Famous People Assassinated in the U.S.

Can you name each famous person who was assassinated or murdered in the United States, given the year and the location?
An asterisk (*) means the person was killed in a duel
Location isn't necessarily synonymous with where the person died
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Year
City
Answer
1804*
Weehawken, NJ
Alexander Hamilton
1844
Carthage, IL
Joseph Smith
1865
Washington, DC
Abraham Lincoln
1881
Fort Sumner, NM
Billy the Kid
1881
Washington, DC
James Garfield
1882
St. Joseph, MO
Jesse James
1901
Buffalo, NY
William McKinley
1935
Baton Rouge, LA
Huey Long
1963
Dallas, TX
John F. Kennedy
1965
New York, NY
Malcolm X
1968
Memphis, TN
Martin Luther King Jr.
1968
Los Angeles, CA
Robert F. Kennedy
1969
Los Angeles, CA
Sharon Tate
1978
San Francisco, CA
George Moscone /
Harvey Milk
1980
New York, NY
John Lennon
1995
Corpus Christi, TX
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
1996
Las Vegas, NV
Tupac Shakur
2009
Wichita, KS
George Tiller
2016
Orlando, FL
Christina Grimmie
2024
New York, NY
Brian Thompson
2025
Orem, UT
Charlie Kirk
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