Assassination has claimed the lives of numerous world leaders throughout history. Here is a list of some of the presidents who have been assassinated:
1. Abraham Lincoln (United States)
Assassinated: April 14, 1865
Assassin: John Wilkes Booth
Details: Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the following day.
2. James A. Garfield (United States)
Assassinated: July 2, 1881
Assassin: Charles J. Guiteau
Details: Garfield was shot at a train station in Washington, D.C., and died on September 19, 1881, due to infection.
3. William McKinley (United States)
Assassinated: September 6, 1901
Assassin: Leon Czolgosz
Details: McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died on September 14, 1901.
4. John F. Kennedy (United States)
Assassinated: November 22, 1963
Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald
Details: Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
5. Sadi Carnot (France)
Assassinated: June 24, 1894
Assassin: Sante Geronimo Caserio
Details: Carnot was stabbed in Lyon, France, by an Italian anarchist.
6. William Goebel (United States, Kentucky)
Assassinated: January 30, 1900
Assassin: Unknown
Details: Goebel was shot the day before being sworn in as governor of Kentucky. He died three days later.
7. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haiti)
Assassinated: October 17, 1806
Assassin: A group of rebels
Details: Dessalines, the first ruler of independent Haiti, was ambushed and killed.
8. Gabriel García Moreno (Ecuador)
Assassinated: August 6, 1875
Assassin: Faustino Rayo
Details: Moreno was attacked and killed with a machete in Quito.
9. Juvénal Habyarimana (Rwanda)
Assassinated: April 6, 1994
Assassin: Unknown (plane shot down)
Details: Habyarimana's plane was shot down near Kigali, sparking the Rwandan Genocide.
10. Cyprien Ntaryamira (Burundi)
Assassinated: April 6, 1994
Assassin: Unknown (plane shot down)
Details: Ntaryamira was killed alongside Habyarimana in the same plane.
11. Anwar Sadat (Egypt)
Assassinated: October 6, 1981
Assassin: Khalid Islambouli and co-conspirators
Details: Sadat was shot during a military parade in Cairo.
12. Park Chung-hee (South Korea)
Assassinated: October 26, 1979
Assassin: Kim Jae-gyu
Details: Park was shot by the head of his own intelligence agency during a dinner in Seoul.
13. Zoran Đinđić (Serbia)
Assassinated: March 12, 2003
Assassin: Zvezdan Jovanović
Details: Đinđić was shot by a sniper outside the Serbian government building.
14. Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
Assassinated: October 20, 2011
Assassin: Libyan rebels
Details: Gaddafi was captured and killed by rebels during the Libyan Civil War.
15. Indira Gandhi (India)
Assassinated: October 31, 1984
Assassin: Her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh
Details: Gandhi was shot at her residence in New Delhi.
16. Rajiv Gandhi (India)
Assassinated: May 21, 1991
Assassin: A suicide bomber from the Tamil Tigers (LTTE)
Details: Gandhi was killed during a public rally in Tamil Nadu.
17. Salvador Allende (Chile)
Assassinated: September 11, 1973
Assassin: Contested (Suicide or military forces during a coup)
Details: Allende died during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
18. Patrice Lumumba (Congo)
Assassinated: January 17, 1961
Assassin: Belgian and Congolese forces
Details: Lumumba was executed by a firing squad after being captured.
19. Omar Torrijos (Panama)
Assassinated: July 31, 1981
Assassin: Alleged (Plane crash under suspicious circumstances)
Details: Torrijos died in a plane crash that many suspect was an assassination.
This list includes some of the more notable assassinations, but there have been others throughout history as well.