List of assassinated people
This is an list of persons who were assassinated; that is, important people who were murdered, usually for ideological or political reasons. This list does not include executed persons.
Assassinations in Africa
Algeria
- Hiempsal, (117 BC), co-ruler of Numidia
- François Darlan, (1942), senior figure of Vichy France
- Maurice Audin, (1957), communist mathematician
- Mohamed Khemisti, (1963), Algerian foreign minister
- Mustafa Bouyali, (1987), Islamic fundamentalist
- Mohamed Boudiaf, (1992), President of Algeria
- Youcef Sebti, (1993), poet
- Kasdi Merbah, (1993), former Prime Minister of Algeria
- Abdelkader Alloula, (1994), playwright
- Cheb Hasni, (1994), singer
- Lounès Matoub, (1998), singer
- Abdelkader Hachani, (1999), Islamic fundamentalist
Angola
Burkina Faso
Burundi
- Louis Rwagasore, (1961), Prime Minister of Burundi
- Jean Nduwabike, (1962), trade union leader
- Gabriel Gihimbare, (1964), first Roman Catholic bishop of Hutu descent
- Pierre Ngendandumwe, (1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
- Joseph Bamina, (1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
- Paul Mirerekano, (1965), leading Burundian politician
- Gervais Nyangoma, (1965), politician
- Martin Ndayahoze, (1972), leading army commander and information minister
- Ntare V, (1975), dethroned King of Burundi (disputed circumstances)
- Melchior Ndadaye, (1993), President of Burundi, Founder of The Burundi Workers' Party
- Gilles Bimazubute, (1993),
- Kassi Manlan, (2001), World Health Organisation representative
Cameroon
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
- Kabongo Boniface Kalowa, (1960),
- Patrice Lumumba, (1961), former Prime Minister of the Congo
- Maurice Mpolo, (1961), Lumumba associate
- Joseph Okito, (1961), Lumumba associate
- Ferdinand Kabange Numbi, (1964),
- André Lubaya, (1968),
- Laurent Kabila, (2001), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Egypt
- Pompey the Great, (48 BC), Roman politician killed in Egypt
- Germanicus, (19), Roman military leader
- Al-Afdal Shahanshah, (1121), vizier of Fatimid Egypt
- Al-Amir, (1130), Fatimid Caliph
- Qutuz, (1260), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
- Khalil, (1293), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
- Jean Baptiste Kléber, (1800), French general
- Boutros Ghali, (1910), Prime Minister of Egypt
- Sir Lee Stack, (1924), Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, (1944), the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East
- Ahmed Maher Pasha, (1945), Prime Minister of Egypt
- Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, (1948), Prime Minister of Egypt
- Hassan al-Banna, (1949), founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Anwar Sadat, (1981), President of Egypt
- Rifaat al-Mahgoub, (1990), speaker of Egyptian parliament
- Farag Foda, (1992), Egyptian politician and intellectual
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
The Gambia
Guinea
Kenya
- Pio Gama Pinto, (1965), socialist politician
- Tom Mboya, (1969), Kenyan politician
- Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, (1975), Kenyan politician
- Robert Ouko, (1990), foreign minister of Kenya
- Karimi Nduthu, (1996), opposition activist
- Mugabe Were, (2008), member of the National Assembly for the Orange Democratic Movement
- David Too, (2008), member of the National Assembly for the Orange Democratic Movement
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
- Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, (1966), Prime Minister of Nigeria killed during military coup
- Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, (1966)
- Adekunle Fajuyi, (1966)
- Samuel Akintola, (1966)
- Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, (1966), military head of state
- Murtala Ramat Mohammed, (1976), President of Nigeria
- Dele Giwa, (1986), journalist
- Bola Ige, (2001), justice minister of Nigeria
- Sheikh Ja'afar Mahmoud Adam,(2007), Islamic Scholar
Rwanda
Somalia
South Africa
- Shaka, (1828), king of the Zulus, near Stanger (now KwaDukuza) by Dingane and Mhlangana
- Mhlangana, (1828), Zulu prince murdered by Dingane. Shaka, Mhlangana, Dingane, Mpande and others were half-brothers, sons of a Zulu chief Senzangakhona with different his different wives.
- Hendrik Verwoerd, (1966), Prime Minister of South Africa, stabbed in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas
- Onkgopotse Tiro, (1974), South African student leader
- Steve Biko, 1977, anti-apartheid activist
- Ruth First, (1982), anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo, by pro-apartheid "Koevoet" leader Craig Williamson
- Vernon Nkadimeng, (1985), South African dissident
- Dulcie September, (1988), head of the African National Congress in Paris, by South African Defense Force sergeant Joseph Klue
- Chris Hani, (1993), leader of the South African Communist Party shot by Janusz Walus
- Johan Heyns, (1995), prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Assassinations in the Americas
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
- Justo José de Urquiza, (1870), former president of Argentina
- Pedro Aramburu, (1970), former president of Argentina executed by the Montoneros
- Carlos Prats, (1974), Chilean general
- Zelmar Michelini, (1976), Uruguayan senator
- Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, (1976), speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives
Bermuda
Bolivia
Brazil
- João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, (1930)
- Adib Shishakli, (1964), Syrian military dictator
- Chico Mendes, (1988), Brazilian environmental activist
- Daniela Perez, (1992), Brazilian actress
- Dorothy Stang, (2005), American nun killed by business interests
- Pinheiro Machado, (1915), Brazilian politician
- Leon Eliachar, (1987), Egyptian writer
- Zuzu Angel, (1976), Brazilian activist
- Vladimir Herzog, (1975), Journalist
- Paulo César Farias, (1996), Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer
Canada
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, (1868), Canadian father of Confederation
- George Brown, (1880), newspaper editor and Senator
- Sergio Pérez Castillo, (1968), Cuban diplomat killed by anti-Castro forces in Montreal
- Pierre Laporte, (1970), Quebec Minister of Labour, was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ
- Atilla Alt?kat, (1982), Turkish diplomat assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa
- Tara Singh Hayer, (1998), journalist killed by Sikh separatists
Chile
Colombia
- Antonio José de Sucre, (1830), Venezuelan politician, estatesman, militar
- Rafael Uribe Uribe, (1914), Lawyer, journalist, diplomat, militar
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, (1948), Liberal Party leader
- Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, (1984), Minister of Justice
- Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, (1985), Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
- Alfonso Reyes Echandía, (1985), President of the Supreme Court
- Manuel Gaona Cruz, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Carlos Medellín Forero, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Ricardo Medina Moyano, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- José Eduardo Gnecco Correa, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Alfonso Patiño Roselli, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Pedro Elías Serrano, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Fabio Calderón Botero, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Darío Velásquez Gaviria, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Horacio Montoya Gil, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Fanny González Franco, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, (1985), Supreme Court Justice
- Hernando Baquero Borda, (1986), Supreme Court Justice
- Jaime Ramírez Gómez, (1986), Head of Antinarcotics Police
- Jaime Pardo Leal, (1987), Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
- Guillermo Cano Isaza, (1986), Director of El Espectador newspaper
- Carlos Mauro Hoyos, (1988), Chief District Attorney
- José Antequera, (1989), Senator, member of the Patriotic Union party
- Antonio Roldán Betancur, (1989), Governor of Antioquia
- Valdemar Franklin Quintero, (1989), Chief of Police of Antioquia
- Luis Carlos Galán, (1989), Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party
- Carlos Ernesto Valencia, (1989), Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
- Jorge Enrique Pulido, (1989), notable Journalist and director of the JEP media network
- Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, (1990), Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
- Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, (1990), Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party
- Diana Turbay (1991), journalist and daughter of former Colombian president Julio César Turbay Ayala
- Enrique Low Murtra, Minister of Justice
- Myriam Rocío Vélez, Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
- Andrés Escobar, (1994), International footballer
- Manuel Cepeda Vargas, (1994), Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party
- Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, (1995), former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper
- Rodrigo Turbay Cote, (1996), Congressman, former president of the House of Representatives
- Fernando Landazábal Reyes, (1998), Minister of Defense
- Eduardo Umaña Mendoza, (1998), union leader and human rights activist, former advisor to the Patriotic Union party
- Jaime Garzón, (1999), Notable journalist and satirist
- Crispiniano Quiñones (2000), retired Army general, former commander of the 13th Army Brigade
- Isaias Duarte Cancino, 2002, Roman Catholic archbishop
- Guillermo Gaviria Correa, (2003), Governor of Antioquia
- Gilberto Echeverry Mejía, (2003), former Minister of Defense and peace advisor to the governor of Antioquia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
- Ulises Heureaux, (1899), president of the Dominican Republic
- Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, (1961), Dominican Republic dictator
- Orlando Mazara, (1967)
- Flavio Suero, (1968)
- Henry Segarra, (1969)
- Amín Abel Hasbún, (1970)
- Otto Morales, (1970)
- Amaury Germán Aristy, (1972)
- Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó, (1973)
- Gregorio García Castro, (1973)
- Florinda Soriano, (1974)
- Guido Gil Díaz, (1974)
- Orlando Martínez Howley, (1975)
- Narciso González, (1994)
Ecuador
El Salvador
- Manuel Enrique Araujo, (1913), President of El Salvador
- Farabundo Martí, (1932), communist leader and peasant revolt organizer.
- Roque Dalton, (1975), poet and revolutionary.
- Rutilio Grande García, S.J., (1977), Roman Catholic priest
- Mauricio Borgonovo Pohl, (1977), Foreign Minister, taken hostage and killed by guerrillas.
- Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, (1977), Roman Catholic priest
- Osmín Aguirre, (1977), former President of El Salvador
- Ernesto Barrera, (1978), Roman Catholic priest
- Octavio Ortiz Luna, (1979), Roman Catholic priest
- Rafael Palacios, (1979), Roman Catholic priest
- Alirio Napoleón Macías, (1979), Roman Catholic priest
- Óscar Arnulfo Romero, (1980), Archbishop of San Salvador, by right-wing death squad
- Enrique Álvarez Córdova, (1980) and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials), captured and killed by government aligned security forces.
- Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, (1980), Roman Catholic nuns, by the National Guard of El Salvador
- Albert Schaufelberger, (1983), senior U.S. Naval representative
- Ignacio Ellacuría, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
- Ignacio Martin-Baro, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
- Segundo Montes, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
- Arnando Lopez, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
- Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
- Juan Ramon Moreno, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army
- María Cristina Gómez, 1989, teacher and community leader
Guatemala
- Cirilo Flores, (1826), Vice President of Guatemala
- José María Reina Barrios, (1898), President of Guatemala
- Francisco Arana, (1949), presidential candidate
- Carlos Castillo Armas, (1957), president of Guatemala
- Karl von Spreti, (1970), German ambassador in Guatemala
- Alberto Fuentes Mohr, (1979), Social Democratic Party leader
- Manuel Colom Argueta, (1979), Mayor of Guatemala City
- Jorge Carpio Nicolle, (1993), Liberal politician and journalist
- Juan José Gerardi, (1998), Roman Catholic bishop
- Mario Pivaral, (2006), UNE congressman
- Clara Luz López, (2007), local council candidate
Guyana
- Michael Forde, (1964), PPP activist killed when a bomb he was removing from the party's bookstore exploded
- Leo J. Ryan, (1978), US Congressman (D) from San Mateo, California; killed while investigating religious cult led by American Jim Jones
- Walter Rodney, (1980), Guyanese historian and political figure
- Satyadeow Sawh, (2006), Agriculture Minister was murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues
Haiti
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines, (1806), Emperor of Haiti
- Antoine Izméry, (1993), businessman and Lavalas supporter
- Guy Mallory, (1993), minister of justice
- Jean-Marie Vincent, (1994), Roman Catholic priest and Lavalas supporter
- Jean Dominique, (2000), journalist
- Jacques Roche, (2005), journalist
Honduras
Mexico
- Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, (1520), Mexica Emperor
- Francisco I. Madero, (1913), President of Mexico
- Emiliano Zapata, (1919), revolutionary
- Venustiano Carranza, (1920), President of Mexico
- Doroteo Arango a.k.a. Pancho Villa, (1923), revolutionary
- Felipe Carrillo Puerto, (1924), Governor of Yucatán
- Álvaro Obregón, (1928), President-elect
- Julio Antonio Mella, (1929), Cuban revolutionary
- Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader
- Mauro Angulo, (1948)
- Rubén Jaramillo, (1962), peasant leader
- Enrique Camarena, (1985), policeman
- Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, (1986), Journalist and State governor
- Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, (1993), Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara, at the Guadalajara Airport
- Luis Donaldo Colosio, (1994), Presidential candidate
- Francisco Ortiz Franco, (1994}, contributing editor to Zeta.
- José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, (1994), Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
- Paco Stanley, (1999), Comedian
- Digna Ochoa, (2001), human rights lawyer
- Mario César Ríos, (2007), congressional deputy
Nicaragua
- Benjamín Zeledón, (1912), Liberal revolutionary
- Augusto César Sandino, (1934), Nicaraguan revolutionary
- Anastasio Somoza García, (1956), President of Nicaragua
- Rigoberto López Pérez, (1956), Assassin of Somoza García
- Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, (1978), newspaper editor, Nicaraguan Somoza opposition
- Enrique Bermúdez, (1991)
- Carlos Guadamuz, (2004), Journalist
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
United States
- Joseph Smith, Jr., (1844), Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois and presidential candidate and LDS church leader.
- Charles Bent, (1847), Governor of the New Mexico Territory
- James Strang, (1856), Michigan State Representative
- Abraham Lincoln, (1865), President of the United States
- John P. Slough, (1867), Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
- Thomas Hindman, (1868), Confederate General
- James Hinds, (1868), U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
- Edward Dexter Holbrook, (1870), Congressional Delegate from the Idaho Territory
- James Garfield, (1881), President of the United States
- Jesse James, (1882), notorious outlaw
- John M. Clayton (Arkansas), (1889), Congressman from Arkansas
- David Hennessey, (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans
- Carter Harrison, Sr., (1893), Mayor of Chicago
- William Goebel, (1900), Governor of Kentucky
- William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States
- Frank Steunenberg, (1905), former governor of Idaho
- Don Mellett, (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime
- Anton Cermak, (1933), mayor of Chicago
- Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor
- Walter Liggett, (1935), Minnesota newspaper editor
- Carlo Tresca, (1943), anarchist organizer
- Albert Patterson, (1954), Alabama Attorney General
- Curtis Chillingworth, (1955), a Florida judge
- John F. Kennedy, (1963), President of the United States
- Lee Harvey Oswald, (1963), alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy
- Medgar Evers, (1963), U.S. civil rights activist
- Malcolm X, (1965), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech
- George Lincoln Rockwell, (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party
- Martin Luther King, Jr., (1968), U.S. civil rights activist
- Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), Presidential candidate and John F. Kennedy's younger brother, shot in Los Angeles
- Fred Hampton, (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
- Dan Mitrione, (1970), FBI agent and torture expert, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros
- Marcus Foster, (1973), School District Superintendent in Oakland CA, killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Don Bolles, (1976), Investigative reporter for Arizona Republic, killed in car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties
- Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende
- Harvey Milk, (1978), gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California
- George Moscone, (1978), Mayor of San Francisco
- Leo Ryan, (1978), Congressman from California, killed as part of the Jonestown Massacre
- John Wood, (1979), first US federal judge killed in the twentieth century
- Russell G. Lloyd, Sr., (1980), Mayor of Evansville, Indiana
- Allard K. Lowenstein, (1980), Congressman from New York
- Alan Berg, (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis
- Chiang Nan, (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
- Alex Odeh, (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
- Alejandro González Malavé, (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
- Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, (1995), singer killed by former employee, Yolanda Saldívar
- Tommy Burks, (1998), Tennessee State Senator
- James E. Davis, (2003) New York City Councilman assassinated by Othniel Askew, a political rival in the Council chambers in City Hall
- Kathy Augustine (2006), Nevada State Controller
- Chauncey Bailey, (2007), journalist
- Bill Gwatney, (2008), Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party
Uruguay
Venezuela
Assassinations in Asia
Afghanistan
- Habibullah Khan, (1919), emir of Afghanistan
- Mohammed Nader Shah, (1933), king of Afghanistan since 1929
- Mohammed Daoud Khan, (1978), president of Afghanistan killed in communist coup
- Adolph Dubs, (1979), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
- Nur Mohammad Taraki, (1979), communist president
- Hafizullah Amin, (1979), communist Prime Minister of Afghanistan killed during Soviet invasion
- Mohammed Najibullah, (1996), president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul
- Ahmed Shah Massoud, (2001), leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance
- Abdul Haq, (2001), Afghan Northern Alliance commander killed by remnants of the Taliban
- Abdul Qadir, (2002), vice-president of Afghanistan
- Abdul Rahman, (2002), Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism
- Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, (2007), former Prime Minister of Afghanistan
Bangladesh
- Mujibur Rahman, (1975), president of Bangladesh
- Fazlul Haq Mani, (1975), politician
- Abdur Rab Serniabat, (1975), politician
- Tajuddin Ahmed, (1975), politician
- Syed Nazrul Islam, (1975), politician
- Mohammad Mansoor Ali, (1975), prime minister
- Khaled Mosharraf, (1975), coup organizer
- Ziaur Rahman, (1981), president of Bangladesh
Bhutan
Cambodia
China
- Sidibala, (1323), grand-khan of the Mongol Empire, Emperor of Yuan China
- João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, (1849), Portuguese Governor of Macau
- Ma Xinyi, (1870), a governor assassinated by Zhang Wenxiang in the summer of 1870.
- Ito Hirobumi, (1909), Japanese Resident-General of Korea, in Manchuria
- Chen Qimei, (1916), revolutionary activist
- Liao Zhongkai, (1925)
- Zhang Zuolin, (1928), Manchurian warlord, by officers of the Japanese Guandong Army
- Lu Huanyan, (1930)
- Chen Lu, (1939), foreign minister of Wang Jingwei Government
- Fang Zhenwu, (1941)
- Han Guojun, (1942)
- Wen Yiduo, (1946), Chinese poet and scholar
Georgia
- Cemal Pasha, (1922), former Ottoman Minister, in Tbilisi, by an Armenian or allegedly by either the NKVD or Cheka.
India
- Brhadrata, (185 BC), last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
- Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, (1602), vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar
- Mohandas Gandhi, (1948), Independence leader
- Tyagi Immanuvel Devendrar (11-9-1957) Congress Leader & Revolutionary Leader for people of Devendrar Tamilnadu
- Indira Gandhi, (1984), Indian prime minister
- Rajiv Gandhi, (1991), former Indian prime minister
- Beant Singh(Chief Minister), (1995), chief minister of Punjab
- Phoolan Devi, (2001), bandit queen turned politician and activist for people of Depressed class
- Abdul Ghani Lone, (2002), moderate leader of Kashmiri Muslims
- General Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986.
Iran
- Xerxes I, (465 BC), Persian king killed by guards
- Xerxes II, (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother Sogdianus
- Sogdianus, (423 BC), Persian king killed by his half-brother Darius II
- Khosrow I, (238), Armenian king
- Nizam al-Mulk, (1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks
- Nader Shah, (1747), Shah of Persia
- Nasser-al-Din Shah, (1896), Shah of Persia killed by Mirza Reza Kermani
- Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III, (1930), Iranian Diplomat and Politician
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash, (1933), Iranian Statesman
- Taghi Arani, (1940), Communist intellectual
- Qazi Muhammad, (1947), dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader, in Mahabad
- Ali Razmara, (1951), Prime Minister of Iran
- Hassan Ali Mansur, (1965), Prime Minister of Iran
- Mohammad Beheshti, (1981), killed along with 71 others in bombing
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, (1981), president of Iran
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, (1981), Prime Minister of Iran, killed in bombing with Rajai
Iraq
- Gordian III, (244), Roman emperor, near Circesium (modern day Abu Sera) by his troops
- Faisal I, (1933), King of Iraq
- Ghazi I, (1939), King of Iraq
- Faisal II, (1958), King of Iraq
- Nuri Pasha as-Said, (1958), Iraqi politician, and
- Ibrahim Hashim, (1958), Jordanian politician, prime minister several times between the 1930s and shortly before his death - the previous three were all killed during the July 14 military coup in Iraq
- Abdul Razak al-Naif, (1978), former Prime Minister of Iraq
- Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, (1982), 4th President of Iraq
- Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, (1980), former Grand Ayatollah
- Bint al-Huda, (1980), Iraqi educator and political activist she was killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr
- Gen. Adnan Khairallah, (1989), former Deputy Commander in Chief of Iraq's armed forces and Defense Minister
- Sayyid Mohammed Taqi al-Khoei,, (1994), Son of former Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Al-Musawi Al-Khoei
- Gen.Barreq Abdallah, (1990), Commander Republican Guard.
- Dr. Raji Al-tikriti, (1994), physician of the Iraqi Army, and physician of Saddam Hussein president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
- Sayyid Abul Majid al-Khoei,, (2003), Son of former Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Al-Musawi Al-Khoei
- Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, (1999), former Grand Ayatollah,killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf along with two of his sons.
- Ali Garmaii, (1996), dissident Kurdish Iranian activist in Halabja
- Mohammad Nanva, (1996), dissident Kurdish Iranian activist, in Sulaymaniyah
- Aquila al-Hashimi, (2003), Iraqi Governing Council member
- Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, (2003), ayatollah
- Sérgio Vieira de Mello, (2003), UN Special Representative in Iraq
- Waldemar Milewicz, (2004), Polish journalist
- Mounir Bouamrane, (2004), Algerian-Polish TV operator, killed alongside with Milewicz
- Hatem Kamil, (2004), deputy governor of Baghdad Province
- Ezzedine Salim, (2004), chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council
- Barawiz Mahmoud, (2005), judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal
- Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, (2005), Iraqi MP
- Ihab al-Sherif, (2005), Egyptian envoy to Iraq
- Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, (2007), Sunni tribal leader
Israel
- Hugh II of Le Puiset, (1134), count of Jaffa
- Miles of Plancy, (1174), regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Conrad of Montferrat, (1192), King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade
- Jacob Israël de Haan, (1924), pro-Orthodox Jewish diplomat
- Haim Arlosoroff, (1933), Zionist leader in the British Mandate of Palestine
- Folke Bernadotte, (1948), Middle East peace mediator, assassinated by Lehi
- Rudolf Kasztner, (1957), Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis
- Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia, (1981), Member of the Knesset
- Shlomo Argov, (1982), Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. left paralyzed.
- Emil Grunzweig, (1983), Peace activist, member of Peace Now movement.
- Meir David Kahane, (1990), Member of the Knesset, Fouder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist
- Yitzhak Rabin, (1995), Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, (2000), Son of Meir David Kahane, Leader of Kahane Chai, Zionist
- Rehavam Zeevi, (2001), Israeli general and politician
Japan
- Emperor Sushun, (592), Emperor of Japan
- The Sogas, (645), Japanese political family
- Minamoto no Sanetomo, (1219), the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate
- Mimura Iechika, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
- Matsudaira Hirotada, (1549), feudal leader in Japan
- ?uchi Yoshitaka, (1551), daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
- Oda Nobuyuki, (1557), Japanese samurai, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga
- Ashikaga Yoshiteru, (1565), Shogun, feudal leader in Japan
- Yamanaka Shikanosuke, (1578), Japanese samurai
- Oda Nobunaga, (1582), samurai warlord
- Shakushain, (1669), Ainu chief
- Shimazu Nariaki, (1858), Japanese daimyo in Satsuma Province, now Kagoshima prefecture
- Hashimoto Sanai, (1859), Japanese political activist
- Ii Naosuke, (1860), Japanese politician
- Tokugawa Nariaki, (1860), Japanese daimyo, a relative of Tokugawa shoguns
- Yoshida Toyo, (1862), Japanese political activist
- Charles Lennox Richardson, (1862), English diplomat, by Shimazu Hisamitsu's samaurai in Namamugi. Called the Namamugi Incident
- Serizawa Kamo, (1863), a chief of Shinsen-gumi
- Ikeuchi Daigaku, (1864), Japanese politician
- Kusaka Gennai, (1864), Japanese politician
- Sakuma Shozan, (1864), Japanese politician
- Sakamoto Ryoma, (1867), Japanese author
- Yokoi Shonai, (1869), Japanese political activist
- Okubo Toshimichi, (1878), Prime Minister of Japan
- Ito Hirobumi, (1909), First Prime Minister of Japan
- Hara Takashi, (1921), Prime Minister of Japan
- Hamaguchi Osachi, (1931), Prime Minister of Japan
- Dan Takuma, (1932), zaibatsu leader
- Inukai Tsuyoshi, (1932), Prime Minister of Japan
- Takahashi Korekiyo, (1936), Prime Minister of Japan
- Isoroku Yamamoto, (1943), Japanese Admiral
- Inejiro Asanuma, (1960), Socialist Party of Japan chairman
- Kazuo Nagano, (1985), Japanese chairman
- Hitoshi Igarashi, (1991), translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese
- Hideo Mura
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