Please change the image, the "pun" image makes no sense for people who are not already familiar with the trope.
How do you justify the Abraham Lincoln example? Judging from everyone I've talked to, including my American History professor, Reconstruction could've been pulled off if he hadn't been assassinated, as opposed to the failure it ended up as under Johnson. In other words, the consequences of the assassination were disastrous and are still in effect today.
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It doesn't seem to be up there anymore (probably because he wasn't an artist) but I can understand the idea. The US may have been worse off because of his death but his image was definitely for the better. He became the ultimate American saint/martyr and almost more of a myth than a man while his flaws (whether they were major or minor) have been glossed over. The same thing happened to John F Kennedy.
I have a sub-trope: "Disbanded Groups/Bands Are Better". You get the general idea: Beatles, ABBA and other groups have some legacy via the Dead Artists Are Better method...
Is this trope No Real Life Examples or In-Universe Only? Or is it just that no one has happened to add any real life examples yet?