List of assassinations

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This is a list of assassinations, sorted by location.

For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious, political or monetary reasons.

Africa[]

The Americas[]

Antigua and Barbuda[]

Date	Victim(s)	Method	Assassin(s)	Notes
December 7, 1710	Daniel Parke, British governor of the Leeward Islands	Beating	Several members of a mob.	An angry mob captured Parke in his house, beat him severely, and dragged him out to die of his wounds.[1] His last words to his tormentors, as he lay dying, were reported as: "Gentlemen, you have no sense of honor left, pray have some of humanity."[2]

Argentina[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1828	Manuel Dorrego, Governor of Buenos Aires Province	Juan Lavalle
1838	Alejandro Heredia, Governor of Tucumán Province
1841	, Governor of Catamarca Province
1841	Marco Avellaneda, Governor of Tucumán Province
1861	, Governor of San Juan Province
1870	Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina and Governor of Entre Ríos Province
1909	Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police	Simón Radowitzky	Assassinated by anarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers.
1921	, Governor of San Juan Province
1929	Carlos Washington Lencinas, former Governor of Mendoza Province
1935	Enzo Bordabehere, National Senator for Santa Fe Province	Ramón Valdez Cora	Killed during a session of the Argentine Senate.
1969	Augusto Vandor, Metalworkers Union (UOM) Secretary General		Killed in commando attack by the Ejército Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Army), a far-left Peronist splinter group.
1970	Pedro Aramburu, former de facto president of Argentina		Executed by the Peronist guerrilla Montoneros in revenge for the abduction of Evita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a 1956 failed uprising, during Aramburu's dictatorship.
1970	José Alonso, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1972	Oberdan Sallustro, Director of FIAT Argentina	ERP
1973	José Ignacio Rucci, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1973	, Governor of Misiones Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance	Killed with Vice-Governor César Ayrault by bomb placed in Beechcraft Queen Air plane.
1974	Arturo Mor Roig, former Interior Minister	Montoneros
1974	Carlos Mugica, Catholic Third World priest	Rodolfo Almirón (Argentine Anticommunist Alliance)
1974	, National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Atilio López, former Córdoba Vice-Governor	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Silvio Frondizi, University of Buenos Aires law professor	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Carlos Prats, Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army	Michael Townley	Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship, during his exile in Argentina.
1975	, National Deputy for Santa Fe Province	Montoneros
1975	John Egan, U.S. Honorary Consul in Córdoba	Montoneros
1975	Ramón Rojas, National Deputy for San Juan Province	Fernando Otero	Killed at the behest of Vineyard Workers' Federation (FOEVA) leader Delfor Ocampo.[3]
1975	Alberto Manuel Campos, Mayor of General San Martín Partido	Montoneros
1976	, former Governor of Salta Province	Army Gen. Luciano Menéndez	Abducted and killed by right-wing task force made of up of Army and Salta Police officers, led by Menéndez.
1976	Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan senator, founder of the Broad Front		Exiled in Argentina as a result of the 1973 Uruguayan coup, he was killed after the 1976 Argentine coup, under the Operation Condor, which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone.
1976	Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives		Killed alongside Zelmar Michelini, while exiled in Argentina.
1976	Juan José Torres, 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.
1976	Enrique Angelelli, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja	Luis Estrella	Beaten to death after Angelelli's car was run off the road on orders from III Army Corps Chief Luciano Menéndez.
1977	Juan Carlos Casariego de Bel, Chief Foreign Investments Adviser at Economy Ministry	Army Capt. Héctor Vergez	Casariego had objected to a $400 million payout for the nationalization of the bankrupt CIADE electric company - one of whose top shareholders was the Economy Minister, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz.
1978	Miguel Tobías Padilla, Undersecretary for Coordination at Economy Ministry	Montoneros
1985	Osvaldo Sivak, banker	José Benigno Lorea, police officer	Killed following ransom kidnapping by the Aníbal Gordon gang - led by former Argentine Anticommunist Alliance operatives.
1997	José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist for leading Argentine news weekly Noticias.	"Los Horneros" gang, led by Buenos Aires Provincial Police Inspector Gustavo Prellezo	Killed on orders from businessman Alfredo Yabrán.
2012	Carlos Soria, Governor of Río Negro Province	Susana Freydoz	Killed by his wife.
2019	Héctor Enrique Olivares, National Deputy for La Rioja Province	Juan Jesús Fernández and Juan José Navarro Cádiz	Killed in attack directed at Olivares' aide, Miguel Yadón (dead on arrival), by businessman Rafael Cano Carmona.

Bermuda[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1973	Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda	Erskine "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn	Shot outside Bermuda's Government House. Sharples's aide-de-camp Captain Hugh Sayers was also killed.

Bolivia[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1829	Pedro Blanco Soto, President of Bolivia
1865	Manuel Isidoro Belzu, President of Bolivia
1946	Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia
9 October 1967	Ernesto "Che" Guevara	Bolivian Special Forces	Captured the previous day, and was shot 9 times and executed.
1989	Elders Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson, LDS Missionaries
2016	Rodolfo Illanes, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Bolivia	Protesting miners

Brazil[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1915	Pinheiro Machado, Brazilian politician
1930	João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque	João Duarte Dantas
1964	Adib Shishakli, Syrian military dictator	Nawaf Ghazaleh
1975	Vladimir Herzog, journalist
1976	Zuzu Angel, Brazilian activist
1988	Francisco Alves "Chico" Mendes Filho, Brazilian environmental activist	Darci Alves da Silva	Murder ordered by rancher Darly Alves da Silva, Mendes was shot by his son Darci
1996	Paulo César Farias, Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer
2001	Antonio da Costa Santos, Mayor of Campinas
2002	Celso Daniel, Mayor of Santo André
2002	Tim Lopes, journalist	Elias "Maluco" Pereira da Silva, André "Capeta" da Cruz Barbosa, Cláudio "Ratinho" Orlando do Nascimento, Maurício "Boizinho" de Lima Matias, Claudino "Xuxa" dos Santos Coelho, Elizeu "Zeu" Felício de Souza, Ângelo "Primo" da Silva, Reinaldo "Cadê" Amaral de Jesus and Fernando "Frei" Sátyro da Silva	Murdered by drug traffickers connected to Comando Vermelho and Amigos dos Amigos
2005	Dorothy Stang, American nun		Killed by business interests
2016	Kyriakos Amiridis, former Greek ambassador to Brazil	Françoise de Sousa Oliveira and Sergio Gomes	Murdered by Gomes on the orders of Oliveira, and corpse burnt in an arson attack on a rental car.[4]
2018	Marielle Franco, Brazilian human rights activist	Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira and Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega	Assassination suspected to be linked with Rio de Janeiro Militias[5]

Canada[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1868	Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Father of Canadian Confederation	Patrick J. Whelan
1872	William End, Magistrate in northern New Brunswick		He and his office set aflame by ex-convict.
1880	George Brown, Father of Canadian Confederation	George Bennett
1914	William C. Hopkinson, immigration officer, British intelligence agent	Mewa Singh, Ghadarite sympathizer
1970	Pierre Laporte, Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec	Bernard Lortie, Paul Rose, Jacques Rose, Francis Simard[6]	Kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ.
1982	Atilla Altıkat, Turkish diplomat		Assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa

Chile[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1818	Luis Carrera and his brother Juan José Carrera, both independence war heroes	attributed to the head of the government, Bernardo O'Higgins
1818	Manuel Rodriguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile	attributed to the head of the government, Bernardo O'Higgins
1837	Diego Portales, As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the Chilean state for almost a century.	Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre
1970	René Schneider, Chilean general, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army		After several attempts, he was kidnapped and killed by 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.
1971	Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, Chilean ex Secretary of Interior Affairs
1973	Victor Jara, Chilean left-wing singer		Killed after the coup of 1973.
1982	Eduardo Frei Montalva, former President of Chile and opponent of the Pinochet dictatorship		Although he officially died by sepsis after a low-risk surgery, recent research suggests he was poisoned by the secret service of Pinochet. However, there isn't an absolute certainty about the real causes of his death.[7]
1982	[es], Chilean trade-unionist		Killed by the military dictatorship of Pinochet.[8]
1991	Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing Senator		Killed by far-left guerrillas after the return of democracy.

Colombia[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1830	Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier	Juan Gregorio Sarria, José Erazo, and three peons
1914	Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier
1948	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader
1984	Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1985	, Judge who had indicted Pablo Escobar
1985	Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of the Supreme Court.		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, Supreme Court Justice.		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1986	Guillermo Cano Isaza, Director of El Espectador newspaper		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1987	Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
1987	Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
August 18, 1989	Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
1989	, journalist, Director of Mundovision		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
March 22, 1990	Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party[9]	A teen 15-year
1989	Waldemar Franklin Quintero, Commander of the Police of Antioquia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1990	Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party
1991	, former Colombian Ambassador to Switzerland		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1994	Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer
1994	Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party
1995	Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper
1999	Jaime Garzón, journalist and satirist
2000	Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones, Colombian Army General		Assassinated by members of FARC
2003	Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia

Cuba[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 8, 1935	Antonio Guiteras, Revolutionary Socialist leader

Curaçao[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 5, 2013	Helmin Wiels, The leader of the Sovereign People party.	Elvis Kuwas

Dominican Republic[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1899	Ulises Heureaux, president of the Dominican Republic
May 30, 1961	Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, Dominican Republic dictator		Shot in ambush
1973	Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó

Ecuador[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1875	Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador	Faustino Rayo	Shot outside Quito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views.
1999	Jaime Hurtado and , communist legislators		Killed in Quito

El Salvador[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1913	Manuel Enrique Araujo, President of El Salvador
1975	Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary
1977	Rutilio Grande García, S.J., Roman Catholic priest
1977	Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, Roman Catholic priest
1978	Ernesto Barrera, Roman Catholic priest
1979	Octavio Ortiz Luna, Roman Catholic priest
1979	Rafael Palacios, Roman Catholic priest
1979	Alirio Napoleón Macías, Roman Catholic priest
1980	Óscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador		Killed by right-wing death squad
1980	Enrique Álvarez Córdova and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials)		Captured and killed by government aligned security forces.
1980	Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, Roman Catholic nuns		Killed by the National Guard of El Salvador.
1983	Marianella García Villas,[10] Human Rights Attorney/Activist		Killed by the Salvadoran Armed Forces
1983	Albert Schaufelberger, senior U.S. Naval representative
1989	Ignacio Ellacuría, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	Ignacio Martín-Baró, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	Segundo Montes, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	María Cristina Gómez, teacher and community leader

Grenada[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1983	Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada

Guatemala[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1898	José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala
1957	Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, killed by bodyguard[11]
1970	Karl von Spreti, German ambassador in Guatemala
1979	Alberto Fuentes Mohr, Social Democratic Party leader
1979	Manuel Colom Argueta, Mayor of Guatemala City
1980	, Law professor at San Carlos University and leftist leader	Rios Montt regime	Hugo Rolando was ambushed on his way to work by the Guatemalan army on the morning of March 24
1993	Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Liberal politician and journalist
1998	Juan José Gerardi, Roman Catholic bishop
2012	Valentín Leal, legislator
2013	Carlos Castillo Medrano, Mayor of Jutiapa

Guyana[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 18, 1978	Leo Ryan, Member of the US House of Representatives	Members of the People's Temple in Jonestown	Was shot to death in Guyana while investigating human rights violations by members of the People's Temple.
1980	Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
2006	Satyadeow Sawh, Agriculture Minister		Murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues

Haiti[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1806	Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti
1993	Antoine Izméry, businessman and Lavalas supporter
1993	Guy Malary, minister of justice
2000	Jean Dominique, journalist
2005	Jacques Roche, journalist
July 7, 2021	Jovenel Moïse, president

Honduras[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1966	Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944
2008	Mario Fernando Hernández, deputy speaker of Congress for the Liberal Party
2016	Berta Cáceres, environmental and indigenous rights activist	David Castillo, former Honduran military intelligence officer

Mexico[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1520	Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, Emperor of the Aztec Alliance
February 22, 1913	Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico, Nov 6, 1911 to Feb 19, 1913.[11]		Vice-President José María Pino Suárez was also killed.
March 7, 1913	Abraham González, revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa
April 10, 1919	Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary	Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo	Shot at his hacienda San Juan, Chinameca in Mexico.
May 20, 1920	Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico[11]	Álvaro Obregón
July 20, 1923	Francisco "Pancho" Villa, revolutionary[12]	Unknown	Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral in Mexico. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed.
1924	Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatán
July 17, 1928	Álvaro Obregón, President-elect[12]	José de León Toral
1929	Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary
August 20, 1940	Leon Trotsky, Russian communist leader[12]	Ramón Mercader	Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe.
1985	Enrique Camarena, U.S. DEA Agent
1986	Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and State governor
1993	Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara	Unknown	Assassinated at the Guadalajara Airport, among 6 other people, by cocaine drug gang Tijuana Cartel using Logan Heights (San Diego, CA) street gang, either as a mistaken attack on another cartel leader (Sinaloa Cartel) or to silence Posadas regarding possible corrupt connections between government and drug cartels; some more recent speculation that an anti-church group was involved.
March 23, 1994	Luis Donaldo Colosio, Presidential candidate[9]	Mario Aburto	Assassinated at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a neighborhood in Tijuana.
September 28, 1994	José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
June 7, 1999	Paco Stanley, comedian	Luis Alberto Salazar Vega
2001	Digna Ochoa, human rights lawyer
2004	Francisco Ortiz Franco, contributing editor to Zeta
2010	Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor of Guadalupe
2010	Rodolfo Torre Cantú, politician
June 8, 2018	, politician		Shot while leaving a debate hall in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Fernando Purón was previously the mayor of Piedras Negras, and was running for Mexico's general election.[13]

Nicaragua[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1934	Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary	National Guard members of Anastasio Somoza García	Killed by National Guard members of Anastasio Somoza García
September 21, 1956	Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua[9]	Rigoberto López Pérez
1978	Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, newspaper editor, Nicaraguan Somoza opposition
1991	Enrique Bermúdez, founder and former top commander of the Nicaraguan Contras

Panama[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
January 2, 1955	José Antonio Remón Cantera, President of Panama		Killed at racetrack by machine gun[11]
July 31, 1981	Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera, Governor Head of Panama		Killed at an Aircraft accident by a radio detonated bomb

Paraguay[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1877	Juan Bautista Gill, President of Paraguay
1980	Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza, former President of Nicaragua	7 Sandinistas
March 23, 1999	Luis María Argaña, vice president of Paraguay		Ambushed[9]

Peru[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1541	Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
1872	Jose Balta, President of Peru
1933	Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, president of Peru
1992	María Elena Moyano, a community organizer in Villa El Salvador

Suriname[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1982	Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist		Victim of the December murders

United States[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 7, 1837	Elijah Parish Lovejoy, minister, editor, and abolitionist		Killed by a pro-slavery mob.
June 22, 1839	Major Ridge, Cherokee leader	Bird Doublehead and James Foreman	Killed by a group of people who blamed Ridge, who signed the Treaty of New Echota, for the deaths of 4,000 Cherokees on the Trail of Tears. His son, John, and his nephew, Elias Boudinot, were also killed.
June 27, 1844	Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism		Armed mob killed him and his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois, jail.
April 14, 1865	Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States	John Wilkes Booth	Was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin in the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning on April 15 across the street in a boarding house. Booth and accomplice David Herold hid in a barn in Virginia. Herold surrendered. When Booth refused to go out, the troops set the barn on fire, which killed him.
October 22, 1868	James M. Hinds, U.S. Representative from Arkansas	George Clark	Killed by a Ku Klux Klan member as part of intimidation of Republican carpetbaggers
July 2, 1881	James A. Garfield, President of the United States	Charles J. Guiteau	Shot by Guiteau while waiting for a train at a Washington train station. Garfield did not die until September 19, 1881.
October 15, 1890	David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans
October 28, 1893	Carter Harrison Sr., Mayor of Chicago	Patrick Eugene Prendergast	Killed after assailant was rejected for appointment to a patronage position.
February 3, 1900	William Goebel, Governor of Kentucky	Unknown political opponents	Uncertain, but killed in the context of a disputed, fraudulent election
September 6, 1901	William McKinley, President of the United States	Leon Czolgosz	Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was shaking hands at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Didn't die until September 14.
December 30, 1905	Frank Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho	Harry Orchard	Killed by a mining company informant in an attempt to cast blame on a labor union
March 6, 1933	Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago	Giuseppe Zangara	Disputed; suspected of striking Cermak instead of intended target President-elect Franklin Roosevelt
September 8, 1935	Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana	Carl Weiss	Long attended the State Capital building to help pass "House Bill Number One". Long was able to help get the bill to pass. After the meeting, Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Long's long-time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, confronted Long, pulled out a handgun and shot Long in the abdomen. Weiss was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards. Long died two days later.
January 11, 1943	Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer
February 9, 1960	Adolph Coors III, heir to Coors Brewing Company	Joseph Corbett, Jr.	Murdered in failed kidnap-for-ransom attempt
June 12, 1963	Medgar Evers, U.S. civil rights activist.[9]	Byron De La Beckwith	Evers, an African American activist and NAACP leader, was shot by De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994.
November 22, 1963	John F. Kennedy, President of the United States	Lee Harvey Oswald	Shot in by Lee Harvey Oswald while travelling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
November 24, 1963	Lee Harvey Oswald	Jack Ruby	Revenge for killing John F. Kennedy
February 21, 1965	Malcolm X, black Muslim leader	Talmadge Hayer	Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech.
August 25, 1967	George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party	John Patler, a former aide	Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat.
April 4, 1968	Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. civil rights activist.[9]	James Earl Ray[14]	Ray pleaded guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot.[15] See Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 5, 1968	Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from New York and leading Democratic presidential candidate in 1968.	Sirhan Sirhan	Shot after giving a speech after winning the California primary. Died 26 hours later on June 6. Sirhan was convicted on April 17, 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death.[16] The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.
December 4, 1969	Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party	Chicago Police Department, with involvement by the FBI	Killed by the Chicago Police Department in a raid on December 4, 1969. The status of this as an assassination is somewhat disputed; however many sources see this as an assassination or at least a politically-motivated extrajudicial execution, with support from the FBI's COINTELPRO program.[17][18][19][20][21][22]
1973	Marcus Foster, School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA	Donald DeFreeze, Joe Remiro and Russ Little	Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army
June 30, 1974	Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin, church deacon	Marcus Chenault	Killed while her husband was preaching.
September 21, 1976	Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States for the administration of Chile's democratically elected President Salvador Allende	Michael Townley	Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents.
November 27, 1978	Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist, and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco	Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy	See Moscone–Milk assassinations
December 8, 1980	John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles	Mark David Chapman	Shot multiple times and killed by Mark David Chapman. Chapman was a former fan of The Beatles, Lennon's band, until Lennon said that they were "more popular than Jesus." See Murder of John Lennon.
June 18, 1984	Alan Berg, radio talk-show host	Jean Craig, David Lane, Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari	Killed by members of the white nationalist group The Order.
October 15, 1984	Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer	Wu Tun and Tung Kuei-sen	Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
1985	Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader		Killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
1986	Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman		Killed in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
July 18, 1989	Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress and model	Robert John Bardo	Shot and killed at her home in West Hollywood
August 22, 1989	Huey Newton, founder of Black Panther Party	Tyrone Robinson	Killed by member of Black Guerrilla Army (BGA).
1990	Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, Founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist	El Said Nosair	Killed by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel, El Said Nosair who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to Sheik Abdul Rahman, "the blind sheik", Al Qaeda's point man in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil.
1991	Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas		Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught at the Divinity School Swift Hall, allegedly because of opposition to his writings.
1993	David Gunn, abortion provider	Michael F. Griffin	Shot outside his clinic. See Murder of David Gunn.
1994	John Britton, physician, abortion provider	Paul Jennings Hill	Shot at his clinic.
March 31, 1995	Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, singer, songwriter	Yolanda Saldívar	Shot in Corpus Christi by fan club manager
September 13, 1996	Tupac Shakur, rapper	Orlando Anderson (suspected)	Shot in Las Vegas after leaving a boxing match
March 9, 1997	Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, rapper	Wardell Fouse (suspected)	Shot in Los Angeles
July 15, 1997	Gianni Versace, fashion designer	Andrew Cunanan	Shot on his home's front steps in Miami
October 23, 1998	Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider	James Charles Kopp	Shot in his kitchen.
2007	Chauncey Bailey, Oakland Tribune journalist	Devaughndre Broussard	Shot on the street in Oakland.
February 7, 2008	Mike Swoboda, Mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri	Charles "Cookie" Thornton	Kirkwood City Council shooting
May 31, 2009	George Tiller, physician	Scott Roeder	Shot by anti-abortion extremist as he ushered at his church.
June 10, 2016	Christina Grimmie, singer	Kevin Loibl	Shot while signing autographs in Florida
June 18, 2018	Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy, rapper	Michael Boatwright and Trayvon Newsome	Shot to death while in his car in Florida
March 31, 2019	Nipsey Hussle, rapper and producer	Eric Ronald Holder, Jr.	Shot in front of his clothing store, Marathon Clothing, in South Los Angeles
February 19, 2020	Bashar "Pop Smoke" Jackson, rapper	Corey Walker, Keandre Rogers, and 2 others unidentified by police	Killed in a home invasion
November 6, 2020	Dayvon "King Von" Bennett, rapper	Timothy "Lul Timm" Leeks	Shot and killed while trying to stop an altercation outside an Atlanta nightclub
January 17, 2021	, leader of the Safe Streets program in Baltimore, Maryland	Garrick L. Powell, Jr.	Shot once in the head in southeast Baltimore. Investigation underway.

Uruguay[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1868	Bernardo P. Berro, Uruguayan president, 1860 to 1864.
February 19, 1868	Venancio Flores, Uruguayan president, 1865 to February 15, 1868.
1897	Juan Idiarte Borda, Uruguayan president
1970	Dan Mitrione, Office of Public Safety torturer	Tupamaros
1992	Eugenio Berríos, Chilean chemist who worked for the DINA during the Pinochet dictatorship		Killed in Uruguay by Chilean secret services for "knowing too much".

Venezuela[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 13, 1950	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela[11]	Rafael Simón Urbina
October 21, 1952	Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, member and one of the founders of Acción Democrática	Dirección de Seguridad Nacional	Assassinated by dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez's political police[23]
November 18, 2004	Danilo Anderson, state prosecutor
October 1, 2014	Robert Serra, member of the National Assembly
January 15, 2018	Óscar Pérez, Venezuelan rebel leader	Extrajudicially killed by Venezuelan National Guard	Investigator for the CICPC.

Asia[]

Europe[]

Oceania[]

Australia[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1802	Pemulwuy	Henry Hacking	Shot and killed by British sailor Henry Hacking under orders by Governor Phillip Gidley King
February 12, 1894	, Mayor of Burwood, NSW
June 23, 1975	Shirley Finn		Very likely murdered by corrupt police.
July 4, 1975	Juanita Nielsen		Ruled a murder at a 1983 coronial inquest.
July 15, 1977	Donald Mackay, anti-drugs campaigner
December 17, 1980	Şarık Arıyak, Turkish Consul General
1989	Colin Winchester, Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police
1994	John Newman, New South Wales State Member for Cabramatta	Phuong Ngo	Murdered for political gain

New Caledonia[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
May 4, 1989	Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak independence leader	Djubelly Wéa

Samoa[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
July 16, 1999	Luagalau Levaula Kamu, cabinet minister	Eletise Leafa Vitale

Palau[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
June 30, 1985	Haruo Remeliik, president

West Papua[]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 26, 1984	Arnold Ap, songman and ethnomusicologist		Shot in back by Indonesian military unit upon release from prison[24]
March 14, 1996	, Independence leader		Allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers in Cipinang prison.[24]
November 10, 2001	Theys Eluay, West Papuan Independence movement leader		Assassinated by Kopassus officers after attending a military dinner in Jayapura[24]
December 16, 2009	Kelly Kwalik, West papuan guerrilla leader		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Timika[24]
June 14, 2012	Mako Tabuni, Chairman of main civil resistance independence organisation, West Papua National Committee(KNPB)		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura[25]

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