Murdered

• Joy Adamson, author of Born Free, shot and killed January 3, 1980 by a former employee. Her husband, George Adamson, was shot and killed by poachers on August 20, 1989.
• Archimedes
• Thomas Becket
• Black Dahlia Murder
• Ennis Cosby, son of comedian Bill Cosby
• Bob Crane, actor, Hogan's Heroes
• Jeffrey Dahmer, murdered in prison
• Jill Dando, British TV newscaster, shot by Barry George, April 26 1999.
• Dominique Dunne, actress, murdered by ex-boyfriend John Sweeney.
• Abigail Folger, coffee fortune heiress, by Charles Manson groupies.
• Marvin Gaye, singer, murdered by his father
• Phil Hartman, comedian, murder/suicide by his wife
• Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster President, disappeared by the Mafia.
• Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell of Run DMC)
• Polly Klaas, child, murder fomented California's three strikes law
• Beatle John Lennon
• Lindbergh Baby
• Malcolm X, assassinated
• Christopher Marlowe, playwright, murdered in London in 1593
• Sal Mineo, actor, Rebel Without a Cause
• Artie Mitchell, porn king, murdered by the other Mitchell brother, Jim.
• Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls (Christopher Wallace), in a drive-by
• Joe Orton, playwright, murdered by his boyfriend
• Jon Benet Ramsey, child beauty pageant contestant
• Edmond Safra, multibillionaire banker, killed (December 3, 1999) in a Monaco fire deliberately set by his male nurse, Ted Maher. Maher later escaped prison but was recaptured.
• Selena, the popular Tejano singer, murdered by the president of the Selena Fan Club, Yolanda Saldivar. "It just went off, I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to kill anybody."
• Rebecca Schaffer, television star (My Sister Sam), shot by her stalker
• Dutch Schultz, gangster killing
• Tupac Shakur, rapper killed in driveby
• Matthew Shepard, killed in notorious gay hate crime incident
• Nicole Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson
• Nancy Spungen, murdered by the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious
• Sharon Tate, by Charles Manson groupies
• Officer J. D. Tippit, killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
• Peter Tosh, reggae musician, murdered by three "robbers" who actually did not steal anything. Whether or not this is the actual motive is a matter of speculation.
• Gianni Versace, fashion designer, murdered by Andrew Cunanan
• Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs, whom he killed playing William Tell. Accident, or murder?

Murderers and the like

• Robert Blake, actor, on trial for killing his no-good wife
• Mark David Chapman, murdered Beatle John Lennon
• Andrew Cunanan
• John du Pont, heir, murdered an Olympic wrestler.
• Don King (convicted of murder, retried, changed to manslaughter)
• O.J. Simpson (acquitted)
• Phil Spectre (no charges have been filed)
• Sid Vicious, killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, then OD'd before trial