Flashcards: Deaths by firearm

Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938) was a Nazi German diplomat, remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided a pretext for the Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass.

David Leslie "Dave" Schultz (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996) was an American Olympic and world champion freestyle wrestler, a seven-time World and Olympic medalist.

Sergei Nikolayevich Kourdakov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Курдаков; March 1, 1951 – January 1, 1973) was a former KGB agent and naval officer who from his late teen years carried out more than 150 raids in underground Christian communities in regions of the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova (Russian: Гали́на Васи́льевна Старово́йтова; 17 May 1946, in Chelyabinsk – 20 November 1998, in St Petersburg) was a Soviet dissident, Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia.

Serhiy Lashchenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Лащенко; 21 June 1987 – 8 April 2015), also spelled as Sergii Lashchenko and Sergei Lascenko, was a Ukrainian kickboxer.

George Lincoln Rockwell (March 9, 1918 – August 25, 1967) was the founder of the American Nazi Party.

Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp (/ˈriːvə ˈstiːən.kʌmp/; 19 August 1983 – 14 February 2013) was a South African model.

Mohamed Brahmi (Tunisian Arabic: محمد براهمي‎; 15 May 1955 – 25 July 2013) was a Tunisian politician.

Sir Peter James Blake, KBE (1 October 1948 – 5 December 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, held the Jules Verne Trophy from 1994 to 1997 by setting the fastest time around the world as co-skipper of ENZA New Zealand, and led his country to successive victories in the America's Cup.

Mónica Spear Mootz (1 October 1984 – 6 January 2014) was a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2004.

Shabtai Kalmanovich (Hebrew: שבתאי קלמנוביץ'‎‎, Lithuanian: Šabtajus Kalmanovičius, Russian: Шабтай Генрихович Калманович; 18 December 1947 – November 2, 2009), alternatively spelled Shabtai Kalmanovic, was a KGB spy, who later became known in Russia as a successful businessman, concert promoter and basketball sponsor.

Chokri Belaïd (Arabic: شكري بلعيد‎‎ Shukrī Bil‘īd; 26 November 1964 – 6 February 2013), also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian lawyer and politician who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement.

Antonio Cermeño (March 6, 1969 – February 25, 2014), nicknamed "El Coloso" (The Colossus), was a Venezuelan boxer who twice won the world title.

("The Godmother" redirects here. For the biographical film based on Blanco's life, see The Godmother (film).) Griselda Blanco (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012), known as La Madrina, the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother and the Queen of Narco-Trafficking, was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – c. 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and activist.

Sheikh Fahad Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (10 August 1945 – 2 August 1990) (Arabic: الشيخ الشهيد فهد الأحمد الجابر الصباح ‎‎) was a member of the House of Sabah and a Kuwaiti military officer who was also the founder of the Kuwait Olympic Committee.

Blessed Darío Acosta Zurita (14 December 1908 - 25 July 1931) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest who administered in Veracruz where he lived and was killed.

Blessed Teresa Bracco (24 February 1924 - 28 August 1944) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Savona killed during World War II after refusing to submit to the sexual aggression of a Nazi soldier.

Espinosa was born in Mexico City, Mexico.

At the time of his death, Enenche Akogwu was a reporter and camera operator for Channels Television, a privately owned station based out of Lagos, Nigeria.

Gleydson Carvalho was a Brazilian born on 25 April 1982.

Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny (28 May 1841 - 27 February 1884) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus - she assumed the religious name of "Marie of Jesus" at the time of her profession as a nun.

In 2016, testimony was introduced in the Philippines by a former hitman that allegedly linked President Rodrigo Duterte to the death squads that carried out Pala's murder while Duterte was the mayor of Davao City.

Michael Tshele, also known as Bra Mike and Shadow, (ca.1950 – 13 January 2014), a South African freelance photographer and community activist who was known for his contributions to the online newspaper Kormorant and Leseding News.

Teodoro Escanilla was a well known human rights leader in the Sorsogon province.

Blessed Secondo Pollo (2 January 1908 - 26 December 1941) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a chaplain who served in World War II.