ethnomusicologist, West Papua: shot in back by Indonesian military unit upon release from prison <ref name="arena.org.au">http://www.arena.org.au/2010/10/papua%E2%80%99s-fallen-leaders-2/</ref>
* [[Thomas Wainggai]], March 14, 1996, Independence leader allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers in Cipinang prison.<ref name="arena.org.au"/>
* [[Theys Eluay]], 10 November 2001, West Papuan Independence movement leader, Assassinated by Kopassus officers after attending a military dinner, Jayapura, Papua <ref name="arena.org.au"/>
* [[Kelly Kwalik]], 16 December 2009, legendary West papuan guerrilla leader assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Timika, West Papua <ref name="arena.org.au"/>
* [[Mako Tabuni]], 14 June 2012, Chairman of main civil resistance independence organisation, West Papua National Committee(KNPB), assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura, West Papua <ref>http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3578010.htm</ref>

==Assassinations in Europe==

===Albania===
* [[Avni Rustemi]] (1924), nationalist member of parliament

===Austria===
* [[Count Karl von Stürgkh]] (1916), [[List of Ministers-President of Austria|Minister-President of Austria]]
* [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] (1934), [[Chancellor of Austria]]<ref name="wa155" />
* [[Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou]] (1989), dissident [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] Iranian political leader, in [[Vienna]]

===Belgium===
* [[Julien Lahaut]] (1950), chairman of the [[Communist Party of Belgium]]
* [[Maximiliano Gómez]] (1971), [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]] communist leader
* [[Gerald Bull]] (1990), [[Canada|Canadian]] developer of the Martlet [[cannon]], in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]
* [[André Cools]] (1991), Belgian politician

===Bosnia and Hercegovina===
* [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] (1914 June 28), assassinated by [[Gavrilo Princip]], who also killed the Archduchess Sophie; this assassination played a role in starting [[World War I]]<ref name="wa155">''World Almanac 2004'', p155</ref>
* [[Irfan Ljubijankić]] (1995), foreign minister of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
* [[Jozo Leutar]] (1997), minister of Internal Affair of [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]

===Bulgaria===
* [[Stefan Stambolov]] (1895), former [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria|Prime Minister]] of [[Bulgaria]]
* [[Dimitar Petkov]] (1907), Prime Minister of Bulgaria
* [[Aleksandar Stamboliyski]] (1923), Prime Minister of Bulgaria
* [[Vasil Iliev]] (1995), insurance boss, owner of "VIS-2", former wrestler
* [[Andrey Lukanov]] (1996 October 2), former Prime Minister of Bulgaria<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Ivo Karamanski]] (1998), insurance tycoon, former rowing champion
* [[Iliya Pavlov]] (2003), president of Multigroup corporation, former wrestler, the wealthiest man in Bulgaria
* [[Georgi Iliev]] (2005), football club owner, brother of the assassinated Vasil Iliev
* [[Emil Kyulev]] (2005), banker, ex-professional swimmer, voted Mr. Economics in Bulgaria for 2002
* [[Ivan Todorov|Ivan "Doktora" Todorov]] (2006), businessman alleged of smuggling
* [[Borislav Georgiev]] (2008), CEO of "Atomenergoremont" Nucler plant repair company

===Croatia===
* [[Julius Nepos]] (480), Roman emperor. Assassinated near Salona (modern [[Solin, Croatia|Solin]]).

===Czech Republic===
* [[Saint Ludmila]] (921), Wife of Duke [[Bořivoj]], Grandmother of Duke [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia|Václav I]]
* [[Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia|Václav I]] (Saint Wenceslas) (935 or 929), Duke of [[Bohemia]]
* [[Václav III]] (1306), King of [[Bohemia]]
* [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]] (1634), [[Bohemia|Czech]] general during the [[Thirty Years' War]]
* [[Alois Rašín]] (1923), Minister of Finances of [[Czechoslovakia]]
* [[Reinhard Heydrich]] (1942), a General in the [[Nazism|Nazi]] German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czech lands

===Denmark===
* [[Erik V Klipping]] (1286), King of [[Denmark]]

===Finland===
* [[Bishop Henry]] (1156), [[England|English]] bishop in [[Finland]] (according to a legend)
* [[Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov]] (1904), [[Governor-General of Finland]]
* [[Eliel Soisalon-Soininen]] (1905), attorney General
* [[Alfred Kordelin]] (1917),entrepreneur
* [[Toivo Kuula]] (1918), composer
* [[Heikki Ritavuori]] (1922), Minister of the Interior of Finland

===France===
* [[Charles d'Espagne]] (1354), constable of France
* [[Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans]] (1407)
* [[John the Fearless]] (1419)
* [[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]] (1572)
* [[Henry III of France|Henri III]] (1589), King of [[France]]
* [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]] (1610), King of France, stabbed by [[François Ravaillac]]
* [[Jacques de Flesselles]] (1789), [[Provost (civil)|Provost]] of Paris
* [[Jean-Paul Marat]] (1793), revolutionary, stabbed in his bathtub by [[Charlotte Corday]]
* [[Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry]] (1820, February 13), younger son of the future King Charles X, stabbed by Louis Pierre Louvel
* [[Marie François Sadi Carnot]] (1894 June 24), [[President of France]], shot by anarchist [[Sante Jeronimo Caserio]] in Lyon<ref name="wa155" />
* [[Jean Jaurès]] (1914 July 30), politician, pacifist<ref name="timeline118">''20th Century Timeline'', p118</ref>
* [[Gaston Calmette]] (1914 March 16), editor of ''[[Le Figaro]]'' newspaper,<ref name="timeline118" /> by [[Henriette Caillaux]], wife of [[minister of Finance]] [[Joseph Caillaux]]
* [[Paul Doumer]] (1932 May 6), President of France, shot in Paris<ref name="wa155" />
* [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] (1934), was king of Yugoslavia. Assassinated in [[Marseille]], [[France]].
* [[Louis Barthou]] (1934), [[foreign minister of France]] killed along with King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] at [[Marseille]]
* [[Ernst vom Rath]] (1938), German diplomat in France
* [[Constant Chevillon]] (1944), head of [[FUDOFSI]], by [[Gestapo]] in [[Lyon]]
* [[Philippe Henriot]] (1944), State secretary for Information and Propaganda of [[Vichy France|Vichy government]], by [[French resistance|French resistants]] in Paris
* [[Georges Mandel]] (1944), former [[Radical-Socialist Party|radical-socialist]] minister and [[French resistance|French resistant]], by ''[[Milice|miliciens]]'' in [[forest of Fontainebleau]]
* [[Eugène Deloncle]] (1944), ''[[Milice|milicien]]'' and former leader of clandestine far-right organisation [[La Cagoule]], by [[Gestapo]]
* [[Mehdi Ben Barka]] (1965), Moroccan socialist leader and Third-World [[Tricontinental]] leader, ''[[forced disappearance|disappeared]]'' in Paris
* [[Outel Bono]] (1973), [[Chad]]ian medical doctor and anti-[[François Tombalbaye|Tombalbaye]] activist
* [[Jean de Broglie]] (1976), former minister and one of the French negotiators of the [[Évian Accords]]
* [[Henri Curiel]] (1978), [[anticolonialist]] [[activist]]
* [[José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana]] "[[Argala]]" (1978), [[Basque people|Basque]] leader
* [[Pierre Goldman]] (1979), left-wing activist
* [[Robert Boulin]] (1979), minister of Labor and many times minister since 1961. Officially suicide, but a lot of anomalies revealed since.
* [[Joseph Fontanet]] (1980), former minister
* [[Salah al-Din Bitar]] (1980), Syrian Baath politician
* [[Yehia El-Mashad]] (1980), [[Egypt]]ian atomic scientist.
* [[Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude]] (1982), right-wing activist and criminal
* [[Georges Besse]] (1986), [[Renault]] executive, by far-left activists of [[Action directe]]
* [[Dulcie September]] (1988), [[African National Congress]] representative, in Paris
* [[Joseph Doucé]] (1990), activist for sexual minorities
* [[Shapour Bakhtiar]] (1991), [[Prime Minister of Iran]] briefly in 1979, stabbed to death at his home in France
* [[Abdelbaki Sahraoui]] (1995), co-founder of the Algerian [[Islamic Salvation Front]], in Paris
* [[Claude Erignac]] (1998), [[prefect]] of [[Corsica]]

===Germany===
* [[Alexander Severus]] (235), [[Roman emperor]], near [[Moguntiacum]] (present-day [[Mainz]]) by his troops
* [[Postumus]] (268), Gallic emperor, in [[Mainz]]
* [[Laelianus]] (268), Gallic emperor, in [[Mainz]]
* [[Philipp von Hohenstaufen]] (1208), Emperor, in [[Bamberg]]
* [[Engelbert II of Berg|Engelbert I. von Köln]] (1225), [[Archbishop of Cologne]]
* [[Konrad von Marburg]] (1233), inquisitor
* [[Rosa Luxemburg]] (1919), socialist writer, in [[Berlin]]
* [[Karl Liebknecht]] (1919), socialist lawyer and politician, in [[Berlin]]
* [[Kurt Eisner]] (1919), Prime Minister of Bavaria
* [[Talat Pasha]] (1921), former Ottoman Minister of Interior Affairs, in [[Berlin]] by [[Soghomon Tehlirian]]
* [[Matthias Erzberger]] (1921), politician
* [[Walther Rathenau]] (1922 June 24), German foreign minister<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Ernst Röhm]] (1934), leader of the Sturm Abteilung (SA)
* [[Kurt von Schleicher]] (1934), former German chancellor, murdered by the SS
* [[Stepan Bandera]] (1959) - [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] nationalist leader assassinated by [[Bohdan Stashynsky]] in [[Munich]]
* [[Belkacem Krim]] (1970), [[Algeria]]n politician
* [[Siegfried Buback]] (1977), [[Germany|German]] [[attorney general]]
* [[Jürgen Ponto]] (1977), CEO [[Dresdner Bank]]
* [[Hanns-Martin Schleyer]] (1977), president of the [[Germany|German]] employers' organization
* [[Alfred Herrhausen]] (1989), [[Deutsche Bank]] CEO
* [[Detlev Karsten Rohwedder]] (1991), director of [[Treuhandanstalt]] for former [[East Germany]]
* [[Sadeq Sharafkandi]], Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, Nouri Dehkordi (1992), dissident [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] Iranian political leaders, in [[Berlin]] ([[Mykonos restaurant assassinations]])

===Greece===
* [[Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus)|Hipparchus]] (514 BC), brother of the tyrant of [[Athens]]
* [[Ephialtes]] (461 BC), leader of the radical democracy movement in Athens
* [[Alcibiades]] (404 BC), Athenian general and politician
* [[Alexander of Pherae]] (358 BC), despot of [[Pherae]]
* [[Philip II of Macedon]] (336 BC), king of [[Macedon]], by [[Pausanias of Orestis]] in [[Pella]]
* [[Seleucus I Nicator]] (281 BC), founder of the [[Seleucid dynasty]], near [[Lysimachia (Thrace)|Lysimachia]]
* [[Abantidas]] (251 BC), tyrant of [[Sicyon]]
* [[Archimedes]] (212 BC), Greek mathematician, was killed in syracusa, magna Greece
* [[Ioannis Capodistrias]] (1831), first [[President of Greece]]
* [[Theodoros Deligiannis]] (1905 June 13), [[Prime Minister of Greece]]
* [[Marinos Antypas]] (1907 March 8), Greek politician
* [[George I of Greece]] (1913 March 18), King of Greece<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] (1963), leader of anti-fascist movement in Greece.
* [[Richard Welch]] (1975), CIA Station Chief
* [[Hagop Hagopian]] (1988), Armenian leader of [[ASALA]]
* [[William Nordeen]] (1988), Tsantes successor as U.S. military attaché in Athens
* [[Pavlos Bakoyannis]] (1989), [[New Democracy (Greece)|New Democracy]] politician
* [[Stephen Saunders (military attache)|Stephen Saunders]] (2000), Brigadier and British military attaché in Athens

===Hungary===
* Count [[István Tisza]] (1918 October 31), Premier of [[Hungary]]<ref name="timeline118" />

===Iceland===
* [[Snorri Sturluson]] (1241 September 23), historian and politician, by Gissur

===Ireland===
* [[Brian Boruma]] (1014), Irish king
* [[Lord Frederick Cavendish]] (1882), Chief Secretary for Ireland
* [[Thomas Henry Burke (Irish Politician)|Thomas Henry Burke]] (1882), Permanent Under Secretary for Ireland
* [[Tomás Mac Curtain]] (1920), [[Lord Mayor of Cork]]
* [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] (1922), [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)#Provisional Government|President of the Provisional Government]] and [[Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] leader during the [[Irish War of Independence]]<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Kevin O'Higgins]] (1927), Irish politician, Minister of Home Affairs/Minister of Justice of the [[Irish Free State]]<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville]] (1936), assassinated for providing assistance to [[Royal Navy]] recruits
* [[Christopher Ewart-Biggs]] (1976), [[United Kingdom|British]] ambassador to Ireland
* [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]] (1979), [[Royal Navy]] [[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]], last [[Viceroy of India]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Dominic McGlinchey]] (1994), [[Irish National Liberation Army]] (INLA) leader
* [[Veronica Guerin]] (1996), Irish [[journalist]]

===Italy (and former Roman Empire)===
* [[Titus Tatius]] (748 BC), [[Sabine]] king, in [[Rome]]
* [[Lucius Tarquinius Priscus]] (579 BC), [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]] [[List of Kings of Rome|king of Rome]], in Rome by the sons of [[Ancus Marcius]]
* [[Servius Tullius]] (534 BC), Etruscan king of Rome, in Rome by [[Lucius Tarquinius Superbus|Tarquin II]]
* [[Tiberius Gracchus]] (133 BC), Roman tribune, in Rome by Roman senators
* [[Julius Caesar]] (44 BC), Roman general and dictator, in Rome by members of the [[Roman Senate]]
* [[Cicero]] (43 BC), Roman orator, outside of Rome under orders from [[Mark Antony]]
* [[Caligula]] (41), [[Roman Emperor]], in Rome by [[Cassius Chaerea]] through a conspiracy with the [[Praetorian guard]] and the Senate
* [[Claudius]] (54), Roman Emperor, poisoned in Rome by his wife, [[Agrippina the younger|Agrippina]]
* [[Vitellius]] (69), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the [[Flavian dynasty|Flavian]] army
* [[Galba]] (69), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders from [[Otho]]
* [[Domitian]] (96), Roman Emperor, in Rome by Stephanus, steward to [[Julia Flavia]]
* [[Commodus]] (192), Roman Emperor, killed in Rome by [[Narcissus (murderer)|Narcissus]] the wrestler
* [[Pertinax]] (193), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the Praetorian Guard
* [[Didius Julianus]] (193), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the Praetorian Guard
* [[Publius Septimius Geta]] (212), Roman Emperor, in Rome by [[centurion]]s under orders of [[Caracalla]]
* [[Caracalla]] (217), [[Roman Emperor]], between [[Edessa, Mesopotamia|Edessa]] and Carrhae (modern-day [[Sanli Urfa]] and [[Harran]]) by Martialis, possibly under orders of [[Macrinus]]
* [[Elagabalus]] (222), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders of [[Julia Maesa]] and [[Julia Mamaea]]
* [[Maximinus Thrax]] (238), Roman Emperor, outside [[Aquileia]] by his troops
* [[Pupienus and Balbinus|Pupienus]] (238), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the Praetorian Guard
* [[Pupienus and Balbinus|Balbinus]] (238), Roman Emperor, in Rome by the Praetorian Guard
* [[Volusianus]] (253), Roman Emperor, near Interamna by his troops
* [[Trebonianus Gallus]] (253), Roman Emperor, near Interamna by his troops
* [[Aurelian]] (275), Roman Emperor, near Caenophrurium (modern-day [[Çorlu|Corlu]])
* [[Florianus]] (276), Roman Emperor, near [[Tarsus (city)|Tarsus]]
* [[Gian Maria Visconti]] (1412), Duke of Milan<ref name=Adams>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=John |authorlink1=John Adams |title=A defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America, against the attack of M. Turgot in his letter to Dr. Price, dated the twenty-second day of March, 1778 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SXQSAAAAIAAJ&q=%22John%20Maria%22&f=true#v=snippet&q=%22John%20Maria%22&f=false |accessdate=November 6, 2010 |year=1794 |publisher=[[John Stockdale]] |location=London |oclc=2678599 |pages=153–155 }}</ref>
* [[Giuliano di Piero de' Medici|Giuliano de' Medici]] (1478), co-ruler of Florence
* [[Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia|Giovanni Borgia]] (1497), [[Duke of Gandia]], son of [[Pope Alexander VI]]
* [[Pellegrino Rossi]] (1848), [[Papal States]] Minister of Justice
* [[Umberto I of Italy]] (1900 July 29), King of Italy<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Said Halim Pasha]] (1921), former Ottoman Prime Minister
* [[Giacomo Matteotti]] (1924 June 10), Italian socialist politician<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Luigj Gurakuqi]] (1925), [[Albanians|Albanian]] independence leader, in [[Bari]]
* [[Benito Mussolini]] (1945 April 28), fascist, former [[Prime Minister of Italy]]<ref name="timeline119" />
* [[Enrico Mattei]] (1962), Italian public head officer, head of [[Eni]] oil company, supported [[Algerian War of Independence|Algerian independence]]
* [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] (1975), Italian writer, poet and film director
* [[Aldo Moro]] (1978), former [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
* [[Giuseppe Impastato]] (1978), Anti-mafia activist
* [[Cesare Terranova]] (1979), magistrate
* [[Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa]] (1982), General of the [[Carabinieri|Carabinieri Corps]], investigating on the mafia
* [[Rocco Chinnici]] (1983), magistrate
* [[Giovanni Falcone]] (1992), anti-[[mafia]] judge
* [[Paolo Borsellino]] (1992), anti-mafia judge
* [[Salvo Lima]] (1992), [[politician]]
* [[Marco Biagi]] (2002), Italian Labor Ministry advisor

===Montenegro===
* [[Danilo II of Montenegro]],(1860), killed in [[Kotor]], then [[Austria-Hungary]] by a member of [[Bjelopavlići (clan)|Bjelopavlici]] tribe
* [[Sekula Drljević]] (1945), Montenegrin nationalist

===Netherlands===
* [[Saint Boniface]] (754), Christian missionary
* [[Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht]] (1099)
* [[Floris V, Count of Holland|Count Floris V]] (1296)
* [[John the Pitiless Duke of Bavaria-Straubing|Duke John of Straubing-Holland]] (1425)
* [[William I of Orange]] (1584), leader of the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] war of independence from Spanish rule ([[Eighty Years' War]])
* [[Isaac Dorislaus]] (1649), diplomat
* [[Johan de Witt]] (1672), politician, and his brother
* [[Cornelis de Witt]] (1672)
* [[Gerrit Jan Heijn]] (1987), top manager of Ahold
* [[Pim Fortuyn]] (2002), publicist and politician, leader of his political party
* [[Theo van Gogh (film director)|Theo van Gogh]] (2004), film director, writer and critic

===Norway===
* [[Harald IV of Norway]] (1136), King assassinated by a pretender to the throne.
* [[Ahmed Bouchiki]] (1973), civilian, mistakenly believed to be [[Ali Hassan Salameh]], assassinated in [[Lillehammer]] by Israeli [[Mossad]] agents.

===Ottoman Empire===
* [[Mehmed Sokollu]] (1579), Grand [[Vizier]] of [[Suleyman the Magnificent]]
* [[Osman II]] (1622), [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]
* [[Mahmud Sevket Pasha]] (1913 January 23), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Celal Pasha]] (1929), former Ottoman Minister for the Navy, in [[Istanbul]], due to his role in the [[Armenian Genocide]].

===Poland===
* [[Stanisław Szczepanowski]] (1079), [[Bishop of Kraków]] (now a [[saint]])
* [[Gabriel Narutowicz]] (December 16, 1922), [[President of Poland]]<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Bronisław Pieracki]] (June 15, 1934), [[Ministry of Interior and Administration of the Republic of Poland|Minister of Interior of Poland]]
* [[Franz Kutschera]] (1944), German SS general and chief of police, by Polish resistance
* [[Jerzy Popiełuszko]] (1984), Polish priest, by the communist political police
* [[Marek Papała]] (1998), chief of the police, believed to be by the mafia

===Portugal===
* [[Viriathus]] (139 BC), leader of the [[Lusitanians|Lusitanian]] people that resisted Roman expansion over the regions of Western Iberia
* [[Inês de Castro]] (1355), posthumously declared Queen of Portugal
* [[Carlos I of Portugal]] (1908 February 1), King<ref name="timeline118" /> and
* [[Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza|Luiz Filipe of Portugal]] (1908 February 1), Crown Prince<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Sidónio Pais]] (1918), President
* [[Humberto Delgado]] (1965), General, Presidential Candidate
* [[Francisco Sá Carneiro]], (1980), Prime Minister
* [[Adelino Amaro da Costa]], 1980, Minister of Defense
* [[Issam Sartawi]] (1983), member of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], shot in an hotel

===Romania===
* [[Mihai Viteazul]] (1601), Ruler of [[Wallachia]], [[Moldavia]] and [[Transylvania]]
* [[Barbu Catargiu]] (1862), [[Prime Minister of Romania]]
* [[Ion Duca]] (1933), Prime Minister of Romania
* [[Corneliu Zelea Codreanu]] (1938), politician
* [[Armand Călinescu]] (1939), Prime Minister of Romania<ref name="timeline119" />
* [[Nicolae Iorga]] (1940), former Prime Minister of Romania, historian
* [[Virgil Madgearu]] (1940), politician
* [[Constantin Tănase]] (1945), actor
* [[Danny Huwe]] (1989) Belgian journalist

===Serbia===
* [[Karađorđe Petrović]] (1817) Leader of the First Serbian Uprising
* [[Mihailo Obrenović]] (1868) Prince of Serbia
* [[Aleksandar Obrenović]] (1903) King of Serbia, along with [[Draga Mašin]], Queen Consort
* [[Zoran Đinđić]] (2003) Prime Minister of Serbia

===Spain===
[[Image:CanalejasPanteon.jpg|200px|thumb|Tomb of José Canalejas in the ''[[Panteón de Hombres Ilustres]]'', Madrid.]]
* [[Juan Prim]] (1870), [[Prime Minister of Spain]] and [[Governor of Puerto Rico]]
* [[Antonio Cánovas del Castillo]] (1897), Prime Minister of Spain shot by [[Michele Angiolillo]] in Mondragón, Guipúzcoa.
* [[José Canalejas]] (1912), Prime Minister of Spain
* [[Eduardo Dato Iradier]] (1921), Prime Minister of Spain
* [[José Castillo (Spanish Civil War)|José Castillo]] (1936), [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] lieutenant in the [[Assault Guards]]
* [[José Calvo Sotelo]] (1936), [[right-wing]] politician
* [[Federico García Lorca]] (1936), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[poetry|poet]] and [[drama]]tist, by fascists
* [[Raoul Villain]] (1936), assassin of [[Jean Jaurès]]
* [[Andrés Nin]] (1937), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Communism|Communist]] revolutionary
* [[Mohamed Khider]] (1967), Algerian politician, in [[Madrid]]
* [[Melitón Manzanas]] (1968), secret police officer
* [[Luis Carrero Blanco]] (1973 December 20), Spanish prime minister<ref name="timeline120" />
* [[Miguel Ángel Blanco]] (1997), [[Basque people|Basque]] politician, by [[ETA]]
* [[Fernando Buesa|Fernando Buesa Blanco]] (2000), [[Basque people|Basque]] politician and party leader
* [[Ernest Lluch|Ernest Lluch Martín]] (2000), former Spanish minister

===Sweden===
* King [[Sverker I of Sweden]] (1156)
* King [[Eric IX of Sweden]] (1160)
* King [[Charles VII of Sweden]] (1167)
* [[Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson]] (1436), statesman, Regent of Sweden
* King [[Eric XIV of Sweden]] (1577), on order of his half-brother King [[John III of Sweden]]
* King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] (1792)
* [[Axel von Fersen, Jr.|Axel von Fersen]] (1810), statesman, Grand Marshal of Sweden
* [[Olof Palme]] (1986 February 28), [[Swedish prime minister]]<ref name="wa156" />
* [[Anna Lindh]] (2003), [[Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs|Swedish foreign affairs minister]]

===Switzerland===
* [[Albert I of Habsburg]] (1308), [[Holy Roman Empire|German]] King and Duke of [[Austria]], by his nephew [[John Parricida]], whom he had deprived of his inheritance, at [[Windisch]] on the Reuss River
* [[Jörg Jenatsch]] (1639), in [[Chur]]
* [[Elisabeth of Bavaria|Elisabeth]] ("Sisi") (1898), empress of Austria and queen of Hungary, in [[Geneva]]
* [[Wilhelm Gustloff]] (1936), German leader of the Swiss Nazi party
* [[Félix-Roland Moumié]] (1960), successor to [[Ruben Um Nyobe]] at the head of the [[Cameroon's People Union|UPC]], assassinated by the [[SDECE]] (French secret services)
* [[Kazem Rajavi]] (1990), Iranian opposition leader, in Geneva

===Turkey===
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* [[Mahmud Şevket Pasha]] (1913), prime minister
* [[Mustafa Suphi]] (1921), communist leader
* [[Abdi Ipekçi]] (1979), journalist, Editor-in-Chief of ''Milliyet'' newspaper, by [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]] in Istanbul
* [[Metin Yüksel]] (1979), Islamic political activist
* [[Cavit Orhan Tütengil]] (1979), Academician and writer
* [[Ümit Kaftancıoğlu]] (1980), Writer and TV producer
* [[Kemal Türkler]] (1980), [[Labor union]] leader, by [[Grey Wolves]] in Istanbul
* [[Nihat Erim]] (1980), former [[prime minister of Turkey]], by a [[Dev Sol]] operative in Istanbul
* [[Muammer Aksoy]] (1990), University professor in Law, murdered in Ankara
* [[Bahriye Üçok]] (1990), University professor in Islam Studies and women's rights activist, in Istanbul
* [[Turan Dursun]] (1990), Islamic scholar, author, and journalist, murdered in Ankara, unresolved.
* [[Musa Anter]] (1992), dissident [[Kurds in Turkey|Kurdish]] activist and writer, in [[Diyarbakır]], unresolved, attributed to Turkish military intelligence ([[JITEM]])
* [[Uğur Mumcu]] (1993), A journalist of ''[[Cumhuriyet]]'' newspaper, assassinated in Ankara, murderers unknown yet.
* [[Onat Kutlar]] (1995), writer, poet, founder of Cinemateque Istanbul, columnist for ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper, murdered in Istanbul.
* [[Özdemir Sabancı]] (1996), prominent industrialist and member of [[Sabancı Holding|Sabancı]] family
* [[Konca Kuris|Konca Kuriş]] (1998), Islamic [[feminist]] author, kidnapped and tortured to death in [[Mersin]]
* [[Ahmet Taner Kışlalı]] (1999), Politician, former Minister of Culture, Ankara University professor in [[Political Science]], ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper columnist.
* [[Üzeyir Garih]] (2001), [[Jews in Turkey|Turkish Jewish]] businessman and industrialist
* [[Necip Hablemitoğlu]] (2002), Professor of history at [[Ankara University]], his assassination unresolved.
* [[Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin]] (2006), High Judge at [[Turkish Council of State|Council of State]], by [[Alparslan Arslan]] in Ankara.
* [[Andrea Santoro]] (2006), Roman Catholic priest, murdered in the Santa Maria Church in Trabzon.
* [[Hrant Dink]] (2007), [[Armenians in Turkey|Turkish Armenian]] Journalist, publisher of [[Agos]] newspaper, by Ogün Samast in Istanbul

===United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland===
* [[Carausius]] (293), usurper of the [[Western Roman Empire]]
* [[Edmund I of England|King Edmund I]] (946), king of [[England]], stabbed at a banquet
* [[Edward the Martyr]] (978), King of [[England]]
* [[Thomas Becket]] (1170), [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]
* [[John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch]] (1306), killed by Robert the Bruce
* Sir [[Robert Hales]] - Lord High Treasurer - (1381) - Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the [[Peasants' Revolt]]
* [[Simon of Sudbury]] - Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London - (1381) - Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the [[Peasants' Revolt]]
* Sir [[John Cavendish]] - Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge - (1381) - Beheaded in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the [[Peasants' Revolt]]
* King [[James I of Scotland]] (1437), killed at Perth on the night of 20–1 February in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
* [[William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]] (1452), killed by James II of Scotland
* [[Henry VI of England]], King of England who was killed in the [[Tower of London]] likely on the orders of [[Edward IV of England]]
* King [[James III of Scotland]] (1488), killed by rebels
* [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]] (1567), husband of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]]
* [[James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray]] (1570), Regent of [[Scotland]]
* [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]] (1628), the assassin was John Felton, an army officer who had been wounded in the earlier military adventure
* [[James Sharp (bishop)|James Sharp]] (1679), [[Archbishop of St Andrews]], in [[Fife]], near [[St Andrews]]
* [[Spencer Perceval]] (1812), [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], in [[London]] by [[John Bellingham]]; the only [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] prime minister to be assassinated
* Sir [[Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet|Henry Hughes Wilson]] (1922 June 22), [[United Kingdom|British]] [[field marshal]], retired [[Chief of the Imperial General Staff]] and Conservative politician<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Michael O'Dwyer]] (1940), Former Lieutenant Governor of the [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], shot by a Punjabi revolutionary, [[Udham Singh]].
* [[Paddy Wilson]] (1972), [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]] politician
* [[Ross McWhirter]] (1975), co-author of the [[Guinness Book of Records]] and right wing political activist
* [[Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri]] (1977), past prime minister of [[Yemen Arab Republic]], killed in [[London]]
* [[Georgi Markov]] (1978), [[Bulgaria]]n dissident
* [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]] (1979), Former Governor-General of [[India]] on his yacht off [[Ireland]]
* [[Airey Neave]] (1979), [[United Kingdom|British]] Conservative politician
* [[Norman Stronge|Sir Norman Stronge]] (1981), aristocrat and Northern Irish politician
* [[Sir James Stronge, 9th Baronet]] (1981), aristocrat and Northern Irish politician
* Rev. [[Robert Bradford (NI politician)|Robert Bradford]] (1981), Unionist MP in [[Northern Ireland]]
* [[Shlomo Argov]] (died in 2003 as a result of a 1982 assassination), [[Israel]]i Ambassador to the [[Court of St. James's]]
* [[Edgar Graham]] (1983), [[Ulster Unionist Party|Ulster Unionist]] politician.
* [[George Seawright]] (1987), Northern Ireland politician
* [[Pat Finucane (solicitor)|Patrick Finucane]] (1989), solicitor
* [[Ian Gow]] (1990), British Conservative politician
* [[Billy Wright (loyalist)|Billy Wright]] (1997), [[Loyalist Volunteer Force]] leader.
* [[Rosemary Nelson]] (1999), [[Irish Catholic]] solicitor and human rights advocate
* [[Jill Dando]] (1999), British television presenter
* [[Alexander Litvinenko]] (2006) [[Russia]]n critic of [[Vladimir Putin]]
* [[Imran Farooq|Dr Imran Farooq]] (2010 Sept 16), founding member of the All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organization (APMSO), in [[Edgware]], London, by [[Altaf Hussain]] through conspiracy

===Yugoslavia===
* [[Gallienus]] (268), Roman emperor, near [[Niš|Naissus]]
* [[Marcus Aurelius Probus|Probus]] (282), Roman emperor. Assassinated at [[Sirmium]]
* [[Carinus]] (285), Roman emperor. Assassinated at [[Great Morava|Margus]]
* [[Željko Ražnatović]] ("Arkan") (2000), Serb paramilitary leader
* [[Pavle Bulatović]] (2000), [[defense minister]] of Yugoslavia
* [[Ivan Stambolić]] (2000), Serbian politician

===Ukraine===
* [[Mykola Leontovych]] (1918) - [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] composer
* [[Symon Petlura]] (1926), [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] political leader assassinated by [[Sholom Schwartzbard]]
* [[Yevhen Konovaletz]] (1938) [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] nationalist leader assassinated by [[Pavel Sudoplatov]]
* [[Lev Rebet]] (1957) - [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] nationalist leader assassinated by [[Bohdan Stashynsky]]
* [[Volodymyr Ivasiuk]] (1979) - Ukrainian composer
* [[Vadym Hetman]] (1998) - Politician, banker
* [[Georgiy Gongadze]] (2000) - Ukrainian journalist
* [[Stepan Senchuk]] (2005) - Ukrainian politician
* [[Yevhen Shcherban]] (2000) - Ukrainian politician

==Assassinations in Russia and the Soviet Union==
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* [[Peter III of Russia]] (1762), [[Emperor of Russia]]
* [[Paul of Russia]] (1801), [[Emperor of Russia]]
* [[Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich]] (1825), military Governor of [[Saint Petersburg]]
* [[Nikolay Vladimirovich Mezentsev]] (1878), Executive Director of the [[Third Section]]
* [[Alexander II of Russia]] (1881 March 13), Tsar of [[Russian Empire|All the Russias]]<ref name="wa155" />
* [[Nikolay Alekseyev]] (1893), Mayor of [[Moscow]]
* [[Dmitry Sipyagin]] (1902 April 8), Russian [[MVD|Interior Minister]]<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Vyacheslav Pleve]] (1904), Russian Interior Minister
* [[Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov]] (1905), former [[Governor-General]] of [[Moscow]]
* [[Pyotr Stolypin|Peter Stolypin]] (1911 September 14), [[Russia]]n Prime Minister, killed in theater in Kiev<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Grigori Rasputin]] (1916 December 30), controversial friar and mystic<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]] and his family: [[Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine|Tsarina Alexandra]], [[Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia|Tsarevich Alexei]], and the Grand Duchesses [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia|Olga]], [[Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia|Tatiana]], [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918)|Maria]] and [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia]] (1918 July 16)<ref name="wa750" />
* [[Elizabeth (Ella) of Hesse]], Grand Duchess of Russia, sister of [[Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]], wife of tsar [[Nicholas II]]. (18 July 1918)
* [[V. Volodarsky]] (1918), revolutionary
* [[Wilhelm von Mirbach]] (1918), [[Germany|German]] Ambassador in [[Moscow]]
* [[Sergei Kirov]] (1934 December 1), [[Bolshevik]] party leader in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]<ref name="timeline118" />
* [[Solomon Mikhoels]] (1948), Chairman of the [[Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.joshuarubenstein.com/stalinsecret/intro.html |title=stalin's secret pogrom-INTRO |publisher=Joshuarubenstein.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-29}}</ref>
* [[Igor Talkov]] (1991), singer-songwriter, anti-Soviet activist
* [[Vladislav Listyev]] (1995), a Russian journalist and head of the [[Channel One (Russia)|ORT TV Channel]]
* [[Dzhokhar Dudayev]] (1996), first [[Chechnya|Chechen]] separatist President and anti-[[Russia]]n [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] leader
* [[Valeriy Hubulov]] (1998), [[South Ossetia]]n politician, former prime minister
* [[Galina Starovoitova]] (1998), influential politician, then member of [[Russia]]n parliament ([[Duma]])
* [[Otakhon Latifi]] (1998), [[Tajikistan|Tajik]] journalist and opposition figure
* [[Sergei Yushenkov]] (2003), Russian politician, in [[Moscow]]<ref>http://www.eng.terror99.ru/publications/092.htm</ref>
* [[Yuri Shchekochikhin]] (2003), Russian journalist, in [[Moscow]]<ref>http://www.eng.terror99.ru/publications/118.htm</ref>
* [[Paul Klebnikov]] (2004), editor of the Russian edition of ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine
* [[Akhmad Kadyrov]] (2004), [[Moscow Kremlin|Kremlin]]-backed President of the [[Chechen Republic]]
* [[Aslan Maskhadov]] (2005), President of [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|separatist Chechnya]]
* [[Anatoly Trofimov]] (2005), former [[FSB (Russia)|FSB]] deputy director
* [[Magomed Omarov (politician)|Magomed Omarov]] (2005), deputy Interior Minister of [[Dagestan]]
* [[Bayaman Erkinbayev]] (2005), [[Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyz]] MP
* [[Altynbek Sarsenbayev]] (2006), [[Kazakhstan|Kazakh]] politician
* [[Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev]] (2006), President of [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|separatist Chechnya]]
* [[Anna Politkovskaya]] (2006), Russian journalist and human rights campaigner.
* [[Vitaly Karayev]] (2008), mayor of [[Vladikavkaz]], [[North Ossetia–Alania]]
* [[Kazbek Pagiyev]] (2008), former mayor of [[Vladikavkaz]], [[North Ossetia–Alania]]
* [[Nina Varlamova]] (2008), mayor of [[Kandalaksha]], [[Murmansk Oblast]]
* [[Stanislav Markelov]] (2009), human rights lawyer
* [[Adilgerei Magomedtagirov]] (2009), interior minister of Dagestan
* [[Aza Gazgireyeva]] (2009), deputy chair of [[Ingushetia]] Supreme Court
* [[Bashir Aushev]] (2009), former deputy prime minister of [[Ingushetia]]
* [[Natalia Estemirova]] (2009), human rights activist
* [[Gadzhimurat Kamalov]] (2011), journalist

==Related articles and lists==
* [[Decolonization#Assassinated anticolonialist leaders|List of assassinated anticolonialist leaders]]
* [[Car bomb#Assassinations by car bombings (by date)|List of assassinations by car bombing]]
* [[List of assassins]]
* [[List of people who survived assassination attempts]]
* [[List of terrorist incidents]]
* [[List of Israeli assassinations]]

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