| Events came to a head in 1208 when a papal legate was assassinated near Carcassonne. |
| Then in 1708 the last Sikh guru, Gobind Singh was assassinated by a local Mughal commander. |
| Both presidents were assassinated in office and both assassins used their middle names for preference. |
| Henry III was, however, assassinated by a Jacobin friar on 1 August of that year. |
| Five dissident Iranian authors have been assassinated over the last two years following repeated death threats. |
| He was supposedly the rat who betrayed the Gibraltar Three, the Eksund gun runners and the IRA men assassinated at Loughgall. |
