
The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous. It also contains some individuals who were famously suspected, but then acquitted, of particular assassinations. See also: *List of assassinated persons *Conspiracy theory *Terrorism ==Anonymous Assassins== *(name?) - assassin of Alejandro Gonzalez Malave *(name?) - assassin of Carthage general Hasdrubal *("three black Africans and an Arab") – assassins of Zanzibar's leader shaikh Abeid Karume *(a tank corps major) - assassin of Ngo Dinh Diem *(name?) - assassin of Waclaw III king of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary. *(name?) - assassin of Vlad Tepes *(name?) - assassin of Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad Tepes *(a Christian slave) - assassin of Zengi *(an anonymous Hashshashin) - assassin of Conrad of Montferrat *(a Persian slave) - assassin of Umar ibn al-Khattab ==A== *Mehmet Ali Agca - failed assassin of Pope Pope John Paul II *Frank Abbandando - Mafia hitman *Saad Akbar - assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan *Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden *Yigal Amir - assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin ==B== *Pierre Basile - assassin of Richard I of England *Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - attempted assassin of President of France Charles de Gaulle *Byron De La Beckwith - assassin of United States civil rights figure Medgar Evers *John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1812) *Philipp von Boeselager - last surviving member of the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. *John Wilkes Booth - assassin of the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln *Mohammed Bouyeri - assassin of the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (film director) (November 2, 2004) *Arthur Herman Bremer - would-be assassin of George Wallace, governor of Alabama *Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and their associates - assassins of Julius Caesar *Aaron Burr - won the duel leading to the death of Alexander Hamilton *Samuel Byck - would-be assassin of Richard Nixon ==C== *Carlos the Jackal - terrorist, would-be assassin of Joseph Sieff *Sante Jeronimo Caserio - assassin of the President of France Marie François Sadi Carnot *Cassius Chaerea, and associates - assassins of the Roman emperor Caligula *Mark David Chapman - assassin of John Lennon *Jacques Clément - assassin of Henry III of France *Charlotte Corday - assassin of Jean Paul Marat *Andrew Cunanan - assassin of Gianni Versace *Izola Curry - stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1958 *Leon Czolgosz - assassin of the President of the United States William McKinley ==D== *Dingaan and Mhlangana - assassins of Shaka, the king of Zulus. * Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan - Irish Republican Army assassins of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson United Kingdom field marshal 1922 ==E== *Lydia Echevarria - alleged intellectual assassin of Luis Vigoreaux *George Elser - lone assassin who attempted to assassinate Hitler through a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall on November 8, 1939 ==F== *John Felton - assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham *Giuseppe Fieschi - would be assassin of King Louis Philippe in July 1835 *Lynette Fromme - apparent would-be assassin of Gerald Ford ==G== *Balthazar Gérards - assassin of William I of Orange *Nathuram Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi *Volkert van der Graaf - assassin of Pim Fortuyn *Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of the President of the United States James Garfield *Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva - attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin in 1914. ==H== *Hashshashin - the original Afghanistan assassins. *Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted), Norman 3X Butler & Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted) - the three assassins of Malcolm X *John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan. ==I== * the Irish National Invincibles - assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke (Irish Politician) 1882 ==J== *Jing Ke - failed assassin of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang *John Parricida of Habsburg -- Killed his uncle King Albert I of Germany in 1308. ==K== *Fanya Kaplan - attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin *Khalid Sheik Mohammed - conspired with a plot to kill Pope Pope John Paul II as part of the Operation Bojinka terrorist attack plot. The plot was discovered after an apartment fire in Manila, Philippines on January 6, 1995 ==L== *Richard Lawrence - attempted assassin of Andrew Jackson *Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Bavaria *Byron Looper - assassin of political opponent Tommy Burks ==M== *Marcia (a concubine) and Narcissus (murderer) (an athlete) - assassins of Roman emperor Commodus. Narcissus strangled the emperor in his bath after Marcia's poison failed to work. The chief plot architect was praetorian prefect Quintus Aecilius Laetus. *Ramón Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky *Mijailo Mijailovic - assassin of Anna Lindh *Sara Jane Moore - would-be assassin of Gerald Ford ==N== *Måns Bengtsson Natt och Dag - assassin of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson *Phuong Ngo, and associates - assassins of John Paul Newman *Abu Nidal, attempted assassin of Shlomo Argov, Isreali ambassador to Britain. Actual assassin of dozens of PLO officers. *Eligiusz Niewiadomski - assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland *Ninja - assassins of medieval Japan *El Sayyid Nosair - assassin of Meir Kahane ==O== *Lee Harvey Oswald - found by the Warren Commission to be the John F. Kennedy assassination of President of the United States John F. Kennedy. ==P== *Christer Pettersson - acquitted on the murder of the Swedish Prime Ministers Olof Palme *Otto Planetta and others - assassin of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss *Lewis Powell or Lewis Paine - would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William Seward in 1865 *Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggered World War I ==R== *Punisa Racic - assassin of Stjepan Radic *Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi *François Ravaillac - assassin of Henry IV of France *James Earl Ray - assassin Martin Luther King Jr (pleaded guilty but later asserted his innocence) *Otto Rothstock - assassin of Hugo Bettauer (1925) *Gennaro Rubino - would-be assassin of King Leopold II of Belgium (1902) *Jack Ruby - assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald ==S== *Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla *Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov *Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen *Sholom Schwartzbard - Jewish anarchist and political assassin of Symon Petliura, the head of the government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Paris. *Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell. *Beant Singh and Satwant Singh - assassins of the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi *Sivarasan - Tamil Tigers member and mastermind of assassination of Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi *Sirhan B. Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy *Valerie Solanas - failed assassin of Andy Warhol *Claus von Stauffenberg - colonel of the Wehrmacht who led the abortive July 20, 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler through a bomb at Wolfsschanze and lead an insurrection in Berlin and Paris *Harry Strauss - Mafia hitman *Per-Olof Svensson - ''cleared'' of the murder of Anna Lindh ==T== *Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha *Jaime Terran - assassin of Che Guevara *Henning von Tresckow - key conspirator in the German anti-Nazi Resistance who initiated several assassination attempts on Hitler (all unsuccessful), the most famous of which was the plan to destroy Hitler's plane at Smolensk in 1943 *Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (successfully) on Hendrik Verwoerd's life ==V== *Raoul Vilain - assassin of Jean Jaurès ==W== *Donald Eugene Webb, alleged cop killer. *Patrick J. Whelan - convicted assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee *Carl Weiss - assassin of Huey Long *Dan White - assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978 ==Y== *Ramzi Yousef: **masterminded a failed attempt to kill then-president of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. **conspired in the assassination attempt on Pope Pope John Paul II on the Pope's Philippines visit, as part of Manila-based Al-Qaida plot Operation Bojinka. Two weeks before the assassination and the first part of the Project was to go off, Manila police would discover and foil his plot on January 6, 1995, including the assassination attempt **considered assassinating United States President Bill Clinton, but decided against it *Yakov Yurovsky - chief assassin of Nicholas II of Russia *Felix Yusupov - hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin ==Z== *Giuseppe Zangara - assassin of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago and would-be assassin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lists of people by occupation Assassins
I removed all the fictional assassins. those clearly do not help the list as a historical compilation User:Vroman 14:34, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) Roger Nicholas Angleton - murderer of Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton I removed the above person from the list. domestic violence is not assassination. User:Vroman 11:06, 18 May 2004 (UTC) I thought Petterson had been cleared of the murder of Olof Palme--should he be listed here, given that? User:Vicki Rosenzweig :Yeap, the point here is Petterson was famous because of the Palme's murder, not because he did kill Palme. We can always put a line like "acquitted on the murder of Olof Palme" for clarification. User:kt2 Should we really mention terrorist organisations in this list (Tamil Tigers); the list should include persons only IMO. And what about Gert Bastian? He is in the list, but as far as I know he did commit suicide together with Petra Kelly. He was the one to shoot, but he is not a typical assassin. User:Cordyph :I'm open on including (or not) Tamil Tigers, or would we restrict this list to persons only. If you would like to take it off, please go ahead. Bastian's case looks more like a murder and suicide than a assasination. We definitely need a definition on idetifying an assasin. Or the one given on assassin is good enough? User:kt2 :I will now remove Bastian from the list. My opinion is restricting the list to persons, but before deleting Tamil Tigers I would like to hear the opinion of someone else. User:Cordyph :We still need some researches on Tamil Tigers and their role in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. We will find someone who actually did the shooting, as the Singh's for Indira Gandhi, but whoever is respnsible is only working under the order of Tamil Tigers, I think. :We could limit this list to only persons and List of terrorist groups can store the groups with linking to one another. But we still need some brief info on who killed whom. IMO we can analyze the killing incidents depending on number of people on the "who" and "whom". :1. One person kills another (the conventional definition of assassination) :2. One person kills a group of people (genocide, mass murder, massacre etc.) :3. a group of people kill a person (the Tamil Tiger case falls into this category, or Brutus and associates on Julius Caesar) :4. a group of people kill another group (genocide, mass murder, massacre, terrorism etc., examples: Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 terrorism etc.) :Seems like the definition on assassination depends more on number of people being killed. The target must also be a prominent figure. If an ordinary husband killed his whole family, burnt his house down and finally killed himself, we usually don't count it as an assassination of a wife by her husband. :IMO Assassination is a single incident of murdering a prominent person. Terrorism is continuous effort of murdering lots of people. By defining this way, Tamil Tigers will go to the terrorist groups and Brutus stay on this page. :As always I'm open and would like to listen to more opionions before we settled down on a format.User:kt2 :I agree, that Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an assassin, but we don't know the name (or do we?). Also, there has been a series of political murders in Germany, executed by the leftist Red Army Faction. A lot of prominent persons were assassinated, but we do not know the names of the assassins (although we know many names of R.A.F. members). My proposal: let us make a section (not a new article, just a paragraph in the existing page) with persons being assassinated by unknown murderers. In that section we can state the name of the terrorist group. User:Cordyph ::Cordyph, I have found the name of the person who assassinated Rajiv Gandhi. Her name was Thenmuli Rajaratnam (Tamil Tiger operative name "Dhanu"). Added 30/08/2003. ==Lennon assassinated?== I take issue with John Lennon's murder being called an assassination. If that's the case, than every murder committed would have to be listed here, and there are certainly plenty of murders of public figures. Was Latin singer Selena assassinated? How about the heavy metal guitarist shot on stage last week? Or SNL actor Phil Hartman? IMO the term assassination should only be applied to the killing of political, spiritual, and economic leaders (and/or news-making public figures, such as Lee Harvey Oswald). Lennon was a well-known personality but he doesn't really fall under these categories. Thoughts? User:23skidoo 05:36, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous. It also contains some individuals who were famously suspected, but then acquitted, of particular assassinations. See also: *List of assassinated persons *Conspiracy theory *Terrorism ==Anonymous Assassins== *(name?) - assassin of Alejandro Gonzalez Malave *(name?) - assassin of Carthage general Hasdrubal *("three black Africans and an Arab") – assassins of Zanzibar's leader shaikh Abeid Karume *(a tank corps major) - assassin of Ngo Dinh Diem *(name?) - assassin of Waclaw III king of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary. *(name?) - assassin of Vlad Tepes *(name?) - assassin of Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad Tepes *(a Christian slave) - assassin of Zengi *(an anonymous Hashshashin) - assassin of Conrad of Montferrat *(a Persian slave) - assassin of Umar ibn al-Khattab ==A== *Mehmet Ali Agca - failed assassin of Pope Pope John Paul II *Frank Abbandando - Mafia hitman *Saad Akbar - assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan *Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden *Yigal Amir - assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin ==B== *Pierre Basile - assassin of Richard I of England *Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - attempted assassin of President of France Charles de Gaulle *Byron De La Beckwith - assassin of United States civil rights figure Medgar Evers *John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1812) *Philipp von Boeselager - last surviving member of the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. *John Wilkes Booth - assassin of the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln *Mohammed Bouyeri - assassin of the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (film director) (November 2, 2004) *Arthur Herman Bremer - would-be assassin of George Wallace, governor of Alabama *Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and their associates - assassins of Julius Caesar *Aaron Burr - won the duel leading to the death of Alexander Hamilton *Samuel Byck - would-be assassin of Richard Nixon ==C== *Carlos the Jackal - terrorist, would-be assassin of Joseph Sieff *Sante Jeronimo Caserio - assassin of the President of France Marie François Sadi Carnot *Cassius Chaerea, and associates - assassins of the Roman emperor Caligula *Mark David Chapman - assassin of John Lennon *Jacques Clément - assassin of Henry III of France *Charlotte Corday - assassin of Jean Paul Marat *Andrew Cunanan - assassin of Gianni Versace *Izola Curry - stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1958 *Leon Czolgosz - assassin of the President of the United States William McKinley ==D== *Dingaan and Mhlangana - assassins of Shaka, the king of Zulus. * Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan - Irish Republican Army assassins of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson United Kingdom field marshal 1922 ==E== *Lydia Echevarria - alleged intellectual assassin of Luis Vigoreaux *George Elser - lone assassin who attempted to assassinate Hitler through a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall on November 8, 1939 ==F== *John Felton - assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham *Giuseppe Fieschi - would be assassin of King Louis Philippe in July 1835 *Lynette Fromme - apparent would-be assassin of Gerald Ford ==G== *Balthazar Gérards - assassin of William I of Orange *Nathuram Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi *Volkert van der Graaf - assassin of Pim Fortuyn *Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of the President of the United States James Garfield *Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva - attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin in 1914. ==H== *Hashshashin - the original Afghanistan assassins. *Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted), Norman 3X Butler & Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted) - the three assassins of Malcolm X *John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan. ==I== * the Irish National Invincibles - assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke (Irish Politician) 1882 ==J== *Jing Ke - failed assassin of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang *John Parricida of Habsburg -- Killed his uncle King Albert I of Germany in 1308. ==K== *Fanya Kaplan - attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin *Khalid Sheik Mohammed - conspired with a plot to kill Pope Pope John Paul II as part of the Operation Bojinka terrorist attack plot. The plot was discovered after an apartment fire in Manila, Philippines on January 6, 1995 ==L== *Richard Lawrence - attempted assassin of Andrew Jackson *Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Bavaria *Byron Looper - assassin of political opponent Tommy Burks ==M== *Marcia (a concubine) and Narcissus (murderer) (an athlete) - assassins of Roman emperor Commodus. Narcissus strangled the emperor in his bath after Marcia's poison failed to work. The chief plot architect was praetorian prefect Quintus Aecilius Laetus. *Ramón Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky *Mijailo Mijailovic - assassin of Anna Lindh *Sara Jane Moore - would-be assassin of Gerald Ford ==N== *Måns Bengtsson Natt och Dag - assassin of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson *Phuong Ngo, and associates - assassins of John Paul Newman *Abu Nidal, attempted assassin of Shlomo Argov, Isreali ambassador to Britain. Actual assassin of dozens of PLO officers. *Eligiusz Niewiadomski - assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland *Ninja - assassins of medieval Japan *El Sayyid Nosair - assassin of Meir Kahane ==O== *Lee Harvey Oswald - found by the Warren Commission to be the John F. Kennedy assassination of President of the United States John F. Kennedy. ==P== *Christer Pettersson - acquitted on the murder of the Swedish Prime Ministers Olof Palme *Otto Planetta and others - assassin of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss *Lewis Powell or Lewis Paine - would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William Seward in 1865 *Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggered World War I ==R== *Punisa Racic - assassin of Stjepan Radic *Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi *François Ravaillac - assassin of Henry IV of France *James Earl Ray - assassin Martin Luther King Jr (pleaded guilty but later asserted his innocence) *Otto Rothstock - assassin of Hugo Bettauer (1925) *Gennaro Rubino - would-be assassin of King Leopold II of Belgium (1902) *Jack Ruby - assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald ==S== *Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla *Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov *Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen *Sholom Schwartzbard - Jewish anarchist and political assassin of Symon Petliura, the head of the government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Paris. *Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell. *Beant Singh and Satwant Singh - assassins of the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi *Sivarasan - Tamil Tigers member and mastermind of assassination of Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi *Sirhan B. Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy *Valerie Solanas - failed assassin of Andy Warhol *Claus von Stauffenberg - colonel of the Wehrmacht who led the abortive July 20, 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler through a bomb at Wolfsschanze and lead an insurrection in Berlin and Paris *Harry Strauss - Mafia hitman *Per-Olof Svensson - ''cleared'' of the murder of Anna Lindh ==T== *Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha *Jaime Terran - assassin of Che Guevara *Henning von Tresckow - key conspirator in the German anti-Nazi Resistance who initiated several assassination attempts on Hitler (all unsuccessful), the most famous of which was the plan to destroy Hitler's plane at Smolensk in 1943 *Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (successfully) on Hendrik Verwoerd's life ==V== *Raoul Vilain - assassin of Jean Jaurès ==W== *Donald Eugene Webb, alleged cop killer. *Patrick J. Whelan - convicted assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee *Carl Weiss - assassin of Huey Long *Dan White - assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978 ==Y== *Ramzi Yousef: **masterminded a failed attempt to kill then-president of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. **conspired in the assassination attempt on Pope Pope John Paul II on the Pope's Philippines visit, as part of Manila-based Al-Qaida plot Operation Bojinka. Two weeks before the assassination and the first part of the Project was to go off, Manila police would discover and foil his plot on January 6, 1995, including the assassination attempt **considered assassinating United States President Bill Clinton, but decided against it *Yakov Yurovsky - chief assassin of Nicholas II of Russia *Felix Yusupov - hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin ==Z== *Giuseppe Zangara - assassin of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago and would-be assassin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lists of people by occupation Assassins
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I removed all the fictional assassins. those clearly do not help the list as a historical compilation User:Vroman 14:34, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) Roger Nicholas Angleton - murderer of Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton I removed the above person from the list. domestic violence is not assassination. User:Vroman 11:06, 18 May 2004 (UTC) I thought Petterson had been cleared of the murder of Olof Palme--should he be listed here, given that? User:Vicki Rosenzweig :Yeap, the point here is Petterson was famous because of the Palme's murder, not because he did kill Palme. We can always put a line like "acquitted on the murder of Olof Palme" for clarification. User:kt2 Should we really mention terrorist organisations in this list (Tamil Tigers); the list should include persons only IMO. And what about Gert Bastian? He is in the list, but as far as I know he did commit suicide together with Petra Kelly. He was the one to shoot, but he is not a typical assassin. User:Cordyph :I'm open on including (or not) Tamil Tigers, or would we restrict this list to persons only. If you would like to take it off, please go ahead. Bastian's case looks more like a murder and suicide than a assasination. We definitely need a definition on idetifying an assasin. Or the one given on assassin is good enough? User:kt2 :I will now remove Bastian from the list. My opinion is restricting the list to persons, but before deleting Tamil Tigers I would like to hear the opinion of someone else. User:Cordyph :We still need some researches on Tamil Tigers and their role in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. We will find someone who actually did the shooting, as the Singh's for Indira Gandhi, but whoever is respnsible is only working under the order of Tamil Tigers, I think. :We could limit this list to only persons and List of terrorist groups can store the groups with linking to one another. But we still need some brief info on who killed whom. IMO we can analyze the killing incidents depending on number of people on the "who" and "whom". :1. One person kills another (the conventional definition of assassination) :2. One person kills a group of people (genocide, mass murder, massacre etc.) :3. a group of people kill a person (the Tamil Tiger case falls into this category, or Brutus and associates on Julius Caesar) :4. a group of people kill another group (genocide, mass murder, massacre, terrorism etc., examples: Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 terrorism etc.) :Seems like the definition on assassination depends more on number of people being killed. The target must also be a prominent figure. If an ordinary husband killed his whole family, burnt his house down and finally killed himself, we usually don't count it as an assassination of a wife by her husband. :IMO Assassination is a single incident of murdering a prominent person. Terrorism is continuous effort of murdering lots of people. By defining this way, Tamil Tigers will go to the terrorist groups and Brutus stay on this page. :As always I'm open and would like to listen to more opionions before we settled down on a format.User:kt2 :I agree, that Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an assassin, but we don't know the name (or do we?). Also, there has been a series of political murders in Germany, executed by the leftist Red Army Faction. A lot of prominent persons were assassinated, but we do not know the names of the assassins (although we know many names of R.A.F. members). My proposal: let us make a section (not a new article, just a paragraph in the existing page) with persons being assassinated by unknown murderers. In that section we can state the name of the terrorist group. User:Cordyph ::Cordyph, I have found the name of the person who assassinated Rajiv Gandhi. Her name was Thenmuli Rajaratnam (Tamil Tiger operative name "Dhanu"). Added 30/08/2003. ==Lennon assassinated?== I take issue with John Lennon's murder being called an assassination. If that's the case, than every murder committed would have to be listed here, and there are certainly plenty of murders of public figures. Was Latin singer Selena assassinated? How about the heavy metal guitarist shot on stage last week? Or SNL actor Phil Hartman? IMO the term assassination should only be applied to the killing of political, spiritual, and economic leaders (and/or news-making public figures, such as Lee Harvey Oswald). Lennon was a well-known personality but he doesn't really fall under these categories. Thoughts? User:23skidoo 05:36, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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