For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Ivan Asen I, Tsar of Bulgaria | Ivanko | |
| Stefan Stambolov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Died in Sofia after being stabbed. |
| Dimitar Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Killed in Sofia by an anarchist. |
| Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Killed in his home town of Slavovitsa during the 9 June coup d'état |
| Stefan Nerezov, former Chief of the General Staff | | Was among 150 killed in the Saint Nedelya Church bombing |
| Hristo Lukov, military officer, former Minister of War and leader of the far-right Union of Bulgarian National Legions | Violeta Yakova | Killed by the Bulgarian Resistance in Sofia. |
| Vasil Iliev, insurance boss and owner of "VIS-2", former wrestler | | Shot while being driven in Sofia. |
| Andrey Lukanov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria[3] | | Shot outside his apartment in Sofia. |
| Iliya Pavlov, president of Multigroup corporation and the wealthiest man in Bulgaria, former wrestler | | Shot outside his office in Sofia. |
| Georgi Iliev, football club owner, brother of the assassinated Vasil Iliev | | Shot in a restaurant in Sunny Beach. |
| Emil Kyulev, banker, ex-professional swimmer, voted Mr. Economics in Bulgaria for 2002 | | Shot while driving along Bulgaria Boulevard, Sofia. |
| Ivan "Doktora" Todorov, businessman accused of smuggling | | |
| Borislav Georgiev, CEO of "Atomenergoremont" nuclear plant repair company | | | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Charles d'Espagne, constable of France | Jean de Soult | |
| Étienne Marcel, Parisian merchant | | |
| Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans | | |
| John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy | Tanneguy du Chastel and Jean Louvet | Killed during a parley with the Dauphin (the future Charles VII of France) |
| Gaspard de Coligny | Besme | Killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre |
| Henri III, King of France | Jacques Clément | Killed due to religious-political antagonism. |
| Henri IV, King of France | François Ravaillac | Killed due to religious-political antagonism. |
| Concino Concini, chief minister to King Louis XIII | | |
| Jacques de Flesselles, Provost of Paris | | |
| Jean-Paul Marat, revolutionary | Charlotte Corday | Stabbed in his bathtub. Later seen as a patriotic act. |
| Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of the future King Charles X | Louis Pierre Louvel | |
| Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France | Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist | Stabbed to death after a speech in Lyon. |
| Emile Zola, novelist and journalist | | Possibly killed in relation to the Dreyfus Affair and his publishing of his letter J'Accuse…! |
| Jean Jaurès, Socialist politician and pacifist[4] | Raoul Villain | Killed in Paris. The assassin was tried and acquitted in 1919. |
| Essad Toptani, former Prime Minister of Albania | Avni Rustemi | |
| Symon Petlyura, exiled President of Ukraine | Sholom Schwartzbard | Killed in Paris. The jury acquitted the murderer.[5] |
| Noe Ramishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia | Cheka agents | Killed in Paris |
| Paul Doumer, President of France | Paul Gorguloff | Shot by a Russian emigre at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris. |
| Alexander I of Yugoslavia, king of Yugoslavia | Vlado Chernozemski, member of the IMRO | Killed in Marseille during a state visit.[6] |
| Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat | Herschel Grynszpan | Killed in Paris. His murder was used as an excuse by the Nazis to commit the Kristallnacht in Germany |
| Marx Dormoy, socialist and former Interior Minister of France | | Killed by a bomb believed to have been placed by the far-right organization La Cagoule |
| Constant Chevillon, head of FUDOFSI | | Killed by the Gestapo in Lyon |
| Philippe Henriot, State secretary for Information and Propaganda of Vichy France | | Killed by French resistants in Paris |
| Georges Mandel, former radical-socialist Interior Minister and French resistant | | Killed by miliciens in the forest of Fontainebleau |
| Eugène Deloncle, milicien and former leader of clandestine far-right organisation La Cagoule | | Killed by the Gestapo |
| Camille Blanc, Mayor of Évian-les-Bains | Organisation armée secrète | Killed for hosting negotiations between the French government and the FLN |
| Mehdi Ben Barka, Moroccan socialist leader and Third-World Tricontinental leader | | Disappeared in Paris |
| Mahmoud Hamshari, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Paris | Mossad, Israeli Secret Service | Killed in his apartment by a bomb planted in his telephone as he answered a call in retribution for Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the second of a number of attacks pursuant to Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. |
| Outel Bono, Chadian medical doctor and critic of Chadian President François Tombalbaye | | Shot while climbing into his car in Paris. |
| Basil al-Kubaissi, professor and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Mossad | Shot dead |
| Mohammad Boudia, Algerian-born director of operations for Black September in France | Mossad | Killed in Paris by a pressure-activated bomb packed with heavy nuts and bolts placed under his car seat as part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. |
| İsmail Erez, Turkish ambassador to France | Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia | |
| Jean de Broglie, former minister and one of the French negotiators of the Évian Accords | | |
| François Duprat, neofascist writer | Jewish Remembrance commando | |
| Henri Curiel, Egyptian-born anticolonialist activist | | Shot in Paris |
| Bruno Bušić, dissident Croatian/Yugoslav writer | Yugoslav secret police | |
| José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana "Argala", Basque leader | | Killed by a bomb in Anglet, allegedly planted by the Batallón Vasco Español. |
| Ezzedin Kalak, chief of the PLO's Paris bureau | | Killed in his Paris office alongside his deputy Hamad Adnan in the Arab League building |
| Pierre Goldman, left-wing activist | | Shot in Paris |
| Robert Boulin, Minister of Labor | | Officially suicide, but a lot of anomalies revealed since. |
| Zuhair Muhsin, leader of the As-Sa'iqa faction within the PLO | | |
| | | Shot on the Rue Pergolese in Paris |
| Joseph Fontanet, former Education Minister | | Killed in Paris. |
| Salah al-Din Bitar, exiled former Prime Minister of Syria | | Killed in Paris. |
| Yehia El-Mashad, Egyptian atomic scientist | | Shot at the Le Méridien hotel in Paris. |
| Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude, right-wing activist and criminal | | Shot at Argent-sur-Sauldre soon after being released from prison. |
| Fadl Dani, deputy director of the PLO office in Paris | Mossad | Killed in Paris by a car bomb as part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. |
| Yaakov Barsimantov, Israeli diplomat, Mossad agent | Jacqueline Esber a.k.a. Rima, member of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions | Shot in the lobby of his home in the 16th arrondissement of Paris |
| René Audran, senior official of the Ministry of Defence | | Shot in Paris |
| Georges Besse, Renault executive | | Shot while emerging from his car in Paris by far-left activists of Action directe |
| Dulcie September, African National Congress representative | | Killed in Paris |
| Joseph Doucé, activist for sexual minorities | | Corpse found in Rambouillet forest; murder remains unsolved |
| | | Stabbed to death at his residence in Suresnes along with his secretary. |
| Atef Bseiso, Palestine Liberation Organization head of intelligence | Mossad | Killed in Paris |
| Abdelbaki Sahraoui, co-founder of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front | | Killed in Paris. |
| Claude Érignac, prefect of Corsica | Yvan Colonna | Shot in Ajaccio by a Corsican nationalist. |
| Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez, Kurdish nationalists | | Shot at Rue La Fayette in Paris. |
| Cabu, Elsa Cayat, Charb, Philippe Honoré, Bernard Maris, Mustapha Ourrad, Tignous and Georges Wolinski, cartoonists working for Charlie Hebdo | Chérif and Saïd Kouachi | See Charlie Hebdo shooting |
| Jacques Hamel, Roman Catholic priest of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray | Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean | Stabbed to death during mass. See 2016 Normandy church attack. | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Alexander Severus, Roman emperor | | Killed near Moguntiacum (present-day Mainz) by his troops. |
| Postumus, Gallic emperor | | Killed in Mainz |
| Laelianus, Gallic emperor | | Killed in Mainz |
| Adalbert of Prague, Czech Bishop | Prussian heathen | Tortured to death near the Baltic Sea near present-day Elbląg, Poland |
| Philipp von Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor | | Killed in Bamberg |
| Engelbert I. von Köln, Archbishop of Cologne | | |
| Konrad von Marburg, inquisitor | | |
| August von Kotzebue, dramatist | Karl Ludwig Sand | |
| German Reich (1871–1945) |
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| Rosa Luxemburg, socialist writer | Hermann Souchon (ordered by Waldemar Pabst) | Shot in Berlin in the wake of the Spartacist uprising |
| Karl Liebknecht, socialist lawyer and politician | Horst von Pflugk-Harttung, Heinrich Stiege, Ulrich von Ritgen and Rudolf Liepmann (ordered by Waldemar Pabst) | Shot in Berlin in the wake of the Spartacist uprising |
| Kurt Eisner, socialist Minister-President of Bavaria | Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley | Killed in Munich. |
| Leo Jogiches, Marxist revolutionary | Ernst Tamschick, Detective Sergeant of the Prison Moabit | Shot in Berlin Prison Moabit |
| Hugo Haase, socialist politician and leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany | Johann Voß | Died of sepsis from gunshot wounds |
| Talaat Pasha, former Ottoman Minister of Interior Affairs | Soghomon Tehlirian | Killed in Berlin in retaliation for his role in the Armenian Genocide |
| Matthias Erzberger, former Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Minister of Finance | Members of Organisation Consul | Shot at Bad Griesbach. |
| Bahattin Şakir, Ottoman suspect in the Armenian Genocide | Armenian Revolutionary Federation | |
| Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister of Germany | Ernst Werner Techow, Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer | Shot as he was being driven through Berlin by assassins in another car. |
| Horst Wessel, Sturmführer of the SS in Berlin | Albrecht Höhler | Shot at point blank range in Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin. |
| Kurt von Schleicher, former Chancellor of Germany | SS officers (ordered by Adolf Hitler) | Murdered at Babelsberg by the SS during the Night of the Long Knives along with his wife, Elisabeth |
| Gregor Strasser, politician and former Nazi Party member | SS officers | Killed in a prison cell in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives |
| Erich Klausener, Catholic politician | Kurt Gildisch, SS officer | Shot at his office in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives |
| Ernst Röhm, leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) | Michael Lippert, SS officer | Shot in Stadelheim Prison by SS officers during the Night of the Long Knives. |
| Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present) |
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| Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli, Soviet Army defector and chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty | | |
| Lev Rebet, exiled Ukrainian nationalist leader | Bohdan Stashynsky, a KGB agent | Poisoned by cyanide gas in Munich. |
| Stepan Bandera, exiled Ukrainian nationalist leader | Poisoned by cyanide gas in Munich. |
| Salah Ben Youssef, Tunisian politician | | Shot in a hotel in Frankfurt. |
| Krim Belkacem, exiled former Vice President of Algeria | | Shot in a hotel in Frankfurt. |
| Siegfried Buback, Public Prosecutor General of West Germany | Red Army Faction members | Shot while driving his car near Karlsruhe. |
| Jürgen Ponto, CEO of Dresdner Bank | Killed in Frankfurt. |
| Hanns-Martin Schleyer, president of the German employers' organization | Kidnapped and later killed. |
| 1986 | Karl Heinz Beckurts, physicist and research manager. | Killed by a bomb near Strasslach in Munich |
| Alfred Herrhausen, Deutsche Bank CEO | Killed by a bicycle bomb as his car passed by in Bad Homburg. |
| Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, director of Treuhandanstalt for the former East Germany | Killed in Düsseldorf. |
| Sadeq Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, Nouri Dehkordi, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leaders | Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Killed in Berlin (see Mykonos restaurant assassinations). |
| Fereydoun Farrokhzad, exiled Iranian cultural figure | Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Believed to have been killed as part of the Chain murders of Iran |
| Walter Lübcke, CDU politician and president of the Regierungsbezirk of Kassel | Stephan Ernst | Shot outside his home in Istha by a neo-Nazi terrorist |
| Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, exiled Chechen military commander | Vadim Krasikov | Shot by an agent of the GRU | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Hipparchus (son of Peisistratos), Tyrant of Athens | Harmodius and Aristogeiton | |
| Ephialtes, leader of the radical democracy movement in Athens | | |
| Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician | | |
| October, | Philip II of Macedon, king of Macedon | Pausanias of Orestis | Assassinated in the theatre of ancient Aegae (present-day Vergina). |
| Alexander, regent of Macedonia | Alexion, a Siyconian | Killed in Sicyon. |
| Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid dynasty | | Killed near Lysimachia. |
| Abantidas, tyrant of Sicyon | | |
| Nabis, Tyrant of Sparta | Aetolian League | |
| Ioannis Kapodistrias, first President of Greece | Konstantinos Mavromichalis and Georgios Mavromichalis | Killed outside Nafplio church in revenge for the imprisonment of the assassins' patriarch Petrobey Mavromichalis. Konstantinos was thrown over a cliff by the citizens of Nafplio while Georgios was executed by firing squad. |
| Theodoros Deligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece | Antonios Gherakaris | Stabbed outside the Hellenic Parliament. |
| Marinos Antypas, socialist politician | | Killed at Pyrgetos in Thessaly. |
| Andreas Kopasis, governor of Samos | | |
| George I of Greece, King of Greece | Alexandros Schinas | Shot while walking in Thessaloniki as part of a possible conspiracy. |
| George Polk, American journalist critical of US aid to rightist Greek government | | |
| Grigoris Lambrakis, leader of the anti-fascist movement in Greece | Emannouel Emannouilides and Spyro Gotzamanis | Killed with a club in Thessaloniki. |
| Richard Welch, CIA Station Chief | | Shot as he was being driven through Athens. |
| George Tsantes; U.S. military attaché in Athens & deputy chief of the Joint United States Military Aid Group to Greece | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Killed in Athens. |
| Hagop Hagopian, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia | | Killed in Athens. |
| William Nordeen, U.S. military attaché in Athens | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Killed in Athens. |
| Pavlos Bakoyannis, New Democracy parliamentarian | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Shot outside his office in Athens. |
| Stephen Saunders, Brigadier and British military attaché in Athens | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Killed by a motorcycle gunman as he was driving in Athens. |
| Pavlos "Killah P" Fyssas, musician | Giorgos Roupakias | Killed by Neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn |
| Giorgos Karaivaz, investigative journalist | | Possibly killed by an organised crime group.[7] | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath | Gilla-Gan-Mathiar O'Maidhaigh | Durrow, County Offaly |
| Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht | Manus mac Flann Ua Finaghty, Aodh mac Brian, Muircheartach mac Cathal mac Dermot mac Tadhg, Giolla na Naomh Ua Mulvihill | Assassination instigated by Conchobar ua nDiarmata, a rival for the title of King of Connacht. The victim's son Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair later killed Conchobar ua nDiarmata in revenge. |
| Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland | Irish National Invincibles | |
| Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork | Auxiliaries and RIC men | Shot in his home by a group of masked men, likely members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. |
| Cairo Gang | Irish Republican Army | 12 British intelligence agents, assassinated on the morning of 21 November 1920 in coordinated attacks. |
| Seán Hales, Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin Teachta Dála | Anti-Treaty IRA | Killed as he left Dáil Éireann; fellow TD Pádraic Ó Máille was injured in the same attack, which was in reprisal against executions of anti-Treaty prisoners |
| Michael Collins, Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State | Anti-Treaty IRA | Ambushed outside Cork |
| Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Home Affairs and Justice of the Irish Free State | Timothy Coughlin, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle | Killed while on his way to Mass by three anti-Treaty members of the IRA. |
| Patrick Reynolds, Cumann na nGaedheal TD | Joseph Leddy | Shot dead during the 1932 election campaign by an ex-RIC policeman who had a personal grudge against him.[18] [19] |
| Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy | Anti-Treaty IRA | Assassinated for providing assistance to Royal Navy recruits. |
| Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland | IRA | Killed by a land mine |
| Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet, last Viceroy of India | IRA | Killed by a bomb on board his boat along with three other people, including his grandson. |
| Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin county councillor | Ulster Defence Association | Shot at his home in Buncrana |
| Dominic McGlinchey, Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) leader | | Shot 14 times while making a call in a phone box. |
| Veronica Guerin, journalist | | Shot in a contract killing for her reporting on organized crime | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Titus Tatius, Sabine King | | Killed in Rome. |
| Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Etruscan king of Rome | | Killed in Rome by the sons of Ancus Marcius. |
| Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigento | Killed in an uprising led by Telemachus (Acragas) | Killed in Sicily. Said to be burned in his own brazen bull. |
| Servius Tullius, Etruscan king of Rome | Tarquin II | Killed in Rome. |
| Spurius Maelius, wealthy Roman plebeian | Gaius Servilius Ahala | |
| Dion of Syracuse, tyrant of Syracuse | Calippus of Syracuse | Killed in Sicily |
| Calippus of Syracuse, tyrant of Syracuse | revolting mercenaries led by Leptines II and Polyperchon | reputedly was stabbed to death with the same sword he assassinated Dion less than two years earlier. |
| Tiberius Gracchus, Roman tribune | | Killed in Rome by Roman senators. |
| Marcus Livius Drusus, Roman tribune | | Resulted in the Social War. |
| Julius Caesar, Roman general and dictator | Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and other members of the Roman Senate | Resulted in a series of civil wars and indirectly in the end of the Roman Republic. |
| Cicero, Roman orator | | Killed near Formiae under orders from Mark Antony and with the approval of the Second Triumvirate. |
| Caligula, Roman Emperor | Cassius Chaerea, Marcus Vinicius, Lucius Annius Vinicianus, members of the Praetorian Guard, and others | |
| Claudius, Roman Emperor | Uncertain, reputed to be Agrippina the Younger on behalf of Nero | Rumored to be killed by poison mushrooms supplied by Locusta. |
| Claudia Octavia, Roman Empress | Nero | Executed on the orders of Nero on the island of Pandateria off the coast of Italy in an attempt to quell the public outcry of their divorce. |
| Vitellius, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Flavian army. |
| Galba, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders from Otho. |
| Domitian, Roman Emperor | Stephanus, steward to Julia Flavia | Killed in Rome |
| Commodus, Roman Emperor | Narcissus, wrestler | Killed in Rome |
| Pertinax, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. |
| Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. |
| Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by centurions under orders of Caracalla. |
| Caracalla, Roman Emperor | Martialis | Killed between Edessa and Carrhae (modern-day Sanli Urfa and Harran), possibly under orders of Macrinus. |
| Elagabalus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders of Julia Maesa and Julia Mamaea. |
| Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor | | Killed outside Aquileia by his troops. |
| Pupienus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors. |
| Balbinus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors. |
| Volusianus, Roman Emperor | | Killed near Interamna by his troops |
| Trebonianus Gallus, Roman Emperor | | Killed near Interamna by his troops |
| Aurelian, Roman Emperor | Mucapor and members of the Praetorian Guard | Killed near Caenophrurium (modern-day Corlu) |
| Florianus, Roman Emperor | | Killed near Tarsus |
| Pope John VIII | | |
| Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany | | |
| Andrew, Duke of Calabria | | |
| Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan[20] | | |
| Giuliano de' Medici, co-ruler of Florence | Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Bandini | Stabbed 19 times in the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo de' Medici was also attacked, but escaped with his life. |
| Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, son of Pope Alexander VI | | |
| Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence | Lorenzino de' Medici | |
| Pellegrino Rossi, Papal States Minister of Justice | | |
| Umberto I, King of Italy[21] | Gaetano Bresci | Shot four times with a revolver due to the royal decoration of general Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, who ordered a bloody repression in Milan in 1898. Influenced Leon Czolgosz to kill United States President William McKinley in 1901. |
| Said Halim Pasha, former Ottoman Prime Minister | Arshavir Shirakian | Killed in Rome due to his role in the Armenian genocide. |
| Giacomo Matteotti, socialist politician | | Kidnapped and killed by Fascists after denouncing them for electoral fraud in the 1924 Italian general election |
| Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian independence leader | Baltjon Stambolla | Killed in Bari |
| Benito Mussolini, fascist and former Prime Minister of Italy[22] | | Shot in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Lombardy. His lover Clara Petacci was also killed. See Death of Benito Mussolini |
| Enrico Mattei, head of the oil company Eni and supporter of Algerian independence | | Died in a plane crash allegedly caused by a bomb near Bascapè in Lombardy |
| Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, publisher and partisan of leftist guerrilla movements | | Died in a bomb attack, probably with the involvement of the Italian secret service |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini, writer, poet and film director | Giuseppe Pelosi | Died in Ostia after being run over by his own car which Pelosi had stolen. |
| Taha Carım, Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |
| Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy | Red Brigades | Kidnapped and later killed. See Kidnapping of Aldo Moro. |
| Giuseppe Impastato, anti-mafia activist | Sicilian Mafia | Killed by a charge of TNT placed under his own body. |
| Cesare Terranova, magistrate | on orders of Sicilian Mafia Commission | Shot along with his driver as he was being driven through Palermo |
| Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily | Sicilian Mafia | |
| Pio La Torre, Communist politician | Sicilian Mafia | |
| Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, General of the Carabinieri Corps | Giuseppe Greco, Giuseppe Lucchese and members of the Mafia | Shot along with his wife and driver while being driven through Palermo while investigating the Mafia |
| Rocco Chinnici, magistrate | Giuseppe Greco, Michele Greco and members of the Mafia | Killed by a car bomb in Palermo. |
| Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge | Giovanni Brusca, a member of the Sicilian Mafia | Killed in a motorway bombing near Palermo. |
| Paolo Borsellino, anti-mafia judge | Salvatore Riina and members of the Mafia | Killed along with five police officers by a car bomb in Palermo. See Massacre of Via D'Amelio. |
| Salvo Lima, Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands | Sicilian Mafia | Shot as he exited his car in Palermo. |
| Maurizio Gucci, businessman | Hitman hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani | Reggiani was convicted of ordering his murder in 1998 |
| Marco Biagi, Labor Ministry advisor | New Red Brigades | Killed in Bologna. | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Saint Boniface, Christian missionary | | Killed by Frisian bandits |
| Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht | | |
| Floris V, Count of Holland | Gerard van Velsen | |
| Duke John of Straubing-Holland | | |
| William I of Orange, leader of the Dutch war of independence from Spanish rule (Eighty Years' War) | Balthasar Gérard | Shot by a supporter of the Spanish cause |
| Isaac Dorislaus, diplomat | | |
| Johan de Witt, republican politician | | Murdered by an Orangist lynch mob in The Hague. |
| Cornelis de Witt, republican politician | | Murdered by an Orangist lynch mob in The Hague. |
| Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian nationalist | Pavel Sudoplatov, agent of the NKVD | Explosive placed in a box of chocolates. |
| Folkert Posthuma, Nazi collaborator | Resistance group CS-6 | Shot in front of his home in Vorden.[24] |
| Hannie Schaft, underground Resistance fighter | Dutch Nazi officials | Executed in the dunes of Bloemendaal. |
| Richard Sykes, British Ambassador to the Netherlands | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Shot in The Hague. |
| Gerrit Jan Heijn, top manager of Ahold | Ferdi Elsas | Kidnapped and later killed. |
| Pim Fortuyn, critic of Islam, immigration and multicultural policy and leader of the Pim Fortuyn List | Volkert van der Graaf | Shot in Hilversum by a left-wing critic and animal rights advocate. See Assassination of Pim Fortuyn |
| Theo van Gogh, film director, writer and critic of Islam | Mohammed Bouyeri | Shot and stabbed in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist |
| Louis Sévèke, leftwing journalist | Marcel Theunissen | Shot with a rifle in Nijmegen. |
| Els Borst, former Deputy Prime Minister | | Stabbed at her home in Bilthoven. |
| Derk Wiersum, lawyer | Unknown, under investigation | Shot to death in Amsterdam. |
| Peter R. de Vries, investigative journalist and crime reporter | | Shot in Amsterdam | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Adalbert of Prague, Bishop of Prague, missionary, saint | pagan Prussians led by Sicco | Assassinated in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity |
| Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków (now a saint) | Bolesław II the Bold | |
| Leszek the White, High Duke of Poland | | Assassinated at the Gąsawa massacre |
| Przemysł II, king of Poland | | |
| Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland | Eligiusz Niewiadomski | Killed five days after his inauguration while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. |
| Pyotr Voykov, Soviet Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland | Boris Kowerda | Killed by a White émigré |
| Bronisław Pieracki, Minister of Interior of Poland | Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | |
| Tadeusz Hołówko, Prometheist politician and diplomat | Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | |
| Igo Sym, actor and Nazi collaborator | Bohdan Rogoliński, Roman Rozmiłowski, and Wiktor Klimaszewski of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) | |
| Marceli Nowotko, Communist activist and first secretary of the Polish Workers' Party | | |
| Wilhelm Krüger, German chief of Gestapo operations in Nazi-occupied Poland | three fighters of the Polish resistance | Killed in Kraków. |
| Franz Bürkl, German Sicherheitspolizei officer | Jerzy Zborowski and members of the Szare Szeregi | See Operation Heads. |
| Helmut Kapp, German Gestapo member | Armia Krajowa | See Operation Heads. |
| | Armia Krajowa | See Operation Heads. |
| Franz Kutschera, German SS general and chief of police | Armia Krajowa | See Operation Kutschera. |
| Karol Świerczewski, Army general | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | |
| Jerzy Popiełuszko, Roman Catholic priest | | Killed by the communist political police. |
| Piotr Jaroszewicz, former Prime Minister of Poland | | |
| Marek Papała, Chief of the Police | | Believed to have been killed by the Polish mafia. |
| | Ryszard Bogucki | Shot in Zakopane |
| Zdzisław Beksiński, painter, photographer, sculptor | Robert Kupiec | Stabbed 17 times |
| Jolanta Brzeska, social activist | Unknown | Burned alive |
| Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdańsk[25] | Stefan Wilmont | Stabbed to death at a charity event. | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| Russian Empire |
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| Artamon Matveyev, statesman, diplomat and reformer | Streltsy | Killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682 |
| Grigory Romodanovsky, boyar, general and diplomat | Streltsy | Killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682 |
| Peter III of Russia, Emperor of Russia | Unknown | Possibly organized by Catherine the Great |
| Ivan VI of Russia, deposed Emperor of Russia | Unknown | Executed on prior instructions from Catherine the Great during an attempt to rescue him from imprisonment in Shlisselburg Fortress by Vasily Mirovich |
| Paul I of Russia, Emperor of Russia | Band of dismissed officers led by Levin August, Count von Bennigsen, Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil, Nikolay Zubov and others | Organized by Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Nikita Petrovich Panin and José de Ribas |
| Mikhail Miloradovich, military Governor of Saint Petersburg | Pyotr Kakhovsky | Killed during the Decembrist revolt |
| Nikolay Mezentsov, executive director of the Third Section | Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky | Killed by a revolutionary belonging to the group Zemlya i volya |
| Alexander II of Russia, Tsar of All the Russias | Ignacy Hryniewiecki | Killed in bombing organized by the revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya |
| Nikolay Alekseyev, Mayor of Moscow | Andrianov | Killed by a deranged visitor in Moscow City Hall |
| Dmitry Sipyagin, Russian Interior Minister | Stepan Balmashov | Killed by a member of the SR Combat Organization |
| Vyacheslav von Plehve, Russian Interior Minister | Yegor Sazonov | Killed by a bomb thrown by a member of the SR Combat Organization |
| Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, former Governor-General of Moscow | Ivan Kalyayev | Organized by the SR Combat Organization |
| Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia | Dmitry Bogrov | Killed in a theater in Kiev by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| Grigori Rasputin, influential mystic, adviser to the Russian Imperial Family | Group of nobles led by Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Vladimir Purishkevich and Vasily Maklakov | Killed for his undue influence on the Russian Imperial Family |
| Provisional Government |
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| Ivan Logginovich Goremykin, former Prime Minister | Konstantin X Kotev | |
| Bolshevik Russia |
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| Andrei Shingarev, Kadet politician | | |
| Fyodor Kokoshkin, Kadet politician | | |
| Tsar Nicholas II and his family: Tsarina Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, physician Eugene Botkin, maid Anna Demidova, footman Alexei Trupp and cook Ivan Kharitonov | Cheka officers led by Yakov Yurovsky | Order given by Yakov Sverdlov on behalf of Vladimir Lenin |
| Elizabeth of Hesse, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, Princes John Constantinovich, Constantine Constantinovich and Igor Constantinovich, poet and prince Vladimir Paley and nun Varvara Yakovleva | Cheka officers |
| V. Volodarsky, revolutionary | Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov | Killed by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| Wilhelm von Mirbach, German Ambassador in Moscow | Yakov Blumkin | Assassinated by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries at the start of the Left SR uprising in an attempt to damage German-Soviet relations |
| Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union |
|---|
| Sergey Kirov, Bolshevik party leader in Leningrad | Leonid Nikolaev | |
| Zinaida Reich, theatre actress | NKVD | |
| Alexander Men, dissident Russian Orthodox priest | Unknown | |
| Igor Talkov, singer-songwriter, anti-Soviet activist | Allegedly Valeriy Schlyafman | |
| Russian Federation |
|---|
| Andrey Aizderdzis, Member of the State Duma | Unknown | |
| Nikolay Suleimanov, Chechen mafia boss | | |
| Vladislav Listyev, journalist and head of the ORT TV Channel | Unknown | |
| Dzhokhar Dudayev, first Chechen separatist President and anti-Russian guerrilla leader | Russian military | |
| Choe Deok-geun, South Korean diplomat stationed in Vladivostok | | North Korean agents suspected |
| Valeriy Hubulov, former Prime Minister of South Ossetia | Unknown | |
| Galina Starovoytova, Member of the State Duma | Yuri Kolchin and Vitali Akishin | |
| Larisa Yudina, Kalmyk journalist | | |
| Valentin Tsvetkov, Governor of Magadan Oblast | Alexander Zakharov, Martin Babakekhyan and others | Killed in Moscow |
| Sergei Yushenkov, Member of the State Duma and founder of the Liberal Russia party | Mikhail Kodanev and others | Killed in Moscow[26] |
| Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist | Unknown | Killed in Moscow[27] |
| Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine | | |
| Akhmad Kadyrov, Kremlin-backed President of the Chechen Republic | Presumed to be Chechen Islamists | Killed along with about 30 others in a football stadium during a Victory Day parade by a bomb that had been built into the concrete of one of the stadium's supporting columns. |
| Aslan Maskhadov, President of separatist Chechnya | | |
| | | |
| Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan | | |
| Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, President of separatist Chechnya | | Killed by pro-Russian forces |
| Anna Politkovskaya, journalist and human rights campaigner | Unknown; many theories | Shot in the elevator block of her apartment in Moscow. See Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. |
| Vitaly Karayev, mayor of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania | | |
| Kazbek Pagiyev, former mayor of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania | | |
| Nina Varlamova, mayor of Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast | | |
| Anastasia Baburova, journalist | | |
| Stanislav Markelov, human rights lawyer | | |
| Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, interior minister of Dagestan | | |
| Aza Gazgireyeva, deputy chair of the Ingushetia Supreme Court | | |
| Bashir Aushev, former deputy prime minister of Ingushetia | | |
| Natalia Estemirova, human rights activist | | |
| Yuri Budanov, army officer and convicted war criminal | | |
| Gadzhimurat Kamalov, journalist | | |
| Boris Nemtsov, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | | Shot while walking on a bridge near the Moscow Kremlin. See Assassination of Boris Nemtsov |
| 2020 | Vladimir "Sausage King" Marugov, oligarch | | Shot on 2 November with a crossbow in the sauna of his countryside estate outside Moscow.[28] |
| 2022 | Darya Dugina, ultranationalist journalist and writer | National Republican Army | Killed in car bomb explosion.[29] |
| 2023 | Vladlen Tatarsky, blogger | | Killed with a bomb disguised as an award statue.[30] | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| Roman Empire |
|---|
| Gallienus, Roman emperor | | Killed near Naissus. |
| Probus, Roman emperor | | Assassinated at Sirmium. |
| Carinus, Roman emperor | | Assassinated at Margus. |
| Medieval Serbia |
|---|
| Branko Rastislalić, Lord of Podunavlje and Domestikos under King Stefan Dušan | | Assassinated at Upper Drina on the orders of Vuk Kosača. |
| Vuk Kosača, magnate and nobleman | | Killed or ordered so by a member of the Rastislalić family. |
| Ottoman period |
|---|
| 72 notable Serbs | Dahije | Slaughter of the Knezes |
| Kara-Marko Vasić, revolutionary | | Ordered by Miloš Obrenović. |
| Melentije Nikšić, revolutionary | | Ordered by Miloš Obrenović. |
| Karađorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising | Nikola Novaković | Killed along with his secretary, Naum Krnar in the village of Radovanje by a henchman of Vujica Vulićević and Miloš Obrenović. |
| Serbian monarchy |
|---|
| Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia | Pavle Radovanović and Kosta Radovanović | Shot in Košutnjak park in Belgrade as part of a conspiracy. |
| Čakr-paša, hajduk | Toma Stanković | |
| Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia, and Draga Mašin, Queen Consort | Army officers led by Dragutin Dimitrijević | Killed in the royal palace as part of the May Overthrow. |
| Lazar Petrović, Adjutant to King Aleksandar Obrenović | | Killed as part of the May Overthrow. |
| Dimitrije Cincar-Marković, Prime Minister of Serbia | | |
| Yugoslavia |
|---|
| Milorad Drašković, Yugoslav interior minister | Alija Alijagić | Killed by a Bosnian communist |
| Velimir Prelić, legal adviser in Skoplje | Mara Buneva | Shot on "Ratomir Putnik" Street in Skoplje |
| Đuro Basariček, Member of Parliament for the Croatian Peasant Party | Puniša Račić | Shot by a Serbian radical deputy in the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade. |
| Stjepan Radić, Member of Parliament for the Croatian Peasant Party | Serbian radical politician Puniša Račić. | Shot a Serbian radical deputy in the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade. |
| Galip Balkar, Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia | Harutyun Krikor Levonian and Alexander Elbekyan. | Shot by Armenian nationalists. See Assassination of Galip Balkar |
| FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro |
|---|
| Dada Vujasinović, journalist | | |
| Goran Vuković, criminal | | |
| Slavko Ćuruvija, journalist |
| Željko Ražnatović "Arkan", mobster and warlord | Dobrosav Gavrić | |
| Pavle Bulatović, defense minister | | |
| Žika Petrović, Jat Airways executive | | |
| Boško Perošević, Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina | Milivoje Gutović | Assassinated at Novi Sad Fair. |
| Ivan Stambolić, former President of Serbia | Special Operations Unit | Ordered by Slobodan Milošević. |
| Milan Pantić, journalist | Unknown | |
| Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia | Zvezdan Jovanović | Killed with a sniper rifle by a paramilitary linked to the Zemun Clan. See Assassination of Zoran Đinđić. |
| Branko Bulatović, Football Association general secretary | Unknown | |
| Republic of Serbia |
|---|
| Radoljub Kanjevac, criminal | Unknown | |
| Rade Rakonjac, Arkan's bodyguard | Unknown | | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| Peter the Cruel, King of Castile | Henry II of Castile | |
| Pedro de Arbués, a prominent member of the Spanish Inquisition | | Assassinated while praying in La Seo Cathedral of Zaragosa. His death allowed Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada to massively expand the Spanish Inquisition. |
| Juan Prim, Prime Minister of Spain and Governor of Puerto Rico | | Shot in Madrid by unknown hand. |
| Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain | Michele Angiolillo | Shot in a spa in Mondragón, Guipúzcoa by an anarchist. |
| José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain | Manuel Pardiñas | Shot in Madrid by an anarchist. |
| Francesc Layret, Catalan left-wing politician | | Shot in Barcelona |
| Eduardo Dato Iradier, Prime Minister of Spain | Lluís Nicolau, Pere Mateu, and Ramon Casanelles | Shot in Madrid by Catalan anarchists. |
| Juan Cardinal Soldevila y Romero, Roman Catholic archbishop of Zaragoza | Los Solidarios | |
| José Castillo, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lieutenant in the Assault Guards | Falangist gunmen | Killed in Madrid |
| José Calvo Sotelo, right-wing politician and former Finance Minister | | Killed in a police vehicle in Madrid. His murder helped trigger the Spanish Civil War. |
| Federico García Lorca, poet and dramatist | Nationalists | Shot at Alfacar by fascists |
| Raoul Villain, assassin of Jean Jaurès | | Shot on the island of Ibiza |
| Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist | | |
| Andrés Nin, Communist revolutionary | | Taken to a camp by the Spanish Government and probably killed there (this is disputed) |
| Lluis Companys, President of Catalonia | Gestapo officers on the orders of Francisco Franco. | Shot in Barcelona |
| Mohamed Khider, exiled Algerian politician and former Secretary-General of the FLN | | Killed in Madrid |
| Melitón Manzanas, secret police officer and state torturer | ETA | Killed at Irún, Guipúzcoa |
| Vjekoslav Luburić, exiled Croatian Ustaše official and fugitive war criminal | | Believed to have been killed either by Yugoslav agents or rivals in the Croatian émigré community |
| Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain[31] | ETA | Killed by a bomb which threw his car over a building. His murder was, according to ETA, then to intensify existing divisions within Francoist Spain between the "openness" and "purists". See Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco |
| Juan María de Araluce Villar, President of the Provincial Deputation of Gipuzkoa | ETA | Killed at San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa |
| Augusto Unceta Barrenechea, President of the Provincial Deputation of Biscay | ETA | Killed at Guernica, Biscay |
| Santiago Brouard, Basque nationalist | Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación | |
| Francisco Tomás y Valiente, former President of the Constitutional Court | ETA | Shot in his office at the Autonomous University of Madrid |
| Miguel Ángel Blanco, Basque municipal councillor | ETA | Kidnapped and later killed |
| Fernando Buesa, former Vice Lehendakari of the Basque Country | ETA | Car bombing in Vitoria. |
| Ernest Lluch, former Minister of Health | ETA | Shot in Barcelona |
| Isabel Carrasco, Governor of León and provincial leader of the People's Party | | Shot in León by a disgruntled government employee | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| Carausius, usurper of the Western Roman Empire | Allectius who Carausius appointed treasurer | coup d'état |
| Edmund I, King of England | Leofa | Stabbed at a banquet |
| Edward the Martyr, King of England | Ælfthryth | |
| Kenneth II, King of Scotland | | |
| William Rufus, King of England | Walter Tirel | Shot in the heart with an arrow by a nobleman, supposedly by accident, but the circumstances remain unclear. |
| Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury | Four knights | Stabbed to death in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of Henry II of England |
| John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch | Robert the Bruce, Roger de Kirkpatrick | |
| Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí | William III, Earl of Ross | Killed at Elcho Priory while attending a royal muster on the eve of a Scottish invasion of England. |
| Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer | | Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| Simon of Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London | | Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| John Cavendish, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge | | Beheaded in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| King James I of Scotland | Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (coup leader), Sir Robert Graham (dealt lethal blow) | Killed at Perth in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart. |
| William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas | James II of Scotland | |
| Henry VI of England, King of England | | Killed in the Tower of London likely on the orders of Edward IV of England. |
| King James III of Scotland | | Killed by rebels. |
| David Rizzio, private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots | Stabbed 57 times in front of the Queen by a mob led by her husband out of jealousy over their friendship |
| Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots | | Killed in an explosion at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh |
| James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland | James Hamilton | The first assassination carried out with a firearm. |
| George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral/royal favourite | John Felton | Stabbed in Portsmouth as he planned a second expedition to La Rochelle. |
| James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews | | Killed in Fife. |
| Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | John Bellingham | Killed by a disgruntled merchant. The only British prime minister to be assassinated. See Assassination of Spencer Perceval.[32] |
| Louis-Alexandre de Launay, French diplomat | | Stabbed to death with a stiletto along with his wife by a former servant at his home in Barnes. |
| Henry Hughes Wilson, British field marshal, retired Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Conservative politician | Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan | Killed outside his house in Eaton Square, London, by members of the Irish Republican Army. |
| Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab | Udham Singh, a Punjabi revolutionary | Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall, London over his involvement in the Amritsar Massacre |
| Paddy Wilson, former General Secretary of the Social Democratic and Labour Party | | Stabbed to death in Belfast, along with his friend Irene Andrews. See Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings. |
| Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records and right-wing political activist | Harry Duggan and Hugh Doherty | Killed outside his home in Bush Hill Park, London, by members of the Balcombe Street Gang, both of whom were Irish Republican Army volunteers. |
| Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri, former Prime Minister of North Yemen | | Killed in London. |
| Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident | | Died in London after being attacked with ricin fired from a gun disguised as an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge by suspected KGB agents. |
| Abdul Razak al-Naif, former Prime Minister of Iraq | | Killed in London |
| Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, former Governor-General of India | Thomas McMahon | Killed while on a fishing trip along with three others by a bomb planted onto his boat by a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. |
| Airey Neave, Conservative Member of Parliament for Abingdon and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | | Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster, by members of the Irish National Liberation Army[33] |
| John Turnley, SDLP and Irish Independence Party politician | Ulster Defence Association | Killed on the way to a political meeting. |
| Sir Norman Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician, and his son, Sir James Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician | | Killed at their ancestral home, Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, which was then set on fire. |
| Robert Bradford, Unionist Member of Parliament for Belfast South | IRA | Murdered during a speech at Finaghy, Belfast. |
| Shlomo Argov, Israeli Ambassador to the Court of St. James's | Abu Nidal Organization | Although Argov survived this assassination attempt, the injuries he sustained in the attack resulted in his death in 2003. His shooting triggered the 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon |
| Edgar Graham, Ulster Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) | | Shot by an IRA gunman outside Queen's University Belfast. |
| Anthony Berry, Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate | IRA | Killed in the Brighton hotel bombing. |
| George Seawright, Unionist Northern Ireland politician | | Killed by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation in Shankill, Belfast. |
| Pat Finucane, solicitor | Ken Barrett | Killed in Belfast by Ulster Loyalists. |
| Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament for Eastbourne | IRA | Killed by a car bomb near his house in East Sussex. |
| Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader | INLA prisoners | Killed in Maze Prison.[34] |
| Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin | | Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210. See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.[35] |
| Jo Cox, Labour Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen | Thomas Mair | Shooting and stabbing incident before a constituency surgery. See Murder of Jo Cox.[36] |
| Sir David Amess, Conservative Member of Parliament for Southend West | Ali Harbi Ali | Stabbed during a constituency surgery. See Murder of David Amess. | |
| Year | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| Ukrainian SSR |
|---|
| Mykola Leontovych, composer | Soviet state security agent Afanasy Grishchenko. | Shot in his home after a robbery |
| Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist writer[37] | Mykhailo Stakhur and Ilariy Lukashevych | Killed with an axe at his home office in Lviv by members of the OUN (according to the Soviet official version, ordered by the Vatican) |
| Volodymyr Ivasiuk, composer | | Found hanged in a forest outside of Lviv. |
| Independent Ukraine |
|---|
| Yuri Osmanov, Crimean Tatar civil rights activist | | Brutally beaten by unidentified assailants and died the next day. |
| Akhat Bragin, businessman and president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club | | Killed by a bomb at the Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk. |
| Yevhen Shcherban, People's Deputy of Ukraine | | Shot dead along with his wife and bodyguard while departing a plane at Donetsk International Airport. |
| | | Shot by a contract killer in Kyiv. |
| Georgiy Gongadze, journalist | Agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs | Disappeared, found decapitated and doused in dioxine 2 months later near Tarashcha. |
| Stepan Senchuk, former Governor of Lviv Oblast | | Shot while in his car. |
| Oleh Babaiev, Mayor of Kremenchuk | | Shot in front of his home |
| Oles Buzina, pro-Russian writer | | Shot near his home in Kyiv. |
| Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian journalist | | Died in a car explosion in Kyiv. |
| Denis Voronenkov, former member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation | Pavel Parshov, veteran of Ukraine's volunteer battalion.[38] | Shot dead in Kyiv while on his way to meet a fellow exiled parliamentarian, Ilya Ponomarev. |
| Maksym Shapoval, Intelligence officer and head of the special forces of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine | | Killed in a car bombing in Kyiv |
| Alexander Zakharchenko, pro-Russian separatist and Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, concurrent Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic | | Killed in a bomb explosion in a cafe in Donetsk |
| Vitaly Shishov, exiled Belarusian dissident | | Found hanging in a forest after being reported missing the previous day |
| Volodymyr Struk, Mayor of Kreminna | | Abducted and killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| Yuriy Prylypko, Mayor of Hostomel | | Killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| Olga Sukhenko, Village Head of Motyzhyn | | Killed during the Russian occupation of Bucha |
| Ivan Sushko, Russian-appointed head of Mykhailivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast | | Killed in a car bombing during the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. |
| Oleksiy Kovalov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada | | Shot during an attack on his residence in Zaliznyi Port. |
| Iryna Farion, linguist, politician, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine | | Shot by an unknown assailant in the head in Lviv, pending investigation. | |
