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Politicians assassinated in the 1940s

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The list Politicians assassinated in the 1940s includes Mohandas K. Gandhi, Lev Trotskiy, Ahmad Kasravi, Giovanni Gentile and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne. The list consists of 60 members.
  • 1.

    Mohandas K. Gandhi
    Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
    Mohandas K. Gandhi
    Overview: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign ...
    Date of birth: 2 October 1869
    Date of death: 30 January 1948
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Attorney
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    20th-century assassinated Indian politicians 37T
    Indian vegetarianism activists 14T
    Indian anti-poverty advocates 5T
  • 2.

    Lev Trotskiy
    Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
    Lev Trotskiy
    Overview: Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky (), was a Russian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a ...
    Date of birth: 7 November 1879
    Date of death: 21 August 1940
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Government
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Russian Ashkenazi Jews 3T
    Soviet Marxist writers 3T
    Russian Marxist writers 16T
  • 3.

    Ahmad Kasravi
    Iranian academic
    Ahmad Kasravi
    Overview: Seyyed Ahmad Kasravi Tabrizi (Persian: سید احمد کسروی تبریزی‎, Seyyed Ahmad-e Kasravi-ye Tabrizi;‎ 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), Commonly known as Ahmad Kasravi (Persian: احمد ...
    Date of birth: 29 September 1890
    Date of death: 11 March 1946
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: Iranian
    Occupation: Writer
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    Ahmad Kasravi 1T
    Iranian researchers 62T
    People assassinated by the Fada'iyan-e Islam 3T
  • 4.

    Giovanni Gentile
    Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician
    Giovanni Gentile
    Overview: Giovanni Gentile (30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing ...
    Date of birth: 30 May 1875
    Date of death: 15 April 1944
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    Fascist writers 19T
    Mussolini Cabinet 50T
    Murdered philosophers 9T
  • 5.
    Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
    Overview: Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, DSO & Bar, PC (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944) was an Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East ...
    Date of birth: 29 March 1880
    Date of death: 6 November 1944
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    Barons Moyne 3T
    Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 138T
    UK MPs who were granted peerages 853T
  • 6.

    Kim Gu
    Korean politician
    Kim Gu
    Overview: Kim Gu (Korean: 김구, August 29, 1876 – June 26, 1949), also known by his pen name Baekbeom (백범; ), was a Korean statesman politician. He was the sixth, ninth and later the last President of the Provisional ...
    Date of birth: 29 August 1876
    Date of death: 26 June 1949
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: South Korean
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Male
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    Korean nationalists 21T
    Recipients of the National Reunification Prize 9T
    People from Haeju 7T
  • 7.

    Lyuh Woon-hyung
    Korean politician
    Lyuh Woon-hyung
    Overview: Lyuh Woon-hyung or Yo Un-hyung (May 25, 1886 – July 19, 1947) was a Korean politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace, and a reunification activist who struggled for the ...
    Date of birth: 25 May 1886
    Date of death: 19 July 1947
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: South Korean
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Hamyang Yeo clan 10T
    Korean nationalists 21T
    People from Yangpyeong County 2T
  • 8.

    Bardhok Biba
    Albanian politician
    Bardhok Biba
    Overview: Bardhok Biba (January 28, 1920 - August 7, 1949) was a key political figure of the Mirditë region serving as political secretary of the party committee in the district. Biba was also a member of the P ...
    Date of birth: 1920
    Date of death: 9 August 1949
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: Albanian
    Occupation: Politician
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    People from Mirditë 15T
    Albanian resistance members 56T
    Deaths by firearm in Albania 11T
  • 9.

    Sao San Tun
    Burmese politician
    Sao San Tun
    Overview: Sao San Htun (Burmese: စဝ်စံထွန်း, 30 May 1907 – 20 July 1947) was the hereditary chief of the Shan State of Mongpawn, and Minister of Hill Regions in Myanmar's pre-independence interim government. He ...
    Date of birth: 30 May 1907
    Date of death: 20 July 1947
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: Burmese
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    Burmese people of World War II 30T
    Burmese people of Shan descent 39T
    People from Shan State 56T
  • 10.

    Thakin Mya
    Burmese politician
    Thakin Mya
    Overview: Thakin Mya (Burmese: သခင်မြ, 7 October 1897 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Home Affairs and in June 1947 transferred as Minister of Finance in Myanmar's ...
    Date of birth: 7 October 1897
    Date of death: 19 July 1947
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Nationality: Burmese
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    Finance ministers of Myanmar 9T
    Burmese people of World War II 30T
    People from Pyay Region 1T
  • 11.

    Qazim Koculi
    Albanian politician (1887–1943)
    Qazim Koculi
    Overview: Qazim Koculi (August 22, 1887 – January 2, 1943) was an Albanian politician of the early 20th century and one-day acting Prime Minister of Albania. He was also the principal military commander of the ...
    Date of birth: 22 August 1887
    Date of death: 2 January 1943
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: Albanian
    Occupation: Military
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    People from Selenicë 7T
    Zosimaia School alumni 26T
    Albanian collaborators with Fascist Italy 24T
  • 12.

    U Razak
    Burmese politician
    U Razak
    Overview: U Razak (Urdu: عبدالرزاق; Abdul Razaq; Burmese: ဦးရာဇတ်, also Abdul Razak; 20 January 1898 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese politician and an educationalist. He was a Tamil Muslim and also was a cabinet ...
    Date of birth: 20 January 1898
    Date of death: 19 July 1947
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Nationality: Burmese
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    Burmese Muslim activists 2T
    University of Yangon alumni 155T
    Burmese Muslims 25T
  • 13.
    Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
    Overview: Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (or Imam Yahya) (Arabic: يحيى محمد حميد الدين‎, 18 June 1869 – 17 February 1948) became Imam of the Zaydis in 1904 after the death of his father, Muhammad Al-Mansur, and ...
    Date of birth: 18 June 1869
    Date of death: 17 February 1948
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Yemeni
    Occupation: Politician
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    Zaydi imams of Yemen 52T
    20th-century Arabs 159T
    19th-century Arabs 118T
  • 14.

    Sandalio Junco
    Cuban labor figure
    Sandalio Junco
    Overview: Sandalio Junco Camellón (1894-1942) was a Cuban Afro-Latino labor figure and communist radical. Having started out as a trade unionist, Junco rose through anarcho-syndicalist organizations to fight for ...
    Date of birth: 1894
    Date of death: 1942
    Age: 47 (age at death)
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    Assassinated Cuban politicians 4T
    Cuban communists 38T
    1894 births 5,534T
  • 15.
    Somen Chanda
    Overview: Somen Chanda (Bengali: সোমেন চন্দ; 24 May 1920 – 8 March 1942) was a Marxist activist, writer and trade union leader of Bengal.
    Date of birth: 24 May 1920
    Date of death: 8 March 1942
    Age: 21 (age at death)
    Occupation: Politician
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  • 16.

    Rustam Haidar
    Iraqi politician (1889 – 1940)
    Rustam Haidar
    Overview: Rustam Haidar (Arabic: رستم حيدر‎) (born 1889 in Baalbek; died 22 January 1940) was a politician and an aide to Emir Faisal who served as the Defense and Finance Ministers of Iraq, of Lebanese d ...
    Nationality: Iraqi
    Occupation: Politician
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  • 17.

    Ponciano Bernardo
    Filipino politician
    Overview: Ponciano A. Bernardo (December 2, 1905 – April 28, 1949) was a Filipino engineer and politician who served as mayor of Quezon City, holding the position from 1947 until his death in 1949. It was during ...
    Date of birth: 2 December 1905
    Date of death: 28 April 1949
    Age: 43 (age at death)
    Occupation: Politician
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    Mayors of Quezon City 8T
    Mayors of places in Metro Manila 36T
    Assassinated Filipino politicians 18T
  • 18.

    Song Jin-Woo (journalist)
    Korean politician
    Song Jin-Woo (journalist)
    Overview: Song Jin-woo (Korean: 송진우, hanja: 宋鎭禹, May 8, 1889 - December 30, 1945) was a Korean journalist, politician, independence activist, and social activist. His nickname was Goha (고하, 古下). He was the 3rd ...
    Date of birth: 8 May 1889
    Date of death: 30 December 1945
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: South Korean
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century journalists 2,834T
    Korean journalists 12T
    Korean politicians 81T
  • 19.

    Chang Deok-soo
    Korean politician
    Chang Deok-soo
    Overview: Chang Deok-soo (10 December 1894 – 2 December 1947) was a Korean politician, independence activist, journalist, and political scientist. He was the first editor-in-chief of the Dong-A Ilbo. He was the ...
    Date of birth: 10 December 1894
    Date of death: 2 December 1947
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: South Korean
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century journalists 2,834T
    People from Chaeryong County 4T
    Korean journalists 12T
  • 20.

    Tin Tut
    Burmese politician
    Tin Tut
    Overview: Tin Tut, CBE (Burmese: တင်ထွဋ်, also spelt Tin Htut; 1 February 1895 – 18 September 1948) was the first 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Burma, and the Minister of Finance in Aung San's ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1895
    Date of death: 18 September 1948
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: Burmese
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    Finance ministers of Myanmar 9T
    Foreign ministers of Myanmar 11T
    People educated at Dulwich College 394T
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