The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous. It also contains some individuals who were famously suspected, but then acquitted, of particular assassinations. It has been suggested that Selective assassination be merged into this article or section. ...

See also

• List of assassinated persons
• Conspiracy theory
• Terrorism

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This is an incomplete list of persons that were assassinated for political and other reasons, and who have individual entries. ... A conspiracy theory attempts to attribute the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social, or historical events), or the concealment of such causes from public knowledge, to a secret, and often deceptive plot by a covert alliance of powerful or influential people or organizations. ... Terrorist redirects here. ...

Anonymous assassins

• (name?) - assassin of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal the Fair
• ("three black Africans and an Arab") – assassins of Zanzibar's leader Sheik Abeid Karume
• (a tank corps major) - assassin of Ngo Dinh Diem
• (Name?) - assassin of Waclaw III king of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary
• (name?) - assassin of Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad Ţepeş
• (an anonymous Hashshashin) - assassin of Conrad of Montferrat
• (Abu-Lu'lu'ah) - assassin of Umar ibn al-Khattab
• (unknown) - assassination of Alexander Litvinenko by polonium
• (unknown) - assassination of Leszek I Bialy, prince of Cracow

Roman Carthage with former military harbor Carthage (Greek: , Latin: , from the Phoenician meaning new town; Arabic: ) refers both to an ancient city in Tunisia and to the civilization that developed within the citys sphere of influence. ... Hasdrubal the Fair (d. ... Map of Zanzibars main island Zanzibar is part of Tanzania Coordinates: , Country Tanzania Islands Unguja and Pemba Capital Zanzibar City Settled AD 1000 Government  - Type semi-autonomous part of Tanzania  - President Amani Abeid Karume Area  - Both Islands  637 sq mi (1,651 km²) Population (2004)  - Both Islands 1,070... Shaikh (Arabic: شيخ ),(also rendered as Sheik, Shaykh or Sheikh) is a word in the Arabic language meaning elder of tribe, lord or a revered old man. ... Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume. ...   «ngoh dihn zih-ehm» (January 3, 1901 – November 2, 1963) was the first President of South Vietnam (1955–1963). ... Wenceslaus III Premyslid (Czech and Slovak Václav, Hungarian Vencel), (October 6, 1289 - August 4, 1306) was the king of Hungary (1301 - 1305) and king of Bohemia (1305 - 1306). ... Flag of Bohemia Bohemia (Czech: ; German: ) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. ... Vlad II (also known as Dracul or The Dragon) (c. ... Portrait of Vlad III in the Innsbruck Ambras Castle Vlad III Basarab (other names: Vlad Å¢epeÅŸ IPA: in Romanian, meaning Vlad the Impaler; Vlad Draculea in Romanian, transliterated as Vlad Dracula in some documents; Kazıklı Bey in Turkish, meaning Impaler Prince), (November or December, 1431 – December 1476). ... The Hashshashin (also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin or Assassins) was a religious sect of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect. ... Imaginary portrait of Conrad by François-Édouard Picot, c. ... For other uses of the name, see Umar (disambiguation). ... Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Russian: ) (30 August 1962[1][2] – 23 November 2006) was a lieutenant-colonel in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and later a Russian dissident and writer. ... Categories: Poland-related stubs | Dukes of Masovia | Polish monarchs ...

A

• Saad Akbar - assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Mehmet Ali Ağca - failed assassin of Pope John Paul II
• Yigal Amir - assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin
• Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, a Bolivian Surrealist painter, would-be assassin of Pope Paul VI, during the latter's visit at the Manila International Airport in the Philippines.
• An Jung-geun, assassin of Itō Hirobumi, resident-general of Korea.
• Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden
• Avelino Arredondo - assassin of Juan Idiarte Borda, President of Uruguay (August 25, 1897)
• Vladimir Arutinian - attempted assassin of US President George W. Bush and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili (May 10, 2005)
• Ay - minister and for a time thought to be the assassin of the pharaoh Tutankhamun who is now believed to have died from a compound fracture.

Assasinated the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaqat Ali Khan. ... Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan Nawabzaada Khan Liaquat Ali Khan (October 1, 1896 – October 16, 1951) was the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. ... The Prime Minister of Pakistan (Urdu: وزیر اعظم Wazir-e- Azam) is the Head of Government of Pakistan. ... Mehmet Ali AÄŸca (born January 9, 1958) is a Turkish assassin, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The Pope (from Latin... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: , Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan PaweÅ‚ II) born   [] (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as... Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר) (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. ... The Prime Minister of Israel (Hebrew: ראש הממשלה, Rosh HaMemshala, lit. ... For other persons named Rabin, see Rabin (disambiguation). ... Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores (born 1935[1]) was a Bolivian painter who unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Pope Paul VI in Manila in 1970. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Filipino: Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Ninoy Aquino) or NAIA (IATA: MNL, ICAO: RPLL) is the international airport that serves Manila, in the Philippines, and its surrounding metropolitan area. ... An Jung-geun as a Korean Soldier Ahn Jung-geun or An Jung-geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Christian name: Thomas) was the Korean independence activist who is best known for assassination of the Japanese military governor of Korea, Ito Hirobumi, during Japanese colonial occupation of Korea. ... Itō Hirobumi , 16 October 1841–26 October 1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun and Shunsuke in his youth) was a Japanese statesman, Resident-General of Korea, four times Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and genrō. Itō was assassinated by An Jung-geun, a Korean anti-Japanese... Jacob Johan Anckarström (May 11, 1762 - April 27, 1792) was a Swedish military officer, and regicide. ... Gustav III (13 January (O.S.) or (24 January (N.S.) 1746 – March 29, 1792) was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. ... This is a list of Presidents of Uruguay. ... is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Vladimir Arutinian (his surname is also transliterated as Arutyunian) (born on 12 March 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is an ethnic Armenian man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush during President Bushs visit to Georgia on 10 May 2005. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... The President of Georgia (ge: საქართველოს პრეზიდენტი) is the head of the state and commander-in-chief of Georgia. ... Mikhail Saakashvili briefing the press at UN headquarters Mikhail Saakashvili (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი) (born December 21, 1967, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian jurist and politician and the current President of Georgia. ... is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kheperkheperure–Irimaat Everlasting are the Manifestations of Re, who does what is right Nomen Itinetjer Ay Gods father, Ay Horus name Kanakht Tekhenkhau The strong bull, the one of glittering crowns Nebty name Sekhempehti dersetet Who is mighty of strength, who subdues the Asiatics Golden Horus Heqamaat sekhepertawy The... Nebkheperure Lord of the forms of Re Nomen Tutankhaten Living Image of the Aten Tutankhamun Hekaiunushema Living Image of Amun, ruler of Upper Heliopolis Horus name Kanakht Tutmesut The strong bull, pleasing of birth Nebty name Neferhepusegerehtawy One of perfect laws, who pacifies the two lands[1] Wer-Ah-Amun...

B

• Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - attempted assassin of President of France Charles de Gaulle
• Byron De La Beckwith - assassin of US civil rights figure Medgar Evers
• John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1812)
• John Wilkes Booth - assassin of the American President Abraham Lincoln
• Gustave Bouvet - attempted assassin of President of France Alexandre Millerand
• Mohammed Bouyeri - assassin of the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (November 2, 2004)
• Arthur Herman Bremer - would-be assassin of George Wallace, governor of Alabama
• Gaetano Bresci - assassin of Italian King Humbert I
• Maxime Brunerie - would-be assassin of Jacques Chirac, President of France
• Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and their associates - assassins of Julius Caesar
• Frederick Russell Burnham - assassin of Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader who planned and lead the Second Matabele War (1896)
• Samuel Byck - would-be assassin of American President Richard Nixon

General de Gaulle at upper left, Bastien-Thiry at upper right Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (October 19, 1927 – March 11, 1963) was a French military air weaponry engineer and the last who attempted to assassinate President of France Charles de Gaulle. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Image:ByronDeLaBeckwith. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi. ... John Bellingham (c. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and Prime Minister. ... is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... Gustave Charles Bouvet was a French anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Alexandre Millerand, the President of France. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Alexandre Millerand (February 10, 1859 - April 7, 1943) was a French socialist politician. ... Mohammed Bouyeri (Arabic: ) (born March 8, 1978 in Amsterdam), is serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Theo van Gogh (IPA: ) (July 23, 1957–November 2, 2004) was a Dutch film director, television producer, publicist and actor. ... is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arthur Herman Bremer (born 21 August 1950) shot Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on 15 May 1972, leaving Wallace paralyzed for life. ... George Corley Wallace, Jr. ... For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... Gaetano Bresci (1869 - May 22, 1901), was an Italian-American anarchist who assassinated Italian king Humbert I. He is still considered a hero by many anarchists and republicans. ... Maxime Brunerie is a man who tried to murder French President Jacques Chirac in 14th July 2002, but failed. ... Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician and a former President of France. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Ancient marble bust of Marcus Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BC – 42 BC), or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, was a Roman senator of the late Roman Republic. ... Caius Cassius Longinus featured on a denarius (42 BC). ... Gaius Julius Caesar [1] (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men in world history. ... Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO (1861-1947), an American scout and world travelling adventurer is best known for his service to the British Army in Colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft (i. ... There are two versions of Ndebele in South Africa, they both belong to the Nguni group of Bantu Languages. ... Burnham & Armstrong after the assassination of Mlimo. ... Samuel Byck Samuel Joseph Byck (January 30, 1930 – February 22, 1974) was an unemployed former tire salesman who attempted to hijack a plane from Baltimore-Washington International Airport on February 22, 1974. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...

C

• Carlos the Jackal - terrorist, would-be assassin of Joseph Sieff
• Sante Geronimo Caserio - assassin of the French President Marie François Sadi Carnot
• Cassius Chaerea, and associates - assassins of the Roman emperor Caligula
• Jacques Clément - assassin of King Henri III of France
• Charlotte Corday - assassin of Jean-Paul Marat
• Izola Curry - stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1958
• Leon Czolgosz - assassin of the American President William McKinley

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) is a Venezuelan-born self-proclaimed leftist revolutionary and mercenary. ... Sante Geronimo Caserio (September 8, 1873 - August 16, 1894) was an Italian anarchist, assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... For the French physicist and uncle of Marie François, see Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot. ... Cassius Chaerea (fl. ... Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), more commonly known by his nickname Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from 37 to 41 CE. During his brief reign, Caligula focused much of his attention on ambitious construction... Jacques Clément (1567 - August 1, 1589) was the murderer of the French king Henry III. He was born at Serbonnes, in todays Yonne département, in Burgundy, and became a Dominican friar. ... Henry III of France (September 19, 1551 – August 2, 1589), also Henry of Poland (also called Henry of Valois, Henryk Walezy), born Alexandre-Édouard of France, was a member of the House of Valois. ... Charlotte Corday by Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry, painted 1860: Under the Second Empire, Marat was seen as a revolutionary monster and Corday as a heroine of France, represented in the wall-map. ... Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 – July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born French scientist and physician who made much of his career in the United Kingdom, but is best known as an activist in the French Revolution. ... Izola Curry was an American citizen who attempted to assassinate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... Photograph of Leon Czolgosz. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... For the mountain, see Mount McKinley. ...

D

• Namba Daisuke attempted assassin of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan on December 27, 1923
• André Dallaire, attempted assassin of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on November 5, 1995
• Eugene de Kock, head of a South African government unit known as "Vlakplaas" that assassinated opponents of Apartheid in the 1980s.
• Dingaan and Mhlangana - assassins of Shaka, the king of Zulus
• Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan - IRA assassins of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, British field marshal, in 1922
• Fritz Joubert Duquesne - a Boer and German Spy who killed Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War, by sinking the HMS Hampshire while on route to Russia. June 5, 1916.

Namba Daisuke (November 7, 1899 - November 15, 1924), Japanese student. ... Emperor Shōwa ) (April 29, 1901–January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from December 25, 1926 until his death in 1989. ... Courtroom sketch of Dallaire by K. Bailey Born in Longueuil Québec, André Dallaire is a Canadian who attempted to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in 1995. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, usually known as Jean Chrétien, PC, QC, BA, BCL, LLD (h. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... Dingane kaSenzangakhona Zulu (ca. ... For the Shaka era, see Hindu Calendar. ... This article is about the African ethnic group. ... Reginald Dunne, Second in Command of the London branch of the IRA, was also a decorated First World War veteran. ... Joseph OSullivan served in the British Army during the First World War. ... This article is about the historical army of the Irish Republic (1919–1922) which fought in the Irish War of Independence 1919–21, and the Irish Civil War 1922–23. ... Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Bt. ... Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. ... Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelt Du Quesne pronounced in English as “Doo-Cain’’) (born Cape Colony 21 September 1877, died New York City 24 May 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred... This article is about the Boer people (Boerevolk). ... The Earl Kitchener Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Irish-born British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman popularly referred to as Lord Kitchener. ... HMS Hampshire was a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

E

• Lydia Echevarría - alleged assassin of Luis Vigoreaux
• George Elser - lone assassin who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler through a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall on November 8, 1939

Lydia Echevarría (born 1924) is a controversial Puerto Rican actress. ... Luis Vigoreaux (April 12, 1929-January 17, 1983) was a Puerto Rican show host, comedian and producer. ... Johann Georg Elser (born 4 January 1903 in Hermaringen, Württemberg, Germany; died 9 April 1945 in Dachau concentration camp) was a German opponent of Nazism. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

F

• John Felton - assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham
• Giuseppe Fieschi - would-be assassin of King Louis Philippe in July 1835
• Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme - would-be assassin of Gerald Ford

John Felton (died November, 1628) was an English Puritan who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in Portsmouth, because he believed that he harmed too many people. ... George Villiers (August 28, 1592 - August 23, 1628) was the 1st Duke of Buckingham of the second creation (1623) of that title and a favourite of King James I of England and then of Charles I. He was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, the son of the minor noble Sir George... Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (1790 - February 19, 1836), the chief conspirator in the attempt on the life of Louis Philippe in July 1835, was a native of Murato in Corsica. ... Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ... Lynette Alice Squeaky Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is a former member of Charles Mansons Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ...

G

• Rolando Galman - assassin of Benigno Aquino, Jr.
• Balthazar Gérards - assassin of William I of Orange
• Nathuram Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
• Volkert van der Graaf - assassin of Pim Fortuyn
• Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of the American President James Garfield
• Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva - attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin in 1914
• Violet Gibson - would-be assassin of Benito Mussolini in 1926

This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Balthasar Gérard (in Dutch Gerards or Gerardts) (1557-1584) was the assassin of the Dutch independence leader, William the Silent, also known as William I of Orange. ... William I (William the Silent) William I, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau (April 24, 1533 – July 10, 1584) was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. ... Nathuram Vinayak Godse (Marathi: नथूराम विनायक गोडसे) (May 19, 1910 – November 15, 1949) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: , Hindi: , IAST: mohandās karamcand gāndhī, IPA: ) (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948), was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. ... Volkert van der Graaf (born July 9, 1969) is an animal welfare activist and is the confessed murderer of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. ... Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus (Pim) Fortuyn (pronounced ; officially spelt Fortuijn), (February 19, 1948 – May 6, 2002), was a controversial, openly gay, charismatic[1] right-wing politician in the Netherlands who formed his own party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List Pim Fortuyn or LPF). ... Charles Julius Guiteau (September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American lawyer who assassinated President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States and the second U.S. President to be assassinated — Abraham Lincoln was the first. ... Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva, (also Khionia Guseva and Jina Guseva) was a former prostitute and a disciple of the monk Iliodor during the reign of Czar Nicholas II in Russia. ... Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (or Grigori Yefimovich Novyh) (Russian: ) (January 22 [O.S. January 10] 1869 -- December 29 [O.S. December 16] 1916) was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son... Violet Gibson, best known for shooting Benito Mussolini, Italys Fascist leader, in the middle of the street. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943, when he was overthrown. ...

H

• Charles Harrelson - assassin of Judge John H. Wood, Jr.
• Hashshashin - the original Afghan assassins
• Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted), Norman 3X Butler & Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted) - the three assassins of Malcolm X
• John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin of American president Ronald Reagan
• Hitokiri - Japanese assassins during the Bakumatsu
• Tom Horn, Old West lawman, gunman, and killer for hire
• Ignacy Hryniewiecki - Polish assassin of the Russian Emperor Alexander II

Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938[1] - March 15, 2007[1]) was an American freelance hitman connected with organized crime, who was convicted of assassinating a federal judge. ... John H. Wood, Jr. ... The Hashshashin (also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin or Assassins) was a religious sect of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect. ... Talmadge Hayer was one of the convicted assassins of Malcolm X. He was 22 years old at the time of the killing. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Thomas 15X Johnson was one of the convicted assassins of Malcolm X. Talmadge Hayer, also a convicted assassin, claimed Johnson was innocent of the crime. ... Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, also known as Detroit Red and Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 in New York City) was a Muslim Minister and National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ... John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. ... President of the United States - The President of the United States The American President (film) - A Romantic Comedy surrounding a fictional President of the United States and his attempts to win over an attractive lobbyist This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... Hitokiri (人斬) is a term given to four different samurai during the period of time known as the Bakumatsu in Japanese history. ... The late Tokugawa shogunate or last shogun (幕末; Bakumatsu) is the period between 1853 and 1867 during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government. ... Rare image of Tom Horn from the Wyoming State Museum. ... Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ... Categories: Stock characters | Stub ... Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Игнатий Гриневицкий in Russian, or Ignatiy Grinevitskiy) (August of 1855, or fall of 1856 - 1881), Polish-Russian revolutionary, murderer of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. ... Alexander II (1818-1881) Alexander (Aleksandr) II (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (April 17, 1818–March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination. ...

I

• The Invincibles - assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke 1882
• Khalid Islambouli - chief assassin of Anwar Al Sadat

Irish National Invincibles usually known as the Invincibles was largely composed of former Irish Republican Brotherhood members operating independently of the IRB. They planned to kill the Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office Thomas Henry Burke and it was Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendishs misfortune that... Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (November 30, 1836 - May 6, 1882), son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, was a English Liberal politician and prot̩g̩ of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, who was appointed to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in May 1882. ... Thomas Henry Burke, (1829 Р1882) He was Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office for many years before being assassinated during the Phoenix Park Murders on Saturday May 6, 1882. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Image:Sadat assassination. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

J

• Jing Ke - failed assassin of a Qin king, later Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese emperor
• John Parricida of Habsburg -- Killed his uncle King Albert I of Germany in 1308

Jing Ke (Chinese: 荊軻; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching Ko) was a guest residing in the estates of Dan, crown prince of Yan and renowned for his failed assassination of the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang who reigned from 221 BC to 210 BC. His story is told in the chapter... The monarch known now as Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chin Shih-huang) (November / December 260 BCE – September 10, 210 BCE), personal name Yíng Zhèng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BCE to 221 BCE (officially still under the Zhou Dynasty... John Parricida, or John the Parricide, also called John of Swabi (born ca. ... Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy; also used as the flag of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867. ... Albrecht I of Habsburg (July 1255 – May 1, 1308), sometimes named as Albert I, was King of Germany, Duke of Austria, and eldest son of German King Rudolph I of Habsburg and Gertrude of Hohenburg. ...

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• Fanya Kaplan - attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin
• Khalid Sheik Mohammed - conspired with a plot to kill Pope John Paul II as part of the Operation Bojinka terrorist attack plot. The plot was discovered after an apartment fire in Manila, Philippines on January 6, 1995
• Jan Kubiš - assassin of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 in Prague. See Operation Anthropoid
• Hitokiri Kawakami Gensai - Japanese assassin during the Bakumatsu.
• Jakub kaszuba - assassination of Przemysl II, king of Poland

Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan, in 1907 Faina Yefimovna Kaplan (Фаина Ефимовна Каплан; 1883–September 3, 1918), a. ... “Lenin” redirects here. ... Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Arabic: خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, and other ways) (March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965 – present) was an important figure in Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda organization, where he... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The Pope (from Latin... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: , Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan PaweÅ‚ II) born   [] (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as... Operation Bojinka (also known as Project Bojinka, Bojinka Plot, Bojinga, from Arabic: بجنكة – slang in many dialects for explosion and pronounced Bo-JIN-ka, except in Egyptian where it is Bo-GIN-ka) was a planned large-scale attack on airliners in 1995, and was... Nickname: Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Manila Coordinates: 14°35 N 121° E Country Philippines Region National Capital Region Districts 1st to 6th districts of Manila Barangays 897 Incorporated (city) June 10, 1574 Government  - Mayor Alfredo Lim (GO)  - Vice Mayor Isko Moreno (Asenso Manilenyo/PDP-Laban) Area... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Maybe you are looking for the Slovak Ján KubiÅ¡. Jan KubiÅ¡ (June 24, 1913 - June 18, 1942) was one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained agents sent to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. ... Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, SD and Kripo Nazi police agencies) and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia. ... Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: , Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ... Reinhard Heydrich, the target of Operation Anthropoid. ... Hitokiri (人斬) is a term given to four different samurai during the period of time known as the Bakumatsu in Japanese history. ... Kawakami Gensai (河上彦斎, 1834-1871), one of the four great hitokiri of the Bakumatsu period of 19th century Japan. ... The late Tokugawa shogunate or last shogun (幕末; Bakumatsu) is the period between 1853 and 1867 during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

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• Richard Lawrence - attempted assassin of American president Andrew Jackson
• Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Austria
• Byron Looper - assassin of political opponent Tommy Burks

Richard Lawrence (1800? - 1861) Lawrence was born in England in 1800 (or perhaps 1801). ... President of the United States - The President of the United States The American President (film) - A Romantic Comedy surrounding a fictional President of the United States and his attempts to win over an attractive lobbyist This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... For other uses, see Andrew Jackson (disambiguation). ... Luigi Lucheni (April 22, 1873, Paris - October 19, 1910) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria (commonly referred to as Sisi) in 1898. ... Elisabeth in a riding habit, from Vanity Fair, 1884. ... Byron (Low Tax) Looper Booking Photo Byron (Low Tax) Looper (born 1964), a former politician, is an inmate in the Tennessee state penal system. ... Tommy Burks (May 22, 1940 – October 19, 1998) was a farmer and Democratic party politician in Tennessee, USA. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 until 1978, and in the Tennessee State Senate from 1978 until 1998. ...

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• Marcia (a concubine) and Narcissus (an athlete) - assassins of Roman emperor Commodus. Narcissus strangled the emperor in his bath after Marcia's poison failed to work. The chief plot architect was praetorian prefect Quintus Aecilius Laetus
• Rolando Masferrer Rojas killer in Spanish Civil War and in Cuba, blown up in Miami, in 1975
• Ramón Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky
• Mijailo Mijailovic - assassin of Anna Lindh
• Sara Jane Moore - would-be assassin of Gerald Ford
• Thomas McMahon - assassin of Louis Mountbatten
• Jim Miller, Old West outlaw and killer for hire

Marcia (birth and death dates unknown) was the cousin and mistress of 2nd century AD Roman Emperor Commodus. ... A swampy marsh area ... Narcissus was a Roman athlete and wrestler from the 2nd century AD. He was employed by emperor Commodus as his wrestling partner and personal trainer in order to train him for his appearances in the Colosseum as a gladiator. ... Look up athlete in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (August 31, 161 – December 31, 192) was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192. ... Rolando Masferrer Rojas (1918-1975), born in Holguín, July 12, 1918 [1], in Oriente province, better known simply as Rolando Masferrer, was a Cuban guerrilla leader, lawyer, congressman, newspaper publisher a member of the Cuban Communist Party and politically involved person [2] [3]. He was killed in Miami, United... Jaume Ramon Mercader del Rio Hernández (February 7, 1914 – October 18, 1978) was a Catalan Communist who served as a foreign agent of the NKVD during Joseph Stalins time as ruler of the Soviet Union. ...   (Russian: Лeв Давидович Трóцкий, Lyev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Leon Davidovich Bronstein (Лeв Давидович Бронштéйн), was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... Surveillance photo of Mijailović at the crime scene Mihailo Mihailović (born 6. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia) attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... Thomas McMahon (b. ... Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... Killer Jim Miller, far left, wearing black hat, hangs from a livery stable rafter after lynching in Ada, Oklahoma, 1909 James B. Killer Miller, (b. ... Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

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• Måns Bengtsson Natt och Dag - assassin of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
• Abu Nidal, attempted assassin of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to Britain. Actual assassin of dozens of PLO officers
• Eligiusz Niewiadomski - assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland
• Ninja - assassins of medieval Japan
• El Sayyid Nosair - assassin of Meir Kahane

Late 19th century model for a statue of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson to be placed in Örebro; no contemporary image of Engelbrekt is known Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390s – May 4, 1436) was a Swedish statesman and rebel leader. ... Abu Nidal in 1976 in a photograph released by the Israeli Defense Forces, one of only a handful of photographs of him known to exist. ... Shlomo Argov (December 14, 1929 - February 23, 2003) was the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom whose attempted killing sparked Israels Invasion of Lebanon. ... The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah منظمة تحرير فلسطينية ) is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the... Eligiusz Niewiadomski Eligiusz Niewiadomski ( December 1, 1869 in Warsaw - January 31, 1923), was a Polish modernist painter and art critic, who belonged to the right-wing National Democratic Party in renascent Poland in the early 20th century. ... Term of office from December 9, 1922, until December 16, 1922 Profession Engineer, university professor Political party nonpartisan Spouse Date of birth March 17, 1865 Place of birth Telsze (in todays Lithuania) Date of death December 16, 1922 Place of death Warsaw, Poland Gabriel Narutowicz, born on March 17... Jiraiya, ninja and title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari. ... El Sayyid Nosair (born November 16, 1955) is an Egyptian-born American citizen and terrorist involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. ... Rabbi Meir David Kahane (, also known by the pseudonyms Michael King, David Sinai and Hayim Yerushalmi, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, author, political activist, and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. ...

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• Felice Orsini - Italian nationalist who failed in his attempt to assassinate Napoleon III on January 14, 1858
• Lee Harvey Oswald - found by the Warren Commission to be the assassin of US President John F. Kennedy

Felice Orsini (1819 - March 13, 1858) was an Italian revolutionary who tried to assassinate Napoleon III. Felice Orsini was born at Meldola in Romagna. ... Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais; both monarchs of the French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland. ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. ... Warren Commission report cover page The Presidents Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. ... President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and Texas Governor John Connally in the presidential limousine just moments before his assassination The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. ...

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• Pietro Pacciani - condemned as The monster of Florence
• John Patler - assassin of George Lincoln Rockwell
• Richard Paul Pavlick - would-be assassin of John F. Kennedy
• Christer Pettersson - acquitted of the murder of the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme
• Otto Planetta and others - assassin of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
• Lewis Powell or Lewis Paine - would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1865
• David Pratt - would-be assassin of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
• Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggered World War I
• pl:Michał Piekarski - would be assassin of Polish king Zygmunt III

Pietro Pacciani ([[]], 1924 - 22 February 1998), was a peasant of Mercatale, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, suspected of being the ill-famed monster of Florence. ... Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... John Patler, formerly Yanacki Patsalos (born circa 1938), was the assassin of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Richard Paul Pavlick (February 13, 1887-November 11, 1975) was a retired postal worker from New Hampshire who stalked and then attempted to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy on Sunday, December 11, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. ... Christer Pettersson (April 23, 1947 - September 29, 2004) was a suspect in the assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Sven Olof Joachim Palme ( ) (January 30, 1927 – February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. ... Engelbert Dollfuss. ... Notable people with the name Lewis Powell include: Lewis Powell, one of the conspirators hanged for the assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln. ... Seal of the United States Department of State. ... William Henry Seward, Sr. ... This is a list of South African Prime Ministers. ... Silver medal commemorating Verwoerds death. ... Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, IPA: ) (July 25, 1894) – April 28, 1918) was an ethnic Yugoslav[1] with links to a group known as the Black Hand (Црна Рука or Crna Ruka) and Mlada Bosna, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. ... Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian 1 Recognised regional languages Hungarian, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn 2 Albanian 3 Government Semi-presidential republic  -  President Boris Tadić  -  Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  -  Formation 9th century   -  First unified state c. ... Franz Ferdinand links to here. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

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• Puniša Račić - assassin of Stjepan Radić
• Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
• François Ravaillac - assassin of Henry IV of France
• James Earl Ray - assassin of Martin Luther King Jr (pleaded guilty but later asserted his innocence)
• Otto Rothstock - assassin of Hugo Bettauer (1925)
• Gennaro Rubino - would-be assassin of King Léopold II of Belgium (1902)
• Jack Ruby - assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Juan Roa Sierra - assassin of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan - Leader of Colombia's Liberal Party in 1948 - triggering one of South America's most violent episodes

Puniša Račić was a Serbian politician from Berane, Montenegro, member of the Yugoslav Parliament from the National Radical Party. ... Stjepan Radić (May 11, 1871 – August 8, 1928) was a Croatian politician and the founder of the Croatian Peasant Party (CPP, Hrvatska Seljačka Stranka) in 1905. ... Thenmuli Rajaratnam (1974 ?? -1991) was the assassin who killed Rajiv Gandhi, herself, and 16 others in a suicide bombing on May 21, 1991, in the Indian town of Sriperumbudur, near Madras. ... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the government of India. ... Rājiv Ratna GāndhÄ« (DevanāgarÄ«: राजीव रत्न गान्धी, IPA: ) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Gandhi family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December... François Ravaillac François Ravaillac (1578 – May 27, 1610) was the killer of Henry IV of France. ... Henry IV of France, also Henry III of Navarre (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. ... The person who killed Martin Luther King Jr. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... Otto Rothstock was the assassin of Hugo Bettauer. ... Gennaro Rubino was an Italian anarchist who unsuccesfully tried to assassinate King Leopold II of Belgium. ... King Léopold II His Majesty King Léopold II of the Belgians (Louis Philippe Marie Victor) (April 9, 1835–December 17, 1909), succeeded his father, Léopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death. ... Jack Leon Ruby (1911 – January 3, 1967) was born Jacob Rubenstein, and changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in December 1947. ... Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. ... Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (January 23, 1903 - April 9, 1948) was a populist politician in Colombia, and member of the Liberal Party. ...

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• Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla
• Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
• Alexandros Schinas - assassin of King George I of Greece
• John Schrank - would-be assassin of Theodore Roosevelt
• Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen
• Sholom Schwartzbard - Jewish anarchist and political assassin of Symon Petliura, the head of the government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Paris
• Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell
• Beant Singh and Satwant Singh - assassins of the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
• Sirhan Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
• Valerie Solanas - failed assassin of Andy Warhol
• Somarama Thero - assassin of Ceylonese prime minister Solomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike.
• Claus von Stauffenberg - colonel of the Wehrmacht who led the abortive July 20, 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler through a bomb at Wolfsschanze and lead an insurrection in Berlin and Paris

Yolanda Saldívar (born September 19, 1960) was convicted in 1995 for the murder of famed Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, which occurred on March 31, 1995. ... Selena Selena Quintanilla Perez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was a Mexican-American singer who is considered to be one of the most popular and influential Hispanic music icons of all time. ... Eugen Schauman (May 10, 1875 - June 16, 1904) was a Finnish nationalist who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Alexandros Schinas Alexandros (Alekos) Schinas (1870s, Volos - May 6, 1913), was a Greek[1] anarchist who assassinated King George I of Greece in Thessaloniki in 1913. ... George I, King of the Hellenes (Greek: Γεώργιος A, Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων) (December 24, 1845 – March 18, 1913) was King of the Hellenes (Greece) from 1863 to 1913. ... John F. Schrank was a saloonkeeper from New York, best known for his attempt to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. ... Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... Yuan Shikai (Courtesy Weiting 慰亭; Pseudonym: Rongan 容庵 Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Hanyu Pinyin: Yuán ShìkÇŽi; Wade-Giles: Yüan Shih-kai) (September 16, 1859[1] – June 6, 1916) was a Chinese military official and politician during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. ... Sung Chiao-jen Sung Chiao-jen (Chinese characters: 宋教仁, Pinyin: Sòng Jiàorén) (April 5, 1882–March 22, 1913) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. ... Sholom Schwartzbard (1886-1938) was an anarchist and political assassin, who was acquitted by a French jury of the assassination of Symon Petlura. ... Symon Petlyura (Симон Петлюра; also spelled Simon, Semen, Semyen Petliura or Petlura, May 10, 1879 â€“ May 25, 1926) was a Ukrainian politician. ... Ukrainian Peoples Republic (Ukrainian: ), also sometimes translated as Ukrainian National Republic, abbreviated UNR (УНР), was a republic in part of the territory of modern Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, eventually headed by Symon Petliura. ... Miles Sindercombe (d. ... Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England, Scotland and Ireland into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. ... Beant Singh (Left) & Satwant Singh (Right) Beant Singh was one of the bodyguards to the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. ... Satwant Singh (son of Tarlok Singh, of Agwan village in Gurdaspur District) and Beant Singh were bodyguards to the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, who on October 31, 1984 assassinated her at her residence. ... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the government of India. ... Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: ) (November 19, 1917 – October 31, 1984) was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 to 1984. ... Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (born March 19, 1944) is the convicted assassin of United States Senator Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy. ... Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. ... Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 26, 1988) was an American radical feminist writer who struggled to be recognized for her writing but became famous for having shot the artist Andy Warhol in 1968. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ... Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf[1] von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany. ...

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• Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha
• Henning von Tresckow - key conspirator in the German anti-Nazi Resistance who initiated several assassination attempts on Hitler (all unsuccessful), the most famous of which was the plan to destroy Hitler's plane at Smolensk in 1943
• Ernst Tandefelt - assassin of Heikki Ritavuori
• Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (successfully) on Hendrik Verwoerd's life

Soghomon Tehlirian Soghomon Tehlirian (Armenian: ) (1897–1960) was a native of Erzincan, was an Armenian Evangelical (Protestant) and Armenian Genocide survivor. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Mehmed Talat Pasha. ... Henning von Tresckow (January 10, 1901 in Magdeburg – July 21, 1944 in Ostrow near BiaÅ‚ystok, Poland) was a Major General in the German Wehrmacht who is known for organizing German resistance against Hitler. ... Knut Ernst Robert Tandefelt (died 1948) was a Finland-Swedish nobleman. ... Heikki Ritavuori, originally Rydman (born 23 March 1880 in Turku, died 14 February 1922 in Helsinki) was a Finnish Bachelor of Law, a politician from the National Progressive Party, a member of the Parliament of Finland, Minister of Internal Affairs, and for a short time also Deputy Minister of Justice. ... Dimitri Tsafendas (14 January 1918 – 7 October 1999) assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of that countrys apartheid program, on 6 September 1966. ... Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 - 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966, when he was assassinated. ...

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• Raoul Vilain - assassin of Jean Jaurès
• Vittorio Vidali (aka comandante Contreras) communist assassin in Civil War Spain and Mexico, became Senator in Italy

Raoul Vilain (1885-1936) assassinated the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on August 31, 1914 in Montmartre, Paris. ... Jean Jaurès. ... Vittorio Vidali (1900, Trieste—1983; aka Vittorio Vidale, Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras, Comandante Carlos) was an Italian-born Stalinist assassin and what is commonly called a communist agent. Outside of Spain (where Vidali is said to have killed 400), he is known primarily for orchestrating the deaths...

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• Donald Eugene Webb, alleged cop killer
• Patrick J. Whelan - convicted assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
• Carl Weiss - assassin of Huey Long
• Dan White - assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978
• Craig Williamson - assassin by letter bomb of Ruth First in 1982; assassin by letter bomb of Jeanette and Katrina Schoon in 1984; alleged mastermind of the Olof Palme (1986) and Dulcie September (1988) assassinations

Donald Eugene Perkins(A. D. Baker, Donald Eugene Perkins, Donald Eugene Pierce, John S. Portas, Stanley John Portas, Bev Webb, Eugene Bevlin Webb, Eugene Donald Webb, Stanley Webb, Johannes Hecker) (born July 14, 1931 in Oklahoma), better known as Donald Eugene Webb, is a fugitive from justice wanted for allegedly... Cop Killer is the name of a controversial 1992 song by Body Count Cop Killer is also the name of a 1983 movie starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon Cop Killer is also the name of the fifth episode of the short-lived Shaft television series. ... Patrick James Whelan ( &ndash February 11, 1869), a Fenian sympathizer, was convicted of the assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas DArcy McGee in 1869. ... McGee in 1868 Thomas DArcy McGee, PC, (April 13, 1825 – April 7, 1868) was a Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation. ... Carl Austin Weiss (December 6, 1906 – September 8, 1935) was a gifted young Baton Rouge, Louisiana, physician who was the apparent assassin of U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. ... Huey Pierce Long, Jr. ... Dan White during his 1977 campaign for Supervisor. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Mayor Moscone George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was the mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. ... For Harvey Milk High School Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978), an American politician and gay rights activist, was the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. ... Former South African police major Craig Williamson was exposed as a spy in 1980, and was involved in a series of state-sponsored overseas bombings, burglaries, kidnapping, assassinations, sabotage and black propaganda during the apartheid era. ... Ruth First in a newsphoto ten years after her murder. ... Sven Olof Joachim Palme ( ) (January 30, 1927 – February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. ... Dulcie Evonne September (died March 29, 1988) was a notable murder victim. ...

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• Yarankash - assassin of Zengi
• Ramzi Yousef:
  • masterminded a failed attempt to kill then-president of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto
  • conspired in the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on the Pope's Philippines visit, as part of Manila-based Al-Qaida plot Operation Bojinka two weeks before the assassination and the first part of the Project was to go off, Manila police would discover and foil his plot on January 6, 1995, including the assassination attempt
  • considered assassinating United States President Bill Clinton, but decided against it
• Yakov Yurovsky - chief assassin of Nicholas II of Russia
• Felix Yusupov - assassin of Grigori Rasputin

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• Giuseppe Zangara - assassin of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois and would-be assassin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt