Julius Caesar, a prominent Roman dictator and statesman, was assassinated on March 15, 44 BCE. A group of disgruntled senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, stabbed Caesar to death in the Senate chamber. They feared Caesar's growing power and saw his assassination as a way to preserve the Roman Republic.
2. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and actor, shot Lincoln in the head while the president was watching a play. The assassination occurred five days after the Confederacy's surrender, ending the American Civil War.
3. John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine and self-proclaimed Marxist, fired three shots from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, fatally wounding Kennedy. The assassination remains one of the most controversial events in American history.