TOP : 1
Name : Franz Ferdinand
Born : 1863
Died : 1914
Details :
- Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Shot by Bosnian separatist Gavrilo Princip. His death would ultimately spark world war one.
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TOP : 2
Name : Julius Caesar
Born : 100 BC
Died : 44 BC
Details :
- Roman Statesmen. Stabbed 23 times by his political rivals in the senate. Led to demise of the Roman republic.
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TOP : 3
Name : Leon Trotsky
Born : 1879
Died : 1940
Details :
- Communist Revolutionary. Ordered killed by his old rival Stalin. He was dispatched via an ice pick to the skull.
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TOP : 4
Name : Martin Luther King
Born : 1929
Died : 1968
Details :
- Civil Rights Leader. Assassinated when James Earl Ray shot him through the neck. His deaths caused riots across the US.
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TOP : 5
Name : John F. Kennedy
Born : 1917
Died : 1963
Details :
- President of the United States. Murdered by Loner Lee Harvey Oswald. The reason for the killing is shrouded in conspiracy.
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TOP : 6
Name : John Lennon
Born : 1940
Died : 1980
Details :
- Musician. Killed while returning home from an evening recording session. Shot by Mark Chapman, a deranged fan.
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TOP : 7
Name : Mohandas Gandhi
Born : 1869
Died : 1948
Details :
- Indian Indepedence Leader. Shot 3 times by a Hinu extremist. Motive was Gandhi's support for the partition of India.
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TOP : 8
Name : Malcolm X
Born : 1925
Died : 1965
Details :
- Black Nationalist. Shot several times by three men belonging to the nation of Islam - Malcolm X's former organization.
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TOP : 9
Name : Lord Louis Mountbatten
Born : 1900
Died : 1979
Details :
- British Royal Family. Assassinated while on holiday in Ireland. The IRA had planted a bomb on his boat.
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TOP : 10
Name : Abraham Lincoln
Born : 1809
Died : 1865
Details :
- President of the United States. He was killed while attending the theater. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, had known confederate sympathies.
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That's your top 10 assassinations that really shook and changed the course of history of our world today.
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