Assassinations Quiz: Trivia for your quiz rounds.
| Year | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Place & Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Caesar | 15th March, 44 BC | Marcus Brutus and other senators | Rome, Italy. His last words were, "Et tu, Brute?" ("Even you Brutus?"). |
| Philip II of Macedon | 336 | Pausanias | Aigai, Macedon. Father of Alexander the Great |
| Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury | 1170 | Four knights | Canterbury Cathedral. Stabbed to death on the orders of Henry II of England. |
| Spencer Perceval | 1812 | John Bellingham | Lobby of the House of Commons, London. The only British prime minister to be assassinated. |
| Abraham Lincoln | April 14th, 1865 | John Wilkes Booth | Ford's Theatre in Washington DC. Watching the play Our American Cousin. | James Garfield | 1881 | Charles J. Guiteau | Railroad station in Washington, D.C. The 20th president of the United States |
| Jesse James | 1882 | Robert Ford | Near Kearney, Missouri. Shot in the back whilst dusting a picture. |
| William McKinley | 1901 | Leon Czolgosz | Buffalo, New York. The 25th president of the United States. |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | June, 1914 | Gavrilo Princip | Sarajevo in Bosnia. Sparked the beginning of World War One. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | 30th January, 1948 | Nathuram Godse | New Delhi, India. |
| John F Kennedy | 22nd November, 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald | Dallas, Texas. Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby before he could be tried on 24th November. |
| Malcolm X | Feb, 1965 | Nation of Islam* | Audubon Ballroom, New York City, U.S. Real name was Malcolm Little. |
| Martin Luther King Jr | 4th April, 1968 | James Earl Ray | The balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. |
| Robert F Kennedy | June, 1968 | Sirhan Sirhan | Los Angeles |
| Airey Neave Conservative politician | 1979 | I.R.A. | Palace of Westminster, London. Killed by a car bomb. |
| Louis Mountbatten | 1979 | Thomas McMahon | The harbour at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland. An explosive device was attached to his 30-foot long wooden boat. |
| John Lennon | December 8,1980 | Mark David Chapman | Dakota apartment building, Manhatten, New York City. |
| Indira Gandhi | October, 1984 | Satwant Singh and Beant Singh | New Delhi, India. First and, to 2021, only female Prime Minister of India. |
| Ian Gow Conservative politician | 1990 | IRA | Near his house in East Sussex by a car bomb. |
| Rajiv Gandhi | May, 1991 | Dhanu | Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India. The first politician to be assassinated by a bomb blast. |
| Alexander Litvinenko | 2006 | Unknown | London, England. Poisoned by radioactive polonium-210. |
| Benazir Bhutto | 2007 | Mustafa Abu al-Yazid** | Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
* There is still much debate over who killed Malcolm X.
** Al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed responsibility.