Who was the first celebrity to be assassinated?

I was going to say Thomas Beckett but he was a religious leader not a film star. Same goes for Martin Luther King Jr a few hundred years later.
 
This may be one of the first hollywood assassinations:

Nat Ross (June 13, 1902 – February 24, 1941) was an American film director and producer of the silent era. He directed 61 films between 1922 and 1931.

He was born in San Francisco, California. He was shot dead in Los Angeles, California in 1941 by a disgruntled employee whom Ross had fired from the plant where Ross was working as foreman. He was the nephew of producer Carl Laemmle.
 
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