Famous Victims of Assassinations in History

He was stabbed to death by the senate, making the fall of the Roman Republic

After a thrown bomb failed to kill him, he was later shot to death by Gavrilo Princip

The 35th President of the United States who was shot during a parade by Lee Harvey Oswald

A cruel Roman emperor that was stabbed to death, some of the attackers being his own guards --- His last words were 'I live!"

The 16th President of the United States who was shot by John Wilkes Booth

A famous civil rights leader who was shot by James Earl Ray

A leader of the Indian nationalist movement shot instantly dead by Nathuram Godse

A U.S. presidential candidate who was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, resulting Richard Nixon to be elected instead

A Russian revolutionist exiled for criticizing Stalin who was killed with an icepick by Ramón Trotsky

The father of a GREAT figure who was assassinated at his daughter's wedding by one of his own bodyguards in Aegae

A famous musician, most known for a band he was part of, was shot 4 times by Mark David Chapman

A Roman statesman who, by servants under the orders on a pharaoh, was beheaded and had his head carried on a lance

A famous Black nationalist and religious leader who was assassinated during a speech by Talmadge Hayer (Khalil Islam and Muhammad Abdul Aziz were later found innocent of the assassination after being convicted)

A King of Scots who was hacked to death by Sir Robert Graham

One of the most prominent women of Roman history who was assassinated under the orders of her own son...a tyrannical Roman emperor

A Tsar of Russia who was killed in a 2nd bomb attack from the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya, as he survived the first a short while earlier

A Russian mystic healer who was said to have been poisoned twice, shot, and drowned (PSST...there is a famous song with his name)

The 20th dynasty pharaoh who was found to have died by a knife slash to the neck (also had one of his big toes sliced off)

BONUS FICTIONAL ASSASSINATION: Was murdered by Macbeth and his wife while he was in a deep slumber