Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

male, deceased (1948)
Indian, civil disobedience, non-violence, Indian independence movement, activist, death by firearm…assassinated, Assassinated Indian politician
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In India, he is recognized as the "Father of the Nation" and October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as...
John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth

male, deceased (1865)
Assassin, stage actor, Catholic, suffrage, assassinated, Union Army
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham...
Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King

female, deceased (2006)
Bates University alumni, Congressional Gold Medal, Princeton University alumni, Baptist from the United States, Non-South African anti-apartheid activist, Duke University alumni…assassinated
Coretta Scott King was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader. Coretta King is a...
Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

male, deceased (1978)
gay, assassinated, From San Francisco, death by firearm in the United States, From Long Island, State University of New York at Albany alumni…Assassinated American politician
Harvey Bernard Milk, an American politician and gay rights activist, was the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He and...
Theo van Gogh

Theo van Gogh

male, deceased (2004)
dutch, assassinated, Critic of Islam, atheist, film director, publicist
Theo van Gogh (July 23, 1957–November 2, 2004) was a Dutch film director, television producer, publicist and actor. He was a descendant of Theo va...
James Garfield

James Garfield

male, deceased (1881)
U.S. House of Representatives, death by firearm in the United States, United States Army, American, assassination, death by firearm…assassinated, Assassinated American politician
James Abram Garfield was a major general in the United States Army, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the twentieth President of the...
Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya

female, deceased (2006)
Human Rights, journalist, murder victim, Journalist killed in Russia, death by firearm in Russia, Russian…Assassinated Russian, assassinated, assassinated on October 7, 2006
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and the...
Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers

male, deceased (1963)
American military personnel of World War II, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights, Activism, death by firearm in the United States, murdered…assassinated
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi.
Pim Fortuyn

Pim Fortuyn

male, deceased (2002)
right-wing, populist, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, List Pim Fortuyn, gay, anti-immigration…assassinated, Assassinated Dutch politician
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus (Pim) Fortuyn, (February 19, 1948 – May 6, 2002), was a controversial, openly gay, charismatic populistic right-wing po...
Meir Kahane

Meir Kahane

male, deceased (1990)
Hayim Yerushalmi, Michael King, David Sinai, Former Member of the Knesset, death by firearm in the United States, unique character, samaria…assassinated, Assassinated Israeli politician, Assassinated American politician
Rabbi Meir David Kahane (also known by the pseudonyms Michael King, David Sinai and Hayim Yerushalmi, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an Am...