- List of assassins
The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the
assassination (s), or attempted assassination(s), that made them famous. It also contains some individuals who were famously suspected, but then acquitted, of particular assassinations.ee also
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List of assassinated persons
*List of famous assassinations and assassination attempts
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Mario Aburto - supposed assassin of Mexican presidential candidateLuis Donaldo Colosio (1994)
*Saad Akbar - assassin ofLiaquat Ali Khan ,Prime Minister of Pakistan (1951)
*Yigal Amir - assassin of thePrime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (1995)
*Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores , aBolivian Surrealist painter, would-be assassin ofPope Paul VI , during the latter's visit at the Manila International Airport in thePhilippines (1970)
*An Jung-geun , assassin ofItō Hirobumi , resident-general of Korea andPrime Minister of Japan (1909)
*Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of KingGustav III of Sweden (1792)
*Michele Angiolillo - assassin ofAntonio Cánovas del Castillo , Prime Minister of Spain (1897)
*Avelino Arredondo - assassin ofJuan Idiarte Borda ,President of Uruguay (August 25 ,1897 )
*Ay - minister and for a time thought to be the assassin of the pharaohTutankhamun who is now believed to have died from a compound fracture.B
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Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - attempted assassin ofPresident of France Charles de Gaulle (1962)
*Byron De La Beckwith - assassin of UScivil rights figureMedgar Evers (1963)
*John Bellingham - assassin ofBritish Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11 ,1812 )
*John Wilkes Booth - assassin of the American PresidentAbraham Lincoln ; along withLewis Powell ,David Herold ,George Atzerodt andMary Surratt conspirator to also assassinate U.S. Secretary of StateWilliam H. Seward (unsuccessful), Vice-PresidentAndrew Johnson (aborted) and GeneralUlysses S. Grant (aborted)(all 1865)
*Gustave Bouvet - attempted assassin ofPresident of France Alexandre Millerand (1922)
*Mohammed Bouyeri - assassin of the Dutchfilm director Theo van Gogh (November 2 ,2004 )
*Arthur Herman Bremer - would-be assassin ofGeorge Wallace ,governor ofAlabama (1972 )
*Gaetano Bresci - assassin of ItalianKing Humbert I
*Maxime Brunerie - would-be assassin ofJacques Chirac ,President of France
*Marcus Junius Brutus ,Gaius Cassius Longinus , and their associates - assassins ofJulius Caesar (44BC )
*Frederick Russell Burnham - assassin of Mlimo, theNdebele religious leader who planned and lead theSecond Matabele War (1896)
*Samuel Byck - would-be assassin of American PresidentRichard Nixon (1974 )C
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Carlos the Jackal - the would-be assassin ofJoseph Sieff
*Sante Geronimo Caserio - assassin of the French PresidentMarie François Sadi Carnot
*Cassius Chaerea , and associates - assassins of the Roman emperorCaligula
*Mark David Chapman - assassin of ex-BeatleJohn Lennon
*Jacques Clément - assassin of King Henri III of France
*Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola - would-be assassins ofAmerican President Harry S Truman in 1950
*Charlotte Corday - assassin ofJean-Paul Marat
*Izola Curry - stabbedDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968
*Leon Czolgosz - assassin of the American PresidentWilliam McKinley D
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Namba Daisuke attempted assassin of Prince RegentHirohito of Japan onDecember 27 ,1923
*André Dallaire , attempted assassin of CanadianPrime Minister Jean Chrétien onNovember 5 ,1995
*Robert Damiens , attempted assassin ofLouis XV of France , 1757
*Eugene de Kock, head of aSouth African government unit known as "Vlakplaas" that assassinated opponents ofApartheid in the 1980s.
*Dingaan andMhlangana - assassins ofShaka , the king ofZulus
*Reginald Dunne andJoseph O'Sullivan - IRA assassins of SirHenry Hughes Wilson , Britishfield marshal , in 1922
*Fritz Joubert Duquesne - aBoer 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 .
*Francisco Martin Duran - fired rifle shots at the White House, for which he was convicted of the attempted assassination ofAmerican President Bill Clinton
*Thomas D'Antonio attempted assassination of theMalaysian Prime Minister , he attacked him with a knifeE
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Lydia Echevarría - mastermind of the plot to assassinateLuis Vigoreaux
*Theodor Eicke - arrested and killed co-founder of theSA Ernst Roehm on orders fromAdolf Hitler
*George Elser - lone assassin who attempted to assassinateAdolf Hitler through a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall onNovember 8 ,1939 F
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John Felton - assassin ofGeorge Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham
*Giuseppe Fieschi - would-be assassin ofKing Louis Philippe in July 1835
*Robert Ford (outlaw) - assassin ofJesse James
*Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme - would-be assassin of American PresidentGerald Ford
*Fuma Kotaro -ninja assassin for the Hojo Clan during the Sengoku Jidai periodG
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Nathan Gale - assassin of Americanheavy metal musicianDimebag Darrell
*James J. Gallagher - would-be assassin ofNew York City MayorWilliam Gaynor (1910)
*Rolando Galman - supposed assassin ofBenigno Aquino, Jr.
*Balthazar Gérards - assassin ofWilliam I of Orange
*Nathuram Godse - assassin ofMahatma Gandhi
*Volkert van der Graaf - assassin ofPim Fortuyn
*Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of the American PresidentJames Garfield
*Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva - attempted to assassinateGrigori Rasputin in 1914
*Violet Gibson - would-be assassin ofBenito Mussolini in 1926H
*James Hadfield - would-be assassin of
King George III (1800)
*Charles Harrelson - assassin of JudgeJohn H. Wood, Jr.
*Hashshashin - the originalIran ian assassins
*Hattori Hanzo - ninja assassin for Tokugawa Iyeasu during the Sengoku Jidai and Edo periods
*Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted),Norman 3X Butler &Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted) - the three assassins ofMalcolm X
*John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin ofAmerican president Ronald Reagan
*Hitokiri - Japanese assassins during theBakumatsu
*Tom Horn ,Old West lawman, gunman, and killer for hire
*Ignacy Hryniewiecki - Belarusian assassin of theRussian Emperor Alexander II I
* The Invincibles - assassins of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke1882
*Khalid Islambouli - chief assassin ofAnwar Al Sadat J
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Jing Ke - failed assassin of a Qin king, laterQin Shi Huang , the first Chinese emperor
*John Parricida ofHabsburg -- Killed his uncle KingAlbert I of Germany in 1308
*Zvezdan Jovanović - killed Serbian Prime MinisterZoran Đinđić in March 12, 2003.K
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Fanya Kaplan - attempted assassin ofVladimir Lenin
*Khalid Sheik Mohammed - conspired with a plot to killPope John Paul II as part of theOperation Bojinka terrorist attack plot. The plot was discovered after an apartment fire inManila ,Philippines onJanuary 6 ,1995
*Jan Kubiš - assassin of top NaziReinhard Heydrich in 1942 inPrague . SeeOperation Anthropoid
*"Hitokiri "Kawakami Gensai - Japanese assassin during theBakumatsu .
*Jakub Kaszuba - assassin ofPrzemysl II , king of PolandL
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Richard Lawrence - attempted assassin ofAmerican president Andrew Jackson
*José de León Toral - assassin of Mexican general and president-electÁlvaro Obregón
*Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Austria
*Byron Looper - assassin of political opponentTommy Burks M
*Marcia (a
concubine ) and Narcissus (an athlete) - assassins of Roman emperorCommodus . Narcissus strangled the emperor in his bath after Marcia's poison failed to work. The chief plot architect was praetorian prefectQuintus Aemilius Laetus (192)
*Rolando Masferrer Rojas killer in Spanish Civil War and in Cuba, blown up in Miami, in 1975
*Roderick McLean - would-be assassin ofQueen Victoria (1882)
*Jack McCall - assassinated James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, in 1876
*Thomas McMahon - assassin ofLouis Mountbatten
*Daniel M'Naughton - would-be assassin of British Prime MinisterRobert Peel (1843)
*Ramón Mercader - assassin ofLeon Trotsky
*Mijailo Mijailović - assassin ofAnna Lindh
*Jim Miller,Old West outlaw and "killer for hire"
*Joseph Mobuto and Moise Tschombe - organized kidnapping and assassination of Congolese Prime MinisterPatrice Lumumba , Minister Maurice Mpolo and Senate Vice-President Joseph Okito
*Sara Jane Moore - would-be assassin ofGerald Ford N
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Måns Bengtsson Natt och Dag - assassin ofEngelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1436)
*Abu Nidal , attempted assassin ofShlomo Argov , Israeli ambassador to Britain. Actual assassin of dozens ofPLO officers (1982)
*Eligiusz Niewiadomski - assassin ofGabriel Narutowicz , the first president of Poland
*Ninja - assassins of medieval Japan (15th Century onwards)
*El Sayyid Nosair - assassin ofMeir Kahane O
*Alexis Orloff - assassin of
Czar Peter III (1762)
*Felice Orsini - Italian nationalist who failed in his attempt to assassinateNapoleon III onJanuary 14 ,1858
*Lee Harvey Oswald - assassin ofAmerican President John F. Kennedy . Was assassinated himself soon after.
*Edward Oxford - would-be assassin ofQueen Victoria (1840)P
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Pausanias of Orestis - assassin ofPhilip II of Macedon
*Richard Paul Pavlick - attempted assassin ofJohn F. Kennedy
*Christer Pettersson - acquitted of the murder of the Prime Minister of SwedenOlof Palme
*Pirouz Nahavandi - assassin ofUmar ibn al-Khattab, a close companion of the ProphetMuhammad and the Second Caliph of Islam
*Otto Planetta and others - assassin of Austrian ChancellorEngelbert Dollfuss
*Lewis Powell or Lewis Paine - would-be assassin ofUnited States Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1865
*David Pratt - would-be assassin of South African Prime MinisterHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
*Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast - assassinatedCarter Henry Harrison, Sr. , Mayor of Chicago, on October 28, 1893
*Gavrilo Princip - theSerbia n nationalist who killedFranz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggeredWorld War I
* - would be assassin of KingSigismund III of Poland R
*Puniša Račić - assassin of Stjepan Radić
*Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of thePrime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
*François Ravaillac - assassin ofHenry IV of France
*James Earl Ray - assassin ofMartin Luther King Jr (pleaded guilty but later asserted his innocence)
*Otto Rothstock - assassin ofHugo Bettauer (1925)
*Gennaro Rubino - would-be assassin of KingLéopold II of Belgium (1902)
*Jack Ruby - assassin ofLee Harvey Oswald
*Juan Roa Sierra - assassin ofJorge Eliecer Gaitan - Leader of Colombia's Liberal Party in 1948 - triggering one of South America's most violent episodes*
Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder ofSelena Quintanilla
*Eugen Schauman - assassin ofNikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
*Alexandros Schinas - assassin of KingGeorge I of Greece
*John Schrank - would-be assassin ofTheodore Roosevelt
*Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination ofSung Chiao-jen
*Sholom Schwartzbard - Jewish anarchist and political assassin ofSymon Petliura , the head of the government-in-exile of theUkrainian People's Republic in Paris
*Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins ofOliver Cromwell
*Beant Singh andSatwant Singh - assassins of thePrime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
*Udham Singh , assassin ofMichael O'Dwyer
*Sirhan Sirhan - assassin ofRobert F. Kennedy
*Valerie Solanas - failed assassin ofAndy Warhol
*Somarama Thero - assassin of Ceylonese prime ministerSolomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike .
*Claus von Stauffenberg - colonel of the Wehrmacht who led the abortiveJuly 20 ,1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler through a bomb at Wolfsschanze and lead an insurrection in Berlin and ParisT
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Ernst Tandefelt - assassin ofHeikki Ritavuori
*Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin ofTalaat 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
*Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (successfully) onHendrik Verwoerd 's lifeV
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Vittorio Vidali (aka comandante Contreras) communist assassin in Civil War Spain and Mexico, became Senator in Italy
*Raoul Villain - assassin ofJean Jaurès W
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Janusz Walus - convicted assassin ofSouth African Communist Party leaderChris Hani just before the first Democratic Elections of South Africa.
*Donald Eugene Webb , allegedcop killer
*Patrick J. Whelan - convicted assassin ofThomas D'Arcy McGee
*Carl Weiss - assassin ofHuey Long
*Dan White - assassin of mayor ofSan Francisco George Moscone and councilmanHarvey Milk in 1978
*Craig Williamson - assassin by letter bomb ofRuth First in 1982; assassin by letter bomb of Jeanette and Katrina Schoon in 1984; alleged mastermind of theOlof Palme (1986) andDulcie September (1988) assassinationsY
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Yarankash - assassin ofZengi
*Felix Yusupov - assassin ofGrigori Rasputin Z
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Giuseppe Zangara - assassin ofAnton Cermak , mayor ofChicago, Illinois and would-be assassin of American PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt
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