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It occurs to me that all trough history, amongst the crop of rulers there was often great mediocrity, and greatness was often more the exception than the norm. And even then, many great leaders got just assassinated aswell. I was considering how frequent this had been trough history particulary for those leaders of better nature or greater character. I can think a number on top of my head, and then i can also look up some sites for names. For example:

https://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/famous-assassinations/

But ok, such a list is not nessecarily so extensive, i can think of some more egregious instances that although perhaps less well known could be considered. That link for example does not incluede Aurelianus, whereas i'm sure many will agree that he could be one of the best leaders ever assasinated? I'm sure this site can produce a far more extensive and insightfull look into this?
 
Jesus of Nazareth, followed closely by Julius Caesar, are the two most famous assassinations in Western history. Socrates is not far behind.

But if you want to start the list with JFK and those two mafia associates, Lee Harvey Oswald and his assassin Jacob Rubenstein, sure.
 
The highest administrator and the military commander of the Grand Duchy of Finland, Governor-General Nikolay Bobrikov was assassinated in Helsinki 1904 by a young Finnish nationalist, Eugen Schauman.

Schauman shot Bobrikov three times and after that twice himself into the heart. Schauman died immediately - Bobrikov as mortally wounded was taken to a hospital where he died next morning. The assassination of the unpopular General-Governor Bobrikov is the most well-known among the very few political murders in Finland.
 
Maybe Jesus should have just followed in his fathers footsteps and started carpentering instead of hanging out with a bunch of hobos. Maybe then, he'd have be able to afford a good lawyer.

Patrice Lumumba, seems like someone who actually had a plan for Congo and help the country recover and develop.
 
viale said:
Maybe Jesus should have just followed in his fathers footsteps and started carpentering instead of hanging out with a bunch of hobos. Maybe then, he'd have be able to afford a good lawyer.

Patrice Lumumba, seems like someone who actually had a plan for Congo and help the country recover and develop.
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He was not a Roman citizen, there are limits what a lawyer can achieve under these conditions.
 
It'd have been interesting to see a Japanese-Oda dynasty instead of a Tokugawa-dynasty. What's also interesting is that nobody really seems to know why Nobunaga was assassinated by Mitsuhide. Whether Nobunaga would have been any sort of decent peacetime ruler I admittedly have no idea. Some stuff speaks for him, others really doesn't. ^^
 
Like Pyoro said Oda would be my favorite.

Abe Lincoln comes to my mind.
 
Twice as the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 by shooting in Stockholm. Over the years more than 100 people has been a suspect of the crime - the offender has not been identified. Palme's murder was the first assassination of a national leader in Sweden since 1792 and had a huge impact across all the Nordic Countries.

Another Swedish statesman, King of Sweden, Charles XII - his death in 1718 has been under many suspicions. Some theories and claims have that due to the Swedish war exhaustion and the defeats in the Great Northern War saturated, tired the Swedes and raised a desire to put an end to the war - even to that extent that the king would have been shot by his own countryman during the Siege of Fredrikshald, Norway. Another claim has that a certain group of Swedish wealthy noblemen schemed a plot to kill Charles XII in order to block the extra wealthy tax Charles was intended to introduce to cover the bottom of the national coffers.

To ascertain the cause of death Charles' body has been exhumed three times - in 1746, 1859 and 1917. After the exhume of 1917 Charles' head and the gunshot wound causing the death was photographed. The last offical statement has that the shot came from the enemy fortress, but the definite circumstances around the death remain unclear.
 
Anna Lindh, Swedish foreign minister and next in line to take over from then Prime minister Göran Persson was stabbed to death by the Serbian citizen Mijailo Mijailovic.
Anna Lindh was particularily noteworthy in that she much like Palme was at the forefront of human rights but unlike Palme hadn't made any enemies. Had she not been killed I'm certain Swedish politics would have been on a different trajectory.
 
Andre Bolkonsky said:
Jesus of Nazareth, followed closely by Julius Caesar, are the two most famous assassinations in Western history. Socrates is not far behind.

But if you want to start the list with JFK and those two mafia associates, Lee Harvey Oswald and his assassin Jacob Rubenstein, sure.
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As others in this thread have already noted, the narratives in the Gospels (with all the important disagreements between them) leave no doubt that Jesus of Nazareth was convicted and executed in which was the proper and regular form for a peregrinus in Roman-occupied Judaea at the time. You can argue that the conviction was unjust, but not unlawful. It was an execution, not a murder; otherwise if we start disputing about it, this thread will become meaningless.
 
Emperor Aurelian, who spent his reign unifying the empire during the Crisis of the Third Century, and was assassinated in a conspiracy by a corrupt official that was afraid of his justice, a year after his triumph.

Murad I, the conquering sultan whose expansion into the Balkans laid the groundwork for the imperial period of the Ottoman state, he was assassinated after emerging victorious in the hard fought Battle of Kosovo, reputedly by a Serbian knight who hid amongst the battlefield's dead; though an alternative narrative suggests that the knight in question approached the sultan by faking an intention to defect.
 
Yitzhak Rabin.
 
Archduke Ferdinand comes to my mind. While not a leader he was the heir and supposedly he was pretty nice and his assassins supposedly wanted him dead because they thought he could maintain Austria-Hungary and that was against their goal of independence.
 
Denkt said:
Archduke Ferdinand comes to my mind. While not a leader he was the heir and supposedly he was pretty nice and his assassins supposedly wanted him dead because they thought he could maintain Austria-Hungary and that was against their goal of independence.
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Two attempts were made on the same day in order to assassinate the archduke - the second one arose unexpecdetly while the royal couple was on a route to the hospital and give a visit for those whom were injured during the first assassination attempt. However, the driver took a wrong route and the car had to turn around. During the turn the car stalled - by a chance Gavrilo Princip was sitting in a cafe across the street and noticed the royal couple’s car in trouble. Princip immediately took the opportunity and shot the royal couple.

The assassination of the archduke gave the excuse for the European nations living in a powder keg to start one of the greatest miseries of the humankind.
 
Japan's first Meiji era Prime Minister and overall greatest politician of his generation, Itō Hirobumi, was assasinated by Korean nationalist An Jung-geun while acting as the Japanese Resident-General of Korea in 1909.
 
A murder that is often overlooked is that of emperor Maurice on 27th November 602 CE (along with his six male sons), which acted as the catalyst for the invasion of the East Roman empire by Khusro II in what was to be the last great war of antiquity, paving the way for the rise of Islam. This coincided with another probable murder, that of Tardu, the Ninth Qaghan of the Türks, who had been allies of the Romans against the Sasanians. Another key murder of this era was that of the Qaghan of the Western Türks Tong Yabghu, who had been vital in Heraclius' victory against Khusrau II. His death plunged the Western Turkish Qaghanate into civil war and left Heraclius without his most valyable allies and desperately short of manpower just when the Arabs were about to launch their conquest of the Middle East.
 
Denkt said:
Same can be said about Cicero, he was proscribed without any trial and killed because of that,
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The way proscriptions worked was a bit more like assasination I would say. The state put a price on an individuals head and let civilians carry out the deed.

I doubt that Antony had Cicero’s illegal executions in mind when he proscribed Cicero. Unless you believe in karma it was coincidental.
 
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