# List of assassinations in Europe

Assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe include the following.
For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.

## Albania

| No. | Name of victim(s) | Highest position held | Date assassinated | Name of assassin(s) | Place of assassination | Suspected motive and description of the assassination |
| 1 | Hasan Rıza Pasha | General in the Ottoman-Albanian army of Scutari Vilayet | 31 January 1913 | Osman Bali, Mehmet Kavaja | A remote street near Rozafa Castle, Shkodër | Assailants were sent on the orders of Esad Toptani whose aim was to be the commander in charge of defending Shkodër from the invading Montenegrin forces. |
| 2 | Gjeto Çoku | Prefect of Lezhë | 7 October 1913 | Prenk Kol Brunga | Lezhë | Brunga was paid by the House of Prenk Bib Doda to eliminate the Prefect of Lezhë. Brunga, a paid guard in the Gendarmerie of Lezhë at the time, assassinated Gjeto Çoku at dusk as the Prefect was taking an evening stroll with Franz Nopcsa. |
| 3 | Lodewijk Thomson | Dutch military commander during the governance of Turhan Pasha. | 15 June 1914 | Unknown | Ura e Dajlanit, Durrës | Thomson made plenty of enemies during his short time of service in the country. The real motive of his murder has yet to be uncovered. |
| 4 | Nexhat Libohova | Minister of Finance | 26 May 1915 | Osman Bali | Shkallnur, Durrës | Political dispute with Esad Toptani. |
| 5 | Çerçiz Topulli | Commander of the Gjirokastër military band | 17 July 1915 | Montenegrin soldiers | Shtoji field, Golem, Shkodër | Revenge over the killing of the Greek bishop Photios in 1906. |
| 6 | Ded Gjo Luli | Leader of the Albanian revolt of 1911 | 24 September 1915 | Unknown | Sheshëz, Orosh | Killed for nationalist motives. |
| 7 | Isa Boletini | Leader of the uprising to liberate Albanian lands | 23 January 1916 | Pero Burič | Ribnica bridge, Podgorica, Montenegro | Killed to suppress the Albanian resistance. |
| 8 | Stath Melani | Orthodox priest | 24 December 1917 | Josif Soropulli, Josif Stërmbeci, Vangjel Radimishti | Balta e kuqe, Lipivan, Përmet | Melani was killed by a group of Greek nationalists for insisting on the use of the Albanian language in the local Orthodox liturgy. |
| 10 | Prenk Bib Doda | Deputy Prime Minister | 22 March 1919 | Prenk Gjeto Çoku | Zejmen, Lezhë | Bib Doda was killed in an ambush, while traveling from Durrës to Shëngjin in the company of British diplomat Eden, who was wounded. The motive was revenge for Bib Doda's ordering the assassination of Prenk Gjeto Çoku's father, Gjeto Çoku, the Prefect of Lezhë. |
| 11 | Xhelal Koprëncka | Signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence | 21 October 1919 | Syrja Guri | Dëllinjë, Qafa e Martës, Skrapar | Murdered for personal revenge. |
| 12 | Sali Nivica | Journalist, Director of newspaper "Populli" | 11 January 1920 | Kolë Ashiku | A street near the Post Office, Shkodër | Killed for personal reasons. |
| 13 | Abdyl Ypi | Prefect of Durrës | 15 January 1920 | Sulejman Haxhi | Durrës | Killed on the orders of Mustafa Kruja as one of the initiators of the Congress of Lushnjë. |
| 14 | Esad Toptani | Prime Minister | 13 June 1920 | Avni Rustemi | Paris, France | The murder was likely ordered by political rivals even though the widely accepted theory was treason. |
| 15 | Meleq Frashëri | General Commander of the Gendarmerie | 8 March 1922 | Unknown | Kodër-Kamëz, Tirana | Killed during clashes with the rebels against the government. |
| 16 | Enrico Tellini | Head of the International Commission to survey the disputed border between Greece and Albania | 27 August 1923 | Organized Greek band | Delvinaq, Zhepë, Greece | To prevent the defining of the new boundary in favor of Albania. |
| 17 | George B. De Long Robert L. Coleman | Real estate businessman Financier | 6 April 1924 | Local bandits | Ura e Përroit, Mamurras | The only conclusive motive for the murders was random burglary. |
| 18 | Avni Rustemi | Member of the Parliament | 20 April 1924 | Jusuf Reçi | Hoxha Tahsin St., Tirana | The motive of the assassination remains a mystery. |
| 19 | Azem Galica | Commander of a military band | 25 July 1924 | Yugoslavian forces | Galicë, Kosovo | Galica was killed by Yugoslav forces to suppress the movement against incorporating Kosovo into the newly formed state of Yugoslavia. |
| 20 | Elez Isufi | Commander of the Dibër Band | 30 December 1924 | Unknown assailants | Kazermat, Peshkopi | The murder of Isufi was widely seen as a treasonous act. |
| 21 | Luigj Gurakuqi | Served as Minister of Education two months prior. | 2 March 1925 | Balto Stamolla | Bari, Italy | Stamolla was a close relative of the Albanian Counsel in Bari, Çatin Saraçi. |
| 22 | Zija Dibra | Served as Minister of Public Works in the Evangjeli I Cabinet | 6 January 1925 | Unknown | Harizaj, Kavajë | Dibra was a fierce political opponent of prime minister Ahmet Zogu who came to power just two days after the assassination took place. |
| 23 | Bajram Curri | Served as Minister of War in 1921 | 29 March 1925 | Unidentified | By a cave in Dragobi, Tropojë | Killed by assailants who were sent on the orders of Hysen Kryeziu, at the time serving as the Prefect of Kosovo. |
| 24 | Osman Bali | Commander of the Presidential Guard | 5 September 1926 | Myslim Peza, Islam Leka | Near Ura e Tabakëve, Tirana | The killing was due to political revenge. |
| 25 | Isuf Dibra | Served as Minister of War in the Toptani Cabinet | 19 March 1927 | Unknown | Tirana | Murdered by his assistant under unknown circumstances. |
| 26 | Ceno Kryeziu | Minister of Albania in Prague | 14 October 1927 | Alqiviadh Bebi | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Killed for having collaborated with the Yugoslavs. The assassin was a close relative to Andon Beça, an ally of Shefqet Vërlaci. |
| 27 | Llesh Topallaj | Officer of the Republican Guard | 21 February 1931 | Ndok Gjeloshi, Azis Çami | Operngasse St., Vienna, Austria | The official motive that circulated in the media at the time was that the assailants were trying to assassinate Ahmet Zogu. |
| 28 | Mark Kapidani | Member of the Parliament | 19 December 1932 | Geg Marka Gega | Inside the Officers' Hall, near the Royal Palace, Tirana | The assassin was a former officer in the Army Reserve, once sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for his attempts to overthrow the government. |
| 29 | Bajazid Doda | Photographer, Personal Secretary of Baron Nopcsa | 25 April 1933 | Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás | Singerstrasse St., Vienna, Austria | Killed for personal reasons. |
| 30 | Hasan Prishtina | Former Prime Minister | 13 August 1933 | Ibrahim Çelo | Thessaloniki, Greece | The assassin was apparently a former acquaintance but motives of the assassination remain unclear. |
| 31 | Leon De Ghilardi | Officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army | 16 August 1933 | Xhevahir Arapi | Mulliri i Kashtës, Fier | Killed during the anti-government revolt. |
| 32 | Qazim Bodinaku | Served as Prefect of Vlorë and later Berat | 6 April 1939 | Unknown | Unknown | A Zog loyalist, he was murdered as he was trying to leave the country by 2 persons whom he had had a previous dispute with. |
| 33 | Daut Hoxha [sq] | Commander of the Chameria Band | 14 June 1940 | Sotir Demiri, Vangjel Pando, Dhimo Koçi, Kolo Sulioti, Sotir Vangjeli | Sheshi i Rrahut, Konispol | The victim had been sentenced to death by the Greek State because of his anti-Greek resurgence in the region. |
| 34 | Xhafer Ypi | Former Prime Minister | 17 December 1940 | Unknown | Unknown | Killed during aerial bombardments. |
| 35 | Sali Nijazi Dede | Dedebaba, Founder of the Bektashi Order | 28 November 1941 | Italian agents | Bektashi Headquarters, Tirana | Did not accept to sign the act of invasion by Fascist Italy. |
| 36 | Musa Puka | Prefect of Elbasan | 2 October 1942 | Unknown | Elbasan | Killed on a roadside by communist rebels. |
| 37 | Skënder Çami [sq] | Police Superintendent for Korçë | 4 March 1942 | Unknown | Unknown | The motives of the killing remain unknown. |
| 38 | Qemal Stafa | Leader of the Communist Youth | 5 May 1942 | A local policeman | Tirana | Stafa was killed in a house on the outskirts of Tirana by a local Carabinieri. Rumors say that he may have been betrayed by one or more of his comrades, possibly Enver Hoxha (the first secretary of the Albanian communist party & leader of Albania), because he gained much from his death. |
| 39 | Saverino Ricottini | Member of the Fascist Upper Council | 25 March 1943 | Unknown | Peja, Kosovo | The motives of the murder are unknown. |
| 40 | Qazim Koculi | Served as Acting Prime Minister | 2 January 1943 | Halil Alia | Vlorë | Murdered by the fascist mercenary battalion of Halil Alia for personal reasons. |
| 41 | Iljas Agushi [sq] | Deputy Prime Minister in the Merlika Cabinet | 27 October 1943 | Bujar Hoxha, Shahin Gjashta | Tirana | The motives of the assassination were due to Agushi's collaboration with the invading Nazi forces. |
| 42 | Hysen Myshketa [sq] | Member of the National Council | 8 October 1943 | Unknown | Durrës | Myshketa and his brother were murdered by three assassins as they were walking along the "Mussolini Boardwalk". |
| 43 | Idhomen Kosturi | Chairman of the National Council | 5 November 1943 | Kolë Laku | Tirana | Murdered under the orders of the Communist Guerrilla unit. |
| 44 | Aziz Çami | Military commander in the Vlora War | 15 December 1943 | Communist forces | Tirana | Murdered for being a member of the Balli Kombëtar. |
| 45 | Veli Vasjari | Chief of State Police | 12 May 1944 | Unknown | Korçë | Killed by communist partisans near the region of Gabravicë. |
| 46 | Mustafa Gjinishi | Board member of the National Liberation Council | 26 August 1944 | Unknown | Sllatinë, Dibër | His death occurred during mysterious circumstances as he traveled to northern Albania. |
| 47 | Lefter Kosova [sq] | Minister of Public Works under the Biçakçiu Cabinet | 6 September 1944 | Xhelal Staravecka | Tirana | Murdered because of a previous political dispute. |
| 48 | Mark Kodheli [sq] | Consul of Albania in Bari, Italy | 1944 | Unknown | | |
| 49 | Shaban Polluzha | Member of the Yugoslavian Parliament | 21 February 1945 | Yugoslavian soldiers | Tërstenik, Drenicë, Kosovo | He was killed for being an irredentist. |
| 50 | Miladin Popović | Head of the Communist Yugoslav Mission in Albania | 13 March 1945 | Haki Taha | Pristina, Kosovo | Popović mediated plans of keeping the territory of Kosovo under Serbian supervision. |
| 51 | Ndrecë Ndue Gjoka | Deputy chairman of the executive committee of Mirditë | 17 February 1946 | Members of the Mountains Committee | Qafë-Vorrëz, Kaçinar, Mirditë | Killed for spreading educational leaflets. |
| 52 | Mark Gjon Marku [sq] | Minister of Interior in the Bushati Cabinet | 14 June 1946 | Members of Armed Forces | Perlat Forest, Prosek, Mirditë | Killed for personal reasons. |
| 53 | Baba Faja Martaneshi | Deputy Leader of the National Liberation Front | 18 March 1947 | Dede Baba Abazi | Bektashi Headquarters, Tirana | Murdered due to political and religious differences. |
| 54 | Kostaq Kotta | Prime Minister | 1 September 1947 | Two prison guards | Burrel Prison | Murdered because he was considered a political enemy. |
| 55 | Nako Spiru | High ranking communist official in charge of the State Planning Commission | 20 November 1947 | Unknown | Tirana | The murder was officially ruled a suicide but he was most likely killed under the orders of Koçi Xoxe. |
| 56 | Josif Papamihali | Mission head of the Unity Church of Albania | 26 October 1948 | Labor camp guards | Maliq | He was considered an enemy of the state along with thirty-seven other priests. |
| 57 | Bardhok Biba | Member of the People's Assembly | 9 August 1949 | Unknown | Kaçinar, Lezhë | Killed by the anti-communist resistance guerrilla unit "Komiteti i Maleve". |
| 58 | Pal Mëlyshi [sq] | Agent of the Sigurimi | 12 April 1950 | Unknown | Ujë-Lurth, Mirditë | His suspicious death was considered accidental. |
| 59 | Alush Lleshanaku [pl] | Legislative Member of the Corporative Fascist Upper Council | 24 December 1950 | Ilo Stojko | Elbasan | A staunch anti-communist resistance leader, Lleshanaku was assassinated by an agent of the Sigurimi. |
| 60 | Sali Ormeni | Director of the Albanian State Police | 2 March 1951 | Unknown | Rrogozhinë | Killed mysteriously a week after the bombing of the Soviet Embassy. |
| 61 | Omer Nishani | Former Head of State | 26 May 1954 | Unknown | Tirana | His murder was officially ruled a suicide. |
| 62 | Teme Sejko | Commander of the Naval Fleet | 31 May 1961 | Qemal Birçe, Islam Gjondede | Maminas, Durrës | The perpetrators tied a rope around his neck and killed him for personal reasons. |
| 63 | Haxhi Hajdari [sq] | Member of the People's Assembly | 8 April 1963 | Unknown | Unknown | Denounced as the "People's Enemy" by the regime, he was killed by artillery gunfire. |
| 64 | Myslym Keta [sq] | Commander of the Tanks Regiment | 26 February 1966 | Unknown | Fushë-Arrëz | Keta was suspected to be an opponent of dictator Enver Hoxha. |
| 65 | Mehmet Shehu | Prime Minister | 17 December 1981 | Unknown | Tirana | The official death was ruled a suicide but Shehu was more than likely killed by the Sigurimi under Hoxha's orders. |
| 66 | Jusuf Gërvalla | Member of the Movement for Liberation of Kosovo | 17 January 1982 | Agents of the UDB | Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany | To suppress the Albanian nationalist movement in Kosovo. |
| 67 | Mustafa Band | Exiles | 27 September 1982 | Security Forces | Zhamë, Rrogozhinë | Prevented plot to assassinate dictator Enver Hoxha. |
| 68 | Jean Marie Massellin | French Employee Club Med Corfu | 18 Jun 1984 | Albanian Border Guards | Vrine, Butrinti | Killed by Albanian border guards for accidentally straying in Albanian territorial waters. |
| 69 | Aleksandër Kondo [sq] | National Weightlifting Champion | 1 May 1987 | Unknown | Gas station, New York | Likely assassination by Sigurimi agents to make it appear as an accident. |
| 70 | Josif Budo | Local worker | 10 July 1990 | Luan Allajbeu | Main street, Kavajë | Killed for being an opponent of the regime. |
| 71 | Artan Lenja | Wrestler | 24 February 1991 | Military patrol | Rruga "Ndre Mjeda", Tirana | Killed by a military patrol unit in charge of enforcing public order. |
| 72 | Arben Broci | Engineer at a cigarette factory | 2 April 1991 | Unknown | Shkodër | Killed by a sniper to suppress public disorder. |
| 73 | Gazmend Muça | Criminal | 7 April 1992 | Naim Zyberi, Franc Konomi | Xhamlliku, Tirana | Killed for personal reasons. |
| 74 | Remzi Hoxha | Businessman | 21 October 1995 | Responsible: Arben Sefgjini, Ilir Kumbaro, Avni Koldashi, Budion Meçe | Kunë-Vain, Lezhë | The speculative rumor was that Hoxha was a UDB agent. He died from the injuries sustained during his torture inside the SHIK facility. |
| 75 | Bujar Kaloshi | General Director of Prisons | 26 July 1996 | Unknown | Former aviation field, Tirana | Kaloshi's murder was likely influenced by his position as head of the prison system. |
| 76 | Ahmet Krasniqi [sq] | Kosovo's Minister of Defence | 21 September 1998 | Unknown | "Haxhi Dalliu" street, Tirana | The motives for his killing are not yet known. |
| 77 | Azem Hajdari | Member of the Assembly | 22 September 1998 | Fatmir Haklaj, Jaho Mulosmani, Naim Cangu | Tirana | The suspected motive for Hajdari's assassination was political revenge. |
| 78 | Kleanthi Koçi | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | 21 February 1999 | Unknown | Near Tirana International Hotel | Motives for his killing have yet to be uncovered. |
| 79 | Arben Zylyftari [sq] | Police chief in Shkodër | 2 August 2000 | Bahri Tafili | Lagja "Udhakryq", Shkodër | Killed due to his position as chief of police. |
| 80 | Salih Tivari | General Secretary of the Muslim Community of Albania | 13 January 2002 | Unknown | Headquarters of the Muslim Community of Albania | Tivari had raised doubts about financial contributions coming from anonymous Muslim organizations. |
| 81 | Gani Malushi [sq] | Chief of Police in Fushë-Krujë | 6 August 2003 | Agim Pepa | Durrës | The actual target in the killing was Malushi's personal chauffeur. |
| 82 | Gramoz Palushi | Football fan | 4 September 2004 | Panajotis Kladhis | Island of Zakinthos, Greece | Killed because he celebrated the football victory of Albania over Greece. |
| 83 | Vajdin Lame | Businessman | 28 February 2005 | Unknown | Tirana | Lame was part owner of national television station Top Channel. He was killed from a bomb planted inside an elevator alongside his friend Artan Arsi. |
| 84 | Edmond Malollari | President of Tomori Berat football club | 14 December 2005 | Unknown | Tirana | The motive for the killing in broad daylight was likely because of unpaid debt. |
| 85 | Fatmir Xhindi [sq] | Member of the Assembly | 2 May 2009 | Unknown | Roskovec, Fier | Motives of his murder remain a mystery. |
| 86 | Fatos Xhani, Altin Dizdari, Sajmir Duçkallari, Kastriot Feskaj | State Police officers | 7 August 2009 | Dritan Dajti | Iliria beach, Durrës | The officers on duty were killed as Dajti was resisting arrest. |
| 87 | Remzi Veseli [sq] | Mayor of Tërthore Commune | 25 October 2010 | Unknown | Kukës | Motives for the killing remain unsolved. |
| 88 | Hekuran Deda, Faik Myrtaj, Ziver Veizi, Aleks Nika | Participants in an anti-government protest | 21 January 2011 | Ndrea Prendi, Agim Llupo | "Dëshmorët e Kombit" Boulevard, Tirana | Randomly killed to warn protesters from entering the Prime Minister's Office building. |
| 89 | Skerdilajd Konomi | Judge of the 1st Circuit Court in Vlorë | 9 September 2011 | Unknown | "Vlorë-Skelë" street, Vlorë | Motives for the killing have yet to be uncovered. |
| 90 | Arjan Selimi | Drug trafficker | 26 September 2011 | Unknown | Tirana | Selimi was the fiancé of television personality Inis Gjoni. His killing was a result of his past as a convicted drug trafficker. |
| 91 | Adem Tahiraj [sq] | Chief of Police in Shijak | 12 September 2012 | Ilir Xhakja | Katund-Sukth, Durrës | Shot and killed during an operation for the arrest of the suspect. |
| 92 | Dritan Lamaj | Chief of Commissariat No. 6 in Tirana | 25 February 2013 | Arben Frroku | Tirana | Frroku, a local businessman, had been physically assaulted by Lamaj a few months prior. |
| 93 | Artan Santo [sq] | Founder of Credins Bank | 26 June 2014 | Unknown | "Ibrahim Rugova" street, Tirana | Motives for his murder remain a mystery. |
| 94 | Ibrahim Basha | Officer of RENEA | 24 June 2015 | Unknown | Lazarat, Gjirokastër | Killed by sniper fire during a drug sting operation. |
| 95 | Artan Cuku | Police chief of Vlorë | 8 April 2017 | Mikel Shallari | Rruga e Kosovarëve, Tirana | Killed for work related revenge. |

## Austria

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 11 February 1913 | Franz Schuhmeier, socialist member of the Reichsrat | Paul Kunschak | |
| 21 October 1916 | Count Karl von Stürgkh, Minister-President of Austria | Friedrich Adler | Assassinated by Social Democratic politician in protest of World War I |
| 10 March 1925 | Hugo Bettauer, journalist and writer, critic of antisemitism | Otto Rothstock, Austrian Nazi Party member | |
| 25 July 1934 | Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria | Paul Hudl, Otto Planetta and other Austrian Nazis | Part of a failed coup d'état, the July Putsch. |
| 22 June 1936 | Moritz Schlick, German philosopher | Johann Nelböck, student | Shot at the University of Vienna |
| 22 October 1975 | Daniş Tunalıgil, Turkish ambassador | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
| 1 May 1981 | Heinz Nittel, Austrian politician and president of the Austrian-Israel Society | Abu Nidal Organization | |
| 19 May 1987 | Hamid Reza Chitgar, exiled Iranian politician | Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran | |
| 13 July 1989 | Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader | Intelligence operatives of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence led by Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi | Killed in Vienna during negotiations |
| 13 January 2009 | Umar Israilov, Former bodyguard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov | Chechen criminal group, ordered by Ramzan Kadyrov | |

## Belarus

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 22 September 1943 | Wilhelm Kube, German Nazi Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (Belarus) | Yelena Mazanik, a Soviet partisan | Killed in Minsk during the Second World War |
| 13 January 1948 | Solomon Mikhoels, Chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee | Police officers, led by Sergei Ogoltsov | Ordered by Joseph Stalin |

## Belgium

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 2 March 1127 | Charles I, Count of Flanders | | Hacked to death by knights with broadswoards in St. Donatian's Cathedral |
| 18 August 1950 | Julien Lahaut, chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium | Belgian royalists | Shot in his home town of Seraing. |
| 23 May 1971 | Maximiliano Gómez, Dominican communist leader | | Poisoned by his lover in Brussels. |
| 22 March 1990 | Gerald Bull, Canadian developer of the Martlet cannon | | Shot outside his apartment in Brussels. Believed to have been assassinated by the Mossad for his work on the Project Babylon "supergun" in Ba'athist Iraq |
| 18 July 1991 | André Cools, former President of the Walloon Council, former Chairman of the Socialist Party and Minister of State | | Killed in Liège. |

## Bosnia and Herzegovina

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 24 August 1415 | Pavle Radinović, nobleman | Sandalj Hranić, Vukmir Zlatonosović and his men | |
| 28 June 1914 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie | Gavrilo Princip | Assassinated by the Serbian nationalist organization the Black Hand in Sarajevo. This assassination played a role in starting World War I |
| 8 January 1993 | Hakija Turajlić, deputy prime minister | Army of Republika Srpska | Killed at a roadblock while under UNPROFOR escort during the Bosnian War |

## Bulgaria

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 1196 | Ivan Asen I, Tsar of Bulgaria | Ivanko | |
| 15 July 1895 | Stefan Stambolov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Died in Sofia after being stabbed. |
| 11 March 1907 | Dimitar Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Killed in Sofia by an anarchist. |
| 14 June 1923 | Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Killed in his home town of Slavovitsa during the 9 June coup d'état |
| 16 April 1925 | Stefan Nerezov, former Chief of the General Staff | | Was among 150 killed in the Saint Nedelya Church bombing |
| 13 February 1943 | Hristo Lukov, military officer, former Minister of War and leader of the far-right Union of Bulgarian National Legions | Violeta Yakova | Killed by the Bulgarian Resistance in Sofia. |
| 25 April 1995 | Vasil Iliev, insurance boss and owner of "VIS-2", former wrestler | | Shot while being driven in Sofia. |
| 2 October 1996 | Andrey Lukanov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria | | Shot outside his apartment in Sofia. |
| 7 March 2003 | Iliya Pavlov, president of Multigroup corporation and the wealthiest man in Bulgaria, former wrestler | | Shot outside his office in Sofia. |
| 25 August 2005 | Georgi Iliev, football club owner, brother of the assassinated Vasil Iliev | | Shot in a restaurant in Sunny Beach. |
| 26 October 2005 | Emil Kyulev, banker, ex-professional swimmer, voted Mr. Economics in Bulgaria for 2002 | | Shot while driving along Bulgaria Boulevard, Sofia. |
| 6 April 2008 | Borislav Georgiev, CEO of "Atomenergoremont" nuclear plant repair company | | |
| 7 April 2008 | Georgi Stoev, writer and former Bulgarian mafia mobster | | Assassinated in what is believed to be a mafia hit in the street in Sofia. |

## Croatia

| Date | Victim(s) | Notes |
| 9 May 480 | Julius Nepos, Roman emperor | Assassinated near Salona (modern Solin). |
| 19 February 1931 | Milan Šufflay, nationalist writer | |
| 14 July 1933 | Josip Predavec, politician and vice-president of the Croatian Peasant Party | |
| 21 September 1991 | Ante Paradžik, politician and founder of the Croatian Party of Rights | |
| 23 October 2008 | Ivo Pukanić, journalist | See Assassination of Ivo Pukanić |

## Cyprus

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 15 March 1970 | Polykarpos Giorkatzis, government minister | | Shot in Mia Milia |
| 19 August 1974 | Rodger Paul Davies, United States Ambassador to Cyprus | | Killed by EOKA B sniper fire during an anti-American demonstration in Nicosia denouncing the Turkish invasion of Cyprus |

## Czech Republic

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 15 September 921 | Saint Ludmila, wife of Duke Bořivoj, grandmother of Duke Václav I | Tunna and Gomon | Strangled by Viking warriors hired by Ludmila's daughter-in-law Drahomíra I. |
| 28 September 935 | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (Saint Wenceslaus) | | Stabbed to death in Stará Boleslav by noblemen affiliated with Boleslaus I |
| 4 August 1306 | Wenceslaus III, King of Bohemia | | Killed in Olomouc. |
| 25 February 1634 | Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian Generalissimo during the Thirty Years' War | Walter Devereux | Stabbed to death in Cheb. |
| 5 January 1923 | Alois Rašín, Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia | Josef Šoupal | Shot in Prague. |
| 26 August 1923 | Rayko Daskalov, Bulgarian politician and former cabinet minister | Yordan Tsitsonkov | Shot by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Prague |
| 14 October 1927 | Ceno Kryeziu, Albanian ambassador to Czechoslovakia | Alqiviadh Bebi | Shot in Prague. |
| 27 May 1942 | Reinhard Heydrich, General in the Nazi German Schutzstaffel, major organizer of the Holocaust and governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík | Died after being wounded by a bomb thrown at him as he was being driven through Libeň near Prague, as part of Operation Anthropoid organized by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile and the British Special Operations Executive. The Lidice Massacre followed as retribution by the Nazis. A legend has it that he deliberately put the Crown of Bohemia on his head beforehand, meaning an untimely death. |
| 25 January 2006 | František Mrázek, controversial entrepreneur | | Shot in the heart by a sniper |

## Denmark

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 10 July 1086 | Canute IV, King of Denmark | | Killed in a peasant revolt |
| 22 November 1286 | Erik V Klipping, King of Denmark | | Killed in a conspiracy by members of the nobility |

## Estonia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 16 August 1924 | Jaak Nanilson, member of the Riigikogu | Unknown (suspects were acquitted due to lack of evidence) | The assassination was endorsed by local pro-communist MPs and in the Soviet media |
| 1 December 1924 | Karl Kark, Minister of Transportation | | Shot by communist insurgents during the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt. |
| 4 April 1930 | Johan Unt, military major-general | Unknown | |

## Finland

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 16 June 1904 | Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland | Eugen Schauman | Killed by a Finnish nationalist for implementing Russification in Finland. Happens on day described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, is briefly mentioned in the book. |
| 6 February 1905 | Eliel Soisalon-Soininen, Chancellor of Justice | Lennart Hohenthal | Shot in his apartment in Helsinki. |
| 2 October 1911 | Valde Hirvikanta, President of the Turku Court of Appeal | Bruno Forsström | |
| 14 February 1922 | Heikki Ritavuori, Minister of the Interior | Ernst Tandefelt | Shot at his home in Helsinki. |

## France

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 8 January 1354 | Charles d'Espagne, constable of France | Jean de Soult | |
| 31 July 1358 | Étienne Marcel, Parisian merchant | | |
| 23 November 1407 | Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans | | |
| 10 September 1419 | John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy | Tanneguy du Chastel and Jean Louvet | Killed during a parley with the Dauphin (the future Charles VII of France) |
| 24 August 1572 | Gaspard de Coligny | Besme | Killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre |
| 1 August 1589 | Henri III, King of France | Jacques Clément | Killed due to religious-political antagonism. |
| 14 May 1610 | Henri IV, King of France | François Ravaillac | Killed due to religious-political antagonism. |
| 24 April 1617 | Concino Concini, chief minister to King Louis XIII | | shot outside the Paris City Hall after being surrounded by an armed mob. |
| 14 July 1789 | Jacques de Flesselles, Provost of Paris | | |
| 13 July 1793 | Jean-Paul Marat, revolutionary | Charlotte Corday | Stabbed in his bathtub. |
| 13 February 1820 | Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of the future King Charles X | Louis Pierre Louvel | |
| 24 June 1894 | Sadi Carnot, President of France | Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist | Stabbed to death after a speech in Lyon during the Era of Attacks. |
| 29 September 1902 | Emile Zola, novelist and journalist | | Possibly killed in relation to the Dreyfus Affair and his publishing of his letter J'Accuse…! |
| 16 March 1914 | Gaston Calmette, journalist and editor of Le Figaro | Henriette Caillaux | Killed in the offices of Le Figaro by the wife of former prime minister Joseph Caillaux due to the papers negative coverage of her husband |
| 31 July 1914 | Jean Jaurès, Socialist politician and pacifist | Raoul Villain | Killed in Paris. The assassin was tried and acquitted in 1919. |
| 13 June 1920 | Essad Toptani, former Prime Minister of Albania | Avni Rustemi | |
| 25 May 1926 | Symon Petlyura, exiled President of Ukraine | Sholom Schwartzbard | Killed in Paris. The jury acquitted the murderer. |
| 7 December 1930 | Noe Ramishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia | Cheka agents | Killed in Paris |
| 6 May 1932 | Paul Doumer, President of France | Paul Gorguloff | Shot by a Russian emigre at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris. |
| 9 October 1934 | Alexander I of Yugoslavia, king of Yugoslavia; Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France | Vlado Chernozemski, member of the IMRO | Killed in Marseille during a state visit. |
| 7 November 1938 | Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat | Herschel Grynszpan | Killed in Paris. His murder was used as an excuse by the Nazis to commit the Kristallnacht in Germany |
| 26 July 1941 | Marx Dormoy, socialist and former Interior Minister of France | | Killed by a bomb believed to have been placed by the far-right organization La Cagoule |
| 23 March 1944 | Constant Chevillon, head of FUDOFSI | | Killed by the Gestapo in Lyon |
| 17 January 1944 | Eugène Deloncle, milicien and former leader of clandestine far-right organisation La Cagoule | | Killed by the Gestapo |
| 28 June 1944 | Philippe Henriot, State secretary for Information and Propaganda of Vichy France | | Killed by French resistants in Paris |
| 7 July 1944 | Georges Mandel, former radical-socialist Interior Minister and French resistant | | Killed by miliciens in the forest of Fontainebleau |
| 31 March 1961 | Camille Blanc, Mayor of Évian-les-Bains | Organisation armée secrète | Killed for hosting negotiations between the French government and the FLN |
| 29 October 1965 | Mehdi Ben Barka, Moroccan socialist leader and Third-World Tricontinental leader | | Disappeared in Paris |
| 8 December 1972 | Mahmoud Hamshari, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Paris | Mossad, Israeli Secret Service | Killed in his apartment by a bomb planted in his telephone as he answered a call in retribution for Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the second of a number of attacks pursuant to Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. |
| 26 August 1973 | Outel Bono, Chadian medical doctor and critic of Chadian President François Tombalbaye | | Shot while climbing into his car in Paris. |
| 6 April 1973 | Basil al-Kubaissi, professor and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Mossad | Shot dead |
| 28 June 1973 | Mohammad Boudia, Algerian-born director of operations for Black September in France | Mossad | Killed in Paris by a pressure-activated bomb packed with heavy nuts and bolts placed under his car seat as part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. |
| 24 October 1975 | İsmail Erez, Turkish ambassador to France | Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia | |
| 14 July 1976 | Joachim Peiper, SS officer and war criminal | | Killed in an arson attack on his home by a communist group dubbing themselves "The Avengers" in Traves, Haute-Saône after he had been discovered living under a false identity. |
| 24 December 1976 | Jean de Broglie, former minister and one of the French negotiators of the Évian Accords | | |
| 18 March 1978 | François Duprat, neofascist writer | Jewish Remembrance commando | |
| 4 May 1978 | Henri Curiel, Egyptian-born anticolonialist activist | | Shot in Paris |
| 3 August 1978 | Ezzedin Kalak, chief of the PLO's Paris bureau | | Killed in his Paris office alongside his deputy Hamad Adnan in the Arab League building |
| 16 October 1978 | Bruno Bušić, dissident Croatian/Yugoslav writer | Yugoslav secret police | |
| 21 December 1978 | José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana "Argala", Basque leader | | Killed by a bomb in Anglet, allegedly planted by the Batallón Vasco Español. |
| 20 September 1979 | Pierre Goldman, left-wing activist | | Shot in Paris |
| 25 July 1979 | Zuhair Muhsin, leader of the As-Sa'iqa faction within the PLO | | |
| 30 October 1979 | Robert Boulin, Minister of Labor | | Officially suicide, but a lot of anomalies revealed since. |
| 7 December 1979 | Shahriar Shafiq, Imperial Iranian Navy Captain | | Shot on the Rue Pergolese in Paris |
| 1 February 1980 | Joseph Fontanet, former Education Minister | | Killed in Paris. |
| 14 June 1980 | Yehia El-Mashad, Egyptian atomic scientist | | Shot at the Le Méridien hotel in Paris. |
| 21 July 1980 | Salah al-Din Bitar, exiled former Prime Minister of Syria | | Killed in Paris. |
| 13 June 1982 | Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude, right-wing activist and criminal | | Shot at Argent-sur-Sauldre soon after being released from prison. |
| 31 March 1982 | Yacov Barsimantov, Israeli diplomat, Mossad agent | Jacqueline Esber a.k.a. Rima, member of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions | Shot in the lobby of his home |
| 23 July 1982 | Fadl Dani, deputy director of the PLO office in Paris | Mossad | Killed in Paris by a car bomb as part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. |
| 25 January 1985 | René Audran, senior official of the Ministry of Defence | Action directe | Shot in Paris |
| 17 November 1986 | Georges Besse, Renault executive | Action Directe | Shot while emerging from his car in Paris by far-left activists of Action directe |
| 29 March 1988 | Dulcie September, African National Congress representative | | Killed in Paris |
| 19 July 1990 | Joseph Doucé, activist for sexual minorities | | Corpse found in Rambouillet forest; murder remains unsolved |
| 6 August 1991 | Shapour Bakhtiar, exiled former Prime Minister of Iran | | Stabbed to death at his residence in Suresnes along with his secretary. |
| 8 June 1992 | Atef Bseiso, Palestine Liberation Organization head of intelligence | Mossad | Killed in Paris |
| 11 July 1995 | Abdelbaki Sahraoui, co-founder of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front | | Killed in Paris. |
| 6 February 1998 | Claude Érignac, prefect of Corsica | Yvan Colonna | Shot in Ajaccio by a Corsican nationalist. |
| 9 January 2013 | Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez, Kurdish nationalists | | Shot at Rue La Fayette in Paris. |
| 7 January 2015 | Cabu, Elsa Cayat, Charb, Philippe Honoré, Bernard Maris, Mustapha Ourrad, Tignous and Georges Wolinski, cartoonists working for Charlie Hebdo | Chérif and Saïd Kouachi | See Charlie Hebdo shooting |
| 26 July 2016 | Jacques Hamel, Roman Catholic priest of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray | Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean | Stabbed to death during mass. See 2016 Normandy church attack. |
| 16 October 2020 | Samuel Paty, Secondary school teacher | Abdoullakh Anzorov | Killed and beheaded with a cleaver for having shown his students Charlie Hebdo's 2012 cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. |

## Georgia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 555 | Gubazes II of Lazica, King of Lazica | | Stabbed by two Byzantine generals |
| 19 June 1920 | Fatali Khan Khoyski, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan | Aram Yerganian | Killed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation as part of Operation Nemesis due to his role in the Armenian genocide |
| 21 July 1922 | Djemal Pasha, former Ottoman Navy Minister | | Killed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation as part of Operation Nemesis |
| 3 December 1994 | Giorgi Chanturia, opposition politician | | Shot along with his wife by four gunmen in their car |
| 20 May 2007 | Guram Sharadze, historian and nationalist politician | | Assassinated in Tbilisi |

## Germany

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| March 235 | Alexander Severus, Roman emperor | | Killed near Moguntiacum (present-day Mainz) by his troops. |
| 268 | Postumus, Gallic emperor | | Killed in Mainz |
| 268 | Laelianus, Gallic emperor | | Killed in Mainz |
| 23 April 997 | Adalbert of Prague, Czech Bishop | Prussian heathen | Tortured to death near the Baltic Sea near present-day Elbląg, Poland |
| 21 June 1208 | Philipp von Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor | Count Otto VIII of Wittelsbach | Killed in Bamberg |
| 7 November 1225 | Engelbert I. von Köln, Archbishop of Cologne | Count Frederick of Isenberg | |
| 30 July 1233 | Konrad von Marburg, inquisitor | | |
| 23 March 1819 | August von Kotzebue, dramatist | Karl Ludwig Sand | |
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| 15 January 1919 | Rosa Luxemburg, socialist writer | Hermann Souchon (ordered by Waldemar Pabst) | Shot in Berlin in the wake of the Spartacist uprising |
| 15 January 1919 | Karl Liebknecht, socialist lawyer and politician | Horst von Pflugk-Harttung, Heinrich Stiege, Ulrich von Ritgen and Rudolf Liepmann (ordered by Waldemar Pabst) | Shot in Berlin in the wake of the Spartacist uprising |
| 21 February 1919 | Kurt Eisner, socialist Minister-President of Bavaria | Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley | Killed in Munich. |
| 10 March 1919 | Leo Jogiches, Marxist revolutionary | Ernst Tamschick, Detective Sergeant of the Prison Moabit | Shot in Berlin Prison Moabit |
| 8 October 1919 | Hugo Haase, socialist politician and leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany | Johann Voß | Died of sepsis from gunshot wounds |
| 15 March 1921 | Talaat Pasha, former Ottoman Minister of Interior Affairs | Soghomon Tehlirian | Killed in Berlin in retaliation for his role in the Armenian Genocide |
| 26 August 1921 | Matthias Erzberger, former Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Minister of Finance | Heinrich Tillessen and Heinrich Schulz (Members of Organisation Consul) | Shot at Bad Griesbach. |
| 17 April 1922 | Cemal Azmi, Ottoman politician, governor of Trebizond vilayet and perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide | Aram Yerganian and Arshavir Shirakian( Members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation) | Killed as part of Operation Nemesis |
| 17 April 1922 | Bahattin Şakir, Ottoman politician and architect of the Armenian Genocide | Aram Yerganian and Arshavir Shirakian( Members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation) | Killed as part of Operation Nemesis |
| 24 June 1922 | Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister of Germany | Ernst Werner Techow, Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer (Members of Organisation Consul) | Shot as he was being driven through Berlin by assassins in another car. |
| 14 January 1930 | Horst Wessel, Sturmführer of the SS in Berlin | Albrecht Höhler | Shot at point blank range in Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin. |
| 30 June 1934 | Kurt von Schleicher, former Chancellor of Germany | SS officers (ordered by Adolf Hitler) | Murdered at Babelsberg by the SS during the Night of the Long Knives along with his wife, Elisabeth |
| 30 June 1934 | Gregor Strasser, politician and former Nazi Party member | SS officers | Killed in a prison cell in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives |
| 30 June 1934 | Erich Klausener, Catholic politician | Kurt Gildisch, SS officer | Shot at his office in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives |
| 1 July 1934 | Ernst Röhm, leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) | Michael Lippert, SS officer | Shot in Stadelheim Prison by SS officers during the Night of the Long Knives. |
| 27 May 1942 | Reinhard Heydrich, SS officer, architect of the Holocaust, Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. | Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš | Killed on orders of the Czechoslovak government in exile. Assassination known as Operation Anthropoid. |
| 14 October 1944 | Erwin Rommel, German field marshal | | Forced to commit suicide after he was implicated in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. |
| 25 March 1945 | Franz Oppenhoff, lawyer and appointed pro-Allied mayor of Aachen | SS officers (ordered by Heinrich Himmler) | Killed by an assassination unit composed of four SS men and two members of the Hitler Youth. |
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| 22 November 1954 | Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli, Soviet Army defector and chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty | | |
| 12 October 1957 | Lev Rebet, exiled Ukrainian nationalist leader | Bohdan Stashynsky, a KGB agent | Poisoned by cyanide gas in Munich. |
| 15 October 1959 | Stepan Bandera, exiled Ukrainian nationalist leader | Bohdan Stashynsky, a KGB agent | Poisoned by cyanide gas in Munich. |
| 12 August 1961 | Salah Ben Youssef, Tunisian politician | | Shot in a hotel in Frankfurt. |
| 18 October 1970 | Krim Belkacem, exiled former Vice President of Algeria | | Shot in a hotel in Frankfurt. |
| 10 November 1974 | Günter von Dreekmann, president of the Berlin District court | 2 June Movement | Killed during attempted kidnapping |
| 7 April 1977 | Siegfried Buback, Public Prosecutor General of West Germany | Red Army Faction members | Shot while driving his car near Karlsruhe. |
| 30 July 1977 | Jürgen Ponto, CEO of Dresdner Bank | Red Army Faction members | Killed in Frankfurt. |
| 18 October 1977 | Hanns-Martin Schleyer, president of the German employers' organization | Red Army Faction members | Kidnapped and later killed. |
| 9 July 1986 | Karl Heinz Beckurts, physicist and research manager. | Red Army Faction members | Killed by a bomb near Strasslach in Munich |
| 30 November 1989 | Alfred Herrhausen, Deutsche Bank CEO | Red Army Faction members | Killed by a bicycle bomb as his car passed by in Bad Homburg. |
| 1 April 1991 | Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, director of Treuhandanstalt for the former East Germany | Red Army Faction members | Killed in Düsseldorf. |
| 17 September 1992 | Sadeq Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, Nouri Dehkordi, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leaders | Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Killed in Berlin (see Mykonos restaurant assassinations). |
| 7 August 1992 | Fereydoun Farrokhzad, exiled Iranian cultural figure | Agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Believed to have been killed as part of the Chain murders of Iran |
| 2 June 2019 | Walter Lübcke, CDU politician and president of the Regierungsbezirk of Kassel | Stephan Ernst | Shot outside his home in Istha by a neo-Nazi terrorist |
| 23 August 2019 | Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, exiled Chechen military commander | Vadim Krasikov | Shot by an agent of the GRU |

## Greece

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 514 BC | Hipparchus (son of Peisistratos), Tyrant of Athens | Harmodius and Aristogeiton | |
| 461 BC | Ephialtes, leader of the radical democracy movement in Athens | | |
| 404 BC | Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician | | |
| October 336 BC | Philip II of Macedon, king of Macedon | Pausanias of Orestis | Assassinated in the theatre of ancient Aegae (present-day Vergina). |
| 314 BC | Alexander, regent of Macedonia | Alexion, a Siyconian | Killed in Sicyon. |
| September 281 BC | Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid dynasty | Ptolemy Keraunos | Killed near Lysimachia. |
| 252 BC | Abantidas, tyrant of Sicyon | | |
| 192 BC | Nabis, Tyrant of Sparta | Aetolian League | |
| 27 September 1831 | Ioannis Kapodistrias, first President of Greece | Konstantinos Mavromichalis and Georgios Mavromichalis | Killed outside Nafplio church in revenge for the imprisonment of the assassins' patriarch Petrobey Mavromichalis. Konstantinos was thrown over a cliff by the citizens of Nafplio while Georgios was executed by firing squad. |
| 13 June 1905 | Theodoros Deligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece | Antonios Gherakaris | Stabbed outside the Hellenic Parliament. |
| 8 March 1907 | Marinos Antypas, socialist politician | | Killed at Pyrgetos in Thessaly. |
| 22 March 1912 | Andreas Kopasis, governor of Samos | | |
| 18 March 1913 | George I of Greece, King of Greece | Alexandros Schinas | Shot while walking in Thessaloniki as part of a possible conspiracy. |
| May 1948 | George Polk, American journalist critical of US aid to rightist Greek government | | |
| 22 May 1963 | Grigoris Lambrakis, leader of the anti-fascist movement in Greece | Emannouel Emannouilides and Spyro Gotzamanis | Killed with a club in Thessaloniki. |
| 23 December 1975 | Richard Welch, CIA Station Chief | | Shot as he was being driven through Athens. |
| 15 November 1983 | George Tsantes; U.S. military attaché in Athens & deputy chief of the Joint United States Military Aid Group to Greece | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Killed in Athens. |
| 28 April 1988 | Hagop Hagopian, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia | | Killed in Athens. |
| 28 June 1988 | William Nordeen, U.S. military attaché in Athens | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Killed in Athens. |
| 26 September 1989 | Pavlos Bakoyannis, New Democracy parliamentarian | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Shot outside his office in Athens. |
| 8 June 2000 | Stephen Saunders, Brigadier and British military attaché in Athens | Revolutionary Organization 17 November | Killed by a motorcycle gunman as he was driving in Athens. |
| 18 September 2013 | Pavlos "Killah P" Fyssas, musician | Giorgos Roupakias | Killed by Neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn |
| 9 April 2021 | Giorgos Karaivaz, investigative journalist | | Possibly killed by an organised crime group. |

## Hungary

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 904 | Kurszán, Chieftain of Hungary | Forces of Louis the Child | |
| 1044 | Suspected conspirators against King Samuel Aba | Forces loyal to Samuel Aba | 50 suspected lords arrested and executed |
| 5 June 1044 | Samuel Aba, King of Hungary | | Fled after losing the Battle of Ménfő but was captured and assassinated |
| 1209 | Csépán Győr, Palatine of Hungary | Tiba Tomaj | |
| 28 September 1213 | Gertrude of Merania, queen consort | Group of Hungarian nobles led by Peter, son of Töre | Stabbed for her blatant favoritism towards her German kinsmen and courtiers |
| November 1272 | Béla, Duke of Macsó | Henry Kőszegi | |
| 10 July 1290 | Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary | Three Cumans – Árbóc, Törtel and Kemence | |
| 5 September 1311 | Amadeus Aba, Oligarch | Residents of Košice | |
| January 1386 | Elisabeth of Bosnia, Queen of Hungary | John Horvat | |
| 7 February 1386 | Charles III, King of Naples | Balazs Forgach, Elisabeth of Bosnia, Nador Garai | Charles (II of Hungary, III of Naples) deadly wounded and died some days later. |
| 27 February 1397 | Stephen II Lackfi, lord | Hermann I of Celje | Assassinated on the orders of the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund |
| 9 November 1456 | Ulrich II, Count of Celje | Forces of Ladislaus Hunyadi | |
| 12 August 1534 | Imre Czibak, Bishop of Varad | Lodovico Gritti | |
| 16 December 1551 | George Martinuzzi, Governor of Transylvania | Marco Aurelio Ferrari | |
| 27 October 1613 | Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania | Hajduks | Killed after he was accused of planning to hand over Várad (now Oradea) to the Ottomans |
| July 1661 | Ákos Barcsay, Prince of Transylvania | Janos Kemeny | |
| 31 October 1918 | István Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary | | Assassinated by soldiers |

## Iceland

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 22 September 1241 | Snorri Sturluson, historian and politician | Gissur Þorvaldsson | |

## Ireland

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 25 July 1186 | Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath | Gilla-Gan-Mathiar O'Maidhaigh | Durrow, County Offaly |
| 1189 | Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht | Manus mac Flann Ua Finaghty, Aodh mac Brian, Muircheartach mac Cathal mac Dermot mac Tadhg, Giolla na Naomh Ua Mulvihill | Assassination instigated by Conchobar ua nDiarmata, a rival for the title of King of Connacht. The victim's son Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair later killed Conchobar ua nDiarmata in revenge. |
| 6 May 1882 | Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland | Irish National Invincibles | Stabbed to death in what became known as the Phoenix Park Murders |
| 6 May 1882 | Thomas Henry Burke, Under-Secretary for Ireland | Irish National Invincibles | Stabbed to death in what became known as the Phoenix Park Murders |
| 20 March 1920 | Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork | Auxiliaries and RIC men | Shot in his home by a group of masked men, likely members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. |
| 21 November 1920 | Cairo Gang | Irish Republican Army | 12 British intelligence agents, assassinated on the morning of 21 November 1920 in coordinated attacks. |
| 22 August 1922 | Michael Collins, Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State | Anti-Treaty IRA | Ambushed outside Cork |
| 7 December 1922 | Seán Hales, Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin Teachta Dála | Anti-Treaty IRA | Killed as he left Dáil Éireann; fellow TD Pádraic Ó Máille was injured in the same attack, which was in reprisal against executions of anti-Treaty prisoners |
| 10 July 1927 | Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Home Affairs and Justice of the Irish Free State | Timothy Coughlin, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle | Killed while on his way to Mass by three anti-Treaty members of the IRA. |
| 14 February 1932 | Patrick Reynolds, Cumann na nGaedheal TD | Joseph Leddy | Shot dead during the 1932 election campaign by an ex-RIC policeman who had a personal grudge against him. |
| 24 March 1936 | Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy | Anti-Treaty IRA | Assassinated for providing assistance to Royal Navy recruits. |
| 21 July 1976 | Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland | IRA | Killed by a land mine |
| 27 August 1979 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet, last Viceroy of India | IRA | Killed by a bomb on board his boat along with three other people, including his grandson. |
| 25 May 1991 | Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin county councillor | Ulster Defence Association | Shot at his home in Buncrana |
| 10 February 1994 | Dominic McGlinchey, Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) leader | | Shot 14 times while making a call in a phone box. |
| 26 June 1996 | Veronica Guerin, journalist | | Shot in a contract killing for her reporting on organized crime |

## Italy

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 748 BC | Titus Tatius, Sabine King | | Killed in Rome. |
| 579 BC | Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Etruscan king of Rome | | Killed in Rome by the sons of Ancus Marcius. |
| 554 BC | Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigento | Killed in an uprising led by Telemachus (Acragas) | Killed in Sicily. Said to be burned in his own brazen bull. |
| 534 BC | Servius Tullius, Etruscan king of Rome | Tarquin II | Killed in Rome. |
| 439 BC | Spurius Maelius, wealthy Roman plebeian | Gaius Servilius Ahala | |
| 354 BC | Dion of Syracuse, tyrant of Syracuse | Calippus of Syracuse | Killed in Sicily |
| 352 BC | Calippus of Syracuse, tyrant of Syracuse | revolting mercenaries led by Leptines II and Polyperchon | reputedly was stabbed to death with the same sword he assassinated Dion less than two years earlier. |
| 133 BC | Tiberius Gracchus, Roman tribune | | Killed in Rome by Roman senators. |
| 91 BC | Marcus Livius Drusus, Roman tribune | | Resulted in the Social War. |
| 15 March 44 BC | Julius Caesar, Roman general and dictator | Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and other members of the Roman Senate | Resulted in a series of civil wars and indirectly in the end of the Roman Republic. |
| 7 December 43 BC | Cicero, Roman orator | | Killed near Formiae under orders from Mark Antony and with the approval of the Second Triumvirate. |
| 24 January 41 | Caligula, Roman Emperor | Cassius Chaerea, Marcus Vinicius, Lucius Annius Vinicianus, members of the Praetorian Guard, and others | |
| 13 October 54 | Claudius, Roman Emperor | Uncertain, reputed to be Agrippina the Younger on behalf of Nero | Rumored to be killed by poison mushrooms supplied by Locusta. |
| 9 June 62 | Claudia Octavia, Roman Empress | Nero | Executed on the orders of Nero on the island of Pandateria off the coast of Italy in an attempt to quell the public outcry of their divorce. |
| 15 January 69 | Galba, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders from Otho. |
| 20 December 69 | Vitellius, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Flavian army. |
| 18 September 96 | Domitian, Roman Emperor | Stephanus, steward to Julia Flavia | Killed in Rome |
| 31 December 192 | Commodus, Roman Emperor | Narcissus, wrestler | Killed in Rome |
| 28 March 193 | Pertinax, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. |
| 2 June 193 | Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. |
| 26 December 212 | Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by centurions under orders of Caracalla. |
| 8 April 217 | Caracalla, Roman Emperor | Martialis | Killed between Edessa and Carrhae (modern-day Sanli Urfa and Harran), possibly under orders of Macrinus. |
| 13 March 222 | Elagabalus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard under orders of Julia Maesa and Julia Mamaea. |
| June 238 | Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor | | Killed outside Aquileia by his troops. |
| July/August 238 | Pupienus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors. |
| July/August 238 | Balbinus, Roman Emperor | | Killed in Rome by the Praetorian Guard. See Year of the Six Emperors. |
| August 253 | Volusianus, Roman Emperor | | Killed near Interamna by his troops |
| August 253 | Trebonianus Gallus, Roman Emperor | | Killed near Interamna by his troops |
| November 275 | Aurelian, Roman Emperor | Mucapor and members of the Praetorian Guard | Killed near Caenophrurium (modern-day Corlu) |
| September 276 | Florianus, Roman Emperor | | Killed near Tarsus |
| 16 December 882 | Pope John VIII | | |
| 6 May 1052 | Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany | | |
| 18 September 1345 | Andrew, Duke of Calabria | | |
| 16 May 1412 | Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan | | |
| 26 April 1478 | Giuliano de' Medici, co-ruler of Florence | Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Bandini | Stabbed 19 times in the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo de' Medici was also attacked, but escaped with his life. |
| 14 June 1497 | Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, son of Pope Alexander VI | | |
| 6 January 1537 | Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence | Lorenzino de' Medici | |
| 15 November 1848 | Pellegrino Rossi, Papal States Minister of Justice | | |
| 29 July 1900 | Umberto I, King of Italy | Gaetano Bresci | Shot four times with a revolver due to the royal decoration of general Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, who ordered a bloody repression in Milan in 1898. Influenced Leon Czolgosz to kill United States President William McKinley in 1901. |
| 6 December 1921 | Said Halim Pasha, former Ottoman Prime Minister | Arshavir Shirakian | Killed in Rome due to his role in the Armenian genocide. |
| 10 June 1924 | Giacomo Matteotti, socialist politician | | Kidnapped and killed by Fascists after denouncing them for electoral fraud in the 1924 Italian general election |
| 2 March 1925 | Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian independence leader | Baltjon Stambolla | Killed in Bari |
| 28 April 1945 | Benito Mussolini, fascist and former Prime Minister of Italy | Band of Communist partisans led by Walter Audisio | Shot in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Lombardy. His lover Clara Petacci was also killed. See Death of Benito Mussolini |
| 27 October 1962 | Enrico Mattei, head of the oil company Eni and supporter of Algerian independence | | Died in a plane crash allegedly caused by a bomb near Bascapè in Lombardy |
| 14 March 1972 | Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, publisher and partisan of leftist guerrilla movements | | Died in a bomb attack, probably with the involvement of the Italian secret service |
| 2 November 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, writer, poet and film director | Giuseppe Pelosi | Died in Ostia after being run over by his own car which Pelosi had stolen. |
| 9 June 1977 | Taha Carım, Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |
| 9 May 1978 | Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy | Red Brigades | Kidnapped and later killed. See Kidnapping of Aldo Moro. |
| 9 May 1978 | Giuseppe Impastato, anti-mafia activist | Sicilian Mafia | Killed by a charge of TNT placed under his own body. |
| 25 September 1979 | Cesare Terranova, magistrate | on orders of Sicilian Mafia Commission | Shot along with his driver as he was being driven through Palermo |
| 6 January 1980 | Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily | Sicilian Mafia | |
| 30 April 1982 | Pio La Torre, Communist politician | Sicilian Mafia | |
| 3 September 1982 | Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, General of the Carabinieri Corps | Giuseppe Greco, Giuseppe Lucchese and members of the Mafia | Shot along with his wife and driver while being driven through Palermo while investigating the Mafia |
| 29 July 1983 | Rocco Chinnici, magistrate | Giuseppe Greco, Michele Greco and members of the Mafia | Killed by a car bomb in Palermo. |
| 23 May 1992 | Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge | Giovanni Brusca, a member of the Sicilian Mafia | Killed in a motorway bombing near Palermo. |
| 19 July 1992 | Paolo Borsellino, anti-mafia judge | Salvatore Riina and members of the Mafia | Killed along with five police officers by a car bomb in Palermo. See Massacre of Via D'Amelio. |
| 12 March 1992 | Salvo Lima, Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands | Sicilian Mafia | Shot as he exited his car in Palermo. |
| 27 March 1995 | Maurizio Gucci, businessman | Hitman hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani | Reggiani was convicted of ordering his murder in 1998 |
| 19 March 2002 | Marco Biagi, Labor Ministry advisor | New Red Brigades | Killed in Bologna. |

## Kosovo

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 15 June 1389 | Murad I, Third Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | Miloš Obilić | Assassinated by a Serbian knight during the Battle of Kosovo. |
| 29 November 1887 | Ali Pasha of Gusinje, one of the leaders of the League of Prizren | | Assassinated in Rugova Canyon near Peć. |
| March 31 1903 | Grigoriy Schterbina, Russian consul | Albanian Ottoman officer | Assassinated in Mitrovica |
| 4 January 2003 | Tahir Zemaj, general in the Kosovo Liberation Army | | Assassinated in Peć. |
| 15 June 2014 | Elvis Pista, parliamentary candidate | | Assassinated in Rahovec. |
| 16 January 2018 | Oliver Ivanović, former State Secretary for the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija | | Assassinated in North Mitrovica. |

## Latvia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 30 May 2018 | Mārtiņš Bunkus, bankruptcy administrator | Mikhail Ulman, Alexander Babenko, and Viktor Krivoshey | Assassinated near Brothers' Cemetery in Riga. Was shot dead from a moving truck, while driving. |

## Lithuania

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 12 September 1263 | Mindaugas, King of Lithuania | Daumantas of Pskov and Treniota | Assassinated after taking his deceased wife Morta's sister as his new bride. She was however, already married to Daumantas. Treniota was Mindaugas' nephew. |
| 1264 | Treniota, Grand Duke of Lithuania | Courtiers loyal to Vaišvilkas, son of Mindaugas | |
| 18 April 1267 | Vaišvilkas, Grand Duke of Lithuania | Leo I of Galicia | |
| 20 March 1440 | Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania | Supporters of his cousin, Švitrigaila | |

## Malta

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 26 October 1995 | Fathi Shaqaqi, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine | Mossad | Shot outside a hotel in Sliema. |
| 16 October 2017 | Daphne Caruana Galizia, journalist and blogger | Unknown (investigation underway) | Killed by a car bomb near her home in Bidnija. |

## Moldova

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 16 July 2023 | Oleg Khorzhan, former leader of the Transnistrian Communist Party. | | Stabbed to death at his office in Sucleia, Transnistria (recognized internationally as part of Moldova). |

## Montenegro

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 13 August 1860 | Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro | | Killed in Kotor (then Austria-Hungary) by a member of Bjelopavlici tribe. |
| 10 November 1945 | Sekula Drljević, Montenegrin nationalist and President of the Governing Committee of Italian governorate of Montenegro during World War II | | Killed by Chetniks at a Displaced Persons camp in Austria |

## Netherlands

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 5 June 754 | Saint Boniface, Christian missionary | | Killed by Frisian bandits |
| 14 April 1099 | Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht | | |
| 27 June 1296 | Floris V, Count of Holland | Gerard van Velsen | |
| 1425 | Duke John of Straubing-Holland | | |
| 10 July 1584 | William I of Orange, leader of the Dutch war of independence from Spanish rule (Eighty Years' War) | Balthasar Gérard | Shot by a supporter of the Spanish cause |
| 2 May 1649 | Isaac Dorislaus, diplomat | | |
| 20 August 1672 | Johan de Witt, republican politician | | Murdered by an Orangist lynch mob in The Hague. |
| 20 August 1672 | Cornelis de Witt, republican politician | | Murdered by an Orangist lynch mob in The Hague. |
| 23 May 1938 | Yevhen Konovalets, Ukrainian nationalist | Pavel Sudoplatov, agent of the NKVD | Explosive placed in a box of chocolates. |
| 3 June 1943 | Folkert Posthuma, Nazi collaborator | Resistance group CS-6 | Shot in front of his home in Vorden. |
| 17 April 1945 | Hannie Schaft, underground Resistance fighter | Dutch Nazi officials | Executed in the dunes of Bloemendaal. |
| 22 March 1979 | Richard Sykes, British Ambassador to the Netherlands | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Shot in The Hague. |
| 9 September 1987 | Gerrit Jan Heijn, top manager of Ahold | Ferdi Elsas | Kidnapped and later killed. |
| 6 May 2002 | Pim Fortuyn, critic of Islam, immigration and multicultural policy and leader of the Pim Fortuyn List | Volkert van der Graaf | Shot in Hilversum by a left-wing critic and animal rights advocate. See Assassination of Pim Fortuyn |
| 24 January 2003 | Cor Van Hout, criminal, mastermind of Freddy Heineken kidnapping | Willem Frederik Holleeder | Killed on orders of his brother-in-law and ex-accomplice |
| 2 November 2004 | Theo van Gogh, film director, writer and critic of Islam | Mohammed Bouyeri | Shot and stabbed in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist |
| 15 November 2005 | Louis Sévèke, leftwing journalist | Marcel Theunissen | Shot with a rifle in Nijmegen. |
| 8 February 2014 | Els Borst, former Deputy Prime Minister | | Stabbed at her home in Bilthoven. |
| 18 September 2019 | Derk Wiersum, lawyer | Unknown, under investigation | Shot to death in Amsterdam. |
| 6 July 2021 | Peter R. de Vries, investigative journalist and crime reporter | | Shot in Amsterdam |

## Norway

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 14 December 1136 | King Harald IV Gille of Norway | Sigurd Slembe | Killed by a pretender to the throne |

## Poland

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 23 April 997 | Adalbert of Prague, Bishop of Prague, missionary, saint | pagan Prussians led by Sicco | Assassinated in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity |
| 11 April 1079 | Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Bishop of Kraków (now a saint) | Bolesław II the Bold | |
| 24 November 1227 | Leszek the White, High Duke of Poland | | Assassinated at the Gąsawa massacre |
| 8 February 1296 | Przemysł II, king of Poland | | |
| 16 December 1922 | Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland | Eligiusz Niewiadomski | Killed five days after his inauguration while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. |
| 7 June 1927 | Pyotr Voykov, Soviet Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland | Boris Kowerda | Killed by a White émigré |
| 29 August 1931 | Tadeusz Hołówko, Prometheist politician and diplomat | Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | |
| 15 June 1934 | Bronisław Pieracki, Minister of Interior of Poland | Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | |
| 7 March 1941 | Igo Sym, actor and Nazi collaborator | Bohdan Rogoliński, Roman Rozmiłowski, and Wiktor Klimaszewski of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) | |
| 28 November 1942 | Marceli Nowotko, Communist activist and first secretary of the Polish Workers' Party | | |
| 7 September 1943 | Franz Bürkl, German Sicherheitspolizei officer | Jerzy Zborowski and members of the Szare Szeregi | See Operation Heads. |
| 31 May 1943 | Helmut Kapp, German Gestapo member | Armia Krajowa | See Operation Heads. |
| 1 February 1944 | Franz Kutschera, German SS general and chief of police | Armia Krajowa | See Operation Kutschera. |
| 31 March 1944 | Michajło Pohołowko, Ukrainian Nazi collaborator | Armia Krajowa | Mykhailo Pogotovko and two unknown guards were killed, see Operation "Ukrainian Committee" |
| 5 July 1944 | Karl Freudenthal, German officer of the SS, Kreishauptmann of powiat Garwolin | Armia Krajowa | See Operation Heads. |
| 28 March 1947 | Karol Świerczewski, Army general | Ukrainian Insurgent Army | |
| 19 October 1984 | Jerzy Popiełuszko, Roman Catholic priest | | Killed by the communist political police. |
| 25 June 1998 | Marek Papała, Chief of the Police | | Believed to have been killed by the Polish mafia. |
| 5 December 1999 | Andrzej Kolikowski, leader of the Pruszków mafia | Ryszard Bogucki | Shot in Zakopane |
| 21 February 2005 | Zdzisław Beksiński, painter, photographer, sculptor | Robert Kupiec | Stabbed 17 times |
| 1 March 2011 | Jolanta Brzeska, social activist | Unknown | Burned alive |
| 13 January 2019 | Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdańsk | Stefan Wilmont | Stabbed to death at a charity event. |

## Portugal

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 139 BC | Viriathus, leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion over the regions of Western Iberia | Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus | |
| 7 January 1355 | Inês de Castro, posthumously declared Queen of Portugal | Pêro Coelho, Álvaro Gonçalves, and Diogo Lopes Pacheco | |
| 1 February 1908 | Carlos I of Portugal, King, and Luiz Filipe of Portugal, Crown Prince | Manuel Buíça and Alfredo Luís da Costa | Shot by assassins sympathetic to Republican interests and aided by anti-monarchic society Portuguese Carbonária. See Lisbon Regicide |
| 3 October 1910 | Miguel Bombarda, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Portugal | Aparício Rebelo dos Santos | Shot by a mental patient just before the 5 October 1910 revolution, of which he was a proponent |
| 14 December 1918 | Sidónio Pais, President of Portugal | José Júlio da Costa | Shot at Rossio railway station in Lisbon. See Assassination of Sidónio Pais. |
| 19 October 1921 | António Joaquim Granjo, Prime Minister of Portugal | | See Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921) |
| 19 October 1921 | António Machado Santos, Naval officer and leader of the National Republican Federation | | See Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921) |
| 19 October 1921 | José Carlos da Maia | | See Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921) |
| 19 October 1921 | Freitas da Silva | | See Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921) |
| 19 October 1921 | Botelho de Vasconcelos | | See Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921) |
| 13 February 1965 | Humberto Delgado, general, presidential candidate and critic of the Estado Novo | Casimiro Monteiro | Lured by Portuguese intelligence into an ambush near the Spanish border |
| 10 April 1983 | Issam Sartawi, senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization | Yousef Al Awad (Abu Nidal Organization claimed responsibility) | Shot in a hotel. |

## Romania

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 9 August 1601 | Mihai Viteazul, Ruler of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania | Militants on order of General Giorgio Basta | Assassinated near Câmpia Turzii after the victory at the Battle of Guruslău. |
| 20 June 1862 | Barbu Catargiu, Prime Minister of Romania | | Killed in Bucharest after a parliamentary meeting. |
| 29 December 1933 | Ion Duca, Prime Minister of Romania | Nicolae Constantinescu Ion Caranica Doru Belimace | Shot at Sinaia railway station by members of the Iron Guard. |
| 30 November 1938 | Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, far right politician and leader of the Iron Guard | Members of the Romanian Gendarmerie | Killed in Tâncăbeşti. |
| 21 September 1939 | Armand Călinescu, Prime Minister of Romania | Iron Guard | Shot while being driven through Bucharest. |
| 26 November 1940 | Gheorghe Argeșanu, former Prime Minister | Iron Guard | Murdered in Jilava prison with 63 other political prisoners. See Jilava massacre |
| 27 November 1940 | Nicolae Iorga, former Prime Minister of Romania, historian | Iron Guard | Kidnapped and later killed. |
| 27 November 1940 | Virgil Madgearu, politician and theorist of the National Peasants' Party | Iron Guard | Kidnapped and later killed |
| 29 August 1945 | Constantin Tănase, actor | | Possibly killed by the invading Red Army after satirizing them. |
| 24 December 1989 | Danny Huwé, Belgian journalist | | Shot by a sniper during the Romanian Revolution. |

## Russia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| Russian Empire ||||
| 25 May 1682 | Artamon Matveyev, statesman, diplomat and reformer | Streltsy | Killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682 |
| 25 May 1682 | Grigory Romodanovsky, boyar, general and diplomat | Streltsy | Killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682 |
| 17 July 1762 | Peter III of Russia, Emperor of Russia | Unknown | Possibly organized by Catherine the Great |
| 16 July 1762 | Ivan VI of Russia, deposed Emperor of Russia | Unknown | Executed on prior instructions from Catherine the Great during an attempt to rescue him from imprisonment in Shlisselburg Fortress by Vasily Mirovich |
| 23 March 1801 | Paul I of Russia, Emperor of Russia | Band of dismissed officers led by Levin August, Count von Bennigsen, Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil, Nikolay Zubov and others | Organized by Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Nikita Petrovich Panin and José de Ribas |
| 27 December 1825 | Mikhail Miloradovich, military Governor of Saint Petersburg | Pyotr Kakhovsky | Killed during the Decembrist revolt |
| 16 August 1878 | Nikolay Mezentsov, executive director of the Third Section | Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky | Killed by a revolutionary belonging to the group Zemlya i volya |
| 13 March 1881 | Alexander II of Russia, Tsar of All the Russias | Ignacy Hryniewiecki | Killed in bombing organized by the revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya |
| 21 March 1893 | Nikolay Alekseyev, Mayor of Moscow | Andrianov | Killed by a deranged visitor in Moscow City Hall |
| 15 April 1902 | Dmitry Sipyagin, Russian Interior Minister | Stepan Balmashov | Killed by a member of the SR Combat Organization |
| 28 July 1904 | Vyacheslav von Plehve, Russian Interior Minister | Yegor Sazonov | Killed by a bomb thrown by a member of the SR Combat Organization |
| 17 February 1905 | Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, former Governor-General of Moscow | Ivan Kalyayev | Organized by the SR Combat Organization |
| 14 September 1911 | Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia | Dmitry Bogrov | Killed in a theater in Kiev by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| 30 December 1916 | Grigori Rasputin, influential mystic, adviser to the Russian Imperial Family | Group of nobles led by Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Vladimir Purishkevich and Vasily Maklakov | Killed for his undue influence on the Russian Imperial Family |
| Provisional Government ||||
| 24 December 1917 | Ivan Logginovich Goremykin, former Prime Minister | Konstantin X Kotev | |
| Bolshevik Russia ||||
| 20 January 1918 | Andrei Shingarev, Kadet politician | | |
| 20 January 1918 | Fyodor Kokoshkin, Kadet politician | | |
| 17 July 1918 | Tsar Nicholas II and his family: Tsarina Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, physician Eugene Botkin, maid Anna Demidova, footman Alexei Trupp and cook Ivan Kharitonov | Cheka officers led by Yakov Yurovsky | Order given by Yakov Sverdlov on behalf of Vladimir Lenin. See Murder of the Romanov family. |
| 18 July 1918 | Elizabeth of Hesse, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, Princes John Constantinovich, Constantine Constantinovich and Igor Constantinovich, poet and prince Vladimir Paley and nun Varvara Yakovleva | Cheka officers | |
| 20 June 1918 | V. Volodarsky, revolutionary | Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov | Killed by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| 6 July 1918 | Wilhelm von Mirbach, German Ambassador in Moscow | Yakov Blumkin | Assassinated by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries at the start of the Left SR uprising in an attempt to damage German-Soviet relations |
| Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union ||||
| 1 December 1934 | Sergey Kirov, Bolshevik party leader in Leningrad | Leonid Nikolaev | |
| 15 July 1939 | Zinaida Reich, theatre actress | NKVD | |
| 9 September 1990 | Alexander Men, dissident Russian Orthodox priest | Unknown | |
| 6 October 1991 | Igor Talkov, singer-songwriter, anti-Soviet activist | Allegedly Valeriy Schlyafman | |
| Russian Federation ||||
| 26 April 1994 | Andrey Aizderdzis, Member of the State Duma | Unknown | |
| December 1994 | Nikolay Suleimanov, Chechen mafia boss | | |
| 1 March 1995 | Vladislav Listyev, journalist and head of the ORT TV Channel | Unknown | |
| 21 April 1996 | Dzhokhar Dudayev, first Chechen separatist President and anti-Russian guerrilla leader | Russian military | |
| 1 October 1996 | Choe Deok-geun, South Korean diplomat stationed in Vladivostok | | North Korean agents suspected |
| 31 May 1998 | Valeriy Hubulov, former Prime Minister of South Ossetia | Unknown | |
| 8 June 1998 | Larisa Yudina, Kalmyk journalist | | |
| 20 November 1998 | Galina Starovoytova, Member of the State Duma | Yuri Kolchin and Vitali Akishin | |
| 18 October 2002 | Valentin Tsvetkov, Governor of Magadan Oblast | Alexander Zakharov, Martin Babakekhyan and others | Killed in Moscow |
| 17 April 2003 | Sergei Yushenkov, Member of the State Duma and founder of the Liberal Russia party | Mikhail Kodanev and others | Killed in Moscow |
| 3 July 2003 | Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist | Unknown | Killed in Moscow |
| 9 May 2004 | Akhmad Kadyrov, Kremlin-backed President of the Chechen Republic | Presumed to be Chechen Islamists | Killed along with about 30 others in a football stadium during a Victory Day parade by a bomb that had been built into the concrete of one of the stadium's supporting columns. |
| 9 July 2004 | Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine | | |
| 2 February 2005 | Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan | | |
| 8 March 2005 | Aslan Maskhadov, President of separatist Chechnya | | |
| 10 April 2005 | Anatoly Trofimov, former deputy director of the FSB | | |
| 17 June 2006 | Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, President of separatist Chechnya | | Killed by pro-Russian forces |
| 7 October 2006 | Anna Politkovskaya, journalist and human rights campaigner | Unknown; many theories | Shot in the elevator block of her apartment in Moscow. See Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. |
| 26 November 2008 | Vitaly Karayev, mayor of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania | | |
| 17 December 2008 | Nina Varlamova, mayor of Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast | | |
| 31 December 2008 | Kazbek Pagiyev, former mayor of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania | | |
| 19 January 2009 | Anastasia Baburova, journalist | | |
| 19 January 2009 | Stanislav Markelov, human rights lawyer | | |
| 5 June 2009 | Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, interior minister of Dagestan | | |
| 10 June 2009 | Aza Gazgireyeva, deputy chair of the Ingushetia Supreme Court | | |
| 13 June 2009 | Bashir Aushev, former deputy prime minister of Ingushetia | | |
| 15 July 2009 | Natalia Estemirova, human rights activist | | |
| 10 June 2011 | Yuri Budanov, army officer and convicted war criminal | | |
| 15 December 2011 | Gadzhimurat Kamalov, journalist | | |
| 27 February 2015 | Boris Nemtsov, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | | Shot while walking on a bridge near the Moscow Kremlin. See Assassination of Boris Nemtsov |
| 2 November 2020 | Vladimir "Sausage King" Marugov, oligarch | | Shot on 2 November with a crossbow in the sauna of his countryside estate outside Moscow. |
| 20 August 2022 | Darya Dugina, ultranationalist journalist and writer | National Republican Army | Killed in car bomb explosion. |
| 2 April 2023 | Vladlen Tatarsky, blogger | Darya Trepova | Killed with a bomb disguised as an award statue. |
| 17 December 2024 | Igor Kirillov, lieutenant general and head of the NDC Protection Troops | Security Service of Ukraine claimed responsibility for the assassination. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested Uzbekistan citizen Ahmat Qurbanov. | Killed along with an assistant by a bomb hidden an electric scooter. |

## Serbia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| Roman Empire ||||
| September 268 | Gallienus, Roman emperor | | Killed near Naissus. |
| September 282 | Probus, Roman emperor | | Assassinated at Sirmium. |
| 285 | Carinus, Roman emperor | | Assassinated at Margus. |
| Medieval Serbia ||||
| 1359 | Vuk Kosača, magnate and nobleman | | Killed or ordered so by a member of the Rastislalić family. |
| Ottoman period ||||
| 23–29 January 1804 | 72 notable Serbs | Dahije | Slaughter of the Knezes |
| 1815 | Kara-Marko Vasić, revolutionary | | Ordered by Miloš Obrenović. |
| 16 June 1816 | Melentije Nikšić, revolutionary | | Ordered by Miloš Obrenović. |
| 25 July 1817 | Karađorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising | Nikola Novaković | Killed along with his secretary, Naum Krnar in the village of Radovanje by a henchman of Vujica Vulićević and Miloš Obrenović. |
| Serbian monarchy ||||
| 10 June 1868 | Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia | Pavle Radovanović and Kosta Radovanović | Shot in Košutnjak park in Belgrade as part of a conspiracy. |
| 1885 | Čakr-paša, hajduk | Toma Stanković | |
| 11 June 1903 | Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia, and Draga Mašin, Queen Consort | Army officers led by Dragutin Dimitrijević | Killed in the royal palace as part of the May Overthrow. |
| 11 June 1903 | Lazar Petrović, Adjutant to King Aleksandar Obrenović | | Killed as part of the May Overthrow. |
| 11 June 1903 | Dimitrije Cincar-Marković, Prime Minister of Serbia | | |
| Yugoslavia ||||
| 21 July 1921 | Milorad Drašković, Yugoslav interior minister | Alija Alijagić | Killed by a Bosnian communist |
| 13 January 1928 | Velimir Prelić, legal adviser in Skoplje | Mara Buneva | Shot on "Ratomir Putnik" Street in Skoplje |
| 20 June 1928 | Đuro Basariček, Member of Parliament for the Croatian Peasant Party | Puniša Račić | Shot by a Serbian radical deputy in the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade. |
| 20 June 1928 | Stjepan Radić, Member of Parliament for the Croatian Peasant Party | Puniša Račić | Shot by a Serbian radical deputy in the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade. |
| 9 March 1983 | Galip Balkar, Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia | Harutyun Krikor Levonian and Alexander Elbekyan. | Shot by Armenian nationalists. See Assassination of Galip Balkar |
| FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro ||||
| 8 April 1994 | Dada Vujasinović, journalist | | |
| 12 December 1994 | Goran Vuković, criminal | | |
| 11 April 1999 | Slavko Ćuruvija, journalist | |
| 15 January 2000 | Željko Ražnatović "Arkan", mobster and warlord | Dobrosav Gavrić | |
| 7 February 2000 | Pavle Bulatović, defense minister | | |
| 25 April 2000 | Žika Petrović, Jat Airways executive | | |
| 13 May 2000 | Boško Perošević, Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina | Milivoje Gutović | Assassinated at Novi Sad Fair. |
| 25 August 2000 | Ivan Stambolić, former President of Serbia | Special Operations Unit | Ordered by Slobodan Milošević. See Assassination of Ivan Stambolić. |
| 11 June 2001 | Milan Pantić, journalist | Unknown | |
| 12 March 2003 | Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia | Zvezdan Jovanović | Killed with a sniper rifle by a paramilitary linked to the Zemun Clan. See Assassination of Zoran Đinđić. |
| 26 March 2004 | Branko Bulatović, Football Association general secretary | Unknown | |
| Republic of Serbia ||||
| 1 July 2006 | Radoljub Kanjevac, criminal | Unknown | |
| 2 April 2014 | Rade Rakonjac, Arkan's bodyguard | Unknown | Rakonjac had close ties to the Serbian mafia and the Serbian warlord Arkan. |

## Slovakia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 11 January 1999 | Ján Ducký, former Minister of Industry | unknown | shot dead in the |
| 21 February 2018 | Ján Kuciak, journalist | Miroslav Marček and Tomáš Szabó | Shot dead along with his fiancée while investigating the activities of various individuals connected to the Slovak government led by Robert Fico. |

## Slovenia

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 7 June 1992 | Ivan Kramberger, inventor and politician | Peter Rotar (presumed) | Shot dead during his campaign to become an MP. |

## Spain

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 23 March 1369 | Peter the Cruel, King of Castile | Henry II of Castile | |
| 14 September 1485 | Pedro de Arbués, a prominent member of the Spanish Inquisition | | Assassinated while praying in La Seo Cathedral of Zaragosa. His death allowed Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada to massively expand the Spanish Inquisition. |
| 28 December 1870 | Juan Prim, Prime Minister of Spain and Governor of Puerto Rico | | Shot in Madrid by unknown hand. |
| 8 August 1897 | Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain | Michele Angiolillo | Shot in a spa in Mondragón, Guipúzcoa by an anarchist. |
| 12 November 1912 | José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain | Manuel Pardiñas | Shot in Madrid by an anarchist. |
| 30 November 1920 | Francesc Layret, Catalan left-wing politician | gunmen from the Sindicatos Libres | Shot in Barcelona. |
| 8 March 1921 | Eduardo Dato Iradier, Prime Minister of Spain | Lluís Nicolau, Pere Mateu, and Ramon Casanelles | Shot in Madrid by Catalan anarchists. |
| 4 June 1923 | Juan Soldevila y Romero, Roman Catholic archbishop of Zaragoza | Los Solidarios | |
| 12 July 1936 | José Castillo, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lieutenant in the Assault Guards | Falangist gunmen | Killed in Madrid. |
| 13 July 1936 | José Calvo Sotelo, right-wing politician and former Finance Minister | | Killed in a police vehicle in Madrid. His murder helped trigger the Spanish Civil War. |
| 19 August 1936 | Federico García Lorca, poet and dramatist | Nationalists | Shot at Alfacar by fascists. |
| 17 September 1936 | Raoul Villain, assassin of Jean Jaurès | | Shot on the island of Ibiza. |
| 5 May 1937 | Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist | | possibly killed on the orders of Joseph Stalin |
| 20 June 1937 | Andrés Nin, Communist revolutionary | | Taken to a camp by the Spanish Government and probably killed there (this is disputed). |
| 15 October 1940 | Lluis Companys, President of Catalonia | Gestapo officers on the orders of Francisco Franco. | Shot in Barcelona. |
| 4 January 1967 | Mohamed Khider, exiled Algerian politician and former Secretary-General of the FLN | | Killed in Madrid. |
| 2 August 1968 | Melitón Manzanas, secret police officer and state torturer | ETA | Killed at Irún, Guipúzcoa. |
| 20 April 1969 | Vjekoslav Luburić, exiled Croatian Ustaše official and fugitive war criminal | | Believed to have been killed either by Yugoslav agents or rivals in the Croatian émigré community. |
| 20 December 1973 | Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain | ETA | Killed by a bomb which threw his car over a building. His murder was, according to ETA, then to intensify existing divisions within Francoist Spain between the "openness" and "purists". See Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco. |
| 4 October 1976 | Juan María de Araluce Villar, President of the Provincial Deputation of Gipuzkoa | ETA | Killed at San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa. |
| 8 October 1977 | Augusto Unceta Barrenechea, President of the Provincial Deputation of Biscay | ETA | Killed at Guernica, Biscay. |
| 20 November 1984 | Santiago Brouard, Basque nationalist | Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación | |
| 14 February 1996 | Francisco Tomás y Valiente, former President of the Constitutional Court | ETA | Shot in his office at the Autonomous University of Madrid. |
| 13 July 1997 | Miguel Ángel Blanco, Basque municipal councillor | ETA | Kidnapped and later killed. |
| 22 February 2000 | Fernando Buesa, former Vice Lehendakari of the Basque Country | ETA | Car bombing in Vitoria. |
| 21 November 2000 | Ernest Lluch, former Minister of Health | ETA | Shot in Barcelona. |
| 12 May 2014 | Isabel Carrasco, Governor of León and provincial leader of the People's Party | | Shot in León by a disgruntled government employee. |

## Sweden

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 25 December 1156 | King Sverker I of Sweden | | Killed by a servant |
| 18 May 1160 | King Eric IX of Sweden | | Killed during a rebellion |
| 12 April 1167 | King Charles VII of Sweden | | Killed by supporters of Knut Eriksson |
| 4 May 1436 | Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Regent of Sweden | Magnus Bengtsson | |
| 26 February 1577 | King Eric XIV of Sweden | | Killed on orders of his half-brother King John III of Sweden |
| 16 March 1792 | King Gustav III of Sweden | Jacob Johan Anckarström | Shot at a masquerade ball and died two weeks later. |
| 20 June 1810 | Count Axel von Fersen, Marshal of the Realm | Four members of the lynching mob were charged for the killing, among them the Finnish nobleman Otto Johan Tandefelt | Killed by a mob in Stockholm after being blamed for the death of Crown Prince Carl August. Army soldiers were present at the scene, but were ordered not to interfere. |
| 7 April 1971 | Vladimir Rolović, Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden | Croatian National Resistance | |
| 28 February 1986 | Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden | Unknown | Shot on his way home from a cinema in Stockholm accompanied only by his wife |
| 10 September 2003 | Anna Lindh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden | Mijailo Mijailović | Stabbed while visiting the NK department store in Stockholm and died a day later. She was prominently featured in the "Yes" campaign during the Euro referendum, which took place later in the same weekend. She did not have any protective detail assigned to her, because the Swedish Security Police had not received, or perceived there to be no specific threats made against her. |
| 29 January 2025 | Salwan Momika, Iraqi atheist and anti-Islam activist | Five persons arrested in connection to the murder. | Shot at his apartment in Södertälje while doing a TikTok livestream. May possibly be in relation to his role and activism in the 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden. Pending investigation. |

## Switzerland

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 1 May 1308 | Albert I of Habsburg, German King and Duke of Austria | John Parricida | Killed by his nephew, whom he had deprived of his inheritance, at Windisch on the Reuss. |
| 25 February 1621 | Pompeius Planta, politician | Jörg Jenatsch | |
| 24 January 1639 | Jörg Jenatsch, politician | | Killed in Chur by an assailant dressed as a bear. |
| 10 September 1898 | Empress Elisabeth of Austria | Luigi Lucheni | Stabbed in the heart with a sharp needle file by an anarchist on the street in Geneva. Due to her extremely tight corset, she had no idea she has been wounded and collapsed suddenly after walking 100 yards (91 m). She died two hours later due to slow internal hemorrhaging. |
| 10 May 1923 | Vatslav Vorovsky, Soviet diplomat | Maurice Conradi | Killed by a White emigre |
| 4 February 1936 | Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of the Swiss Nazi Party | David Frankfurter | Killed by a Yugoslav Jewish student |
| 3 November 1960 | Félix-Roland Moumié, Cameroonian anti-colonialist activist and leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon | | Assassinated by the SDECE (French secret services). |
| 24 April 1990 | Kazem Rajavi, exiled Iranian opposition leader | | Believed to have been killed by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Chain Murders |

## Turkey

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 11 October 1579 | Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire | | |
| 20 May 1622 | Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | | |
| 2 September 1651 | Kösem Sultan, Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | Chief Black Eunuch Lala Süleyman, Hoca Reyhan Agha, Hajji Ibrahim Agha and Ali Agha | Assassinated at Topkapı Palace during a palace coup |
| 23 January 1913 | Nazım Pasha, War Minister and Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army | Yakub Cemil | Killed by member of the Committee of Union and Progress during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état. |
| 11 June 1913 | Mahmud Şevket Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | Opponents of the Committee of Union and Progress | Killed in a revenge attack by a relative of the assassinated War Minister Nazım Pasha |
| 19 December 2016 | Andrei Karlov, Russian Ambassador to Turkey. | Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş | Assassination of Andrei Karlov |
| 2 October 2018 | Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist | | Killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul |
| 30 December 2022 | Sinan Ateş, academic, historian, and former general chairman of the Grey Wolves | Eray Özyağcı | Shot and killed by Özyağcı while walking in the Çankaya District of Ankara and died on the way to the hospital. His brother-in-law Selman Bozkurt was accidentally hit and wounded by a bullet in the shoulder. |

## United Kingdom

| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| 293 | Carausius, usurper of the Western Roman Empire | Allectius who Carausius appointed treasurer | coup d'état |
| 26 May 946 | Edmund I, King of England | Leofa | Stabbed at a banquet |
| 18 March 978 | Edward the Martyr, King of England | Ælfthryth | |
| 995 | Kenneth II, King of Scotland | | |
| 2 August 1100 | William Rufus, King of England | Walter Tirel | Shot in the heart with an arrow by a nobleman, supposedly by accident, but the circumstances remain unclear. |
| 29 December 1170 | Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury | Four knights | Stabbed to death in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of Henry II of England |
| 10 February 1306 | John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch | Robert the Bruce, Roger de Kirkpatrick | |
| October 1346 | Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí | William III, Earl of Ross | Killed at Elcho Priory while attending a royal muster on the eve of a Scottish invasion of England. |
| 14 June 1381 | Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer | | Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| 14 June 1381 | Simon of Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London | | Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| 15 June 1381 | John Cavendish, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge | | Beheaded in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the Peasants' Revolt. |
| 21 February1437 | King James I of Scotland | Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (coup leader), Sir Robert Graham (dealt lethal blow) | Killed at Perth in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart. |
| 22 February 1452 | William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas | James II of Scotland | |
| 21 May 1471 | Henry VI of England, King of England | | Killed in the Tower of London likely on the orders of Edward IV of England. |
| 11 June 1488 | King James III of Scotland | | Killed by rebels. |
| 9 March 1566 | David Rizzio, private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots | Stabbed 57 times in front of the Queen by a mob led by her husband out of jealousy over their friendship |
| 10 February 1567 | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots | | Killed in an explosion at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh |
| 23 January 1570 | James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland | James Hamilton | The first assassination carried out with a firearm. |
| 23 August 1628 | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral/royal favourite | John Felton | Stabbed in Portsmouth as he planned a second expedition to La Rochelle. |
| 3 May 1679 | James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews | | Killed in Fife. |
| 11 May 1812 | Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | John Bellingham | Killed by a disgruntled merchant. The only British prime minister to be assassinated. See Assassination of Spencer Perceval. |
| 22 July 1812 | Louis-Alexandre de Launay, French diplomat | | Stabbed to death with a stiletto along with his wife by a former servant at his home in Barnes. |
| 22 June 1922 | Henry Hughes Wilson, British field marshal, retired Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Conservative politician | Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan | Killed outside his house in Eaton Square, London, by members of the Irish Republican Army. |
| 13 March 1940 | Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab | Udham Singh, a Punjabi revolutionary | Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall, London over his involvement in the Amritsar Massacre |
| 25/26 June 1973 | Paddy Wilson, former General Secretary of the Social Democratic and Labour Party | Ulster Freedom Fighters | Stabbed to death in Belfast, along with his friend Irene Andrews. See Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings. |
| 27 November 1975 | Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records and right-wing political activist | Harry Duggan and Hugh Doherty | Killed outside his home in Bush Hill Park, London, by members of the Balcombe Street Gang, both of whom were Irish Republican Army volunteers. |
| 10 April 1977 | Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri, former Prime Minister of North Yemen | | Killed in London along with his wife Fatimah and Abdullah Ali al Hammami, minister plenipotentiary of the Yemen Arab Republic embassy in London. |
| 7 September 1978 | Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident | | Died in London after being attacked with ricin fired from a gun disguised as an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge by suspected KGB agents. |
| 9 July 1978 | Abdul Razak al-Naif, former Prime Minister of Iraq | Salem Ahmed Hassan and Sadoun Shakir | Killed in London on the orders of Saddam Hussein. |
| 30 March 1979 | Airey Neave, Conservative Member of Parliament for Abingdon and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | INLA | Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster, by members of the Irish National Liberation Army |
| 5 June 1980 | John Turnley, SDLP and Irish Independence Party politician | Ulster Defence Association | Killed on the way to a political meeting. |
| 26 June 1980 | Miriam Daly, civil rights activist, in charge of the INLA prisoners' welfare. | Ulster Defence Association | Members of the UDA had gained entry to her home with the intention of killing her husband but when they learned he was not to return they shot her instead. |
| 15 October 1980 | Ronnie Bunting, Irish National Liberation Army leader and founding member | Ulster Defence Association | Killed in his home along side his wife (Suzanne Bunting) and another man (Noel Lyttle). |
| 21 January 1981 | Sir Norman Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician, and his son, Sir James Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Killed at their ancestral home, Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, which was then set on fire. |
| 14 November 1981 | Robert Bradford, Unionist Member of Parliament for Belfast South | IRA | Murdered during a speech at Finaghy, Belfast. |
| 3 June 1982 | Shlomo Argov, Israeli Ambassador to the Court of St. James's | Abu Nidal Organization | Although Argov survived this assassination attempt, the injuries he sustained in the attack resulted in his death in 2003. His shooting triggered the 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon |
| 7 December 1983 | Edgar Graham, Ulster Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) | | Shot by an IRA gunman outside Queen's University Belfast. |
| 12 October 1984 | Anthony Berry, Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate | IRA | Killed in the Brighton hotel bombing. |
| 19 November 1987 | George Seawright, Unionist Northern Ireland politician | | Killed by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation in Shankill, Belfast. |
| 12 February 1989 | Pat Finucane, solicitor | Ken Barrett | Killed in Belfast by Ulster Loyalists. |
| 30 July 1990 | Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament for Eastbourne | IRA | Killed by a car bomb near his house in East Sussex. |
| 27 December 1997 | Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader | INLA prisoners | Killed in Maze Prison. |
| 1 November 2006 | Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin | Russia's FSB agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun | Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210. See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. |
| 16 June 2016 | Jo Cox, Labour Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen | Thomas Mair | Shooting and stabbing incident before a constituency surgery. See Murder of Jo Cox. |
| 15 October 2021 | Sir David Amess, Conservative Member of Parliament for Southend West | Ali Harbi Ali | Stabbed during a constituency surgery. See Murder of David Amess. |

## Ukraine

| Year | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
| Ukrainian SSR ||||
| 1921 | Mykola Leontovych, composer | Soviet state security agent Afanasy Grishchenko. | Shot in his home after a robbery |
| 1949 | Yaroslav Halan, anti-fascist writer | Mykhailo Stakhur and Ilariy Lukashevych | Killed with an axe at his home office in Lviv by members of the OUN (according to the Soviet official version, ordered by the Vatican) |
| 1979 | Volodymyr Ivasiuk, composer | | Found hanged in a forest outside of Lviv. |
| Independent Ukraine ||||
| 1993 | Yuri Osmanov, Crimean Tatar civil rights activist | | Brutally beaten by unidentified assailants and died the next day. |
| 1995 | Akhat Bragin, businessman and president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club | | Killed by a bomb at the Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk. |
| 1996 | Yevhen Shcherban, People's Deputy of Ukraine | | Shot dead along with his wife and bodyguard while departing a plane at Donetsk International Airport. |
| 1998 | Vadym Hetman, former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine | | Shot by a contract killer in Kyiv. |
| 2000 | Georgiy Gongadze, journalist | Agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs | Disappeared, found decapitated and doused in dioxine 2 months later near Tarashcha. |
| 2005 | Stepan Senchuk, former Governor of Lviv Oblast | | Shot while in his car. |
| 2014 | Oleh Babaiev, Mayor of Kremenchuk | | Shot in front of his home |
| 2015 | Serhiy Sukhobok, journalist | | shot in a dacha in Kyiv |
| 2015 | Oleg Kalashnikov, former Peoples Deputy of Ukraine | | Killed in his home in Kyiv. |
| 2015 | Oles Buzina, pro-Russian writer | | Shot near his home in Kyiv. |
| 2016 | Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian journalist | | Died in a car explosion in Kyiv. |
| 2017 | Denis Voronenkov, former member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation | Pavel Parshov, veteran of Ukraine's volunteer battalion. | Shot dead in Kyiv while on his way to meet a fellow exiled parliamentarian, Ilya Ponomarev. |
| 2017 | Maksym Shapoval, Intelligence officer and head of the special forces of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine | | Killed in a car bombing in Kyiv |
| 2018 | Alexander Zakharchenko, pro-Russian separatist and Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, concurrent Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic | | Killed in a bomb explosion in a cafe in Donetsk |
| 2021 | Vitaly Shishov, exiled Belarusian dissident | | Found hanging in a forest after being reported missing the previous day |
| 2022 | Volodymyr Struk, Mayor of Kreminna | | Abducted and killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| 2022 | Yuriy Prylypko, Mayor of Hostomel | | Killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| 2022 | Olga Sukhenko, Village Head of Motyzhyn | | Killed during the Russian occupation of Bucha |
| 24 August 2022 | Ivan Sushko, Russian-appointed head of Mykhailivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast | | Killed in a car bombing during the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. |
| 28 August 2022 | Oleksiy Kovalov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada | | Shot during an attack on his residence in Zaliznyi Port. |
| 19 July 2024 | Iryna Farion, linguist, politician, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine | | Shot by an unknown assailant in the head in Lviv, pending investigation. |