For each of the following dates, name the historical figure who was assassinated on that date. For bonus points, name the assassin and the city where the assassination took place. (The date listed is the date of the assassination attempt, not necessarily the date of the historical figure's ultimate death.)
March 15, 44 BCE
July 13, 1793
April 15, 1865
September 6, 1901
June 28, 1914
August 21, 1940
November 22, 1963
April 4, 1968
June 5, 1968
December 8, 1980
November 4, 1995
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March 15, 44 BCE
Julius Caesar (Rome, the Roman Senate including Brutus and Cassius)
July 13, 1793
Jean-Paul Marat (Paris, Charlotte Corday)
April 15, 1865
Abraham Lincoln (Washington, John Wilkes Booth)
September 6, 1901
William McKinley (Buffalo, Leon Czolgosz)
June 28, 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip)
August 21, 1940
Leon Trotsky (Mexico City, Ramon Mercader)
November 22, 1963
John F. Kennedy (Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald, or so we think)
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. (Memphis, James Earl Ray)
June 5, 1968
Robert F. Kennedy (Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan)
December 8, 1980
John Lennon (New York, Mark David Chapman)
November 4, 1995
Yitzhak Rabin (Tel Aviv, Yigal Amir)
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