Assassins In History

Sirhan Sirhan

Anonymous Assassins
Laetus, Marcia, and one athlete – assassin of Roman emperor Commodus (Planner: Laetus, Assassins: Marcia and an unnamed athlete who strangled the emperor in his bath when Marcia's poison worked too slowly)
(name?) - assassin of Alejandro Gonzalez Malave
(name?) - assassin of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal
(Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted) Norman 3X Butler & Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted)) - the three assassins of Malcolm X
("three black Africans and an Arab") – assassins of Zanzibar's leader sheik Abeid Karume
(a tank corps major) - assassin of Ngo Dinh Diem
(Name?) - assassin of Polish ruler Waclaw III
(Name?) - assassin of Vlad Tepes
(Name?) - assassin of the father of Vlad Tepes
A Christian slave - assassin of Zengi
Anonymous Hashshashin - assassin of Conrad of Montferrat

A
Mehmet Ali Agca - failed assassin of Pope John Paul II
Frank Abbandando - Mafia hitman
Saad Akbar, assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan
Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden
Roger Nicholas Angleton - murderer of Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton
Yigal Amir - assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin

B
Byron De La Beckwith - assassin of US civil rights figure Medgar Evers
John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1811)
John Wilkes Booth - assassin of the American President Abraham Lincoln
Arthur Herman Bremer – would-be assassin of George Wallace, governor of Alabama
Brutus, Cassius, and associates - assassins of Julius Caesar

C
Carlos the Jackal – terrorist, would-be assassin of Joseph Sieff
Sante Jeronimo Caserio - assassin of the French President Marie François Sadi Carnot
Cassius Chaerea, and associates - assassins of the Roman emperor Caligula
Mark David Chapman - assassin of John Lennon
Jacques Clément - assassin of King Henri III of France
Charlotte Corday - assassin of Jean-Paul Marat
Leon Czolgosz - assassin of the American President William McKinley

D
Dingaan and Mhlangana - assassins of Shaka, the king of Zulus.

E
Lydia Echevarria- alleged intellectual assassin of Luis Vigoreaux

F
John Felton – assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham
Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme – apparent would-be assassin of Gerald Ford

G
Balthazar Gérards – assassin of William I of Orange
Naturam Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
Volkert van der Graaf, convicted assassin of Pim Fortuyn
Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of the American President James Garfield

H
Hashshashin - the original Afghan assassins.
John Hinckley, Jr - would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan.

J
Jing Ke - failed assassin of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang Di

L
Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Austria

M
Ramon Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky
Sarah Jane Moore – would-be assassin of Gerald Ford

N
Phuong Ngo, and associates - assassins of John Newman
Ninja – assassins of medieval Japan

Lee Harvey Oswald, Purported Lone Gunman In Kennedy Assassination, In Turn Being Assassinated By Jack Ruby

O
Lee Harvey Oswald - assumed assassin of the American President John F. Kennedy

P
Christer Pettersson - acquitted on the murder of the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme
Otto Planetta and others - assassin of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
Lewis Powell or Lewis Paine – would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William Seward in 1865
Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggered World War I


R
Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
Ravaillac - assassin of Henry IV of France
James Earl Ray - confessed to the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr
Otto Rothstock - assassin of Hugo Bettauer (1925)
Jack Ruby - assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald

S
Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla
Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen
Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell.
Beant Singh and Sukhwant Singh - assassins of the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
Sivarasan - Tamil Tigers member and mastermind of assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
Sirhan B. Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Harry Strauss - Mafia hitman

T
Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha
Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (succesfully) on Hendrik Verwoerds life

V
Raoul Villain - assassin of Jean Jaurès

W
Carl Weiss – assassin of Huey Long
Dan White – assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978

Y
Yakov Yurovsky, chief assassin of Nicholas II of Russia
Felix Yussupov, hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin

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

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