Famous People Who Died of shot to death

• Attucks, Crispus

  The African-American killed in the Boston Massacre

• Billy the Kid

  Baby-faced outlaw of the 19th-century American West

• Bin Laden, Osama

  The mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks

• Booth, John Wilkes

  The man who shot Abraham Lincoln

• Byck, Samuel

  The guy who plotted to assassinate President Nixon with a plane

• Devi, Phoolan

  Modern India's "Bandit Queen"

• Dillinger, John

  The gangster given up by the "Lady in Red"

• Gaye, Marvin

  Singer of "Sexual Healing"

• Hamilton, Alexander

  Co-author of The Federalist Papers

• Hampton, Fred

  The young Black Panther murdered by Chicago police in 1969

• Hartman, Phil

  The droll comic star of TV's News Radio

• Hickok, "Wild Bill"

  The frontiersman shot from behind in Deadwood

• Hussle, Nipsey

  Grammy nominated rapper who did the album 'Victory Lap'

• James, Jesse (outlaw)

  Famous desperado of the old American west

• Jones, Jim

  Christian preacher who led 908 followers to their deaths

• Kyle, Chris

  The author of American Sniper

• Lennon, John

  One of the songwriters from The Beatles

• Lewis, Meriwether

  Co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Martin, Trayvon

  The Florida teen shot in 2012 while wearing a hoodie

• Milk, Harvey

  The gay San Francisco city official gunned down in 1978

• Mussolini, Benito

  Italy's dictator during World War II

• Newton, Huey

  Co-founder of the Black Panthers

• Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Accused assassin of John F. Kennedy

• Pushkin, Alexander

  The author of the verse novel 'Eugene Onegin'

• Richthofen, Manfred von

  WW I flying ace known as "The Red Baron"

• Selena

  The 'Queen of Tejano'

• Shakur, Tupac

  Late rapper of 2Pacalypse Now

• Sitting Bull

  The Lakota chief who beat General Custer at Little Bighorn

• Steenkamp, Reeva

  The South African model killed by Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius in 2013

• Taylor, Breonna

  The innocent Black woman killed at home by Louisville police in 2020

• Versace, Gianni

  The superstar Italian fashion designer who was killed in Miami Beach

• Walsh, Stella

  The female Olympic sprinter who turned out to be a man

See: All Causes of Death