List of people who survived assassination attempts

Survivors of assassination attempts in reverse chronological order:

Since 1990

• José Ramos-Horta (2008), President of Timor-Leste
• Xanana Gusmão (2008), Prime Minister of Timor-Leste
• Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (2008), Maldives president
• Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, (2007), Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India
• Adil Abdul Mahdi, (2007), Vice President of Iraq
• Georgios Voulgarakis, (2006), Greek Minister of Culture
• Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, (2006), President of Somalia
• Sibghatullah Mojadeddi, (2006), President of the Senate of Afghanistan
• Ali Muhammad Ghedi, (2005), Prime Minister of Somalia
• Anatoly Chubais, (2005), Russian politician
• Ibrahim Rugova, (2005), President of Kosovo
• George W. Bush, (2005). President of the United States of America
• Viktor Yushchenko, (2004), President of Ukraine
• Murat Zyazikov, (2004), President of Ingushetia
• Chen Shui-bian, (2004), President of Taiwan
• Annette Lu, (2004), Vice-President of Taiwan
• John Abizaid, (2004), military commander of Iraq
• Shaukat Aziz, (2004), Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Ahmad Chalabi, (2004), Iraqi politician
• Saddam Hussein, (2003), former President of Iraq (Later tried and executed)
• Romano Prodi, (2003), former Prime Minister of Italy
• Pervez Musharraf, (2003), President of Pakistan (2 attempts)
• Paul Bremer, (2003), administrator of Iraq
• Saparmurat Niyazov (2002), President of Turkmenistan
• Jacques Chirac, (2002), President of France
• Bertrand Delanoë, (2002), Mayor of Paris
• Hamid Karzai, (2002), President of Afghanistan
• Dora Bakoyannis, (2002), future Greek Foreign Affairs Minister
• Ezekiel Alebua, (2001), former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as premier of Guadalcanal at the time
• Edi Rama, (2000), Mayor of Tirana
• George Harrison, (1999), musician, spiritual activist, former member of the Beatles
• Islom Karimov, (1999), President of Uzbekistan
• Wayne Thomson, (1997), Mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario
• Uday Hussein, (1996), son of Saddam Hussein
• Imomali Rakhmonov, (1996), President of Tajikistan
• Pavlo Lazarenko, (1996), Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Eduard Shevardnadze, (several attempts), President of Georgia
• José María Aznar, (1995)
• Kiro Gligorov, (1995), President of Macedonia
• Heydar Aliyev, (1995), President of Azerbaijan
• Hosni Mubarak, (1994 and 1995), President of Egypt
• Charles, Prince of Wales (1994), heir to the British throne
• Hassan al-Alfi, (1993), Interior Minister of Egypt
• Atef Sedki, (1993), Prime Minister of Egypt
• William Nygaard, (1989), Norwegian publisher

1941-1990

• Wolfgang Schäuble, (1990), German minister of the interior
• Oskar Lafontaine, (1990), German politician
• Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney (May 24, 1990), Earth First! activists
• Motoshima Hitoshi, (January 18, 1990), Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan
• Turgut Özal, (1987), President of Turkey
• Augusto Pinochet, (1986), President of Chile
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (1986), Haitian dissident
• Margaret Thatcher, (1984), British prime minister
• Selim al-Hoss, (1984), Prime Minister of Lebanon
• Pope John Paul II, (1981 and 1995)
• Ronald Reagan, (1981), President of the United States
• Ahmed Sékou Touré, (1980), President of Guinea
• Tariq Aziz, (1980), Iraqi politician
• Bob Marley, (1978), Jamaican reggae singer
• Antonio Cubillo, (1978), Canarian nationalist
• John Brooke-Little, (1978), British founder of The Heraldry Society
• Iyad Allawi, (1978), Iraqi exile leader
• Mengistu Haile Mariam, (1977 and 1978), Ethiopian president.
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa, (1976), President of the Central African Republic
• Félix Malloum, (1976), President of Chad
• Priscilla Davis, (1976), Fort Worth, Texas socialite
• Gerald Ford, (two attempts in 1975), President of the United States
• Park Chung Hee, (1974), President of South Korea
• Joseph Sieff, (1973), honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation
• Mao Zedong, (1973), Chairman of the Communist Party of China
• George C. Wallace, (1972), US Presidential candidate
• Pope Paul VI, (1970)
• Ahmed Sékou Touré, (1969), President of Guinea.
• Houari Boumedienne, (1968), President of Algeria.
• Andy Warhol, (1968), artist
• Rudi Dutschke, (1968), German dissident
• Arthur Calwell, (1966), Former leader of the Australian Labor Party.
• Léopold Biha, (1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
• Robert McNamara, (1963), US Defence Secretary; Assassination attempt planned during his visit to Saigon.
• John F. Kennedy, (1961 and 1963), President of the United States; attempts on his life in Miami and Chicago were thwarted before his successful assassination in Dallas
• Charles De Gaulle, 1962, President of France
• Kwame Nkrumah, (1962), President of Ghana
• Rómulo Betancourt, (1960), President of Venezuela, suspectedly ordered by Dominican dictator Trujillo
• Nobusuke Kishi, (July 1960), Prime Minister of Japan
• Hendrik Verwoerd, (1960), Prime Minister of South Africa (successfully assassinated in 1966)
• Abdul Karim Qassim, (1959), Prime Minister of Iraq.
• King Hussein of Jordan, at least 12 attempts, mostly during the 1950s and 1960s
• Fidel Castro, several attempts, particularly during the 1960s
• Gamal Abdel Nasser, (1954), Egyptian leader.
• Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, (1954), former President of Nicaragua
• Harry Truman, (1950), President of the United States
• Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence leader, (several attempts throughout the 1940s, successfully assassinated in 1948 by the same people who failed in some of the previous attempts)
• Kantarō Suzuki, (1945), Prime Minister of Japan who survived February 26 Incident in 1936
• Adolf Hitler, (German dictator) (several attempts, with the most notable attempt being the July 20 Plot in 1944)
• Pierre Laval, (1941), prime minister of Vichy France

Prior to 1940

• Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader, successfully assassinated several weeks later.
• Keisuke Okada, (1936), Prime Minister of Japan (see February 26 Incident)
• Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, (1936)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1933), when President-elect of the United States
• Engelbert Dollfuss, (1933), Chancellor of Austria, successfully assassinated the following year
• Hirohito, (1923), later emperor of Japan (see Toranomon Incident)
• Vladimir Ilich Lenin, (1918), Russian communist leader
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-apparent of Austria, survives an attempt by the Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Black Hand) (June 28, 1914), he is successfully assassinated later that day.
• Theodore Roosevelt, (1912), former President of the United States
• Alfred Dreyfus, (1908), French Military
• Alfonso XIII of Spain (1905, 1906)
• Émile Loubet, President of France, (1905 - same attempt as on King Alfonso of Spain, above)
• Wilhelm II of Germany, (1900), emperor of Germany
• Edward VII of the United Kingdom, as Prince of Wales (1900)
• Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist (1892)
• Nicholas II of Russia, as Tsarevich during visit to Japan (1891)
• Jules Verne, (1886), author, shot by his nephew.
• Itagaki Taisuke, (1882), Japanese liberal activist
• Alexander II of Russia, five failed attempts from 1866 to 1880, successfully assassinated in 1881
• William H. Seward, (1865), U.S. Secretary of State; stabbed as part of attack on American officials following the Civil War, including the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
• Napoleon III, {1858}, Emperor of the French
• Andrew Jackson, (1835), President of the United States
• Louis-Philippe of France, (1835)
• Victoria of the United Kingdom (numerous attempts)
• Justo Rufino Barrios, President of Guatemala
• Napoleon I, (1809), Emperor of the French
• Louis XV of France, (1757)
• Elizabeth I of England, (1570)
• Ptolemy VIII of Egypt, 2nd century BC
• Qin Shi Huang, (3rd century BC), Chinese Emperor

See also

• List of assassinated persons
• List of unsuccessful assassinations