Famous murders

By Joel_Neufeldt
  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar (44 BCE)

    Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
    Assassinated by a group of Roman senators led by Brutus and Cassius.
  • 1170

    Thomas Becket (1170)

    Thomas Becket (1170)
    Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II.

  • Abraham Lincoln (1865)

    Abraham Lincoln (1865)
    Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

  • Franz Ferdinand (1914)

    Franz Ferdinand (1914)
    Archduke of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I.

  • Mahatma Gandhi (1948)

    Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
    Assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, in New Delhi, India.

  • John F. Kennedy (1963)

    John F. Kennedy (1963)
    Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
    Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • John Lennon (1980)

    John Lennon (1980)
    Assassinated by Mark David Chapman in New York City.