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Assassinations in Africa

Algeria

• Hiempsal
  Hiempsal I
  
  Hiempsal I, son of Micipsa and grandson of Masinissa, was a king of Numidia in the late 2nd century BC.Micipsa, on his death?bed, left his two sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal, together with his cousin, Jugurtha, joint heirs of his kingdom....
  , (117 BC), co-ruler of Numidia
  Numidia
  
  Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
  
• François Darlan
  François Darlan
  
  Fran?ois Darlan was a France naval officer. Darlan rose through the French Navy, ultimately becoming Admiral of the Fleet, and was a major figure of the Vichy France regime during World War II....
  , (1942), senior figure of Vichy France
  Vichy France
  
  Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
  
• Maurice Audin
  Maurice Audin
  
  Maurice Audin was a French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers....
  , (1957), communist mathematician
• Mohamed Khemisti, (1963 April 11), Algerian foreign minister
• Mustafa Bouyali
  Mustafa Bouyali
  
  Mustafa Bouyali was the leader of the Algerian Islamic Armed Movement, a guerrilla group based around Larbaa south of Algiers, from 1982 to 1987....
  , (1987), Islamic fundamentalist
• Mohamed Boudiaf, (1992 June 29), President of Algeria, shot at Annaba
• Youcef Sebti, (1993), poet
• Kasdi Merbah
  Kasdi Merbah
  
  Kasdi Merbah was the prime minister of Algeria from November 5 1988 until September 9 1989.He was a member of the National Liberation Front , which ruled the country at that time....
  , (1993), former Prime Minister of Algeria
• Abdelkader Alloula
  Abdelkader Alloula
  
  Abdelkader Alloula was an Algerian playwright, born in 1929 and assassinated in 1994.He was born in Ghazaouet in western Algeria, and studied drama in France....
  , (1994), playwright
• Cheb Hasni
  Cheb Hasni
  
  Cheb Hasni born Hasni Chakroun was a performer of Algerian Ra? music. He was popular across North Africa, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  , (1994), singer
• Lounès Matoub
  Lounès Matoub
  
  Loun?s Matoub was a famous Berber Kabyle people singer who was a prominent advocate of the Berber people cause and secularism in Algeria throughout his life....
  , (1998), singer
• Abdelkader Hachani
  Abdelkader Hachani
  
  Abdelkader Hachani was a leading figure and founding member of the Islamic Salvation Front, an Algerian Islamist party. Following the arrests of Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj on June 30, 1991, he became the party's effective leader He led the party to victory in the Algerian National Assembly elections, 1991 of December 1991; shortly aft...
  , (1999), Islamic fundamentalist
  Islamic fundamentalism
  
  Islamic fundamentalism Arabic language: usul , is a term used to describe religious ideologies seen as advocating a return to the "fundamentals" of Islam: the Quran and the Sunnah....
  

Angola

• Jeremias Chitunda
  Jeremias Chitunda
  
  Jeremias Kalandula Chitunda served as the Vice President of UNITA until his assassination in Luanda, as part of the Halloween Massacre shortly after the first round of the Angolan presidential election, 1992, held on September 29-30....
  , 1992, Vice President of UNITA
  UNITA
  
  The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan War for Independence and then against the MPLA in the ensuing Angolan Civil War ....
  
• Elias Salupeto Pena
  Elias Salupeto Pena
  
  Elias Salupeto Pena served as the representative of UNITA, an anti-Communist rebel group that fought against the MPLA in the Angolan Civil War, to the Joint Military and Political Commission....
  , 1992, UNITA
  UNITA
  
  The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan War for Independence and then against the MPLA in the ensuing Angolan Civil War ....
   senior advisor
• Jonas Savimbi
  Jonas Savimbi
  
  Jonas Malheiro Savimbi led UNITA, an Anti-communism rebel group that fought against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan Civil War until his death in a clash with Government troops in 2002....
  , 2002, Angolan political and rebel leader (KIA) killed in action.

Burkina Faso

• Thomas Sankara
  Thomas Sankara
  
  Captain Thomas Isidore No?l Sankara was the leader of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. While noted for his personal charisma and praised for promoting health and women's rights, he also antagonised many vested interests in the country....
  , (1987), Head of State of Burkina Faso
• Clément Oumarou Ouédraogo, (1991), opposition leader
• Norbert Zongo
  Norbert Zongo
  
  Norbert Zongo was the publisher and editor of the Burkina Faso newspaper l'Ind?pendant. He was assassinated after his newspaper began investigating the murder of a driver who had worked for the brother of President Blaise Compaor?....
  , (1998), journalist

Burundi

• Louis Rwagasore
  Louis Rwagasore
  
  Prince Louis Rwagasore was a Burundi nationalist and Prime Minister of Burundi. He was the son of Mwami Mwambutsa IV. He briefly attended university in Belgium, but left to spearhead his country's anti-colonialism movement....
  , (1961), Prime Minister of Burundi
• Jean Nduwabike, (1962), trade union leader
• Gabriel Gihimbare, (1964), first Roman Catholic bishop of Hutu descent
• Pierre Ngendandumwe
  Pierre Ngendandumwe
  
  Pierre Ngendandumwe was a Burundian political figure. He was a member of the Union for National Progress and was an ethnic Hutu. On June 18 1963, about a year after Burundi gained independence and amidst efforts to bring about political cooperation between Hutus and the dominant minority Tutsis, Ngendandumwe became Burundi's first Hutu prime...
  , (1965 January 15), Prime Minister of Burundi
• Joseph Bamina
  Joseph Bamina
  
  Joseph Bamina was a Burundian politician. Bamina was Prime Minister of Burundi from 26 January to 30 September 1965. He was assassinated....
  , (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
  Melchior Ndadaye
  
  Melchior Ndadaye was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark Burundi presidential election, 1993....
  , (1993), President of Burundi, Founder of The Burundi Workers' Party
• Gilles Bimazubute, (1993),
• Cyprien Ntaryamina, (1994 April 6), President of Burundi, airplane shot down
• Kassi Manlan
  Kassi Manlan
  
  Dr. Kassi Manlan was a World Health Organization representative who was assassinated in Burundi in 2001.Manlan was a citizen of C?te d'Ivoire, but he resided in Bujumbura, Burundi at the time of his assassination....
  , (2001), World Health Organisation representative

Cameroon

• Ruben Um Nyobé
  Ruben Um Nyobé
  
  Ruben Um Nyob? was an anti-imperialist Cameroonian leader, slain by the French army on September 13, 1958, near his natal village of Boumnyebel, in the department of Nyong-et-Kell? in the maquis Bassa....
  , (1958), leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
  Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
  
  The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon is a political party in Cameroon.UPC was founded on April 10 1948, at a meeting in the bar Chez Sierra in Bassa....
   (UPC)

Central African Republic

• Jean Izamo
  Jean Izamo
  
  Jean-Henri Izamo was the head of the gendarmerie of the Central African Republic. He was killed following the Saint-Sylvestre coup d??tat....
  , 1966, head of the gendarmerie
  Gendarmerie
  
  A gendarmerie or gendarmery is a military body charged with police duties among civilian populations. The members of such a body are called gendarmes....
   in David Dacko
  David Dacko
  
  David Dacko was the first President of the Central African Republic , from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981....
  's government
• Prosper Mounoumbaye, 1966, head of presidential security guard in David Dacko
  David Dacko
  
  David Dacko was the first President of the Central African Republic , from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981....
  's government
• Alexandre Banza
  Alexandre Banza
  
  Lieutenant Colonel Alexandre Banza was a Central African Republic military officer and politician. Born in Carnot, Central African Republic, Central African Republic, Banza served with the French Army during the First Indochina War before joining the Military of the Central African Republic....
  , 1969, top-level minister in Jean-Bédel Bokassa
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa
  
  Jean-B?del Bokassa was the military ruler of the Central African Republic from January 1 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from December 41976 until he was overthrown on 20 September 1979....
  's government

Chad

• François Tombalbaye
  François Tombalbaye
  
  Fran?ois Tombalbaye, also called Ngarta Tombalbaye , was a teacher and a trade union activist who served as the first president of Chad. He was born in the southern region of the country in the Moyen-Chari Prefecture near the city of Koumara and was of the Sara people ethnic group, the prominent ethnicity in the five southern prefectur...
  , (1975), President of Chad

Comoros

• Ali Soilih
  Ali Soilih
  
  Ali Soilih was a Comoros socialism revolutionary and political figure.Soilih was born in Majunga, Madagascar. He lived much of his early life there, and was educated in Madagascar and France....
  , (1978), former President of Comoros
• Ahmed Abdallah
  Ahmed Abdallah
  
  Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane was a Comoros politician. He was President of the Comoros from 25 October, 1978 until his death....
  , (1989), President of Comoros

Congo (Brazzaville)

• Marien Ngouabi
  Marien Ngouabi
  
  Marien Ngouabi was the military President of the Republic of the Congo from January 1, 1969 to March 18, 1977.For political reasons, President Alphonse Massamba-D?bat demoted Ngouabi, a captain with leftist views, to the rank of soldier second class on June 25 1966 and later had him arrested on July 29 1968....
  , (1977 March 18), President of the Congo, shot at Brazzaville
• Émile Biayenda, (1977), Archbishop of Brazzaville
• Pierre Anga, (1988), rebel leader

Congo (Kinshasa)

• Kabongo Boniface Kalowa, (1960),
• Patrice Lumumba
  Patrice Lumumba
  
  Patrice ?mery Lumumba was an African anti-colonial leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped to win its independence from Belgium in June 1960....
  , (1961 January 17), former Prime Minister of the Congo
• Maurice Mpolo, (1961 January 17), former Youth Minister, and Lumumba associate
• Joseph Okito, (1961 January 17), Senate Vice-President and Lumumba associate
• Ferdinand Kabange Numbi, (1964),
• André Lubaya, (1968),
• Laurent Kabila, (2001 January 16), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, shot by bodyguard

Côte d'Ivoire

• Robert Guéi
  Robert Guéï
  
  Robert Gu?? was the military ruler of the C?te d'Ivoire from December 24, 1999 to October 26, 2000.Gu?? was born in Kabakouma, a village in the western Man, C?te d'Ivoire region, and was a member of the Yakouba tribe....
  , (2002), former President of Côte d'Ivoire
• Émile Boga Doudou
  Émile Boga Doudou
  
  ?mile Boga Doudou was an Cote d'Ivoire politician who served as Minister of State for the Interior and Decentralization from 2000 to 2002. He was killed in the failed coup attempt that marked the start of the Ivorian Civil War....
  , (2002), Interior minister
• Muhammad Ahmad alRashid, (2003), Saudi ambassador

Egypt

• Pompey the Great, (48 BC), Roman politician killed in Egypt
• Germanicus
  Germanicus
  
  Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
  , (19), Roman military leader
• Al-Afdal Shahanshah
  Al-Afdal Shahanshah
  
  al-Malik al-Afdal ibn Badr al-Jamali Shahanshah was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt....
  , (1121), vizier
  Vizier
  
  A Vizier , is a term for a high-ranking political advisor or minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, or Sultan. It sometimes refers to ministers and advisors of the Persian Empire's Shahs....
   of Fatimid
  Fatimid
  
  The Fatimid Caliphate or al-Fatimiyyun was an Arab Shi'a dynasty that ruled over varying areas of the Maghreb, Egypt, Sicily, Malta and the Levant from 5 January 909 to 1171....
   Egypt
• Al-Amir
  Al-Amir
  
  Al-Amir bi'A?kami l-Lah was the tenth Fatimid Caliph .Like his father al-Musta'li , al-Amir was controlled by the regent al-Afdal Shahanshah and had little influence in political matters....
  , (1130), Fatimid Caliph
  Caliph
  
  The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah....
  
• Qutuz
  Qutuz
  
  Saif ad-Din Qutuz, also spelled Kutuz, Although Qutuz's reign was short, he is one of the most popular Mamluk sultans in the Islamic world and holds one of the highest positions in Islamic history....
  , (1260), Mamluk
  Mamluk
  
  A mamluk was a slavery soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ayyubid sultans from the 9th to the 13th centuries....
   sultan of Egypt
• Khalil
  Khalil
  
  al-Malik al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Qalawun ; . Was the eighth Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 1290 until his assassination in December, 1293....
  , (1293), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• Jean Baptiste Kléber
  Jean Baptiste Kléber
  
  Jean Baptiste Kl?ber was a France general during the French Revolutionary Wars....
  , (1800), French general
• Boutros Ghali
  Boutros Ghali
  
  Boutros Ghali was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was a Coptic Christianity.He was accused of favouring the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the Denshawai and on February 20, 1910, Ghali was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the United Kingdo...
  , (1910), Prime Minister of Egypt
  Prime Minister of Egypt
  
  The Prime Minister of Egypt is the head of the Egyptian government. According to the constitution, the prime minister is the leader of the largest political party in the Egyptian parliament....
  
• Sir Lee Stack
  Lee Stack
  
  Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack was a British army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On 19 November 1924, he was shot and assassinated while driving through Cairo....
  , (1924), Governor-General
  Governor-General
  
  The term governor general or governor-general refers to a Viceroy representative of a Monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription....
   of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  
  The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan referred to the manner by which Sudan was administered between 1899 and 1956, when it was a condominium of Egypt and the United Kingdom....
  
• Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, (1944), the UK
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  's Minister Resident in the Middle East
• Ahmed Maher Pasha, (1945 February 24), Prime Minister of Egypt
• Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, (1948 December 28), Prime Minister of Egypt
• Hassan al-Banna
  Hassan al-Banna
  
  Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptians social and political reformer, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential 20th century Muslim revivalist organizations....
  , (1949), founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
  Muslim Brotherhood
  
  The Muslim Brothers is a transnational Sunni Islam movement and the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states, particularly Egypt....
  
• Anwar Sadat
  Anwar Sadat
  
  Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat , was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981....
  , (1981 October 6), President of Egypt
  President of Egypt
  
  The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the elected Head of State of Egypt.Under the Constitution of Egypt, the President is also the Commander-in-chief of the armed forces and head of the Executive branch of the Cabinet of Egypt....
  , shot while reviewing military parade
• Rifaat al-Mahgoub, (1990), speaker of Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  ian parliament
• Farag Foda
  Farag Foda
  
  Farag Foda was an important Egyptian thinker, human rights activist, writer, and columnist....
  , (1992), Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  ian politician and intellectual

Equatorial Guinea

• Atanasio Ndongo Miyone, Saturnino Ibongo, Bonifacio Ondó Edu
  Bonifacio Ondó Edu
  
  Bonifacio Ond? Edu was the List of Prime Ministers of Equatorial Guinea of Equatorial Guinea while it was still under Spanish colonial rule. He took office when the country gained autonomy in 1963 and handed power to President Francisco Mac?as Nguema on 12 October 1968 ....
  , Armando Balboa, Pastor Torao and many others, (1969), Equatorial Guinea
  Equatorial Guinea
  
  The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a Spanish-speaking country located in Central Africa. With an area of 28,000 km2 it is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa, having a population estimated at half a million....
  n politicians, in murderous crackdown after coup attempt against President Francisco Macías Nguema
  Francisco Macías Nguema
  
  Francisco Mac?as Nguema was the first President of Equatorial Guinea of Equatorial Guinea, from 1968 until his overthrow in 1979....
  

Ethiopia

• Tilahun Gizaw, (1969), Ethiopia
  Ethiopia
  
  Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
  n student leader

The Gambia

• Deyda Hydara
  Deyda Hydara
  
  Deyda Hydara was a co-founder and primary editor of The Point , a major independent The Gambia newspaper. He was also a correspondent for both Agence France-Presse and Reporters Without Borders for more than 30 years....
  , (2004), journalist

Guinea

• Amílcar Cabral
  Amílcar Cabral
  
  Am?lcar Lopes Cabral was an African agronomist, writer, Marxist and nationalist politician. Cabral led African nationalism movements in Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and led Guinea-Bissau's independence movement....
  , (1973), Pan-African intellectual, in Conakry
  Conakry
  
  Conakry or Konakry is the Capital and largest city of Guinea.Guinea's capital city is a port on the Atlantic Ocean. Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the ?les de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula....
  , Guinea
  Guinea
  
  Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 ....
  

Guinea Bissau

• Batista Tagme Na Waie
  Batista Tagme Na Waie
  
  General Batista Tagme Na Waie, also transliterated as Batista Tagme Na Wai was chief of staff of the army of Guinea-Bissau.Tagme Na Waie was born in Cati?....
  , (2009), chief of staff of the army
• Joao Bernardo Vieira
  João Bernardo Vieira
  
  Jo?o Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was the Heads of State of Guinea-Bissau of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2009. After seizing power in 1980, Vieira ruled for 19 years, and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994....
  , (2009, March 2), President of Guinea Bissau

Kenya

• Pio Gama Pinto
  Pio Gama Pinto
  
  Pio Gama Pinto was a Kenyan journalist and politician....
  , (1965), socialist politician
• Tom Mboya
  Tom Mboya
  
  Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a prominent Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta's government. He was founder of the Nairobi People's Congress Party, a key figure in the formation of the Kenya African National Union , and the Minister of Economic Planning and Development at the time of his death....
  , (1969 July 5), Kenya
  Kenya
  
  The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
  n Minister of Economic Planning and politician
• Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
  Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
  
  Josiah Mwangi Kariuki was a Kenyan socialist politician during the administration of the Jomo Kenyatta government. He held different government positions from 1963, when Kenya became an independent country, to 1975, when he was assassinated....
  , (1975), Kenyan politician
• Joy Adamson
  Joy Adamson
  
  Joy Adamson was a naturalist and author, best known for her book, Born Free , which described her experiences in raising Elsa the Lioness from cub to lioness....
  , (1980 January 3), Author of Born Free
  Born Free
  
  Born Free is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy Adamson and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya....
  , stabbed. Paul Nakware Ekai, a discharged laborer formerly employed by Adamson, was found guilty.
• Robert Ouko
  Robert Ouko
  
  The Honorable Minister John Robert Ouko , commonly known as Robert Ouko, was a Kenyan politician who served as List of Foreign Ministers of Kenya of Kenya....
  , (1990), foreign minister of Kenya
  Kenya
  
  The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
  
• Karimi Nduthu, (1996), opposition activist
• Mugabe Were
  Mugabe Were
  
  Mellitus Mugabe Were was a Kenyan politician affiliated to the Orange Democratic Movement . He was elected to the National Assembly of Kenya to represent Embakasi Constituency in the Kenyan parliamentary elections, 2007 held on December 27, 2007....
  , (2008), member of the National Assembly for the Orange Democratic Movement
  Orange Democratic Movement
  
  Orange Democratic Movement refers to a political party in Kenya, which is the successor of a former grassroots people's movement which was formed in the Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2005....
  
• David Too, (2008), member of the National Assembly for the Orange Democratic Movement
• Oscar Kamau Kingara, (2009), human rights activist
• John Paul Oulo, (2009), human rights activist

Lesotho

• Selometsi Baholo, Deputy Prime Minister
• Mont'si Vincent Makhele
• Motuba
• Seheri
• Selala Sekhonyana
• Desmond T'sepo Sixishe

Liberia

• William R. Tolbert, Jr.
  William R. Tolbert, Jr.
  
  William Richard Tolbert, Jr. was president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980.Trained as a civil servant, he entered the country's House of Representatives in 1955 for the True Whig Party, then the only legal party in the country....
  , (1980 April 12), president of Liberia killed in military coup
• Samuel Doe
  Samuel Doe
  
  Samuel Kanyon Doe was the President of Liberia from 1980 to 1990. His regime was characterized by ethnically-based dictatorship and the suppression of political opposition....
  , (1990), president of Liberia

Madagascar

• Radama II of Madagascar
  Radama II of Madagascar
  
  Radama II was king of the Merina Kingdom which controlled nearly all the island of Madagascar. He ruled from 1861 until his assassination in 1863....
  , (1863), king of Madagascar
• Richard Ratsimandrava
  Richard Ratsimandrava
  
  Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava was President of Madagascar for six days in February 1975. His assassination in 1975 led to a civil war....
  , (1975 February 11), president of Madagascar shot 6 days after taking power in military coup

Mozambique

• Eduardo Mondlane
  Eduardo Mondlane
  
  Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane served as President of the Mozambican Liberation Front from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969....
  , (1969), leader of the independence FRELIMO movement, allegedly killed by the Portuguese branch of Gladio
• Carlos Cardoso
  Carlos Cardoso
  
  Carlos Cardoso was a Mozambique journalist. His murder in 2000 followed his newspaper's investigation into corruption in the privatisation of Mozambique's biggest bank....
  , (2000), Mozambican journalist

Namibia

• Clemens Kapuuo
  Clemens Kapuuo
  
  Clemens Kapuuo was a Namibian school teacher, shopkeeper and chief of the Herero people of Namibia. Kapuuo was one of the leading opponents of South African rule of his country up until his assassination following the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in March 1978....
   (1978), Herero
  Herero
  
  The Herero are a people belonging to the Bantu peoples group, with about 240,000 members alive today. The majority live in Namibia, with the remainder living in Botswana and Angola....
   chief and politician
• Anton Lubowski
  Anton Lubowski
  
  Anton Theodor Eberhard August Lubowski was a Namibian advocate and SWAPO member assassinated by operatives of South Africa?s Civil Cooperation Bureau....
   (1989), leading white SWAPO activist

Niger

• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
  Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
  
  Ibrahim Bar? Ma?nassara was a military officer in the West African country of Niger who seized power in a January 1996 coup d'?tat and ruled the country until his assassination during the military coup of April 1999....
  , (1999 April 9), President of Niger, ambushed by soldiers

Nigeria

• Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
  Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
  
  Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a Nigerian politician, and the first prime minister of an independent Nigeria. Originally a trained teacher, he became a vocal leader for Northern interest as one of the few educated Nigerians of his time....
  , (1966), Prime Minister of Nigeria killed during military coup
• Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello
  Ahmadu Bello
  
  Al-Haji Sir Ahmadu Bello was a Nigerian politician, and was the first premier of the Northern Nigeria region from 1954-1966. He was one of the prominent leaders in Northern Nigeria alongside Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, both of whom where prominent in negotiations about the region's place in an independent Nigeria....
  , (1966)
• Adekunle Fajuyi
  Adekunle Fajuyi
  
  Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, , was the first military governor of the former Western Region, Nigeria. Originally a clerk, the late Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi of Ado Ekiti joined the Army in 1943 as a Non Commissioned Officer, and he was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1951 for helping to contain a mutiny in his unit over food rations...
  , (1966)
• Samuel Akintola
  Samuel Akintola
  
  Samuel Ladoke Akintola or "S.L.A." was a Nigeria politician, lawyer and orator born in Ogbomosho, south west Nigeria. Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba....
  , (1966)
• Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
  Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
  
  Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was a Nigerian soldier. He served as the List of Presidents of Nigeria of Nigeria from January 16, 1966 until he was overthrown and murdered on July 29, 1966 by his over throwers....
  , (1966), military head of state
• Murtala Ramat Mohammed, (1976 February 13), President of Nigeria
  Nigeria
  
  Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
   
• Dele Giwa
  Dele Giwa
  
  Dele Giwa was a Nigerian journalist who was killed by a mail bomb in his home on October 19 1986. His wife and infant daughter were upstairs when the bomb exploded, and were unharmed....
  , (1986), journalist
• Bola Ige
  Bola Ige
  
  James Ajibola Idowu Ige simply known as Bola Ige was a Nigeria and prominent Yoruba people politician. He was born in Esa-Oke village, now in Osun State....
  , (2001), justice minister of Nigeria
• Marshall Sokari Harry, politician (2003 March 5)
• Sheikh Ja'afar Mahmoud Adam, (2007), Islamic Scholar

Rwanda

• Dian Fossey
  Dian Fossey
  
  Dian Fossey was an American Ethology who completed an extended study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontology Louis Leakey....
  , (1985), primatologist, in the province of Ruhengeri
  Ruhengeri
  
  Ruhengeri is a city in Musanze district, in the North Province, Rwanda of Rwanda. It is also sometimes known as Musanze due to being the district headquarters....
  
• Agathe Uwilingiyimana
  Agathe Uwilingiyimana
  
  Agathe Uwilingiyimana was a Rwandan political figure. She served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 18 July 1993 until her death on 7 April 1994....
  , (1994), Prime Minister of Rwanda
  Rwanda
  
  The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
   killed one day after genocide began
• Juvénal Habyarimana
  Juvénal Habyarimana
  
  Juv?nal Habyarimana is the former President of Rwanda. He was President of Rwanda from 1973 until he was killed when his airplane, carrying also the President of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down in 1994....
  , (1994 April 6), his plane was shot out of the sky as it approached Kigali airport, and signalled the start of the Rwandan Genocide
  Rwandan Genocide
  
  The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus under the Hutu Power ideology....
   

Somalia

• Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
  Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
  
  nationality=Somali people|image=Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.jpg|order=2nd President of Somalia|term_start=June 10, 1967|term_end=October 15, 1969|predecessor=Aden Abdullah Osman Daar...
  , (1969), president of Somalia
• George Adamson
  George Adamson
  
  George Adamson , the "Baba ya Simba" of Africa, was one of the founding fathers of wildlife conservation and an author. He and his wife Joy Adamson are best known through the book and film Born Free, which is based on the true story of Elsa the lioness, an orphaned lioness cub they raised and later released into the wild....
  , (1989), British naturalist, at Kora

South Africa

• Shaka
  Shaka
  
  Shaka was the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire.He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mthethwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the large portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo River and Mzimkhulu River river...
  , (1828), king of the Zulus, near Stanger (now KwaDukuza) by Dingane
  Dingane
  
  Dingane kaSenzangakhona Zulu ?commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan?was a Zulu chief who became monarch in 1828, setting up his kraal Ngungunhlovu at ....
   and Mhlangana
• Mhlangana, (1828), Zulu prince murdered by Dingane
  Dingane
  
  Dingane kaSenzangakhona Zulu ?commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan?was a Zulu chief who became monarch in 1828, setting up his kraal Ngungunhlovu at ....
  . Shaka, Mhlangana, Dingane, Mpande and others were half-brothers, sons of a Zulu chief Senzangakhona with different wives.
• Hendrik Verwoerd, (1966 September 6), Prime Minister of South Africa, stabbed in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas
  Dimitri Tsafendas
  
  Dimitri Tsafendas assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. Tsafendas, working as a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd with a dagger during a parliamentary session....
   
• Onkgopotse Tiro, (1974), South Africa
  South Africa
  
  The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
  n student leader
• Steve Biko
  Steve Biko
  
  Stephen Bantu Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population....
  , 1977, anti-apartheid activist
• Ruth First
  Ruth First
  
  Ruth First was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was killed by a letter bomb addressed specifically to her in Mozambique, where she worked in exile from South Africa....
  , (1982), anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo
  Joe Slovo
  
  For Joe Slovo Informal Settlement in Cape Town, see: Joe Slovo .Joe Slovo was a South African politician, long-time leader of the South African Communist Party , and leading member of the African National Congress....
  , by pro-apartheid "Koevoet
  Koevoet
  
  Koevoet , also known as "Operation K" and officially known as the "South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit" , was a SWAPOL counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa during the 1970s and 1980s....
  " leader Craig Williamson
  Craig Williamson
  
  Craig Michael Williamson , a former South African police major, was exposed as a spy in 1980, and was involved in a series of state-sponsored overseas bombings, burglaries, kidnappings, assassinations and propaganda during the History of South Africa in the apartheid era....
  
• Vernon Nkadimeng
  Vernon Nkadimeng
  
  Vernon Nkadimeng was a member of the African National Congress who was killed while in exile in Botswana by the South Africa under apartheid....
  , (1985), South African dissident
• Dulcie September, (1988), head of the African National Congress
  African National Congress
  
  The African National Congress has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in May 1994....
   in Paris
  Paris
  
  Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
  , by South African Defense Force sergeant Joseph Klue
• Chris Hani
  Chris Hani
  
  Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress ....
  , (1993), leader of the South African Communist Party
  South African Communist Party
  
  South African Communist Party is a political party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa by the joining together of the International Socialist League and others under the leadership of Willam H....
   shot by Janusz Walus
  Janusz Walus
  
  Janusz Walus is a Poland immigrant to South Africa who assassinated South African Communist Party chairman Chris Hani on April 10, 1993.The timing of the event, just prior to the first democratic elections in South Africa, caused considerable political tension in the country....
  
• Johan Heyns
  Johan Heyns
  
  Johan Adam Heyns , was an influential Afrikaner Calvinism theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk . He was Assassination at his home in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria....
  , (1995), prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church
  Dutch Reformed Church
  
  Dutch Reformed Church was one of many branches of churches established during the Protestant Reformation in Europe in the sixteenth century. While the Dutch Reformed Church was based in the Netherlands, other churches holding similar theological views were founded in France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, England, and Scotland....
  
• Mbongeleni Zondi
  Mbongeleni Zondi
  
  Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi was a Zulu chief and great-grandson of Inkosi Bambatha kaMancinza, who led a Bambatha Rebellion against British rule in 1906....
  , (2009), South African politician

Sudan

• Cleo Noel Jr and George Curtis Moore
  George Curtis Moore
  
  George Curtis Moore was an American diplomat who was assassinated during a terrorist attack on the United States embassy in Khartoum, Sudan....
  , (1973 March 2), US Chief of Mission/Deputy Chief ot Mission (see 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)
• Guy Eid, (1973), Belgian Chargé d'affaires (see 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations)
• John Granville
  John Granville
  
  John M. Granville was an United States diplomat who worked in South Sudan. On January 1, 2008, he was assassinated in a shooting in Khartoum, Sudan at the age of 33....
  , (2008), diplomat for the United States Agency for International Development
  United States Agency for International Development
  
  The United States Agency for International Development is the Federal government of the United States organization responsible for most non-military aid foreign aid....
  

Swaziland

• Gabriel Mkhumane
  Gabriel Mkhumane
  
  Gabriel Mkhumane was a Swazi physician and opposition leader. He was the deputy president of the People's United Democratic Movement , Swaziland main opposition party....
   (2008), political opposition leader

Tanzania

• Abeid Amani Karume, (1972), first President of Zanzibar
  Zanzibar
  
  Zanzibar is part of the East African republic of Tanzania. It consists of the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25?50 km off the coast of the mainland....
  , First Vice President of Tanzania
  Tanzania
  
  Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
  
• David Sibeko
  David Sibeko
  
  David Maphgumzana Sibeko , was known as the "Malcolm X of South Africa" and began his political career as a journalist for the black South African Magazine Drum ....
  , (1979), South African political activist

Togo

• Sylvanus Olympio
  Sylvanus Olympio
  
  File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F010355-0005, M?nchen, Pr?sident von Togo.jpgSylvanus Epiphanio Olympio was a Togolese political figure....
  , (1963 January 13), first president of independent Togo
  Togo
  
  Togo is a narrow country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lom? is located....
  , in a coup led by dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma
  Gnassingbé Eyadéma
  
  General Gnassingb? Eyad?ma, formerly ?tienne Eyad?ma , was the List of Presidents of Togo of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005. He participated in two successful military Coup d'?tat, in 1963 Togolese coup d'?tat and 1967 Togolese coup d'?tat, and became President on April 14, 1967....
   
• Tavio Amorin
  Tavio Amorin
  
  Octave Tavio Tobias Ayao Amorin was a Togo socialism politician. He led the Pan-African Socialist Party, the ideology of which was influenced by the following three important african leaders:...
  , (1992), socialist leader (shot in Lomé
  Lomé
  
  Lom?, estimated population of 737,751, is the Capital and largest city of Togo. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lom? is the country's administrative and industrial centre and its chief port....
  , died in Paris
  Paris
  
  Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
  )

Tunisia

• Khalil Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), (1988 April 16), military leader of the PLO
  Palestine Liberation Organization
  
  The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."...
  , shot by Israeli commandos in Tunis
  Tunis
  
  Tunis is the Capital of the Tunisian Republic and also the Tunis Governorate, with a population of 1 200,000 in 2008 and over 3,980,500 in the municipal area....
   
• Salah Khalaf
  Salah Khalaf
  
  Salah Mesbah Khalaf , also known as Abu Iyad was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and, for many years, the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat....
   ("Abu Iyad"), (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia

Uganda

• Benedicto Kiwanuka
  Benedicto Kiwanuka
  
  Benedicto Kabimu Mugumba Kiwanuka was the first Prime Minister of Uganda, leader of the Democratic Party and one of the early leaders that led the country in the transition between colonial British rule and independence....
  , (1972), Chief Justice of Uganda
  Uganda
  
  The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
  
• Janani Luwum
  Janani Luwum
  
  Janani Jakaliya Luwum , was the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda from 1974 to 1977 and one of the most influential leaders of the modern church in Africa....
  , (1977), Archbishop of Uganda
  Uganda
  
  The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
  , Rwanda
  Rwanda
  
  The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
  , Burundi
  Burundi
  
  Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the south and east, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west....
   and Boga-Zaire from 1974 until 1977

Zambia

• Herbert Chitepo
  Herbert Chitepo
  
  Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo led the Zimbabwe African National Union until the Central Intelligence Organization of Rhodesia assassinated him in March 1975....
  , (1975), Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe
  
  Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east....
  an nationalist leader

Zimbabwe

• Mlimo, (1896), Ndebele
  Ndebele people (Zimbabwe)
  
  The Ndebele are a branch of the Zulus who split from Shaka in the early 1820s under the leadership of Mzilikazi, a former general in Shaka's army....
   spiritual leader and instigator of the Second Matabele War
  Second Matabele War
  
  The Second Matabele War, also known as the Matabeleland Rebellion and in Zimbabwe as the First Chimurenga, took place from 1896?97....
  ; assassinated by Frederick Russell Burnham
  Frederick Russell Burnham
  
  Frederick Russell Burnham, Distinguished Service Order was an United States military scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching Scoutcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scou...
  , an American scout.
• Attati Mpakati
  Attati Mpakati
  
  Attati Mpakati was a Malawi dissident and leader of the Socialist League of Malawi from 1975 until his death. He was killed by a letter bomb while in exile in Zimbabwe....
  , (1983), left-wing Malawi
  Malawi
  
  The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west....
  an politician

Assassinations in the Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

• Daniel Parke
  Daniel Parke
  
  Daniel Parke sat on the colonial Virginia governor's Council from 1695 until 1697. His elder legitimate daughter married John Custis, and his younger married William Byrd II....
  , (1710), British governor of the Leeward Islands
  Leeward Islands
  
  The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain of islands, part of the West Indies. They are situated where the Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean....
  

Argentina

• Justo José de Urquiza
  Justo José de Urquiza
  
  Justo Jos? de Urquiza y Garc?a was an Argentina general and politician. He was president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860.As the caudillo of Entre R?os Province, Urquiza helped sustain the power of Juan Manuel de Rosas....
  , (1870), former president of Argentina
• Pedro Aramburu
  Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
  
  Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Cilveti Army General. Born in R?o Cuarto, C?rdoba, C?rdoba Province, Argentina on May 21, 1903. He was a major force behind the military uprising against Juan Per?n in 1955....
  , (1970), former president of Argentina
  President of Argentina
  
  The President of Argentina is the head of state of Argentina. Under Constitution of Argentina, the President is also the Head of government of the Politics of Argentina and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces....
   executed by the Montoneros
  Montoneros
  
  The Montonero Peronist Movement was an Argentina left-wing Peronist Guerrilla warfare, active during the 1960s and 1970s. Its motto was venceremos ....
  
• Carlos Prats
  Carlos Prats
  
  General Carlos Prats Gonz?lez was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as Chilean Army of the Chilean Army....
  , (1974), Chilean general
• Zelmar Michelini
  Zelmar Michelini
  
  Zelmar Michelini was a Uruguayan reporter and politician, murdered in Buenos Aires in 1976 in the frame of Operation Condor.Zelmar Michelini was member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1954 to 1958, and then of the Chamber of Senators starting in 1966....
  , (1976), Uruguayan senator
• Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
  Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
  
  H?ctor Guti?rrez Ruiz was a Uruguayan political figure, who died by assassination in the framework of Operation Condor....
  , (1976), speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives

Bermuda

• Sir Richard Sharples
  Richard Sharples
  
  Major Sir Richard Christopher Sharples Order of St Michael and St George Order of the British Empire Military Cross , St. George, Bermuda) was a United Kingdom politician and Governor of Bermuda from late 1972 to 10 March 1973 when he was shot dead by assassins linked to the militant Black Beret Cadre, a small Bermudian Black Power group....
  , (1973), governor of Bermuda
  Governor of Bermuda
  
  The Governor of Bermuda is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's British overseas territory of Bermuda. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government....
  

Bolivia

• Manuel Isidoro Belzu
  Manuel Isidoro Belzu
  
  Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez was president of Bolivia from 1848 to 1855.Born in La Paz, Bolivia to humble mestizo parentage, Belzu was educated by Franciscan friars and joined the wars of independence in his youth, combatting under Andr?s de Santa Cruz at Zepita when he was 17....
  , (1865), President
  President of Bolivia
  
  The President of Bolivia is the head of state of Bolivia. According to the current constitution, the president is elected by popular vote for a single non-renewable five year term....
   of Bolivia
  Bolivia
  
  The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
  
• Mariano Melgarejo
  Mariano Melgarejo
  
  Manuel Mariano Melgarejo Valencia was leader of his country, Bolivia, from December 28, 1864, to January 15, 1871.Melgarejo was born on April 13, 1820 in the Department of Cochabamba, being the illegitimate son of a Spanish-Bolivian and a Quechua Indian....
  , (1871), President of Bolivia
• Che Guevara
  Che Guevara
  
  Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentina Marxism revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader....
  , (1967), Argentine revolutionary leader
• Juan José Torres
  Juan José Torres
  
  Juan Jos? Torres Gonz?lez was a Bolivian socialism politician and military leader. He served as President of Bolivia from October 7, 1970 to August 21, 1971....
  , (1976), former President of Bolivia

Brazil

• Pinheiro Machado (politician)
  Pinheiro Machado (politician)
  
  Jos? Gomes Pinheiro Machado was a Brazilian republican politician. He fought for the establishment of the Republic in Brazil and for its consolidation....
  , (1915), Brazilian politician
• João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque
  João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque
  
  Jo?o Pessoa Cavalc?nti de Albuquerque , was the governor of Para?ba between 1928 and 1930. He was the vice-presidential nominee on the ticket of Get?lio Vargas in the 1930 presidential elections....
  , (1930)
• Adib Shishakli
  Adib Shishakli
  
  Adib ibn Hasan Shishakli born 1909, in Hamah, Syria, died September 27, 1964 in Ceres, Brazil, assassinated. was a Syrian military leader. President of Syria ....
  , (1964), Syrian military dictator
• Vladimir Herzog
  Vladimir Herzog
  
  Vlado "Vladimir" Herzog , was a Brazilian Jewish TV journalist, university professor and playwright, who was tortured to death by the political police due to ideology reasons....
  , (1975), Journalist
• Zuzu Angel
  Zuzu Angel
  
  Zuleika Angel Jones, known as Zuzu Angel, was a Brazilian fashion designer.When she was a child, she moved to Belo Horizonte, later living in Bahia....
  , (1976), Brazilian activist
• Leon Eliachar, (1987), Egyptian writer
• Chico Mendes
  Chico Mendes
  
  Francisco Alves Mendes Filho , better known as Chico Mendes , was a Brazilian Rubber tapping, Trade union and Environmentalism. He fought to stop the burning and logging of the Amazon Rainforest to clear land for ranch, and founded a national union of rubber tappers in an attempt to preserve their profession and the rainforest that it r...
  , (1988), Brazilian environmental activist
• Daniela Perez, (1992), Brazilian actress
• Paulo César Farias
  Paulo Cesar Farias
  
  Paulo Cesar Farias was the political campaign treasurer of Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello and a central figure in the corruption scandal that resulted in Collor's 1992 removal from Brazil's presidential office....
  , (1996), Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer
• Dorothy Stang
  Dorothy Stang
  
  Dorothy Mae Stang was an United States-born, Brazilian Nun#Distinction between nun and religious sister of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Religious order#Christian tradition, who was murdered in Anapu, a city in the state of Par?, in the Amazon Basin of Brazil....
  , (2005), American nun killed by business interests

Canada

• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, (1868), Canadian father of Confederation
• George Brown
  George Brown (Canadian politician)
  
  George Brown was a Scotland-born Canada journalist, politician and one of the Father of Confederation#Fathers of Confederation. A noted Reform Party politician, he was also the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe, which is today known as the Globe and Mail....
  , (1880), newspaper editor and Senator
• Sergio Pérez Castillo, (1968), Cuba
  Cuba
  
  The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
  n diplomat killed by anti-Castro forces in Montreal
• Pierre Laporte
  Pierre Laporte
  
  Pierre Laporte , was a Canada politician who was the Premier of Quebec and Minister of Labour of the province of Quebec before being kidnapped and murdered by members of the terrorist group Front de Lib?ration du Qu?bec during the October Crisis....
  , (1970), Quebec
  Quebec
  
  Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
   Minister of Labour, was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ
  Front de libération du Québec
  
  The Front de lib?ration du Qu?bec , commonly known as the FLQ, was a nationalist and Marxist revolutionary group in Quebec, Canada with at least two terrorist cells....
  
• Atilla Altikat
  Atilla Altikat
  
  Colonel Atilla Altikat was the Turkey military attach? to Ottawa, Canada, who was assassinated in 1982. The Armenian group, Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide, claimed responsibility for the attack....
  , (1982), Turkish diplomat assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa
  Ottawa
  
  Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
  
• Tara Singh Hayer
  Tara Singh Hayer
  
  Tara Singh Hayer, Order of British Columbia was a Sikh Canada newspaper publisher who was murder.Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India....
  , (1998), journalist killed by Sikh
  Sikh
  
  Sikh is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit ' "disciple, learner" or ' "instruction"....
   separatists

Chile

• René Schneider
  René Schneider
  
  General Ren? Schneider Chereau was the Chilean Army of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt....
  , (1970), Chilean general
• Edmundo Pérez Zujovic
  Edmundo Pérez Zujovic
  
  Edmundo P?rez Zujovic was a Chilean politician of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile. He was minister of the Interior, Public Works and Finance under the government of President Eduardo Frei Montalva ....
  , (1971), Chilean ex Secretary of interior affairs
• Victor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  
  V?ctor Lidio Jara Mart?nez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A distinguished theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of...
  , (1973), singer
• Jaime Guzmán
  Jaime Guzmán
  
  Jaime Jorge Guzm?n Err?zuriz was a Chilean lawyer and senator, member and ideological founder of the right-wing Independent Democrat Union party....
  , (1991), Chilean Senator

Colombia

• Antonio José de Sucre
  Antonio José de Sucre
  
  Antonio Jos? de Sucre y Alcal? was a South American independence leader. Sucre was one of Sim?n Bol?var's closest friends, generals and statesmen....
  , (1830), Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier
• Rafael Uribe Uribe
  Rafael Uribe Uribe
  
  Rafael Uribe Uribe was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, General in the Colombian military and later Colombian Liberal Party.Early years...
  , (1914), Lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier
• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
  Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
  
  File:Jorge Eli?cer Gait?n Ayala.jpgJorge Eli?cer Gait?n was a politician, a leader of a populism movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister and Labor Minister , List of mayors of Bogot? of Bogot? and chief of the Colombian Liberal Party ....
  , (1948), Liberal Party leader
• Rodrigo Lara Bonilla
  Rodrigo Lara Bonilla
  
  Rodrigo Lara Bonilla , is a former Colombian politician. He was appointed Colombian Minister for Justice in August 1983.He pursued cocaine traffickers mainly belonging to the Medell?n Cartel led by Pablo Escobar until he was assassinated on April 30, 1984, by orders of Pablo Escobar and carried out by the hitmen group known as Los Quesitos...
  , (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
  Jaime Pardo Leal
  
  Jaime Pardo Leal was the Presidential candidate of the Patriotic Union , Colombia for the 1986 elections.Members of the Patriotic Union became the target of multiple death threats and assassination attempts....
  , (1987), Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union
  Patriotic Union
  
  Patriotic Union is a name held by political party in some countries:*Patriotic Union *Patriotic Union *Spanish Patriotic Union...
   party
• Guillermo Cano Isaza
  Guillermo Cano Isaza
  
  Guillermo Cano Isaza was a Colombian journalist.The editor of the daily El Espectador, he was murdered in front of the paper's offices by two hitmen linked to Colombia's drug cartels....
  , (1986), Director of El Espectador
  El Espectador
  
  El Espectador is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Guti?rrez on 22 March 1887 in Medell?n and published since 1915 in Bogot?....
   newspaper
• Carlos Mauro Hoyos, (1988), Chief District Attorney
• José Antequera, (1989), Senator, member of the Patriotic Union
  Patriotic Union
  
  Patriotic Union is a name held by political party in some countries:*Patriotic Union *Patriotic Union *Spanish Patriotic Union...
   party
• Antonio Roldán Betancur, (1989), Governor of Antioquia
• Valdemar Franklin Quintero, (1989), Chief of Police of Antioquia
• Luis Carlos Galán
  Luis Carlos Galán
  
  Luis Carlos Gal?n Sarmiento was a Colombian journalist and Liberalism in Colombia politician who ran for the President of Colombia in two occasions, the first time representing the Colombian Liberal Party in 1982 which he lost to Belisario Betancur....
  , (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
  Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa
  
  Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa was a Colombian people politician member of the Colombian Communist Party. Jaramillo started working primarily in the Urab? Antioquia until 1986 when he assumed the presidency of the Patriotic Union after the assassination of Jaime Pardo Leal....
  , (1990 March 22), Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union
  Patriotic Union
  
  Patriotic Union is a name held by political party in some countries:*Patriotic Union *Patriotic Union *Spanish Patriotic Union...
   party
• Carlos Pizarro Leongómez
  Carlos Pizarro Leongómez
  
  Carlos Pizarro Leong?mez was the fourth commander of the Colombian Guerrilla warfare 19th of April Movement . Pizarro later ran for president of Colombia after the demobilization of M-19 that transformed the group into the political party, M-19 Democratic Alliance ....
  , (1990), Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party
• Diana Turbay
  Diana Turbay
  
  Diana Turbay Quintero was a Colombian journalist, killed during the rescue operation while kidnapped by the Medell?n Cartel. Her case was portrayed in a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, titled "News of a Kidnapping"....
   (1991), journalist and daughter of former Colombian president Julio César Turbay Ayala
  Julio César Turbay Ayala
  
  Julio C?sar Turbay Ayala was a Colombian politician, president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. A noteworthy personal idiosyncrasy was his custom of wearing bow ties, a sartorial habit extremely uncommon in Colombia....
  
• Enrique Low Murtra, Minister of Justice
• Myriam Rocío Vélez, Superior Judge of the Bogota Circuit
• Andrés Escobar
  Andrés Escobar
  
  Andr?s Escobar Saldarriaga was a Colombian international football player who was shot and killed in Medell?n. Some attribute the murder to his own goal in the Football World Cup 1994, costing gambling losses to several drug lords....
  , (1994), International footballer
• Manuel Cepeda Vargas
  Manuel Cepeda Vargas
  
  Manuel Cepeda Vargas was a Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist. He was assassinated in Bogota on August 9, 1994 within the framework of the genocide to Patriotic Union ....
  , (1994), Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union
  Patriotic Union
  
  Patriotic Union is a name held by political party in some countries:*Patriotic Union *Patriotic Union *Spanish Patriotic Union...
   party
• Alvaro Gómez Hurtado
  Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
  
  ?lvaro G?mez Hurtado was a Colombian people lawyer, politician, journalist and active member of the Colombian Conservative Party. G?mez was a son of the former President of Colombia, Laureano G?mez....
  , (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
  Patriotic Union
  
  Patriotic Union is a name held by political party in some countries:*Patriotic Union *Patriotic Union *Spanish Patriotic Union...
   party
• Jaime Garzón
  Jaime Garzón
  
  Jaime Garz?n Forero was a Colombian journalist, a comedian and political satirist.In addition to his work on TV, he also had roles as peace negotiator....
  , (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
  Guillermo Gaviria Correa
  
  Guillermo Gaviria Correa was the state governor of Antioquia and the leader of a major nonviolence movement. He was among ten hostages kidnapped and killed during a peace mission and massacred by FARC guerrillas in reaction to a military rescue attempt....
  , (2003), Governor of Antioquia
• Gilberto Echeverry Mejía, (2003), former Minister of Defense and peace advisor to the governor of Antioquia

Costa Rica

• Parmenio Medina, (2001), Journalist

Cuba

• Antonio Guiteras
  Antonio Guiteras
  
  Antonio Guiteras y Holmes was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s.A proponent of revolutionary socialism, he participated in the radical government installed after the overthrow of the autocratic right wing Cuban President Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933....
  , (1935), Revolutionary Socialist Leader

Dominican Republic

• Ulises Heureaux
  Ulises Heureaux
  
  Ulises Heureaux was Presidents of the Dominican Republic of the Dominican Republic from 1 September 1882 to 1 September 1883, from 6 January to 27 February 1887 and again from 30 April 1889 until his assassination, maintaining power between his terms....
  , (1899), president of the Dominican Republic
  Dominican Republic
  
  The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
  
• Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
  Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
  
  Rafael Le?nidas Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Officially, he was president only from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military Dictator....
  , (1961 May 30), Dominican Republic dictator, shot in ambush
• 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
  Orlando Martínez Howley
  
  Orlando Martinez Howley was a Left-wing politics journalist and member of the Communist Party of the Dominican Republic. He was born in Las Matas de Farf?n in the Dominican Republic, in 1944....
  , (1975)
• Narciso González, (1994)

Ecuador

• Gabriel García Moreno
  Gabriel García Moreno
  
  Gabriel Gregorio Fernando Jos? Mar?a Garc?a y Moreno y Mor?n de Buitr?n was an Ecuadorian statesman who twice served as President of Ecuador of his country and was assassinated during his second term....
  , (1875), president of Ecuador
  Ecuador
  
  Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
   known for his support of the Catholic church
• Jaime Hurtado
  Jaime Hurtado
  
  Jaime Hurtado Gonz?lez was an Ecuadorian politician of African extraction aligned with the Democratic Popular Movement, a deputy in the Ecuadorian parliament, and at the time of his death was standing for election to the List of heads of state of Ecuador....
   and Pablo Tapia, (1999), communist legislators, in Quito
  Quito
  
  San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito, is the Capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha , an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains....
  

El Salvador

• Manuel Enrique Araujo
  Manuel Enrique Araujo
  
  Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujo Rodriguez was President of El Salvador of El Salvador 1 March 1911 - 8 February 1913. was a physician and political Salvadoran President of the Republic , the sole ruler of Country killed in the exercise of their functions....
  , (1913), President of El Salvador
  President of El Salvador
  
  This page contains a list of presidents of El Salvador. There has been a total of 55 presidents; many have served in office more than once....
  
• Farabundo Martí
  Farabundo Martí
  
  August?n Farabundo Mart? Rodr?guez was a social activist and revolutionary leader in El Salvador.Marti was born in Teotepeque, Departament de La Libertad, El Salvador....
  , (1932), communist leader and peasant revolt organizer.
• Roque Dalton
  Roque Dalton
  
  Roque Dalton Garc?a was a left-wing politics El Salvador poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics....
  , (1975), poet and revolutionary.
• Rutilio Grande García, S.J.
  Rutilio Grande
  
  Fr. Rutilio Grande Garc?a, S.J. was a Society of Jesus priest in El Salvador and a promoter of liberation theology. He was assassinated in 1977, along with two other Salvadorans....
  , (1977), Roman Catholic priest
• Mauricio Borgonovo Pohl, (1977), Foreign Minister, taken hostage and killed by guerrillas.
• Alfonso Navarro Oviedo
  Alfonso Navarro
  
  Fr. Alfonso Navarro Oviedo was a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador who was assassinated in 1977. He served under Archbishop ?scar Romero. His murder was part of a systematic persecution of the Catholic Church and oppression against efforts to reform the US-backed right-wing military dictatorship....
  , (1977), Roman Catholic priest
• Ernesto Barrera
  Ernesto Barrera
  
  Fr. Ernesto Barrera was a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador who was assassinated in 1978. He served under Archbishop ?scar Romero. His murder was characterized by Romero as part of a systematic persecution of the Catholic Church and oppression against efforts to reform a military dictatorship there to guarantee human rights for the poor ma...
  , (1978), Roman Catholic priest
• Octavio Ortiz Luna
  Octavio Ortiz
  
  Fr. Octavio Ortiz Luna was a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador who was assassinated on January 20, 1979. He served under Archbishop ?scar Romero....
  , (1979), Roman Catholic priest
• Rafael Palacios
  Rafael Palacios
  
  Fr. Rafael Palacios was a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador who was assassinated in June 1979 in Suchitoto. He served under Archbishop ?scar Romero....
  , (1979), Roman Catholic priest
• Alirio Napoleón Macías
  Napoleón Macías
  
  Fr. Alirio Napole?n Mac?as was a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador who was assassinated in 1979. He served under Archbishop ?scar Romero. His murder was characterized by Romero as part of a systematic persecution of the Catholic Church and oppression against efforts to reform a military dictatorship there to guaranty human rights for the p...
  , (1979), Roman Catholic priest
• Óscar Arnulfo Romero, (1980), Archbishop of San Salvador
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador
  
  The Archdiocese of San Salvador is the chief ecclesiastical division of El Salvador, serving the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador, and surrounding region....
  , by right-wing death squad
• Enrique Álvarez Córdova
  Enrique Alvarez
  
  Enrique ?lvarez C?rdova was a politician and statesman of El Salvador. After a frustrated attempt to be a Salvadoran "New Dealer," attempting to implement agrarian reform as El Salvador's minister of agriculture and cattle raising, ?lvarez dramatically changed course and joined the Democratic Revolutionary Front ....
  , (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
  Ita Ford
  
  Ita Ford, M.M. was a Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sisters missionary to Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and war refugees....
  , Maura Clarke
  Maura Clarke
  
  Maura Clarke was an United States Roman Catholic Maryknoll nun and missionary to Nicaragua and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and the refugees in Central America from 1959 until her death in 1980....
  , Dorothy Kazel
  Dorothy Kazel
  
  Dorothy Kazel was an United States Ursulines nun and missionary to El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, she and fellow missionaries Ita Ford, Jean Donovan and Maura Clarke were raped and murdered by members of the military of El Salvador....
  , and Jean Donovan
  Jean Donovan
  
  Jean Donovan was an United States laity who was murdered with three nuns in El Salvador by a Military of El Salvador death squad while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there....
  , (1980), Roman Catholic nun
  Nun
  
  A Nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an monasticism who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent....
  s, by the National Guard of El Salvador
  El Salvador
  
  El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....
  
• Albert Schaufelberger
  Albert Schaufelberger
  
  Albert Schaufelberger was a United States naval commander who was assassinated in El Salvador....
  , (1983), senior U.S. Naval representative
• Ignacio Ellacuría
  Ignacio Ellacuría
  
  Ignacio Ellacur?a, S.J. was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theology who did important work as a professor and rector at the Universidad Centroamericana "Jos? Sime?n Ca?as" , a Jesuit university in El Salvador founded in 1965....
  , (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest
  Priest
  
  A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
  , by Atlacatl Battalion
  Atlacatl Battalion
  
  The Atlacatl Battalion, a former El Salvador army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, then located in Panama....
   of the Salvadoran Army
  Military of El Salvador
  
  The Armed Force of El Salvador, in Spanish Fuerza Armada de El Salvador is the official name of the combined armed forces of El Salvador....
  
• Ignacio Martin-Baro
  Ignacio Martín-Baró
  
  ?n-Bar? entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Ordu?a, Spain, on September 28, 1959. Shortly after, his superiors transferred him to the novitiate of Villagarc?a and then he was sent to Central America, where he completed his second year in the novitiate of the Society of Jesus....
  , (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest
  Priest
  
  A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
  , by Atlacatl Battalion
  Atlacatl Battalion
  
  The Atlacatl Battalion, a former El Salvador army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, then located in Panama....
   of the Salvadoran Army
  Military of El Salvador
  
  The Armed Force of El Salvador, in Spanish Fuerza Armada de El Salvador is the official name of the combined armed forces of El Salvador....
  
• Segundo Montes
  Segundo Montes
  
  Segundo Montes, S.J. was a scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest. Segundo Montes was a close friend and colleague of the scholars Ignacio Mart?n-Bar? and Ignacio Ellacur?a, all of whom were murdered with Montes by the Salvadoran army, along with three other colleagues and two other employees....
  , (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest
  Priest
  
  A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
  , by Atlacatl Battalion
  Atlacatl Battalion
  
  The Atlacatl Battalion, a former El Salvador army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, then located in Panama....
   of the Salvadoran Army
  Military of El Salvador
  
  The Armed Force of El Salvador, in Spanish Fuerza Armada de El Salvador is the official name of the combined armed forces of El Salvador....
  
• Arnando Lopez, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest
  Priest
  
  A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
  , by Atlacatl Battalion
  Atlacatl Battalion
  
  The Atlacatl Battalion, a former El Salvador army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, then located in Panama....
   of the Salvadoran Army
  Military of El Salvador
  
  The Armed Force of El Salvador, in Spanish Fuerza Armada de El Salvador is the official name of the combined armed forces of El Salvador....
  
• Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest
  Priest
  
  A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
  , by Atlacatl Battalion
  Atlacatl Battalion
  
  The Atlacatl Battalion, a former El Salvador army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, then located in Panama....
   of the Salvadoran Army
  Military of El Salvador
  
  The Armed Force of El Salvador, in Spanish Fuerza Armada de El Salvador is the official name of the combined armed forces of El Salvador....
  
• Juan Ramon Moreno, (1989), Roman Catholic Jesuit priest
  Priest
  
  A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
  , by Atlacatl Battalion
  Atlacatl Battalion
  
  The Atlacatl Battalion, a former El Salvador army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, then located in Panama....
   of the Salvadoran Army
  Military of El Salvador
  
  The Armed Force of El Salvador, in Spanish Fuerza Armada de El Salvador is the official name of the combined armed forces of El Salvador....
  
• María Cristina Gómez
  María Cristina Gómez
  
  Mar?a Cristina G?mez was a Baptist primary school teacher and community leader in El Salvador who was abducted on April 5, 1989 and subsequently murdered....
  , 1989, teacher
  Teacher
  
  In education, a teacher is a person who teaches. A teacher who teaches an individual student may also be described as a personal tutor.The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out by way of Occupation or Profession at a school or other place of formal education....
   and community leader
  Community leader
  
  A community leader is a designation, often by secondary sources , for a person who is perceived to represent a community. A simple way to understand community leadership is to see it as leadership in, for and by the community....
  

Grenada

• Maurice Bishop
  Maurice Bishop
  
  Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenada politician and revolutionary....
  , (1983), Prime Minister, during the protracted events of a coup.

Guatemala

• Cirilo Flores, (1826), Vice President of Guatemala
• José María Reina Barrios
  José María Reina Barrios
  
  Jos? Mar?a Reina Barrios was President of Guatemala from 15 March 1892 through 8 February 1898. He was born in San Marcos, Guatemala. He was nicknamed Reinita, the diminutive form, because of his short stature....
  , (1898), President of Guatemala
• Carlos Castillo Armas
  Carlos Castillo Armas
  
  Carlos Castillo Armas was Presidents of Guatemala of Guatemala from July 8, 1954 until his assassination in 1957....
  , (1957), president of Guatemala
  President of Guatemala
  
  The title of President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1839, when that title was assumed by Mariano Rivera Paz....
  , killed by bodyguard
• Karl von Spreti
  Karl von Spreti
  
  Count Karl Maria von Spreti was a Germany diplomat. He is best known as the West Germanyn Ambassador to Guatemala from 1968 until his assassination in 1970....
  , (1970), German ambassador in Guatemala
  Guatemala
  
  Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
  
• Alberto Fuentes Mohr
  Alberto Fuentes Mohr
  
  Alberto Fuentes Mohr was a Guatemalan politician, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party , a progressive opposition political party....
  , (1979), Social Democratic Party leader
• Manuel Colom Argueta
  Manuel Colom Argueta
  
  Manuel Colom Argueta was mayor of Guatemala City and an important progressive leader of the opposition in Guatemala.Born in Guatemala City, Colom studied at the El Rosario school, the Liceo Infantil and Costa Rica School, completing his secondary schooling at the prestigious Liceo Guatemala where he became student association president....
  , (1979), Mayor of Guatemala City
  Guatemala City
  
  Guatemala City is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the capital city of the local Guatemala and the largest city in Central America....
  
• Jorge Carpio Nicolle
  Jorge Carpio Nicolle
  
  Jorge Carpio Nicolle was a prominent Guatemalan politician and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of the Uni?n del Centro Nacional in 1984, and ran as the party's candidate for president in the elections of 1985 and 1990....
  , (1993), Liberal politician and journalist
• Juan José Gerardi, (1998), Roman Catholic bishop
• Mario Pivaral, (2006), UNE
  National Unity of Hope
  
  The National Unity of Hope is a political party in Guatemala. It defines itself as a Social democracy and Christian socialism party.At the legislative elections in Guatemala on 9 November 2003, the party won 17.9% of the popular vote and 32 out of 158 seats in Congress of Guatemala....
   congressman
• Clara Luz López, (2007), local council candidate

Guyana

• Michael Forde, (1964), PPP
  People's Progressive Party (Guyana)
  
  The People's Progressive Party is a political party in Guyana which has governed continuously since 1992. Its publication is Thunder and its General Secretary is Donald Ramotar....
   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
  Walter Rodney
  
  Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyana historian and political figure.Born to a working class family, Rodney was a bright student, attending Queen's College, Guyana in Guyana and then attending university on a scholarship at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, graduating in 1963....
  , (1980), Guyanese
  Guyana
  
  Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....
   historian and political figure
• Satyadeow Sawh
  Satyadeow Sawh
  
  Satyadeow Sawh was the Agriculture Minister of Guyana and prominent Hindu politician in Guyana. He also served, at various times as ambassador to: Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador....
  , (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
  Jean-Jacques Dessalines
  
  Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. He was autocratic in his rule and crowned himself List of heads of state of Ha?ti in 1805....
  , (1806), Emperor
  Emperor
  
  An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
   of Haiti
  Haiti
  
  Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
  
• Antoine Izméry
  Antoine Izméry
  
  Antoine Izm?ry was a Ha?tian businessman and pro-democracy activist.Izm?ry, who was of Palestinian descent, was among the wealthiest people in Ha?ti....
  , (1993), businessman and Lavalas
  Struggling People's Organization
  
  The Organisation du Peuple en Lutte is a Haiti political party originating from the Fanmi Lavalas political movement. The OPL grew apart from Lavalas gradually during the 1990s before making a final break in 1997, when the party's name was changed from Organisation Politique Lavalas to its present appellation....
   supporter
• Guy Malary
  Guy Malary
  
  Guy Malary was a Justice Minister of Haiti. He was killed in an ambush along with his bodyguards.According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a Central Intelligence Agency memo dated October 28, 1993 implicated Front for the Advancement and Progress of Ha?ti members Louis-Jodel Chamblain, Emmanuel Constant, and Gabriel Douzable....
  , (1993), minister of justice
• Jean-Marie Vincent, (1994), Roman Catholic priest and Lavalas
  Struggling People's Organization
  
  The Organisation du Peuple en Lutte is a Haiti political party originating from the Fanmi Lavalas political movement. The OPL grew apart from Lavalas gradually during the 1990s before making a final break in 1997, when the party's name was changed from Organisation Politique Lavalas to its present appellation....
   supporter
• Jean Dominique
  Jean Dominique
  
  Jean L?opold Dominique was a noted Ha?tian journalist who spoke out against successive dictatorships. He was one of the first people in Ha?ti to broadcast in Haitian Creole language, the language spoken by most of the populace....
  , (2000), journalist
• Jacques Roche
  Jacques Roche
  
  Jacques Roche was a prominent journalist and poet of Haiti. He was kidnapped on July 10, 2005, and was found dead on July 15, 2005. Television footage showed him tied to a chair and mutilated....
  , (2005), journalist

Honduras

• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
  Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
  
  Maximiliano Hern?ndez Mart?nez was the List of Presidents of El Salvador of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944. Serving as President Arturo Araujo Defence minister, he seized power during a palace coup d'?tat, capitalizing on political unrest brought on by the collapse of coffee prices....
  , (1966), president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944
• Mario Fernando Hernández
  Mario Fernando Hernández
  
  Mario Fernando Hern?ndez Bonilla was a Liberal Party of Honduras National Congress of Honduras for the Cort?s Department in Honduras from January 2006 until his death....
  , (2008), deputy speaker of Congress for the Liberal Party
• Marcos Collier, (2008), Congressional candidate for the Liberal Party

Mexico

• Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl
  Moctezuma II
  
  Moctezuma, also known as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin was the 9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520. It was during Moctezuma's reign that the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began....
  , (1520), Mexica Emperor
  Tlatoani
  
  Tlatoani is the Nahuatl term for the ruler of an altepetl, a pre-Hispanic state. The word literally means "speaker", but may be translated into English as "king"....
  
• Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco I. Madero
  
  Francisco Ignacio Madero Gonz?lez was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio D?az could coalesce....
  , (1913 February 23), President of Mexico
  President of Mexico
  
  The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, the president is also the head of government and the Commander-in-chief of the Mexican Military of Mexico....
   , plus Gustavo A. Madero
  Gustavo A. Madero
  
  Gustavo Adolfo Madero , born in Parras, Coahuila, Mexico, was a participant in the Mexican Revolution against Porfirio D?az along with other members of his wealthy family....
   and José María Pino Suárez
  José María Pino Suárez
  
  Jos? Mar?a Pino Su?rez was a Mexico Politician, Writer, Poet and Lawyer who served as Governor of Yucat?n of Yucat?n, a Secretary of Education and as Vice President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913....
  
• Abraham González
  Abraham González
  
  Abraham Gonz?lez Casavantes was the provisional and constitutional Governor of Chihuahua of the Mexican state of Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution....
  , (1913 March 7), revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa
• Emiliano Zapata
  Emiliano Zapata
  
  Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio D?az....
  , (1919), revolutionary
• Venustiano Carranza
  Venustiano Carranza
  
  Venustiano Carranza Garza was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the 1917 Constitution of Mexico of Mexico was drafted....
  , (1920 May 20), President of Mexico
• Doroteo Arango a.k.a. Pancho Villa
  Pancho Villa
  
  This article is about the Mexican revolutionary general. For the boxer, see Francisco Guilledo.Doroteo Arango Ar?mbula , better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general....
  , (1923 July 20), revolutionary
• Felipe Carrillo Puerto
  Felipe Carrillo Puerto
  
  Felipe Carrillo Puerto was a Governor of Yucat?n of the Mexican state of Yucat?n. He was born in the town of Motul, Yucat?n, and was of partly indigenous Mayan background; he was rumored to be a descendant of the Nachi Cocom dynasty of Mayapan....
  , (1924), Governor of Yucatán
  Governor of Yucatán
  
  According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucat?n, the exercise of the Executive Power of this Mexican state is placed in a single individual, that Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucat?n who is chosen for a period of 6 years and is not eligible for reelection....
  
• Álvaro Obregón
  Álvaro Obregón
  
  General ?lvaro Obreg?n Salido was President of Mexico of Mexico from 1920 to 1924.Born in Siquisiva, Sonora, Municipality of Navojoa to a poor farming family, He entered politics in 1911 with his election as mayor of the town of Huatabampo....
  , (1928 July 17), President-elect
• Julio Antonio Mella
  Julio Antonio Mella
  
  Julio Antonio Mella was a founder of the "internationalized" Cuban Communist Party.Mella studied law in the University of Havana until he was expelled in 1925 and is considered a hero by the present Cuban Government e.g.....
  , (1929), Cuban revolutionary
• Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky
  
  Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronstein , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxism theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin....
  , (1940 August 20), Russian communist leader
• Mauro Angulo, (1948)
• Rubén Jaramillo, (1962), peasant leader
• Enrique Camarena
  Enrique Camarena
  
  Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar was an undercover agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration....
  , (1985), policeman
• Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
  Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
  
  Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz a Mexican politician and journalist, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was deputy, senator and Governor of Yucat?n....
  , (1986), Journalist and State governor
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, (1993), Roman Catholic Cardinal
  Cardinal (Catholicism)
  
  A cardinal is a senior Ecclesiology official, usually a Bishop , of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope....
   of Guadalajara
  Guadalajara, Jalisco
  
  Guadalajara is the capital city of the Mexico state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of the state and in the western-Pacific area of Mexico....
  , at the Guadalajara Airport
  Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport
  
  Guadalajara International Airport , also known as Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport . It opened in 1966 and is located 16 km from the city centre....
  
• Luis Donaldo Colosio
  Luis Donaldo Colosio
  
  Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was a Mexico politician, and Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate, who was assassination during a meeting on his presidential campaign in Tijuana....
  , (1994 March 23), Presidential candidate
• Francisco Ortiz Franco
  Francisco Ortiz Franco
  
  Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco was a Mexico journalism.He was shot five times at the wheel of his car by masked gunmen in a drive-by shooting....
  , (1994}, contributing editor to Zeta
  Zeta (magazine)
  
  Zeta is a Mexican magazine published every Thursday in Tijuana by Choix Editores. This publication regularly runs expos?s on the local and federal governments as well as on organized crime....
  .
• José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
  José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
  
  Jos? Francisco Ruiz Massieu was a Mexican political figure. He was governor of Guerrero from 1987 to 1993. He then served as the secretary-general of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1994....
  , (1994), Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
• Paco Stanley
  Paco Stanley
  
  Francisco "Paco" Jorge Stanley Albaitero was a Mexican television entertainer and a politician as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ....
  , (1999), Comedian
• Digna Ochoa
  Digna Ochoa
  
  Digna Ochoa was a human rights lawyer in Mexico. She was born in Misantla, in the state of Veracruz....
  , (2001), human rights lawyer
• Mario César Ríos, (2007), congressional deputy
• Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, (2009) Mayor of Vista Hermosa
  Vista Hermosa
  
  Vista Hermosa means "beautiful view" in Spanish and may refer to:*Vista Hermosa, Meta, a town and municipality in Colombia.*C.D. Vista Hermosa, a football club....
  

Nicaragua

• Benjamín Zeledón, (1912), Liberal revolutionary
• Augusto César Sandino, (1934), Nicaragua
  Nicaragua
  
  Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
  n revolutionary
• Anastasio Somoza García
  Anastasio Somoza García
  
  Anastasio Somoza Garc?a was officially the 65th and 69th President of Nicaragua of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 to 29 September 1956, but ruled effectively as dictator from 1936 until his assassination....
  , (1956 September 21), President of Nicaragua
  President of Nicaragua
  
  The position of President of Nicaragua was created in the Constitution of 1854. From 1825 until the Constitution of 1838 the title of the position was known as Head of State and from 1838 to 1854 as Supreme Director ....
   
• Rigoberto López Pérez
  Rigoberto López Pérez
  
  Rigoberto L?pez P?rez was a Nicaraguan poet and music composer. He was the assassin of Anastasio Somoza Garc?a, the longtime dictator of Nicaragua....
  , (1956), Assassin of Somoza García
• Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, (1978), newspaper editor, Nicaraguan Somoza opposition
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle
  Anastasio Somoza Debayle
  
  Anastasio Somoza Debayle was officially the 73rd and 76th List of Presidents of Nicaragua of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979....
   (1980 September 17), former President, ambushed in Paraguay
• Enrique Bermúdez
  Enrique Bermúdez
  
  Enrique Berm?dez Varela was a Nicaraguan who founded and commanded the Nicaraguan Contras. In this capacity, he became a central global figure in one of the most prominent conflicts of the Cold War....
  , (1991)
• Carlos Guadamuz, (2004), Journalist

Panama

• José Antonio Remón Cantera
  José Antonio Remón Cantera
  
  Jos? Antonio Rem?n Cantera , was president of Panama from 1 October 1952 until his murder by machine-gun fire at a Panama City racetrack - on 2 January, 1955....
  , (1955 January 2), President of Panama, killed at racetrack by machine gun
• Ruben Oscar Miró Guardia, assassinated on 12/31/1969.

Paraguay

• Juan Bautista Gill
  Juan Bautista Gill
  
  Juan Bautista Gill Garc?a was List of Presidents of Paraguay of Paraguay from November 25 1874 to April 12 1877.Juan Bautista Gill Garcia del Barrio was born in Asuncion on October 28, 1840....
  , (1877), President of Paraguay
  President of Paraguay
  
  The President of Paraguay is according to the Paraguayan Constitution the Chief of the Executive power of the Government of Paraguay. Therefore, the President is the Head of State and the Head of Government of the Republic of Paraguay....
  
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle
  Anastasio Somoza Debayle
  
  Anastasio Somoza Debayle was officially the 73rd and 76th List of Presidents of Nicaragua of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979....
  , (1980), former President of Nicaragua
  President of Nicaragua
  
  The position of President of Nicaragua was created in the Constitution of 1854. From 1825 until the Constitution of 1838 the title of the position was known as Head of State and from 1838 to 1854 as Supreme Director ....
  
• Luis María Argaña
  Luis María Argaña
  
  Luis Mar?a del Coraz?n de Jes?s Dionisio Arga?a Ferraro was a prominent politician in Paraguay and influential member of the Colorado_Party_ until his assassination in 1999....
  , (1999 March 23), vice president of Paraguay
  Paraguay
  
  Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
  , ambushed

Peru

• Francisco Pizarro
  Francisco Pizarro
  
  Francisco Pizarro Gonz?lez, 1st Marqu?s de los Atabillos was a Spain conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru....
  , (1541), Spanish conquistador
  Conquistador
  
  Conquistador is the name given to the Spaniards soldiers, leaders, List of explorers, and adventurers involved in the conquest of the Americas following the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492....
  , in Peru
  Peru
  
  Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  
• Luis M. Sánchez Cerro
  Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
  
  Luis Miguel S?nchez Cerro was a high-ranking Peruvian army officer and President of Peru from 1931 to 1933. On August 22, 1930, as a lieutenant-colonel, he overturned the eleven-year dictatorship of Augusto B....
  , (1933), president of Peru
• Antonio Miró Quesada, (1935), publisher of El Comercio

Suriname

• Bram Behr
  Bram Behr
  
  Abraham Maurits "Bram" Behr was a Surinamese communist. He was best known as a propagandist and journalist. He published the pamphlet De Rode Surinamer and edited the weekly newspaper Mokro ....
  , (1982), Surinamese journalist, in the Decembermoorden

United States

• Joseph Smith, Jr.
  Joseph Smith, Jr.
  
  Joseph Smith, Jr. was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830s and 1840s....
  , (1844), Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois and presidential candidate and LDS church leader.
• Charles Bent
  Charles Bent
  
  Charles Bent was appointed as the first Governor of New Mexico of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September, 1846....
  , (1847), Governor of the New Mexico Territory
  New Mexico Territory
  
  The Territory of New Mexico became an organized territory of the United States on September 9, 1850, and it existed until New Mexico became the 47th U.S....
  
• James Strang
  James Strang
  
  James Jesse Strang was one of three major contenders for leadership of the Latter Day Saint movement during the 1844 succession crisis. Rejected by the principal body of Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, he became the founder and Prophet, seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , claiming it to be the sole legitimate...
  , (1856), Michigan State Representative
• Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln
  
  Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
  , (1865 April 14), President of the United States
• John P. Slough
  John P. Slough
  
  John Potts Slough was an United States politician, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and Chief Justice of New Mexico. He commanded the Union forces at the Battle of Glorieta Pass....
  , (1867), Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
  New Mexico Supreme Court
  
  The New Mexico Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Mexico....
  
• Thomas Hindman
  Thomas C. Hindman
  
  Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Jr. was a lawyer, United States House of Representatives from the Arkansas's 1st congressional district of Arkansas, and a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
  , (1868), Confederate General
• James Hinds, (1868), U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
• Edward Dexter Holbrook
  Edward Dexter Holbrook
  
  Edward Dexter Holbrook was a United States Congress delegate from Idaho Territory.Born in Elyria, Ohio, Holbrook attended public schools in Ohio and graduated from Oberlin College, having studied law....
  , (1870), Congressional Delegate from the Idaho Territory
• James Garfield
  James Garfield
  
  James Abram Garfield was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. James A. Garfield assassination, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure the second shortest in United States history....
  , (1881 July 2), President of the United States
• Jesse James
  Jesse James
  
  Jesse Woodson James was an American Old West outlaw in the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a grand celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the American Old West after his death....
  , (1882), notorious outlaw
  Outlaw
  
  An outlaw or bandit is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry; the word literally means "outside the law", by folk-etymology from the original meaning "laid outside" of the Old Norse word ?tlagi, from which the word outlaw was borrowed into English....
  
• John M. Clayton (Arkansas)
  John M. Clayton (Arkansas)
  
  John Middleton Clayton was a Republican Party United States House of Representatives-elect in post-American Civil War Arkansas. He may be best remembered for his mysterious assassination in 1889....
  , (1889), Congressman from Arkansas
• David Hennessey
  David Hennessey
  
  David C. Hennessy was the police chief of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1888 until his death. His death, supposedly at the hands of Italian immigrants, but more probably from a political rival, was the catalyst of a large anti-Italianism Lynching in the United States#Disfranchisement, 1877 to World War I in New Orleans....
  , (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans
• Carter Harrison, Sr.
  Carter Harrison, Sr.
  
  Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. was an Politics of the United States who served as List of mayors of Chicago of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term....
  , (1893), Mayor of Chicago
• William Goebel
  William Goebel
  
  William J. Goebel was an American Politics of the United States who served as Governor of Kentucky for a few days in 1900 after having been mortally wounded by an assassin the day before he was sworn in....
  , (1900), Governor of Kentucky
• William McKinley
  William McKinley
  
  William McKinley, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected....
  , (1901 September 6), President of the United States
• Frank Steunenberg
  Frank Steunenberg
  
  Frank Steunenberg was the fourth List of Governors of Idaho of the U.S. state of Idaho, serving from 1897 until 1901. He is perhaps best known for his 1905 assassination by one-time union member Albert Horsley, who also admitted to being a paid informant for the Cripple Creek, Colorado, Mine Owners' Association....
  , (1905), former governor of Idaho
• Don Mellett
  Don Mellett
  
  Donald Ring Mellett was an United States of America newspaper editor, who was assassinated after confronting local organized crime in his newspaper....
  , (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime
• Anton Cermak
  Anton Cermak
  
  Anton Joseph Cermak, in Czech language Anton?n Josef Cerm?k, was the Mayor of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933....
  , (1933 February 15), mayor of Chicago
• Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor
• Walter Liggett
  Walter Liggett
  
  Walter Liggett , American journalist, was known to be a crusading newspaper editor in the Minnesota of the 1930s. Founder of the newspaper "Midwest American", Liggett specialized in articles about Minneapolis and Saint Paul organized crime and their political connections....
  , (1935), Minnesota newspaper editor
• Carlo Tresca
  Carlo Tresca
  
  Carlo Tresca was an Italy-born United States Anarchism, newspaper editor, and Labor movement....
  , (1943), anarchist organizer
• Albert Patterson
  Albert Patterson
  
  Albert Patterson was gunned down outside of his office in Phenix City, Alabama shortly after he won the Democratic nomination for state attorney general....
  , (1954), Alabama Attorney General
• Curtis Chillingworth
  Curtis Chillingworth
  
  Curtis Eugene Chillingworth was a Florida Lawyer and state judge who Missing person from his Manalapan, Florida home, and was later murdered along with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth....
  , (1955), a Florida judge
• Medgar Evers
  Medgar Evers
  
  Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American African-American Civil Rights Movement activism from Mississippi who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan....
  , (1963 June 12), U.S. civil rights activist
• John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
  , (1963 November 22), President of the United States
• Malcolm X
  Malcolm X
  
  Malcolm X , also known as Hajji Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans....
  , (1965 February 21), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech
• George Lincoln Rockwell
  George Lincoln Rockwell
  
  George Lincoln Rockwell was a Navy Reserve Commander and founder of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was a major figure in the Neo-Nazism movement in post-war United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among White nationalism and neo-Nazis....
  , (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....
  , (1968 April 4), U.S. civil rights activist
• Robert F. Kennedy
  Robert F. Kennedy
  
  Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also called RFK, was an United States politician. He was United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a United States Senator from New York from 1965 until his Robert F....
  , (1968 June 5), United States Senator, candidate for presidential nomination and John F. Kennedy's younger brother, shot in Los Angeles
• Fred Hampton
  Fred Hampton
  
  Fred Hampton was an African-Americanactivist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party . He was killed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office , in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ....
  , (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
• Dan Mitrione
  Dan Mitrione
  
  Daniel A. Mitrione was an Italy United States police officer, FBI and a United States government security advisor for the CIA in Latin America....
  , (1970), FBI agent and torture expert, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros
  Tupamaros
  
  Tupamaros, also known as the MLN , was an urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. The MLN is inextricably linked to its most important leader, Ra?l Sendic, and his brand of social politics....
  
• Marcus Foster
  Marcus Foster
  
  Marcus A. Foster was a respected African-American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Associate Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, and as the first black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in Oa...
  , (1973), School District Superintendent in Oakland CA, killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army
• Don Bolles
  Don Bolles
  
  Don Bolles was an United States investigative reporter whose murder in a bombing is linked to the Mafia....
  , (1976), Investigative reporter for Arizona Republic, killed in car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties
• Orlando Letelier
  Orlando Letelier
  
  Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, political figure, diplomat and, later, US-based activist. He was assassinated in Washington DC by Chilean DINA agents....
  , (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende
• George Moscone
  George Moscone
  
  George Richard Moscone was an United States Lawyer and Democratic Party politicsian. He was the List of Mayors of San Francisco, California of San Francisco, California, California, United States from January 1976 until his Moscone-Milk assassinations in November 1978....
  , (1978), Mayor of San Francisco
• Harvey Milk
  Harvey Milk
  
  Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and List of gay, lesbian or bisexual firsts openly homosexual orientation man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
  , (1978), activist, San Francisco Supervisor
• Leo Ryan
  Leo Ryan
  
  Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party . He served as a United States House of Representatives from the California's 11th congressional district of California from 1973 until he was murdered in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown....
  , (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.
  Russell G. Lloyd, Sr.
  
  Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. served as the Republican Party mayor of Evansville, Indiana from 1972 to 1980 and was an alternate delegate from Indiana to the 1972 Republican National Convention....
  , (1980), Mayor of Evansville, Indiana
• Allard K. Lowenstein
  Allard K. Lowenstein
  
  Allard Kenneth Lowenstein, , was a Liberalism in the United States United States Democratic Party politician, a one-term United States House of Representatives representing the 5th District in Nassau County, New York from 1969 until 1971....
  , (1980), Congressman from New York
• Alan Berg
  Alan Berg
  
  Alan Berg , was an United States Lawyer and Talk radio host in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. Berg was known for taking a largely Modern liberalism in the United States stand on issues and was, at times, abrasive and combative to callers and guests who held opposing views....
  , (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis
• Chiang Nan
  Chiang Nan
  
  Henry Liu , often known by his pen name Chiang Nan, was a writer and journalist from Taiwan.He was a vocal critic of the Kuomintang, then the single ruling party of the Republic of China on Taiwan, and was most famous for writing an unauthorized biography of Chiang Ching-kuo, former president of the Republic of China....
  , (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
• Alex Odeh
  Alex Odeh
  
  Alex Odeh was an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a October 11, 1985 bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California....
  , (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California
  Santa Ana, California
  
  Founded in 1869, Santa Ana is the most populous city in Orange County, California, USA and is the county seat, with an estimated 353,184 people....
   office
• Alejandro González Malavé
  Alejandro González Malavé
  
  Alejandro Gonz?lez Malav? was a Puerto Rico undercover agent who gained infamy with the Cerro Maravilla case scandal.Gonz?lez Malav?, an outspoken university political leader, graduated as a policeman in 1979, the same year he went to work undercover....
  , (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
• Ioan P. Culianu
  Ioan P. Culianu
  
  Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano was a Romanian historian of history of religion, cultural history, and intellectual history, a philosopher and political essayist, and a short story writer....
  , (1991), Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, professor at the University of Chicago, assassinated there in Swift Hall
  University of Chicago Divinity School
  
  The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries....
  , apparently for his political writings
• Selena
  Selena
  
  Selena Quintanilla-P?rez , best known as Selena, was an United States singer who has been called "The Queen of Tejano music". The youngest child of a Mexican couple, Selena released her first album at the age of twelve....
  , (1995), Mexican-American Singer
• Tommy Burks
  Tommy Burks
  
  Tommy Burks was a farmer and Democratic Party politician in Tennessee, United States. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 until 1978, and in the Tennessee State Senate from 1978 until his murder in 1998....
  , (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
  Chauncey Bailey
  
  Chauncey Wendell Bailey, Jr. was an American journalism, noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Post from June 2007 until he was shot dead on August 2, 2007....
  , (2007), journalist
• Bill Gwatney
  Bill Gwatney
  
  Bill Gwatney was an United States politician who served as the State Chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas. Prior to being State Chair, he was a Arkansas Senate for 10 years....
  , (2008), Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party

Uruguay

• Bernardo P. Berro, (1868), Uruguayan president
• Venancio Flores
  Venancio Flores
  
  Venancio Flores Barrios was a Uruguayan political leader and general. Flores was President of Uruguay from 1854 to 1855 and from 1865 to 1868....
  , (1868), Uruguayan president (on the same day as Berro, though in completely separate incidents)
• Juan Idiarte Borda
  Juan Idiarte Borda
  
  Juan Idiarte Borda was a Uruguayan political figure....
  , (1897), Uruguayan president

Venezuela

• Col. Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
  Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
  
  Carlos Rom?n Delgado Chalbaud G?mez was President of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950.Delgado Chalbaud spent his entire adult life in the Venezuelan army....
  , (1950 November 13), President of Venezuela
  Venezuela
  
  Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
   
• Danilo Anderson
  Danilo Anderson
  
  Danilo Baltasar Anderson was a Venezuelan environmental Public prosecutor investigating more than 400 people accused of crimes against the state and Venezuelan people in the Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002....
  , (2004), State prosecutor

Assassinations in Asia

Afghanistan

• Habibullah Khan, (1919), emir of Afghanistan
  Afghanistan
  
  Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
  
• Mohammed Nader Shah, (1933 November 8), king of Afghanistan
• Mohammed Daoud Khan
  Mohammed Daoud Khan
  
  Mohammed Daoud Khan was a politician in Afghanistan who overthrew the monarchy of Zahir Shah and became the first President of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of a revolution led by the Marxism People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ....
  , (1978), president of Afghanistan
  President of Afghanistan
  
  Afghanistan has only intermittently been a republic - between 1973-1992 and from 2001 onwards - at other times being governed by a variety of monarchs, emirs and Islamist rulers....
   killed in communist coup
• Adolph Dubs
  Adolph Dubs
  
  Adolph "Spike" Dubs was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 13, 1978 until his death in 1979. He was killed in an exchange of fire after a kidnapping attempt....
  , (1979 February 14), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
• Nur Mohammad Taraki, (1979), communist president
• Hafizullah Amin
  Hafizullah Amin
  
  Hafizullah Amin was the second President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.Amin tried to broaden his internal base of support and to bring the interest of Pakistan and the United States in Afghan security....
  , (1979), communist Prime Minister of Afghanistan
  Prime Minister of Afghanistan
  
  The Prime Minister of Afghanistan is a currently defunct post in the Afghan Government.The position was created in 1927, and was appointed by the monarch, mostly as an advisor, until the end of the monarchy in 1973....
   killed during Soviet invasion
• Mohammed Najibullah, (1996), president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul
  Kabul
  
  Kabul is the Capital and largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of approximately three million. It is an economic and cultural centre, situated 5,900 foot above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River....
  
• Ahmed Shah Massoud
  Ahmed Shah Massoud
  
  Ahmad Shah Massoud was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who, with support from the United States and other foreign nations, played a leading role in driving the Red Army out of Afghanistan, earning him the nickname Lion of Panjshir....
  , (2001), leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance
• Abdul Haq
  Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)
  
  Abdul Haq was an Afghanistan Pashtun mujahideen commander who fought against the Soviet Union and People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War....
  , (2001), Afghan Northern Alliance commander killed by remnants of the Taliban
• Abdul Qadir
  Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)
  
  Hajji Abdul Qadir Arsala was a former leader in the Afghan Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He was the brother of Abdul Haq , a Pashtun leader executed by the Taliban....
  , (2002 July 6), vice-president of Afghanistan
• Abdul Rahman
  Abdul Rahman (Afghan minister)
  
  Abdul Rahman was the aviation and tourism minister of Afghanistan until February 14, 2002.He was murdered in what appeared to be a mob attack on his plane at Kabul International Airport by pilgrims angry that they had been unable to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia....
  , (2002 February 14), Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism
• Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
  Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
  
  Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan from July 6, 1992 until August 15, 1992.He later served as a member of the House of Elders of the National Assembly of Afghanistan until he was assassination in a shooting outside his home in Kabul on May 3, 2007....
  , (2007), former Prime Minister of Afghanistan
  Prime Minister of Afghanistan
  
  The Prime Minister of Afghanistan is a currently defunct post in the Afghan Government.The position was created in 1927, and was appointed by the monarch, mostly as an advisor, until the end of the monarchy in 1973....
  

Bangladesh

• Mujibur Rahman, (1975 August 15), president of Bangladesh
  President of Bangladesh
  
  Since 1991, the President of Bangladesh is the Head of State, a largely ceremonial post elected by the parliament. Since 1996, the President's role becomes more important after the term of the government has finished, when his executive authority is enhanced as laid down in the constitution of the country....
  , killed in coup
• Fazlul Haq Mani, (1975), politician
• Abdur Rab Serniabat, (1975), politician
• Tajuddin Ahmed, (1975), politician
• Syed Nazrul Islam
  Syed Nazrul Islam
  
  Syed Nazrul Islam was a Bangladeshi politician and a senior leader of the Awami League. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, he served as the acting President of Bangladesh in the absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman....
  , (1975), politician
• Mohammad Mansoor Ali, (1975), prime minister
• Khaled Mosharraf
  Khaled Mosharraf
  
  Khaled Mosharraf was a Bangladeshi military officer who was a key commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He led a military coup against the politicians and military officers who had seized power in Bangladesh in 1975, but was himself overthrown and assassinated shortly afterwards....
  , (1975), coup organizer
• Ziaur Rahman
  Ziaur Rahman
  
  Lieutenant-General Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam, Hilal-i-Jurat was a charismatic Bangladeshi war hero, politician and statesman. He was the President of Bangladesh from 1976 uptill 1981 and founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , one of the two largest political parties in the country....
  , (1981), president of Bangladesh

Bhutan

• Jigme Palden Dorji, (1964), Prime Minister of Bhutan

Cambodia

• Ieu Koeus
  Ieu Koeus
  
  Ieu Koeus served as Prime Minister of Cambodia for nine days in September 1949.Considered an intellectual, he was instrumental in the opening of the Pak Pracheatipatey "Democratic Party" in April 1946, created a self-declared government on September 20, 1949, was replaced by Yem Sambaur on September 29....
  , (1950), briefly prime minister of Cambodia
  Cambodia
  
  The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh....
   in 1949

China

• Sidibala, (1323), grand-khan of the Mongol Empire
  Mongol Empire
  
  The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
  , Emperor of Yuan China
• João Maria Ferreira do Amaral
  João Maria Ferreira do Amaral
  
  Jo?o Maria Ferreira do Amaral was the 53rd Governor of Macau. He was appointed on 21 April 1846....
  , (1849), Portuguese Governor of Macau
  Macau
  
  The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....
  
• Ma Xinyi
  Ma Xinyi
  
  Ma Xinyi Ma raised the Green Standard Army to fight against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the stability of Qing Dynasty along with other prominent figures, including Hu Linyi and Guam Wing, setting the scene for the era later known as the "Tongzhi Restoration"...
  , (1870), a governor assassinated by Zhang Wenxiang in the summer of 1870.
• Ito Hirobumi
  Ito Hirobumi
  
  Prince was a Japanese statesman, Resident-General of Korea, four time Prime Minister of Japan and genro. Ito was assassinated by An Jung-geun, a Korean nationalist who was against the Annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire....
  , (1909), Japanese Resident-General of Korea
  Governor-General of Korea
  
  The post of Governor-General of Korea served as the chief administrator of the Japanese government in Korea while it was held as the Japanese colony of Korea under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945....
  , in Manchuria
  Manchuria
  
  Manchuria is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within People's Republic of China, or is divided between China and Russia....
  
• Chen Qimei
  Chen Qimei
  
  Chen Qimei , was born on January 17, 1878, in Wuxing, Zhejiang, China, Chinese revolutionary activist, uncle of Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu. He went to Japan for studies in 1906, and there joined the Chinese Tongmenghui....
  , (1916), revolutionary activist
• Liao Zhongkai
  Liao Zhongkai
  
  Liao Zhongkai , Kuomintang leader and financier. Liao Zhongkai was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang-Chinese Communist Party United Front in the 1920s....
  , (1925)
• Zhang Zuolin
  Zhang Zuolin
  
  Zhang Zu?l?n , nicknamed the "Old Marshal" , "Rain Marshal" ....
  , (1928), Manchurian warlord, by officers of the Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  ese Guandong Army
• Lu Huanyan, (1930)
• Chen Lu, (1939), foreign minister of Wang Jingwei Government
  Wang Jingwei Government
  
  The Wang Jingwei Government was a government under the leadership of Wang Jingwei in the Republic of China, set up by the Empire of Japan in March 1940....
  
• Fang Zhenwu
  Fang Zhenwu
  
  Fang Zhenwu or Fang Chen-wu was a Chinese military officer in the early twentieth century.He was born in 1885 in Shou County, Anhui, China....
  , (1941)
• Han Guojun, (1942)
• Wen Yiduo
  Wen Yiduo
  
  Wen Yiduo , born W?n Jiahu? , courtesy names Yousan , Youshan , was a Chinese poet and scholar....
  , (1946), Chinese poet and scholar

Georgia

• Cemal Pasha, (1922), former Ottoman Minister, in Tbilisi
  Tbilisi
  
  Tbilisi , is the capital city and the largest city of Georgia , lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tpilisi and it was officially known as ?????? in Russian, until 1936....
  , by an Armenian or allegedly by either the NKVD or Cheka.

India

• Brhadrata
  Brhadrata
  
  Brihadratha Maurya was the last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty. He ruled from c. 187?180 BCE. He was killed by his senapati , Pusyamitra Sunga...
  , (185 BC), last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
• Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
  Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
  
  File:Court_of_Akbar_from_Akbarnama.jpgShaikh 'Abu al-Fazl ibn Mubarak' also known as 'Abu'l-Fazl', 'Abu'l Fadl' and 'Abu'l-Fadl 'Allami' was the vizier of the great Mughal Empire emperor Akbar, and author of the Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar's reign in three volumes, the third volume is known as the Ain-e-Akbari'...
  , (1602), vizier
  Vizier
  
  A Vizier , is a term for a high-ranking political advisor or minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, or Sultan. It sometimes refers to ministers and advisors of the Persian Empire's Shahs....
   of the Mughal
  Mughal Empire
  
  The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
   emperor Akbar
• Mohandas Gandhi, (1948 January 30), Independence leader
• Tyagi Immanuvel Devendrar (11-9-1957) Congress Leader & Revolutionary Leader for people of Devendrar Tamilnadu
• Indira Gandhi
  Indira Gandhi
  
  Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977and for a fourth term from 1980 until her Assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, a total of fifteen years....
  , (1984 October 31), Indian prime minister, killed by bodyguards
• Rajiv Gandhi
  Rajiv Gandhi
  
  Rajiv Gandhi ; 20 August 1944 ? 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election defeat....
  , (1991 May 21), Indian prime minister, killed by suicide bomber at rally in Madras
• Beant Singh(Chief Minister), (1995), chief minister of Punjab
• Phoolan Devi
  Phoolan Devi
  
  Phoolan Devi , popularly known as "The Bandit Queen", was an Indian dacoit, who later turned politician. She created a great furore across India during her period as bandit....
  , (2001 July 25), bandit queen turned politician
• Abdul Ghani Lone
  Abdul Ghani Lone
  
  Abdul Ghani Lone was an India lawyer and politician who for most of his professional career worked as a Kashmir separatist. He was assassinated on May 21 2002 while commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the Kashmiri leader, Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq....
  , (2002), moderate leader of Kashmir
  Kashmir
  
  Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" referred only to the valley lying between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal range; since then, it has been used for a larger area that today includes the Indian administerd state of Jammu and Kashmir consisting of the Kashmir...
  i Muslims
• General Arun Shridhar Vaidya
  Arun Shridhar Vaidya
  
  General Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Maha Vir Chakra, AVSM was the 13th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army....
  , Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986.

Iran

• Xerxes I, (465 BC), Persian
  Persian Empire
  
  The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
   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
  Darius II of Persia
  
  Darius II , originally called Ochus and often surnamed Nothus , was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 404 BC.Artaxerxes I, who died shortly after December 24, 424 BC, was followed by his son Xerxes II....
  
• Khosrow I, (238), Armenian king
• Nizam al-Mulk
  Nizam al-Mulk
  
  Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk was a celebrated Persians scholar and vizier of the Seljuqs....
  , (1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks
• Nader Shah
  Nader Shah
  
  Nader Shah Afshar ruled as Shah of Iran and was the founder of the Afsharid Persian Empire. Because of his military history genius, some historians have described him as the Napoleon I of France of Persia or the Second Alexander the Great....
  , (1747), Shah
  Shah
  
  Shah is a Persian language term for a monarch that has been adopted in many other languages.Shah used as a last name by Jains and Hindus is unrelated....
   of Persia
• Nasser-al-Din Shah, (1896), Shah of Persia killed by Mirza Reza Kermani
  Mirza Reza Kermani
  
  Mirza Reza Kermani , born in Kerman, Iran and died on August 10 , 1896 in Tehran,Mirza Reza Kermani was an adherent of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and an Iranian revolutionary....
  
• Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III
  Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III
  
  Prince Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III, eldest son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and Princess Ezzat-Dowleh. He was born at some time near 1889, and died in April 1937....
  , (1930), Iranian Diplomat and Politician
• Abdolhossein Teymourtash, (1933), Iranian Statesman
• Taghi Arani, (1940), Communist intellectual
• Qazi Muhammad
  Qazi Muhammad
  
  Qazi Muhammad 1893-1947 was a nationalist and religious Kurdish people leader and the Head of the Republic of Kurdistan, the second modern Kurds state in the Middle East ....
  , (1947), dissident Kurdish
  Kurdish people
  
  The Kurds are an Iranian peoples ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and which is known as Kurdistan....
   Iranian political leader, in Mahabad
  Mahabad
  
  Mahabad is a city in northwestern Iran with a population of 133,324 in 2006 census. The city lies south of Lake Urmia in a narrow valley 1,300 metres above sea level, in West Azarbaijan Province.The name of 'Mahabad' is the Persian translation of the ancient Mannaean name meaning place of moon, which is also a cognate with the Kurdish w...
  
• Ali Razmara, (1951), Prime Minister of Iran
  Prime Minister of Iran
  
  Prime Minister of Iran was a political post in Iran had existed during several different periods of time starting with the Qajar era until its most recent revival from 1979 to 1989 following the Iranian Revolution....
  
• Hassan Ali Mansur
  Hassan Ali Mansur
  
  Hasan-ali Mansur was a Prime Minister of Iran from 1963-1965. He served during the White Revolution of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and was assassinated by a member of the Fadayan-e Islam....
  , (1965 January 21), Prime Minister of Iran
• Mohammad Beheshti, (1981), killed along with 71 others in bombing
• Mohammad Ali Rajai
  Mohammad Ali Rajai
  
  Mohammad Ali Rajai was the second elected President of Iran of Iran, after serving as Prime Minister of Iran under Abolhassan Banisadr. He was also Minister of Foreign Affairs for five months 11 March 1981 ? 15 August 1981, while he was Prime Minister....
  , (1981), president of Iran
  President of Iran
  
  The President of Iran is the highest elected official in the Islamic Republic of Iran, second only to the Supreme Leader of Iran. According to the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran the president is responsible for the "functions of the executive", such as signing treaties, agreements etc....
  
• Mohammad Javad Bahonar
  Mohammad Javad Bahonar
  
  Hojatoleslam Mohammad Javad Bahonar was the second prime minister of Iran following the 1979 revolution, and the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party....
  , (1981), Prime Minister of Iran
  Prime Minister of Iran
  
  Prime Minister of Iran was a political post in Iran had existed during several different periods of time starting with the Qajar era until its most recent revival from 1979 to 1989 following the Iranian Revolution....
  , killed in bombing with Rajai

Iraq

• Gordian III
  Gordian III
  
  Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius , known in English language as Gordian III, was Roman Emperor from 238 to 244. Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana and his father was an unnamed Roman Senator who died before 238....
  , (244), Roman emperor, near Circesium (modern day Abu Sera) by his troops
• Faisal I
  Faisal I of Iraq
  
  Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi , GCB, GCMG was for a short time king of Greater Syria in 1920 and List of Kings of Iraq from 23 August 1921, to 1933....
  , (1933), King of Iraq
  Iraq
  
  Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
• Faisal II
  Faisal II of Iraq
  
  Faisal II, GCVO was Iraq's last List of Kings of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during a 14 July Revolution together with several members of his family....
  , (1958 July 14), King of Iraq
  Iraq
  
  Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
   
• Nuri Pasha as-Said, (1958 July 14), Prime Minister of Iraq
• Ibrahim Hashim, (1958), Jordan
  Jordan
  
  Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
  ian 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 July 9), former Prime Minister of Iraq
  Prime Minister of Iraq
  
  The Prime Minister of Iraq is Iraq's head of government. Prime Minister was originally an appointed office, subsidiary to the head of state, and the nominal leader of the Iraqi parliament....
  , killed in London
• Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
  Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
  
  General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr , was President of Iraq from 1968 to 1979....
  , (1982), 4th President of Iraq
  President of Iraq
  
  The President of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq and "safeguards the commitment to the Constitution and the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity, the security of its territories in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution." The President is elected by the Council of Representatives by a two-thirds majority, and...
  
• 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
• 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 Mohammed Taqi al-Khoei,, (1994), Son of former Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Al-Musawi Al-Khoei
• Ali Garmaii, (1996), dissident Kurdish
  Kurdish people
  
  The Kurds are an Iranian peoples ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and which is known as Kurdistan....
   Iranian activist in Halabja
  Halabja
  
  Halabja , is a Kurdish people town in a Iraqi Kurdistan about northeast of Baghdad and 8-10 miles from the Iranian border.The town lies at the base of what is often refereed to as the greater Hewraman region stretching across the Iran-Iraq border....
  
• Mohammad Nanva, (1996), dissident Kurdish
  Kurdish people
  
  The Kurds are an Iranian peoples ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and which is known as Kurdistan....
   Iranian activist, in Sulaymaniyah
  Sulaymaniyah
  
  Sulaimaniya is a city in the east of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is situated in the northeast of Iraq, and is the capital of As Sulaymaniyah Governorate....
  
• Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
  Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
  
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr , often referred to as Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr which is his father's name, was a prominent, Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Grand Ayatollah....
  , (1999), former Grand Ayatollah,killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf along with two of his sons.
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello
  Sérgio Vieira de Mello
  
  S?rgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked for the UN for more than 34 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the humanitarian and political programs of the UN....
  , (2003), UN
  United Nations
  
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
   Special Representative in Iraq
• Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, (2003), ayatollah
• Aquila al-Hashimi, (2003), Iraq
  Iraq
  
  Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  i Governing Council
  Iraqi Governing Council
  
  The Iraqi Governing Council was the provisional government of Iraq from July 13, 2003 to June 1, 2004. It was established by and served under the United States-led Coalition Provisional Authority ....
   member
• Sayyid Abul Majid al-Khoei, (2003), Son of former Grand Ayatollah Abul Qasim Al-Musawi Al-Khoei
• Waldemar Milewicz
  Waldemar Milewicz
  
  Waldemar Milewicz was a Poland journalist and war correspondent who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Iraq....
  , (2004), Polish
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
   journalist
• Mounir Bouamrane, (2004), Algeria
  Algeria
  
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
  n-Polish
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
   TV operator, killed alongside with Milewicz
• Hatem Kamil
  Hatem Kamil
  
  Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah was the deputy governor of Iraq's Baghdad Governorate.Hatem Kamil was assassination by gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, in the southern district of Dura, while on his way to work....
  , (2004), deputy governor of Baghdad Province
  Baghdad Governorate
  
  Baghdad Governorate in the nation of Iraq and contains the conurbation of Baghdad. It includes the city of baghdad, as well as the surrounding metropolitan area, with includes Al-Mada'in, Taji, Mahmudiya district and Abu Ghraib district ....
  
• Ezzedine Salim
  Ezzedine Salim
  
  Ezzedine Salim, , also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed , was an Iraqi politician. Born in the city of Basra, he began studying religion and politics at a young age....
  , (2004), chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council
  Iraqi Governing Council
  
  The Iraqi Governing Council was the provisional government of Iraq from July 13, 2003 to June 1, 2004. It was established by and served under the United States-led Coalition Provisional Authority ....
  
• Barawiz Mahmoud, (2005), judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal
• Dhari Ali al-Fayadh
  Dhari Ali al-Fayadh
  
  Sheikh Dhari Ali al-Fayadh was the oldest Iraqi Member of Parliament until his assassination in 2005. He was believed to have been 87.Fayadh had been the leader of a prominent tribe from southern Iraq, the Albu Amer, and was first elected to an Iraqi legislature by the monarchy before it was toppled in 1958....
  , (2005), Iraqi MP
  Member of Parliament
  
  A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
  
• Ihab al-Sherif
  Ihab al-Sherif
  
  Ihab el-Sherif served as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq until Iraqi kidnappers murdered him in July 2005. He previously served as Egypt's charg? d'affaires to Israel....
  , (2005), Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  ian envoy to Iraq
  Iraq
  
  Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
  
  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha - Sheikh Abdul Sattar Eftikhan al-Rishawi ad-Dulaimi ????? ??? ?????? ??????? ???????? ??????? - was the leader of an alliance of Iraqi Sunni Islam Arab tribe that opposed al-Qaeda in Iraq, and son of the chief of the 160,000 strong Albu Risha clan, a subset of the Dulaim, the largest and most important tribe in...
  , (2007), Sunni tribal leader

Israel (and Biblical)

• Eglon
  Eglon
  
  Eglon may refer to:*Eglon, Canaana Biblical city*Eglon , a Biblical king*Eglon, West Virginia, a community in the U.S. state of West Virginia...
  , (c1200 BC), Moabite king killed by the judge
  Book of Judges
  
  The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
   Ehud
  Ehud
  
  Ehud ben-Gera Ehud then tricked Eglon by saying he had a secret message intended for the king. Eglon sent all of his attendants away to hear the message, and Ehud drew his sword, saying, "I have a message from God for you," and stabbed the king....
  . (Judges 3:12-30
  Book of Judges
  
  The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
  .)
• Sisera
  Sisera
  
  Sisera, Heb. ?????, mentioned in the Book of Judges 4:2 in the Hebrew Bible, was the captain of Jabin's army which was routed and destroyed by the army of Barak on the plain of Esdraelon....
  , (c1200 BC), Canaanite general slain by Jael
  Jaël
  
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  . (Judges 4:18-24
  Book of Judges
  
  The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
  .)
• Ishbaal, (c1000 BC), King of Israel, by two of his captains
• Abner
  Abner
  
  In the Book of Samuel, Abner , is first cousin to Saul the King and commander-in-chief of his army . He is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history , and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed....
  , (c1000 BC), Commander of Ishbaal's army, by Joab
  Joab
  
  Joab was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruiah in the Bible. He was made the captain of David's army . He had two brothers, Abishai and Asahel....
  
• Amnon
  Amnon
  
  File:Convito di Ansalonne.jpgAmnon , according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, was the eldest son of David , king of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam....
  , (c1000 BC), son of King David, by servants of Absalom
  Absalom
  
  Absalom or Avshalom was the third son of David , king of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. He had no sons. describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom....
  
• Absalom
  Absalom
  
  Absalom or Avshalom was the third son of David , king of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. He had no sons. describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom....
  , (c1000 BC), son of King David, by Joab
  Joab
  
  Joab was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruiah in the Bible. He was made the captain of David's army . He had two brothers, Abishai and Asahel....
  
• Jehoash
  Jehoash of Judah
  
  Jehoash , sometimes written Joash, was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and sole surviving son of Ahaziah of Judah.William F. Albright has dated his reign to 837 – 800 BC, while Edwin R....
  , (c800 BC), King of Judea, by his servants
• Holofernes
  Holofernes
  
  Holofernes was an Assyrians invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, who appears in the deuterocanonical books Book of Judith. It was said that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar dispatched Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the west that had withheld their assistance to his reign....
  , (c500 BC), Assyrian
  Assyrians
  
  Assyrians or Assyrian people may refer to :*the Ancient Assyrians*the modern Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac peopleSee also*Assyrian ...
   general, beheaded in his sleep by Judith
  Book of Judith
  
  [Image:Cristofano Allori 002.jpg|thumb|220px|Judith with the Head of Holophernes, by Cristofano Allori, 1613 The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Judaism and Protestantism....
  .
• Simon Maccabaeus
  Simon Maccabaeus
  
  Simon Maccabaeus was a son of Mattathias Maccabaeus and thus a member of the Hasmonean family.He took part in the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire led by his brothers, Judas Maccabaeus and Jonathan Maccabaeus....
  , (135 BC), Hasmonean
  Hasmonean
  
  The Hasmoneans were the ruling dynasty of the Hasmonean Kingdom of Israel , an independent Jewish state. The Hasmonean dynasty was established under the leadership of Simon Maccabaeus, two decades after his brother Judas Maccabeus defeated the Seleucid army during the Maccabean Revolt in 165 BCE....
   king, by his son-in-law Ptolemy
• Hugh II of Le Puiset
  Hugh II of Le Puiset
  
  Hugh II of Le Puiset or Hugh II of Jaffa was a crusader knight and Count of Jaffa, who revolted against Fulk of Jerusalem in 1134....
  , (1134), count of Jaffa
• Miles of Plancy
  Miles of Plancy
  
  Miles of Plancy , also known as Milon or Milo, was a noble in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.He was born in Champagne, France and came to the east in the 1160s, where he served King Amalric I of Jerusalem, to whom he was distantly related....
  , (1174), regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  Kingdom of Jerusalem
  
  The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christianity kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. It lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, Israel, was destroyed by the Mamluks....
  
• Conrad of Montferrat
  Conrad of Montferrat
  
  Conrad of Montferrat, or Conrad I of Jerusalem was one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto Kings of Jerusalem, by marriage, from 24 November, 1190, but officially elected only in 1192, days before his death....
  , (1192), King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade
  Third Crusade
  
  The Third Crusade , also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin .After the failure of the Second Crusade, the Zengid dynasty controlled a unified Syria and engaged in a conflict with the Fatimid dynasty rulers of Egypt, which ultimately resulted in the unification of Egy...
  
• Jacob Israël de Haan
  Jacob Israël de Haan
  
  Jacob Isra?l de Haan was a The Netherlands Jewish literary writer and Journalism who was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Haganah for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders....
  , (1924), pro-Orthodox
  Orthodox Judaism
  
  Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
   Jew
  Jew
  
  A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
  ish diplomat
• Haim Arlosoroff, (1933), Zionist
  Zionism
  
  Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
   leader in the British Mandate of Palestine
• Thomas C. Wasson
  Thomas C. Wasson
  
  Thomas Campbell Wasson was an American diplomat who was Assassination while serving as the United State Consul General in Jerusalem, Palestine....
  , (1948), US Consul General in Jerusalem
  Jerusalem
  
  Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
  
• Folke Bernadotte
  Folke Bernadotte
  
  Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg , was a Sweden diplomat noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II....
  , (1948), Middle East
  Middle East
  
  File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
   peace mediator, assassinated by Lehi
  Lehi (group)
  
  Lehi , also known as the Stern Gang, a term coined by the United Kingdom, was an armed Resistance movement Zionist faction in British Mandate of Palestine,...
   
• Rudolf Kasztner, (1957), Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis
• Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia
  Hamad Abu Rabia
  
  Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia was a Bedouin Israeli politician and a member of the Knesset, best known for being assassinated by sons of another Israeli politician....
  , (1981), Member of the Knesset
  Knesset
  
  The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
  
• Emil Grunzweig
  Emil Grunzweig
  
  Emil Grunzweig was an Israeli educator and a peace activist, one of the prominent members of Peace Now movement. He became a symbolic figure of the center-left democratic forces in Israel after having been killed during a peace rally in Jerusalem on February 10, 1983....
  , (1983), Peace activist, member of Peace Now
  Peace Now
  
  Peace Now is a Left-wing politics non-governmental organization in Israel with the agenda of "swaying popular opinion and convincing the Israeli government of the need and possibility for achieving a just peace and a historic conciliation with the Palestinian people and neighboring Arab world; this in exchange for a territorial settlement ba...
   movement.
• Meir David Kahane
  Meir Kahane
  
  Rabbi Meir David Kahane was an United States-Israeli Orthodox Judaism rabbi and a member of the Israeli Knesset.Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political, nationalist views, exemplified in his promotion of a Greater Israel based on Jewish law....
  , (1990), Member of the Knesset
  Knesset
  
  The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
  , Founder of the JDL and the Kach
  Kach
  
  Kach is town and Union Councils of Pakistan of the Ziarat District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is located at 30?26'2N 67?19'27E and has an altitude of 2020m ....
   Party, Zionist
• Yitzhak Rabin
  Yitzhak Rabin
  
  was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
  , (1995), Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
   and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
   recipient
• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
  Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
  
  Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane was the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane.Son of rabbi Meir Kahane, born in New York City, he emigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four, in 1971....
  , (2000), Son of Meir David Kahane, Leader of Kahane Chai, Zionist
• Rehavam Zeevi
  Rehavam Zeevi
  
  was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the far right nationalist Moledet party. He was assassinated by Hamdi Quran of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , becoming the only Israeli politician to be assassinated during the Second intifada....
  , (2001), Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  i general and politician
• Yaakov Alperon
  Yaakov Alperon
  
  Yaakov Alperon , was an Israeli mobster who was assassinated in a car bomb attack. He was reputed to have run Tel Aviv's third-largest crime family, the Alperon Crime Family....
  , (2008), Israeli mafia
  Israeli mafia
  
  The Israeli mafia is the general term for organized crime groups operating in Israel....
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