Being a world leader sometimes comes at the ultimate price. History is littered with numerousworld leader assassinations and attempts, motivated by religion, political interests or other reasons.
Nobel peace prize winner and Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat died at age 62 when he was assassinated by fundamentalists on October 6, 1981. He was succeeded by Hosni Mubarak, the current President of Egypt.
Mahatma Gandhi, the iconic leader of India's independence movement who advocated non-violence, was shot dead by Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948. Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were later tried and convicted; they were executed on November 15, 1949.
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot to death by Yigal Amir, a radical right-wing Orthodox Jew who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords on November 4, 1995.
Finally, going back a little further in history, dictator of the Roman Republic Julius Caesar was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy by forty Roman senators in 44 B.C. He was stabbed by a group led by Gaius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus in the Theatre of Pompey. According to Eutropius, around 60 or more men participated in the assassination. Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
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