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Originally Posted by Rich
hmm, really? Name the sitting leaders of major world powers who have been assassinated in the past thousand years. If you can come up with 200 names, there's a lot of history I seem to have missed.
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# Birendra, (2001), King of Nepal (along with Queen Aiswary and 9 other members of the royal family).
# Vasgen Sarkissian, (1999), Prime Minister of Armenia.
# Yitzhak Rabin, (1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
# Ranasinghe Premadasa, (1993), President of Sri Lanka.
# René Moawad, (1989), president of Lebanon.
# Rashid Karami, (1987), Prime Minister of Lebanon.
# Olof Palme, (1986), Swedish prime minister.
# Haruo Remeliik, (1985), president of the Pacific island of Palau.
# Ziaur Rahman, (1981), president of Bangladesh.
# Park Chung Hee, (1979), President of South Korea.
# Ahmad al-Ghashmi, (1978), president of North Yemen killed by bomb along with envoy from South Yemen.
# Ibrahim al-Hamadi, (1977), president of North Yemen.
# Faisal of Saudi Arabia, (1975), king.
# Mujibur Rahman, (1975), president of Bangladesh.
# Luis Carrero Blanco, (1973), Spanish prime minister.
# Sir Richard Sharples, (1973), governor of Bermuda.
# Wasfi at-Tall, (1971), Prime Minister of Jordan.
# Ngo Dinh Diem, (1963), first president of South Vietnam.
# Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, (1961), Dominican Republic dictator.
# S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, (1959), Sri Lankan socialist prime minister killed by Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama.
# Faisal II, (1958), King of Iraq,
# Nuri Pasha as-Said, (1958), Iraqi politician, and
# Ibrahim Hashim, (1958), Jordanian politician, prime minister several times between the 1930s and shortly before his death - the previous three were all killed during the July 14 military coup in Iraq.
# Carlos Castillo Armas, (1957), president of Guatemala.
# Anastasio Somoza, (1956), president of Nicaragua.
# Liaquat Ali Khan, (1951), Prime Minister of Pakistan.
# Abdullah I, (1951), King of Jordan.
# Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, (1950), chairman of the military junta of Venezuela.
# Yahya ibn Mohammad, (1948), imam of Yemen.
# Benito Mussolini, (1945), fascist Prime Minister of Italy.
# Armand Calinescu, (1939), Prime Minister of Romania.
# Engelbert Dollfuss, (1934), chancellor of Austria.
# Luis Sánchez Cerro, (1933), president of Peru.
# Ion Duca, (1933), prime minister of Romania.
# Celal Pasha, (1929), former Ottoman Minister for the Navy
# Gabriel Narutowicz, (1922), President of Poland.
# Talat Pasha, 1921, Former Ottoman Interior Minister
# Karl Graf Stürgkh, (1916), Prime Minister of Austria.
# George I of Greece, (1913), king.
# Charles of Portugal, (1908), king.
# Umberto I of Italy, (1900), king.
# Ulises Heureaux, (1899), president of the Dominican Republic.
# Stefan Stambolov, (1895), Prime Minister of Bulgaria
# Gabriel García Moreno, (1875), president of Ecuador known for his support of the Catholic church.
# Ioannis Capodistrias, (1831), first president of Greece.
# Pius VIII, (1830), Pope.
# Spencer Perceval, (1812), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
# Jean-Jacques Dessalines, (1806), Emperor of Haiti
# Gustav III, (1792), King of Sweden.
# Conrad of Montferrat, (1192), King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade.
# William I of Orange, (1584), stadtholder.
# Raymond II of Tripoli, (1152), count of Tripoli.
# Zengi, (1146), ruler of Aleppo and Mosul and founder of the Zengid Dynasty.
# Umar ibn al-Khattab, (644), second caliph
# Numerian, (284), Roman emperor.
# Carinus, (284), Roman emperor.
# Probus, (282), Roman emperor.
# Florianus, (276), Roman emperor.
# Aurelian, (275), Roman emperor.
# Laelianus, (268), Gallic emperor.
# Postumus, (268), Gallic emperor.
# Gallienus, (268), Roman emperor.
# Trebonianus Gallus, (253), Roman emperor.
# Gordian III, (244), Roman emperor.
# Khosrow I, (238), Armenian king.
# Pupienus, (238), Roman emperor.
# Balbinus, (238), Roman emperor.
# Maximinus Thrax, (238), Roman emperor.
# Alexander Severus, (235), Roman emperor.
# Heliogabalus, (222), Roman emperor.
# Caracalla, (217), Roman emperor.
# Publius Septimius Geta, (212), Roman emperor.
# Didius Julianus, (193), Roman emperor.
# Pertinax, (193), Roman emperor.
# Commodus, (192), Roman emperor.
# Domitian, (96), Roman emperor.
# Galba, (69), Roman emperor.
# Vitellius, (69), Roman emperor.
# Claudius, (54), Roman emperor.
# Caligula, (41), Roman emperor.
# Gaius Julius Caesar, (44 BC), common form of reference to Julius Caesar.
# Antiochus VI Dionysus, (138 BC), Seleucid heir to the throne.
# Alexander Balas, (146 BC), Seleucid king.
# Seleucus IV Philopator, (176 BC), Seleucid king.
# Seleucus III Ceraunus, (223 BC), Seleucid king.
# Antiochus II Theos, (246 BC), Seleucid king.
# Tidas, (252 BC), tyrant of Sicyon.
# Cleon of Sicyon, (272 BC), tyrant of Sicyon.
# Seleucus I Nicator, (281 BC), founder of the Seleucid dynasty.
# Philip II of Macedon, (336 BC), king of Macedon.
# Hipparchus, (514 BC), tyrant of Athens.
# Servius Tullius, (534 BC), Etruscan king.
# Titus Tatius, (748 BC), Sabine king.