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This is a list of successfulassassinations, sorted by location.For failed assassination attempts, seeList of people who survived assassination attempts.

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

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1835	Facundo Quiroga,Governor of La Rioja Province	José Vicente Reynafé, Reynafé brothers, Capt. Santos Pérez	While returning to Buenos Aires, armed men ambushed his carriage; Quiroga was shot in his left eye when he left the carriage to negotiate.
1838	Alejandro Heredia,Governor of Tucumán Province	Gabino Robles, Vicente Neirot, Lucio Casas, Gregorio Uriarte,	Heredia was shot in the head when he and his son were ambushed by an armed party. The perpetrators left Heredia and his son. The body was discovered 2 days later
1841	José Cubas,Governor of Catamarca Province	Mariano Maza
1841	Marco Avellaneda,Governor of Tucumán Province	Mariano Maza
1861	Antonino Aberastain,Governor of San Juan Province
1863	Chacho Peñaloza,La Rioja Province insurrectionist	Col.Pablo Irrazábal
1870	Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina andGovernor of Entre Ríos Province
1889	Ricardo López Jordán, soldier, politician, and former governor of Entre Ríos Province
1908	Mariano Santillán, Jr., National Deputy forSantiago del Estero Province
1909	Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police	Simón Radowitzky	Assassinated byanarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers.
1921	Amable Jones,Governor of San Juan Province
1929	Carlos Washington Lencinas, formerGovernor of Mendoza Province
1935	Enzo Bordabehere, National Senator forSanta Fe Province	Ramón Valdez Cora	Killed during a session of theArgentine Senate.
1969	Augusto Vandor, Metalworkers Union (UOM) Secretary General		Killed in commando attack by theEjército Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Army), a far-leftPeronist splinter group.
1970	Pedro Aramburu, formerde factopresident of Argentina		Executed by the Peronist guerrillaMontoneros in revenge for the abduction ofEvita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a 1956failed uprising, during Aramburu's dictatorship.
1970	José Alonso,CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1972	Oberdan Sallustro, Director ofFIAT Argentina	ERP
1973	José Ignacio Rucci, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1973	Juan Manuel Irrazábal, Governor ofMisiones Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance	Killed with Vice-GovernorCésar Ayrault by bomb placed inBeechcraft Queen Air plane.
1974	Arturo Mor Roig, formerInterior Minister	Montoneros
1974	Carlos Mugica, CatholicThird World priest	Rodolfo Almirón (Argentine Anticommunist Alliance)
1974	Rodolfo Ortega Peña, National Deputy forBuenos Aires Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Atilio López, former Vice-Governor ofCórdoba Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Silvio Frondizi,University of Buenos Aires law professor	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Carlos Prats, exiled Chilean general, formerCommander-in-chief of theChilean Army	Michael Townley	Killed by thesecret service of thePinochet dictatorship
1975	Hipólito Acuña, National Deputy forSanta Fe Province	Montoneros
1975	John Egan, U.S. Honorary Consul inCórdoba	Montoneros
1975	Rubén Cartier, Mayor ofLa Plata	CNU, a right-wing student group liked to theTriple A
1975	Ramón Rojas, National Deputy forSan Juan Province	Fernando Otero	Killed at the behest of Vineyard Workers' Federation (FOEVA) leader Delfor Ocampo.^[3]
1975	Alberto Manuel Campos, Mayor ofGeneral San Martín Partido, Buenos Aires Province	Montoneros
1976	Miguel Ragone, former governor ofSalta Province	Army Gen.Luciano Menéndez	Abducted and killed by right-wing task force made of up ofArmy and provincial police officers led by Menéndez.
1976	Zelmar Michelini, exiledUruguayan senator, founder of theBroad Front		Killed after the1976 Argentine coup as part ofOperation Condor involving the collaboration between military dictatorships in theSouthern Cone.
1976	Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, exiled former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives		Killed alongsideZelmar Michelini
1976	Juan José Torres, exiled former militaryPresident of Bolivia		Killed as part of Operation Condor
1976	Enrique Angelelli, Bishop of theRoman 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 atEconomy Ministry	Army Capt. Héctor Vérgez	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 theAníbal Gordon gang led by former Argentine Anticommunist Alliance operatives.
1997	José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist for leading Argentine news weeklyNoticias.	"Los Horneros" gang, led byBuenos Aires Provincial Police Inspector Gustavo Prellezo	Killed on orders from businessmanAlfredo Yabrán.
2019	Héctor Enrique Olivares, National Deputy forLa 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.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1 January 1829	Pedro Blanco Soto,President of Bolivia		Killed after being overthrown and taken prisoner.
11 June 1849	Eusebio Guilarte, former acting president of Bolivia
23 October 1861	Jorge Córdova, former president of Bolivia
23 March 1865	Manuel Isidoro Belzu, former president of Bolivia
27 November 1872	Agustín Morales, President of Bolivia	Federico Lafaye
27 February 1894	Hilarión Daza, former president of Bolivia		Assassinated after returning from exile.
17 June 1917	José Manuel Pando, former president of Bolivia
21 July 1946	Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia		Killed by mob.
9 August 1967	Che Guevara, revolutionary	Captured and executed by Bolivian Special Forces
12 May 1973	Monika Ertl, communist militant and guerilla fighter		Ambushed along with a fellow guerilla by Bolivian security forces in present-dayEl Alto in retaliation for the assassination of former head of intelligence in the ministry of internal affairsRoberto Quintanilla.
24 May 1989	Elders Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson,LDS Missionaries	Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation
25 August 2016	Rodolfo Illanes, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Bolivia	Protesting miners

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1678	Ganga Zumba, leader ofQuilombo dos Palmares
1695	Zumbi, leader ofQuilombo dos Palmares	Portuguese colonial authorities
1830	Líbero Badaró, journalist		The assassination unleashed a wave of protests against the government ofPedro I of Brazil
1897	Carlos Machado de Bitterncourt,Minister of War	Marcelino Bispo de Melo	SeeAttempted assassination of Prudente de Morais
1908	José Plácido de Castro, former president of theRepublic of Acre
1915	Pinheiro Machado,Senator forRio Grande do Sul
1929	José Gomes Duarte, Mayor ofBauru,São Paulo	Moacir de Almeida
1929	Manuel Francisco de Sousa Filho [PT],Federal Deputy forPernambuco	Ildefonso Simões Lopes [PT]
1930	João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, Governor ofParaíba	João Duarte Dantas
1938	Virgulino Ferreira da Silva "Lampião", leader bandit ofCangaço		Killed during theMassacre of Angico, led byJoão Bezerra da Silva
1938	Maria Gomes de Oliveira "Maria Bonita", bandit ofCangaço	José Panta de Godoy	Killed during theMassacre of Angico, led byJoão Bezerra da Silva
1964	Adib Shishakli, exiledSyrian military dictator	Nawaf Ghazaleh
1971	Rubens Paiva, formerFederal Deputy forSão Paulo and critic of theMilitary dictatorship in Brazil
1973	Maurício Grabois, leader of theCommunist Party of Brazil
1975	Vladimir Herzog, journalist
1976	Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and critic of theMilitary dictatorship in Brazil
1986	Josimo Morais Tavares, Catholic priest and coordinator of theComissão Pastoral da Terra	Ranchers	Killed by ranchers for his support of rural workers.
1988	Francisco "Chico" Alves Mendes Filho, environmental activist	Darci Alves Pereira	Shot on the orders of the assassin's father, rancher Darly Alves da Silva
1992	Edmundo Pinto,Governor of Acre
1996	Paulo César Farias,President Fernando Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer
2001	Antonio da Costa Santos, Mayor ofCampinas,São Paulo
2001	Aguinaldo Pereira da Silva, Mayor ofCaraúbas,Rio Grande do Norte		^[4]
2002	Celso Daniel, Mayor ofSanto André, São Paulo
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 Fernando "Frei" Sátyro da Silva	Murdered bydrug traffickers connected toComando Vermelho andAmigos dos Amigos
2002	Lídia Menezes, Vice Mayor ofMagé,Rio de Janeiro		^[5]^[6]
2005	Dorothy Stang,American nun	Raifran das Neves Sales	Killed by business interests
2010	Walderi Braz Paschoalin [PT], Mayor ofJandira,São Paulo
2016	José Gomes da Rocha, former mayor ofItumbiara,São Paulo, and mayoral candidate	Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral
2016	Kyriakos Amiridis,Greek ambassador to Brazil	Françoise de Sousa Oliveira and Sergio Gomes	Murdered by Gomes on the orders of Oliveira, and corpse burnt in anarson attack on a rental car.^[7]
2018	Marielle Franco, human rights activist andCity Councillor ofRio de Janeiro	Ronnie Lessa and Élcio Vieira de Queiroz^[8]	Convicted assassins reportedly hired by local militias^[9]
2018	Gerson Camata, formerGovernor of Espírito Santo	Marcos Vinícius Moreira Andrade
2019	Paulo Paulino Guajajara, Indigenous environmental activist		Murdered by illegal loggers.^[10]
2023	Mãe Bernadete, community activist

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
7 April1868	Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Father ofCanadian Confederation	Patrick J. Whelan
14 December1872	William End, Magistrate in northernNew Brunswick		He and his office set aflame by ex-convict.
9 May1880	George Brown, Father of Canadian Confederation	George Bennett
21 October1914	William C. Hopkinson, immigration officer,British intelligence agent	Mewa Singh, Ghadarite sympathizer
29 October 1924	Peter Verigin,Russian philosopher, activist, leader of the CommunityDoukhobors in Canada		Assassinated via train explosion. The explosion also killed member of the provincial legislatureJohn McKie. Perpetrators never identified.
17 October1970	Pierre Laporte, Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour ofQuebec	Bernard Lortie,Paul Rose,Jacques Rose,Francis Simard^[11]	Kidnapped and murdered by theFLQ.
27 August1982	Atilla Altıkat,Turkish diplomat	Armenian Secret Army For the Liberation of Armenia	Assassinated by Armenian nationalists inOttawa.
10 March 1993	Dino Bravo, wrestler		Shot eleven times at his home inVimont,Laval, Quebec. Believed to have been a result in his alleged role in illegal cigarette smuggling in Canada and his ties to theCotroni Crime Family.
1 August 1995	Brian Smith, sports anchor and former ice hockey player	Jeffery Arenburg	Shot outside theCJOH-DT studio, died the next day.
18 November 1998	Tara Singh Hayer, founder of theIndo-Canadian Times, Journalist		Outspoken critic of extremism, key witness in the trial of theAir India 182 Flight Bombing. This was the third attempt on his life, the first was a thwarted bombing and the second, a shooting, had left him paralysed.
10 November 2010	Nicolo Rizzuto,crime boss and founder of theRizzuto crime family		Shot by a sniper's bullet through the rear patio doors of his mansion in theCartiervill borough ofMontreal. On July 12, 2013,Salvatore Calautti, a Toronto criminal figure, suspected by police of being the assassin who shot Rizzuto, was shot dead.
14 July 2022	Ripudaman Singh Malik,Air India bombing suspect	Tanner Fox & Jose Lopez	Shot and killed outside his business. The two hitmen admit to being paid to perform the killing but it has not yet been determined by whom.^[12]
18 June 2023	Hardeep Singh Nijjar, CanadianSikh involved with theKhalistan movement	Four people currently arrested awaiting trial.^[13]	Allegedly assassinated on orders of the Indian government for his role in the Khalistani movement.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1818	Luis Carrera and his brotherJuan José Carrera, independence war heroes	Attributed to the head of the government,Bernardo O'Higgins
1818	Manuel Rodriguez, 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, entrepreneur, statesman andMinister of War	ColonelJosé Antonio Vidaurre
1970	René Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of theChilean Army		Was kidnapped and killed byfar-right paramilitary squads, due to his opposition to any intervention of the armed forces to block the election of left-wing candidateSalvador Allende in 1970.
1971	Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, former Secretary of Interior Affairs
1973	Víctor Jara, left-wing singer		Killed after the coup of 1973.
1982	Eduardo Frei Montalva, formerPresident of Chile and opponent of thePinochet dictatorship		Although he officially died bysepsis after a low-risk surgery, recent research suggests he was poisoned by theDirección de Inteligencia Nacional. However, there is no absolute certainty about the real causes of his death.^[14]
1982	Tucapel Jiménez, trade-unionist		Killed by the military dictatorship ofAugusto Pinochet.^[15]
1991	Jaime Guzmán, right-wing Senator and former adviser to thePinochet dictatorship		Killed byfar-left guerrillas after the return of democracy.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1830	Antonio José de Sucre,Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier	Juan Gregorio Sarria, José Erazo, and three peons
1861	José María Obando, formerPresident
1914	Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier
1948	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader	Juan Roa Sierra	His assassination sparked theBogotazo and served as a catalyst forLa Violencia
1984	Carlos Toledo Plata, early leader of theM-19 guerrilla movement and member of theChamber of Representatives of Colombia
1984	Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice		The assassination was ordered by theMedellin Cartel
1985	Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, Judge who had indictedPablo Escobar
1985	Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of theSupreme Court.		Killed during thePalace of Justice Siege.
1985	Fabio Calderon Botero, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Pedro Elias Serrano Abadia, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Dario Velasquez Gaviria, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Jose Eduardo Gnecco Correa, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Ricardo Medina Moyano, 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	Carlos Medellin Forero, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Fanny Gonzalez Franco, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Manuel Gaona Cruz, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Horacio Montoya Gil, Supreme Court Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Carlos Horacio Uran Rojas, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Lizandro Juan Romero Barrios, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Emiro Sandoval Huertas, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Julio Cesar Andrade Andrade, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1985	Jorge A Correa Echeverry, State Council Assistant Justice		Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege.
1986	Guillermo Cano Isaza, Director ofEl Espectador newspaper		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1987	Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of thePatriotic Union party		The assassination was ordered by druglord José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha.
1987	Carlos Mauro Hoyos,Attorney General of Colombia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
1989	Teófilo Forero, National Organizing Secretary of theColombian Communist Party
1989	Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of theColombian Liberal Party	Jaime Rueda	The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
1989	Jorge Enrique Pulido, journalist, Director of Mundovision		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1989	Waldemar Franklin Quintero, Commander of the Police ofAntioquia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1990	Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of thePatriotic Union party^[16]	Andres Arturo Gutierrez
1990	Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of theM-19 party
1991	Diana Turbay, journalist		Turbay was kidnapped on August 30, 1990, when she was tricked into going to a supposed interview with aguerrilla leader, the Spanish priestManuel Pérez Martínez, alias El Cura Pérez (The Priest Pérez), orchestrated on the orders ofPablo Escobar. Turbay was kept atCopacabana,Antioquia, with her cameraman Richard Becerra. She died on January 25, 1991, during a botched rescue operation launched by the police without authorization from the family. The cause of death was a bullet in her back, which partially destroyed her liver and left kidney. Becerra was rescued unharmed.
1991	Enrique Low Murtra, former Ambassador toSwitzerland	Medellin Cartel	The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
2 December 1993	Pablo Escobar, drug lord	Search Bloc	Killed during a shoot out inMedellín
2 July 1994	Andrés Escobar, footballer		Believed to have been killed by criminal figures who lost money on bets after Escobar scored anown goal in the1994 FIFA World Cup that knocked Colombia out of the tournament
1994	Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of thePatriotic Union party
1995	Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director ofEl Nuevo Siglo newspaper	FARC (allegedly)	FARC has claimed responsibility for the assassination.^[17]
1999	Jaime Garzón, journalist, activist and satirist	Right wing paramilitaries
2000	Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones,Colombian Army General		Assassinated by members of FARC
2001	Consuelo Araújo, former Minister of Culture		Assassinated by members of FARC
2003	Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor ofAntioquia		Assassinated by members of FARC
2003	Gilberto Echeverri Mejía, former Minister of Defense and adviser to Governor Gaviria (see above)		Assassinated by members of FARC
2009	Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Governor ofCaquetá		Assassinated by members of FARC
2021	Germán Medina Triviño, former governor ofCaquetá		Assassinated by members of FARC
2025	Miguel Uribe Turbay, Senator and presidential pre-candidate		Assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay Turbay initially survived the assassination, but was hospitalised in critical condition. He died two months later.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
23 August 1938	Ricardo Moreno Cañas, doctor and politician, and surgeonCarlos Echandi	Beltrán Cortés	Killed as revenge for a failed surgery the two doctors had operated on Cortes. Moreno was shot to death inside his home, while Echandi was shot to death outside his door. Cortes also killedCanadian Arthur Maynard that same day.^[18]^[19]
19 June 2025	Roberto Samcam, Nicauraguan opposition politician		Killed by assassin disguised as delivery driver.^[20]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
26 July 1899	Ulises Heureaux, president of theDominican Republic	Ramón Cáceres,president of the Dominican Republic
19 November 1911	Ramón Cáceres, president of theDominican Republic
30 May 1961	Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, Dominican Republic dictator		Shot in ambush
16 February 1973	Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó, military officer and former de facto leader
6 June 2022	Orlando Jorge Mera, Environment Minister	Favsto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota^{[citation needed]}	Shot

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1875	Gabriel García Moreno,President of Ecuador	Faustino Rayo	Shot outsideQuito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views.
28 January1912	Eloy Alfaro, former president of Ecuador		Killed by a mob of pro-Catholic soldiers inQuito.
1999	Jaime Hurtado andPablo Tapia, communist legislators		Killed in Quito.
28 December 2020	Jorge Luis Zambrano,drug trafficker and head ofLos Choneros		Shot at point-blank range at a shopping center inManta in the company of his wife and his daughter, as well as personnel who offered him protection.
24 July 2023	Agustín Intriago, Mayor ofManta^[21]
9 August 2023	Fernando Villavicencio, Presidential candidate and former legislator		Killed at a campaign rally inQuito.^[22]
7 February 2024	Diana Carnero, Member of Naranjal City Council		Shot by hitmen on motorcycles on a public street.
23 March 2024	Brigitte García, mayor ofSan Vicente		Shot multiple times in her car along with her staffer Jairo Loor. The killer has not been captured.^[23]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1913	Manuel Enrique Araujo,President of El Salvador
1975	Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary	People's Revolutionary Army	Executed for criticizing fellow members of the ERP.
1977	Rutilio Grande García, S.J., Roman Catholic priest
1977	Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, Roman Catholic priest
1978	Ernesto Barrera, Roman Catholic priest		Killed by Salvadoran soldiers
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)		Captured and killed by government aligned security forces.
1980	Ita Ford,Maura Clarke,Dorothy Kazel, andJean Donovan, American Roman Catholic nuns		Killed by the National Guard of El Salvador.
1983	Marianella García Villas,^[24] human rights lawyer and activist		Killed by theSalvadoran Armed Forces.
1983	Albert Schaufelberger, seniorU.S. Naval representative		Killed by members of theCentral American Revolutionary Workers Party.
1984	Domingo Monterrosa, commander of theAtlácatl Battalion of theSalvadoran Army, and perpetrator of theEl Mozote Massacre		Killed by theFarabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) along with 13 others usinga bomb hidden inside a radio transmitter in the helicopter he was flying in overJoateca in retaliation for massacres committed by the Atlácatl Battalion.
1989	María Cristina Gómez, teacher and community leader
1989	Ignacio Ellacuría, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlácatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	Ignacio Martín-Baró, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlácatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.
1989	Segundo Montes, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest		Killed by Atlácatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1898	José María Reina Barrios,President of Guatemala
1957	Carlos Castillo Armas,President of Guatemala^[25]		Killed by bodyguard
1968	John Gordon Mein,United States ambassador in Guatemala	FAR	Shot one block from the U.S. embassy inGuatemala City by rebels during a botched kidnapping attempt
1970	Karl von Spreti, WestGerman ambassador in Guatemala	FAR
1970	César Montenegro Paniagua, communist politician and former congressman		Murdered three days after in retaliation for von Spreti's own murder
1979	Alberto Fuentes Mohr,Social Democratic Party leader
1979	Manuel Colom Argueta, Mayor ofGuatemala City
1980	Hugo Rolando Melgar Melgar, Law professor atSan Carlos University and leftist leader	Efrain Rios Montt regime	Ambushed on his way to work by theGuatemalan Army
1981	Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest		Shot twice in the head by gunmen who forced their way into his rectory inSantiago Atitlán.
1993	Jorge Carpio Nicolle, journalist and founder of theNational Centre Union
April 26, 1998	Juan José Gerardi Conedera, Auxiliary Bishop of theRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala		Beaten to death by Guatemalan soldiers.
2012	Valentín Leal,legislator and former governor ofAlta Verapaz
2013	Carlos Castillo Medrano, Mayor ofJutiapa

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
17 October 1806	Jean-Jacques Dessalines,Emperor of Haiti
28 July 1915	Vilbrun Guillaume Sam,President of Haiti	Killed by a mob.
14 July 1963	Clément Barbot, aide to PresidentFrançois Duvalier	Killed after launching a failed coup.
11 September 1993	Antoine Izméry, businessman andLavalas supporter
14 October 1993	Guy Malary, minister of justice
3 April 2000	Jean Dominique, journalist
14 July 2005	Jacques Roche, journalist
7 July 2021	Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti	Killed by Colombian mercenaries posing as USDrug Enforcement Administration agents. SeeAssassination of Jovenel Moïse

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
17 April 1987	Carlton Barrett, musician, drummer, and member ofThe Wailers		Shot by a gunman outside his home inKingston. Barrett's widow, Albertine Barrett, was subsequently jailed in 1991, after being convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. Sentenced with her were taxi driver Glenroy Carter, her reputed lover, and Junior "Bang" Neil, a mason, who the prosecution alleged was responsible for the actual shooting.
11 September 1987	Peter Tosh, musician, songwriter, and member of The Wailers	Armed gunmen led by Dennis "Leppo" Lobban	Shot twice in the head after being held hostage and tortured for hours during an armed robbery attempt at his home in Kingston. Killed alongside herbalist Wilton "Doc" Brown and disc jockey Jeff 'Free I' Dixon. Several others in the house were wounded, including Tosh's common law wife Andrea Marlene Brown, Free I's wife Yvonne ("Joy"), Tosh's drummer Carlton "Santa" Davis, and musician Michael Robinson.
2 June 1999	Junior Braithwaite, musician, singer, and member of The Wailers		Shot and killed along with fellow musician Lawrence Scott in Kingston.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
29 June 1520	Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl,Emperor of the Aztec Alliance
14 February 1831	Vicente Guerrero, formerPresident of Mexico		Lured, captured, andexecuted by firing squad in a plot orchestrated by conservative political rivals inCuilapan,Oaxaca.
3 June 1861	Melchor Ocampo, lawyer, scientist, andLiberal reformer		Abducted from his hacienda inMichoacán by conservative guerrillas on orders from eitherLeonardo Márquez orFélix María Zuloaga or both (reports differ). Ocampo was executed by firing squad at the Hacienda of Tlaltengo,Tepeji del Río, in what is today the state ofHidalgo.
13 November 1863	Ignacio Comonfort, former President of Mexico andSecretary of War and Navy		Ambushed and killed by conservative guerillas during theSecond French Intervention in Mexico near Chamacueros,Guanajuato (present-dayComonfort).
18 August 1868	José María Patoni, Liberal general and former governor ofDurango	Officers under General Benigno Canto
10 November 1889	Ramon Corona, Liberal general and Governor ofJalisco	Ron Salcedo	Stabbed several times by Salcedo inGuadalajara and died the next day. Salcedo was later killed by local police.
22 February 1913	Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico^[25]		Killed in a coup along with Vice-presidentJosé María Pino Suárez. SeeTen Tragic Days.
7 March 1913	Abraham González, revolutionary,governor of Chihuahua and mentor toPancho Villa	Officers under PresidentVictoriano Huerta
7 October 1913	Belisario Dominguez,Senator of theCongress of the Union forChiapas	Officers under President Victoriano Huerta	Abducted and shot inMexico City under orders from Huerta after giving a memorable speech in the Senate denouncing him.
10 April 1919	Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary	Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo	Shot at Hacienda de San Juan inChinameca, Morelos
20 May 1920	Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico^[25]		Killed in a revolt led byÁlvaro Obregón
20 July 1923	Francisco "Pancho" Villa, revolutionary^[26]	Unknown, most likely attributed to a plot orchestrated by future PresidentPlutarco Elías Calles with tacit support and approval of then-presidentÁlvaro Obregón	Shot while being driven in an open car atParral, Chihuahua. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed.
3 January 1924	Felipe Carrillo Puerto,Governor of Yucatán		Murdered as part of a plot by roguearmy officers as part of a larger rebellion waged by former interim presidentAdolfo de la Huerta beginning the previous year. Executed by firing squad alongside three of his brothers, Wilfrido, Benjamín, and Edesio, and eight of their friends inMérida,Yucatán.
10 June 1924	Salvador Alvarado, revolutionary and former governor of Yucatán		Killed in an ambush nearPalenque,Chiapas in retaliation for supporting the rebellion of Adolfo de la Huerta against then-PresidentAlvaro Obregon
17 July 1928	Álvaro Obregón, President-elect^[26]	José de León Toral	Killed by a pro-Catholic sympathizer as part of theCristero War
10 January 1929	Julio Antonio Mella,Cuban revolutionary	Unknown
11 April 1938	José Antonio Urquiza, political activist and co-founder of theNational Synarchist Union	Isidro Parra	Stabbed twice by Parra, a farmer employed under him, while on a visit toApaseo el Grande, Guanajuato to settle a land dispute
20 August 1940	Leon Trotsky, exiledRussian communist leader^[26]	Ramón Mercader, an agent of theNKVD posing as a journalist	Killed bypenetrating head injury from anice axe in his residence inCoyoacan, Mexico City.
23 May 1962	Rubén Jaramillo, revolutionary, politician, and agrarian rights activist		Killed byFederal Judicial Police officers and soldiers raiding his home in an extrajudicial operation nearXochicalco,Miacatlán,Morelos. His wife, Epifanía, three stepsons, were subsequently taken and shot on the premises; the only surviving member of the family was a stepdaughter.
3 June 1974	Octavio Muciño, footballer	Jaime Antonio Muldoon Barreto	Shot at a Guadalajara restaurant after a physical altercation. Muldoon Barreto then fled to Spain and was never charged upon his return to Mexico in 1980, which was widely attributed to the influence and power possessed by the Muldoon Barreto family within the Mexican government.
30 May 1984	Manuel Buendía, journalist and political columnist		Suspected that figures within thePRI wanted him killed.
9 February 1985	Enrique Camarena,U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration Agent		Abducted and killed by theGuadalajara Cartel with the assistance of figures within the Mexican government and law enforcement agencies
7 February 1986	Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and formerGovernor of Yucatán
16 May 1992	Chalino Sánchez, singer-songwriter		Executed on a farm inCuliacán,Sinaloa by two men posing as police officers hours after he had received a death threat via a note live on stage. The two men are believed to have been associated with the local cartel.
24 May 1993	Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Roman Catholic Cardinal ofGuadalajara	Sinaloa Cartel boss,Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, may have also been involved.	Shot atGuadalajara Airport, along with 6 other people, by theTijuana Cartel using theSan Diego-basedLogan Heights Gang, either after his car was misidentified as belonging to the Sinaloa cartel or to silence Posadas regarding his denunciation of possible connections between government and drug cartels; some recent speculation that an anti-church group was involved.
23 March 1994	Luis Donaldo Colosio, Presidential candidate of thePartido Revolucionario Institucional^[16]	Mario Aburto	Assassinated at a campaign rally in the Lomas Taurinas neighborhood ofTijuana.
28 September 1994	José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of thePartido Revolucionario Institucional	Daniel Aguilar Treviño	Shot while leaving a PRI party meeting in Mexico City. PRI deputy Fernando Rodríguez González confessed to authorities that he hired Aguilar Treviño and his cousin to commit the murder. Aguilar Treviño confessed that he was paid US$500,000 (equivalent to that of $1,038,026.32 in 2023) by Rodríguez González himself to commit the crime.
7 June 1999	Paco Stanley, comedian	Luis Alberto Salazar Vega
19 October 2001	Digna Ochoa, human rights lawyer
22 June 2004	Francisco Ortiz Franco, contributing editor toZeta Magazine
25 November 2006	Valentín Elizalde,banda singer	Gunmen led byRaúl Hernández Barrón	Ambushed and killed by gunmen by Hernández Barrón after leaving a concert inReynosa,Tamaulipas along with his chauffeur and assistant. It is widely believed that Elizalde was killed for his concert performances of the corrido, "A Mis Enemigos", which contains lyrics believed to antagonize drug trafficking gangLos Zetas.^[27] Hernández Barrón was later killed in a shootout withMexican Federal Police in Reynosa on July 26, 2014 alongside several cartel members.
8 May 2008	Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, Commissioner of theFederal Preventive Police	Alejandro Ramírez Báez	Murdered after arriving at his home in Mexico City by being shot at eight times in the chest and once in the hand on behalf of theBeltrán-Leyva Organization in retaliation for the arrest of co-founderAlfredo Beltrán Leyva.
19 June 2010	Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor ofGuadalupe, Chihuahua
28 June 2010	Rodolfo Torre Cantú, former member of theChamber of Deputies and gubernatorial candidate inTamaulipas		He was shot and killed along with six in his entourage.
19 January 2012	Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, former Mexican Army general and convicted drug trafficker	Jonathan Javier Arechega Zarazúa	Approached by a lone gunman who him and shot him three times in the head after Acosta had arrived at an auto shop to drop off his car. On 4 June 2012, a man allegedly named Jonathan Javier Arechega Zarazúa was detained in connection with the assassination of Acosta Chaparro. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in January 2013. No clear motive was stated, but may be linked to either his involvement in drug trafficking with theGulf Cartel (which he was convicted of in 2000 and later released in 2007), or his alleged involvement in torture and homicide of political dissidents in theMexican Dirty War during the 1970s. Acosta had previously survived an attempt on his life in 2010.
14 September 2012	Eduardo Castro Luque, businessman and deputy-elect to the Chamber of Deputies
16 September 2012	Jaime Serrano Cedillo, former member of the Chamber of Deputies		Stabbed in the chest with a knife by his wife during an argument that morning. Taken to a nearby hospital by his family where he was later pronounced dead.
12 November 2012	María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, physician and former mayor ofTiquicheo, Michoacán.		Kidnapped by armed gunmen while driving her daughter to school inMorelia, Michoacán on the 12 November. Gorrostieta Salazar pleaded with her abductors to let her daughter go unharmed, and then agreed to go with the kidnappers. On 15 November, police identified the body after farm workers from the rural community of San Juan Tararameo inCuitzeo found the corpse on their way to work. Post-mortem reports indicated that she died of atraumatic brain injury, the result of severe blows to the head. She had previously survived three attempts on her life, one of which took the life of her husband José Sánchez Chávez in 2009.
17 October 2016	Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías, federal judge	Unknown	Killed by a gunman approaching behind him in broad daylight while out on a morning jog inMetepec,State of Mexico. Suspect fled the scene with an accomplice nearby. No clear motive has been established in Bermúdez Zacarías' murder, but may be possibly linked to his role as presiding judge inJoaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's extradition process, or his complaints against colleagues and court predecessors for judicial irregularities. In October 2019, his ex-wife Marisol Macías Gutiérrez was arrested for allegedly masterminding her ex-husband's murder in a scheme to claim his life insurance plan.
23 March 2017	Miroslava Breach, investigative reporter and journalist forLa Jornada andNorte de Juárez		Shot eight times by a gunman inChihuahua City while driving to take her 14-year-old son to school. Due to the investigative nature of her work on collusion between drug trafficking and local political corruption, her murder had been ordered as a hit to silence her. Police investigation into Breach's murder had determined that the criminal organization "Los Salazares", a division ofGente Nueva, an armed wing of theSinaloa Cartel, had masterminded the killings. On 25 December 2017, Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa was captured inBacobampo, Sinaloa, and in August 2020 sentenced to 50 years in prison for being the intellectual author of Breach's murder.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1983	Maurice Bishop,Prime Minister of Grenada		Killed along with Creft and six other politicians and businessmen in a coup that led to theUnited States invasion of Grenada a few days later.
1983	Jacqueline Creft, Minister of Education and Women's Affairs and domestic partner of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop		Killed along with Bishop and six other politicians and businessmen in a coup that led to theUnited States invasion of Grenada a few days later.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
18 November 1978	Leo Ryan, Member of theUS House of Representatives	Members of the Peoples Temple inJonestown	Shot to death inGuyana while investigating human rights violations by members of thePeoples Temple.
13 June 1980	Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
22 April 2006	Satyadeow Sawh, Agriculture Minister		Murdered along with his brother, sister and a security guard, by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)
1862	José Santos Guardiola,President of Honduras
1966	Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, formerPresident of El Salvador
2008	Mario Fernando Hernández, deputy speaker of theNational Congress for theLiberal Party
2016	Berta Cáceres, environmental and indigenous rights activist	David Castillo, former military intelligence officer
2021	Francisco Gaitán, Mayor ofCantarranas	Wilfredo Velásquez

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
21 February 1934	Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary	National Guard members led byAnastasio Somoza García
21 September 1956	Anastasio Somoza García,President of Nicaragua^[16]	Rigoberto López Pérez
10 January 1978	Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, newspaper editor and anti-Somoza opposition leader
20 June 1979	Bill Stewart,American journalist withABC News		Taken from the van he was travelling and murdered by National Guard troops along with his interpreter Juan Francisco Espinoza while covering the fall ofManagua.
16 February 1991	Enrique Bermúdez, founder and former commander of theContras

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
2 January 1955	José Antonio Remón Cantera,President of Panama		Killed at racetrack by machine gun^[25]
31 July 1981	Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera, Maximum Leader of the Revolution and de facto leader of Panama	Alleged to be the United States byManuel Noriega and his attorney	Likely killed in an aircraft accident by a radio detonated bomb –– but not confirmed. Much speculation has existed surrounding this incident, and few confirmed sources.
13 September 1985	Hugo Spadafora, guerrilla fighter and political activist	Manuel Noriega (suspected)

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
12 April 1877	Juan Bautista Gill,President of Paraguay		Killed in a plot instigated byJuan Silvano Godoi^{[citation needed]}
29 October 1877	Facundo Machaín, former President of Paraguay		Murdered by prison guards on orders from future presidentsCándido Bareiro andBernardino Caballero, likely in retaliation to publicly defend those at trial who killed President Gill
31 December 1878	Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, former president of Paraguay
17 September 1980	Anastasio Somoza Debayle, exiled former president ofNicaragua	7Sandinistas
23 March 1999	Luis María Argaña, vice president ofParaguay		Ambushed^[16]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
26 June 1541	Francisco Pizarro,Spanish conquistador		Killed in a power struggle between fellow conquistadores
23 November 1871	Mariano Melgarejo, exiled formerPresident of Bolivia
26 July 1872	Jose Balta,President of Peru		Ordered shot byTomás Gutiérrez in retaliation for his brother's death
26 July 1872	Tomás Gutiérrez, interim President of Peru		Killed by a mob
2 February 1873	Mariano Herencia Zevallos, former interim President of Peru
16 November 1878	Manuel Pardo, former president of Peru andpresident of the Peruvian Senate
30 April 1933	Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, president of Peru	Abelardo de Mendoza	Shot by a member of the suppressedAmerican Popular Revolutionary Alliance. SeeAssassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro.
15 February 1992	María Elena Moyano, a community organizer inVilla El Salvador
29 September 2023	Quinto Inuma Alvarado, tribal leader and conservationist	Genix Saboya Saboya, Belustiano Saboya Pisco, and one other, hired by Segundo Villalobos Guevara^[35]

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
8 December 1982	Bram Behr, journalist	Victim of theDecember murders
8 December 1982	Eddy Hoost, formerMinister of Justice and Police	Victim of theDecember murders
8 December 1982	André Kamperveen, athlete and former minister	Victim of theDecember murders
8 December 1982	Gerard Leckie, academic	Victim of theDecember murders
8 December 1982	Surendre Rambocus, military officer	Victim of theDecember murders

Date	Victim(s)	Notes
1 December 1699	José de León y Echales, Spanish governor ofTrinidad	Killed during theArena Massacre
1 August 1990	Leo Des Vignes, MP	Killed during theJamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt
10 June 1995	Selwyn Richardson, formerAttorney-General
4 May 2014	Dana Seetahal, senator

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
8 May 1815	David Ramsay, Delegate of the United StatesContinental Congress	William Linnen	Shot on Broad Street inCharleston, South Carolina with a Horseman's Pistol.
7 November 1837	Elijah Parish Lovejoy, minister, editor, and abolitionist	Angry mob	Killed by a pro-slavery mob.
22 June 1839	Major Ridge, Cherokee leader	Bird Doublehead and James Foreman	Killed by a group of people who blamed Ridge, who signed theTreaty 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.
27 June 1844	Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints and1844 presidential candidate	Armed mob	Armed mob killed him and his brother, Hyrum, at theCarthage, Illinois, jail.
14 April 1865	Abraham Lincoln,President of the United States	John Wilkes Booth	Was shot while watching the playOur American Cousin in the presidential box atFord's Theater inWashington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning on 15 April across the street in a boarding house. Booth and accompliceDavid Herold hid in a barn inVirginia. Herold surrendered. When Booth refused to go out, the troops set the barn on fire. Booth remained inside the barn but was fatally shot in the neck by Union soldierBoston Corbett.
23 April 1865	Silas Soule, US provost marshal andwhistleblower of theSand Creek Massacre	Charles Squier	Was shot by a soldier inDenver City, Colorado Territory, who had been under the command ofJohn Chivington, about whom Soule had testified two months beforehand in a federal investigation of Chivington's actions at Sand Creek. Soule had been the target of at least two prior assassination attempts, and told a friend that he expected to be killed due to his testimony.
31 March 1868	George Washington Ashburn, US senate candidate and judge	Five members of theKu Klux Klan	Assassinated inColumbus, Georgia for his pro-African-American actions. First murder victim of the Klan in state.
22 October 1868	James M. Hinds,U.S. Representative fromArkansas	George Clark	Killed by aKu Klux Klan member as part of intimidation of Republicans.
2 July 1881	James A. Garfield, President of the United States	Charles J. Guiteau	Shot by Guiteau while waiting for a train at aWashington train station. Garfield did not die until September 19, 1881.
18 March 1882	Morgan Earp, Sheriff	Pete Spence (accused)	Shot while playing billiards at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor inTombstone, Arizona by Cowboys in retaliation for the Earp Brothers' killings of previous Outlaws.
29 January 1889	John M. Clayton,U.S. Representative fromArkansas	Unknown	Shot through his window at his home inPlumerville, Arkansas.
15 October 1890	David Hennessy, Police Chief ofNew Orleans	Mafiosi
28 October 1893	Carter Harrison III,Mayor of Chicago	Patrick Eugene Prendergast	Killed after assailant was rejected for appointment to a patronage position. Assailantwas convicted and executed.
3 February 1900	William Goebel,Governor of Kentucky	Unknown political opponents	Uncertain, but killed in the context of a disputed, fraudulent election.
6 September 1901	William McKinley, President of the United States	Leon Czolgosz	Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was shaking hands at thePan-American Exposition inBuffalo, New York. Died on September 14.
24 April 1905	John M. Pinckney,U.S. Representative fromTexas	Unknown	Shot and Killed during a confrontation at aprohibition meeting meeting inHempstead, Texas after being targeed due to his stance on alcohol laws.
30 December 1905	Frank Steunenberg, formerGovernor of Idaho	Harry Orchard	Killed by a mining company informant in an attempt to cast blame on a labor union.
29 February 1908	Pat Garrett,Old West lawman,customs agent	Jesse Wayne Brazel (suspected)	Shot while traveling fromLas Cruces, New Mexico.
1 August 1921	Sid Hatfield, Police Chief ofMatewan, West Virginia	Baldwin-Felts agents	Shot and killed on theMcDowell County Courthouse steps for hispro-labor actions and involvement in theBattle of Matewan.
6 March 1933	Anton Cermak, Mayor ofChicago	Giuseppe Zangara	Shot struck Cermak instead of intended target PresidentFranklin Roosevelt.
8 September 1935	Huey Long, U.S. Senator fromLouisiana and a potential1936 U.S. presidential candidate	Carl Weiss	Shot with a handgun in the abdomen after attending a meeting at theState Capital building to help pass "House Bill Number One" by the son-in-law of Long's long-time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, and died two days later. Weiss was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards.
15 November 1939	Louis F. Edwards, mayor ofLong Beach, New York	Alvin Dooley	Shot and killed outside his home. By, Alivin Dooley, a former head of the local police union who lost reelection to a candidate the mayor supported.
11 January 1943	Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer	Carmine Galante (suspected)	A theory at the time was that the suspected assassin was a member ofthe Mafia, acting on orders fromSicily, while other theories suggested that he was murdered byItalian fascists. Others have theorized that Tresca was eliminated by theNKVD as retribution for criticism of theStalin regime of theSoviet Union.^[36]Vito Genovese, boss of theGenovese crime family, is said to have allegedly ordered the murder of Tresca, with the shooter allegedly beingCarmine Galante of theBonanno crime family.^[37]
25 December 1951	Harry T. Moore,NAACP Brevard County chapter founder and president of NAACP'sFlorida chapter	Ku Klux Klan (suspected)	Killed alongside his wife, civil rights activistHarriette Moore, when a bomb exploded under their home inMims, Florida. Harry died the day of the bombing and Harriette 9 days later. The assassins were never caught but several KKK members are suspected.
10 December 1958	Krishna Venta, cult leader	Peter Duma Kamenoff and Ralph Muller	Killed in asuicide bombing alongside seven others inChatsworth, California by two former cultists who accused Venta of mishandling cult funds and being intimate with their wives.
9 February 1960	Adolph Coors III, heir to theCoors Brewing Company	Joseph Corbett, Jr.	Murdered in failed kidnap-for-ransom attempt.
23 April 1963	William Lewis Moore, civil rights activist andCongress of Racial Equality (CORE) member	Unknown	Murdered inKeener, Alabama, during a protest march fromChattanooga, Tennessee toJackson, Mississippi.
12 June 1963	Medgar Evers, African-AmericanU.S. civil rights activist and leader of theNAACP inMississippi.^[16]	Byron De La Beckwith	Shot by aKu Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994.
22 November 1963	John F. Kennedy, President of the United States	Lee Harvey Oswald	Shot while traveling in a motorcade inDallas, Texas.
24 November 1963	Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin ofJohn F. Kennedy	Jack Ruby	Shot on live television in the basement of theDallas police department.
21 June 1964	James Chaney,Andrew Goodman &Michael Schwerner, civil rights activists	Ku Klux Klan	Abducted and executed by members of the Ku Klux Klan for their work on theFreedom Summer campaign in an attempt to getAfrican Americans to register to vote inNeshoba County, Mississippi.
21 February 1965	Malcolm X, black Muslim leader	Talmadge Hayer, a member of theNation of Islam	Killed in aManhattan banquet room as he began a speech.
10 January 1966	Vernon Dahmer, President of theForrest County chapter ofNAACP	TheWhite Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led bySamuel Bowers	His home inHattiesburg, Mississippi was fire bombed on the night of January 10, 1966 by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leaving Dahmer severely burnt before ultimately dying from smoke inhalation and severe burns to his lungs.
27 February 1967	Wharlest Jackson,Natchez, Mississippi NAACP treasurer	Unknown (Silver Dollar Group suspected)	Assassinated viacar bomb
25 August 1967	George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of theAmerican Nazi Party	John Patler, a former aide	Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat.
4 April 1968	Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. civil rights activist^[16]	James Earl Ray^[38]	Ray pleaded guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted restaurant ownerLoyd Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot.^[39]
5 June 1968	Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator fromNew York and a leading1968 Democratic presidential candidate	Sirhan Sirhan	Shot after giving a speech after winning theCalifornia primary. Died 26 hours later on 6 June. Sirhan was convicted on 17 April 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death.^[40] The sentence wascommuted tolife in prison in 1972 after theCalifornia Supreme Court, in its decision inCalifornia v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.
13 June 1969	Clarence 13X, religious leader, founder of theFive-Percent Nation	Unknown	Was killed in an ambush while in the lobby of his apartment building inNew York City.
4 December 1969	Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of theBlack Panther Party	Chicago Police Department, with involvement by theFederal Bureau of Investigation	Killed by theChicago Police Department in a raid. 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'sCOINTELPRO program.^[41]^[42]^[43]^[44]^[45]^[46]
27 January 1973	Mehmet Baydar,Turkish Consul General	Gourgen Yamikian	Killed as revenge for theArmenian Genocide.
27 January 1973	Bahadır Demir,Turkish Consul	Gourgen Yamikian	Killed as revenge for theArmenian Genocide.
1 July 1973	Yosef Alon,Israeli Air Force officer and military attache	Unknown	Shot to death outside his home. The case was never solved.
6 November 1973	Marcus Foster, School District Superintendent inOakland, CA	TheSymbionese Liberation Army	Shot and Killed by members of theSymbionese Liberation Army withcyanide packed bullets.
30 June 1974	Alberta Williams King, mother ofMartin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin, church deacon	Marcus Chenault	Killed while her husband was preaching at EbenezerBaptist Church inAtlanta, Georgia.
13 November 1974	Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower and union activist	Unknown	Run off the road while on her way to provide documents toThe New York Times about negligent safety and security at a nuclear-waste reprocessing facility in Cimarron, Oklahoma.
15 August 1975	Joseph Tommasi, leader of theNational Socialist Liberation Front	Jerry Jones,National Socialist White People's Party member	Shot by Jones in the head during an altercation outside of NSWPP headquarters inEl Monte, California. Tommasi had previously been expelled in 1973 by the NSWPP for his views advocatingaccelerationism andlone-wolf terrorist actions against the U.S. government.
21 September 1976	Orlando Letelier,Chilean ambassador to the United States during the administration of PresidentSalvador Allende	Michael Townley	Killed along with his American assistant,Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by ChileanDINA agents.
27 November 1978	Harvey Milk,San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist	Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy
27 November 1978	George Moscone,mayor of San Francisco
29 May 1979	John H. Wood Jr., District Judge	Charles Harrelson	Shot dead in the parking lot of his townhouse inSan Antonio, Texas by Harrelson who was hired by drug dealerJamiel Chagra.
22 July 1980	Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, formerIranian press attache andexile	Dawud Salahuddin	Shot and killed at the front door of hisBethesda,Maryland home by a man disgused as a postman. Salahuddin stated he was paid $5,000 by the Iranians to kill Tabatabaei.
8 December 1980	John Lennon,British musician, member ofThe Beatles	Mark David Chapman	Shot and killed by a former fan ofthe Beatles, who grew to resent Lennon due to statements and actions that he perceived as anti-Christian (most prominently Lennon's joke that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus") and hypocritical. SeeMurder of John Lennon.
28 January 1982	Kemal Arıkan,Turkish Consul General	Harry Sassounian and Krikor Saliba	Killed due to Turkey's denial of theArmenian Genocide.
4 May 1982	Orhan Gündüz, HonoraryTurkish Consul General	Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide	Killed in retaliation for theArmenian Genocide.
18 June 1984	Alan Berg, radio talk-show host	Jean Craig,David Lane, Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari	Killed by members of thewhite nationalist groupThe Order.
15 October 1984	Henry Liu,Taiwanese-American writer	Wu Tun andTung Kuei-sen	Allegedly killed byKuomintang agents.
15 August 1985	Tscherim Soobzokov,Circassian spy, politician,SS Obersturmführer, and Nazi fugitive	Robert Manning (suspected)	Received multiple death threats from those claiming to represent theJewish Defence League, although they denied involvement
11 October 1985	Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader	Irv Rubin, Robert Manning, Andy Green, Keith Fuchs (suspected)	Killed when a bomb exploded in hisSanta Ana, California office.
29 April 1986	Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman	"Volunteer Organization for the Revolution" agents (claimed responsibility)	Killed inBayamón, Puerto Rico.
18 July 1989	Rebecca Schaeffer, actress	Robert John Bardo	Shot and killed by an obsessed fan who had beenstalking her.
22 August 1989	Huey Newton, founder of theBlack Panther Party	Tyrone Robinson	Killed by member of theBlack Guerrilla Army (BGA).
16 December 1989	Robert Vance, Federal Appeals Judge	Walter Leroy Moody	Moody was convicted in 1991 of sending Judge Vance a mail-bomb as a personal vendetta; however, attorneyDaniel Sheehan has claimed Judge Vance was assassinated to influence the outcome of theIran-Contra litigation Avrignan v. Hull.
18 December 1989	Robert E. Robinson,lawyer,civil rights activist, andcity councilmember	Walter Leroy Moody	Targeted viamail bomb for his work with the NAACP.
5 November 1990	Meir David Kahane, Member of theIsraeli Knesset, founder of theJDL and theKach Party,Zionist	El Sayyid Nosair	Killed by an Arab gunman in aManhattan hotel who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to SheikOmar Abdel-Rahman, "the blind sheik",Al-Qaeda's point man in the1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil.
21 February 1991	Bob Sheldon, Founder ofInternationalist Books	Unknown	Local leftist activist and organizer who founded a local infoshop and community center,Internationalist Books. Shot as he closed the store on 21 February 1991, his murder remains unsolved.
21 May 1991	Ioan P. Culianu,Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas	Unknown	Killed at theUniversity of Chicago where he taught at theUniversity of Chicago Divinity SchoolSwift Hall, allegedly due to opposition to his writings.
10 March 1993	David Gunn, abortion provider	Michael F. Griffin	Shot outside his clinic.
29 July 1994	John Britton, physician, abortion provider	Paul Jennings Hill	Shot at his clinic.
10 December 1994	Thomas J. Mosser, Advertising executive atBurson-Marsteller	Ted Kaczynski	Killed by bomb sent to his home, Kaczynski wrote he had sent the bomb because of Mosser's work repairing thepublic image ofExxon after theExxon Valdez oil spill.
31 March 1995	Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, singer and songwriter	Yolanda Saldívar	Shot inCorpus Christi, Texas by fan club manager, whowas later convicted for the murder
13 September 1996	Tupac Shakur, rapper	Orlando Anderson (suspected)	Shot inLas Vegas after leaving a boxing match.
9 March 1997	Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, rapper	Wardell Fouse (suspected)	Shot four times during a drive-by shooting inLos Angeles, California.
15 July 1997	Gianni Versace, fashion designer	Andrew Cunanan	Shot and killed outside his mansion inMiami Beach.
19 October 1998	Tommy Burks, member of theTennessee Senate	Byron (Low Tax) Looper	Shot and killed on his property inCookeville, Tennessee by hisRepublican Party opponent a month before the election.
23 October 1998	Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider	James Charles Kopp	Shot in his kitchen.
15 December 2000	Derwin Brown,sheriff-elect ofDekalb County, Georgia	Melvin Walker & David Ramsey	Shot twelve times outside his home. Assassination was ordered bySidney Dorsey, whom Brown had defeated in the recent sheriff election.
11 October 2001	Thomas Crane Wales, Americanfederal prosecutor andgun control advocate	Unknown	Wales was sitting at a computer in his office in the basement of his home. A gunman avoided the security lights in Wales' backyard and shot him once in the neck and once in the chest through a window. Wales died at a hospital the next day. In 2018, FBI investigators announced they strongly suspected the killing to have been carried out by apaid hitman.
23 July 2003	James E. Davis, member of theNew York City Council	Othniel Askew	Shot in the torso while introducing Askew on the balcony of theNew York City Hall.
8 December 2004	Dimebag Darrell, musician	Nathan Gale	Shot while performing onstage at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub inColumbus, Ohio.
2 August 2007	Chauncey Bailey,Oakland Tribune journalist	Devaughndre Broussard	Shot on the street inOakland.
7 February 2008	Mike Swoboda, Mayor ofKirkwood, Missouri	Charles "Cookie" Thornton	SeeKirkwood City Council shooting
31 May 2009	George Tiller, physician	Scott Roeder	Shot by anti-abortion extremist as he ushered at his church.
8 January 2011	John Roll, Chief Judge	Jared Lee Loughner	Shot by Loughner along with his main targetGabrielle Giffords in a supermarket parking lot inCasas Adobes, Arizona during the Congress on Your Corner meeting.
17 June 2015	Clementa C. Pinckney, South Carolina Senator	Dylann Roof	Shot and killed by Roof during theCharleston Church Shooting inSouth Carolina.
10 June 2016	Christina Grimmie, singer	Kevin Loibl	Shot while signing autographs inOrlando, Florida.
18 June 2018	XXXTentacion, rapper and singer	Michael Boatwright, Trayvon Newsome, Dedrick Williams, and Robert Allen	Shot three times after leaving motorcycle dealership inDeerfield Beach, Florida.
30 October 2018	Whitey Bulger,crime boss of theWinter Hill Gang	Fotios Geas, Paul J. DeCologero & Sean McKinnon (accused)	Found beaten to death with a padlock-sock and a shiv in his wheelchair after being transferred to theUnited States Penitentiary, Hazelton,West Virginia.
13 March 2019	Frank Cali,mobster and acting boss of theGambino crime family	Anthony Comello	Killed outside his home by Comello who had become obsessed withQAnon conspiracy theories, and believed Cali was a member of a "deep state".
4 December 2024	Brian Thompson, businessman and CEO ofUnitedHealthcare	Luigi Mangione (suspected)	Shot three times outside theNew York Hilton Midtown hotel inManhattan, New York.
3 April 2025	Arul Carasala, religious leader	Gary Hermesch (suspected)	Shot multiple times outside his home inSeneca, Kansas.^[47]
14 June 2025	Melissa Hortman, formerSpeaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives	Vance Boelter (suspected)^[48]	Hortman, her husband, and theirgolden retriever were shot andkilled at their home by a gunman impersonating a police officer
10 September 2025	Charlie Kirk, political activist, Co-founder ofTurning Point USA	Tyler Robinson (suspected)^[49]	Shot and killed while on stage atUtah Valley University inOrem, Utah during aTPUSA event.

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See also

References

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
19 February 1868	Bernardo P. Berro, formerPresident of Uruguay
19 February 1868	Venancio Flores, former president of Uruguay
25 August 1897	Juan Idiarte Borda, President of Uruguay	Avelino Arredondo	Shot by a supporter ofJosé Batlle y Ordóñez
23 February 1965	Herberts Cukurs,Latvian aviator and fugitivewar criminal	Mossad	Killed for his role in theHolocaust in Latvia
10 August 1970	Dan Mitrione, U.S.Office of Public Safety advisor	Tupamaros
15 November 1992	Eugenio Berríos,Chilean chemist who worked for theDINA during thePinochet dictatorship	Chilean Government	Killed in Uruguay by Chilean secret services for "knowing too much".

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
4 June 1830	Antonio José de Sucre, independence leader
13 November 1950	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud,President of Venezuela^[25]	Rafael Simón Urbina
13 November 1950	Rafael Simón Urbina, opponent of PresidentJuan Vicente Gómez and assassin of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
21 October 1952	Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, member and one of the founders ofAcción Democrática	Dirección de Seguridad Nacional	Assassinated by dictatorMarcos Pérez Jiménez's political police^[50]
18 November2004	Danilo Anderson, state prosecutor
17 May 2011	Wilfred Iván Ojeda, journalist
2 April 2012	Jesús Aguilarte, governor ofApure
1 October2014	Robert Serra, member of theNational Assembly
6 May 2016	Germán Mavare,A New Era politician
15 January2018	Óscar Alberto Pérez, Venezuelan rebel leader and Investigator for theCuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas.	Venezuelan National Guard
8 October 2018	Fernando Albán,Justice First councilman	Bolivarian Intelligence Service	In May 2021,Nicolás Maduro's Attorney General,Tarek William Saab, admitted that Albán did not commit suicide, as initially reported by government officials, but was killed.^[51]
6 March 2019	Alí Domínguez, journalist
16 October 2019	Edmundo Rada,Popular Will councilman		Special Action Forces officers suspected of the killing.^[52]^[53]

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
13 March 1881	TsarAlexander II of Russia	Ignacy Hryniewiecki	A group of conspirators, members ofNarodnaya Volya movement, was waiting him on his way to the Mikhailovsky Manège for the military roll call, in Saint Petersburg, carrying bombs. The first one, namedNikolai Rysakov, threw his bomb under the horses' hooves. The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France. The Tsar, instead of flee away immediately, he wanted to first see the culprit, and to survey the damage.Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing few meters away from the emperor, raised both arms and threw his bomb at the emperor's feet.This second blast killed both emperor and Hryniewiecki who committed to sacrifice himself for this cause.
17 July 1918	TsarNicholas II of Russia, along with his whole family, his wifeAlexandra, his four daughtersOlga,Maria,Anastasia andTatiana, and his sonAlexei.	Yakov Yurovsky	In the early hours of 17 July 1918, the royal family was awakened around 2:00 am, by the Bolshevik officerYakov Yurovsky (the chief executioner), got dressed, and were led down into a half-basement room at the back of The Ipatiev House at Yekaterinburg, where they were held prisoners. The pretext for this move was the family's safety, i.e. that anti-Bolshevik forces were approaching Yekaterinburg, and the house might be fired upon. The prisoners were told that Moscow wanted a photograph of them as proof of their wellbeing. They were assembled, but instead of a photographer, a group of armed guards arrived and executed the whole family.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
9 October 1934	King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, along with French Foreign MinisterLouis Barthou	Vlado Chernozemski	While Alexander was being slowly driven in a car through the streets of Marseille along with Barthou, the assassin stepped into the street and shot the King and the chauffeur with a Mauser C96 semiautomatic pistol. Alexander died in the car and was slumped backwards in the seat with his eyes open. Barthou killed by a stray bullet fired by French police during the scuffle following the attack. It was one of the first assassinations to be captured on film.
7 November 1938	German diplomatErnst vom Rath	Herschel Grynszpan	The 17-year-old Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, went to the German embassy in Paris and asked to speak with an embassy official. Grynszpan shot the 29 year-old vom Rath five times, mortally wounding him with bullets to the spleen, stomach and pancreas. The assassination triggered the historic Kristallnacht events, "The Night of Broken Glass", from 9 to 10 of November, 1938. Ernst vom Rath died two days later.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
31 May 1905	Theodoros Deligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece	Antonios Gherakaris	Ηe was assassinated in revenge for the rigorous measures taken by him against gambling houses. His attacker, a professional gambler named Antonios Gherakaris, stabbed him with a dagger in the abdomen as he was entering the parliament. The incident took place at 5pm; an emergency operation failed to stop his internal bleeding and Deligiannis died at 7:30pm.
18 March 1913	KingGeorge I of Greece	Alexandros Schinas	George I, the king of Greece, was assassinated on the late afternoon of March 18, 1913, in Thessaloniki, by an alleged Greek anarchist Alexandros Schinas.

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
12 February 1894	William Paisley, Mayor ofBurwood, New South Wales	William Redfearn	Murder-suicide by Redfearn
23 June 1975	Shirley Finn, brothel keeper, nightclub operator and socialite		Possibly killed in retaliation for being a whistle blower.
4 July 1975	Juanita Nielsen, newspaper publisher, journalist and urban heritage activist		Disappeared. Ruled a murder at a 1983 coronial inquest.
15 July 1977	Donald Mackay, anti-drugs campaigner		Mackay's body was never found.
17 December 1980	Şarık Arıyak,Turkish Consul General	Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
10 January 1989	Colin Winchester, Assistant Commissioner of theAustralian Federal Police
2 March 1994	Geoffrey Bowen, SeniorNational Crime Authority investigator	Domenic Perre	Killed by a parcel bomb. Perre was charged with the murder in March 2018.
5 September 1994	John Newman,New South Wales State Member forCabramatta	Phuong Ngo, local club owner and political opponent

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
26 April 1984	Arnold Ap, songman and ethnomusicologist	Indonesian military	Shot in back by anIndonesian military unit upon release from prison^[55]
14 March 1996	Thomas Wainggai, Independence leader		Allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers inCipinang prison.^[55]
10 November 2001	Theys Eluay, West Papuan Independence movement leader		Assassinated byKopassus officers after attending a military dinner inJayapura^[55]
16 December 2009	Kelly Kwalik, West Papuan guerrilla leader	Detachment 88 death squad	Assassinated byDetachment 88 officers inTimika^[55]
14 June 2012	Mako Tabuni, Chairman of theWest Papua National Committee (KNPB)		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura^[56]