All-Time Assassination Rankings
Fifty of the most historically significant assassinations and attempts.
History & PoliticsTop 50
π World Ranking
β² Top 5
#1
Julius Caesar (44 BC)
+5
#2
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
+4
#3
John F. Kennedy (1963)
+3
#4
Leon Trotsky (1940)
+2
#5
Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
+1
βΌ Bottom 5
#1
Sergei Skripal
poisoning attempt (2018)
-5
#2
Adolf Hitler (multiple attempts)
-4
#3
Theo van Gogh (2004)
-3
#4
Pope John Paul II (attempt, 1981)
-2
#5
Ronald Reagan (attempt, 1981)
-1
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Julius Caesar (44 BC)+5
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)+4
John F. Kennedy (1963)+3
Leon Trotsky (1940)+2
Robert F. Kennedy (1968)+1
Abraham Lincoln (1865)β
Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)β
Mahatma Gandhi (1948)β
Malcolm X (1965)β
Anwar Sadat (1981)β
Indira Gandhi (1984)β
Rajiv Gandhi (1991)β
Yitzhak Rabin (1995)β
Benazir Bhutto (2007)β
Patrice Lumumba (1961)β
Thomas Sankara (1987)β
Chris Hani (1993)β
Solomon Bandaranaike (1959)β
Luis Carrero Blanco (1973)β
Aldo Moro (1978)β
Lord Mountbatten (1979)β
Operation Valkyrie β Hitler attempt (1944)β
Tsar Alexander II (1881)β
Tsar Nicholas II and family (1918)β
Reinhard Heydrich (1942)β
Georgi Markov β umbrella poisoning (1978)β
Olof Palme (1986)β
Alexander Litvinenko β poisoning (2006)β
Alexei Navalny (2020 attempt)β
Kim Jong-nam (2017)β
Benigno Aquino Jr. (1983)β
Rafic Hariri (2005)β
Imad Mughniyeh (2008)β
Qasem Soleimani (2020)β
Osama bin Laden (2011)β
Muammar Gaddafi (2011)β
Saddam Hussein (execution, 2006)β
Nicolae CeauΘescu (execution, 1989)β
Che Guevara (1967)β
Medgar Evers (1963)β
Fred Hampton (1969)β
Harvey Milk (1978)β
Ziad Jarrah (9/11 hijacker β killed in crash)β
Abdullah Azzam (1989)β
Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh (2010)β
Ronald Reagan (attempt, 1981)-1
Pope John Paul II (attempt, 1981)-2
Theo van Gogh (2004)-3
Adolf Hitler (multiple attempts)-4
Sergei Skripal β poisoning attempt (2018)-5