Which four prominent political figures were assassinated during the 1960s?
Would suggest that this question is narrowed down but: (I'm only
counting people who were murdered not died in battle or executed)
Caius Iulius Caesar 44BC Gaius Caesar (Caligula) (Roman Emperor
37-41) AD41 Servius Sulpicius Galba (Roman Emperor 68-9) AD69 Aulus
Vitellius Germanicus (Roman Emperor 69) AD69 Marcus Didius Salvius
Julianus (Roman Emperor 193) AD193 Marcus Antonius Gordianus III
Pius (Roman Emperor 238-44) AD244 Hlothhere (King of Kent 673-85)
AD685 Ecgfrith (King of Mercia 796) AD769 St Edmund (King of East
Anglia 855-70) AD870 Berengar of Friuli (King of Italy 888-91,
905-922, Emperor of the West 915-22) AD924 Lulach I the Fool (King
of Scots 1057-8) 1058 William II Rufus (King of England 1087-1100)
1100 [alleged to be an accident] Conrad of Montferrat (King of
Jerusalem 1192) 1192 Prince Arthur (Duke of Brittany 1187-c1203)
1203 [alleged] Saif ad-Din Qutuz (Mamluk Sultan 1259-60) 1260
Edward II (King of England 1307-27) 1327 Charles de Castille
d'Espagne (Constable of France 1350-4) 1354 Richard II (King of
England 1377-99) 1400 Jean I the Fearless (Duke of Burgundy
1404-19) 1419 James I (King of Scots 1406-37) 1437 Edward V and
Richard, Duke of York 1483 [alleged] Francisco Pizarro
(Captain-General of Peru 1529-1541) 1541 Francois I de Lorraine,
Duke de Guise 1563 Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (husband of Mary
Queen of Scots) 1567 James Stuart, Earl of Moray, (Regent of
Scotland 1567-70) 1570 Gaspard de Châtillon, Count Coligny 1572
Willem I the Silent, Prince of Orange (Stadholder of Holland and
Zeeland 1559-67, 1572-84) 1584 Feodor II Goudenov (Tsar of Russia
1605) 1605 Jalaludin Muhammad Akbar (Akbar the Great) (Mogul
Emperor 1556-1605) 1605 Henri IV (King of France 1589-1610, King of
Navarre, as Henri III, 1572-1610) 1610 George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham, (Lord High Admiral 1619-28) 1628 Pyotr III (Tsar of
Russia 1762) 1762 Jean Paul Marat (French Revolutionary) 1793 Pavel
I (Tsar of Russia 1796-1801) 1801 Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of
the Treasury 1789-95) [debatable] Spencer Percival (UK Prime
Minister 1809-12) 1812 Shaka kaSenzangakhona (Paramount Chief of
the Zulus 1818-28) 1828 Ioannis Kapodistrias (Giovanni Capo
d'Istria) (Russian Foreign Minister 1816-22, President of Greece
1827-31) 1831 Abraham Lincoln (16th President USA 1861-65) 1865
James Garfield (30th US President 1881) 1881 Elizabeth
(Empress-Consort of Austria-Hungary 1854-98) 1898 Aleksandar
Obrenović (King of Serbia 1889-1903) 1903 Carlos I (King of
Portugal 1889-1908) and Crown Prince Luis Filipe 1908 Archduke
Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg (heir presumptive to the
Austro-Hungarian Empire) and Countess Sophie Chotek 1914 Grigori
Yefimovich Rasputin 1916 [possibly just murder] Moisei Solomonovich
Uritsky (Chief of Petrograd Cheka 1917-8) 1918 Emiliano Zapata
(Mexican Revolutionary) 1919 Micheál Ó Coileáin "Michael Collins"
(Minister of Finance 1909-22, President of the Provisional
Government of the Irish Free State 1919-22, Commander in Chief of
the National Army 1922) 1922 Doroteo Arango (Francisco "Pancho"
Villa) 1923 Alexander I Karadjorevic (King of Yugoslavia 1921-34)
1934 Sergey Mironovich Kostrikov "Kirov" (Soviet politician0 1934
Lev Davidovich Bronstein "Trotsky" (Commissar for War 1918-25) 1940
Benito Mussolini (Duce of Italy 1922-45) 1945 Mohandas K Gandhi
1948 General Leónidas Trujillo Molina (Leader of the Dominican
Republic 1930-61) 1961 Dag Hammarskjold (UN Secretary-General
1953-61) [very disputed] 1961 John F Kennedy (35th US President
1961-3) 1963 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, nee "Malcolm X" (né Malcolm
Little) 1965 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (Prime Minister of South
Africa 1958-66) 1966 Martin Luther King 1968 Robert "Bobby" Kennedy
1968 Salvador Allende (President of Chile 1970-3) 1973 [disputed]
Faisal (King of Saudi Arabia 1964-75) 1975 Zulfikar ali Bhutto
(President of Pakistan 1971-3, PM Pakistan 1973-7) 1979 Louis
Mountbatten, Earl of Mountbatten of Burma, né HSH Prince Louis of
Battenberg, (Viceroy of India 1943-7, Chief of the Defence Staff
1959-65) 1979 Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (Archbishop of San
Salvador 1977-80) 1980 Muhammad Anwar Sadat (President of Egypt
1970-81) 1981 Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister of India 1966-77,
1980-4) 1984 Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq (President of Pakistan 1978-88)
1988 [disputed] Rajiv Gandhi (Prime Minister of India 1984-89) 1991
Yitzhak Rabin (Prime Minister of Israel 1974-7, 1992-5) 1995
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (King of Nepal 1972-2001) 2001
Ezzedine Salim (Chairman of the Iraqi Provisional Council) 2004
Benazir Bhutto (Prime Minister of Pakistan 1988-90 1993-6) 2008 I'm
sure that there are lots missing...
