Historical clue formulations

• Cut down — 2024-02-22
• Done in, as a dragon — 2023-08-21
• Like the dragon at the end of a hero's tale — 2023-02-28
• Like Goliath, in the Bible story — 2022-07-22
• Defeated, in a way — 2021-10-30
• Killed — 2016-08-29
• Whacked, so to speak — 2016-03-30
• "O, I am ___!" (Polonius's last words) — 2014-09-30
• Assassinated — 2013-04-08
• Like two Kennedy brothers — 2011-06-25
• Massacred — 2011-04-20
• Done in — 2009-06-10
• Assassinated — 2008-10-13
• Done in — 2007-02-18
• Struck down — 2006-12-26
• Whacked, so to speak — 2006-08-16
• Assassinated — 2006-01-23
• Done in — 2005-03-13
• Gotten rid of — 2004-08-22
• Done in — 2004-03-03
• Like Grendel — 2002-11-15
• Murdered — 2002-08-25
• Massacred — 2000-10-08
• Assassinated — 2000-08-03
• Like Lincoln — 1999-07-31
• Assassinated — 1999-04-27
• Done in — 1998-10-09
• Killed — 1997-12-15
• Done in — 1997-11-25
• Assassinated — 1997-05-01
• Done in — 1997-02-02