People Who Have Been Assassinated

Name the people that have been assassinated based on the date and the description given on how they died.

Assassination attempts are not included (i.e. Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II).

Source: http://www.wikipedia.org

July 2, 1881* = This person got shot this day, however died a few months later

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Description	Date of Assassination	Person
Shot in the head at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth	April 14, 1865	Abraham Lincoln
Shot in the chest three times by Nathuram Godse	January 30, 1948	Mohandas Gandhi
Stabbed approximately 27 times by betrayers	March 15, 44 B.C.	Julius Caesar
Shot three times with revolver and killed with sub-machine gun by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh	October 31, 1984	Indira Gandhi
Shot in the head with rifle by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee	April 4, 1968	Martin Luther King Jr.
Shot in the throat and in the head by presumably Lee Harvey Oswald	November 22, 1963	John F. Kennedy
Shot in Buffalo, New York by Leon Czolgosz	September 14, 1901	William McKinley
Shot by Charles Guiteau at a D.C. train station. Died from infection	July 2, 1881*	James A. Garfield
Killed in detonated explosion by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam	May 21, 1991	Rajiv Gandhi
Shot in the lung by Yigal Amir	November 4, 1995	Yitzhak Rabin
Stabbed in the head with an ice pick by Ramon Mercader	August 20, 1940	Leon Trotsky
Shot in the chest and head by Gavrilo Princip, which arguably started World War I	June 28, 1914	Franz Ferdinand I
Boat exploded by Irish Republican Army	August 27, 1979	Lord Louis Mountbatten
Shot eight times by Sirhan Sirhan at a presidential campaign	June 4, 1968	Robert Kennedy
Attempted poisoning, shot four times, beaten, tortured, and rolled up in a carpet and thrown into the Malaya Nevka River by Prince Felix Yusopov	December 30, 1916	Grigori Rasputin
Family taken into a basement and killed by order of Ural Soviet of Workers' Deputies	July 17, 1918	Czar Nicholas II
Shot by fundamentalist officers lead by Khali Islambouli during annual victory parade	October 6, 1981	Anwar El Sadat