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Assassination

Balthasar Gérard
Murderer of Dutch independence leader William the Silent in 1584
Charles J. Guiteau
American assassin (1841–1882)
François Ravaillac
French Catholic zealot who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610
Gaetano Bresci
Italian anarchist and assassin (1869–1901)
Gavrilo Princip
Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1894–1918)
Jack Ruby
Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911–1967)
James Earl Ray
American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
John Bellingham
English merchant who assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Percival in 1812
John Hinckley Jr.
Man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan
John Wilkes Booth
19th-century American stage actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Kim Jae-gyu
South Korean military officer (1926-1980)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassin of John F. Kennedy (1939–1963)
Leon Czolgosz
American steel worker and assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
Mark David Chapman
American murderer (born 1955)
Nathuram Godse
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910–1949)
Ramón Mercader
NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky
Sirhan Sirhan
Palestinian convicted of the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy