| Date | Victim | Assassin | Notes |
| Facundo Quiroga, Governor of La Rioja Province | José Vicente Reynafé, Reynafé brothers, Capt. Santos Pérez | While returning to Buenos Aires, armed men ambushed his carriage; Quiroga was shot in his left eye when he left the carriage to negotiate. |
| Alejandro Heredia, Governor of Tucumán Province | Gabino Robles, Vicente Neirot, Lucio Casas, Gregorio Uriarte, | Heredia was shot in the head when he and his son were ambushed by an armed party. The perpetrators left Heredia and his son. The body was discovered 2 days later |
| José Cubas, Governor of Catamarca Province | Mariano Maza | |
| Marco Avellaneda, Governor of Tucumán Province | Mariano Maza | |
| Antonino Aberastain, Governor of San Juan Province | | |
| Chacho Peñaloza, La Rioja Province insurrectionist | Col. Pablo Irrazábal | |
| Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina and Governor of Entre Ríos Province | | |
| Ricardo López Jordán, soldier, politician, and former governor of Entre Ríos Province | | |
| Mariano Santillán, Jr., National Deputy for Santiago del Estero Province | | |
| Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police | Simón Radowitzky | Assassinated by anarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers. |
| Amable Jones, Governor of San Juan Province | | |
| Carlos Washington Lencinas, former Governor of Mendoza Province | | |
| Enzo Bordabehere, National Senator for Santa Fe Province | Ramón Valdez Cora | Killed during a session of the Argentine Senate. |
| Augusto Vandor, Metalworkers Union Secretary General | | Killed in commando attack by the Ejército Nacional Revolucionario, a far-left Peronist splinter group. |
| Pedro Aramburu, former de facto president of Argentina | | Executed by the Peronist guerrilla Montoneros in revenge for the abduction of Evita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a 1956 failed uprising, during Aramburu's dictatorship. |
| José Alonso, CGT Secretary General | Montoneros | |
| Oberdan Sallustro, Director of FIAT Argentina | [People's Revolutionary Argentine Army|Army (Argentina)|ERP] | |
| José Ignacio Rucci, CGT Secretary General | Montoneros | |
| Juan Manuel Irrazábal, Governor of Misiones Province | Argentine Anticommunist Alliance | Killed with Vice-Governor César Ayrault by bomb placed in Beechcraft Queen Air plane. |
| Arturo Mor Roig, former Interior Minister | Montoneros | |
| Carlos Mugica, Catholic Third World priest | Rodolfo Almirón | |
| Rodolfo Ortega Peña, National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province | Argentine Anticommunist Alliance | |
| Atilio López, former Vice-Governor of Córdoba Province | Argentine Anticommunist Alliance | |
| Silvio Frondizi, University of Buenos Aires law professor | Argentine Anticommunist Alliance | |
| Carlos Prats, exiled Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army | Michael Townley | Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship |
| Hipólito Acuña, National Deputy for Santa Fe Province | Montoneros | |
| John Egan, U.S. Honorary Consul in Córdoba | Montoneros | |
| Rubén Cartier, Mayor of La Plata | CNU, a right-wing student group liked to the Triple A | |
| Ramón Rojas, National Deputy for San Juan Province | Fernando Otero | Killed at the behest of Vineyard Workers' Federation leader Delfor Ocampo. |
| Alberto Manuel Campos, Mayor of General San Martín Partido, Buenos Aires Province | Montoneros | |
| Miguel Ragone, former governor of Salta Province | Army Gen. Luciano Menéndez | Abducted and killed by right-wing task force made of up of Army and provincial police officers led by Menéndez. |
| Zelmar Michelini, exiled Uruguayan senator, founder of the Broad Front | | Killed after the 1976 Argentine coup as part of Operation Condor involving the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone. |
| Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, exiled former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives | | Killed alongside Zelmar Michelini |
| Juan José Torres, exiled former military President of Bolivia | | Killed as part of Operation Condor |
| Enrique Angelelli, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja | Luis Estrella | Beaten to death after Angelelli's car was run off the road on orders from III Army Corps Chief Luciano Menéndez. |
| Juan Carlos Casariego de Bel, Chief Foreign Investments Adviser at Economy Ministry | Army Capt. Héctor Vérgez | Casariego had objected to a 400 million payout for the nationalization of the bankrupt CIADE electric company - one of whose top shareholders was the Economy Minister, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz. |
| Miguel Tobías Padilla, Undersecretary for Coordination at Economy Ministry | Montoneros | |
| Osvaldo Sivak, banker | José Benigno Lorea, police officer | Killed following ransom kidnapping by the Aníbal Gordon gang led by former Argentine Anticommunist Alliance operatives. |
| José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist for leading Argentine news weekly Noticias. | "Los Horneros" gang, led by Buenos Aires Provincial Police Inspector Gustavo Prellezo | Killed on orders from businessman Alfredo Yabrán. |
| Héctor Enrique Olivares, National Deputy for La Rioja Province | Juan Jesús Fernández and Juan José Navarro Cádiz | Killed in attack directed at Olivares' aide, Miguel Yadón, by businessman Rafael Cano Carmona. |
| Date | Victim | Assassin | Notes |
| Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier | Juan Gregorio Sarria, José Erazo, and three peons | |
| José María Obando, former President | | |
| Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier | | |
| Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader | Juan Roa Sierra | His assassination sparked the Bogotazo and served as a catalyst for La Violencia |
| Carlos Toledo Plata, early leader of the M-19 guerrilla movement and member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia | | |
| Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice | | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, Judge who had indicted Pablo Escobar | | |
| Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of the Supreme Court. | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Fabio Calderon Botero, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Pedro Elias Serrano Abadia, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Dario Velasquez Gaviria, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Jose Eduardo Gnecco Correa, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Ricardo Medina Moyano, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Carlos Medellin Forero, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Fanny Gonzalez Franco, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Manuel Gaona Cruz, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Horacio Montoya Gil, Supreme Court Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Carlos Horacio Uran Rojas, State Council Assistant Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Lizandro Juan Romero Barrios, State Council Assistant Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Emiro Sandoval Huertas, State Council Assistant Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Julio Cesar Andrade Andrade, State Council Assistant Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Jorge A Correa Echeverry, State Council Assistant Justice | | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. |
| Guillermo Cano Isaza, Director of El Espectador newspaper | | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party | | The assassination was ordered by druglord José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha. |
| Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia | | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel. |
| Teófilo Forero, National Organizing Secretary of the Colombian Communist Party | | |
| Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party | Jaime Rueda | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel. |
| Jorge Enrique Pulido, journalist, Director of Mundovision | | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| Waldemar Franklin Quintero, Commander of the Police of Antioquia | | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party | Andres Arturo Gutierrez | |
| Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party | | |
| Diana Turbay, journalist | | Turbay was kidnapped on August 30, 1990, when she was tricked into going to a supposed interview with a guerrilla leader, the Spanish priest Manuel Pérez Martínez, alias El Cura Pérez, orchestrated on the orders of Pablo Escobar. Turbay was kept at Copacabana, Antioquia, with her cameraman Richard Becerra. She died on January 25, 1991, during a botched rescue operation launched by the police without authorization from the family. The cause of death was a bullet in her back, which partially destroyed her liver and left kidney. Becerra was rescued unharmed. |
| Enrique Low Murtra, former Ambassador to Switzerland | Medellin Cartel | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel |
| Pablo Escobar, drug lord | Search Bloc | Killed during a shoot out in Medellín |
| Andrés Escobar, footballer | | Believed to have been killed by criminal figures who lost money on bets after Escobar scored an own goal in the 1994 FIFA World Cup that knocked Colombia out of the tournament |
| Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party | | |
| Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper | FARC | FARC has claimed responsibility for the assassination. |
| Jaime Garzón, journalist, activist and satirist | Right wing paramilitaries | |
| Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones, Colombian Army General | | Assassinated by members of FARC |
| Consuelo Araújo, former Minister of Culture | | Assassinated by members of FARC |
| Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia | | Assassinated by members of FARC |
| Gilberto Echeverri Mejía, former Minister of Defense and adviser to Governor Gaviria | | Assassinated by members of FARC |
| Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Governor of Caquetá | | Assassinated by members of FARC |
| Germán Medina Triviño, former governor of Caquetá | | Assassinated by members of FARC |
| 2025 | Miguel Uribe Turbay, Senator and presidential pre-candidate | | Assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay
Turbay initially survived the assassination, but was hospitalised in critical condition. He died two months later. |
| Date | Victim | Assassin | Notes |
| Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, Emperor of the Aztec Alliance | | |
| Vicente Guerrero, former President of Mexico | | Lured, captured, and executed by firing squad in a plot orchestrated by conservative political rivals in Cuilapan, Oaxaca. |
| Melchor Ocampo, lawyer, scientist, and Liberal reformer | | Abducted from his hacienda in Michoacán by conservative guerrillas on orders from either Leonardo Márquez or Félix María Zuloaga or both. Ocampo was executed by firing squad at the Hacienda of Tlaltengo, Tepeji del Río, in what is today the state of Hidalgo. |
| Ignacio Comonfort, former President of Mexico and Secretary of War and Navy | | Ambushed and killed by conservative guerillas during the Second French Intervention in Mexico near Chamacueros, Guanajuato. |
| José María Patoni, Liberal general and former governor of Durango | Officers under General Benigno Canto | |
| Ramon Corona, Liberal general and Governor of Jalisco | Ron Salcedo | Stabbed several times by Salcedo in Guadalajara and died the next day. Salcedo was later killed by local police. |
| [Ten Tragic Days|] | Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico | | Killed in a coup along with Vice-president José María Pino Suárez. See Ten Tragic Days. |
| Abraham González, revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa | Officers under President Victoriano Huerta | |
| Belisario Dominguez, Senator of the Congress of the Union for Chiapas | Officers under President Victoriano Huerta | Abducted and shot in Mexico City under orders from Huerta after giving a memorable speech in the Senate denouncing him. |
| Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary | Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo | Shot at Hacienda de San Juan in Chinameca, Morelos |
| Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico | | Killed in a revolt led by Álvaro Obregón |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa, revolutionary | Unknown, most likely attributed to a plot orchestrated by future President Plutarco Elías Calles with tacit support and approval of then-president Álvaro Obregón | Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral, Chihuahua. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed. |
| Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatán | | Murdered as part of a plot by rogue army officers as part of a larger rebellion waged by former interim president Adolfo de la Huerta beginning the previous year. Executed by firing squad alongside three of his brothers, Wilfrido, Benjamín, and Edesio, and eight of their friends in Mérida, Yucatán. |
| Salvador Alvarado, revolutionary and former governor of Yucatán | | Killed in an ambush near Palenque, Chiapas in retaliation for supporting the rebellion of Adolfo de la Huerta against then-President Alvaro Obregon |
| Álvaro Obregón, President-elect | José de León Toral | Killed by a pro-Catholic sympathizer as part of the Cristero War |
| Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary | Unknown | |
| José Antonio Urquiza, political activist and co-founder of the National Synarchist Union | Isidro Parra | Stabbed twice by Parra, a farmer employed under him, while on a visit to Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato to settle a land dispute |
| Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian communist leader | Ramón Mercader, an agent of the NKVD posing as a journalist | Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe in his residence in Coyoacan, Mexico City. |
| Rubén Jaramillo, revolutionary, politician, and agrarian rights activist | | Killed by Federal Judicial Police officers and soldiers raiding his home in an extrajudicial operation near Xochicalco, Miacatlán, Morelos. His wife, Epifanía, three stepsons, were subsequently taken and shot on the premises; the only surviving member of the family was a stepdaughter. |
| Octavio Muciño, footballer | Jaime Antonio Muldoon Barreto | Shot at a Guadalajara restaurant after a physical altercation. Muldoon Barreto then fled to Spain and was never charged upon his return to Mexico in 1980, which was widely attributed to the influence and power possessed by the Muldoon Barreto family within the Mexican government. |
| Manuel Buendía, journalist and political columnist | | Suspected that figures within the PRI wanted him killed. |
| Enrique Camarena, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent | | Abducted and killed by the Guadalajara Cartel with the assistance of figures within the Mexican government and law enforcement agencies |
| Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and former Governor of Yucatán | | |
| Chalino Sánchez, singer-songwriter | | Executed on a farm in Culiacán, Sinaloa by two men posing as police officers hours after he had received a death threat via a note live on stage. The two men are believed to have been associated with the local cartel. |
| Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara | Sinaloa Cartel boss, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, may have also been involved. | Shot at Guadalajara Airport, along with 6 other people, by the Tijuana Cartel using the San Diego-based Logan Heights Gang, either after his car was misidentified as belonging to the Sinaloa cartel or to silence Posadas regarding his denunciation of possible connections between government and drug cartels; some recent speculation that an anti-church group was involved. |
| Luis Donaldo Colosio, Presidential candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional | Mario Aburto | Assassinated at a campaign rally in the Lomas Taurinas neighborhood of Tijuana. |
| José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional | Daniel Aguilar Treviño | Shot while leaving a PRI party meeting in Mexico City. PRI deputy Fernando Rodríguez González confessed to authorities that he hired Aguilar Treviño and his cousin to commit the murder. Aguilar Treviño confessed that he was paid US$500,000 by Rodríguez González himself to commit the crime. |
| Paco Stanley, comedian | Luis Alberto Salazar Vega | |
| Digna Ochoa, human rights lawyer | | |
| Francisco Ortiz Franco, contributing editor to Zeta Magazine | | |
| Valentín Elizalde, banda singer | Gunmen led by Raúl Hernández Barrón | Ambushed and killed by gunmen by Hernández Barrón after leaving a concert in Reynosa, Tamaulipas along with his chauffeur and assistant. It is widely believed that Elizalde was killed for his concert performances of the corrido, "A Mis Enemigos", which contains lyrics believed to antagonize drug trafficking gang Los Zetas. Hernández Barrón was later killed in a shootout with Mexican Federal Police in Reynosa on July 26, 2014 alongside several cartel members. |
| Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, Commissioner of the Federal Preventive Police | Alejandro Ramírez Báez | Murdered after arriving at his home in Mexico City by being shot at eight times in the chest and once in the hand on behalf of the Beltrán-Leyva Organization in retaliation for the arrest of co-founder Alfredo Beltrán Leyva. |
| Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua | | |
| Rodolfo Torre Cantú, former member of the Chamber of Deputies and gubernatorial candidate in Tamaulipas | | He was shot and killed along with six in his entourage. |
| Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, former Mexican Army general and convicted drug trafficker | Jonathan Javier Arechega Zarazúa | Approached by a lone gunman who him and shot him three times in the head after Acosta had arrived at an auto shop to drop off his car. On 4 June 2012, a man allegedly named Jonathan Javier Arechega Zarazúa was detained in connection with the assassination of Acosta Chaparro. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in January 2013. No clear motive was stated, but may be linked to either his involvement in drug trafficking with the Gulf Cartel, or his alleged involvement in torture and homicide of political dissidents in the Mexican Dirty War during the 1970s. Acosta had previously survived an attempt on his life in 2010. |
| Eduardo Castro Luque, businessman and deputy-elect to the Chamber of Deputies | | |
| Jaime Serrano Cedillo, former member of the Chamber of Deputies | | Stabbed in the chest with a knife by his wife during an argument that morning. Taken to a nearby hospital by his family where he was later pronounced dead. |
| María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, physician and former mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacán. | | Kidnapped by armed gunmen while driving her daughter to school in Morelia, Michoacán on the 12 November. Gorrostieta Salazar pleaded with her abductors to let her daughter go unharmed, and then agreed to go with the kidnappers. On 15 November, police identified the body after farm workers from the rural community of San Juan Tararameo in Cuitzeo found the corpse on their way to work. Post-mortem reports indicated that she died of a traumatic brain injury, the result of severe blows to the head. She had previously survived three attempts on her life, one of which took the life of her husband José Sánchez Chávez in 2009. |
| Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías, federal judge | Unknown | Killed by a gunman approaching behind him in broad daylight while out on a morning jog in Metepec, State of Mexico. Suspect fled the scene with an accomplice nearby. No clear motive has been established in Bermúdez Zacarías' murder, but may be possibly linked to his role as presiding judge in Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's extradition process, or his complaints against colleagues and court predecessors for judicial irregularities. In October 2019, his ex-wife Marisol Macías Gutiérrez was arrested for allegedly masterminding her ex-husband's murder in a scheme to claim his life insurance plan. |
| Miroslava Breach, investigative reporter and journalist for La Jornada and Norte de Juárez | | Shot eight times by a gunman in Chihuahua City while driving to take her 14-year-old son to school. Due to the investigative nature of her work on collusion between drug trafficking and local political corruption, her murder had been ordered as a hit to silence her. Police investigation into Breach's murder had determined that the criminal organization "Los Salazares", a division of Gente Nueva, an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, had masterminded the killings. On 25 December 2017, Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa was captured in Bacobampo, Sinaloa, and in August 2020 sentenced to 50 years in prison for being the intellectual author of Breach's murder. |
| Javier Valdez Cárdenas, journalist and founder of Ríodoce | | Shot 12 times and killed by unidentified gunmen around noon, blocks away from the Ríodoce offices in Culiacán, Sinaloa. |
| Pamela Montenegro, activist and YouTuber | Unknown group of armed men | Shot in her restaurant while working a night shift by a group of unknown armed men likely related to the cartel, due to her activism against the cartel's influence in Mexico. |
| Fernando Purón Johnston, former mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila | | Shot while leaving a debate hall while running for Mexico's general election. |
| Samir Flores Soberanes, activist, community leader, and community radio host | | Murdered outside his home in Amilcingo, Temoac, Morelos by three unidentified individuals the day after he confronted government officials about federal infrastructure projects in his home state. |
| Homero Gómez González, environmental activist, agricultural engineer, and manager of the El Rosario Butterfly Reserve | | Last seen alive on 13 January attending a meeting in the village of El Soldado, Michoacán. His family reported him missing the next day, and received phone calls from individuals claiming to have kidnapped him demanding ransom payments, which they paid. More than two weeks after his disappearance, on 30 January, his body was found in an agricultural reservoir in Ocampo, with an autopsy later revealing a head injury before drowning. Because of his work combating illegal logging, and because Raúl Hernández Romero—another activist connected to the butterfly sanctuary—was also found dead a few days later, it has been speculated that he was targeted by organized criminals. |
| Erik Juárez Blanquet, Mexican state deputy serving in Congress | Unnamed gunmen | Shot by two assailants while in the passengers seat of his car. |
| Aristóteles Sandoval, former governor of Jalisco | Saúl Alejandro Rincón Godoy, was later gunned down by Mexican military forces nearby. | Gunned down while having dinner at a local restaurant in Puerto Vallarta. |
| Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez, lawyer, former congressman, and former attorney general of Sonora | Unknown, attributed to Caborca Cartel | Shot and killed while standing on a street corner in Ciudad Obregón distributing flyers for his campaign for the municipal presidency. A female campaign worker was also injured. The attack was attributed to the Caborca Cartel, the same group that had carried out the massacre on Murrieta's clients, the LeBarón family, in 2019. |
| Hipólito Mora, farmer, politician, and vigilante self-defense group leader | Unknown gunman | Ambushed and shot at by unidentified gunmen in La Ruana, Buenavista, Michoacán along with three of his bodyguards. |
| Ociel Baena, activist for non-binary and LGBT+ rights, electoral magistrate at the State Electoral Court of Aguascalientes, and first non-binary magistrate in Latin America | Unknown | Found dead, along with Baena's partner, Dorian Daniel Nieves Herrera, in their home by Baena's housekeeper with razor-blade wounds. The state prosecution service said it suspected Herrera killed Baena before taking his own life; their families, however, rejected that hypothesis. They pointed out that Baena had denounced death threats a few months earlier, when their friend and LGBT+ activist Ulises Salvador Nava was also murdered in the same city, and historically Mexican police had tended to haphazardly dismiss homophobic crimes as "crimes of passion". |
| Ricardo Taja Ramírez, aspiring Federal Deputy | Unknown gunman | Shot and killed at a Pozolería in Acapulco. |
| Aronia Wilson Tambo, indigenous leader and activist | Jorge Santiago | Shot and killed at her home. |
| Gisela Gaytán, lawyer and aspiring mayor of Celaya. | Unknown gunman | Shot and killed at her first campaign rally in the town. |
| Milton Morales Figueroa, General Coordinator for the Tactical Strategy and Special Operations Unit of Mexico City police. | "Cartel hitmen" | Shot twice in the head by hitmen who pulled up in an SUV outside of a chicken shop in Coacalco de Berriozábal, State of Mexico while out with his family. Pending Investigation. |
| Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, academic, businessman, former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, former mayor of Culiacán, and deputy-elect | | Shot in his vehicle and subsequently died of his wounds at a private hospital in Culiacán. However, it has been alleged his killing is tied to the kidnapping and arrest of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada that same day, whom alleged in a letter that he had arranged a meeting with Cuén and Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya in order to settle a power dispute before being kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López and flown to the United States, where they were subsequently arrested. He also alleged that Cuén was instead shot at the meeting place where the said meeting was due to occur. The investigation by the Attorney General's Office of Sinaloa has been marred by irregularities and accusations of a cover-up. Pending investigation. |
| Benito Aguas Atlahua, member of the Chamber of Deputies, and former mayor of Zongolica, Veracruz | | Shot at by an individual on a motorcycle while eating lunch with his siblings in the town of Tepenacaxtla, municipality of Zongolica. A second person, a friend of the politician, was killed in the attack. |
| Carlos Manzo, municipal President of Uruapan, Michoacán | Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, acting on orders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel | Shot seven times during a Day of the Dead festival by 17-year-old Ubalde approaching him in a white hoodie. Ubadlo was subsequently killed by Manzo's security detail while resisting arrest. Two fellow assailants who accompanied Ubalde were later found dead on 14 November on the highway between Uruapan and Paracho. |
| Date | Victim | Assassin | Notes |
| David Ramsay, Delegate of the United States Continental Congress | William Linnen | Shot on Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina with a Horseman's Pistol. |
| Elijah Parish Lovejoy, minister, editor, and abolitionist | Angry mob | Killed by a pro-slavery mob. |
| Major Ridge, Cherokee leader | Bird Doublehead and James Foreman | Killed by a group of people who blamed Ridge, who signed the Treaty of New Echota, for the deaths of 4,000 Cherokees on the Trail of Tears. His son, John, and his nephew, Elias Boudinot, were also killed. |
| [Killing of Joseph Smith|] | Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints and 1844 presidential candidate | Armed mob | Armed mob killed him and his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois, jail. |
| [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|] | Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States | John Wilkes Booth | Was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin in the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning on 15 April across the street in a boarding house. Booth and accomplice David Herold hid in a barn in Virginia. Herold surrendered. When Booth refused to go out, the troops set the barn on fire. Booth remained inside the barn but was fatally shot in the neck by Union soldier Boston Corbett. |
| Silas Soule, US provost marshal and whistleblower of the Sand Creek Massacre | Charles Squier | Was shot by a soldier in Denver City, Colorado Territory, who had been under the command of John Chivington, about whom Soule had testified two months beforehand in a federal investigation of Chivington's actions at Sand Creek. Soule had been the target of at least two prior assassination attempts, and told a friend that he expected to be killed due to his testimony. |
| George Washington Ashburn, US senate candidate and judge | Five members of the Ku Klux Klan | Assassinated in Columbus, Georgia for his pro-African-American actions. First murder victim of the Klan in state. |
| James M. Hinds, U.S. Representative from Arkansas | George Clark | Killed by a Ku Klux Klan member as part of intimidation of Republicans. |
| [Assassination of James A. Garfield|] | James A. Garfield, President of the United States | Charles J. Guiteau | Shot by Guiteau while waiting for a train at a Washington train station. Garfield did not die until September 19, 1881. |
| Morgan Earp, Sheriff | Pete Spence | Shot while playing billiards at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor in Tombstone, Arizona by Cowboys in retaliation for the Earp Brothers' killings of previous Outlaws. |
| John M. Clayton, U.S. Representative from Arkansas | | Shot through his window at his home in Plumerville, Arkansas. |
| David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans | Mafiosi | |
| [Assassination of Carter Harrison III|] | Carter Harrison III, Mayor of Chicago | Patrick Eugene Prendergast | Killed after assailant was rejected for appointment to a patronage position. Assailant was convicted and executed. |
| William Goebel, Governor of Kentucky | | Uncertain, but killed in the context of a disputed, fraudulent election. |
| [Assassination of William McKinley|] | William McKinley, President of the United States | Leon Czolgosz | Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was shaking hands at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Died on September 14. |
| 24 April 1905 | John M. Pinckney, U.S. Representative from Texas | | Shot and Killed during a confrontation at a prohibition meeting meeting in Hempstead, Texas after being targeed due to his stance on alcohol laws. |
| Frank Steunenberg, former Governor of Idaho | Harry Orchard | Killed by a mining company informant in an attempt to cast blame on a labor union. |
| Pat Garrett, Old West lawman, customs agent | Jesse Wayne Brazel | Shot while traveling from Las Cruces, New Mexico. |
| Sid Hatfield, Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia | Baldwin-Felts agents | Shot and killed on the McDowell County Courthouse steps for his pro-labor actions and involvement in the Battle of Matewan. |
| Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago | Giuseppe Zangara | Shot struck Cermak instead of intended target President Franklin Roosevelt. |
| [Assassination of Huey Long|] | Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana and a potential 1936 U.S. presidential candidate | Carl Weiss | Shot with a handgun in the abdomen after attending a meeting at the State Capital building to help pass "House Bill Number One" by the son-in-law of Long's long-time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, and died two days later. Weiss was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards. |
| 15 November 1939 | Louis F. Edwards, mayor of Long Beach, New York | Alvin Dooley | Shot and killed outside his home. By, Alivin Dooley, a former head of the local police union who lost reelection to a candidate the mayor supported. |
| Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer | Carmine Galante | A theory at the time was that the suspected assassin was a member of the Mafia, acting on orders from Sicily, while other theories suggested that he was murdered by Italian fascists. Others have theorized that Tresca was eliminated by the NKVD as retribution for criticism of the Stalin regime of the Soviet Union. Vito Genovese, boss of the Genovese crime family, is said to have allegedly ordered the murder of Tresca, with the shooter allegedly being Carmine Galante of the Bonanno crime family. |
| 25 December 1951 | Harry T. Moore, NAACP Brevard County chapter founder and president of NAACP's Florida chapter | Ku Klux Klan | Killed alongside his wife, civil rights activist Harriette Moore, when a bomb exploded under their home in Mims, Florida. Harry died the day of the bombing and Harriette 9 days later.
The assassins were never caught but several KKK members are suspected. |
| Krishna Venta, cult leader | Peter Duma Kamenoff and Ralph Muller | Killed in a suicide bombing alongside seven others in Chatsworth, California by two former cultists who accused Venta of mishandling cult funds and being intimate with their wives. |
| Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company | Joseph Corbett, Jr. | Murdered in failed kidnap-for-ransom attempt. |
| William Lewis Moore, civil rights activist and Congress of Racial Equality member | Unknown | Murdered in Keener, Alabama, during a protest march from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Medgar Evers, African-American U.S. civil rights activist and leader of the NAACP in Mississippi. | Byron De La Beckwith | Shot by a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994. |
| [Assassination of John F. Kennedy|] | John F. Kennedy, President of the United States | Lee Harvey Oswald | Shot while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. |
| Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy | Jack Ruby | Shot on live television in the basement of the Dallas police department. |
| James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Michael Schwerner, civil rights activists | Ku Klux Klan | Abducted and executed by members of the Ku Klux Klan for their work on the Freedom Summer campaign in an attempt to get African Americans to register to vote in Neshoba County, Mississippi. |
| [Assassination of Malcolm X|] | Malcolm X, black Muslim leader | Talmadge Hayer, a member of the Nation of Islam | Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech. |
| Vernon Dahmer, President of the Forrest County chapter of NAACP | The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led by Samuel Bowers | His home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi was fire bombed on the night of January 10, 1966 by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leaving Dahmer severely burnt before ultimately dying from smoke inhalation and severe burns to his lungs. |
| Wharlest Jackson, Natchez, Mississippi NAACP treasurer | Unknown | Assassinated via car bomb |
| [Assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell|] | George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party | John Patler, a former aide | Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat. |
| [Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|] | Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. civil rights activist | James Earl Ray | Ray pleaded guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted restaurant owner Loyd Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot. |
| [Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|] | Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from New York and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate | Sirhan Sirhan | Shot after giving a speech after winning the California primary. Died 26 hours later on 6 June. Sirhan was convicted on 17 April 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972. |
| Clarence 13X, religious leader, founder of the Five-Percent Nation | | Was killed in an ambush while in the lobby of his apartment building in New York City. |
| Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party | Chicago Police Department, with involvement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation | Killed by the Chicago Police Department in a raid. The status of this as an assassination is somewhat disputed; however many sources see this as an assassination or at least a politically motivated extrajudicial execution, with support from the FBI's COINTELPRO program. |
| Mehmet Baydar, Turkish Consul General | Gourgen Yamikian | Killed as revenge for the Armenian Genocide. |
| Bahadır Demir, Turkish Consul | Gourgen Yamikian | Killed as revenge for the Armenian Genocide. |
| Yosef Alon, Israeli Air Force officer and military attache | Unknown | Shot to death outside his home. The case was never solved. |
| Marcus Foster, School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA | The Symbionese Liberation Army | Shot and Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army with cyanide packed bullets. |
| Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin, church deacon | Marcus Chenault | Killed while her husband was preaching at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower and union activist | | Run off the road while on her way to provide documents to The New York Times about negligent safety and security at a nuclear-waste reprocessing facility in Cimarron, Oklahoma. |
| Joseph Tommasi, leader of the National Socialist Liberation Front | Jerry Jones, National Socialist White People's Party member | Shot by Jones in the head during an altercation outside of NSWPP headquarters in El Monte, California. Tommasi had previously been expelled in 1973 by the NSWPP for his views advocating accelerationism and lone-wolf terrorist actions against the U.S. government. |
| Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States during the administration of President Salvador Allende | Michael Townley | Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents. |
| [Moscone-Milk assassinations|] | Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist | Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy | |
| [Moscone-Milk assassinations|] | George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco | Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy | |
| John H. Wood Jr., District Judge | Charles Harrelson | Shot dead in the parking lot of his townhouse in San Antonio, Texas by Harrelson who was hired by drug dealer Jamiel Chagra. |
| 22 July 1980 | Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, former Iranian press attache and exile | Dawud Salahuddin | Shot and killed at the front door of his Bethesda, Maryland home by a man disgused as a postman. Salahuddin stated he was paid $5,000 by the Iranians to kill Tabatabaei. |
| [Murder of John Lennon|] | John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles | Mark David Chapman | Shot and killed by a former fan of the Beatles, who grew to resent Lennon due to statements and actions that he perceived as anti-Christian and hypocritical. See Murder of John Lennon. |
| Kemal Arıkan, Turkish Consul General | Harry Sassounian and Krikor Saliba | Killed due to Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide. |
| Orhan Gündüz, Honorary Turkish Consul General | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | Killed in retaliation for the Armenian Genocide. |
| Alan Berg, radio talk-show host | Jean Craig, David Lane, Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari | Killed by members of the white nationalist group The Order. |
| Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer | Wu Tun and Tung Kuei-sen | Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents. |
| Tscherim Soobzokov, Circassian spy, politician, SS Obersturmführer, and Nazi fugitive | Robert Manning | Received multiple death threats from those claiming to represent the Jewish Defence League, although they denied involvement |
| Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader | Irv Rubin, Robert Manning, Andy Green, Keith Fuchs | Killed when a bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office. |
| Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman | "Volunteer Organization for the Revolution" agents | Killed in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. |
| Rebecca Schaeffer, actress | Robert John Bardo | Shot and killed by an obsessed fan who had been stalking her. |
| Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party | Tyrone Robinson | Killed by member of the Black Guerrilla Army (BGA). |
| Robert Vance, Federal Appeals Judge | Walter Leroy Moody | Moody was convicted in 1991 of sending Judge Vance a mail-bomb as a personal vendetta; however, attorney Daniel Sheehan has claimed Judge Vance was assassinated to influence the outcome of the Iran-Contra litigation Avrignan v. Hull. |
| Robert E. Robinson, lawyer, civil rights activist, and city councilmember | Walter Leroy Moody | Targeted via mail bomb for his work with the NAACP. |
| [Assassination of Meir Kahane|] | Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist | El Sayyid Nosair | Killed by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, "the blind sheik", Al-Qaeda's point man in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil. |
| Bob Sheldon, Founder of Internationalist Books | Unknown | Local leftist activist and organizer who founded a local infoshop and community center, Internationalist Books. Shot as he closed the store on 21 February 1991, his murder remains unsolved. |
| Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas | | Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School Swift Hall, allegedly due to opposition to his writings. |
| [Murder of David Gunn|] | David Gunn, abortion provider | Michael F. Griffin | Shot outside his clinic. |
| John Britton, physician, abortion provider | Paul Jennings Hill | Shot at his clinic. |
| Thomas J. Mosser, Advertising executive at Burson-Marsteller | Ted Kaczynski | Killed by bomb sent to his home, Kaczynski wrote he had sent the bomb because of Mosser's work repairing the public image of Exxon after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. |
| [Murder of Selena|] | Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, singer and songwriter | Yolanda Saldívar | Shot in Corpus Christi, Texas by fan club manager, who was later convicted for the murder |
| [Murder of Tupac Shakur|] | Tupac Shakur, rapper | Orlando Anderson | Shot in Las Vegas after leaving a boxing match. |
| [Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.|] | Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, rapper | Wardell Fouse | Shot four times during a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. |
| Gianni Versace, fashion designer | Andrew Cunanan | Shot and killed outside his mansion in Miami Beach. |
| Tommy Burks, member of the Tennessee Senate | Byron (Low Tax) Looper | Shot and killed on his property in Cookeville, Tennessee by his Republican Party opponent a month before the election. |
| Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider | James Charles Kopp | Shot in his kitchen. |
| Derwin Brown, sheriff-elect of Dekalb County, Georgia | Melvin Walker & David Ramsey | Shot twelve times outside his home. Assassination was ordered by Sidney Dorsey, whom Brown had defeated in the recent sheriff election. |
| 11 October 2001 | Thomas Crane Wales, American federal prosecutor and gun control advocate | | Wales was sitting at a computer in his office in the basement of his home. A gunman avoided the security lights in Wales' backyard and shot him once in the neck and once in the chest through a window. Wales died at a hospital the next day. In 2018, FBI investigators announced they strongly suspected the killing to have been carried out by a paid hitman. |
| James E. Davis, member of the New York City Council | Othniel Askew | Shot in the torso while introducing Askew on the balcony of the New York City Hall. |
| [Columbus nightclub shooting|] | Dimebag Darrell, musician | Nathan Gale | Shot while performing onstage at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. |
| [Murder of Chauncey Bailey|] | Chauncey Bailey, Oakland Tribune journalist | Devaughndre Broussard | Shot on the street in Oakland. |
| Mike Swoboda, Mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri | Charles "Cookie" Thornton | See Kirkwood City Council shooting |
| [Murder of George Tiller|] | George Tiller, physician | Scott Roeder | Shot by anti-abortion extremist as he ushered at his church. |
| [2011 Tucson shooting|] | John Roll, Chief Judge | Jared Lee Loughner | Shot by Loughner along with his main target Gabrielle Giffords in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona during the Congress on Your Corner meeting. |
| [Charleston church shooting|] | Clementa C. Pinckney, South Carolina Senator | Dylann Roof | Shot and killed by Roof during the Charleston Church Shooting in South Carolina. |
| Christina Grimmie, singer | Kevin Loibl | Shot while signing autographs in Orlando, Florida. |
| Whitey Bulger, crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang | Fotios Geas, Paul J. DeCologero & Sean McKinnon | Found beaten to death with a padlock-sock and a shiv in his wheelchair after being transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, West Virginia. |
| Frank Cali, mobster and acting boss of the Gambino crime family | Anthony Comello | Killed outside his home by Comello who had become obsessed with QAnon conspiracy theories, and believed Cali was a member of a "deep state". |
| [Killing of Brian Thompson|] | Brian Thompson, businessman and CEO of UnitedHealthcare | Luigi Mangione | Shot three times outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in Manhattan, New York. |
| Arul Carasala, religious leader | Gary Hermesch | Shot multiple times outside his home in Seneca, Kansas. |
| [2025 Minnesota lawmaker shootings|] | Melissa Hortman, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives | Vance Boelter | Hortman, her husband, and their golden retriever were shot and killed at their home by a gunman impersonating a police officer |
| [Assassination of Charlie Kirk|] | Charlie Kirk, political activist, Co-founder of Turning Point USA | Tyler Robinson | Shot and killed while on stage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah during a TPUSA event. |