Famous Victims of Assassinations in History

The hints will help you uncover the victim. Most of them will be very well known...but some of them will be a bit more challenging!
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He was stabbed to death by the senate, making the fall of the Roman Republic
Julius Caesar
After a thrown bomb failed to kill him, he was later shot to death by Gavrilo Princip
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The 35th President of the United States who was shot during a parade by Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
A cruel Roman emperor that was stabbed to death, some of the attackers being his own guards --- His last words were 'I live!"
Caligula
The 16th President of the United States who was shot by John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
A famous civil rights leader who was shot by James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King
A leader of the Indian nationalist movement shot instantly dead by Nathuram Godse
Mohandas Gandhi
A U.S. presidential candidate who was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, resulting Richard Nixon to be elected instead
Robert F. Kennedy
A Russian revolutionist exiled for criticizing Stalin who was killed with an icepick by Ramón Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
The father of a GREAT figure who was assassinated at his daughter's wedding by one of his own bodyguards in Aegae
Philip II of Macedon
A famous musician, most known for a band he was part of, was shot 4 times by Mark David Chapman
John Lennon
A Roman statesman who, by servants under the orders on a pharaoh, was beheaded and had his head carried on a lance
Pompey the Great
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)
Malcolm X
A King of Scots who was hacked to death by Sir Robert Graham
James I
One of the most prominent women of Roman history who was assassinated under the orders of her own son...a tyrannical Roman emperor
Agrippina the Younger
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
Alexander II
A Russian mystic healer who was said to have been poisoned twice, shot, and drowned (PSST...there is a famous song with his name)
Grigori Rasputin
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)
Ramesses III
BONUS FICTIONAL ASSASSINATION: Was murdered by Macbeth and his wife while he was in a deep slumber
King Duncan
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2 Comments
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Level 79
Feb 12, 2025
Fun quiz, didn't know about Philip II but the hint made it easy. 15/19
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Level 42
Feb 14, 2025
Yeah, without the hint, I think nobody would get the answer.