| | Joseph Smith, Jr. , (1844), Mormon leader, Presidential candidate |
| | Hyrum Smith, (1844), Mormon leader, killed along with Joseph |
| | Henry Heusken, (1861), American diplomat (accompanying Townsend Harris from Amsterdam) |
| | Abraham Lincoln, (1865), President of the United States |
| | Thomas Hindman, (1868), Confederate General |
| | James Hinds, (1868), U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan |
| | Edward Canby, (1873), Union General, leader of a peace conference |
| | James Garfield, (1881), President of the United States |
| | David Hennessey, (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans |
| | Carter Harrison, Sr., (1893), Mayor of Chicago |
| | William Goebel, (1900), Governor of Kentucky |
| | William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States |
| | Frank Steunenberg, (1905), former governor of Idaho |
| | Don Mellett, (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime |
| | Anton Cermak, (1933), mayor of Chicago |
| | Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor |
| | Carlo Tresca, (1943), anarchist organizer |
| | Curtis Chillingworth, (1955), a Florida judge |
| | John F. Kennedy, (1963), President of the United States |
| | Lee Harvey Oswald, (1963), alleged assassin of Kennedy |
| | Medgar Evers, (1963), U.S. civil rights activist |
| | Malcolm X, (1965), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room after giving a speech |
| | George Lincoln Rockwell, (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party |
| | Martin Luther King Jr., (1968), U.S. civil rights activist |
| | Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), Presidential candidate and John F. Kennedy's younger brother, shot in Los Angeles |
| | Fred Hampton, (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party |
| | Harold Haley, (1970), Marin County Superior Court Judge taken hostage in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody |
| | Dan Mitrione, (1970), FBI agent and torture teacher, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros |
| | Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende |
| | Harvey Milk, (1978), gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California |
| | George Moscone, (1978), Mayor of San Francisco killed with Milk |
| | John Wood, (1979), first US federal judge killed in the twentieth century |
| | John Lennon, (1980), British musician and anti-war icon |
| | Alan Berg, (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis |
| | Chiang Nan, (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents |
| | Alex Odeh, (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office |
| | Alejandro González Malavé, (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico |
| | Don Aronow, (1987), inventor of the cigarette boat |
| | Meir Kahane, (1990), American rabbi, founder of Jewish Defense League, former member of Israel's Knesset, shot in New York City |
| | Ioan P. Culianu, (1991), professor of divinity |
| | Tupac Shakur, (1996), American hip-hop musician shot dead in Las Vegas, Nevada |
| | Tommy Burks, (1998), Tennessee State Senator |
| | Thomas C. Wales, (2001), Washington federal prosecutor and gun control advocate |
| | James E. Davis, (2003), New York City Council Member |