List of people who survived assassination attempts

A sortable list of survivors of assassination attempts, listed by decade after 1900.

Since 2010

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
2016	1 March	Aaidh al-Qarni	Islamic Muslim scholar, author, and activist	Zamboanga City, Philippines	Unknown	Gunshot	He was shot and wounded , after he gave a lecture, 2 injured, the shooter killed.
2015	17 Oct	Henriette Reker	Mayoral deputy for social affairs, integration and the environment of the city of Cologne, also independent mayoral candidate in election of 18 October 2015.	Cologne	Unnamed 44-year-old far-right[1] extremist	Stabbed in the neck	Four others were injured in attempting to subdue the attacker[2]
2014	29 Oct	Yehuda Glick	Chairman of Temple Mount Heritage Foundation	Jerusalem	Mutaz Hijazi	Gunshot
2013	19 Jan	Ahmed Dogan	Chairman of DPS		Oktai Enimehmedov	Pistol attack	Non-lethal firearm[3][4]
2013	4 Jan	Mohammed Magariaf	Head of Libyia's General National Congress	Southern Libya	Unknown	Hotel ambush during a three-hour gun battle.	Unharmed; three bodyguards injured
2012	9 Oct	Malala Yousafzai [5]	Pakistani Women's rights activist	Pakistan	Taliban	Gunshot to the head	Flown to the UK; released from hospital on 3 January 2013
2011	3 Jun	Ali Abdullah Saleh [6]	President of Yemen	Presidential compound, Sana'a, Yemen	Unknown rebel assailant(s)	RPG attack	Suffered severe burns and shrapnel injuries
2011	8 Jan	Gabrielle Giffords [7]	United States Congresswoman from Arizona	A Casas Adobes, Arizona supermarket, near Tucson	Jared Lee Loughner, a disaffected constituent	Gun attack in Tucson	6 dead, 19 wounded; including Giffords

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

2001—2010

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome / Notes
2010	14 May	Stephen Timms[8]	British MP	Globe Library, Beckton, East London	Roshonara Choudhry, student and al-Qaeda sympathiser	Knife attack	Lacerations to liver and stomach
2009	31 Jul	Anvar-qori Tursunov[9]	Prominent Uzbeki imam-khatib	At home, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Three assailants from the IMU	Knife attack	Stabbed multiple times
2009	Jun	Yunus-Bek Yevkurov[10]	Head of Ingushetia	Nazran, Ingushetia	Unknown; Chechen rebels blamed	Suicide car bomb	Comatose for 2 weeks; four others dead, several seriously injured
2009	30 Apr	Queen Beatrix, Prince Willem-Alexander, and other members of the Dutch Royal Family [11]	Queen of the Netherlands	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	Karst Tates (died in attack)	Car attack by Tates	Eight killed; Royal Family unharmed
2008	11 Feb	Jose Ramos-Horta[12]	President of Timor-Leste	His residence, in Dili, East Timor	Rebel leader, Alfredo Reinado (killed), and several followers	Home invasion by rebel soldiers	Severely injured; treated in Australia
2008	11 Feb	Xanana Gusmão[12]	Prime Minister of Timor-Leste	Near Dili	Rebel soldiers	Roadside ambush	Coordinated attack on same day as Ramos-Horta
2008	8 Jan	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom[13]	President of the Maldives	Hoarafushi, Maldive Islands	Mohamed Murshid, a disaffected constituent	Knife attack thwarted by Mohamed Jaisham Ibrahim	Gayoom was unharmed; his protector, Ibrahim, was injured
2007	18 Oct	Benazir Bhutto^†[14]	Candidate for, and ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan	Karachi, Pakistan	Usama al-Kini (Al-Qaeda) and Baitullah Mehsud (Pakistani Taliban) suspected	Bomb attack on motorcade	Bhutto uninjured; 134 dead and about 450 injured. Bhutto would be assassinated two months later.
2007	6 Jul	Pervez Musharraf^‡ [15]	President of Pakistan	Asghar Mall, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	Taliban	Sniper attack on plane	No casualties reported
2007	29 Jun	Guillaume Soro[16]	Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast	Bouaké, Ivory Coast	Unknown	Rocket and rifle ambush	Soro uninjured; four dead
2007	14 Apr	Onyema Ugochukwu[17]	Gubernatorial candidate of Abia State, Nigeria	Abia State, Nigeria	Unknown	Gun attack	Ugochukwu unharmed; one body guard killed
2007	27 Feb	Dick Cheney[18]	Vice President of the United States	Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan	Taliban	Mortar/bomb attack	Cheney unharmed; 23 killed and 20 wounded
2007	26 Feb	Adil Abdul-Mahdi ^‡ [19]	Vice President of Iraq	Baghdad, Iraq	Unknown	Bomb planted under chair	Abdul-Mahdi had minor scratches; three ministers, seven others killed
2006	1 Dec	Gotabhaya Rajapaksa [20]	Secretary of Defense for Sri Lanka and brother of the President	Kollupitiya, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka	separatist LTT elements	Suicide bomber using an auto rikshaw.	Rajapaksa unharmed; 2 soldiers killed
2006	18 Sep	Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed [21]	President of Somalia	Outside the National Parliament building, Baidoa, Somalia	Islamic Courts Union blamed	Suicide car bomb	11 fatalities, including at least six assailants
2006	30 May	Georgios Voulgarakis	Greek Minister of Culture	Residence	Revolutionary Struggle, a designated terrorist group	Remote controlled IED	No one injured
2006	12 Mar	Sibghatullah Mojadeddi [22]	President of the Afghani Meshrano Jirga (Senate)	Kabul, Afghanistan	Unknown	Suicide car bomb	Mojaddedi slightly injured; four pedestrians killed
2005	25 Sep	May Chidiac	Television journalist; LBC's main television anchor	Beirut, Lebanon	Unknown	Remote controlled car bomb	Amputation of her left arm and leg
2005	10 May	George W. Bush [23]	President of the United States	Freedom Square, Tbilisi, Georgia.	Vladimir Arutyunian	Grenade attack	No one injured due to failed device
2005	10 May	Mikheil Saakashvili [23]	President of Georgia	Freedom Square, Tbilisi, Georgia.	Vladimir Arutyunian	Grenade attack	(same incident with George W Bush)
2005	17 Mar	Anatoly Chubais [24]	Russian politician and administrator of RAO UES	Outside Moscow, Russia	Vladimir Kvachkov arrested; acquitted	IED and ambush	None reported
2005	15 Mar	Ibrahim Rugova ^‡ [25]	President of Kosovo	Pristina, Kosovo	Unknown	IED	Rugova unhurt; one other slightly injured
2004	Sep	Viktor Yushchenko [26][27]	Candidate for President of the Ukraine	Unknown	Unknown	Possible dioxin poisoning	Hospitalized and developed severe chloracne
2004	1 Sep	Ahmad Chalabi [28]	Iraqi politician and contender for the Presidency	Latifiya, Iraq	Unknown	Sniper attack	Two bodyguards injured
2004	21 Aug	Sheikh Hasina [29]	Prime Minister of Bangladesh	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Ordered by Islamic Jihad leader, Mufti Abdus Salam	Grenade attack.	23 killed; 200 injured.
2004	29 Jul	Shaukat Aziz [30]	Prime Minister of Pakistan	Fateh Jang, Attock District, Punjab, Pakistan	Al-Qaeda sympathizers	Suicide car bomb	10 killed.
2004	6 Apr	Murat Zyazikov [31]	President of Ingushetia	Nazran, Ingushetia	Chechen rebels blamed	Suicide car bomb attack	Zyazikov slightly injured
2004	19 Mar	Chen Shui-bian [14]	President of the Republic of China	Tainan, Taiwan	Unknown	Sniper attack.	Hospitalized and released.
2004	19 Mar	Annette Lu [14]	Vice President of the Republic of China	Tainan, Taiwan	Unknown	Sniper attack.	Same event as Chen Shui-bian.
2003	April	Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello	Nigerian Commissioner for Health, Senatorial Candidate	Ifo Road, Ogun State, Nigeria	Unknown	Car attack	Iyabo uninjured; 5 killed.
2003	25 Dec	Pervez Musharraf ^‡ [14][32]	President of Pakistan	Rawalpindi, Pakistan	Ordered by Amjad Farooqi	Two suicide bombers attacked.	Musharraf uninjured; 16 killed.
2002	5 Oct	Bertrand Delanoë [33]	Mayor of Paris, France	Paris, France	Anti-gay, Muslim immigrant, Azedine Berkane	Knife attack.	Hospitalized for two weeks.
2002	5 Sep	Hamid Karzai ^‡ [34]	President of Afghanistan	Kandahar City, Afghanistan	Lone gunman (killed)	Gun attack.	Karzai unharmed; at least four dead.
2002	14 Jul	Jacques Chirac [35]	President of France	Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France	Unité Radicale member, Maxime Brunerie	Rifle attack.	Unharmed.
2001		Ezekiel Alebua [36]	Former Solomon Islands PM, serving as premier of Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands	Harold Keke's Isatabu Freedom Movement	Not reported.	Alebua wounded.

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1991—2000

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
2000	15 Jun	Vuk Drašković [37]	Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Budva, Montenegro	Forces of Milorad Ulemek and Slobodan Milošević	Gun attack.	Slight injuries from two bullet wounds.
2000	March	Saeed Hajjarian [38]	Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist	City Hall, Tehran	Members of the Basij militia	Headshot.	Left comatose for 2 weeks; paralyzed for life.
1999	Dec	George Harrison [39]	Musician, spiritual activist, former member of the Beatles	Residence	Michael Abram (adjudged insane)	Knife attack during an home invasion.	Stabbed seven times.
1999	18 Dec	Chandrika Kumaratunga [40]	President of Sri Lanka	Town Hall, Colombo	"Tamil Tiger" rebels	Suicide bomber.	She lost vision in her right eye; 20 killed.
1999	3 Oct	Vuk Draskovic [41]	Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Ibar highway, western Serbia	Serbian State Security Special Ops Force (or "Red Berets")	Ibar Highway truck ambush.	Four associates killed.
1998	12 Jun	Muammar Gaddafi ^‡ [42]	Libyan leader	Dirnah, Libya	Islamic militants	Sniper/ambush on motorcade.	Gaddafi injured; a bodyguard was killed.
1998	9 Feb	Eduard Shevardnadze ^‡ [43]	President of Georgia	Tbilisi, Georgia	Anti-government forces.	Mukha-type grenade launcher attack	Shevardnadze unhurt; two killed, two wounded.
1997	25 Sep	Khaled Mashal [44]	Syrian leader of Hamas	Amman, Jordan	Agents of Mossad	Poison injection.	Mashal poisoned; Israel turned over the antidote.
1996	12 Dec	Uday Hussein ^‡ [45]	Son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein	Baghdad, Iraq	Islamic resistance fighter, Salman Sharif, and three others.[46]	Roadside semi-automatic gun attack/ambush.	Shot 17 times; permanent limp.
1996	17 Jul	Pavlo Lazarenko [47]	Prime Minister of Ukraine	Kiev, Ukraine	Unknown	Remote controlled car bomb.	Uninjured.
1996	February	Muammar Gaddafi ^‡[42][48]	Libyan leader	Outside Sirte, Libya	Islamic extremists	Roadside ambush.	None reported.
1995	5 Nov	Jean Chrétien[49]	Prime Minister of Canada	Residence, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	André Dallaire, a mentally deranged Canadien.	Pocket knife attack during home invasion.	No injuries
1995	4 Nov	Mengistu Haile Mariam ^‡	Former Ethiopian Dictator	Near his residence, in Harare, Zimbabwe	sEritrean Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael, and his accomplice, Abraham Goletom Joseph.	Gun attack.	Unharmed.
1995		José María Aznar[50]	Head of the People's Party and future Prime Minister of Spain		Separatist Basque members of the ETA	Roadside bomb attack/ambush.	Uninjured; one killed
1995	3 Oct	Kiro Gligorov [51]	President of Macedonia	Skopje, Macedonia	Unknown	Car bomb.	Critically wounded; lost one eye; two people killed.
1995	29 Aug	Eduard Shevardnadze ^‡ [43]	President of Georgia	Tbilisi, Georgia	Mkhedrioni rebels	Car bomb	Shevardnadze minor cuts.
1995	25 Jun	Hosni Mubarak^‡ [52]	President of Egypt	Addis Ababa; Ethiopia	Sudanese Jihadists; two killed	Machine gun, semi-automatic, and sniper attack.	Several injured; three dead.
1994	14 Oct	Naguib Mahfouz [53]	Egyptian writer and Nobel recipient	Residence, Cairo, Egypt	Islamic extremists	Knife attack.	Stabbed in neck; permanent nerve damage.
1993		George H. W. Bush	former President of the United States	Kuwait	Iraqi Intelligence Service	Car bomb	In response to the attack, President Bill Clinton ordered the firing of 23 cruise missiles at the Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters in Baghdad.
1993	11 Oct	William Nygaard [54]	Norwegian publisher of "The Satanic Verses"	Residence, Oslo, Norway	Unknown	Handgun attack.	Shot three times; hospitalized for months.
1993	2 Jul	Aziz Nesin [55]	Atheist Turkish language translator of "The Satanic Verses"	Sivas Turkey	Sunni Wahhabi and Salafist extremist mob	Attempted arson; severely beaten.	During the Sivas massacre; 40 dead, 140 injured.
1993	Nov	Atef Sedki [56]	Prime Minister of Egypt	Cairo, Egypt	The militant Islamic Vanguards of Conquest.	Car bomb	Sedki unharmed; one dead, eighteen injured.
1992		Michel Elefteriades [57]	Armed resistance leader in Lebanon; future founder of M.U.R.	Lebanon	Unknown	Booby trapped car.	Not reported.
1991		Mohammed Zahir Shah[58]	Last monarch of Afghanistan	In exile, in Italy	Unknown assailant	Knife attack	Stabbed three times
1991	7 Feb	John Major [59]	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	Downing Street, London	IRA	IRA Mortar attack	Unhurt; three wounded

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1981—1990

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome / Notes
1990	25 Oct	Byron Barrera[60]	Guatemalan journalist	While riding in a car in Guatemala City, Guatemala	Members of the military implicated	Automatic weapons fire from passing motorcyclists	wife killed; he and a friend slightly wounded
1990	12 Oct	Wolfgang Schäuble [61]	German Minister of the Interior	Oppenau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	A mentally ill man, Dieter Kaufmann.	Gun attack.	Paralyzed with severe spinal cord and facial injuries.
1990	18 Sep	Sir Peter Terry and wife, Lady Betty[62]	British Governor of Gibraltar (1985–89)	Milford, Staffordshire, England, UK	Provisional Irish Republican Army	Gun attack.	Terry's face had to be rebuilt as the shots shattered his face and two high-velocity bullets lodged a fraction of an inch from his brain.;[63] his wife was injured, near her eye, and their daughter treated for shock.
1990	25 Apr	Oskar Lafontaine [64]	Minister-President of Saarland	Cologne, West Germany	A deranged woman, Adelheid Streidel.	Knife attack	Serious neck wound
1990	18 Jan	Motoshima Hitoshi [65]	Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan	Nagasaki, Japan	a member of the right-wing group, Seikijuku.	Gun attack.	Shot in the back.
1989	14 Jul	Jani Allan [66]	South African columnist	Residence, Johannesburg, South Africa	Orde van die Dood member, Cornelius Lottering.	Bomb attack.	No one injured.
1988	17 Nov	Antoine Lahad [67]	Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army	Residence, "Marja’uyun," in south Lebanon	Souha Bechara, a communist sympathizer.	Handgun attack	Shot twice, left arm permanently paralyzed.
1988	20 Oct	Nikola Stedul [68]	Ethnic Croatian emigré from Yugoslavia and head of the "Croatian Statehood Movement"	Near residence in Edinburgh, Scotland	UDBA hitman, Vinko Sindičić.	Attack with silenced gun.	Shot six times, permanent limp.
1987	18 Aug	Junius Richard Jayewardene [69]	President of Sri Lanka	Parliament Building, Colombo, Sri Lanka	Unknown	Grenade attack on Parliament.	Two dead, sixteen injured.
1987	18 Aug	Ranasinghe Premadasa [70]	Prime Minister of Sri Lanka	Parliament Building, Colombo, Sri Lanka	Unknown	Grenade attack.	Same event as Jayewardene's.
1987		Turgut Özal [71]	President of Turkey	Atatürk Sports Hall, Ankara, Turkey.	Kartal Demirağ under the orders of General Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu.	Gun attack	One bullet slightly wounded his hand.
1986	7 Sep	Augusto Pinochet [72]	President of Chile	Cajón del Maipo, Chile	Communist FPMR elements.	A Portable rocket attack (called "Operation 20th Century").	Pinochet had minor injuries; five bodyguards killed.
1988	11 Sep	Jean-Bertrand Aristide ^‡ [73]	Catholic Salesian Order priest, political dissident and future President of Haiti	St Jean Bosco Church; Port-au-Prince, Haiti	Ex-Tonton Macoute	Machete and gun attack	13 dead; 77 wounded.
1985	8 Mar	Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah [74]	Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah	Beirut, Lebanon	Unknown	Beirut car bombing.	80 killed; 200 injured.
1984	12 Oct	Margaret Thatcher [75]	British prime minister	Grand Hotel, Brighton, Great Britain	IRA	Bomb blast	Five killed; Margaret Tebbitt left paralysed; many injuries of varying degrees among survivors.
1984	14 Mar	Gerry Adams[76]	Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)	Gun attack	Seriously wounded by three bullets.
1983	19 Oct	Chun Doo-hwan [77]	President of South Korea.	Martyrs' Mausoleum, Rangoon, Burma	Three North Korean agents	Rangoon bombing attack	Chun uninjured; 21 killed; 46 injured.
1982	3 Jun	Shlomo Argov [78]	Israeli ambassador to the U.K.	Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London	ANO agents	Gun assault.	Shot in the head; permanently hospitalized.[79]
1982	12 May	Pope John Paul II ^‡ [14][80]	Pope	Fátima, Portugal	Juan María Fernández y Krohn	Bayonet attack.	Slightly wounded.
1981	June	Ali Khamenei[81]	Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam	Iran	Mujaheddin-e-Khalq	Bomb, concealed in a tape recorder.	Lost the use of his right arm.
1981	13 May	Pope John Paul II ^‡ [14][82]	Pope	St. Peter's Square, Vatican City	Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish Grey Wolves assassin.	Pistol attack.	Shot four times and severely wounded.
1981	30 Mar	Ronald Reagan [14][70]	President of the United States	Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C.	A deranged man, John Hinckley.	Gun attack.	Three seriously injured, including Reagan, who underwent surgery. James Brady left paralysed until his death.
1981	16 Jan	Bernadette and Michael McAliskey	Irish socialist and republican political activists	Their residence in Coalisland, County Tyrone	Ulster Freedom Fighters	Home invasion	Both shot several times

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1971—1980

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome / Notes
1980	April	Tariq Aziz [83]	Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq	Baghdad, Iraq	Islamic Call members.	Grenade attack.	Several reported killed.
1979	25 June	Alexander Haig	Supreme Allied Commander Europe	Mons, Belgium	Rolf Clemens Wagner		A land mine, placed under a bridge which Haig was known to cross daily, narrowly missed Haig's car and wounded three of his bodyguards in a following car.
1978	5 Apr	Antonio Cubillo [84]	CIIM nationalist leader.	Algiers, Algeria	Spanish secret service members.		Crippled for life.
1978	February	Ayad Allawi [85]	Iraqi exile leader and future (interim) Prime Minister of Iraq	London, England	Saddam Hussein's agents.	Axe attack during home invasion.	Seriously injured.
1978	6 Mar	Larry Flynt [86]	U.S. owner of Hustler magazine	Georgia, USA	A white supremacist serial killer, Joseph Paul Franklin	Gun attack.	Paralyzed from the waist down; his lawyer was also wounded.
1976	3 Dec	Bob Marley[87]	Reggae musician	His residence.	unknown	Multiple-gun attack.	Slightly wounded. Marley's wife and promoter both seriously wounded
1976	20 Apr	Muammar Gaddafi ^‡ [88]	Libyan leader
1975	6 Oct	Bernardo Leighton	Former Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile.	Rome, Italy			Leighton was seriously injured. His wife, Anita Fresno, was permanently disabled.
1975	5 Sep	Gerald Ford ^‡[89]	President of the United States	Sacramento, California	Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (member of the Charles Manson family)	Gun attack	Fire a shot though missed target
1974	17 Feb	Richard Nixon[90]	President of the United States	Washington, DC	Samuel Byck		Tried to hijack a plane to crash it into the White House, but his plans were foiled. He shot the pilot and co-pilot and eventually shot himself.
1974	August	Park Chung-hee ^†	President of South Korea			Gun attack	Multiple shots fire. All missed him but one killed his wife.
1973	30 Dec	Joseph Sieff[91]	Honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation	London, England	Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal, member of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine	Gun attack	Assassin fired one shot before the gun jammed and the assassin fled.
1972	15 May	George Wallace[92]	U.S. presidential candidate	Maryland, United States	Arthur Bremer	Gun attack	Shot four times at close range
1972	25 Feb	John Taylor	British politician (Ulster Unionist Party)	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Joe McCann (Official Irish Republican Army)	Gun attack	Shot five times in the head

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1961 — 1970

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1970	24 Apr	Chiang Ching-kuo	Vice Premier of the Republic of China	New York City	Peter Huang		Huang shot at Chiang outside the Plaza Hotel, but was pushed out of the way by a police officer, causing him to miss.
1970		Pope Paul VI	Leader of the Catholic Church	Manila, Philippines	Benjamin Mendoza y Amor	Knife attack	Assailant disarmed before stabbing
1970		Makarios III	President of Cyprus
1969	22 Jan	Leonid Brezhnev	General Secretary of the USSR				Brezhnev assassination attempt
1968	June	Andy Warhol	U.S. artist		Valerie Solanas	Revolver	Shot by a radical feminist
1968	11 Apr	Rudi Dutschke[93]	German student activist	West Germany	An anti-communist activist, Josef Bachmann	Gun attack	He became an epileptic—a seizure from which caused his drowning death in December 1979.
1963	10 Apr	Edwin Walker		Dallas, Texas	Lee Harvey Oswald	Revolver
1962	August	Charles de Gaulle	President of France
1962	27 Feb	Ngô Đình Diệm^† ^‡	President of the Republic of Vietnam				presidential palace bombing
1962	27 Feb	Ngo Dinh Nhu ^†	Chief Republic of Vietnam presidential adviser and brother of Ngô Đình Diệm				presidential palace bombing

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1951 — 1960

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1960	24 Jun	Rómulo Betancourt	President of Venezuela	Caracas, Venezuela	Ordered by Dominican Republic President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo	Car bomb	Betancourt was badly burned by the bomb which killed his head of security, and severely injured the driver
1960		Hendrik Verwoerd ^†	Prime Minister of South Africa				Assassinated in 1966.
1959, 1960; others		Fidel Castro ^‡	Cuban President
1958	20 Sep	Martin Luther King, Jr.^†		New York City	Izola Curry, a mentally ill woman		Curry stabbed King with a letter opener at a book signing but he was not seriously injured. King was assassinated a decade later.
1957	22 Feb	Ngô Đình Diệm^† ^‡	President of the Republic of Vietnam,				Assassinated in 1963, with his brother.
1955	11 Apr	Zhou Enlai	Chinese Premier
1954		President of Egypt	Gamal Abdel Nasser
1952		Konrad Adenauer	First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
1951	20 Jul	Prince Hussein[94] ^‡	Future King of Jordan	Jerusalem		Gun attack	Attempt killed Hussein's grandfather, King Abdullah.

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1941 — 1950

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1950	1 Nov	Harry Truman	President of the United States	Blair House, Washington, D.C.	Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola (FALN)	Pistol attack	Truman assassination attempt; the would-be assassins were engaged by security personnel and Truman was not injured.
1944	20 Jul	Adolf Hitler ^‡ [14]	German dictator	Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kętrzyn, Poland)	Claus von Stauffenberg	Bomb	20 July plot
1943	5 Jun	José P. Laurel	Commissioner of the Interior, Philippine Executive Commission; future President of the Philippines	Wack Wack Golf Course, Mandaluyong, Philippines	Disputed, possibly Feliciano Lizardo	Gun attack
1943	March	Adolf Hitler ^‡ [14]	German dictator		Henning von Tresckow, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff	Bomb
1942	24 Feb	Franz von Papen	Nazi Germany's Ambassador to Turkey		NKVD agents	Bomb	Bomb detonated prematurely, killing would-be assassin but only slightly wounding von Papen.
1941	17 May	Victor Emmanuel III	King of Italy	Tirana, Albania	Vasil Laçi	Pistol attack
1940		Adolf Hitler ^‡ [14]	German dictator				Operation Spark; (several other attempts from 1939-45).

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1931 — 1940

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1936	26 Feb	Keisuke Okada	Prime Minister of Japan				February 26 Incident
1936	26 Feb	Kantarō Suzuki	Future Prime Minister of Japan				February 26 Incident
1936	26 Feb	Viscount Makino Nobuaki	Japanese statesman				February 26 Incident
1934		Mohandas Gandhi ^† ^‡	Indian independence leader				3 other attempts, assassinated in 1948
1933		Engelbert Dollfuss ^†	Chancellor of Austria				Assassinated the following year.
1931	22 Jul	John Ernest Buttery Hotson	Acting Governor of Bombay	Fergusson College, Pune, India	Vasudeo Balwant Gogte, a student	Gunshot	Uninjured; bullet was stopped by a brass button on his jacket

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1921 — 1930

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1929	24 Oct	Umberto II	Prince of Piedmont and future King of Italy
1926	3 occasions (7 Apr; September; 31 Oct)	Benito Mussolini ^‡	Prime Minister of Italy
1923	27 Dec	Hirohito	Prince regent and future Emperor of Japan				Toranomon Incident
1920	Aug	Eleftherios Venizelos	Greek revolutionary and statesman

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1911 — 1920

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome / Notes
1919		A. Mitchell Palmer	United States Attorney General				Led directly to the deportation of tens of thousands of immigrants.
1914	29 Jun	Grigori Rasputin ^†	Counsel to the Tsaritsa of Russia
1914	17 Mar	John Purroy Mitchel	Mayor of New York City	Manhattan	Michael P. Mahoney	Pistol	Mitchel would die in a plane crash on 6 July 1918.
1912	14 Oct	Theodore Roosevelt	Former President of the United States		John Flammang Schrank	Pistol
1912	7 Jun	István Tisza ^†^‡	Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary	Budapest, Hungary	Gyula Kovács	Pistol	3 other attempts

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1901 — 1910

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1910	9 Aug	William Jay Gaynor	Mayor of New York City	SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse	James J. Gallagher	Pistol	Shot in throat
1908		Alfred Dreyfus	French Jewish military officer
1907	18 Apr	Nicholas Salmeron y Alonso	Spanish statesman
1905-06		Alfonso XIII of Spain ^‡	Spanish Monarch
1905		Émile Loubet	President of France				Same attempt as on King Alfonso XIII of Spain
1905	21 Jul	Sultan Abdul Hamid II	Emperor of the Ottomans
1902		Victor von Wahl	Governor of Vilna, Lithuania

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1851 — 1900

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1900	5 Apr	Edward VII	Prince of Wales and future King of the United Kingdom	Brussel-Noord railway station, Brussels	Belgian anarchist, Jean-Baptiste Sipido	Pistol attack while in train carriage	Both shots missed; none injured.
1892	23 Jul	Henry Clay Frick[95]	American industrialist	His office at the Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Anarchist Alexander Berkman	Pistol and knife attack	Stabbed and shot
1882	2 Mar	Queen Victoria ^‡ [96]	Queen of the United Kingdom	Windsor Rail Station, London	Disgruntled poet, Roderick McLean	Pistol attack.	Not injured.
1880	5 Feb	Alexander II of Russia^†^‡	Russian Emperor	St. Petersburg	People's Will member, Stephan Khalturin		Assassinated 1881
1879	Apr	Alexander II of Russia ^† ^‡	Russian Emperor	Square of the Guard, St. Petersburg	Russian revolutionary, Alexander Soloviev	Pistol attack	5 attempts reported from 1866 to 1880; (assassinated 1881)
1878	17 Nov	Umberto I of Italy ^†	King of Italy	Naples	Giovanni Passannante	Knife attack. Assassinated in 1900.
1874	13 Jul	Otto von Bismarck[97]	Chancellor of the German Empire	Bad Kissingen, Germany	Eduard Kullman	Pistol attack
1873	22 Aug	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento	President of Argentina		A pair of anarchist brothers hired by Ricardo López Jordán	Pistol attack while in his coach	Wounded
1869	11 Jul	Thomas Eyre Lambert	Wealthy Irish landlord	Castle Lambert, near Athenry, County Galway, Ireland	Peter Barrett, a son of an evicted tenant.	Pistol attack outside residence	Three bullet wounds.
1866	7 May	Otto von Bismarck	Minister President of Prussia	Unter den Linden, Berlin	Ferdinand Cohen-Blind	Revolver
1866	4 Apr	Alexander II of Russia^† ^‡	Russian Emperor	St. Petersburg	Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov		5 attempts reported from 1866 to 1880; assassinated 1881.
1865	14 Apr	William H. Seward [98]	U.S. Secretary of State	Residence, Washington D.C.	Lewis Powell under orders from John Wilkes Booth	Knife attack	Severe stab wounds; (part of the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln).
1864	Aug	Abraham Lincoln ^†	President of the United States	Washington, D.C.	Unknown	Rifle shot	See List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
1858	14 Jan	Napoleon III [99]	Emperor of the French	Streets of Paris, France	Ordered by Italian rebel, Felice Orsini	Hand-bomb attack.	18 dead.
1853	18 Feb	Franz Joseph I [100]	Austria-Hungarian Emperor	At the current site of the Votivkirche; Vienna	Hungarian nationalist, János Libényi	Knife attack.	Wounded in the neck.

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

1801 — 1850

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1842	30 May	Queen Victoria ^‡ [96]	Queen of the United Kingdom	near Constitution Hill, London	An insane man, John Francis	Pistol attack.	Not injured.
1842	6 May	Lilburn Boggs [101]	ex-Governor of Missouri	Zion, Missouri	Unknown	Buckshot pistol	Critically wounded.
1840	10 Jun	Queen Victoria ^‡ [96]	Queen of the United Kingdom	Constitution Hill, London	Insane man, Edward Oxford	Pistol attack.	Not injured.
1835	28 Jul	King Louis-Philippe of France [102]	French Monarch	Along the Boulevard du Temple, Paris, France	Giuseppe Marco Fieschi and two others	24 barrel "machine infernale	King unharmed; 18 killed, several wounded.
1835	30 Jan	Andrew Jackson [103]	President of the United States	United States Capitol Building, Washington D.C.	Unemployed English house-painter, Richard Lawrence	Twin pistols (both misfired).	Jackson unharmed; subdued Lawrence with his cane.
1800	24 Dec	Napoleon I ^‡ [104]	First Consul, past and future Emperor of the French	Paris, France	François-Joseph Carbon, as ordered by Breton Royalists.	Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise	Napoleon unharmed; several dead or maimed.
1800	15 May	King George III [105]	King of Britain and Ireland	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Westminster	An insane man, James Hadfield	Gun attack.	Unharmed.

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

Before 1801

Year	Date	Intended Victim(s)	Title at the Time	Location	Would-be Assassin(s)	Method	Initial Outcome/Notes
1757	5 Jan	Louis XV of France [106]	French Monarch	Palace of Versailles Versailles	Robert-François Damiens	Knife attack	Wounded
1582	18 Mar	William of Orange (also William the Silent) ^† [107]	Leader of the United Provinces during the Dutch Revolt	Antwerp, Dutch Republic	Juan de Jáuregui killed; and others	Gun attack	Severely injured; unable to speak; assassinated 1584.
1572	22 Aug	Admiral Gaspard de Coligny ^†	Leader of the Huguenots in France	On a street in Paris, France	Mr. Maurevert	Shot in ambush	Lost a finger and shattered an elbow; later assassinated in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (24 August 1572).
1272	Jun	Edward I Longshanks[108]	King of England	Acre, Jerusalem	Unnamed Muslim	Knife dipped in poison	Stabbed in arm; sick for months afterward
1134		Hugh II of Jaffa[109]	Count of Jaffa	Jerusalem	A Breton knight	Stabbed and beaten.	Wounded; never fully recovered.
626 A.D.	March – Apr	Saint Edwin of Northumbria [110]	King of Deira and Bernicia	York, Northumbria	Agents of Cwichelm of Wessex		Unreported.
156-155 B.C.		Ptolemy VIII of Egypt [111]	Egyptian Monarch	Alexandria, Egypt	Ordered by Ptolemy VI Philometor, his brother	Sword attack	Scarred, injured
218 B.C.		Qin Shi Huang [112]	First Emperor of a unified China		ordered by Zhang Liang (Western Han)	Heavy hammer	no injury reported.
227 B.C.		Qin Shi Huang [112]	King of Qin, and future Emperor of China	Qin	Qin Wuyang, Jing Ke and later, Gao Jianli; all executed	Attempted knife attack.	not injured.

^† Indicates victim of later assassination. ^‡ Survivor of other significant assassination attempt(s); only most notable listed here. See main article for further information.

See also

• List of assassinated persons
• List of celebrities who were shot and lived

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