List of assassinations in Europe
Assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe include the following.
For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.
Albania
No.
Name of victim(s)
Portrait
Highest position held
Date assassinated
Name of assassin(s)
Place of assassination
Suspected motive and description of the assassination
1
Hasan Rıza Pasha
General in the Ottoman-Albanian army of Scutari Vilayet
31 January 1913
Osman Bali, Mehmet Kavaja
A remote street near Rozafa Castle , Shkodër
Assailants were sent on the orders of Esad Toptani whose aim was to be the commander in charge of defending Shkodër from the invading Montenegrin forces.
2
Gjeto Çoku
Prefect of Lezhë
7 October 1913
Prenk Kol Brunga
Lezhë
Brunga was paid by the House of Prenk Bib Doda to eliminate the Prefect of Lezhë. Brunga, a paid guard in the Gendarmerie of Lezhë at the time, assassinated Gjeto Çoku at dusk as the Prefect was taking an evening stroll with Franz Nopcsa .
3
Lodewijk Thomson
Dutch military commander during the governance of Turhan Pasha .
15 June 1914
Unknown
Ura e Dajlanit, Durrës
Thomson made plenty of enemies during his short time of service in the country. The real motive of his murder has yet to be uncovered.
4
Nexhat Libohova
Minister of Finance
26 May 1915
Osman Bali
Shkallnur, Durrës
Political dispute with Esad Toptani .
5
Çerçiz Topulli
Commander of the Gjirokastër military band
17 July 1915
Montenegrin soldiers
Shtoji field, Golem, Shkodër
Revenge over the killing of the Greek bishop Photios in 1906.
6
Ded Gjo Luli
Leader of the Albanian revolt of 1911
24 September 1915
Unknown
Sheshëz, Orosh
Killed for nationalist motives.
7
Isa Boletini
Leader of the uprising to liberate Albanian lands
23 January 1916
Pero Burič
Ribnica bridge, Podgorica , Montenegro
Killed to suppress the Albanian resistance.
8
Stath Melani
Orthodox priest
24 December 1917
Josif Soropulli, Josif Stërmbeci, Vangjel Radimishti
Balta e kuqe, Lipivan, Përmet
Melani was killed by a group of Greek nationalists for insisting on the use of the Albanian language in the local Orthodox liturgy.
10
Prenk Bib Doda
Deputy Prime Minister
22 March 1919
Prenk Gjeto Çoku
Zejmen, Lezhë
Bib Doda was killed in an ambush, while traveling from Durrës to Shëngjin in the company of British diplomat Eden, who was wounded. The motive was revenge for Bib Doda's ordering the assassination of Prenk Gjeto Çoku's father, Gjeto Çoku, the Prefect of Lezhë .
11
Xhelal Koprëncka
Signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
21 October 1919
Syrja Guri
Dëllinjë, Qafa e Martës, Skrapar
Murdered for personal revenge.
12
Sali Nivica
Journalist, Director of newspaper "Populli"
11 January 1920
Kolë Ashiku
A street near the Post Office, Shkodër
Killed for personal reasons.
13
Abdyl Ypi
Prefect of Durrës
15 January 1920
Sulejman Haxhi
Durrës
Killed on the orders of Mustafa Kruja as one of the initiators of the Congress of Lushnjë .
14
Esad Toptani
Prime Minister
13 June 1920
Avni Rustemi
Paris , France
The murder was likely ordered by political rivals even though the widely accepted theory was treason.
15
Meleq Frashëri
General Commander of the Gendarmerie
8 March 1922
Unknown
Kodër-Kamëz, Tirana
Killed during clashes with the rebels against the government.
16
Enrico Tellini
Head of the International Commission to survey the disputed border between Greece and Albania
27 August 1923
Organized Greek band
Delvinaq, Zhepë, Greece
To prevent the defining of the new boundary in favor of Albania.
17
George B. De Long Robert L. Coleman
Real estate businessman Financier
6 April 1924
Local bandits
Ura e Përroit, Mamurras
The only conclusive motive for the murders was random burglary.
18
Avni Rustemi
Member of the Parliament
20 April 1924
Jusuf Reçi
Hoxha Tahsin St., Tirana
The motive of the assassination remains a mystery.
19
Azem Galica
Commander of a military band
25 July 1924
Yugoslavian forces
Galicë, Kosovo
Galica was killed by Yugoslav forces to suppress the movement against incorporating Kosovo into the newly formed state of Yugoslavia.
20
Elez Isufi
Commander of the Dibër Band
30 December 1924
Unknown assailants
Kazermat, Peshkopi
The murder of Isufi was widely seen as a treasonous act.
21
Luigj Gurakuqi
Served as Minister of Education two months prior.
2 March 1925
Balto Stamolla
Bari , Italy
Stamolla was a close relative of the Albanian Counsel in Bari, Çatin Saraçi .
22
Zija Dibra
Served as Minister of Public Works in the Evangjeli I Cabinet
6 January 1925
Unknown
Harizaj , Kavajë
Dibra was a fierce political opponent of prime minister Ahmet Zogu who came to power just two days after the assassination took place.
23
Bajram Curri
Served as Minister of War in 1921
29 March 1925
Unidentified
By a cave in Dragobi, Tropojë
Killed by assailants who were sent on the orders of Hysen Kryeziu, at the time serving as the Prefect of Kosovo.
24
Osman Bali
Commander of the Presidential Guard
5 September 1926
Myslim Peza , Islam Leka
Near Ura e Tabakëve , Tirana
The killing was due to political revenge.
25
Isuf Dibra
Served as Minister of War in the Toptani Cabinet
19 March 1927
Unknown
Tirana
Murdered by his assistant under unknown circumstances.
26
Ceno Kryeziu
Minister of Albania in Prague
14 October 1927
Alqiviadh Bebi
Prague , Czechoslovakia
Killed for having collaborated with the Yugoslavs. The assassin was a close relative to Andon Beça , an ally of Shefqet Vërlaci .
27
Llesh Topallaj
Officer of the Republican Guard
21 February 1931
Ndok Gjeloshi, Azis Çami
Operngasse St., Vienna , Austria
The official motive that circulated in the media at the time was that the assailants were trying to assassinate Ahmet Zogu .
28
Mark Kapidani
Member of the Parliament
19 December 1932
Geg Marka Gega
Inside the Officers' Hall, near the Royal Palace, Tirana
The assassin was a former officer in the Army Reserve, once sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for his attempts to overthrow the government.
29
Bajazid Doda
Photographer, Personal Secretary of Baron Nopcsa
25 April 1933
Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
Singerstrasse St., Vienna , Austria
Killed for personal reasons.
30
Hasan Prishtina
Former Prime Minister
13 August 1933
Ibrahim Çelo
Thessaloniki , Greece
The assassin was apparently a former acquaintance but motives of the assassination remain unclear.
31
Leon De Ghilardi
Officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army
16 August 1933
Xhevahir Arapi
Mulliri i Kashtës, Fier
Killed during the anti-government revolt.
32
Qazim Bodinaku
Served as Prefect of Vlorë and later Berat
6 April 1939
Unknown
Unknown
A Zog loyalist, he was murdered as he was trying to leave the country by 2 persons whom he had had a previous dispute with.
33
Daut Hoxha [sq ]
Commander of the Chameria Band
14 June 1940
Sotir Demiri, Vangjel Pando, Dhimo Koçi, Kolo Sulioti, Sotir Vangjeli
Sheshi i Rrahut, Konispol
The victim had been sentenced to death by the Greek State because of his anti-Greek resurgence in the region.
34
Xhafer Ypi
Former Prime Minister
17 December 1940
Unknown
Unknown
Killed during aerial bombardments.
35
Sali Nijazi Dede
Dedebaba , Founder of the Bektashi Order
28 November 1941
Italian agents
Bektashi Headquarters, Tirana
Did not accept to sign the act of invasion by Fascist Italy.
36
Musa Puka
Prefect of Elbasan
2 October 1942
Unknown
Elbasan
Killed on a roadside by communist rebels.
37
Skënder Çami [sq ]
Police Superintendent for Korçë
4 March 1942
Unknown
Unknown
The motives of the killing remain unknown.
38
Qemal Stafa
Leader of the Communist Youth
5 May 1942
A local policeman
Tirana
Stafa was killed in a house on the outskirts of Tirana by a local Carabinieri . Rumors say that he may have been betrayed by one or more of his comrades, possibly Enver Hoxha (the first secretary of the Albanian communist party & leader of Albania), because he gained much from his death.
39
Saverino Ricottini
Member of the Fascist Upper Council
25 March 1943
Unknown
Peja , Kosovo
The motives of the murder are unknown.
40
Qazim Koculi
Served as Acting Prime Minister
2 January 1943
Halil Alia
Vlorë
Murdered by the fascist mercenary battalion of Halil Alia for personal reasons.
41
Iljas Agushi [sq ]
Deputy Prime Minister in the Merlika Cabinet
27 October 1943
Bujar Hoxha, Shahin Gjashta
Tirana
The motives of the assassination were due to Agushi's collaboration with the invading Nazi forces.
42
Hysen Myshketa [sq ]
Member of the National Council
8 October 1943
Unknown
Durrës
Myshketa and his brother were murdered by three assassins as they were walking along the "Mussolini Boardwalk".
43
Idhomen Kosturi
Chairman of the National Council
5 November 1943
Kolë Laku
Tirana
Murdered under the orders of the Communist Guerrilla unit.
44
Aziz Çami
Military commander in the Vlora War
15 December 1943
Communist forces
Tirana
Murdered for being a member of the Balli Kombëtar .
45
Veli Vasjari
Chief of State Police
12 May 1944
Unknown
Korçë
Killed by communist partisans near the region of Gabravicë.
46
Mustafa Gjinishi
Board member of the National Liberation Council
26 August 1944
Unknown
Sllatinë, Dibër
His death occurred during mysterious circumstances as he traveled to northern Albania.
47
Lefter Kosova [sq ]
Minister of Public Works under the Biçakçiu Cabinet
6 September 1944
Xhelal Staravecka
Tirana
Murdered because of a previous political dispute.
48
Mark Kodheli [sq ]
Consul of Albania in Bari , Italy
1944
Unknown
49
Shaban Polluzha
Member of the Yugoslavian Parliament
21 February 1945
Yugoslavian soldiers
Tërstenik , Drenicë , Kosovo
He was killed for being an irredentist.
50
Miladin Popović
Head of the Communist Yugoslav Mission in Albania
13 March 1945
Haki Taha
Pristina , Kosovo
Popović mediated plans of keeping the territory of Kosovo under Serbian supervision.
51
Ndrecë Ndue Gjoka
Deputy chairman of the executive committee of Mirditë
17 February 1946
Members of the Mountains Committee
Qafë-Vorrëz, Kaçinar, Mirditë
Killed for spreading educational leaflets.
52
Mark Gjon Marku [sq ]
Minister of Interior in the Bushati Cabinet
14 June 1946
Members of Armed Forces
Perlat Forest, Prosek, Mirditë
Killed for personal reasons.
53
Baba Faja Martaneshi
Deputy Leader of the National Liberation Front
18 March 1947
Dede Baba Abazi
Bektashi Headquarters, Tirana
Murdered due to political and religious differences.
54
Kostaq Kotta
Prime Minister
1 September 1947
Two prison guards
Burrel Prison
Murdered because he was considered a political enemy.
55
Nako Spiru
High ranking communist official in charge of the State Planning Commission
20 November 1947
Unknown
Tirana
The murder was officially ruled a suicide but he was most likely killed under the orders of Koçi Xoxe .
56
Josif Papamihali
Mission head of the Unity Church of Albania
26 October 1948
Labor camp guards
Maliq
He was considered an enemy of the state along with thirty-seven other priests.
57
Bardhok Biba
Member of the People's Assembly
9 August 1949
Unknown
Kaçinar , Lezhë
Killed by the anti-communist resistance guerrilla unit "Komiteti i Maleve".
58
Pal Mëlyshi [sq ]
Agent of the Sigurimi
12 April 1950
Unknown
Ujë-Lurth, Mirditë
His suspicious death was considered accidental.
59
Alush Lleshanaku [pl ]
Legislative Member of the Corporative Fascist Upper Council
24 December 1950
Ilo Stojko
Elbasan
A staunch anti-communist resistance leader, Lleshanaku was assassinated by an agent of the Sigurimi .
60
Sali Ormeni
Director of the Albanian State Police
2 March 1951
Unknown
Rrogozhinë
Killed mysteriously a week after the bombing of the Soviet Embassy.
61
Omer Nishani
Former Head of State
26 May 1954
Unknown
Tirana
His murder was officially ruled a suicide.
62
Teme Sejko
Commander of the Naval Fleet
31 May 1961
Qemal Birçe, Islam Gjondede
Maminas, Durrës
The perpetrators tied a rope around his neck and killed him for personal reasons.
63
Haxhi Hajdari [sq ]
Member of the People's Assembly
8 April 1963
Unknown
Unknown
Denounced as the "People's Enemy" by the regime, he was killed by artillery gunfire.
64
Myslym Keta [sq ]
Commander of the Tanks Regiment
26 February 1966
Unknown
Fushë-Arrëz
Keta was suspected to be an opponent of dictator Enver Hoxha .
65
Mehmet Shehu
Prime Minister
17 December 1981
Unknown
Tirana
The official death was ruled a suicide but Shehu was more than likely killed by the Sigurimi under Hoxha's orders.
66
Jusuf Gërvalla
Member of the Movement for Liberation of Kosovo
17 January 1982
Agents of the UDB
Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany
To suppress the Albanian nationalist movement in Kosovo.
67
Mustafa Band
Exiles
27 September 1982
Security Forces
Zhamë, Rrogozhinë
Prevented plot to assassinate dictator Enver Hoxha .
68
Jean Marie Massellin
French Employee Club Med Corfu
18 Jun 1984
Albanian Border Guards
Vrine, Butrinti
Killed by Albanian border guards for accidentally straying in Albanian territorial waters.
69
Aleksandër Kondo [sq ]
National Weightlifting Champion
1 May 1987
Unknown
Gas station, New York
Likely assassination by Sigurimi agents to make it appear as an accident.
70
Josif Budo
Local worker
10 July 1990
Luan Allajbeu
Main street, Kavajë
Killed for being an opponent of the regime.
71
Artan Lenja
Wrestler
24 February 1991
Military patrol
Rruga "Ndre Mjeda", Tirana
Killed by a military patrol unit in charge of enforcing public order.
72
Arben Broci
Engineer at a cigarette factory
2 April 1991
Unknown
Shkodër
Killed by a sniper to suppress public disorder.
73
Gazmend Muça
Criminal
7 April 1992
Naim Zyberi, Franc Konomi
Xhamlliku, Tirana
Killed for personal reasons.
74
Remzi Hoxha
Businessman
21 October 1995
Responsible: Arben Sefgjini, Ilir Kumbaro, Avni Koldashi, Budion Meçe
Kunë-Vain, Lezhë
The speculative rumor was that Hoxha was a UDB agent. He died from the injuries sustained during his torture inside the SHIK facility.
75
Bujar Kaloshi
General Director of Prisons
26 July 1996
Unknown
Former aviation field, Tirana
Kaloshi's murder was likely influenced by his position as head of the prison system.
76
Ahmet Krasniqi [sq ]
Kosovo's Minister of Defence
21 September 1998
Unknown
"Haxhi Dalliu" street, Tirana
The motives for his killing are not yet known.
77
Azem Hajdari
Member of the Assembly
22 September 1998
Fatmir Haklaj, Jaho Mulosmani, Naim Cangu
Tirana
The suspected motive for Hajdari's assassination was political revenge.
78
Kleanthi Koçi
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
21 February 1999
Unknown
Near Tirana International Hotel
Motives for his killing have yet to be uncovered.
79
Arben Zylyftari [sq ]
Police chief in Shkodër
2 August 2000
Bahri Tafili
Lagja "Udhakryq", Shkodër
Killed due to his position as chief of police.
80
Salih Tivari
General Secretary of the Muslim Community of Albania
13 January 2002
Unknown
Headquarters of the Muslim Community of Albania
Tivari had raised doubts about financial contributions coming from anonymous Muslim organizations.
81
Gani Malushi [sq ]
Chief of Police in Fushë-Krujë
6 August 2003
Agim Pepa
Durrës
The actual target in the killing was Malushi's personal chauffeur.
82
Gramoz Palushi
Football fan
4 September 2004
Panajotis Kladhis
Island of Zakinthos, Greece
Killed because he celebrated the football victory of Albania over Greece.
83
Vajdin Lame
Businessman
28 February 2005
Unknown
Tirana
Lame was part owner of national television station Top Channel . He was killed from a bomb planted inside an elevator alongside his friend Artan Arsi.
84
Edmond Malollari
President of Tomori Berat football club
14 December 2005
Unknown
Tirana
The motive for the killing in broad daylight was likely because of unpaid debt.
85
Fatmir Xhindi [sq ]
Member of the Assembly
2 May 2009
Unknown
Roskovec , Fier
Motives of his murder remain a mystery.
86
Fatos Xhani , Altin Dizdari , Sajmir Duçkallari , Kastriot Feskaj
State Police officers
7 August 2009
Dritan Dajti
Iliria beach, Durrës
The officers on duty were killed as Dajti was resisting arrest.
87
Remzi Veseli [sq ]
Mayor of Tërthore Commune
25 October 2010
Unknown
Kukës
Motives for the killing remain unsolved.
88
Hekuran Deda , Faik Myrtaj , Ziver Veizi , Aleks Nika
Participants in an anti-government protest
21 January 2011
Ndrea Prendi, Agim Llupo
"Dëshmorët e Kombit" Boulevard, Tirana
Randomly killed to warn protesters from entering the Prime Minister's Office building.
89
Skerdilajd Konomi
Judge of the 1st Circuit Court in Vlorë
9 September 2011
Unknown
"Vlorë-Skelë" street, Vlorë
Motives for the killing have yet to be uncovered.
90
Arjan Selimi
Drug trafficker
26 September 2011
Unknown
Tirana
Selimi was the fiancé of television personality Inis Gjoni. His killing was a result of his past as a convicted drug trafficker.
91
Adem Tahiraj [sq ]
Chief of Police in Shijak
12 September 2012
Ilir Xhakja
Katund-Sukth, Durrës
Shot and killed during an operation for the arrest of the suspect.
92
Dritan Lamaj
Chief of Commissariat No. 6 in Tirana
25 February 2013
Arben Frroku
Tirana
Frroku, a local businessman, had been physically assaulted by Lamaj a few months prior.
93
Artan Santo [sq ]
Founder of Credins Bank
26 June 2014
Unknown
"Ibrahim Rugova" street, Tirana
Motives for his murder remain a mystery.
94
Ibrahim Basha
Officer of RENEA
24 June 2015
Unknown
Lazarat , Gjirokastër
Killed by sniper fire during a drug sting operation.
95
Artan Cuku
Police chief of Vlorë
8 April 2017
Mikel Shallari
Rruga e Kosovarëve, Tirana
Killed for work related revenge.
Austria
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1913
Franz Schuhmeier , socialist member of the Reichsrat
Paul Kunschak
1916
Count Karl von Stürgkh , Minister-President of Austria
Friedrich Adler
Assassinated by Social Democratic politician in protest of World War I
1925
Hugo Bettauer , journalist and writer, critic of antisemitism
Otto Rothstock , Austrian Nazi Party member
1934
Engelbert Dollfuss , Chancellor of Austria [ 1]
Paul Hudl , Otto Planetta and other Austrian Nazis
Part of a failed coup d'état, the July Putsch .
1936
Moritz Schlick , German philosopher
Johann Nelböck , student
Shot at the University of Vienna
1975
Daniş Tunalıgil , Turkish ambassador
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
1987
Hamid Reza Chitgar , exiled Iranian politician
Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1989
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou , dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader
Intelligence operatives of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence led by Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi
Killed in Vienna during negotiations
2009
Umar Israilov , Former bodyguard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov
Chechen criminal group, ordered by Ramzan Kadyrov
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1196
Ivan Asen I , Tsar of Bulgaria
Ivanko
1895
Stefan Stambolov , former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Died in Sofia after being stabbed.
1907
Dimitar Petkov , Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Killed in Sofia by an anarchist.
1923
Aleksandar Stamboliyski , Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Killed in his home town of Slavovitsa during the 9 June coup d'état
1925
Stefan Nerezov , former Chief of the General Staff
Was among 150 killed in the Saint Nedelya Church bombing
1943
Hristo Lukov , military officer, former Minister of War and leader of the far-right Union of Bulgarian National Legions
Violeta Yakova
Killed by the Bulgarian Resistance in Sofia.
1995
Vasil Iliev , insurance boss and owner of "VIS-2", former wrestler
Shot while being driven in Sofia.
1996
Andrey Lukanov , former Prime Minister of Bulgaria[ 3]
Shot outside his apartment in Sofia.
2003
Iliya Pavlov , president of Multigroup corporation and the wealthiest man in Bulgaria, former wrestler
Shot outside his office in Sofia.
2005
Georgi Iliev , football club owner, brother of the assassinated Vasil Iliev
Shot in a restaurant in Sunny Beach .
2005
Emil Kyulev , banker, ex-professional swimmer, voted Mr. Economics in Bulgaria for 2002
Shot while driving along Bulgaria Boulevard, Sofia .
2006
Ivan "Doktora" Todorov, businessman accused of smuggling
2008
Borislav Georgiev, CEO of "Atomenergoremont" nuclear plant repair company
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
921
Saint Ludmila , wife of Duke Bořivoj , grandmother of Duke Václav I
Tunna and Gomon
Strangled by Viking warriors hired by Ludmila's daughter-in-law Drahomíra I.
935
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslaus)
Stabbed to death in Stará Boleslav by noblemen affiliated with Boleslaus I
1306
Wenceslaus III , King of Bohemia
Killed in Olomouc .
1634
Albrecht von Wallenstein , Bohemian Generalissimo during the Thirty Years' War
Walter Devereux
Stabbed to death in Cheb .
1923
Alois Rašín , Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia
Josef Šoupal
Shot in Prague .
1923
Rayko Daskalov , Bulgarian politician and former cabinet minister
Yordan Tsitsonkov
Shot by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Prague
1927
Ceno Kryeziu , Albanian ambassador to Czechoslovakia
Alqiviadh Bebi
Shot in Prague .
1942
Reinhard Heydrich , General in the Nazi German Schutzstaffel , major organizer of the Holocaust and governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Jan Kubiš , Jozef Gabčík
Died after being wounded by a bomb thrown at him as he was being driven through Libeň near Prague, as part of Operation Anthropoid organized by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile and the British Special Operations Executive . The Lidice Massacre followed as retribution by the Nazis. A legend has it that he deliberately put the Crown of Bohemia on his head beforehand, meaning an untimely death.
2006
František Mrázek , controversial entrepreneur
Shot in the heart by a sniper
Denmark
Estonia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1924
Jaak Nanilson , member of the Riigikogu
Unknown (suspects were acquitted due to lack of evidence)
The assassination was endorsed by local pro-communist MPs and in the Soviet media
1924
Karl Kark , Minister of Transportation
Shot by communist insurgents during the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt .
1930
Johan Unt , military major-general
Unknown
Finland
France
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1354
Charles d'Espagne , constable of France
Jean de Soult
1358
Étienne Marcel , Parisian merchant
1407
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
1419
John the Fearless , Duke of Burgundy
Tanneguy du Chastel and Jean Louvet
Killed during a parley with the Dauphin (the future Charles VII of France )
1572
Gaspard de Coligny
Besme
Killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
1589
Henri III , King of France
Jacques Clément
Killed due to religious-political antagonism.
1610
Henri IV , King of France
François Ravaillac
Killed due to religious-political antagonism.
1617
Concino Concini , chief minister to King Louis XIII
1789
Jacques de Flesselles , Provost of Paris
1793
Jean-Paul Marat , revolutionary
Charlotte Corday
Stabbed in his bathtub. Later seen as a patriotic act.[by whom? ]
1820
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry , younger son of the future King Charles X
Louis Pierre Louvel
1894
Sadi Carnot , President of France
Sante Geronimo Caserio , anarchist
Stabbed to death after a speech in Lyon .
1902
Emile Zola , novelist and journalist
Possibly killed in relation to the Dreyfus Affair and his publishing of his letter J'Accuse…!
1914
Jean Jaurès , Socialist politician and pacifist[ 4]
Raoul Villain
Killed in Paris. The assassin was tried and acquitted in 1919.
1920
Essad Toptani , former Prime Minister of Albania
Avni Rustemi
1926
Symon Petlyura , exiled President of Ukraine
Sholom Schwartzbard
Killed in Paris . The jury acquitted the murderer.[ 5]
1930
Noe Ramishvili , former Prime Minister of Georgia
Cheka agents
Killed in Paris
1932
Paul Doumer , President of France
Paul Gorguloff
Shot by a Russian emigre at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris.[ 1]
1934
Alexander I of Yugoslavia , king of Yugoslavia; Louis Barthou , Foreign Minister of France
Vlado Chernozemski , member of the IMRO
Killed in Marseille during a state visit.[ 6]
1938
Ernst vom Rath , German diplomat
Herschel Grynszpan
Killed in Paris . His murder was used as an excuse by the Nazis to commit the Kristallnacht in Germany
1941
Marx Dormoy , socialist and former Interior Minister of France
Killed by a bomb believed to have been placed by the far-right organization La Cagoule
1944
Constant Chevillon , head of FUDOFSI
Killed by the Gestapo in Lyon
1944
Philippe Henriot , State secretary for Information and Propaganda of Vichy France
Killed by French resistants in Paris
1944
Georges Mandel , former radical-socialist Interior Minister and French resistant
Killed by miliciens in the forest of Fontainebleau
1944
Eugène Deloncle , milicien and former leader of clandestine far-right organisation La Cagoule
Killed by the Gestapo
1961
Camille Blanc , Mayor of Évian-les-Bains
Organisation armée secrète
Killed for hosting negotiations between the French government and the FLN
1965
Mehdi Ben Barka , Moroccan socialist leader and Third-World Tricontinental leader
Disappeared in Paris
1972
Mahmoud Hamshari, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO ) representative in Paris
Mossad , Israeli Secret Service
Killed in his apartment by a bomb planted in his telephone as he answered a call in retribution for Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics , the second of a number of attacks pursuant to Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre .
1973
Outel Bono , Chadian medical doctor and critic of Chadian President François Tombalbaye
Shot while climbing into his car in Paris.
1973
Basil al-Kubaissi, professor and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Mossad
Shot dead
1973
Mohammad Boudia , Algerian-born director of operations for Black September in France
Mossad
Killed in Paris by a pressure-activated bomb packed with heavy nuts and bolts placed under his car seat as part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre .
1975
İsmail Erez , Turkish ambassador to France
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
1976
Jean de Broglie , former minister and one of the French negotiators of the Évian Accords
1978
François Duprat , neofascist writer
Jewish Remembrance commando
1978
Henri Curiel , Egyptian-born anticolonialist activist
Shot in Paris
1978
Bruno Bušić , dissident Croatian/Yugoslav writer
Yugoslav secret police
1978
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana "Argala", Basque leader
Killed by a bomb in Anglet , allegedly planted by the Batallón Vasco Español .
1978
Ezzedin Kalak , chief of the PLO 's Paris bureau
Killed in his Paris office alongside his deputy Hamad Adnan in the Arab League building
1979
Pierre Goldman , left-wing activist
Shot in Paris
1979
Robert Boulin , Minister of Labor
Officially suicide, but a lot of anomalies revealed since.
1979
Zuhair Muhsin , leader of the As-Sa'iqa faction within the PLO
1979
Shahriar Shafiq, Imperial Iranian Navy Captain
Shot on the Rue Pergolese in Paris
1980
Joseph Fontanet , former Education Minister
Killed in Paris.
1980
Salah al-Din Bitar , exiled former Prime Minister of Syria
Killed in Paris.
1980
Yehia El-Mashad , Egyptian atomic scientist
Shot at the Le Méridien hotel in Paris.
1982
Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude , right-wing activist and criminal
Shot at Argent-sur-Sauldre soon after being released from prison.
1982
Fadl Dani, deputy director of the PLO office in Paris
Mossad
Killed in Paris by a car bomb as part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre .
1982
Yaakov Barsimantov , Israeli diplomat, Mossad agent
Jacqueline Esber a.k.a. Rima, member of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions
Shot in the lobby of his home in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
1985
René Audran , senior official of the Ministry of Defence
Action directe
Shot in Paris
1986
Georges Besse , Renault executive
Shot while emerging from his car in Paris by far-left activists of Action directe
1988
Dulcie September , African National Congress representative
Killed in Paris
1990
Joseph Doucé , activist for sexual minorities
Corpse found in Rambouillet forest; murder remains unsolved
1991
Shapour Bakhtiar , exiled former Prime Minister of Iran
Stabbed to death at his residence in Suresnes along with his secretary.
1992
Atef Bseiso , Palestine Liberation Organization head of intelligence
Mossad
Killed in Paris
1995
Abdelbaki Sahraoui , co-founder of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front
Killed in Paris.
1998
Claude Érignac , prefect of Corsica
Yvan Colonna
Shot in Ajaccio by a Corsican nationalist.
2013
Sakine Cansız , Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez , Kurdish nationalists
Shot at Rue La Fayette in Paris.
2015
Cabu , Elsa Cayat , Charb , Philippe Honoré , Bernard Maris , Mustapha Ourrad , Tignous and Georges Wolinski , cartoonists working for Charlie Hebdo
Chérif and Saïd Kouachi
See Charlie Hebdo shooting
2016
Jacques Hamel , Roman Catholic priest of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean
Stabbed to death during mass. See 2016 Normandy church attack .
Georgia
Germany
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
235
Alexander Severus , Roman emperor
Killed near Moguntiacum (present-day Mainz ) by his troops.
268
Postumus , Gallic emperor
Killed in Mainz
268
Laelianus , Gallic emperor
Killed in Mainz
997
Adalbert of Prague , Czech Bishop
Prussian heathen
Tortured to death near the Baltic Sea near present-day Elbląg , Poland
1208
Philipp von Hohenstaufen , Holy Roman Emperor
Killed in Bamberg
1225
Engelbert I. von Köln , Archbishop of Cologne
1233
Konrad von Marburg , inquisitor
1819
August von Kotzebue , dramatist
Karl Ludwig Sand
German Reich (1871–1945)
1919
Rosa Luxemburg , socialist writer
Hermann Souchon (ordered by Waldemar Pabst )
Shot in Berlin in the wake of the Spartacist uprising
1919
Karl Liebknecht , socialist lawyer and politician
Horst von Pflugk-Harttung , Heinrich Stiege, Ulrich von Ritgen and Rudolf Liepmann (ordered by Waldemar Pabst )
Shot in Berlin in the wake of the Spartacist uprising
1919
Kurt Eisner , socialist Minister-President of Bavaria
Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
Killed in Munich .
1919
Leo Jogiches , Marxist revolutionary
Ernst Tamschick, Detective Sergeant of the Prison Moabit
Shot in Berlin Prison Moabit
1919
Hugo Haase , socialist politician and leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
Johann Voß
Died of sepsis from gunshot wounds
1921
Talaat Pasha , former Ottoman Minister of Interior Affairs
Soghomon Tehlirian
Killed in Berlin in retaliation for his role in the Armenian Genocide
1921
Matthias Erzberger , former Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Minister of Finance
Members of Organisation Consul
Shot at Bad Griesbach .
1922
Bahattin Şakir , Ottoman suspect in the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
1922
Walther Rathenau , Foreign Minister of Germany [ 4]
Ernst Werner Techow , Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer
Shot as he was being driven through Berlin by assassins in another car.
1930
Horst Wessel , Sturmführer of the SS in Berlin
Albrecht Höhler
Shot at point blank range in Karl-Marx-Allee , Berlin.
1934
Kurt von Schleicher , former Chancellor of Germany
SS officers (ordered by Adolf Hitler )
Murdered at Babelsberg by the SS during the Night of the Long Knives along with his wife, Elisabeth
1934
Gregor Strasser , politician and former Nazi Party member
SS officers
Killed in a prison cell in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives
1934
Erich Klausener , Catholic politician
Kurt Gildisch , SS officer
Shot at his office in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives
1934
Ernst Röhm , leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA)
Michael Lippert , SS officer
Shot in Stadelheim Prison by SS officers during the Night of the Long Knives .
1945
Franz Oppenhoff , lawyer and appointed pro-Allied mayor of Aachen
SS officers (ordered by Heinrich Himmler )
Killed by an assassination unit composed of four SS men and two members of the Hitler Youth .
Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present)
1954
Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli , Soviet Army defector and chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty
1957
Lev Rebet , exiled Ukrainian nationalist leader
Bohdan Stashynsky , a KGB agent
Poisoned by cyanide gas in Munich .
1959
Stepan Bandera , exiled Ukrainian nationalist leader
Poisoned by cyanide gas in Munich .
1961
Salah Ben Youssef , Tunisian politician
Shot in a hotel in Frankfurt .
1970
Krim Belkacem , exiled former Vice President of Algeria
Shot in a hotel in Frankfurt.
1974
Günter von Dreekmann , preisdent of the Berlin District court
2 June Movement
Killed during attempted kidnapping
1977
Siegfried Buback , Public Prosecutor General of West Germany
Red Army Faction members
Shot while driving his car near Karlsruhe .
1977
Jürgen Ponto , CEO of Dresdner Bank
Killed in Frankfurt.
1977
Hanns-Martin Schleyer , president of the German employers' organization
Kidnapped and later killed.
1986
Karl Heinz Beckurts , physicist and research manager.
Killed by a bomb near Strasslach in Munich
1989
Alfred Herrhausen , Deutsche Bank CEO
Killed by a bicycle bomb as his car passed by in Bad Homburg .
1991
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder , director of Treuhandanstalt for the former East Germany
Killed in Düsseldorf .
1992
Sadeq Sharafkandi , Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, Nouri Dehkordi, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leaders
Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Killed in Berlin (see Mykonos restaurant assassinations ).
1992
Fereydoun Farrokhzad , exiled Iranian cultural figure
Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Believed to have been killed as part of the Chain murders of Iran
2019
Walter Lübcke , CDU politician and president of the Regierungsbezirk of Kassel
Stephan Ernst
Shot outside his home in Istha by a neo-Nazi terrorist
2019
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili , exiled Chechen military commander
Vadim Krasikov
Shot by an agent of the GRU
Greece
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
514 BC
Hipparchus (son of Peisistratos) , Tyrant of Athens
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
461 BC
Ephialtes , leader of the radical democracy movement in Athens
404 BC
Alcibiades , Athenian general and politician
October, 336 BC
Philip II of Macedon , king of Macedon
Pausanias of Orestis
Assassinated in the theatre of ancient Aegae (present-day Vergina).
314 BC
Alexander , regent of Macedonia
Alexion, a Siyconian
Killed in Sicyon .
281 BC
Seleucus I Nicator , founder of the Seleucid dynasty
Killed near Lysimachia .
251 BC
Abantidas , tyrant of Sicyon
192 BC
Nabis , Tyrant of Sparta
Aetolian League
1831
Ioannis Kapodistrias , first President of Greece
Konstantinos Mavromichalis and Georgios Mavromichalis
Killed outside Nafplio church in revenge for the imprisonment of the assassins' patriarch Petrobey Mavromichalis . Konstantinos was thrown over a cliff by the citizens of Nafplio while Georgios was executed by firing squad.
1905
Theodoros Deligiannis , Prime Minister of Greece
Antonios Gherakaris
Stabbed outside the Hellenic Parliament .
1907
Marinos Antypas , socialist politician
Killed at Pyrgetos in Thessaly.
1912
Andreas Kopasis , governor of Samos
1913
George I of Greece , King of Greece[ 3]
Alexandros Schinas
Shot while walking in Thessaloniki as part of a possible conspiracy.
1948
George Polk , American journalist critical of US aid to rightist Greek government
1963
Grigoris Lambrakis , leader of the anti-fascist movement in Greece
Emannouel Emannouilides and Spyro Gotzamanis
Killed with a club in Thessaloniki .
1975
Richard Welch , CIA Station Chief
Shot as he was being driven through Athens .
1983
George Tsantes; U.S. military attaché in Athens & deputy chief of the Joint United States Military Aid Group to Greece
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Killed in Athens.
1988
Hagop Hagopian , leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
Killed in Athens.
1988
William Nordeen , U.S. military attaché in Athens
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Killed in Athens.
1989
Pavlos Bakoyannis , New Democracy parliamentarian
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Shot outside his office in Athens.
2000
Stephen Saunders , Brigadier and British military attaché in Athens
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Killed by a motorcycle gunman as he was driving in Athens.
2013
Pavlos "Killah P" Fyssas , musician
Giorgos Roupakias
Killed by Neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn
2021
Giorgos Karaivaz , investigative journalist
Possibly killed by an organised crime group.[ 7]
Hungary
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
904
Kurszán , Chieftain of Hungary
Forces of Louis the Child
1044
Suspected conspirators against King Samuel Aba [ 8]
Forces loyal to Samuel Aba
50 suspected lords arrested and executed
1044
Samuel Aba ,[ 9] King of Hungary
Fled after losing the Battle of Ménfő but was captured and assassinated
1209
Csépán Győr , Palatine of Hungary
Tiba Tomaj
1213
Gertrude of Merania , queen consort
Group of Hungarian nobles led by Peter, son of Töre
Stabbed for her blatant favoritism towards her German kinsmen and courtiers
1272
Béla , Duke of Macsó
Henry Kőszegi
1290
Ladislaus IV , King of Hungary
Three Cumans – Árbóc, Törtel and Kemence
1311
Amadeus Aba , Oligarch
Residents of Košice
1386
Charles III , King of Naples [ 10] [ 11]
Balazs Forgach , Elisabeth of Bosnia , Nador Garai
Charles (II of Hungary, III of Naples) deadly wounded and died some days later.[ 12]
1386
Elisabeth of Bosnia , Queen of Hungary [ 13]
John Horvat
1397
Stephen II Lackfi , lord[ 14]
Hermann I of Celje
Assassinated on the orders of the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
1456
Ulrich II , Count of Celje [ 15] [ 16]
Forces of Ladislaus Hunyadi
1534
Imre Czibak ,[ 17] Bishop of Varad
Lodovico Gritti
1551
George Martinuzzi , Governor of Transylvania
Marco Aurelio Ferrari
1613
Gabriel Báthory , Prince of Transylvania
Hajduks
Killed after he was accused of planning to hand over Várad (now Oradea ) to the Ottomans
1661
Ákos Barcsay , Prince of Transylvania
Janos Kemeny
1918
István Tisza , Prime Minister of Hungary [ 4]
Assassinated by soldiers
Iceland
Ireland
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1186
Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath
Gilla-Gan-Mathiar O'Maidhaigh
Durrow, County Offaly
1189
Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair , King of Connacht
Manus mac Flann Ua Finaghty, Aodh mac Brian, Muircheartach mac Cathal mac Dermot mac Tadhg, Giolla na Naomh Ua Mulvihill
Assassination instigated by Conchobar ua nDiarmata , a rival for the title of King of Connacht. The victim's son Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair later killed Conchobar ua nDiarmata in revenge.
1882
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish , Chief Secretary for Ireland
Irish National Invincibles
1920
Tomás Mac Curtain , Lord Mayor of Cork
Auxiliaries and RIC men
Shot in his home by a group of masked men, likely members of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
1920
Cairo Gang
Irish Republican Army
12 British intelligence agents, assassinated on the morning of 21 November 1920 in coordinated attacks.
1922
Seán Hales , Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin Teachta Dála
Anti-Treaty IRA
Killed as he left Dáil Éireann ; fellow TD Pádraic Ó Máille was injured in the same attack, which was in reprisal against executions of anti-Treaty prisoners
1922
Michael Collins , Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State
Anti-Treaty IRA
Ambushed outside Cork
1927
Kevin O'Higgins , Minister of Home Affairs and Justice of the Irish Free State [ 4]
Timothy Coughlin , Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle
Killed while on his way to Mass by three anti-Treaty members of the IRA .
1932
Patrick Reynolds , Cumann na nGaedheal TD
Joseph Leddy
Shot dead during the 1932 election campaign by an ex-RIC policeman who had a personal grudge against him.[ 18] [ 19]
1936
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville , Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy
Anti-Treaty IRA
Assassinated for providing assistance to Royal Navy recruits.
1976
Christopher Ewart-Biggs , British ambassador to Ireland
IRA
Killed by a land mine
1979
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma , Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet , last Viceroy of India [ 3]
IRA
Killed by a bomb on board his boat along with three other people, including his grandson.
1991
Eddie Fullerton , Sinn Féin county councillor
Ulster Defence Association
Shot at his home in Buncrana
1994
Dominic McGlinchey , Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) leader
Shot 14 times while making a call in a phone box .
1996
Veronica Guerin , journalist
Shot in a contract killing for her reporting on organized crime
Italy
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
748 BC
Titus Tatius , Sabine King
Killed in Rome .
579 BC
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus , Etruscan king of Rome
Killed in Rome by the sons of Ancus Marcius .
554 BC
Phalaris , tyrant of Agrigento
Killed in an uprising led by Telemachus (Acragas)
Killed in Sicily . Said to be burned in his own brazen bull .
534 BC
Servius Tullius , Etruscan king of Rome
Tarquin II
Killed in Rome .
439 BC
Spurius Maelius , wealthy Roman plebeian
Gaius Servilius Ahala
354 BC
Dion of Syracuse , tyrant of Syracuse
Calippus of Syracuse
Killed in Sicily
352 BC
Calippus of Syracuse , tyrant of Syracuse
revolting mercenaries led by Leptines II and Polyperchon
reputedly was stabbed to death with the same sword he assassinated Dion less than two years earlier.
133 BC
Tiberius Gracchus , Roman tribune
Killed in Rome by Roman senators.
91 BC
Marcus Livius Drusus , Roman tribune
Resulted in the Social War .
44 BC
Julius Caesar , Roman general and dictator
Marcus Junius Brutus , Gaius Cassius Longinus , and other members of the Roman Senate
Resulted in a series of civil wars and indirectly in the end of the Roman Republic.
43 BC
Cicero , Roman orator
Killed near Formiae under orders from Mark Antony and with the approval of the Second Triumvirate .
41
Caligula , Roman Emperor
Cassius Chaerea , Marcus Vinicius , Lucius Annius Vinicianus , members of the Praetorian Guard , and others
54
Claudius , Roman Emperor
Uncertain, reputed to be Agrippina the Younger on behalf of Nero
Rumored to be killed by poison mushrooms supplied by Locusta .
62
Claudia Octavia , Roman Empress
Nero
Executed on the orders of Nero on the island of Pandateria off the coast of Italy in an attempt to quell the public outcry of their divorce.
69
Vitellius , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Flavian army.
69
Galba , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders from Otho .
96
Domitian , Roman Emperor
Stephanus, steward to Julia Flavia
Killed in Rome
192
Commodus , Roman Emperor
Narcissus , wrestler
Killed in Rome
193
Pertinax , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard.
193
Didius Julianus , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard.
212
Publius Septimius Geta , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by centurions under orders of Caracalla .
217
Caracalla , Roman Emperor
Martialis
Killed between Edessa and Carrhae (modern-day Sanli Urfa and Harran ), possibly under orders of Macrinus .
222
Elagabalus , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders of Julia Maesa and Julia Mamaea .
238
Maximinus Thrax , Roman Emperor
Killed outside Aquileia by his troops.
238
Pupienus , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors .
238
Balbinus , Roman Emperor
Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors .
253
Volusianus , Roman Emperor
Killed near Interamna by his troops
253
Trebonianus Gallus , Roman Emperor
Killed near Interamna by his troops
275
Aurelian , Roman Emperor
Mucapor and members of the Praetorian Guard
Killed near Caenophrurium (modern-day Corlu )
276
Florianus , Roman Emperor
Killed near Tarsus
882
Pope John VIII
1052
Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany
1345
Andrew, Duke of Calabria
1412
Gian Maria Visconti , Duke of Milan[ 20]
1478
Giuliano de' Medici , co-ruler of Florence
Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Bandini
Stabbed 19 times in the Pazzi conspiracy . Lorenzo de' Medici was also attacked, but escaped with his life.
1497
Giovanni Borgia , Duke of Gandia , son of Pope Alexander VI
1537
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
Lorenzino de' Medici
1848
Pellegrino Rossi , Papal States Minister of Justice
1900
Umberto I , King of Italy[ 21]
Gaetano Bresci
Shot four times with a revolver due to the royal decoration of general Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris , who ordered a bloody repression in Milan in 1898. Influenced Leon Czolgosz to kill United States President William McKinley in 1901.
1921
Said Halim Pasha , former Ottoman Prime Minister
Arshavir Shirakian
Killed in Rome due to his role in the Armenian genocide .
1924
Giacomo Matteotti , socialist politician[ 4]
Kidnapped and killed by Fascists after denouncing them for electoral fraud in the 1924 Italian general election
1925
Luigj Gurakuqi , Albanian independence leader
Baltjon Stambolla
Killed in Bari
1945
Benito Mussolini , fascist and former Prime Minister of Italy [ 22]
Band of Communist partisans led by Walter Audisio
Shot in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Lombardy . His lover Clara Petacci was also killed. See Death of Benito Mussolini
1962
Enrico Mattei , head of the oil company Eni and supporter of Algerian independence
Died in a plane crash allegedly caused by a bomb near Bascapè in Lombardy
1972
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli , publisher and partisan of leftist guerrilla movements
Died in a bomb attack, probably with the involvement of the Italian secret service
1975
Pier Paolo Pasolini , writer, poet and film director
Giuseppe Pelosi
Died in Ostia after being run over by his own car which Pelosi had stolen.
1977
Taha Carım , Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
1978
Aldo Moro , former Prime Minister of Italy
Red Brigades
Kidnapped and later killed. See Kidnapping of Aldo Moro .
1978
Giuseppe Impastato , anti-mafia activist
Sicilian Mafia
Killed by a charge of TNT placed under his own body.
1979
Cesare Terranova , magistrate
on orders of Sicilian Mafia Commission
Shot along with his driver as he was being driven through Palermo
1980
Piersanti Mattarella , President of Sicily
Sicilian Mafia
1982
Pio La Torre , Communist politician
Sicilian Mafia
1982
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa , General of the Carabinieri Corps
Giuseppe Greco , Giuseppe Lucchese and members of the Mafia
Shot along with his wife and driver while being driven through Palermo while investigating the Mafia
1983
Rocco Chinnici , magistrate
Giuseppe Greco , Michele Greco and members of the Mafia
Killed by a car bomb in Palermo.
1992
Giovanni Falcone , anti-mafia judge
Giovanni Brusca , a member of the Sicilian Mafia
Killed in a motorway bombing near Palermo.
1992
Paolo Borsellino , anti-mafia judge
Salvatore Riina and members of the Mafia
Killed along with five police officers by a car bomb in Palermo. See Massacre of Via D'Amelio .
1992
Salvo Lima , Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands
Sicilian Mafia
Shot as he exited his car in Palermo.
1995
Maurizio Gucci , businessman
Hitman hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani
Reggiani was convicted of ordering his murder in 1998
2002
Marco Biagi , Labor Ministry advisor
New Red Brigades
Killed in Bologna .
Kosovo
Latvia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
2018
Mārtiņš Bunkus , bankruptcy administrator
Mikhail Ulman, Alexander Babenko, and Viktor Krivoshey
Assassinated near Brothers' Cemetery in Riga . Was shot dead from a moving truck, while driving.
Lithuania
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Netherlands
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
754
Saint Boniface , Christian missionary
Killed by Frisian bandits
1099
Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht
1296
Floris V, Count of Holland
Gerard van Velsen
1425
Duke John of Straubing-Holland
1584
William I of Orange , leader of the Dutch war of independence from Spanish rule (Eighty Years' War )
Balthasar Gérard
Shot by a supporter of the Spanish cause
1649
Isaac Dorislaus , diplomat
1672
Johan de Witt , republican politician
Murdered by an Orangist lynch mob in The Hague .
1672
Cornelis de Witt , republican politician
Murdered by an Orangist lynch mob in The Hague.
1938
Yevhen Konovalets , Ukrainian nationalist
Pavel Sudoplatov , agent of the NKVD
Explosive placed in a box of chocolates.
1943
Folkert Posthuma , Nazi collaborator
Resistance group CS-6
Shot in front of his home in Vorden .[ 24]
1945
Hannie Schaft , underground Resistance fighter
Dutch Nazi officials
Executed in the dunes of Bloemendaal .
1979
Richard Sykes , British Ambassador to the Netherlands
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Shot in The Hague .
1987
Gerrit Jan Heijn , top manager of Ahold
Ferdi Elsas
Kidnapped and later killed.
2002
Pim Fortuyn , critic of Islam , immigration and multicultural policy and leader of the Pim Fortuyn List
Volkert van der Graaf
Shot in Hilversum by a left-wing critic and animal rights advocate. See Assassination of Pim Fortuyn
2004
Theo van Gogh , film director, writer and critic of Islam
Mohammed Bouyeri
Shot and stabbed in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist
2005
Louis Sévèke , leftwing journalist
Marcel Theunissen
Shot with a rifle in Nijmegen .
2014
Els Borst , former Deputy Prime Minister
Stabbed at her home in Bilthoven .
2019
Derk Wiersum , lawyer
Unknown, under investigation
Shot to death in Amsterdam.
2021
Peter R. de Vries , investigative journalist and crime reporter
Shot in Amsterdam
Norway
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1136
King Harald IV Gille of Norway
Sigurd Slembe
Killed by a pretender to the throne
Poland
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
997
Adalbert of Prague , Bishop of Prague , missionary, saint
pagan Prussians led by Sicco
Assassinated in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity
1079
Stanislaus of Szczepanów , Bishop of Kraków (now a saint )
Bolesław II the Bold
1227
Leszek the White , High Duke of Poland
Assassinated at the Gąsawa massacre
1296
Przemysł II , king of Poland
1922
Gabriel Narutowicz , President of Poland[ 4]
Eligiusz Niewiadomski
Killed five days after his inauguration while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw .
1927
Pyotr Voykov , Soviet Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland
Boris Kowerda
Killed by a White émigré
1931
Tadeusz Hołówko , Prometheist politician and diplomat
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
1934
Bronisław Pieracki , Minister of Interior of Poland
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
1941
Igo Sym , actor and Nazi collaborator
Bohdan Rogoliński, Roman Rozmiłowski, and Wiktor Klimaszewski of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ)
1942
Marceli Nowotko , Communist activist and first secretary of the Polish Workers' Party
1943
Wilhelm Krüger , German chief of Gestapo operations in Nazi-occupied Poland
three fighters of the Polish resistance
Killed in Kraków .
1943
Franz Bürkl , German Sicherheitspolizei officer
Jerzy Zborowski and members of the Szare Szeregi
See Operation Heads .
1943
Helmut Kapp , German Gestapo member
Armia Krajowa
See Operation Heads .
1944
Karl Freudenthal , German officer of the SS , Kreishauptmann of powiat Garwolin
Armia Krajowa
See Operation Heads .
1944
Franz Kutschera , German SS general and chief of police
Armia Krajowa
See Operation Kutschera .
1947
Karol Świerczewski , Army general
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
1984
Jerzy Popiełuszko , Roman Catholic priest
Killed by the communist political police.
1992
Piotr Jaroszewicz , former Prime Minister of Poland
1998
Marek Papała , Chief of the Police
Believed to have been killed by the Polish mafia.
1999
Andrzej Kolikowski , leader of the Pruszków mafia
Ryszard Bogucki
Shot in Zakopane
2005
Zdzisław Beksiński , painter, photographer, sculptor
Robert Kupiec
Stabbed 17 times
2011
Jolanta Brzeska , social activist
Unknown
Burned alive
2019
Paweł Adamowicz , Mayor of Gdańsk [ 25]
Stefan Wilmont
Stabbed to death at a charity event.
Portugal
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
139 BC
Viriathus , leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion over the regions of Western Iberia
Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus
1355
Inês de Castro , posthumously declared Queen of Portugal
Pêro Coelho, Álvaro Gonçalves, and Diogo Lopes Pacheco
1908
Carlos I of Portugal , King, and Luiz Filipe of Portugal , Crown Prince[ 4]
Manuel Buíça and Alfredo Luís da Costa
Shot by assassins sympathetic to Republican interests and aided by anti-monarchic society Portuguese Carbonária . See Lisbon Regicide
1910
Miguel Bombarda , member of the Chamber of Deputies of Portugal
Aparício Rebelo dos Santos
Shot by a mental patient just before the 5 October 1910 revolution , of which he was a proponent
1918
Sidónio Pais , President of Portugal
José Júlio da Costa
Shot at Rossio railway station in Lisbon . See Assassination of Sidónio Pais .
1921
António Joaquim Granjo , Prime Minister of Portugal
See Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921)
António Machado Santos , Naval officer and leader of the National Republican Federation
José Carlos da Maia
Freitas da Silva
Botelho de Vasconcelos
1965
Humberto Delgado , general, presidential candidate and critic of the Estado Novo
Lured by Portuguese intelligence into an ambush near the Spanish border
1983
Issam Sartawi , senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Shot in a hotel.
Romania
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1601
Mihai Viteazul , Ruler of Wallachia , Moldavia and Transylvania
Militants on order of General Giorgio Basta
Assassinated near Câmpia Turzii after the victory at the Battle of Guruslău .
1862
Barbu Catargiu , Prime Minister of Romania
Killed in Bucharest after a parliamentary meeting.
1933
Ion Duca , Prime Minister of Romania
Nicolae Constantinescu Ion Caranica Doru Belimace
Shot at Sinaia railway station by members of the Iron Guard .
1938
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , far right politician and leader of the Iron Guard
Members of the Romanian Gendarmerie
Killed in Tâncăbeşti .
1939
Armand Călinescu , Prime Minister of Romania[ 22]
Iron Guard
Shot while being driven through Bucharest.
1940
Nicolae Iorga , former Prime Minister of Romania, historian
Iron Guard
Kidnapped and later killed.
1940
Gheorghe Argeșanu , former Prime Minister
Iron Guard
Murdered in Jilava prison with 63 other political prisoners. See Jilava massacre
1940
Virgil Madgearu , politician and theorist of the National Peasants' Party
Iron Guard
Kidnapped and later killed
1945
Constantin Tănase , actor
Possibly killed by the invading Red Army after satirizing them.
1989
Danny Huwé , Belgian journalist
Shot by a sniper during the Romanian Revolution .
Russia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
Russian Empire
1682
Artamon Matveyev , statesman, diplomat and reformer
Streltsy
Killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682
1682
Grigory Romodanovsky , boyar , general and diplomat
Streltsy
Killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682
1762
Peter III of Russia , Emperor of Russia
Unknown
Possibly organized by Catherine the Great
1762
Ivan VI of Russia , deposed Emperor of Russia
Unknown
Executed on prior instructions from Catherine the Great during an attempt to rescue him from imprisonment in Shlisselburg Fortress by Vasily Mirovich
1801
Paul I of Russia , Emperor of Russia
Band of dismissed officers led by Levin August, Count von Bennigsen , Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil , Nikolay Zubov and others
Organized by Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen , Nikita Petrovich Panin and José de Ribas
1825
Mikhail Miloradovich , military Governor of Saint Petersburg
Pyotr Kakhovsky
Killed during the Decembrist revolt
1878
Nikolay Mezentsov , executive director of the Third Section
Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
Killed by a revolutionary belonging to the group Zemlya i volya
1881
Alexander II of Russia , Tsar of All the Russias [ 1]
Ignacy Hryniewiecki
Killed in bombing organized by the revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya
1893
Nikolay Alekseyev , Mayor of Moscow
Andrianov
Killed by a deranged visitor in Moscow City Hall
1902
Dmitry Sipyagin , Russian Interior Minister [ 4]
Stepan Balmashov
Killed by a member of the SR Combat Organization
1904
Vyacheslav von Plehve , Russian Interior Minister
Yegor Sazonov
Killed by a bomb thrown by a member of the SR Combat Organization
1905
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov , former Governor-General of Moscow
Ivan Kalyayev
Organized by the SR Combat Organization
1911
Pyotr Stolypin , Prime Minister of Russia
Dmitry Bogrov
Killed in a theater in Kiev by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party [ 4]
1916
Grigori Rasputin , influential mystic, adviser to the Russian Imperial Family [ 21]
Group of nobles led by Felix Yusupov , Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia , Vladimir Purishkevich and Vasily Maklakov
Killed for his undue influence on the Russian Imperial Family
Provisional Government
1917
Ivan Logginovich Goremykin , former Prime Minister
Konstantin X Kotev
Bolshevik Russia
1918
Andrei Shingarev , Kadet politician
1918
Fyodor Kokoshkin , Kadet politician
1918
Tsar Nicholas II and his family: Tsarina Alexandra , Tsarevich Alexei , Grand Duchesses Olga , Tatiana , Maria and Anastasia , physician Eugene Botkin , maid Anna Demidova , footman Alexei Trupp and cook Ivan Kharitonov
Cheka officers led by Yakov Yurovsky
Order given by Yakov Sverdlov on behalf of Vladimir Lenin . See Murder of the Romanov family .
1918
Elizabeth of Hesse , Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich , Princes John Constantinovich , Constantine Constantinovich and Igor Constantinovich , poet and prince Vladimir Paley and nun Varvara Yakovleva
Cheka officers
1918
V. Volodarsky , revolutionary
Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov
Killed by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
1918
Wilhelm von Mirbach , German Ambassador in Moscow
Yakov Blumkin
Assassinated by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries at the start of the Left SR uprising in an attempt to damage German-Soviet relations
Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union
1934
Sergey Kirov , Bolshevik party leader in Leningrad [ 4]
Leonid Nikolaev
1939
Zinaida Reich , theatre actress
NKVD
1990
Alexander Men , dissident Russian Orthodox priest
Unknown
1991
Igor Talkov , singer-songwriter, anti-Soviet activist
Allegedly Valeriy Schlyafman
Russian Federation
1994
Andrey Aizderdzis , Member of the State Duma
Unknown
1994
Nikolay Suleimanov , Chechen mafia boss
1995
Vladislav Listyev , journalist and head of the ORT TV Channel
Unknown
1996
Dzhokhar Dudayev , first Chechen separatist President and anti-Russian guerrilla leader
Russian military
1996
Choe Deok-geun , South Korean diplomat stationed in Vladivostok
North Korean agents suspected
1998
Valeriy Hubulov , former Prime Minister of South Ossetia
Unknown
1998
Galina Starovoytova , Member of the State Duma
Yuri Kolchin and Vitali Akishin
1998
Larisa Yudina , Kalmyk journalist
2002
Valentin Tsvetkov , Governor of Magadan Oblast
Alexander Zakharov, Martin Babakekhyan and others
Killed in Moscow
2003
Sergei Yushenkov , Member of the State Duma and founder of the Liberal Russia party
Mikhail Kodanev and others
Killed in Moscow [ 26]
2003
Yuri Shchekochikhin , journalist
Unknown
Killed in Moscow [ 27]
2004
Paul Klebnikov , editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine
2004
Akhmad Kadyrov , Kremlin -backed President of the Chechen Republic
Presumed to be Chechen Islamists
Killed along with about 30 others in a football stadium during a Victory Day parade by a bomb that had been built into the concrete of one of the stadium's supporting columns.
2005
Aslan Maskhadov , President of separatist Chechnya
2005
Anatoly Trofimov , former deputy director of the FSB
2005
Magomed Omarov , deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
2006
Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev , President of separatist Chechnya
Killed by pro-Russian forces
2006
Anna Politkovskaya , journalist and human rights campaigner
Unknown; many theories
Shot in the elevator block of her apartment in Moscow. See Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya .
2008
Vitaly Karayev , mayor of Vladikavkaz , North Ossetia–Alania
2008
Kazbek Pagiyev , former mayor of Vladikavkaz , North Ossetia–Alania
2008
Nina Varlamova , mayor of Kandalaksha , Murmansk Oblast
2009
Anastasia Baburova , journalist
2009
Stanislav Markelov , human rights lawyer
2009
Adilgerei Magomedtagirov , interior minister of Dagestan
2009
Aza Gazgireyeva , deputy chair of the Ingushetia Supreme Court
2009
Bashir Aushev , former deputy prime minister of Ingushetia
2009
Natalia Estemirova , human rights activist
2011
Yuri Budanov , army officer and convicted war criminal
2011
Gadzhimurat Kamalov , journalist
2015
Boris Nemtsov , former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Shot while walking on a bridge near the Moscow Kremlin. See Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
2020
Vladimir "Sausage King" Marugov, oligarch
Shot on 2 November with a crossbow in the sauna of his countryside estate outside Moscow.[ 28]
2022
Darya Dugina , ultranationalist journalist and writer
National Republican Army
Killed in car bomb explosion.[ 29]
2023
Vladlen Tatarsky , blogger
Killed with a bomb disguised as an award statue.[ 30]
2024
Igor Kirillov , lieutenant general and head of the NDC Protection Troops
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested Uzbekistan citizen Ahmat Qurbanov (born 1995)[ 31] [ 32] [ 33] [ 34]
Killed along with an assistant by a bomb hidden an electric scooter.[ 35]
Serbia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
Roman Empire
268
Gallienus , Roman emperor
Killed near Naissus .
282
Probus , Roman emperor
Assassinated at Sirmium .
285
Carinus , Roman emperor
Assassinated at Margus .
Medieval Serbia
1352
Branko Rastislalić , Lord of Podunavlje and Domestikos under King Stefan Dušan
Assassinated at Upper Drina on the orders of Vuk Kosača .
1359
Vuk Kosača , magnate and nobleman
Killed or ordered so by a member of the Rastislalić family.
Ottoman period
1804
72 notable Serbs
Dahije
Slaughter of the Knezes
1815
Kara-Marko Vasić , revolutionary
Ordered by Miloš Obrenović .
1816
Melentije Nikšić , revolutionary
Ordered by Miloš Obrenović .
1817
Karađorđe Petrović , leader of the First Serbian Uprising
Nikola Novaković
Killed along with his secretary, Naum Krnar in the village of Radovanje by a henchman of Vujica Vulićević and Miloš Obrenović .
Serbian monarchy
1868
Mihailo Obrenović , Prince of Serbia
Pavle Radovanović and Kosta Radovanović
Shot in Košutnjak park in Belgrade as part of a conspiracy.
1885
Čakr-paša , hajduk
Toma Stanković
1903
Aleksandar Obrenović , King of Serbia, and Draga Mašin , Queen Consort
Army officers led by Dragutin Dimitrijević
Killed in the royal palace as part of the May Overthrow .
1903
Lazar Petrović , Adjutant to King Aleksandar Obrenović
Killed as part of the May Overthrow .
1903
Dimitrije Cincar-Marković , Prime Minister of Serbia
Yugoslavia
1921
Milorad Drašković , Yugoslav interior minister
Alija Alijagić
Killed by a Bosnian communist
1928
Velimir Prelić , legal adviser in Skoplje
Mara Buneva
Shot on "Ratomir Putnik" Street in Skoplje
1928
Đuro Basariček , Member of Parliament for the Croatian Peasant Party
Puniša Račić
Shot by a Serbian radical deputy in the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade .
1928
Stjepan Radić , Member of Parliament for the Croatian Peasant Party
Serbian radical politician Puniša Račić .
Shot a Serbian radical deputy in the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade .
1983
Galip Balkar , Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Harutyun Krikor Levonian and Alexander Elbekyan.
Shot by Armenian nationalists. See Assassination of Galip Balkar
FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro
1994
Dada Vujasinović , journalist
1994
Goran Vuković , criminal
1999
Slavko Ćuruvija , journalist
2000
Željko Ražnatović "Arkan", mobster and warlord
Dobrosav Gavrić
2000
Pavle Bulatović , defense minister
2000
Žika Petrović , Jat Airways executive
2000
Boško Perošević , Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina
Milivoje Gutović
Assassinated at Novi Sad Fair .
2000
Ivan Stambolić , former President of Serbia
Special Operations Unit
Ordered by Slobodan Milošević .
2001
Milan Pantić , journalist
Unknown
2003
Zoran Đinđić , Prime Minister of Serbia
Zvezdan Jovanović
Killed with a sniper rifle by a paramilitary linked to the Zemun Clan . See Assassination of Zoran Đinđić .
2004
Branko Bulatović , Football Association general secretary
Unknown
Republic of Serbia
2006
Radoljub Kanjevac , criminal
Unknown
2014
Rade Rakonjac , Arkan's bodyguard
Unknown
Slovakia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1999
Ján Ducký , former Minister of Industry
2018
Ján Kuciak , journalist
Miroslav Marček and Tomáš Szabó
Shot dead along with his fiancée while investigating the activities of various individuals connected to Slovak government led by Robert Fico.
Slovenia
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1992
Ivan Kramberger , inventor and politician
Peter Rotar (presumed)
Shot dead during his campaign to become an MP .
Spain
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1369
Peter the Cruel , King of Castile
Henry II of Castile
1485
Pedro de Arbués , a prominent member of the Spanish Inquisition
Assassinated while praying in La Seo Cathedral of Zaragosa . His death allowed Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada to massively expand the Spanish Inquisition.
1870
Juan Prim , Prime Minister of Spain and Governor of Puerto Rico
Shot in Madrid by unknown hand.
1897
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo , Prime Minister of Spain
Michele Angiolillo
Shot in a spa in Mondragón , Guipúzcoa by an anarchist.
1912
José Canalejas , Prime Minister of Spain
Manuel Pardiñas
Shot in Madrid by an anarchist.
1920
Francesc Layret , Catalan left-wing politician
Shot in Barcelona
1921
Eduardo Dato Iradier , Prime Minister of Spain
Lluís Nicolau, Pere Mateu, and Ramon Casanelles
Shot in Madrid by Catalan anarchists.
1923
Juan Cardinal Soldevila y Romero , Roman Catholic archbishop of Zaragoza
Los Solidarios
1936
José Castillo , Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lieutenant in the Assault Guards
Falangist gunmen
Killed in Madrid
1936
José Calvo Sotelo , right-wing politician and former Finance Minister
Killed in a police vehicle in Madrid. His murder helped trigger the Spanish Civil War .
1936
Federico García Lorca , poet and dramatist
Nationalists
Shot at Alfacar by fascists
1936
Raoul Villain , assassin of Jean Jaurès
Shot on the island of Ibiza
1937
Camillo Berneri , Italian anarchist
1937
Andrés Nin , Communist revolutionary
Taken to a camp by the Spanish Government and probably killed there (this is disputed)
1940
Lluis Companys , President of Catalonia
Gestapo officers on the orders of Francisco Franco .
Shot in Barcelona
1967
Mohamed Khider , exiled Algerian politician and former Secretary-General of the FLN
Killed in Madrid
1968
Melitón Manzanas , secret police officer and state torturer
ETA
Killed at Irún , Guipúzcoa
1969
Vjekoslav Luburić , exiled Croatian Ustaše official and fugitive war criminal
Believed to have been killed either by Yugoslav agents or rivals in the Croatian émigré community
1973
Luis Carrero Blanco , Prime Minister of Spain[ 36]
ETA
Killed by a bomb which threw his car over a building. His murder was, according to ETA, then to intensify existing divisions within Francoist Spain between the "openness" and "purists". See Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco
1976
Juan María de Araluce Villar , President of the Provincial Deputation of Gipuzkoa
ETA
Killed at San Sebastián , Guipúzcoa
1977
Augusto Unceta Barrenechea , President of the Provincial Deputation of Biscay
ETA
Killed at Guernica , Biscay
1984
Santiago Brouard , Basque nationalist
Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación
1996
Francisco Tomás y Valiente , former President of the Constitutional Court
ETA
Shot in his office at the Autonomous University of Madrid
1997
Miguel Ángel Blanco , Basque municipal councillor
ETA
Kidnapped and later killed
2000
Fernando Buesa , former Vice Lehendakari of the Basque Country
ETA
Car bombing in Vitoria .
2000
Ernest Lluch , former Minister of Health
ETA
Shot in Barcelona
2014
Isabel Carrasco , Governor of León and provincial leader of the People's Party
Shot in León by a disgruntled government employee
Sweden
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1156
King Sverker I of Sweden
Killed by a servant
1160
King Eric IX of Sweden
Killed during a rebellion
1167
King Charles VII of Sweden
Killed by supporters of Knut Eriksson
1436
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson , Regent of Sweden
Magnus Bengtsson
1577
King Eric XIV of Sweden
Killed on orders of his half-brother King John III of Sweden
1792
King Gustav III of Sweden
Jacob Johan Anckarström
Shot at a masquerade ball and died two weeks later.
1810
Count Axel von Fersen , Marshal of the Realm
Four members of the lynching mob were charged for the killing, among them the Finnish nobleman Otto Johan Tandefelt
Killed by a mob in Stockholm after being blamed for the death of Crown Prince Carl August . Army soldiers were present at the scene, but were ordered not to interfere.
1971
Vladimir Rolović , Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden
Croatian National Resistance
1986
Olof Palme , Prime Minister of Sweden [ 3]
Unknown
Shot on his way home from a cinema in Stockholm accompanied only by his wife
2003
Anna Lindh , Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Mijailo Mijailović
Stabbed while visiting the NK department store in Stockholm and died a day later. She was prominently featured in the "Yes" campaign during the Euro referendum , which took place later in the same weekend. She did not have any protective detail assigned to her, because the Swedish Security Police had not received, or perceived there to be no specific threats made against her.
Switzerland
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1308
Albert I of Habsburg , German King and Duke of Austria
John Parricida
Killed by his nephew, whom he had deprived of his inheritance, at Windisch on the Reuss .
1621
Pompeius Planta , politician
Jörg Jenatsch
1639
Jörg Jenatsch , politician
Killed in Chur by an assailant dressed as a bear.
1898
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Luigi Lucheni
Stabbed in the heart with a sharp needle file by an anarchist on the street in Geneva . Due to her extremely tight corset , she had no idea she has been wounded and collapsed suddenly after walking 100 yards (91 m). She died two hours later due to slow internal hemorrhaging .
1923
Vatslav Vorovsky , Soviet diplomat
Maurice Conradi
Killed by a White emigre
1936
Wilhelm Gustloff , leader of the Swiss Nazi Party
David Frankfurter
Killed by a Yugoslav Jewish student
1960
Félix-Roland Moumié , Cameroonian anti-colonialist activist and leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
Assassinated by the SDECE (French secret services).
1990
Kazem Rajavi , exiled Iranian opposition leader
Believed to have been killed by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Chain Murders
Turkey
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
1579
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha , Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire
1622
Osman II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
1651
Kösem Sultan , Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Chief Black Eunuch Lala Süleyman, Hoca Reyhan Agha, Hajji Ibrahim Agha and Ali Agha
Assassinated at Topkapı Palace during a palace coup
1913
Mahmud Şevket Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire [ 4]
2016
Andrei Karlov , Russian Ambassador to Turkey .[ 4]
Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş
Assassination of Andrei Karlov
2018
Jamal Khashoggi , a Saudi journalist
Killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul
2022
Sinan Ateş , academic, historian, and former general chairman of the Grey Wolves
Eray Özyağcı
Shot and killed by Özyağcı while walking in the Çankaya District of Ankara and died on the way to the hospital. His brother-in-law Selman Bozkurt was accidentally his and wounded by a bullet in the shoulder.
United Kingdom
Date
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
293
Carausius , usurper of the Western Roman Empire
Allectius who Carausius appointed treasurer
coup d'état
946
Edmund I , King of England
Leofa
Stabbed at a banquet
978
Edward the Martyr , King of England
Ælfthryth
995
Kenneth II , King of Scotland
1100
William Rufus , King of England
Walter Tirel
Shot in the heart with an arrow by a nobleman, supposedly by accident, but the circumstances remain unclear.
1170
Thomas Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury
Four knights
Stabbed to death in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of Henry II of England
1306
John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch
Robert the Bruce , Roger de Kirkpatrick
1346
Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí
William III, Earl of Ross
Killed at Elcho Priory while attending a royal muster on the eve of a Scottish invasion of England.
1381
Robert Hales , Lord High Treasurer
Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt .
1381
Simon of Sudbury , Lord Chancellor , Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London
Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt .
1381
John Cavendish , Chief Justice of the King's Bench , Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Beheaded in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt .
1437
King James I of Scotland
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (coup leader), Sir Robert Graham (dealt lethal blow)
Killed at Perth in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart.
1452
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
James II of Scotland
1471
Henry VI of England , King of England
Killed in the Tower of London likely on the orders of Edward IV of England .
1488
King James III of Scotland
Killed by rebels.
1566
David Rizzio , private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , husband of Mary, Queen of Scots
Stabbed 57 times in front of the Queen by a mob led by her husband out of jealousy over their friendship
1567
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , husband of Mary, Queen of Scots
Killed in an explosion at Kirk o' Field , Edinburgh
1570
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland
James Hamilton
The first assassination carried out with a firearm.
1628
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , Lord High Admiral /royal favourite
John Felton
Stabbed in Portsmouth as he planned a second expedition to La Rochelle .
1679
James Sharp , Archbishop of St Andrews
Killed in Fife .
1812
Spencer Perceval , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John Bellingham
Killed by a disgruntled merchant. The only British prime minister to be assassinated. See Assassination of Spencer Perceval .[ 37]
1812
Louis-Alexandre de Launay , French diplomat
Stabbed to death with a stiletto along with his wife by a former servant at his home in Barnes .
1922
Henry Hughes Wilson , British field marshal , retired Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Conservative politician
Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan
Killed outside his house in Eaton Square , London, by members of the Irish Republican Army .[ 4]
1940
Michael O'Dwyer , former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab
Udham Singh , a Punjabi revolutionary
Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall , London over his involvement in the Amritsar Massacre
1973
Paddy Wilson , former General Secretary of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
Stabbed to death in Belfast , along with his friend Irene Andrews. See Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings .
1975
Ross McWhirter , co-author of the Guinness Book of Records and right-wing political activist
Harry Duggan and Hugh Doherty
Killed outside his home in Bush Hill Park , London, by members of the Balcombe Street Gang , both of whom were Irish Republican Army volunteers .
1977
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri , former Prime Minister of North Yemen
Killed in London.
1978
Georgi Markov , Bulgarian dissident
Died in London after being attacked with ricin fired from a gun disguised as an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge by suspected KGB agents.
9 July 1978
Abdul Razak al-Naif , former Prime Minister of Iraq
Killed in London
1979
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma , former Governor-General of India
Thomas McMahon
Killed while on a fishing trip along with three others by a bomb planted onto his boat by a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army .
1979
Airey Neave , Conservative Member of Parliament for Abingdon and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster , by members of the Irish National Liberation Army [ 38]
1980
John Turnley , SDLP and Irish Independence Party politician
Ulster Defence Association
Killed on the way to a political meeting.
1981
Sir Norman Stronge , aristocrat and Northern Irish politician, and his son, Sir James Stronge , aristocrat and Northern Irish politician
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Killed at their ancestral home, Tynan Abbey in County Armagh , which was then set on fire.
1981
Robert Bradford , Unionist Member of Parliament for Belfast South
IRA
Murdered during a speech at Finaghy , Belfast .[ 38]
1982
Shlomo Argov , Israeli Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
Abu Nidal Organization
Although Argov survived this assassination attempt, the injuries he sustained in the attack resulted in his death in 2003. His shooting triggered the 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
1983
Edgar Graham , Ulster Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
Shot by an IRA gunman outside Queen's University Belfast .[ 38]
1984
Anthony Berry , Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate
IRA
Killed in the Brighton hotel bombing .
1987
George Seawright , Unionist Northern Ireland politician
Killed by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation in Shankill, Belfast .
1989
Pat Finucane , solicitor
Ken Barrett
Killed in Belfast by Ulster Loyalists .
1990
Ian Gow , Conservative Member of Parliament for Eastbourne
IRA
Killed by a car bomb near his house in East Sussex .[ 38]
1997
Billy Wright , Loyalist Volunteer Force leader
INLA prisoners
Killed in Maze Prison .[ 39]
2006
Alexander Litvinenko , former FSB officer and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russia's FSB agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun
Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210 . See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko .[ 40]
2016
Jo Cox , Labour Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen
Thomas Mair
Shooting and stabbing incident before a constituency surgery . See Murder of Jo Cox .[ 41]
2021
Sir David Amess , Conservative Member of Parliament for Southend West
Ali Harbi Ali
Stabbed during a constituency surgery. See Murder of David Amess .
Ukraine
Year
Victim(s)
Assassin(s)
Notes
Ukrainian SSR
1921
Mykola Leontovych , composer
Soviet state security agent Afanasy Grishchenko.
Shot in his home after a robbery
1949
Yaroslav Halan , anti-fascist writer[ 42]
Mykhailo Stakhur and Ilariy Lukashevych
Killed with an axe at his home office in Lviv by members of the OUN (according to the Soviet official version, ordered by the Vatican )
1979
Volodymyr Ivasiuk , composer
Found hanged in a forest outside of Lviv .
Independent Ukraine
1993
Yuri Osmanov , Crimean Tatar civil rights activist
Brutally beaten by unidentified assailants and died the next day.
1995
Akhat Bragin , businessman and president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club
Killed by a bomb at the Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk .
1996
Yevhen Shcherban , People's Deputy of Ukraine
Shot dead along with his wife and bodyguard while departing a plane at Donetsk International Airport .
1998
Vadym Hetman , former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
Shot by a contract killer in Kyiv .
2000
Georgiy Gongadze , journalist
Agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Disappeared, found decapitated and doused in dioxine 2 months later near Tarashcha .
2005
Stepan Senchuk , former Governor of Lviv Oblast
Shot while in his car.
2014
Oleh Babaiev , Mayor of Kremenchuk
Shot in front of his home
2015
Oles Buzina , pro-Russian writer
Shot near his home in Kyiv .
2016
Pavel Sheremet , Belarusian journalist
Died in a car explosion in Kyiv.
2017
Denis Voronenkov , former member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Pavel Parshov, veteran of Ukraine's volunteer battalion .[ 43]
Shot dead in Kyiv while on his way to meet a fellow exiled parliamentarian, Ilya Ponomarev .
2017
Maksym Shapoval , Intelligence officer and head of the special forces of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
Killed in a car bombing in Kyiv
2018
Alexander Zakharchenko , pro-Russian separatist and Head of the Donetsk People's Republic , concurrent Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic
Killed in a bomb explosion in a cafe in Donetsk
2021
Vitaly Shishov , exiled Belarusian dissident
Found hanging in a forest after being reported missing the previous day
2022
Volodymyr Struk , Mayor of Kreminna
Abducted and killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022
Yuriy Prylypko , Mayor of Hostomel
Killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022
Olga Sukhenko , Village Head of Motyzhyn
Killed during the Russian occupation of Bucha
24 August 2022
Ivan Sushko, Russian-appointed head of Mykhailivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Killed in a car bombing during the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast .
28 August 2022
Oleksiy Kovalov , Member of the Verkhovna Rada
Shot during an attack on his residence in Zaliznyi Port .
19 July 2024
Iryna Farion , linguist, politician, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine
Shot by an unknown assailant in the head in Lviv , pending investigation.
See also
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