AssassinationDB
115 documented assassinations of heads of state, politicians, activists, religious figures, and cultural figures, from ancient Rome to the present day. Context, events, perpetrators, and consequences in a factual, encyclopedic reference.
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Julius Caesar
Caesar had conquered Gaul, defeated Pompey in the civil war, and concentrated power in himself as dictator perpetuo, king in all b...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The heir to the Habsburg throne visited Bosnia on the anniversary of the Kosovo battle with his wife Sophie. Members of Young Bosn...
Abraham Lincoln
Days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, the celebrated actor and Confederate sympathizer Booth entered the presidentia...
John F. Kennedy
Riding through Dealey Plaza in an open limousine, Kennedy was struck by rifle fire from the Texas School Book Depository; he died ...
Martin Luther King Jr.
King had come to Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers amid his Poor People Campaign. A single rifle shot from a room...
Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi had led India to independence through satyagraha, and in the dawn of that independence was fasting against the communal sla...
Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin, the soldier of the 1948 war and 1967 victory turned diplomat of Oslo, had signed the agreement with Arafat and King Hussein...
Olof Palme
Palme, the Social Democratic prime minister of Sweden and international voice of the nonaligned, disarmament, and anti-apartheid c...
John Lennon
Lennon, the most politically audible of the Beatles and a New Yorker of five years, was returning from a recording session at nigh...