
Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often but not always a political leader or ruler, usually for political reasons or payment.
An assassination may be prompted by religious, political, or military motives; it is an act that may be done for financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from a desire to acquire fame or notoriety, or because of a military, security or insurgent group's command to carry out the homicide.
Notables
- Julius Caesar (-44)
- Abraham Lincoln (1865)
- Tsar Alexander II (1881)
- Song Jiaoren (1913)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
- Leon Trotsky (1940)
- Mahatma Ghandi (1948)
- John F. Kennedy (1963)
- Malcolm X (1965)
- Martin Luther King (1968)
- Robert Kennedy (1968)
- Steve Biko (1977)
- Louis Mountbatten (1979)
- John Lennon (1980)
- Indira Ghandi (1984)
- Yitzhak Rabin (1995)
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