Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991.

Gandhi became prime minister after his mother's death, but a Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinated him in southern India. At the time he was no longer in power and was running to be prime minister again.

Gandhi had made an enemy of the Tamil Tigers, a militant group based out of Sri Lanka, after he sent thousands of troops to help Sri Lanka fight the Tigers four years earlier.

His death had a lasting repercussion for India leaving a "political void," according to The New York Times, since the government had been led by his family for most of the 45 years leading up to his death.