Assassins Assassins Harry Orchard was born Albert Horsley in 1867 in Ontario, Canada. He was also known as Thomas Hogan. He was a member of the Western Federation of Miners. In 1905 he was arrested for the assassination of Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho. He implicated Bill Haywood, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone in the crime. Due to lack of evidence, those three men were acquitted, but Orchard received a sentence of life imprisonment, and he died in jail in 1954. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Horsley"
In its most common use, assassination has come to mean the killing of an important person. An assassin — one who carries out the assassination — is usually ideologically- or politically-motivated. Other motivations may be money in the case of a contract killing; opposition to a person's beliefs or belief systems in the case of a fanatic; orders from a government that are often carried about by a subversive agent such as a spy; or loyalty to a competing leader or group. ...more on Wikipedia about "Assassination"
Balthasar Gérard (in Dutch, Gerards or Gerardts) ( 1557- 1584) was the assassin of the Dutch independence leader, William the Silent, also known as William I of Orange. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balthasar Gérard"
Beant Singh was one of the bodyguards to Indira Gandhi who allegedly assassinated the former Prime Minister of India. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beant Singh"
Bernard Lortie (born c.1951) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was a member of the Chenier Cell of the Front de Libération du Quebec (FLQ) terrorist group who were responsible for a decade of bombings and armed robberiers in the Province of Quebec. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernard Lortie"
Byron De La Beckwith ( November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and the assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Byron De La Beckwith"
Charlotte Corday ( July 27, 1768– July 17, 1793), more fully Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, killed Jean-Paul Marat in 1793. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charlotte Corday"
Clive John Derby Lewis was born on 22nd January 1936 in Cape Town, and was a South African parliamentarian, firstly in the National Party and then in the Conservative Party. He is serving a life sentence for his role in the assassination of Chris Hani. He has been described as a "right-wing extremist" by the Daily Telegraph ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Clive Derby-Lewis"
Former South African police major Craig Williamson was exposed as a spy in 1980, and was involved in a series of state-sponsored overseas bombings, burglaries, kidnapping, assassinations, sabotage and black propaganda during the apartheid era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Craig Williamson"
Daniel M'Naghten was by all accounts, a textbook example of insanity. A Scottish woodsman, he believed he was the victim of an international conspiracy, involving the Pope and British Prime Minister, Robert Peel. In 1843 he tried to kill Peel, but in a case of mistaken identity accidentally killed his private secretary, Edward Drummond. After stalking Peel for days in London, he saw a figure he believed was Peel from the rear approaching Downing Street, where he fired a single shot into his victim's back. As M'Naghten was quickly overpowered by local constables, Drummond walked to his nearby brother's house; but despite medical attention, died several days later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniel M'Naghten"
Dimitri Tsafendas ( 14 January 1918 – 7 October 1999) assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of that country's apartheid program, on 6 September 1966. Tsafendas, who was a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd with a dagger during a parliamentary session. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dimitri Tsafendas"
El Sayyid Nosair (born November 16, 1955) is an Egyptian Islamic militant involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. ...more on Wikipedia about "El Sayyid Nosair"
Eligiusz Niewiadomski ( 1869 - January 31, 1923), was a Polish modernist painter and art critic, who belonged to the right-wing National Democratic Party in renascent Poland in the early 20th century. He is famous for his assasination of Poland's first President Gabriel Narutowicz in 1922. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eligiusz Niewiadomski"
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri ( 1922- 22 March 1945) was a member of the Stern Gang who was executed in Egypt for assassinating of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eliyahu Bet-Zuri"
Eliyahu Hakim ( 1925- 22 March 1945) was a member of the Lehi who was executed in Egypt for the assassination of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eliyahu Hakim"
Eugen Schauman ( May 10, 1875 - June 16, 1904) was a Finnish nationalist who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eugen Schauman"
Eugene Patrick Prendergast ( 1868 - July 13, 1894) was the U.S. assassin of Chicago, Illinois Mayor Carter Harrison, Sr.. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eugene Patrick Prendergast"
François Ravaillac ( 1578 – May 27, 1610) was the killer of Henry IV of France. ...more on Wikipedia about "François Ravaillac"
Friedrich Adler ( July 9 1879 - January 2 1960) was an Austrian politician, lobbyist and revolutionary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friedrich Adler (1879-1960)"
George Andreas Atzerodt ( June 12, 1835 – July 7, 1865) ** ** was a conspirator with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Atzerodt"
The Hashshashin (also Hashishin), or Assassins were a religious sect (often refered to as a cult) of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect with a militant basis, thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries as a mystic secret society specializing in terrorising the Abbasid elite with fearlessly executed, politically motivated assassinations (the word "assassin" is generally thought to derive from their name). Their own name for the sect was al-da'wa al-jadīda (الدعوةالجديدة) which means the new doctrine and they called themselves fedayeen from the Arabic fidā'ī which means one who is ready to sacrifice their life for a cause — that term has the modern connotation of " freedom fighter". The name Hashshashin was given to them by their Muslim enemies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hashshashin"
Henriette Caillaux ( 1874- 1943) was a Parisian socialite and wife of the former Prime Minister of France who is remembered as an assassin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henriette Caillaux"
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (born March 28 1921, date of death unknown), political assassin and victim of the Holocaust, was born in Hanover, Germany, of Polish-Jewish parents. He studied at a yeshiva in Frankfurt-am-Main, but by 1935 his position as a Jew in Germany was becoming impossible. He applied to emigrate to Palestine but was rejected. His parents then decided to send him to live with his uncle and aunt, Abraham and Chawa Grynszpan, in Paris. He entered France illegally via Brussels in September 1936. ...more on Wikipedia about "Herschel Grynszpan"
Hitokiri (人斬) was a term given to four different samurai during the Bakumatsu era in Japanese history. They were against the Tokugawa shogunate and in support of the Meiji Emperor. Hitokiri, literally meaning "Person Slayer", is a superlative name for this particular caliber of samurai warrior. These four samurai were warrior elite and widely considered undefeatable by normal people. Along with the title of Hitokiri, the four men were also referred to as "The Four Butchers" or "Heaven's Revenge against the enemies of Imperial restoration". Most of them came from the Choshu-Satsuma provinces, which were largely anti- Bakufu at the time. Three of these notable men were Kawakami Gensai, Tanaka Shimbe, and Izo Okada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hitokiri"
Izo Okada, born Yoshifuru, (岡田以蔵, 1832–1865) was one of the four members of the Hitokiri, a band of assassins active in Japan during the late Tokugawa shogunate in the 1860s. He and Tanaka Shimbe worked for Takechi Hanpeita as political assassins attempting to kill everyone who supported the Tokugawa Shogun over the Emperor. Okada started out as a poor uneducated peasant, but because of his skill and his strong fighting spirit he quickly distinguished himself, becoming one of the most feared and renowned Hitokiri. Several films feature him as protagonist, most notably Hideo Gosha's Hitokiri (1969) and Takashi Miike's Izo (2004). ...more on Wikipedia about "Izo Okada"
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