List of assassinations

This is a list of successful assassinations, sorted by location. For unsuccessful assassination attempts on heads of state, see List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts. For unsuccessful assassination attempts on people other than heads of state, see List 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, often for religious, political or monetary reasons.

Africa

See also: List of assassinations in Africa

The Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Date	Victim(s)	Method	Assassin(s)	Notes
7 December 1710	Daniel Parke, British governor of the Leeward Islands	Beating	Several members of a mob.	An angry mob captured Parke in his house, beat him severely, and dragged him out to die of his wounds. His last words to his tormentors, as he lay dying, were reported as: "Gentlemen, you have no sense of honor left, pray have some of humanity."

Argentina

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1828	Manuel Dorrego, Governor of Buenos Aires Province	Juan Lavalle
1835	Facundo Quiroga, Governor of La Rioja Province
1838	Alejandro Heredia, Governor of Tucumán Province
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
1870	Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina and Governor of Entre Ríos Province
1889	Ricardo López Jordán, soldier, politician, and former governor of Entre Ríos Province
1908	Mariano Santillán, Jr., National Deputy for Santiago del Estero Province
1909	Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police	Simón Radowitzky	Assassinated by anarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers.
1921	Amable Jones, Governor of San Juan Province
1929	Carlos Washington Lencinas, former Governor of Mendoza Province
1935	Enzo Bordabehere, National Senator for Santa Fe Province	Ramón Valdez Cora	Killed during a session of the Argentine Senate.
1969	Augusto Vandor, Metalworkers Union (UOM) Secretary General		Killed in commando attack by the Ejército Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Army), a far-left Peronist splinter group.
1970	Pedro Aramburu, former de facto president of Argentina		Executed by the Peronist guerrilla Montoneros in revenge for the abduction of Evita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a 1956 failed uprising, during Aramburu's dictatorship.
1970	José Alonso, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1972	Oberdan Sallustro, Director of FIAT Argentina	ERP
1973	José Ignacio Rucci, CGT Secretary General	Montoneros
1973	Juan Manuel Irrazábal, Governor of Misiones Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance	Killed with Vice-Governor César Ayrault by bomb placed in Beechcraft Queen Air plane.
1974	Arturo Mor Roig, former Interior Minister	Montoneros
1974	Carlos Mugica, Catholic Third World priest	Rodolfo Almirón (Argentine Anticommunist Alliance)
1974	Rodolfo Ortega Peña, National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Atilio López, former Vice-Governor of Córdoba Province	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Silvio Frondizi, University of Buenos Aires law professor	Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
1974	Carlos Prats, exiled Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army	Michael Townley	Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship
1975	Hipólito Acuña, National Deputy for Santa Fe Province	Montoneros
1975	John Egan, U.S. Honorary Consul in Córdoba	Montoneros
1975	Ramón Rojas, National Deputy for San Juan Province	Fernando Otero	Killed at the behest of Vineyard Workers' Federation (FOEVA) leader Delfor Ocampo.
1975	Alberto Manuel Campos, Mayor of General San Martín Partido, Buenos Aires Province	Montoneros
1976	Miguel Ragone, former governor of Salta Province	Army Gen. Luciano Menéndez	Abducted and killed by right-wing task force made of up of Army and provincial police officers led by Menéndez.
1976	Zelmar Michelini, exiled Uruguayan senator, founder of the Broad Front		Killed after the 1976 Argentine coup as part of Operation Condor involving the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone.
1976	Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, exiled former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives		Killed alongside Zelmar Michelini
1976	Juan José Torres, exiled former military President of Bolivia		Killed as part of Operation Condor
1976	Enrique Angelelli, Bishop of the Roman 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 at Economy 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 the Aníbal Gordon gang led by former Argentine Anticommunist Alliance operatives.
1997	José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist for leading Argentine news weekly Noticias.	"Los Horneros" gang, led by Buenos Aires Provincial Police Inspector Gustavo Prellezo	Killed on orders from businessman Alfredo Yabrán.
2019	Héctor Enrique Olivares, National Deputy for La 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.

Bermuda

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1973	Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda	Erskine "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn	Shot outside Bermuda's Government House. Sharples's aide-de-camp Captain Hugh Sayers was also killed.

Bolivia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1 January 1829	Pedro Blanco Soto, President of Bolivia
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
27 February 1894	Hilarión Daza, former president of Bolivia
17 June 1917	José Manuel Pando, former president of Bolivia
21 July 1946	Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia
9 August 1967	Che Guevara, revolutionary	Captured and executed by Bolivian Special Forces
24 May 1989	Elders Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson, LDS Missionaries
25 August 2016	Rodolfo Illanes, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Bolivia	Protesting miners

Brazil

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1678	Ganga Zumba, leader of Quilombo dos Palmares
1695	Zumbi, leader of Quilombo dos Palmares
1830	Líbero Badaró, journalist		The assassination unleashed a wave of protests against the government of Pedro I of Brazil
1897	Carlos Machado de Bitterncourt, Minister of War	Marcelino Bispo de Melo	See Attempted assassination of Prudente de Morais
1908	José Plácido de Castro, former president of the Republic of Acre
1915	Pinheiro Machado, Senator for Rio Grande do Sul
1929	José Gomes Duarte, Mayor of Bauru, São Paulo	Moacir de Almeida
1929	Manuel Francisco de Sousa Filho, Federal Deputy for Pernambuco	Ildefonso Simões Lopes
1930	João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, Governor of Paraíba	João Duarte Dantas
1938	Virgulino Ferreira da Silva "Lampião", leader bandit of Cangaço		Killed during the Massacre of Angico, led by João Bezerra da Silva
1938	Maria Gomes de Oliveira "Maria Bonita", bandit of Cangaço	José Panta de Godoy	Killed during the Massacre of Angico, led by João Bezerra da Silva
1964	Adib Shishakli, exiled Syrian military dictator	Nawaf Ghazaleh
1971	Rubens Paiva, former Federal Deputy for São Paulo and critic of the Military dictatorship in Brazil
1973	Maurício Grabois, leader of the Communist Party of Brazil
1975	Vladimir Herzog, journalist
1976	Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and critic of the Military dictatorship in Brazil
1988	Francisco Alves "Chico" Mendes Filho, environmental activist	Darci Alves da Silva	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 of Campinas, São Paulo
2001	Aguinaldo Pereira da Silva, Mayor of Caraúbas, Rio Grande do Norte
2002	Celso Daniel, Mayor of Santo 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 by drug traffickers connected to Comando Vermelho and Amigos dos Amigos
2002	Lídia Menezes, Vice Mayor of Magé, Rio de Janeiro
2005	Dorothy Stang, American nun	Raifran das Neves Sales	Killed by business interests
2010	Walderi Braz Paschoalin, Mayor of Jandira, São Paulo
2016	José Gomes da Rocha, former mayor of Itumbiara, 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 an arson attack on a rental car.
2018	Marielle Franco, human rights activist and City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro	Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira and Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega	Assassination suspected to be linked with local militias
2018	Gerson Camata, former Governor of Espírito Santo	Marcos Vinícius Moreira Andrade
2019	Paulo Paulino Guajajara, Indigenous environmental activist		Murdered by illegal loggers
2023	Mãe Bernadete, community activist

Canada

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
7 April 1868	Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Father of Canadian Confederation	Patrick J. Whelan
14 December 1872	William End, Magistrate in northern New Brunswick		He and his office set aflame by ex-convict.
May 9 1880	George Brown, Father of Canadian Confederation	George Bennett
21 October 1914	William C. Hopkinson, immigration officer, British intelligence agent	Mewa Singh, Ghadarite sympathizer
29 October 1924	Peter Verigin, Russian philosopher, activist, leader of the Community Doukhobors in Canada		Assassinated via train explosion. The explosion also killed member of the provincial legislature John McKie. Perpetrators never identified.
17 October 1970	Pierre Laporte, Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec	Bernard Lortie, Paul Rose, Jacques Rose, Francis Simard	Kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ.
27 August 1982	Atilla Altıkat, Turkish diplomat		Assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa.
10 March 1993	Dino Bravo, wrestler		Shot eleven times at his home in Vimont, Laval, Quebec. Believed to have been a result in his alleged role in illegal cigarette smuggling in Canada and his ties to the Cotroni Crime Family.
18 November 1998	Tara Singh Hayer, founder of the Indo-Canadian Times, Journalist		Outspoken critic of extremism, key witness in the trial of the Air 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.
18 June 2023	Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian Sikh involved with the Khalistan movement	Four people currently arrested awaiting trial.	Allegedly assassinated on orders of the India government for his role in the Khalistani movement.

Chile

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1818	Luis Carrera and his brother Juan 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 and Minister of War	Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre
1970	René Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army		Was kidnapped and killed by far-right paramilitary squads, due to his opposition to any intervention of the armed forces to block the election of left-wing candidate Salvador Allende in 1970.
1971	Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, former Secretary of Interior Affairs
1973	Victor Jara, left-wing singer		Killed after the coup of 1973.
1982	Eduardo Frei Montalva, former President of Chile and opponent of the Pinochet dictatorship		Although he officially died by sepsis after a low-risk surgery, recent research suggests he was poisoned by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional. However, there is no absolute certainty about the real causes of his death.
1982	Tucapel Jiménez, trade-unionist		Killed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
1991	Jaime Guzmán, right-wing Senator and former adviser to the Pinochet dictatorship		Killed by far-left guerrillas after the return of democracy.

Colombia

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, former President
1914	Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier
1948	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader		His assassination sparked the Bogotazo and served as a catalyst for La Violencia
1984	Carlos Toledo Plata, early leader of the M-19 guerrilla movement and member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
1984	Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1985	Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, Judge who had indicted Pablo Escobar
1985	Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of the Supreme Court.		Killed during the Palace 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 of El Espectador newspaper		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1987	Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party
1987	Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel.
1989	Teófilo Forero, National Organizing Secretary of the Colombian Communist Party
1989	Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian 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 of Antioquia		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
1990	Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party	Andres Arturo Gutierrez
1990	Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party
1991	Enrique Low Murtra, former Ambassador to Switzerland		The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel
2 December 1993	Pablo Escobar, drug lord	Search Bloc	Killed during a shoot out in Medellín
2 July 1994	Andrés Escobar, footballer		Believed to have been killed by criminal figures who lost money on bets after scoring an own goal in the 1994 FIFA World Cup
1994	Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party
1995	Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper		FARC has claimed responsibility for the assassination
1999	Jaime Garzón, journalist, activist and satirist
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 of Antioquia		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 of Caquetá		Assassinated by members of FARC
2021	Germán Medina Triviño, former governor of Caquetá		Assassinated by members of FARC

Costa Rica

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
23 August 1938	Ricardo Moreno Cañas, doctor and politician, and surgeon Carlos 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 killed Canadian Arthur Maynard that same day.

Cuba

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
8 May 1935	Antonio Guiteras, Revolutionary Socialist leader

Curaçao

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
5 May 2013	Helmin Wiels, leader of the Sovereign People party.	Elvis Kuwas

Dominican Republic

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
26 July 1899	Ulises Heureaux, president of the Dominican Republic	Ramón Cáceres, president of the Dominican Republic
19 November 1911	Ramón Cáceres, president of the Dominican 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	Shot

Ecuador

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1875	Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador	Faustino Rayo	Shot outside Quito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views.
1912	Eloy Alfaro, former president of Ecuador		Killed by a mob of pro-Catholic soldiers in Quito
1999	Jaime Hurtado and Pablo Tapia, communist legislators		Killed in Quito
24 July 2023	Agustín Intriago, Mayor of Manta
9 August 2023	Fernando Villavicencio, Presidential candidate and former legislator		Killed at a campaign rally in Quito

El Salvador

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1913	Manuel Enrique Araujo, President of El Salvador
1975	Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary
1977	Rutilio Grande García, S.J., Roman Catholic priest
1977	Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, Roman Catholic priest
1978	Ernesto Barrera, Roman Catholic priest
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, and Jean Donovan, American Roman Catholic nuns		Killed by the National Guard of El Salvador.
1983	Marianella García Villas, human rights lawyer and activist		Killed by the Salvadoran Armed Forces
1983	Albert Schaufelberger, senior U.S. Naval representative
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.
1989	María Cristina Gómez, teacher and community leader

Grenada

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1983	Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada		Killed along with seven other politicians and businessmen in a coup that led to the United 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 the United States invasion of Grenada a few days later

Guatemala

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1898	José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala
1957	Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala		killed by bodyguard
1970	Karl von Spreti, West German ambassador in Guatemala
1979	Alberto Fuentes Mohr, Social Democratic Party leader
1979	Manuel Colom Argueta, Mayor of Guatemala City
1980	Hugo Rolando Melgar Melgar, Law professor at San Carlos University and leftist leader	Efrain Rios Montt regime	Ambushed on his way to work by the Guatemalan Army
1993	Jorge Carpio Nicolle, journalist and founder of the National Centre Union
1998	Juan José Gerardi Conedera, Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala
2012	Valentín Leal, legislator and former governor of Alta Verapaz
2013	Carlos Castillo Medrano, Mayor of Jutiapa

Guyana

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
18 November 1978	Leo Ryan, Member of the US House of Representatives	Members of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown	Shot to death in Guyana while investigating human rights violations by members of the Peoples 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

Haiti

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(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 President François Duvalier		Killed after launching a failed coup
11 September 1993	Antoine Izméry, businessman and Lavalas 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 US Drug Enforcement Administration agents. See Assassination of Jovenel Moïse

Honduras

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

Jamaica

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
17 April 1987	Carlton Barrett, musician, drummer, and member of The Wailers		Shot by a gunman outside his home in Kingston. 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

Mexico

See also: List of politicians killed during the 2024 Mexican elections

See also: List of politicians killed in the Mexican drug war

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
29 June 1520	Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, Emperor of the Aztec Alliance
14 February 1831	Vicente Guerrero, former President of Mexico		Lured, captured, and executed by firing squad in a plot orchestrated by conservative political rivals in Cuilapan, Oaxaca.
13 November 1863	Ignacio Comonfort, former president of Mexico		Ambushed and killed by conservative guerillas during the Second French Intervention in Mexico near Chamacueros, Guanajuato (present-day Comonfort).
22 February 1913	Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico		Killed in a coup along with Vice-president José María Pino Suárez. See Ten Tragic Days.
7 March 1913	Abraham González, revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa	Officers under President Victoriano Huerta
7 October 1913	Belisario Dominguez, Senator of the Congress of the Union for Chiapas	Officers under President Victoriano Huerta	Abducted and shot in Mexico 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 in Chinameca, Morelos
20 May 1920	Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico		Killed in a revolt led by Álvaro Obregón
20 July 1923	Francisco "Pancho" Villa, revolutionary	Unknown, most likely attributed to a plot orchestrated by future President Plutarco Elías Calles	Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral, 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 rogue army officers as part of a larger rebellion waged by former interim president Adolfo de la Huerta beginning the previous year. Executed by firing squad alongside three of his brothers, Wilfrido, Benjamin, and Edesio, and eight of their friends in Mérida, Yucatán.
10 June 1924	Salvador Alvarado, revolutionary and former governor of Yucatan		Killed in an ambush near Palenque, Chiapas in retaliation for supporting the rebellion of Adolfo de la Huerta against then-President Alvaro Obregon
17 July 1928	Álvaro Obregón, President-elect	José de León Toral	Killed by a pro-Catholic sympathizer as part of the Cristero War
10 January 1929	Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary	Unknown
11 April 1938	José Antonio Urquiza, political activist and co-founder of the National Synarchist Union	Isidro Parra	Stabbed twice by Parra, a farmer employed under him, while on a visit to Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato to settle a land dispute
20 August 1940	Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian communist leader	Ramón Mercader, an agent of the NKVD posing as a journalist	Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe in his residence in Coyoacan, Mexico City.
23 May 1962	Rubén Jaramillo, revolutionary, politician, and agrarian rights activist		Killed by Federal Judicial Police officers and soldiers raiding his home in an extrajudicial operation near Xochicalco, 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 the PRI wanted him killed.
9 February 1985	Enrique Camarena, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent		Abducted and killed by the Guadalajara Cartel with the assistance of figures within the Mexican government and law enforcement agencies
7 February 1986	Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and former Governor of Yucatán
16 May 1992	Chalino Sánchez, singer-songwriter		Executed on a farm in Culiacán, 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 of Guadalajara	Sinaloa Cartel boss, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, may have also been involved.	Shot at Guadalajara Airport, along with 6 other people, by the Tijuana Cartel using the San Diego-based Logan 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 the Partido Revolucionario Institucional	Mario Aburto	Assassinated at a campaign rally in the Lomas Taurinas neighborhood of Tijuana.
28 September 1994	José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of the Partido 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 to Zeta Magazine
25 November 2006	Valentín Elizalde, banda singer	Gunmen led by Raúl Hernández Barrón	Ambushed and killed by gunmen by Hernández Barrón after leaving a concert in Reynosa, 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 gang Los Zetas. Hernández Barrón was later killed in a shootout with Mexican Federal Police in Reynosa on July 26, 2014 alongside several cartel members.
8 May 2008	Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, Commissioner of the Federal 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 the Beltrán-Leyva Organization in retaliation for the arrest of co-founder Alfredo Beltrán Leyva.
19 June 2010	Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua
28 June 2010	Rodolfo Torre Cantú, former member of the Chamber of Deputies and gubernatorial candidate in Tamaulipas
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.
15 November 2012	María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, physician and former mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacán.		Kidnapped by armed gunmen while driving her daughter to school in Morelia, 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 in Cuitzeo found the corpse on their way to work. Post-mortem reports indicated that she died of a traumatic 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 in Metepec, 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 in Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's extradition process, or his complaints against fellow 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.
8 June 2018	Fernando Purón Johnston, former mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila		Shot while leaving a debate hall while running for Mexico's general election.
18 December 2020	Aristóteles Sandoval, former governor of Jalisco	Saúl Alejandro Rincón Godoy (El Chopa), was later gunned down by Mexican military forces nearby.	Gunned down while having dinner at a local restaurant in Puerto Vallarta.
13 May 2021	Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez, lawyer, former congressman, and former attorney general of Sonora	Unknown, attributed to Caborca Cartel	Shot and killed while standing on a street corner in Ciudad Obregón distributing flyers for his campaign for the municipal presidency. A female campaign worker was also injured. The attack was attributed to the Caborca Cartel, the same group that had carried out the massacre on Murrieta's clients, the LeBarón family, in 2019.
29 June 2023	Hipólito Mora, farmer, politician, and vigilante self-defense group leader		Ambushed and shot at by unidentified gunmen in La Ruana, Buenavista, Michoacán along with three of his bodyguards.
22 July 2024	Milton Morales Figueroa, General Coordinator for the Tactical Strategy and Special Operations Unit of Mexico City police.	"Cartel hitmen"	Shot twice in the head by hitmen who pulled up in an SUV outside of a chicken shop in Coacalco de Berriozábal, State of Mexico while out with his family. Pending Investigation.
25 July 2024	Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, academic, businessman, former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, former mayor of Culiacán, and deputy-elect		Shot in his vehicle and subsequently died of his wounds at a private hospital in Culiacán. Pending investigation.

Nicaragua

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
21 February 1934	Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary	National Guard members led by Anastasio Somoza García
21 September 1956	Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua	Rigoberto López Pérez
10 January 1978	Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, newspaper editor and anti-Somoza opposition leader
16 February 1991	Enrique Bermúdez, founder and former commander of the Contras

Panama

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
2 January 1955	José Antonio Remón Cantera, President of Panama		Killed at racetrack by machine gun
31 July 1981	Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera, Maximum Leader of the Revolution and de facto leader of Panama	Alleged to be the United States by Manuel 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)

Paraguay

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
12 April 1877	Juan Bautista Gill, President of Paraguay		Killed in a plot instigated by Juan Silvano Godoi
31 December 1878	Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, former president of Paraguay
17 September 1980	Anastasio Somoza Debayle, exiled former president of Nicaragua	7 Sandinistas
23 March 1999	Luis María Argaña, vice president of Paraguay		Ambushed

Peru

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 former President of Bolivia
26 July 1872	Jose Balta, President of Peru		Ordered shot by Tomás 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 and president of the Peruvian Senate
30 April 1933	Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, president of Peru	Abelardo de Mendoza	Shot by a member of the suppressed American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. See Assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro.
15 February 1992	María Elena Moyano, a community organizer in Villa 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

Suriname

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

Trinidad and Tobago

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1 December 1699	José de León y Echales, Spanish governor of Trinidad		Killed during the Arena Massacre
1 August 1990	Leo Des Vignes, MP		Killed during the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt
10 June 1995	Selwyn Richardson, former Attorrney-General
4 May 2014	Dana Seetahal, senator

United States

See also: List of assassinated American politicians and List of assassinations by the United States

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
8 May 1815	David Ramsay, Delegate of the United States Continental Congress	William Linnen	Shot on Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina with a Horseman's Pistol.
7 November 1837	Elijah Parish Lovejoy, minister, editor, and abolitionist		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 the Treaty 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 Mormonism and 1844 presidential candidate		Armed mob killed him and his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois, jail.
14 April 1865	Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States	John Wilkes Booth	Was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin in the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning on 15 April across the street in a boarding house. Booth and accomplice David Herold hid in a barn in Virginia. 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 soldier Boston Corbett.
22 October 1868	James M. Hinds, U.S. Representative from Arkansas	George Clark	Killed by a Ku 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 a Washington train station. Garfield did not die until September 19, 1881.
14 July 1881	Billy the Kid, Outlaw	Pat Garrett	Shot by Garrett after a 2 month long manhunt in Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory.
18 March 1882	Morgan Earp, Sheriff		Shot while playing billiards at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor in Tombstone, Arizona by Cowboys in retaliation for the Earp Brothers' killings of previous Outlaws.
3 April 1882	Jesse James, Outlaw	Robert Ford and Charles Ford	Shot in the back of the head in St. Joseph, Missouri.
15 October 1890	David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans	Mafia assassins
8 June 1892	Robert Ford, Outlaw	Edward Capehart O'Kelley	Shot in the neck with a shotgun while in his tent saloon in Creede, Colorado.
28 October 1893	Carter Harrison Sr., Mayor of Chicago	Patrick Eugene Prendergast	Killed after assailant was rejected for appointment to a patronage position.
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 the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Died on September 14.
21 October 1905	Tomasso Petto, mobster in the Morello Crime Family	Giuseppe de Primo (suspected)	Shot while walking home from a butcher shop in the village of Browntown, Pennsylvania.
30 December 1905	Frank Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho	Harry Orchard	Killed by a mining company informant in an attempt to cast blame on a labor union.
25 June 1906	Stanford White, prominent architect	Harry Kendall Thaw	Thaw had harbored an obsessive hatred of White, believing he had blocked Thaw's access to the social elite of New York. White had also had a previous relationship with Thaw's wife, the model and chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit.
29 February 1908	Pat Garrett, Old West lawman, customs agent	Jesse Wayne Brazel (suspected)	Shot while traveling from Las Cruces, New Mexico.
11 May 1921	Anthony D'Andrea, mafia boss		Shot while entering his apartment in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
6 November 1928	Arnold Rothstein, crime boss		Shot at Park Central Hotel at Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York and died 2 days later at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital.
6 March 1933	Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago	Giuseppe Zangara	Shot struck Cermak instead of intended target President Franklin Roosevelt.
8 September 1935	Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana and a potential 1936 U.S. presidential candidate	Carl Weiss	Shot with a handgun in the abdomen after attending a meeting at the State 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.
11 January 1943	Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer
20 June 1947	Bugsy Siegel, mobster		Shot while reading a newspaper in Virginia Hill's home in Beverly Hills, California.
19 April 1951	Philip Mangano, Caporegime and Vincent "The Executioner" Mangano, Head of the Mangano Crime Family	Albert Anastasia (suspected)	Both brothers disappeared on 19 April 1951, with Philip's being discovered in a marshland area of Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn on the same day having been shot three times, while Vincent's was never discovered. Both were presumed to have been killed on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia.
25 October 1957	Albert Anastasia, crime boss of the Murder, Inc. Corporation	Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino	Shot multiple times while in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel at 56th Street and 7th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan
9 February 1960	Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company	Joseph Corbett, Jr.	Murdered in failed kidnap-for-ransom attempt.
12 June 1963	Medgar Evers, African-American U.S. civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi.	Byron De La Beckwith	Shot by a Ku 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 in Dallas, Texas. See Assassination of John F. Kennedy
24 November 1963	Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy	Jack Ruby	Shot on live television in the basement of the Dallas 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 the Freedom Summer campaign in an attempt to get African-Americans to register to vote in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
21 February 1965	Malcolm X, black Muslim leader	Talmadge Hayer, a member of the Nation of Islam	Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech. See Assassination of Malcolm X
10 January 1966	Vernon Dahmer, President of the Forrest County chapter of NAACP	The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led by Samuel Bowers	His home in Hattiesburg, 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.
25 August 1967	George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American 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	James Earl Ray	Ray pleaded guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted restaurant owner Loyd Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot. See Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
5 June 1968	Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from New York and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate	Sirhan Sirhan	Shot after giving a speech after winning the California 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. The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.
13 June 1969	Clarence 13X, religious leader, founder of the Five-Percent Nation		Was killed in an ambush while in the lobby of his apartment building in New York City.
9 August 1969	Sharon Tate, actress; Jay Sebring, celebrity hairstylist; Abigail Folger, coffee heiress; and her boyfriend, Wojciech Frykowski	The Manson Family	All were stabbed multiple times at Tate’s home in Los Angeles, California.
10 August 1969	Leno LaBianca, supermarket executive		LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, were stabbed multiple times at their home in Los Angeles, California.
4 December 1969	Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party	Chicago Police Department, with involvement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Killed by the Chicago 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's COINTELPRO program.
6 November 1973	Marcus Foster, School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA	Donald DeFreeze, Joe Remiro and Russ Little	Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
30 June 1974	Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin, church deacon	Marcus Chenault	Killed while her husband was preaching at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
13 November 1974	Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower and union activist		Run off the road while on her way to provide documents to The New York Times about negligent safety and security at a nuclear-waste reprocessing facility in Cimarron, Oklahoma.
21 September 1976	Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States during the administration of President Salvador Allende	Michael Townley	Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents.
29 June 1978	Bob Crane, actor and musician		Found beaten to death in Scottsdale, Arizona.
27 November 1978	Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist, and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco	Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy	See Moscone–Milk assassinations
29 May 1979	John H. Wood Jr., District Judge	Charles Harrelson	Shot dead in the parking lot of his townhouse in San Antonio, Texas by Harrelson who was hired by drug dealer Jamiel Chagra.
21 March 1980	Angelo "The Gentle Don" Bruno, Boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family	Antonio Caponigro (alleged)	Shot in the back of the head with a shotgun while waiting at the intersection of 10th Street and Snyder Avenue in the Lower Moyamensing neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His murder is credited with sparking the 4 year Philadelphia Mob War which went on to claim over 20 lives.
18 April 1980	Antonio Caponigro, Consigliere	Philadelphia Crime Family	Executed by the Commission along with his brother-in-law for their involvement in the death of Angelo Bruno, their bodies were found in the trunk of a car in The Bronx battered and naked.
28 October 1980	Frank Sindone, loan shark	Philadelphia Crime Family	Found dead in an alley behind a variety store in South Philadelphia after being shot three times in the head for his involvement in the death of Angelo Bruno.
8 December 1980	John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles	Mark David Chapman	Shot and killed by a former fan of the 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. See Murder of John Lennon.
15 March 1981	Philip "The Chicken Man" Testa, crime boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family	Peter Casella & Frank Narducci Sr. (allegedly)	Blown up by a nail bomb while entering his twin house on 2117 Porter Street in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
30 March 1981	Thor Nis Christiansen, serial killer		Stabbed to death in the exercise yard at Folsom State Prison by an unknown assailant likely due to the severe sexual nature of his murders.
13 July 1981	Ken McElroy, attempted murderer, pedophile, criminal	The Town of Skidmore, Missouri	Shot in broad daylight while sitting in his truck in front of Main Street in Skidmore, Missouri in front of a crowd of 30-46 people.
19 September 1981	Frank Piccolo, caporegime	Paul Castellano (suspected)	Shot to death in a telephone booth on a street in Bridgeport on the orders of Paul Castellano for his encroachment on the Genovese Crime Family's control of rackets in Connecticut.
13 May 1982	Frank Monte, Consigliere	Harry Riccobene	Shot with a sniper rifle in South Philadelphia on the orders of high-ranking crime boss Harry Riccobene during the Scarfo-Riccobene Gang War.
10 January 1983	Roy DeMeo, mobster	The Gambino Crime Family	Found dead in the trunk of his car in the parking lot of the Veruna Boat Club in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn having been shot multiple times.
20 January 1983	Allen Dorfman, insurance agency owner, consultant to IBT	the Chicago Mafia (alleged)	Shot to death in the parking lot of the Lincolnwell Hyatt in Lincolnwood, Illinois.
18 June 1984	Alan Berg, radio talk-show host	Jean Craig, David Lane, Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari	Killed by members of the white nationalist group The Order.
15 October 1984	Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer	Wu Tun and Tung Kuei-sen	Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents.
6 September 1985	Tscherim Soobzokov, Circassian spy, politician, SSObersturmführer, and Nazi fugitive	Robert Manning (suspected)	Receviced multiple death threats from those claiming to represent the Jewish Defence League, although they denied involvement
14 September 1984	Salvatore Testa, underboss for the Philadelphia Crime Family	Nicodemo Scarfo	Shot dead on the side of the road in Gloucester Township, New Jersey on the orders of the current boss Nicodemo Scarfo.
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 his Santa Ana, California office.
16 December 1985	Paul Castellano, crime boss of the Gambino Crime Family and Thomas Bilotti, mobster	John Gotti	Shot to death in an unsanctioned hit at Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan on East 46th Street near Third Avenue.
19 February 1986	Barry Seal	Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz, Miguel Vélez, Bernardo Antonio Vázquez and other members of the Medellín Cartel	Shot 6x outside of the Salvation Army Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and died almost instantaneously.
13 April 1986	Frank DeCicco, underboss of the Gambino Crime Family	Victor Amuso & Anthony Casso	Killed while on a visit to Castellano loyalist James Failla in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn under the orders of Vincent Gigante and Anthony Corallo of the Lucchese Family.
29 April 1986	Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman		Killed in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
13 June 1986	Vladimir Reznikov, gangster	Joseph Testa & Anthony Senter	Ambushed and shot dead by Testa in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City while collecting money owed to him for a fraudulent gas license.
16 June 1986	Anthony Spilotro, Mobster	Chicago Outfit	Spilotro and his brother were found beaten to death and buried in a cornfield in the Willow Slough preserve near Enos, Indiana.
22 August 1989	Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party	Tyrone Robinson	Killed by member of the Black 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, attorney Daniel Sheehan has claimed Judge Vance was assassinated to influence the outcome of the Iran-Contra litigation Avrignan v. Hull.
18 December 1989	Robert E. Robinson, lawyer, civil rights activist, and city councilmember	Walter Leroy Moody	Targetted via mail bomb for his work with the NAACP.
5 November 1990	Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist	El Said Nosair	Killed by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, "the blind sheik", Al Qaeda's point man in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil.
13 April 1991	Bobby Boriello, mobster	Frank Lastorino	Shot seven times outside his home on Bay 29th Street Bensonhurst, Brooklyn on the orders of Lucchese Crime Family underboss Anthony Casso.
21 May 1991	Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas		Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School Swift 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.
31 March 1995	Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, singer and songwriter	Yolanda Saldívar	Shot in Corpus Christi, Texas by fan club manager.
30 September 1995	Stretch, rapper	Ronald Washington (suspected)	Shot four times in the back during a car chase before crashing at 112th Avenue and 209th Street in Queens, New York.
13 September 1996	Tupac Shakur, rapper	Orlando Anderson (suspected)	Shot in Las Vegas after leaving a boxing match.
9 March 1997	Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, rapper	Wardell Fouse (suspected)	Shot in Los Angeles.
15 July 1997	Gianni Versace, fashion designer	Andrew Cunanan	Shot on his home's front steps in Miami.
19 October 1998	Tommy Burks, member of the Tennessee Senate	Byron (Low Tax) Looper	Shot and killed on his property in Cookeville, Tennessee by his Republican Party opponent a month before the election.
23 October 1998	Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider	James Charles Kopp	Shot in his kitchen.
15 February 1999	Big L, rapper	Gerard Woodley (suspected)	Killed in a Drive-By-Shooting after being shot nine times at 45 West 139th Street, New York City.
30 October 2002	Jam Master Jay, rapper	Karl Jordan Jr. & Ronald Washington (suspected)	Shot dead in his recording studio on Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.
23 July 2003	James E. Davis, member of the New York City Council	Othniel Askew	Shot in the torso while introducing Askew on the balcony of the New York City Hall.
23 November 2003	Adolfo Bruno, caporegime with the Genovese crime family	Arthur Nigro	Shot five times in the parking lot of the Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Club in Springfield, Massachusetts after a hit had been ordered by the acting boss of the Genovese crime family Arthur Nigro.
1 November 2004	Mac Dre, rapper	Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins (alleged)	After performing a show in Kansas City, Missouri along with other Thizz Entertainment members the groups Van was shot at by an unknown assailant while traveling on U.S. Route 71 causing the van to crash and Mac Dre was later pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound to the neck.
8 December 2004	Dimebag Darrell, musician	Nathan Gale	Shot while performing onstage at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub in Columbus, Ohio.
19 April 2005	Blade Icewood, rapper		Murdered while at the car wash on West 7 Mile Road and Faust Street on the West Side of Detroit, Michigan after an unknown assailant pulled up on his Range Rover and fired 17 rounds into the passenger's side.
1 January 2007	Darrent Williams, football player	Crips Gang Members	Killed in a drive-by-shooting after an unknown assailant pulled up next to his rented Hummer H2 limousine in downtown Denver, Colorado.
2 August 2007	Chauncey Bailey, Oakland Tribune journalist	Devaughndre Broussard	Shot on the street in Oakland.
7 February 2008	Mike Swoboda, Mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri	Charles "Cookie" Thornton	See Kirkwood City Council shooting
20 April 2008	VL Mike, rapper		Shot multiple times while exiting his vehicle on 4700 block of Miles Drive in New Orleans, Louisiana and later died at University Hospital.
31 May 2009	George Tiller, physician	Scott Roeder	Shot by anti-abortion extremist as he ushered at his church.
1 July 2010	Lele El Arma Secreta, rapper, drug trafficker	LA ONU	Found with 24 gunshot wounds in a car in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Believed to have been ordered by LA ONU, a group he had allegedly been a member of according to the United States Department of Justice.
8 January 2011	John Roll, Chief Judge	Jared Lee Loughner	Shot by Loughner along with his main target Gabrielle Giffords in a supermarket parking lot in Casas 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 the Charleston Church Shooting in South Carolina.
10 June 2016	Christina Grimmie, singer	Kevin Loibl	Shot while signing autographs in Orlando, Florida.
18 June 2018	Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy, rapper and singer	Michael Boatwright	Shot while in his car in Deerfield, Florida.
18 June 2018	Jimmy Wopo, rapper		Killed during a drive-by-shooting in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood in Pennsylvania and died an hour later at UPMC Presbyterian.
30 October 2018	Whitey Bulger, crime boss of the Winter 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 the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, West Virginia.
31 March 2019	Nipsey Hussle, rapper and producer	Eric Ronald Holder, Jr.	Shot in front of his clothing store, Marathon Clothing, in South Los Angeles.
11 November 2020	MO3, rapper	Kewon Dontrell White & Devin Maurice Brown	Hunted down and shot to death while he was driving on the Interstate 35 in Dallas, Texas.
17 November 2021	Young Dolph, rapper	Justin Johnson, Cornelius Smith & Shundale Barnett (suspected)	Shot twenty two times while picking up cookies for his mother at Makeda's Homemade Butter Cookies in Memphis, Tennessee.
18 February 2023	David G. O'Connell, Catholic bishop	Carlos Medina (alleged)	Shot at his home in Los Angeles, California.

Uruguay

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
19 February 1868	Bernardo P. Berro, former President 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 of José Batlle y Ordóñez
23 February 1965	Herberts Cukurs, Latvian aviator and fugitive war criminal	Mossad	Killed for his role in the Holocaust 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 the DINA during the Pinochet dictatorship	Chilean Government	Killed in Uruguay by Chilean secret services for "knowing too much".

Venezuela

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
4 June 1830	Antonio José de Sucre, independence leader
13 November 1950	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela	Rafael Simón Urbina
13 November 1950	Rafael Simón Urbina, opponent of President Juan Vicente Gómez and assassin of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
21 October 1952	Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, member and one of the founders of Acción Democrática	Dirección de Seguridad Nacional	Assassinated by dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez's political police
18 November 2004	Danilo Anderson, state prosecutor
17 May 2011	Wilfred Iván Ojeda, journalist
2 April 2012	Jesús Aguilarte, governor of Apure
1 October 2014	Robert Serra, member of the National Assembly
6 May 2016	Germán Mavare, A New Era politician
15 January 2018	Óscar Alberto Pérez, Venezuelan rebel leader and Investigator for the Cuerpo 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.
6 March 2019	Alí Domínguez, journalist
16 October 2019	Edmundo Rada, Popular Will councilman		Special Action Forces officers suspected of the killing.

Asia

Main article: List of assassinations in Asia

Europe

Main article: List of assassinations in Europe

Oceania

Australia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
12 February 1894	William Paisley, Mayor of Burwood, 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
17 December 1980	Şarık Arıyak, Turkish Consul General	Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
10 January 1989	Colin Winchester, Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police
5 September 1994	John Newman, New South Wales State Member for Cabramatta	Phuong Ngo, local club owner and political opponent

New Caledonia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
4 May 1989	Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak independence leader	Djubelly Wéa

New Zealand

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
5 February 1962	James Patrick Ward, barrister	Unknown	Killed by a parcel bomb. Assailant was never identified.

Samoa

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
16 July 1999	Luagalau Levaula Kamu, Minister of Public Works	Eletise Leafa Vitale, son of the victim's disgraced predecessor Leafa Vitale

Palau

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
30 June 1985	Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau	Unknown

Solomon Islands

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
20 August 2002	Augustine Geve, Minister for Youth, Women and Sports	Ronnie Cawa, Francis Lela, Harold Keke

West Papua

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
26 April 1984	Arnold Ap, songman and ethnomusicologist		Shot in back by an Indonesian military unit upon release from prison
14 March 1996	Thomas Wainggai, Independence leader		Allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers in Cipinang prison.
10 November 2001	Theys Eluay, West Papuan Independence movement leader		Assassinated by Kopassus officers after attending a military dinner in Jayapura
16 December 2009	Kelly Kwalik, West Papuan guerrilla leader		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Timika
14 June 2012	Mako Tabuni, Chairman of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB)		Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura

See also

• List of assassinated anticolonialist leaders
• List of assassinations by car bombing
• List of assassinated and executed heads of state and government
• List of assassinated serving ambassadors
• List of Israeli assassinations
• List of Iranian assassinations
• List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts
• List of people who survived assassination attempts
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of fictional assassins
• List of assassinations by the Assassins