Famous murders

By Joel_Neufeldt
  • Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
    44 BCE

    Julius Caesar (44 BCE)

    Assassinated by a group of Roman senators led by Brutus and Cassius.
  • Thomas Becket (1170)
    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.