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List of people who survived assassination attempts
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 since there is a a separate list for them.
List
Attempted assassination date | Intended victim(s) | Occupation at the time | Location of attempt | Country of attempt | Perpetrator(s) | |
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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 | ![]() |
Maurevert[3] |
1582 | 18 Mar | William of Orange[4] | Leader of the United Provinces | Antwerp | ![]() |
Juan de Jáuregui |
1806–1807 | 27 Nov 1807 – 1 Sep 1807 | Aaron Burr[5] | Former Vice President of the United States | Richmond, Virginia | ![]() |
Thomas Jefferson |
1842 | 6 May | Lilburn Boggs[6] | ex-Governor of Missouri | Zion, Missouri | ![]() |
Unknown |
1861 | February | Abraham Lincoln | President-elect of the United States | Washington, D.C. | ![]() |
Baltimore Plotters |
1865 | 14 Apr | William H. Seward[7] | United States Secretary of State | Washington, D.C. | ![]() |
Lewis Powell |
1868 | 12 March | Prince Alfred | Duke of Edinburgh | Clontarf, Sydney | ![]() |
Henry James O'Farrell |
1869 | 11 Jul | Thomas Eyre Lambert | Irish landlord | Athenry, County Galway | ![]() |
Peter Barrett |
1891 | 11 May[8] | Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich | Tsarevich of Russia | Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture | ![]() |
Tsuda Sanzō |
1892 | 23 Jul | Henry Clay Frick[9] | American industrialist | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Alexander Berkman |
1900 | 5 Apr | Edward, Prince of Wales | Prince of Wales | Brussels | ![]() |
Jean-Baptiste Sipido |
1902 | 18 May | Victor von Wahl | Tsarist governor of Vilna | Vilna | ![]() |
Hirsh Lekert |
1907 | 18 Apr | Nicholas Salmeron y Alonso | Spanish statesman | Barcelona | ![]() |
political foe |
1908 | 1 Feb | Manuel, Duke of Beja | Infante of Portugal (future King of Portugal) | Commerce Square, Lisbon | ![]() |
Carbonária (Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buíça) |
1908 | 4 Jun | Alfred Dreyfus | French military officer | Paris | ![]() |
Louis Gregori |
1910 | 9 Aug | William Jay Gaynor | Mayor of New York City | Hoboken, New Jersey. | ![]() |
James J. Gallagher |
1912 | 7 Jun | István Tisza | Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary | Budapest | ![]() |
Gyula Kovács |
1912 | 14 Oct | Theodore Roosevelt | Former President of the United States | Milwaukee | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
Khioniya Guseva |
1915 | 17 May | João Chagas | Prime Minister-designate of Portugal | Barquinha railway station, Santarém | ![]() |
João José de Freitas |
1919 | Apr-Jun | A. Mitchell Palmer | United States Attorney General | Washington, D.C. | ![]() |
Luigi Galleani |
1920 | Aug | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek revolutionary and statesman | Paris | ![]() |
Greek royalists |
1923 | 27 Dec | Hirohito | Prince regent | Tokyo | ![]() |
Daisuke Namba |
1928 | 19 Nov | Herbert Hoover | President-elect of the United States | Andes mountains | ![]() |
Severino Di Giovanni |
1929 | 24 Oct | Umberto of Savoy | Prince of Piedmont | Brussels | ![]() |
Fernando de Rosa |
1931 | 22 Jul | John Ernest Buttery Hotson | Acting Governor of Bombay | Pune | ![]() |
Vasudeo Balwant Gogte |
1933 | 15 Feb | Franklin D. Roosevelt | President-elect of the United States | Miami | ![]() |
Giuseppe Zangara |
1936 | 26 Feb | Makino Nobuaki | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Tokyo | ![]() |
Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers |
1936 | Mar | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek revolutionary and statesman | Athens | ![]() |
Greek royalists |
1942 | 24 Feb | Franz von Papen | Nazi Germany's Ambassador to Turkey | Ankara | ![]() |
NKVD agents |
1943 | 5 Jun | José P. Laurel | Commissioner of the Interior, Philippine Executive Commission | Mandaluyong | ![]() |
(Disputed) |
1951 | 20 Jul | Prince Hussein[10] | Crown Prince of Jordan | East Jerusalem | ![]() |
Mustapha Shukri Usho |
1952 | 20 Jan | Anton Vovk[11] | Auxiliary bishop of Ljubljana | Novo Mesto | ![]() |
Avgust Mežnaršič |
1958 | 20 Sep | Martin Luther King Jr. | American civil rights activist and Baptist minister | New York City | ![]() |
Izola Curry |
1962 | 27 Feb | Ngô Đình Nhu | Chief Republic of Vietnam presidential adviser and brother of Ngô Đình Diệm | Saigon | ![]() |
Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc |
1963 | 10 Apr | Edwin Walker | United States Army officer | Dallas, Texas | ![]() |
Lee Harvey Oswald |
1966 | 21 Jun | Arthur Calwell | Australian Opposition Leader, Leader of the Australian Labor Party | Mosman, Sydney | ![]() |
Peter Kocan |
1966 | 18 Oct | Bhim Singh[12] | President of Student's Indian Congress | Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir | ![]() |
Senior superintendent of police |
1968 | 11 Apr | Rudi Dutschke[13] | German student activist | West Berlin | ![]() |
Josef Bachmann |
1968 | 3 Jun | Andy Warhol | American artist | New York City | ![]() |
Valerie Solanas |
1970 | 24 Apr | Chiang Ching-kuo | Vice Premier of the Republic of China | New York City | ![]() |
Peter Huang |
1972 | 25 Feb | John Taylor | British Ulster Unionist politician | Belfast | ![]() |
Joe McCann |
1972 | 15 May | George Wallace[14] | U.S. presidential candidate | Laurel, Maryland | ![]() |
Arthur Bremer |
1972 | 7 Dec | Imelda Marcos | First Lady of the Philippines | Manila | ![]() |
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1973 | 30 Dec | Joseph Sieff[15] | Honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation | London | ![]() |
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez |
1974 | Ali Hassan Salameh[16] | Black September operative | Tarifa | ![]() |
Mossad | |
1975 | 6 Oct | Bernardo Leighton | Former Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile. | Rome | ![]() |
DINA, Avanguardia Nazionale |
1976 | 3 Dec | Bob Marley[17] | Jamaican Reggae musician | Kingston | ![]() |
Unknown |
1978 | 6 Mar | Larry Flynt[18] | American newspaper publisher | Lawrenceville, Georgia | ![]() |
Joseph Paul Franklin |
1978 | February | Ayad Allawi[19] | Iraqi opposition politician in exile | Surrey | ![]() |
Saddam Hussein's agents |
1978 | 5 Apr | Antonio Cubillo[20] | Canarian nationalist Movement leader | Algiers | ![]() |
Spanish secret service members |
1979 | 25 June | Alexander Haig | Supreme Allied Commander Europe | Mons | ![]() |
Rolf Clemens Wagner |
1980 | April | Tariq Aziz[21] | Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq | Baghdad | ![]() |
Islamic Dawa Party members |
1980 | May 29 | Vernon Jordan | American Civil Rights Movement activist | Fort Wayne, Indiana | ![]() |
Joseph Paul Franklin |
1980 | Oct 25 | Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary[22] | Black September operative | Beirut | ![]() |
Unknown |
1981 | 16 Jan | Bernadette and Michael McAliskey | Irish socialist and republican political activists | Coalisland, County Tyrone | ![]() |
Ulster Freedom Fighters |
1981 | June | Ali Khamenei[23] | Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam | Tehran | ![]() |
People's Mujahedin of Iran, Furqan Group |
1981 | Aug 1 | Abu Daoud[16] | Black September operative | Warsaw | ![]() |
Khaled |
1982 | 3 Jun | Shlomo Argov[24] | Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | ![]() |
Abu Nidal Organization |
1984 | 14 Mar | Gerry Adams[25] | Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin | Belfast | ![]() |
Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) |
1985 | 8 Mar | Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah[26] | Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah | Beirut | ![]() |
Unknown |
1988 | 11 Sep | Jean-Bertrand Aristide[27] | Catholic Salesian Order priest, political dissident and future President of Haiti | Port-au-Prince | ![]() |
Ex-Tonton Macoute member |
1988 | 20 Oct | Nikola Stedul[28] | Ethnic Croatian émigré from Yugoslavia and head of the "Croatian Statehood Movement" | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | ![]() |
Vinko Sindičić, UDBA agent |
1988 | 17 Nov | Antoine Lahad[29] | Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army | South Lebanon | ![]() |
Souha Bechara |
1989 | 14 Jul | Jani Allan[30] | South African columnist | Johannesburg | ![]() |
, Orde van die Dood member |
1989 | 3 Aug | Salman Rushdie | British Indian novelist and essayist | London | ![]() |
Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh |
1990 | 18 Jan | Motoshima Hitoshi[31] | Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan | Nagasaki | ![]() |
Seikijuku member |
1990 | 25 Apr | Oskar Lafontaine[32] | Minister-President of Saarland | Cologne | ![]() |
Adelheid Streidel |
1990 | 18 Sep | Sir Peter Terry [33] | British Governor of Gibraltar (1985–89) | Milford, Staffordshire | ![]() |
Provisional Irish Republican Army |
1990 | 12 Oct | Wolfgang Schäuble[34] | German Minister of the Interior | Oppenau, Baden-Württemberg, | ![]() |
Dieter Kaufmann |
1990 | 25 Oct | Byron Barrera[35] | Guatemalan journalist | Guatemala City | ![]() |
Members of the military implicated |
1993 | 2 Jul | Aziz Nesin[36] | Turkish translator of "The Satanic Verses" | Sivas | ![]() |
Sunni Wahhabi and Salafist extremist mob |
1993 | 11 Oct | William Nygaard[37] | Norwegian publisher of "The Satanic Verses" | Oslo | ![]() |
Unknown |
1993 | 13 Apr | George H. W. Bush | Former President of the United States | Kuwait City | ![]() |
Iraqi Intelligence Service |
1994 | 14 Oct | Naguib Mahfouz[38] | Egyptian Nobel writer | Cairo | ![]() |
Ordered by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman |
1995 | José María Aznar[39] | Head of the People's Party and future Prime Minister of Spain | ![]() |
ETA | ||
1995 | 4 Nov | Mengistu Haile Mariam | Former President of Ethiopia | Harare[40] | ![]() |
Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael and Abraham Goletom Joseph. |
1996 | 12 Dec | Uday Hussein[41] | Son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein | Baghdad | ![]() |
Salman Sharif, and three others[42] |
1997 | 25 Sep | Khaled Mashal[43] | Leader of Hamas | Amman | ![]() |
Mossad |
1999 | 3 Oct | Vuk Drašković[44] | Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Ibar Highway | ![]() |
Serbian State Security Special Ops Force |
1999 | 30 Dec | George Harrison[45] | Musician, spiritual activist, former member of the Beatles | Henley-on-Thames | ![]() |
Michael Abram |
2000 | Mar | Saeed Hajjarian[46] | Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist | Tehran | ![]() |
Members of the Basij militia |
2000 | 15 Jun | Vuk Drašković[47] | Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Budva | ![]() |
Milorad Ulemek and Slobodan Milošević |
2001 | 1 Jun | Ezekiel Alebua[48] | Former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as Premier of Guadalcanal | Guadalcanal | ![]() |
Harold Keke's Isatabu Freedom Movement |
2002 | 5 Oct | Bertrand Delanoë[49] | Mayor of Paris | Paris | ![]() |
Azedine Berkane |
2003 | April | Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello | Nigerian Commissioner for Health | Ifo Road, Ogun State | ![]() |
Unknown |
2004 | 19 Mar | Annette Lu[50] | Vice President of the Republic of China | Tainan | ![]() |
Unknown |
2004 | 1 Sep | Anna Politkovskaya | Journalist | Rostov-on-Don | ![]() |
Unknown |
2004 | 1 Sep | Ahmad Chalabi[51] | Iraqi politician | Latifiya | ![]() | |
2004 | Sep | Viktor Yushchenko[52][53] | Ukrainian presidential candidate | Unknown | ![]() | |
2005 | 17 Mar | Anatoly Chubais[54] | Russian politician and administrator of RAO UES | Moscow | ![]() |
Vladimir Kvachkov |
2005 | 25 Sep | May Chidiac | Lebanese journalist | Beirut | ![]() |
Unknown |
2006 | 12 Mar | Sibghatullah Mojadeddi[55] | President of the Senate of Afghanistan | Kabul | ![]() | |
2006 | 30 May | Georgios Voulgarakis[56] | Greek Minister of Culture | Athens | ![]() |
Revolutionary Struggle |
2006 | 1 Dec | Gotabhaya Rajapaksa[57] | Secretary of Defense for Sri Lanka and brother of the President | Kollupitiya | ![]() |
LTT |
2007 | 26 Feb | Adil Abdul-Mahdi[58] | Vice President of Iraq | Baghdad | ![]() |
Unknown |
2007 | 27 Feb | Dick Cheney[59] | Vice President of the United States | Bagram Airfield | ![]() |
Taliban |
2007 | 14 Apr | Onyema Ugochukwu[60] | Gubernatorial candidate of Abia State, Nigeria | Abia State | ![]() |
Unknown |
2007 | 18 Oct | Benazir Bhutto[50] | Pakistani opposition leader and ex- Prime Minister | Karachi | ![]() |
Usama al-Kini and Baitullah Mehsud |
2009 | Jun | Yunus-Bek Yevkurov[61] | Head of Ingushetia | Nazran, Ingushetia | ![]() |
Chechen rebels (blamed) |
2009 | 31 Jul | Anvar-qori Tursunov[62] | Uzbekistani Imam | Tashkent | ![]() |
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan |
2010 | 14 May | Stephen Timms[63] | British Labour MP | Beckton | ![]() |
Roshonara Choudhry |
2011 | 8 Jan | Gabby Giffords[64] | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Arizona) | Casas Adobes, Arizona | ![]() |
Jared Lee Loughner |
2011 | 29 Sep | Adel al-Jubeir | Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States | Washington, D.C. | ![]() |
Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri |
2012 | 9 Sep | Pauline Marois | Premier-designate of Quebec | Montreal, Quebec | ![]() |
Richard Henry Bain |
2012 | 9 Oct | Malala Yousafzai[65] | Pakistani human rights activist | Mingora | ![]() |
Taliban |
2013 | 4 Jan | Mohammed Magariaf | Head of Libya's General National Congress | Sabha | ![]() |
Unknown |
2013 | 19 Jan | Ahmed Dogan | Chairman of DPS party | Sofia | ![]() |
Oktai Enimehmedov |
2013 | 27 Oct | Narendra Modi[66] | Chief Minister of Gujarat and the Prime Ministerial candidate. | Patna, Bihar | ![]() |
Indian Mujahideen |
2014 | 29 Oct | Yehuda Glick | Chairman of Temple Mount Heritage Foundation | Jerusalem | ![]() |
Mutaz Hijazi |
2015 | 17 Oct | Henriette Reker | Mayor of Cologne | Cologne | ![]() |
Unnamed 44-year-old far-right[67] extremist |
2016 | 1 Mar | Aaidh al-Qarni | Saudi Arabian Islamic scholor, author, and activist | Zamboanga City | ![]() |
21-year old Filipino |
2017 | 12 May | Abdul Ghafoor Haideri | Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan | Mastung | ![]() |
ISIL |
2017 | 12 Jun | Steve Scalise | House Majority Whip & Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st district | Virginia | ![]() |
James Hodgkinson |
2017 | 11 Nov | Ezenwo Nyesom Wike | Governor of Rivers State | Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt | ![]() |
Special Anti Robbery Squad[68] |
2018 | 4 Mar | Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal | Intelligence officer | Salisbury | ![]() |
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[69][70][71] |
2018 | 6 Sep | Jair Bolsonaro | Federal deputy for the Brazilian national congress. Presidential candidate for the 2018 Brazilian general election. |
Juiz de Fora | ![]() |
Adélio Bispo de Oliveira |
2018 | 12 Sep | Pyotr Verzilov | Musician, opposition activist | Moscow | ![]() |
Unknown |
2018 | 18 Oct | Austin S. Miller & Abdul Raziq Achakzai[72] | Miller: United States Army general and Commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission.Raziq: Lieutenant General of Afghan Border Police. | Kandahar | ![]() |
Taliban |
2019 | 10 Oct | Wiranto | Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs (Indonesia) | Pandeglang Regency | ![]() |
Jamaah Ansharut Daulah |
2020 | 19 Feb | Cid Gomes | Senator for the state of Ceará | Sobral | ![]() |
Mutinying police officers[73] |
2020 | 29 Feb | Juan Guaidó | Disputed President of Venezuela and Speaker of the National Assembly | Barquisimeto | ![]() |
Pro-government colectivos[74][75] |
2020 | 20 Aug | Alexei Navalny | Opposition politician | Tomsk | ![]() |
Federal Security Service (specifically agents Alexey Alexandrov, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev)[76] |
2020 | 25 Aug | Saba Sahar | Actress and filmmaker | Kabul | ![]() |
Unknown |
2021 | 20 July | Assimi Goïta | President of Mali | Bamako | ![]() |
Unknown |
Gallery
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Arrest of the attempted assassin of Captain Alfred Dreyfus during the ceremony removing Émile Zola's ashes to the Panthéon from the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, 4 June 1908
Crime scene of the attack on Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker in Cologne on 17 October 2015
Federal deputy and Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro after being stabbed by Adélio Bispo de Oliveira during a campaign event on 6 September 2018.
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