Famous People Who Died of assassination

• Abe, Shinzo

  Prime Minister of Japan, 2006-07 and 2012-present

• Bhutto, Benazir

  The first female prime minister of Pakistan

• Caligula

  Debauched emperor of ancient Rome

• Cicero

  The Roman statesman who stood up to Marc Antony

• Evers, Medgar

  Assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader

• Ferdinand, Archduke

  The man whose killing sparked WWI

• Gandhi, Indira

  Prime Minister of India, 1966-77 and 1980-84

• Gandhi, Mohandas

  Non-violent leader of Indian independence

• Garfield, James

  President of the United States, March-September 1881

• Julius Caesar

  The most famous of Roman generals

• Kennedy, John F.

  President of the United States, 1961-63

• Kennedy, Robert F.

  The assassinated brother of John Kennedy

• King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  The civil rights hero who said "I have a dream"

• Lincoln, Abraham

  The Civil War president who wrote the Gettysburg Address

• Long, Huey P.

  The "Kingfish" of Louisiana's Depression-era politics

• McKinley, William

  President of the United States, 1897-1901

• Pizarro, Francisco

  The Spaniard who conquered the Incas

• Rabin, Yitzhak

  Prime Minister of Israel, 1974-1977 and 1992-1995

• Rasputin, Grigori

  Wild-eyed court mystic of Czarist Russia

• Sadat, Anwar

  President of Egypt, 1970-81

• Trotsky, Leon

  V.I. Lenin's right-hand man

• Villa, Pancho

  Legendary Mexican bandit

• Xerxes

  The Persian king repulsed by the Greeks

• X, Malcolm

  Assassinated leader of the 1960s black power movement

• Zapata, Emiliano

  The great peasant hero of the Mexican Revolution

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