Famous Assassinations in History
Famous Assassinations is a structured history dataset with 20 entries. Its fields include Victim, Year, Location. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 20 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Mar 7, 2026
Included fields: Victim, Year, Location, Assassin, Method, and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year span
- 1170 to 2007
- Across 18 preview rows
- Method groups
- 10 distinct values
- Across 20 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Victim, Year, and Location across history entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 20 downloadable records
Victim↕ | Year↕ | Location↕ | Assassin↕ | Method↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Julius Caesar | 44 BC | Rome, Roman Republic | Brutus, Cassius & senators | Stabbing (23 wounds) | Triggered fall of Roman Republic; immortalized by Shakespeare's 'Et tu, Brute?' |
Abraham Lincoln | 1865 | Washington, D.C., USA | John Wilkes Booth | Gunshot | First US president assassinated; shot at Ford's Theatre during the Civil War's end |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 1914 | Sarajevo, Bosnia | Gavrilo Princip | Gunshot | Triggered World War I; most consequential assassination in modern history |
Mahatma Gandhi | 1948 | New Delhi, India | Nathuram Godse | Gunshot | Father of Indian independence; killed by Hindu nationalist extremist |
John F. Kennedy | 1963 | Dallas, Texas, USA | Lee Harvey Oswald | Gunshot (rifle) | 35th US president; spawned decades of conspiracy theories; Zapruder film |
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1968 | Memphis, Tennessee, USA | James Earl Ray | Gunshot (rifle) | Civil rights leader; assassination sparked riots across 100+ US cities |
Robert F. Kennedy | 1968 | Los Angeles, California, USA | Sirhan Sirhan | Gunshot | Presidential candidate and brother of JFK; killed during campaign |
Anwar Sadat | 1981 | Cairo, Egypt | Khalid Islambouli | Gunshot | Egyptian president killed during military parade; peace with Israel angered extremists |
Indira Gandhi | 1984 | New Delhi, India | Satwant Singh & Beant Singh (bodyguards) | Gunshot | Indian PM killed by Sikh bodyguards after Operation Blue Star; triggered anti-Sikh riots |
Olof Palme | 1986 | Stockholm, Sweden | Unknown (case closed 2020) | Gunshot | Swedish PM shot walking home from cinema; one of the most famous unsolved cases |
Yitzhak Rabin | 1995 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Yigal Amir | Gunshot | Israeli PM killed for signing Oslo Accords; derailed Middle East peace process |
Benazir Bhutto | 2007 | Rawalpindi, Pakistan | Suicide bomber (al-Qaeda linked) | Gunshot and bombing | First female PM of a Muslim-majority country; killed during election rally |
Philip II of Macedon | 336 BC | Aegae, Macedon | Pausanias of Orestis | Stabbing | Father of Alexander the Great; assassination enabled Alexander's rise to power |
Thomas Becket | 1170 | Canterbury Cathedral, England | Four knights of Henry II | Sword | Archbishop murdered in cathedral; became saint; Henry II did public penance |
William the Silent | 1584 | Delft, Netherlands | Balthasar Gerard | Gunshot (pistol) | First head of state assassinated by handgun; leader of Dutch independence |
Jean-Paul Marat | 1793 | Paris, France | Charlotte Corday | Stabbing | French Revolution radical killed in his bathtub; immortalized in Jacques-Louis David painting |
Alexander II of Russia | 1881 | St. Petersburg, Russia | Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Narodnaya Volya) | Bomb | Tsar who freed the serfs; killed by anarchist bomb after surviving first blast |
Leon Trotsky | 1940 | Mexico City, Mexico | Ramon Mercader (Soviet agent) | Ice axe | Bolshevik revolutionary; killed on Stalin's orders while in exile |
Park Chung-hee | 1979 | Seoul, South Korea | Kim Jae-gyu (intelligence chief) | Gunshot | South Korean president killed by his own spy chief at a private dinner |
Rajiv Gandhi | 1991 | Sriperumbudur, India | Thenmozhi Rajaratnam (LTTE) | Suicide bombing | Former Indian PM killed during election campaign by Tamil Tigers suicide bomber |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Famous Assassinations in History organized?
The table starts in the source data's default order. You can sort and filter the loaded rows by the displayed fields.
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This dataset contains 20 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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