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List of people who survived assassination attempts

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This is a list of survivors of assassination attempts, listed chronologically. It does not include those who were heads of state or government at the time of the assassination attempt. See List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.

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Attempted assassination date Intended victim(s) Occupation at the time Location of attempt Country of attempt Perpetrator(s)
1134 Hugh II of Jaffa[1] Count of Jaffa Jerusalem Holy Land A Breton knight
1272 Jun Edward Longshanks[2] Heir to the English throne Acre, Jerusalem Unnamed Muslim
1572 22 Aug Gaspard de Coligny Leader of the Huguenots Paris   France Maurevert[3]
1582 18 Mar William of Orange[4] Leader of the United Provinces Antwerp   Dutch Republic Juan de Jáuregui
1799 28 Apr Jean Debry French envoy to the Congress of Rastatt Rastatt   Holy Roman Empire Unidentified hussars
1842 6 May Lilburn Boggs[5] ex-Governor of Missouri Zion, Missouri   United States Unknown
1861 February Abraham Lincoln President-elect of the United States Washington, D.C.   United States Baltimore Plotters
1865 14 Apr William H. Seward[6] United States Secretary of State Washington, D.C.   United States Lewis Powell
1868 12 March Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh Sydney   Colony of New South Wales Henry James O'Farrell
1869 11 Jul Thomas Eyre Lambert Irish landlord Athenry, County Galway   United Kingdom Peter Barrett
1891 11 May[7] Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich Tsarevich of Russia Ōtsu   Japan Tsuda Sanzō
1892 23 Jul Henry Clay Frick[8] American industrialist Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   United States Alexander Berkman
1900 5 Apr Edward, Prince of Wales Prince of Wales Brussels   Belgium Jean-Baptiste Sipido
1902 18 May Victor von Wahl Tsarist governor of Vilna Vilna   Russian Empire Hirsh Lekert
1907 18 Apr Nicholas Salmeron y Alonso Spanish statesman Barcelona   Spain political foe
1908 1 Feb Manuel, Duke of Beja Infante of Portugal (future King of Portugal) Lisbon   Portugal Carbonária (Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buíça)
1908 4 Jun Alfred Dreyfus French military officer Paris   France Louis Gregori
1910 9 Aug William Jay Gaynor Mayor of New York City Hoboken, New Jersey   United States James J. Gallagher
1912 7 Jun István Tisza Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary Budapest   Austria-Hungary Gyula Kovács
1912 14 Oct Theodore Roosevelt Former President of the United States Milwaukee   United States John Flammang Schrank
1914 17 Mar John Purroy Mitchel Mayor of New York City New York City Michael P. Mahoney
1914 29 Jun Grigori Rasputin Russian monk Pokrovskoye   Russian Empire Khioniya Guseva
1915 17 May João Chagas Prime Minister-designate of Portugal Santarém   Portugal João José de Freitas
1919 Apr-Jun A. Mitchell Palmer United States Attorney General Washington, D.C.   United States Luigi Galleani
1920 Aug Eleftherios Venizelos Greek revolutionary and statesman Paris   France Greek royalists
1923 27 Dec Hirohito Prince regent Tokyo   Japan Daisuke Namba
1928 19 Nov Herbert Hoover President-elect of the United States Andes mountains   Chile Severino Di Giovanni
1929 24 Oct Umberto of Savoy Prince of Piedmont Brussels   Belgium Fernando de Rosa
1931 22 Jul John Ernest Buttery Hotson Acting Governor of Bombay Pune   British India Vasudeo Balwant Gogte
1933 15 Feb Franklin D. Roosevelt President-elect of the United States Miami   United States Giuseppe Zangara
1936 26 Feb Makino Nobuaki Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Tokyo   Japan Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers
1936 Mar Eleftherios Venizelos Greek revolutionary and statesman Athens   Greece Greek royalists
1942 24 Feb Franz von Papen Nazi Germany's Ambassador to Turkey Ankara   Turkey NKVD agents
1943 5 Jun José P. Laurel Commissioner of the Interior, Philippine Executive Commission Mandaluyong   Philippines Feliciano Lizardo (Disputed)
1951 20 Jul Prince Hussein[9] Crown Prince of Jordan East Jerusalem   Jordan Mustapha Shukri Usho
1952 20 Jan Anton Vovk[10] Auxiliary bishop of Ljubljana Novo Mesto   Yugoslavia Avgust Mežnaršič
1954 5 Aug Carlos Lacerda Candidate for federal deputy for the Federal District Rio de Janeiro   Brazil Alcino João do Nascimento
1958 20 Sep Martin Luther King Jr. American civil rights activist and Baptist minister New York City   United States Izola Curry
1962 27 Feb Ngô Đình Nhu Chief Republic of Vietnam presidential adviser and brother of Ngô Đình Diệm Saigon   South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc
1963 10 Apr Edwin Walker United States Army officer Dallas, Texas   United States Lee Harvey Oswald
1966 21 Jun Arthur Calwell Australian Opposition Leader, Leader of the Australian Labor Party Mosman, Sydney   Australia Peter Kocan
1966 18 Oct Bhim Singh[11] President of Student's Indian Congress Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir   India Senior superintendent of police
1968 11 Apr Rudi Dutschke[12] German student activist West Berlin   West Germany Josef Bachmann
1968 3 Jun Andy Warhol American artist New York City   United States Valerie Solanas
1970 24 Apr Chiang Ching-kuo Vice Premier of the Republic of China New York City   United States Peter Huang
1972 25 Feb John Taylor British Ulster Unionist politician Belfast   United Kingdom Joe McCann
1972 15 May George Wallace[13] U.S. presidential candidate Laurel, Maryland   United States Arthur Bremer
1972 7 Dec Imelda Marcos First Lady of the Philippines Manila   Philippines Carlito Dimahilig
1973 30 Dec Joseph Sieff[14] Honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation London   United Kingdom Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
1974 Ali Hassan Salameh[15] Black September operative Tarifa   Spain Mossad
1975 6 Oct Bernardo Leighton Former Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile. Rome   Italy DINA, Avanguardia Nazionale
1976 3 Dec Bob Marley[16] Jamaican reggae musician Kingston   Jamaica Unknown
1978 6 Mar Larry Flynt[17] American newspaper publisher Lawrenceville, Georgia   United States Joseph Paul Franklin
1978 February Ayad Allawi[18] Iraqi opposition politician in exile Surrey   United Kingdom Saddam Hussein's agents
1978 5 Apr Antonio Cubillo[19] Canarian nationalist Movement leader Algiers   Algeria Spanish secret service members
1979 25 June Alexander Haig Supreme Allied Commander Europe Mons   Belgium Rolf Clemens Wagner
1980 April Tariq Aziz[20] Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Baghdad   Iraq Islamic Dawa Party members
1980 May 29 Vernon Jordan American Civil Rights Movement activist Fort Wayne, Indiana   United States Joseph Paul Franklin
1980 Oct 25 Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary[21] Black September operative Beirut   Lebanon Unknown
1981 16 Jan Bernadette and Michael McAliskey Irish socialist and republican political activists Coalisland, County Tyrone   United Kingdom Ulster Freedom Fighters
1981 June Ali Khamenei[22] Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam Tehran   Iran People's Mujahedin of Iran, Furqan Group
1981 Aug 1 Abu Daoud[15] Black September operative Warsaw   Poland Khaled[who?]
1982 3 Jun Shlomo Argov[23] Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom London   United Kingdom Abu Nidal Organization
1984 14 Mar Gerry Adams[24] Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin Belfast   United Kingdom Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
1985 8 Mar Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah[25] Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah Beirut   Lebanon Unknown
1986 25 May Malkiat Singh Sidhu[26] Planning Minister in the Government of Punjab, India Gold River   Canada Jaspal Atwal, Jasbir Singh Atwal, Armajit Singh Dhindsa and Sukhdial Singh Gill
1988 11 Sep Jean-Bertrand Aristide[27] Catholic Salesian priest, political dissident, and future President of Haiti Port-au-Prince   Haiti Ex-Tonton Macoute member
1988 20 Oct Nikola Štedul[28] Croat émigré from Yugoslavia and head of the Croatian Statehood Movement Kirkcaldy, Scotland   United Kingdom Vinko Sindičić, UDBA agent
1988 17 Nov Antoine Lahad[29] Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army Southern Lebanon   Lebanon Souha Bechara
1989 14 Jul Jani Allan[30] South African columnist Johannesburg   South Africa Cornelius Lottering, Orde van die Dood member
1989 3 Aug Salman Rushdie British Indian novelist and essayist London   United Kingdom Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh
1989 27 Nov César Gaviria Candidate of 1990 Colombian presidential election Bogota   Colombia Medellin Cartel
1990 18 Jan Motoshima Hitoshi[31] Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan Nagasaki   Japan Seikijuku member
1990 25 Apr Oskar Lafontaine[32] Minister-President of Saarland Cologne   West Germany Adelheid Streidel
1990 18 Sep Sir Peter Terry[33] British Governor of Gibraltar (1985–89) Milford, Staffordshire   United Kingdom Provisional Irish Republican Army
1990 12 Oct Wolfgang Schäuble[34] German Minister of the Interior Oppenau   Germany Dieter Kaufmann
1990 25 Oct Byron Barrera[35] Guatemalan journalist Guatemala City   Guatemala Members of the military implicated
1993 2 Jul Aziz Nesin[36] Turkish translator of "The Satanic Verses" Sivas   Turkey Sunni Wahhabi and Salafist extremist mob
1993 11 Oct William Nygaard[37] Norwegian publisher of "The Satanic Verses" Oslo   Norway Khaled Moussawi and an accomplice[38]
1993 13 Apr George H. W. Bush Former President of the United States Kuwait City   Kuwait Iraqi Intelligence Service
1994 14 Oct Naguib Mahfouz[39] Egyptian writer Cairo   Egypt Ordered by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman
1995 19 April José María Aznar[40] Head of the People's Party and future Prime Minister of Spain Madrid   Spain ETA
1995 4 Nov Mengistu Haile Mariam Former President of Ethiopia Harare[41]   Zimbabwe Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael and Abraham Goletom Joseph.
1996 12 Dec Uday Hussein[42] Son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein Baghdad   Iraq Salman Sharif, and three others[43]
1997 25 Sep Khaled Mashal[44] Leader of Hamas Amman   Jordan Mossad
1999 3 Oct Vuk Drašković[45] Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ibar Highway   FR Yugoslavia Serbian State Security Special Ops Force
1999 30 Dec George Harrison[46] Musician and former member of the Beatles Henley-on-Thames   United Kingdom Michael Abram
2000 Mar Saeed Hajjarian[47] Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist Tehran   Iran Members of the Basij militia
2000 15 Jun Vuk Drašković[48] Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Budva   FR Yugoslavia Milorad Ulemek and Slobodan Milošević
2001 1 Jun Ezekiel Alebua[49] Former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as Premier of Guadalcanal Guadalcanal   Solomon Islands Harold Keke's Isatabu Freedom Movement
2002 5 Oct Bertrand Delanoë[50] Mayor of Paris Paris   France Azedine Berkane
2003 April Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello Nigerian Commissioner for Health Ogun State   Nigeria Unknown
2004 19 Mar Annette Lu[51] Vice President of the Republic of China Tainan   Taiwan Unknown
2004 10 June Ahsan Saleem Hayat Commander V Corps Karachi   Pakistan Jundallah
2004 1 Sep Anna Politkovskaya Journalist Rostov-on-Don   Russia Unknown
2004 1 Sep Ahmad Chalabi[52] Iraqi politician Latifiya   Iraq
2004 Sep Viktor Yushchenko[53][54] Ukrainian presidential candidate Unknown   Ukraine
2005 17 Mar Anatoly Chubais[55] Russian politician and administrator of RAO UES Moscow   Russia Vladimir Kvachkov
2005 25 Sep May Chidiac Lebanese journalist Beirut   Lebanon Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah.
2006 12 Mar Sibghatullah Mojadeddi[56] President of the Senate of Afghanistan Kabul   Afghanistan Unknown
2006 30 May Georgios Voulgarakis[57] Greek Minister of Culture Athens   Greece Revolutionary Struggle
2006 1 Dec Gotabhaya Rajapaksa[58] Secretary of Defense of Sri Lanka and brother of the President Kollupitiya   Sri Lanka LTT
2007 26 Feb Adil Abdul-Mahdi[59] Vice President of Iraq Baghdad   Iraq Unknown
2007 27 Feb Dick Cheney[60] Vice President of the United States Bagram Airfield   Afghanistan Taliban
2007 14 Apr Onyema Ugochukwu[61] Gubernatorial candidate in Abia State Abia State   Nigeria Unknown
2007 18 Oct Benazir Bhutto[51] Pakistani opposition leader and ex-Prime Minister Karachi   Pakistan Usama al-Kini and Baitullah Mehsud
2009 Jun Yunus-Bek Yevkurov[62] Head of Ingushetia Nazran, Ingushetia   Russia Chechen rebels (blamed)
2009 31 Jul Anvar-qori Tursunov[63] Uzbekistani imam Tashkent   Uzbekistan Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
2010 14 May Stephen Timms[64] British Labour MP Beckton   United Kingdom Roshonara Choudhry
2011 8 Jan Gabby Giffords[65] Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Casas Adobes, Arizona   United States Jared Lee Loughner
2011 29 Sep Adel al-Jubeir Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States Washington, D.C.   United States Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri
2012 4 Apr Samir Geagea[66] Executive Chairman of the Lebanese Forces Meerab, Mount Lebanon   Lebanon Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah.
2012 9 Sep Pauline Marois Premier-designate of Quebec Montreal, Quebec   Canada Richard Henry Bain
2012 9 Oct Malala Yousafzai[67] Human rights activist Mingora   Pakistan Pakistani Taliban
2013 4 Jan Mohammed Magariaf Head of Libya's General National Congress Sabha   Libya Unknown
2013 19 Jan Ahmed Dogan Chairman of DPS party Sofia   Bulgaria Oktai Enimehmedov
2013 26 June Maqbool Baqar Judge of the High Court of Sindh Karachi   Pakistan Jundallah
2013 27 Oct Narendra Modi[68] Chief Minister of Gujarat and the prime ministerial candidate Patna, Bihar   India Indian Mujahideen
2014 29 Oct Yehuda Glick Chairman of Temple Mount Heritage Foundation Jerusalem   Israel Mutaz Hijazi
2015 17 Oct Henriette Reker Mayor of Cologne Cologne   Germany Unnamed 44-year-old far-right[69] extremist
2016 1 Mar Aaidh al-Qarni Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, author, and activist Zamboanga City   Philippines 21-year old Filipino
2017 12 May Abdul Ghafoor Haideri Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan Mastung   Pakistan ISIL
2017 12 Jun Steve Scalise House Majority Whip & Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st district Virginia   United States James Hodgkinson
2017 11 Nov Nyesom Wike Governor of Rivers State Port Harcourt   Nigeria Special Anti Robbery Squad[70]
2018 4 Mar Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal Intelligence officer Salisbury   United Kingdom G. U. Intelligence Service agents 'Alexander Petrov' and 'Ruslan Boshirov' (both names believed to be aliases), "almost certainly" on the direct orders of the Kremlin[71][72][73]
2018 6 Sep Jair Bolsonaro Federal deputy for the Brazilian national congress.
Presidential candidate for the 2018 Brazilian general election. 		Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais   Brazil Adélio Bispo de Oliveira
2018 12 Sep Pyotr Verzilov Musician, opposition activist Moscow   Russia Unknown
2018 18 Oct Austin S. Miller & Abdul Raziq Achakzai[74] Miller: United States Army general and Commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission. Raziq: Lieutenant General of Afghan Border Police. Kandahar   Afghanistan Taliban
2019 10 Oct Wiranto Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Indonesia Pandeglang Regency   Indonesia Jamaah Ansharut Daulah
2020 19 Feb Cid Gomes Senator for the state of Ceará Sobral, Ceará   Brazil Mutinying police officers[75]
2020 29 Feb Juan Guaidó Disputed President of Venezuela and Speaker of the National Assembly Barquisimeto   Venezuela Pro-government colectivos[76][77]
2020 20 Aug Alexei Navalny Opposition politician Tomsk   Russia Federal Security Service (specifically agents Alexey Alexandrov, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev)[78]
2020 25 Aug Saba Sahar Actress and filmmaker Kabul   Afghanistan Unknown
2022 14 Feb Craig Greenberg Candidate for mayor of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky   United States Quintez Brown[79]
2022 11 Aug Salman Rushdie British-Indian novelist and essayist Chautauqua, New York   United States Hadi Matar
2022 1 Sep Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Vice President of Argentina Buenos Aires   Argentina Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel [80]
2022 3 Nov Imran Khan Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Waziristan   Pakistan Muhammad Naveed[81]

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