1940s/Assassinations
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The assassinations of the 1940s.
Assassinated in the 1940s
Wikispooks page | Born | Died | Summary | Description |
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Jack Agazarian (WWII) | 27 August 1915 | 29 March 1945 | Spook | UK spook of the SOE who was captured and killed in WW2. |
Count Folke Bernadotte | 2 January 1895 | 17 September 1948 | A member of the Swedish Royal family appointed as UN Mediator in Palestine on 14 May 1948. He was assassinated by members of the Stern Gang on the orders of its then leader Yitzhak Shamir who would later become Prime minister of Israel. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for the killing. | |
Walter Guinness | 29 March 1880 | 6 November 1944 | Politician Businessperson | Lord Moyne. An Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. Was Minister of State in UN Mandate Palestine in 1944 when he was assassinated by members of Lehi |
Kim Koo | 29 August 1876 | 26 June 1949 | Politician | An assassinated Korean politician |
Fidél Pálffy | 6 May 1895 | 2 March 1946 | Politician | |
Bugsy Siegel | 28 February 1906 | 20 June 1947 | Crime boss | |
Carlo Tresca | 9 March 1879 | 11 January 1943 | Editor | |
Tomoyuki Yamashita | 8 November 1885 | 23 February 1946 | Soldier | Japanese general of "Yamashita's Gold" fame. |