This is a list of survivors of assassination attempts. For successful assassination attempts, see List of assassinations.
Non-heads of state
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!colspan="2"| 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
|Count of Jaffa
|Jerusalem
|Holy Land
|A Breton knight
|-
|1272
|June
|Edward Longshanks
|Heir to the English throne
|Acre, Jerusalem
| Holy Land
|Unnamed Muslim
|-
|1572
|22 August
|Gaspard de Coligny
|Leader of the Huguenots
|Paris
|
|Maurevert
|-
|1582
|18 March
|William of Orange
|Leader of the United Provinces
|Antwerp
|
|Juan de Jáuregui
|-
| rowspan="2" |1794
|22 May
|Maximilien Robespierre
| rowspan="2" |Member of the Committee of Public Safety
| rowspan="2" |Paris
| rowspan="2" |
|Cécile Renault
|-
|23 May
|Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
|Henri Admirat
|-
|1799
|28 April
|Jean Debry
|French envoy to the Congress of Rastatt
|Rastatt
|
|Unidentified hussars
|-
|1842
|6 May
|Lilburn Boggs
|ex-Governor of Missouri
|Zion, Missouri
|
|Unknown
|-
|1861
|February
|Abraham Lincoln
|President-elect of the United States
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Baltimore Plotters
|-
|1861
|22 February
|Charles Van Wyck
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Three unidentified men
|-
|1865
|14 April
|William H. Seward
|United States Secretary of State
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Lewis Powell
|-
|1868
|12 March
|Prince Alfred
|Duke of Edinburgh
|Sydney
| Colony of New South Wales
|Henry James O'Farrell
|-
|1869
|11 July
|Thomas Eyre Lambert
|Irish landlord
|Athenry, County Galway
|
|Peter Barrett
|-
|1878
|24 January
|Fyodor Trepov
|Governor of Saint Petersburg
|Saint Petersburg
|
|Vera Zasulich
|-
|1889
|13 February
|Celso Ceretti
|Italian socialist politician
|Mirandola, Emilia Romagna
|
|Intransigents of London and Paris (Vittorio Pini and Luigi Parmeggiani)
|-
|1889
|15 November
|
|Minister of the Navy of the Empire of Brazil
|Rio de Janeiro, Neutral Municipality of the Court
|
|Unknown
|-
|1891
|11 May
|Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich
|Tsarevich of Russia
|Ōtsu
|
|Tsuda Sanzō
|-
|1892
|23 July
|Henry Clay Frick
|American industrialist
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
|Alexander Berkman
|-
|1900
|5 April
|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 April
|Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso
|Spanish statesman
|Barcelona
|
|Political foe
|-
|1908
|1 February
|Manuel, Duke of Beja
|Infante of Portugal (future King of Portugal)
|Lisbon
|
|Carbonária (Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buíça)
|-
|1908
|4 June
|Alfred Dreyfus
|French military officer
|Paris
|
|Louis Gregori
|-
|1910
|9 August
|William Jay Gaynor
|Mayor of New York City
|Hoboken, New Jersey
|
|James J. Gallagher
|-
|1912
|7 June
|István Tisza
|Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary
|Budapest
|
|Gyula Kovács
|-
|1912
|14 October
|Theodore Roosevelt
|Former president of the United States and U.S. presidential candidate
|Milwaukee
|rowspan=1 |
|John Flammang Schrank
|-
|1913
|29 January and following weeks
|David Lloyd George
|Chancellor of the Exchequer
|Sent from various sources
|rowspan=1 |
|Suffragettes (WSPU)
|-
|1913
|14 May
|Henry Curtis-Bennett
|Magistrate
|Bow Street, London
|
|Suffragettes (WSPU)
|-
|1913
|16 May
|Henry Curtis-Bennett
|Magistrate
|Margate
|
|Suffragettes (WSPU)
|-
|1914
|17 March
|John Purroy Mitchel
|Mayor of New York City
|New York City
|
|Michael P. Mahoney
|-
|1914
|29 June
|Grigori Rasputin
|Russian monk
|Pokrovskoye
|
|Khioniya Guseva
|-
|1915
|17 May
|João Chagas
|Prime Minister-designate of Portugal
|Santarém
|
|João José de Freitas
|-
|1915
|3 July
|J. P. Morgan Jr.
|Banker
|Glen Cove
|
|Eric Muenter
|-
|1919
|April–June
|A. Mitchell Palmer
|United States Attorney General
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Galleanisti
|-
|1920
|3 April
|Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
|General of the Finnish White Guards
|Tampere
|
|Finnish Red Guards
|-
|1920
|August
|Eleftherios Venizelos
|Greek revolutionary and statesman
|Paris
|
|Greek royalists
|-
|1923
|27 December
|Hirohito
|Prince regent
|Tokyo
|
|Daisuke Namba
|-
|1928
|19 November
|Herbert Hoover
|President-elect of the United States
|Andes Mountains
|
|Severino Di Giovanni
|-
|1929
|24 October
|Umberto of Savoy
|Prince of Piedmont
|Brussels
|
|Fernando de Rosa
|-
|1931
|22 July
|John Ernest Buttery Hotson
|Acting Governor of Bombay
|Pune, Bombay State
|
|Vasudeo Balwant Gogte
|-
|1933
|15 February
|Franklin D. Roosevelt
|President-elect of the United States
|Miami
|
|Giuseppe Zangara
|-
|1936
|26 February
|Makino Nobuaki
|Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
|Tokyo
|
|Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers
|-
|1936
|March
|Eleftherios Venizelos
|Greek revolutionary and statesman
|Athens
|
|Greek royalists
|-
|1940
|24 May
|Leon Trotsky
|Prominent anti-Stalinist figure
|Mexico City
|
|NKVD
|-
|1942
|24 February
|Franz von Papen
|Nazi Germany's Ambassador to Turkey
|Ankara
|
|NKVD agents
|-
|1943
|5 June
|José P. Laurel
|Commissioner of the Interior, Philippine Executive Commission
|Mandaluyong
|
|Feliciano Lizardo (disputed)
|-
|1948
|20 April
|Walter Reuther
|President of the UAW
|Detroit
|
|Unknown
|-
|1949
|24 May
|Victor Reuther
|UAW Director of Education
|Detroit
|
|Unknown
|-
|1951
|20 July
|Hussein of Jordan
|2nd in line to the throne
|East Jerusalem
|
|
|-
|1952
|20 January
|Anton Vovk
|Auxiliary bishop of Ljubljana
|Novo Mesto
|
|Avgust Mežnaršič
|-
|1954
|5 August
|Carlos Lacerda
|Candidate for federal deputy for the Federal District
|Rio de Janeiro
|
|Alcino João do Nascimento
|-
|1958
|20 September
|Martin Luther King Jr.
|American civil rights activist and Baptist minister
|New York City
|
|Izola Curry
|-
|1960
|11 December
|John F. Kennedy
|President-elect of the United States
|Florida
|United States
|Richard Paul Pavlick
|-
|1962
|27 February
|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 April
|Edwin Walker
|United States Army officer
|Dallas
|
|Lee Harvey Oswald
|-
|1966
|7 June
|James Meredith
|Civil rights activist
|Hernando, Mississippi
|
|Aubrey James Norvell
|-
|1966
|21 June
|Arthur Calwell
|Australian Opposition Leader, Leader of the Australian Labor Party
|Mosman, Sydney
|
|Peter Kocan
|-
|1966
|25 July
|Artur da Costa e Silva
|Minister of War of Brazil and candidate for the Presidency of Brazil
|Recife, Pernambuco
|
|Unknown
|-
|1966
|18 October
|Bhim Singh
|President of the National Students Union of India
|Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
|
|Senior superintendent of police
|-
|1967
|8 June
|
|Federal Deputy for Pernambuco
|Brasília, Federal District
|
|Nelson Carneiro
|-
|1967
|8 June
|Nelson Carneiro
|Federal Deputy for Guanabara
|Brasília, Federal District
|
|
|German student activist
|West Berlin
|
|Josef Bachmann
|-
|1968
|3 June
|Andy Warhol
|American artist
|New York City
|
|Valerie Solanas
|-
| 1970
|24 April
|Chiang Ching-kuo
|Vice Premier of the Republic of China
|New York City
|
|Peter Huang
|-
|1971
|8 August
|Alexander Solzhenitsyn
|Soviet dissident
|Novocherkassk
|
|KGB
|-
|1972
|15 May
|George Wallace
|U.S. presidential candidate
|Laurel, Maryland
|
|Arthur Bremer
|-
|1972
|7 December
|Imelda Marcos
|First Lady of the Philippines
|Manila
|
|Carlito Dimahilig
|-
|1973
|30 December
|Joseph Sieff
|Honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation
|London
|
|Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
|-
|1974
|8 March
|Asari Giichi
|Mayor of Shiraoi, Hokkaido
|Shiraoi, Hokkaido
|
|Yagi Tatsumi
|-
| 1974
|
|Ali Hassan Salameh
|Black September operative
|Tarifa
|
|Mossad
|-
|1975
|6 October
|Bernardo Leighton
|Former Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile.
|Rome
|
|DINA, Avanguardia Nazionale
|-
|1975
|December
|
|Mayor of Jundiaí, São Paulo
|Jundiaí, São Paulo
|
|Unnamed
|-
|1976
|3 December
|Bob Marley
|Jamaican reggae musician
|Kingston
|
|Unknown
|-
|1976
|12 December
|Raymond Eddé
|Lebanese member of parliament
|Beirut
|
|Unknown
|-
|1978
|February
|Ayad Allawi
|Iraqi opposition politician in exile
|Surrey
|
|Saddam Hussein's agents
|-
|1978
|6 March
|Larry Flynt
|American newspaper publisher
|Lawrenceville, Georgia
|
|Joseph Paul Franklin
|-
|1978
|5 April
|Antonio Cubillo
|Canarian nationalist Movement leader
|Algiers
|
|Spanish secret service members
|-
|1979
|3 May
|Amine Gemayel
|Kataeb Regulatory Forces general
|Bikfaya
|
|Unknown
|-
|1979
|4 June
|Pierre Gemayel
|President of the Kataeb Party
|Matn
|
|Unknown
|-
|1979
|25 June
|Alexander Haig
|Supreme Allied Commander Europe
|Mons
|
|Rolf Clemens Wagner
|-
|1980
|April
|Tariq Aziz
|Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
|Baghdad
|
|Islamic Dawa Party members
|-
|1980
|29 May
|Vernon Jordan
|American Civil Rights Movement activist
|Fort Wayne, Indiana
|
|Joseph Paul Franklin
|-
|1980
|10 June
|Percy Wood
|President of United Airlines
|Lake Forest, Illinois
|
|Ted Kaczynski
|-
| 1980
| 25 October
|Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary
|Black September operative
|Beirut
|
| Unknown
|-
|1981
|16 January
|Bernadette and Michael McAliskey
|Irish socialist and republican political activists
|Coalisland, County Tyrone
|
|Ulster Freedom Fighters
|-
|1981
|27 June
|Ali Khamenei
|Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam
|Tehran
|
|People's Mujahedin of Iran, Furqan Group
|-
| 1981
| 1 August
|Abu Daoud
|Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom
|London
|
|Abu Nidal Organization
|-
|1984
|14 March
|Gerry Adams
|Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin
|Belfast
|
|Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
|-
|1985
|8 March
|Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
|Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah
|Beirut
|
|CIA linked group
|-
| rowspan="2" |1985
| rowspan="2" |12 November
|Camille Chamoun
|Former president of Lebanon and leader of the National Liberal Party
| rowspan="2" |Beirut
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |Vanguard of Arab Christians
|-
|
|Planning Minister in the Government of Punjab, India
|Gold River
|
|Jaspal Atwal, Jasbir Singh Atwal, Amarjit Singh Dhindsa and Sukhdial Singh Gill
|-
|1988
|18 June
|Turgut Özal
|Prime Minister of Turkey
|Ankara
|
|Kartal Demirağ
|-
|1988
|11 September
|Jean-Bertrand Aristide
|Catholic Salesian priest, political dissident, and future President of Haiti
|Port-au-Prince
|
|Ex-Tonton Macoute member
|-
|1988
|20 October
|Nikola Štedul
|Croat émigré from Yugoslavia and head of the Croatian Statehood Movement
|Kirkcaldy, Scotland
|
|Vinko Sindičić, UDBA agent
|-
|1988
|17 November
|Antoine Lahad
|Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army
|Southern Lebanon
|
|Souha Bechara
|-
|1989
|14 July
|Jani Allan
|South African columnist
|Johannesburg
|
|Cornelius Lottering, Orde van die Dood member
|-
|1989
|3 August
|Salman Rushdie
|British Indian novelist and essayist
|London
|
|Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh
|-
|1989
|27 November
|César Gaviria
|Candidate of 1990 Colombian presidential election
|Bogotá
|
|Medellin Cartel
|-
|1990
|18 January
|Motoshima Hitoshi
|Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan
|Nagasaki
|
|Seikijuku member
|-
|1990
|25 April
|Oskar Lafontaine
|Minister-President of Saarland
|Cologne
|
|Adelheid Streidel
|-
|1990
|18 September
|Peter Terry
|British Governor of Gibraltar
|Milford, Staffordshire
|
|Provisional Irish Republican Army
|-
|1990
|12 October
|Wolfgang Schäuble
|German Minister of the Interior
|Oppenau
|
|Dieter Kaufmann
|-
|1990
|25 October
|Byron Barrera
|Guatemalan journalist
|Guatemala City
|
|Members of the military implicated
|-
|1991
|12 January
|Al Sharpton
|American civil rights activist and Baptist minister
|Brooklyn, New York
|
|Michael Riccardi
|-
|1991
|4 November
|Mohammed Zahir Shah
|Former King of Afghanistan
|Rome
|
|Paulo Jose de Almeida Santos
|-
|1992
|19 June
|Curtis Sliwa
|Founder of the Guardian Angels
|Manhattan
|
|Michael Yannotti (alleged)
|-
|1992
|5 December
|Jiří Svoboda
|Leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
|Prague
|
|Unknown
|-
|1993
|2 July
|Aziz Nesin
|Turkish translator of "The Satanic Verses"
|Sivas
|
|Sunni Wahhabi and Salafist extremist mob
|-
|1993
|19 August
|George Tiller
|Abortion provider
|Wichita
|
|Shelley Shannon
|-
|1993
|11 October
|William Nygaard
|Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses
|Oslo
|
|Khaled Moussawi and an accomplice
|-
|1994
|June
|Boris Berezovsky
|Russian oligarch and later prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|1994
|14 October
|Naguib Mahfouz
|Egyptian writer
|Cairo
|
|Ordered by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman
|-
|1994
|8 November
|Garson Romalis
|Abortion provider
|Vancouver
|
|James Kopp (suspected)
|-
|1995
|19 April
|José María Aznar
|Head of the People's Party and future Prime Minister of Spain
|Madrid
|
|ETA
|-
|1995
|4 November
|Mengistu Haile Mariam
|Former President of Ethiopia
|Harare
|
|Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael and Abraham Goletom Joseph
|-
|1996
|4 July
|Nimal Siripala de Silva
|Sri Lankan Minister of Housing
|Jaffna
|
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
|1996
|12 September
|Björk
|Musician
|London
|
|Ricardo López
|-
|1996
|12 December
|Uday Hussein
|Son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
|Baghdad
|
|Salman Sharif, and three others
|-
|1997
|25 September
|Khaled Mashal
|Leader of Hamas
|Amman
|
|Mossad
|-
|1998
|6 December
|General Anuruddha Ratwatte
|Sri Lankan Minister of Energy and Deputy Defence Minister
|Oddusuddan
|
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
|1999
|3 October
|Vuk Drašković
|Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|Ibar Highway
|
|Serbian State Security Special Ops Force
|-
|1999
|30 December
|George Harrison
|Musician and former member of the Beatles
|Henley-on-Thames
|
|Michael Abram
|-
|2000
|March
|Saeed Hajjarian
|Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist
|Tehran
|
|Members of the Basij militia
|-
|2000
|15 June
|Vuk Drašković
|Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|Budva
|
|Milorad Ulemek and Slobodan Milošević
|-
|2000
|11 July
|Garson Romalis
|Abortion provider
|Vancouver
|
|Unknown
|-
|2001
|1 June
|Ezekiel Alebua
|Former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as Premier of Guadalcanal
|Guadalcanal
|
|Harold Keke's Isatabu Freedom Movement
|-
|2002
|5 October
|Bertrand Delanoë
|Mayor of Paris
|Paris
|
|Azedine Berkane
|-
|2003
|April
|Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello
|Nigerian Commissioner for Health
|Ogun State
|
|Unknown
|-
|2004
|10 June
|Ahsan Saleem Hayat
|Commander V Corps
|Karachi
|
|Jundallah
|-
|2004
|1 September
|Anna Politkovskaya
|Journalist
|Rostov-on-Don
|
|rowspan=3 | Unknown
|-
|2004
|1 September
|Ahmad Chalabi
|Iraqi politician
|Latifiya
|
|-
| 2004
| September
|Viktor Yushchenko
| Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, candidate for President of Ukraine
| Unknown
|
|-
|2004
|1 October
|Marwan Hamadeh
|Minister of Economy and Trade
|Beirut
|
|Unknown
|-
| 2005
| 17 March
|Anatoly Chubais
| Former deputy Prime Minister of Russia administrator of RAO UES
|Moscow
|
|Vladimir Kvachkov
|-
|2005
|12 July
|Elias Murr
|Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon
|Antelias
|
|Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah.
|-
|2005
|25 September
|May Chidiac
|Lebanese journalist
|Beirut
|
|Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah.
|-
|2006
|February
|Suhaylah Abd-Jaafar
|Minister of Displacement and Migration
|Baghdad
|
||Unknown
|-
|2006
|12 March
|Sibghatullah Mojadeddi
|President of the Senate of Afghanistan
|Kabul
|
|Unknown
|-
|2006
|25 April
|Lt. General Sarath Fonseka
|Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
|Colombo
|
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
|2006
|20 May
|Park Geun-hye
|South Korean MP and Leader of the Grand National Party
|Seoul
|
|Ji Chung-ho
|-
|2006
|30 May
|Georgios Voulgarakis
|Greek Minister of Culture
|Athens
|
|Revolutionary Struggle
|-
|2006
|16 October
|Alexander Litvinenko
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|London
|
|FSB agents Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, "probably" approved by FSB head Nikolai Patrushev and Russian president Vladimir Putin
|-
|2006
|25 October
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
| Unknown
|-
|2006
|1 December
|Gotabaya Rajapaksa
|Secretary of Defense of Sri Lanka and brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa
|Kollupitiya
|
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
|2007
|February
|Robert O. Blake Jr.
|United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
|Batticaloa
|
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
|2007
|26 February
|Adil Abdul-Mahdi
|Vice President of Iraq
|Baghdad
|
|Unknown
|-
| 2007
|27 February
|Dick Cheney
|Vice President of the United States
|Bagram Airfield
|
|Taliban
|-
|2007
|14 April
|Onyema Ugochukwu
|Gubernatorial candidate in Abia State
|Abia State
|
|Unknown
|-
| 2007
| 9 May
|Ramzan Kadyrov
|Head of the Chechen Republic
|Moscow
|
|Adam Osmayev (alleged)
|-
| 2007
| June
|Boris Berezovsky
| Prominent opponent to Vladimir Putin
|London
|
|Russian security services
|-
|2007
|18 October
|Benazir Bhutto
|Pakistani opposition leader and ex-Prime Minister
|Karachi
|
|Usama al-Kini and Baitullah Mehsud
|-
|2008
|15 March
|Dmitry Medvedev
|-
|2008
|8 October
|Maithripala Sirisena
|Sri Lankan Minister of Agricultural Development & Agrarian Services
|Colombo
|
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
| rowspan="6" |2009
| rowspan="6" |11 March
|Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena
|Sri Lankan Minister of Cultural Affairs
| rowspan="6" |Akuressa
| rowspan="6" |
| rowspan="6" |Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
|Ameer Ali Shihabdeen
|Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Disaster Relief Services
|-
|Pandu Bandaranaike
|Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Religious Affairs
|-
|A. H. M. Fowzie
|Sri Lankan Minister of Petroleum & Petroleum Resources Development
|-
|Chandrasiri Gajadeera
|Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs
|-
|Mahinda Wijesekara
|Sri Lankan Minister of Special Projects
|-
|2008
|November
|Mikhail Beketov
|Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|2009
|June
|Yunus-Bek Yevkurov
|Head of Ingushetia
|Nazran, Ingushetia
|
|Chechen rebels (blamed)
|-
|2009
|31 July
|Anvar-qori Tursunov
|Uzbekistani imam
|Tashkent
|
|Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
|-
|2010
|1 January
|Kurt Westergaard
|Cartoonist
|Aarhus
|
|28-year-old Somali
|-
|2010
|14 May
|Stephen Timms
|British Labour MP
|Beckton
|
|Roshonara Choudhry
|-
| rowspan="2" |2010
| rowspan="2" |November
|Viktor Kalashnikov
| rowspan="2" |Prominent Russian opposition figures
| rowspan="2" |Berlin
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |Likely FSB
|Prominent journalist and Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|2011
|8 January
|Gabby Giffords
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
|Casas Adobes, Arizona
|
|Jared Lee Loughner
|-
|2011
|13 May
|Joss Stone
|Singer, songwriter and actress
|East Devon
|
|Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw
|-
|2011
|29 September
|Adel al-Jubeir
|Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri
|-
|2012
|4 April
|Samir Geagea
|Executive Chairman of the Lebanese Forces
|Meerab, Mount Lebanon
|
|Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah.
|-
|2012
|9 September
|Pauline Marois
|Premier-designate of Quebec
|Montreal, Quebec
|
|Richard Henry Bain
|-
|2012
|9 October
|Malala Yousafzai
|Human rights activist
|Mingora
|
|Pakistani Taliban
|-
|2013
|4 January
|Mohammed Magariaf
|Head of Libya's General National Congress
|Sabha
|
|Unknown
|-
|2013
|19 January
|Ahmed Dogan
|Chairman of the DPS party
|Sofia
|
|Oktai Enimehmedov
|-
|2013
|5 February
|Lars Hedegaard
|Chairman of the Danish Free Press Society
|Copenhagen
|
|Basil Hassan
|-
|2013
|26 June
|Maqbool Baqar
|Judge of the High Court of Sindh
|Karachi
|
|Jundallah
|-
|2013
|27 October
|Narendra Modi
|Chief Minister of Gujarat and the prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Indian general election
|Patna, Bihar
|
|Indian Mujahideen<br/>Students' Islamic Movement of India
|-
|2014
|29 October
|Yehuda Glick
|Chairman of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation
|Jerusalem
|
|Mutaz Hijazi
|-
|2015
|26 May
|Vladimir Kara-Murza
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Likely FSB extremist
|-
|2016
|1 March
|Aaidh al-Qarni
|Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, author, and activist
|Zamboanga City
|
|21-year-old Filipino
|-
|2016
|21 May
|Mayu Tomita
|Japanese singer and actress
|Koganei, Tokyo
|
|Tomohiro Iwazaki
|-
|2016
|18 June
|Donald Trump
|American businessman, media personality, and presidential candidate
|Las Vegas, Nevada
|
|Michael Steven Sandford
|-
|2016
|28 September
|José Eliton
|Vice Governor of Goiás
|Itumbiara, Goiás
|
|Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral
|-
|2017
|2 February
|Vladimir Kara-Murza
|Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|2017
|23 October
|Tatyana Felgenhauer
|Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|2017
|11 November
|Nyesom Wike
|Governor of Rivers State
|Port Harcourt
|
|Special Anti Robbery Squad
|-
|2018
|4 March
|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
|-
|2018
|6 September
|Jair Bolsonaro
|Federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro<br/>Presidential candidate for the 2018 Brazilian general election
|Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais
|
|Adélio Bispo de Oliveira
|-
|2018
|12 September
|Pyotr Verzilov
|Musician, opposition activist
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|2018
|18 October
|Austin S. Miller
|United States Army general and Commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission
|Kandahar
|
|Taliban gunman
|-
|2019
|13 April
|Dmitry Bykov
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|Mid-air flight between Yekaterinburg and Ufa
|
|Likely FSB
|-
|2019
|July
|Alexei Navalny
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|Moscow
|
|Unknown
|-
|2019
|10 October
|Wiranto
|Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Indonesia
|Pandeglang Regency
|
|Jamaah Ansharut Daulah
|-
|id=2020<!--THIS IS NOT AN ERROR: The id should be put in the row that precedes the intended target, because of how this table renders.-->|2019
|6 November
|Junius Ho
|Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong
|Tuen Mun
|
|Unknown
|-
|2020
|19 February
|Cid Gomes
|Senator for the state of Ceará
|Sobral, Ceará
|
|Mutinying police officers
|-
|2020
|29 February
|Juan Guaidó
|Disputed president of Venezuela and Speaker of the National Assembly
|Barquisimeto
|
|Pro-government colectivos
|-
|2020
|26 June
|Omar García Harfuch
|Secretary of Public Security of Mexico City
|Mexico City
|
|Jalisco New Generation Cartel
|-
|2020
|6 July
|Alexei Navalny
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|Kaliningrad
|
|Likely FSB
|-
|2020
|19 July
|Esther Salas
|United States federal judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
|North Brunswick, New Jersey
|
|Roy Den Hollander
|-
|2020
|20 August
|Alexei Navalny
|Prominent Russian opposition figure
|Tomsk
|
|FSB (specifically agents Alexey Alexandrov, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev)
|-
|2020
|25 August
|Saba Sahar
|Actress and filmmaker
|Kabul
|
|Unknown
|-
|2022
|14 February
|Craig Greenberg
|Candidate for mayor of Louisville
|Louisville, Kentucky
|
|Quintez Brown
|-
|2022
|12 August
|Salman Rushdie
|British-Indian novelist and essayist
|Chautauqua, New York
|
|Hadi Matar
|-
|2022
|1 September
|Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
|Vice President of Argentina
|Buenos Aires
|
| Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel
|-
|2022
|28 October
|Paul Pelosi
|American businessman
|San Francisco, California
|
|David DePape
|-
|2022
|3 November
|Imran Khan
|Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
|Wazirabad
|
|Muhammad Naveed
|-
|2022
|23 November
|Friendlyjordies
|YouTuber/Journalist
|Bondi Beach
|
|Coronation Property Group (alleged)
|-
|2023
|14 May
|Lúcio Tembé
|Tembé leader
|Tomé-Açu, Pará
|
|Unknown
|-
|2023
|17 September
|Uddika Premarathna
|Sri Lankan MP and actor
|Anuradhapura
|
|Unknown gunmen
|-
|2023
|23 December
|Lucas Aparecido Assumção
|Mayor of Palmares Paulista, São Paulo
|Palmares Paulista, São Paulo
|
|Unnamed
|-
|2024
|2 January
|Lee Jae-myung
|South Korean MP and Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea
|Gadeokdo, Busan
|
|Kim Jin-sung
|-
|2024
|15 April
|Mar Mari Emmanuel
|Assyrian Australian prelate and bishop
|Wakeley, New South Wales
|
|Unnamed 16-year-old boy
|-
|2024
|13 July
|Donald Trump
|Former president of the United States and U.S. presidential candidate
|Butler, Pennsylvania
|
|Thomas Matthew Crooks
|-
|2024
|28 August
|Ahmed Haitham
|Former Member of the People's Majlis of the Maldives
|Colombo
|
|Unnamed
|-
|2024
|28 August
|Shajaan Muaz Shaheem
|Former president of the United States and U.S. presidential candidate
|West Palm Beach, Florida
|
|Ryan Wesley Routh
|-
|2025
|13 April
|Josh Shapiro
|Governor of Pennsylvania
|Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
|
|Cody Allen Balmer
|-
|2025
|14 June
|John Hoffman
|Member of the Minnesota Senate
|Champlin, Minnesota
|
|Vance Boelter
|-
|2026
|6 February
|Vladimir Alekseyev
|Deputy Director of the GRU
|Moscow
|
|Lyubomir Korba
|-
|2026
|25 April
|Second cabinet of Donald Trump (excluding Kash Patel)
|President of the United States
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Cole Tomas Allen (suspect)
|}
Heads of state and government
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header"
|-
! colspan="2" | Date
! Article
! Intended victim(s)
! Title at the time
! Place
! Country
! Perpetrator(s)
|-
| 354 BC
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| Mausolus
| Satrap of Caria and Lycia
| Labraunda
| Achaemenid Empire
| Manitas Paktyо̄ and Thyssos Syskо̄
|-
| 227 BC
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| rowspan="3" | Qin Shi Huang
| King of Qin
| Xianyang
| Ancient China (Warring States period)
| Jing Ke
|-
|Unknown
| align="center" |–
|
|First Emperor of a unified China
|Xianyang
|Imperial China (Qin dynasty)
|Gao Jianli
|-
| 218 BC
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| First Emperor of a unified China
| China
| Imperial China (Qin dynasty)
| Ordered by Zhang Liang (Western Han)
|-
| 206 BC
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
| Feast at Swan Goose Gate
| Liu Bang
| King of Han
| Xianyang
| Imperial China (Chu–Han Contention)
| Xiang Zhuang
|-
|
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| Ptolemy VIII Physcon
| Pharaoh of Egypt
| Alexandria
| Ancient Egypt
| Ordered by Ptolemy VI Philometor, his brother
|-
| 135 BC
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| John Hyrcanus
| Crown Prince and High Priest of Israel
| Jerusalem
| Judea (Hasmonean Dynasty)
| Ptolemy son of Abubus collaborating with the Selucid Empire
|-
| 399 AD
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| Emperor Richū
| Crown Prince
| Naniwa
| Ancient Japan (Kofun period)
| (Younger brother)
|-
| 626 AD
| Mar–Apr
|
| Saint Edwin of Northumbria
| King of Deira and Bernicia
| York, Northumbria
|
| Agents of Cwichelm of Wessex
|-
| 1298
| Dec
|
| Edward I
| King of England
| Westminster
|
| Merchants of Lucca
|-
| 1323
| 30 Nov
|
| Edward II
| King of England
| Coventry
|
| John of Nottingham
|-
| 1330
| 17 Apr
|
| Charles I
| King of Hungary
| Visegrád
|
| Felician Záh
|-
| 1400
| 4 Jan
|
| rowspan="2" | Henry IV
| rowspan="2" | King of England
| Windsor Castle
| rowspan="2" |
| Members of the Epiphany Rising
|-
| 1401
| 8 Sep
|
| Westminster
| Unknown
|-
| 1402
| colspan="1" align="center" |–
|
| Yongle Emperor
| Emperor of China
| Nanjing
| Imperial China (Ming dynasty)
| Left Censor-in-Chief Jing Qing
|-
| 1486
| 23 Apr
|
| Henry VII
| King of England
| York
|
| Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell
|-
|1492
|7 December
|
|Ferdinand II of Aragon
|King of Aragon
|Barcelona
|
|Juan de Cañamares
|-
| 1542
| Nov
| Renyin palace plot
| Jiajing Emperor
| Emperor of China
| Beijing
| Imperial China (Ming dynasty)
| Imperial Concubine Ning, Yang Jinying, and 14 other palace women
|-
| 1557
| Sep
|
| Henry II
| King of France
| Paris
| 20x20px France
| Caboche
|-
| 1564
| Jan
|
| Akbar
| Mughal Emperor
| Delhi
| 20x20px Mughal Empire
| A slave of Mirza Sharfuddin
|-
| 1571
| bef. Apr
|
| rowspan="4" | Elizabeth I
| rowspan="4" | Queen of England
| rowspan="4" | Westminster
| rowspan="4" |
| Members of the Ridolfi Plot
|-
| 1583
| bef. Nov
|
| Francis Throckmorton
|-
| 1584
| Mar–Nov
|
| William Parry
|-
| 1586
| Jul–Aug
|
| Anthony Babington
|-
| 1594
| 27 Dec
|
| Henry IV
| King of France
| Paris
| 20x20px France
| Jean Châtel
|-
| 1605
| 5 Nov
| Gunpowder Plot
| James I
| King of England
| Westminster
|
| Guy Fawkes
|-
| 1620
| 15 Nov
|
| Sigismund III Vasa
| King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
| Warsaw
|
| Michał Piekarski
|-
| 1657
| 8 Jan
|
| Oliver Cromwell
| Lord Protector
| London
|
| Miles Sindercombe
|-
| 1696
| 15–22 Feb
| 1696 Jacobite assassination plot
| William III
| King of England
| Kew Bridge
|
| Ambrose Rookwood
|-
| 1757
| 5 Jan
|
| Louis XV
| King of France
| Versailles
| 25x25px France
| Robert-François Damiens
|-
| 1758
| 3 Sep
|
| Joseph I
| King of Portugal and the Algarves
| Ajuda, Lisbon
|
| Unclear; possibly the Távora family (see Távora affair)
|-
| 1800
| 15 May
|
| George III
| King of Britain and Ireland
| Westminster
|
| James Hadfield
|-
| 1800
| 24 Dec
| Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise
| Napoleon Bonaparte
| First Consul of France
| Paris
|
| François-Joseph Carbon
|-
| 1809
| 12 Oct
|
| Napoleon I
| Emperor of the French
| Schönbrunn
|
| Friedrich Staps
|-
|1826
|3 Nov
|
|Dionisio de Herrera
|Head of State of Honduras
|
|Honduras
|
|-
|1832
|
|
|Fructuoso Rivera
|President of Uruguay
|
|Uruguay
|Members of the military supportive of Rivera's rival Juan Antonio Lavalleja
|-
| 1835
| 30 Jan
| Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
| Andrew Jackson
| President of the United States
| Washington, D.C.
|
| Richard Lawrence
|-
| 1835
| 28 Jul
|
| Louis Philippe I
| King of France
| Paris
|
| Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
|-
| 1840
| 10 Jun
|
| rowspan="2" | Queen Victoria
| Shahanshah of Persia
| Tehran
|
| Babis
|-
| 1853
| 18 Feb
|
| Franz Joseph I
| Austria-Hungarian Emperor
| Vienna
|
| János Libényi
|-
| 1858
| 14 Jan
|
| Napoleon III
| Emperor of the French
| Paris
|
| Felice Orsini
|-
| 1861
| 14 Jul
|
| Wilhelm I
| King of Prussia
| Baden-Baden
|
| Oskar Becker
|-
|1864
|August
|
|Abraham Lincoln
| Chancellor of the German Reich
| Bad Kissingen
|
| Eduard Kullman
|-
| rowspan="2" |1878
| 11 May
|Hödel assassination attempt
| rowspan="2" |Wilhelm I
| rowspan="2" |German Emperor
| rowspan="2" |Berlin
| rowspan="2" |
| Max Hödel
|-
| 2 Jun
|Nobiling assassination attempt
| Karl Nobiling
|-
| 1878
| 17 Nov
|
| Umberto I
| King of Italy
| Naples
|
| Giovanni Passannante
|-
| 1879
| 20 Apr
|
| rowspan="2" | Alexander II
| rowspan="2" | Emperor of Russia
| rowspan="2" | Saint Petersburg
| rowspan="2" |
| Alexander Soloviev
|-
| 1880
| 5 Feb
|
| Stephan Khalturin
|-
| 1882
| 2 Mar
|
| Queen Victoria
| Queen of the United Kingdom
| Windsor
|
| Roderick Maclean
|-
| 1883
| 28 Sep
|
| Wilhelm I
| German Emperor
| Rüdesheim am Rhein
|
| August Reinsdorf
|-
|1886
|Aug
|
|Máximo Santos
|President of Uruguay
|
|Uruguay
|
|-
| 1887
| 13 Jan
|
| Shirley Waldemar Baker
| Prime Minister of Tonga
| Nukuʻalofa
|
| Muʻa conspirators
|-
| 1889
| 15 Jul
| Attempted assassination of Pedro II of Brazil
| Pedro II
| Emperor of Brazil
| Rio de Janeiro
|
| Adriano Augusto do Valle
|-
| 1889
| 18 Oct
|
| Ōkuma Shigenobu
| Prime Minister of Japan
| Tokyo
|
| Member of the Genyōsha
|-
| 1897
| 22 Apr
|
| Umberto I
| King of Italy
| Rome
|
| Pietro Acciarito
|-
| 1897
| 16 Sep
| Attack against Porfirio Díaz of 1897
| Porfirio Díaz
| President of Mexico
| Alameda Central, Mexico City
|
| Arnulfo Arroyo
|-
| 1897
| 5 Nov
| Attempted assassination of Prudente de Morais
| Prudente de Morais
| President of Brazil
| Rio de Janeiro
| Brazil
| Lance corporal Marcelino Bispo de Melo
|-
| 1900
| 2 Aug
|
| Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
| Shah of Persia
| Paris
|
| Francois Salson
|-
| 1900
| 16 Nov
|
| rowspan="2" | Wilhelm II
| rowspan="2" | German Emperor
| Breslau
| rowspan="2" |
| Selma Schnapka
|-
| 1901
| 6 Mar
|
| Bremen
| Johann-Dietrich Weiland
|-
| 1902
| 15 Nov
|
| Leopold II
| King of the Belgians
| Brussels
|
| Gennaro Rubino
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1905
| 1 Jun
|
| Émile Loubet
| President of France
| rowspan="2" | Paris
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | Unidentified anarchist
|-
| 1 Jun
|
| Alfonso XIII
| King of Spain
|-
| 21 Jul
| Yıldız assassination attempt
| Abdul Hamid II
| Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
| Constantinople
|
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation
|-
| 1906
| 31 May
| Morral affair
| Alfonso XIII
| King of Spain
| Madrid
|
| Mateu Morral
|-
| 1908
| 15 Mar
|
| Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
| Shah of Persia
| Tehran
|
| Constitutionalists
|-
| 1909
| 16 Oct
|
| William Howard Taft
| President of the United States
| Ciudad Juárez
|
| Crowd member
|-
|1912
|16 March
|
|Victor Emmanuel III
|King of Italy
|Rome
|Italy
|Antonio Dalba
|-
|1915
|2 Jul
|
|Thomas R. Marshall
|Vice President of the United States
|His office at U.S. Senate
|
|Eric Muenter
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1918
| Aug 30
| Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin
| Vladimir Lenin
| Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
| Moscow
|
| Fanny Kaplan
|-
| 6 Dec
|
| Sidónio Pais
| President of Portugal
| Lisbon
|
| Luís Maria Baptista
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1919
| 9 Jan
|
| Karel Kramář
| Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
| Prague
|
|
|-
| 19 Feb
|
| Georges Clemenceau
| Prime Minister of France
| Paris
|
| Émile Cottin
|-
| 1921
| 25 Sep
|
| Józef Piłsudski
| Chief of State of Poland
| Lviv
|
| Stepan Fedak
|-
| 1922
| 14 Jul
| Attempted assassination of Alexandre Millerand
| Alexandre Millerand
| President of France
| Paris
|
| Gustave Bouvet
|-
| 1924
| 5 Sep
|
| Stanisław Wojciechowski
| President of Poland
| Lviv
|
| Teofil Olszansky
|-
|1925
|4 Nov
|
| rowspan="4" | Benito Mussolini
| rowspan="4" | Prime Minister of Italy
| rowspan="3" | Rome
| rowspan="4" |
| Tito Zaniboni
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1926
| 7 Apr
|
| Violet Gibson
|-
| 11 Sep
|
| Gino Lucetti
|-
| 31 Oct
|
| Bologna
| Anteo Zamboni
|-
| 1931
| 20 Feb
|
| Zog I
| King of Albania
| Vienna
|
| Ndok Gjeloshi, Aziz Çami
|-
| 1932
| 9 Jan
|
| Hirohito
| Emperor of Japan
| Tokyo
|
| Lee Bong-chang
|-
|1933
| Oct
|
| Engelbert Dollfuss
| Chancellor of Austria
| Vienna
|
| Rudolf Dertill
|-
| 1935
| 2 Jun
|
| Gabriel Terra
| President of Uruguay
| Montevideo
|
| Bernardo García
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1936
| 26 Feb
|
| Keisuke Okada
| Prime Minister of Japan
| Tokyo
|
| Imperial Japanese Army officers
|-
| 16 Jul
|
| Edward VIII
| King of the United Kingdom
| London
|
| George McMahon
|-
| 1937
| 4 Jul
|
| António de Oliveira Salazar
| Prime Minister of Portugal
| São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon
|
| Emídio Santana and several anarcho-syndicalist and communist conspirators
|-
| 1938
| 9 Nov
|
| rowspan="2" | Adolf Hitler
| rowspan="2" | German Führer
| rowspan="2" | Munich
| rowspan="2" |
| Maurice Bavaud
|-
| 1939
| 8 Nov
|
| Georg Elser
|-
| 1941
| 17 May
|
| Victor Emmanuel III
| King of Italy
| Tirana
|
| Vasil Laçi
|-
| 1943
| 13 Mar
|
| rowspan="2" | Adolf Hitler
| Shah of Iran
| Tehran
|
| Nasser Fakhraraei
|-
| 1950
| 1 Nov
| Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman
| Harry Truman
| President of the United States
| Washington, D.C.
|
| Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola (FALN)
|-
| 1952
| 27 Mar
| Attempted assassination of Konrad Adenauer
| Konrad Adenauer
| Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
| Munich
|
| Herut
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1954
| 26 Oct
|Attempted assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser
| Gamal Abdel Nasser
| President of Egypt
| Alexandria
|
| Mohammed Abdel Latif
|-
| 27 Oct
|
| Ismail al-Azhari
| Prime Minister of Sudan
| Malakal
| Sudan
| Southern official
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1955
| 12 Mar
|
| Jawaharlal Nehru
| Prime Minister of India
| Nagpur
|
| Baburao Laxman Kochale
|-
| 11 Apr
|
| Zhou Enlai
| Chinese Premier
| Hong Kong
|
| Kuomintang agents
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1957
| 22 Feb
|
| Ngô Đình Diệm
| President of the Republic of Vietnam
| Buôn Ma Thuột
|
| Hà Minh Tri
|-
| 30 Nov
|
| Sukarno
| President of Indonesia
| Jakarta
|
| Darul Islam/Tentara Islam Indonesia
|-
| 1959
| 15 Jul
|
| Nikita Khrushchev and Władysław Gomułka
| General Secretary of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
| Sosnowiec
|
| Stanisław Jaros
|-
| rowspan="4" |1960
|9 Mar
|Maukar Incident
|Sukarno
|President of Indonesia
|Jakarta
|
|Manguni Group, Permesta
|-
| 9 Apr
|
| Hendrik Verwoerd
| Prime Minister of South Africa
| Johannesburg
|
| David Pratt
|-
| 24 Jun
| Attempted assassination of Rómulo Betancourt
| Rómulo Betancourt
| President of Venezuela
| Caracas
|
| Ordered by Dominican Republic President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
|-
| 14 Jul
|
| Nobusuke Kishi
| Prime Minister of Japan
|
|
| Taisuke Aramaki
|-
| 1962
| 27 Feb
|
| Ngô Đình Diệm
| President of the Republic of Vietnam
| Saigon
|
| Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1962
| 14 May
|
| Sukarno
| President of Indonesia
| Jakarta
|
| Darul Islam/Tentara Islam Indonesia
|-
| 22 Aug
|Petit-Clamart attack
| Charles de Gaulle
| President of France
| Petit-Clamart
|
| Jean Bastien-Thiry
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1964
| 21 Feb
|
| İsmet İnönü
| Prime Minister of Turkey
| Ankara
|
| Mesut Suna
|-
| 11 Aug
|
| Francisco Franco
| Generalissimo Caudillo of Spain
| Madrid
|
| Stuart Christie
|-
| 1965
| 12 Apr
|
| Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
| Shah of Iran
| Tehran
|
| Reza Shamsabadi
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1968
| 21 Jan
| Blue House raid
| Park Chung Hee
| President of South Korea
| Seoul
|
| North Korean commandos
|-
| 13 Aug
|
| Georgios Papadopoulos
| President of Greece
| Between Lagonisi and Athens
|
| Alexandros Panagoulis
|-
| 1969
| 22 Jan
| Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev
| Leonid Brezhnev
| General Secretary of the CPSU
| Moscow
|
| Viktor Ilyin
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1970
| 27 Nov
|
| Pope Paul VI
| Bishop of Rome
| Manila
|
| Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores
|-
| 1 Sep
|
| Hussein I
| King of Jordan
| Amman
|
| Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1971
| 10 Jul
| 1971 Moroccan coup attempt
| Hassan II
| King of Morocco
| Skhirat
|
| M'hamed Ababou and Mohamed Medbouh
|-
| 13 Sep
| Lin Biao incident
| Mao Zedong
| Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
| China
|
| Lin Biao (alleged)
|-
| 1972
| 16 Aug
|1972 Moroccan coup attempt
| Hassan II
| King of Morocco
| Kenitra
|
| Mohamed Amekrane
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1973
| 14 Jan
|
| rowspan="2" | Golda Meir
| rowspan="3" | President of the United States
| Baltimore/Washington International Airport
| rowspan="3" |
| Samuel Byck
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1975
| 5 Sep
| Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in Sacramento
| rowspan="2" | Gerald Ford
| Sacramento
| Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
|-
| 22 Sep
| Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in San Francisco
| San Francisco
| Sara Jane Moore
|-
| 1976
| Feb
|
| Jean-Bédel Bokassa
| President of the Central African Republic
| Bangui M'Poko International Airport
|
| Unknown
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1977
| 18 Feb
|
| Jorge Rafael Videla
| President of Argentina
| Aeroparque Jorge Newbery
|
| Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo
|-
| 22 Sep
|
| Bhumibol Adulyadej
| King of Thailand
| Yala
|
| Patani United Liberation Organisation
|-
| 1980
| 26 June
| Attempted assassination of Hafez al-Assad
| Hafez al-Assad
| President of Syria
| Damascus
|
| Muslim Brotherhood
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1981
| 30 Mar
| Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
| Ronald Reagan
| President of the United States
| Washington, D.C.
|
| John Hinckley Jr.
|-
| 13 May
| Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
| Pope John Paul II
| Bishop of Rome
| St. Peter's Square
|
| Mehmet Ali Ağca
|-
| 13 Jun
|
| Elizabeth II
| Queen of the United Kingdom
| London
|
| Marcus Sarjeant
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1982
| 12 May
|
| Pope John Paul II
| Bishop of Rome
| Fátima
|
| Juan María Fernández y Krohn
|-
| 8 Jul
|
| Saddam Hussein
| President of Iraq
| Dujail
|
| Islamic Dawa Party
|-
| 1983
| 19 Oct
|
| Chun Doo-hwan
| President of South Korea
| Rangoon
|
| North Korean agents
|-
| 1984
| 12 Oct
| Brighton hotel bombing
| Margaret Thatcher
| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
| Brighton
|
| Irish Republican Army
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1986
| 7 Sep
| Attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet
| Augusto Pinochet
| President of Chile
| Cajón del Maipo
|
| Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
|-
| 3 Oct
|
| Rajiv Gandhi
| Prime Minister of India
| New Delhi
|
| Karamjit Singh
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1987
| 18 Jun
|
| Turgut Özal
| President of Turkey
| Ankara
|
| Kartal Demirağ
|-
| 30 Jul
|
| Rajiv Gandhi
| Prime Minister of India
| rowspan="3" | Colombo
| rowspan="3" |
| Vijitha Rohana
|-
| rowspan="2" | 18 Aug
| rowspan="2" |1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament
| Junius Richard Jayewardene
| President of Sri Lanka
| rowspan="2" | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
|-
| Ranasinghe Premadasa
| President of the Maldives
| Malé
|
|People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam<br />Abdullah Luthufi<br />Ahmed Nasir<br />Ahmed Ismail Manik
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1990
| 27 Jul
|
| A. N. R. Robinson
| Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
| Port of Spain
|
| Jamaat al Muslimeen rebels
|-
| 7 Nov
| Attempted assassination of Mikhail Gorbachev
| Mikhail Gorbachev
| President of the Soviet Union
| Moscow
|
| Alexander Shmonov
|-
|1991
| 7 Feb
|
| John Major
| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
| London
|
| Irish Republican Army
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1993
| 27 Jan
|
| Boris Yeltsin
| President of Russia
| Moscow
|
| Ivan Kislov
|-
| Nov
|
| Atef Sedki
| Prime Minister of Egypt
| Cairo
|
| Vanguards of Conquest
|-
|1994
|26 Jan
|
|Prince Charles
|Prince of Wales
|Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour in Sydney
|
|David Kang
|-
| 1994
| 29 Oct
| Attempted assassination of Bill Clinton
| Bill Clinton
| President of the United States
| Washington, D.C.
|
| Francisco Martin Duran
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1995
| 25 Jun
|
| Hosni Mubarak
| President of Egypt
| Addis Ababa
|
| National Islamic Front
|-
| 29 Aug
|
| Eduard Shevardnadze
| President of Macedonia
| Skopje
|
| Unknown
|-
| 5 Nov
|
| Jean Chrétien
| Prime Minister of Canada
| Ottawa
|
| André Dallaire
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1996
| Feb
|
| Muammar Gaddafi
| Libyan leader
| Sirte
|
| Islamic extremists
|-
| 17 Jul
|
| Pavlo Lazarenko
| Prime Minister of Ukraine
| Kyiv
|
| Unknown
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1998
| 9 Feb
|
| Eduard Shevardnadze
| President of Georgia
| Tbilisi
|
| Anti-government forces
|-
| 12 Jun
|
| Muammar Gaddafi
| Libyan Revolutionary leader
| Derna
|
| Islamic militants
|-
| 1999
| 18 Dec
|Attempted assassination of Chandrika Kumaratunga
| Chandrika Kumaratunga
| President of Sri Lanka
| Colombo
|
| Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2000
| 24 Feb
|
| rowspan="3" | Vladimir Putin
| Acting President of Russia
| Saint Petersburg
|
| Chechen mafia
|-
| 18 Aug
|
| rowspan="2" | President of Russia
| Yalta
|
| Unknown
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2001
| 9 Jan
|
| Baku
|
| Kyanan Rostam
|-
| 7 Feb
|
| George W. Bush
| President of the United States
| Washington, D.C.
|
| Robert W. Pickett
|-
| 16 Oct
|
| Vladimir Putin
| President of Russia
| Moscow
|
| Ivan Zaytsev
|-
| 14 Jul
|
| Jacques Chirac
| President of France
| Paris
|
| Maxime Brunerie
|-
| 5 Sep
|
| Hamid Karzai
| President of Afghanistan
| Kandahar
|
| Lone gunman
|-
| 2003
| 25 Dec
|
| Pervez Musharraf
| President of Pakistan
| Rawalpindi
|
| Ordered by Amjad Farooqi
|-
| rowspan="4" | 2004
| 19 Mar
| March 19 shooting incident
| Chen Shui-bian
| Prime Minister of Pakistan
| Fateh Jang
|
| Al-Qaeda sympathizers
|-
| 21 Aug
|
| Sheikh Hasina
| Prime Minister of Bangladesh
| Dhaka
|
| Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2005
| 15 Mar
|
| Ibrahim Rugova
| President of Kosovo
| Pristina
|
| Unknown
|-
| rowspan="2" | 10 May
|
| Mikheil Saakashvili
| President of Georgia
| rowspan="2" | Tbilisi
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | Vladimir Arutyunian
|-
|
| George W. Bush
| President of Somalia
| Baidoa
|
| Islamic Courts Union (blamed)
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2007
| 29 Jun
|
| Guillaume Soro
| Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
| Bouaké
|
| Unknown
|-
| 6 Jul
|
| Pervez Musharraf
| President of Pakistan
| Rawalpindi
|
| Taliban
|-
| Oct
|
| Vladimir Putin
| President of Russia
| Tehran
|
| Unknown
|-
| rowspan="4" | 2008
| 8 Jan
|
| Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
| President of the Maldives
| Hoarafushi
|
| Mohamed Murshid
|-
| 15 Mar
|
| Vladimir Putin
| President of Russia
| Moscow
|
| Shakhvelad Osmanov
|-
| rowspan="2" | 11 Feb
|
| José Ramos-Horta
| President of Timor-Leste
| rowspan="2" | Dili
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | Alfredo Reinado
|-
|
| Xanana Gusmão
| Queen of the Netherlands
| Apeldoorn
|
| Karst Tates
|-
| 19 Aug
|
| Vladimir Putin
| President of Guinea
| Conakry
|
| Lt. Abubakar Diakite
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2011
| 3 Jun
|
| Ali Abdullah Saleh
| President of Yemen
| Sanaa
|
| Unknown
|-
| 19 Jul
|
| Alpha Condé
| President of Guinea
| Conakry
|
| Republic of Guinea Armed Forces officers
|-
| 2012
|
|
| Vladimir Putin
| Prime Minister of Russia
| Moscow
|
| Dokka Umarov (alleged)
|-
| 2013
| Apr
|
| Barack Obama
| President of the United States
| Washington, D.C.
|
| James Everett Dutschke
|-
| 2017
| Nov
|
| Theresa May
| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
| London
|
| Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2018
|Jan
|
| Benjamin Netanyahu
| Prime Minister of Israel
| Jerusalem
|
| Muhammad Jamal Rashdeh, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
|-
| 23 Jun
| 2018 Bulawayo bombing
| Emmerson Mnangagwa
| President of Zimbabwe
| Bulawayo
|
| Unknown
|-
| 4 Aug
| 2018 Caracas drone attack
| Nicolás Maduro
| President of Venezuela
| Caracas
|
| Uncertain (claimed by Soldados de Franelas)
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2020
| 29 Feb
| 2020 Barquisimeto shooting
| Juan Guaidó
| Prime Minister of Sudan
| Khartoum
|
| Unknown
|-
| 2 Jul
|
| Justin Trudeau
| Prime Minister of Canada
| Ottawa
|
| Corey Barclay Hurren
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2021
| 20 Jul
|
| Assimi Goïta
| President of Mali
| Bamako
|
| Unknown
|-
| 7 Nov
| Attempted assassination of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
| Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
| Prime Minister of Iraq
| Baghdad
|
| Unknown
|-
| rowspan="5" | 2022
| 10 Feb
|
| Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh
| Prime Minister of Libya
| Tripoli
|
| Unknown
|-
| 26 Feb
| rowspan="4" | Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
| rowspan="4" | Volodymyr Zelenskyy
| rowspan="4" | President of Ukraine
| rowspan="4" | Kyiv
| rowspan="4" |
| Chechen mercenaries
|-
| rowspan="3" | Feb
| Kadyrovites
|-
| Redut
|-
| Wagner Group
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2023
| 15 Apr
| Attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida
| Fumio Kishida
| Prime Minister of Japan
| Wakayama
|
| Ryūji Kimura
|-
| 3 May
| Kremlin drone attack
| Vladimir Putin (Russian claim)
| President of Russia
| Moscow
|
| Disputed
|-
| rowspan="4" | 2024
| 15 May
|Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
| Robert Fico
| Prime Minister of Slovakia
| Handlová
|
| Juraj Cintula
|-
| 30 July
|Attempted assassination of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
| Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
| Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council
| Jubayt
|
| Unknown
|-
| 13 September
|
| Azali Assoumani
| President of the Comoros
| Salimani
|
| Ahmed Abdou
|-
| 19 October
|2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
| Benjamin Netanyahu
| Prime Minister of Israel
| Caesarea
|
| Hezbollah, Iran (alleged)
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2025
|18 March
|Attempted assassination of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
|Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
|President of Somalia
|Mogadishu
|
|Al-Shabaab (claimed)
|-
|30 September
|
| rowspan="2" | Daniel Noboa
| rowspan="2" | President of Ecuador
|Cotacachi
| rowspan="2" |
|Unknown
|-
|7 October
|
|Cañar
|Unknown
|-
|2026
|25 April
|2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting
|Donald Trump
|President of the United States
|Washington, D.C.
|
|Cole Tomas Allen (suspect)
|}
Gallery
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File:Arrestation Gregori.jpg|Arrest of Louis Gregori, 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
File:Reker Attentat-34.jpg|Crime scene of the attack on Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker in Cologne on 17 October 2015
File:Bolsonaro é esfaqueado.jpg|Federal deputy and Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro after being stabbed by Adélio Bispo de Oliveira during a campaign event on 6 September 2018
File:The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson President of the United States.tiff|Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Andrew Jackson outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., 30 January 1835
File:Anarchist attack on the King of Spain Alfonso XIII (1906).jpg|Assassination attempt of King of Spain Alfonso XIII in Madrid, 31 May 1906
File:Lenin attempt.jpg|Assassination attempt of Russian Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, Aug 30 1918
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1972-025-10, Hitler-Attentat, 20. Juli 1944.jpg|Wolf's Lair conference room after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, 20 July 1944
File:Mohamad Reza Shah Pahlavi in hospital 1949 jpeg.jpg|Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Shah in hospital after the failed assassination attempt by Fada'iyan-e Islam in 1949
File:Rómulo Betancourt después de atentado.jpg|Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt delivers a speech with bandaged hands the day after the assassination attempt against him with a car bomb, planned by Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, 25 June 1960.
File:Ford rushed from Sacramento assassination attempt image A6320-24A.jpg|Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Gerald Ford outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, 5 September 1975
File:AV89-26-14 600d.jpg|Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Gerald Ford in San Francisco, 22 September 1975
File:Reagan assassination attempt 4 crop.jpg|Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, 30 March 1981
File:Grand-Hotel-Following-Bomb-Attack-1984-10-12.jpg|Brighton Grand Hotel after the bomb attack to attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 12 October 1984
</gallery>
See also
- List of assassinations
- List of assassination attempts on prime ministers of India
- List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots