List of people who survived assassination attempts

Survivors of assassination attempts in reverse chronological order:

Since 2010

• Ali Abdullah Saleh (3 June 2011), President of Yemen
• Gabrielle Giffords (8 January 2011), United States Congresswoman from Arizona

2001–2010

• Jay Nixon (14 September 2010), Missouri governor
• Stephen Timms (14 May 2010), British MP
• Queen Beatrix, (30 April 2009), Queen of the Netherlands and son, Prince Willem-Alexander
• Jose Ramos-Horta (11 February 2008), President of Timor-Leste
• Xanana Gusmad (11 February 2008), Prime Minister of Timor-Leste (same day as Ramos-Horta, above)
• Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (2008), President of the Maldives
• Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, (2007), Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India
• Benazir Bhutto (28 September 2007), Candidate for, and ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, (assassinated 27 December 2007)
• Adil Abdul-Mahdi (2007), Vice President of Iraq
• Ali Muhammad Ghedi (2007), Prime Minister of Somalia
• Guillaume Soro (29 June 2007), Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Onyema Ugochukwu (14 April 2007), gubernatorial candidate of Abia State, Nigeria
• Dick Cheney (27 February 2007), Vice President of the United States
• Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (1 December 2006), Secretary of Defense for Sri Lanka
• Georgios Voulgarakis (2006), Greek Minister of Culture
• Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (2006), President of Somalia
• Sibghatullah Mojadeddi (2006), President of the Afghani Senate
• Anatoly Chubais (2005), Russian politician and administrator of RAO UES
• Ibrahim Rugova (2005), President of Kosovo
• George W. Bush (10 May 2005), President of the United States
• Mikheil Saakashvili (10 May 2005), President of Georgia (same attempt as George Bush, above)
• Viktor Yushchenko (2004), candidate for President of the Ukraine
• Murat Zyazikov (2004), President of Ingushetia
• Chen Shui-bian (19 March 2004), President of Taiwan
• Annette Lu (19 March 2004), Vice-President of Taiwan (same day as Chen Shui-bian, aboe, during the 3-19 shooting incident)
• Shaukat Aziz (2004), Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Sheikh Hasina Wazed (21 August 2004), Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Ahmad Chalabi (2004), Iraqi politician
• Saddam Hussein (19 March 2003), President of Iraq (during the Dora, Baghdad raid)
• Qusay Hussein (19 March 2003), Presidential son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein (during the Dora, Baghdad raid)
• Ninoslav Pavic, (1 March 2003), founder and publisher of Europapress Holding
• Pervez Musharraf (2003 —2 attempts), President of Pakistan
• Paul Bremer, (2003), U.S. Department of State administrator of Iraq
• Saparmurat Niyazov (2002), President of Turkmenistan
• Jacques Chirac (14 July 2002), President of France
• Bertrand Delanoë (2002), Mayor of Paris, France
• Hamid Karzai (5 September 2002; 10 June 2007), President of Afghanistan
• Ezekiel Alebua (2001), former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (serving as premier of Guadalcanal at the time)

1991–2000

• Saeed Hajjarian (2000), Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist
• Chandrika Kumaratunga (18 December 1999), President of Sri Lanka
• George Harrison (30 December 1999), musician, spiritual activist, former member of the Beatles
• Vuk Draskovic (3 October 1999), former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Khaled Mashal (1997), Syrian leader of Hamas
• Uday Hussein (1996; 19 March 2003), Presidential son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein
• Bill Clinton (1996; others), President of the United States
• Pavlo Lazarenko (1996), Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Jean Chretien (5 November 1995), Prime Minister of Canada
• Jose Aznar (1995), Prime Minister of Spain
• Kiro Gligorov (1995), President of Macedonia
• Hosni Mubarak (1994 and 1995), President of Egypt
• Naguib Mahfouz (1994), Egyptian writer and Noble recipient
• William Nygaard (1993), Norwegian publisher of "The Satanic Verses"
• Aziz Nesin (2 July 1993), Turkish language translator of "The Satanic Verses", (during the Sivas massacre)
• Atef Sedki (1993), Prime Minister of Egypt
• Eduard Shevardnadze (1992, 1995, 1998; others), President of Georgia
• Michel Elefteriades (1992), Greek–Lebanese politician, artist, music producer and businessman. (And, at the time, an armed resistance leader in Lebanon )
• Ettore Capriolo (July 1991), Italian language translator of The Satanic Verses
• John Major (7 February 1991), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1981–1990

• Wolfgang Schauble (1990), German Minister of the Interior
• Motoshima Hitoshi (18 January 1990), Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan
• Jani Allan, (14 July 1989), South African columnist
• William Nygaard (1989), Norwegian publisher
• Antoine Lahad, (17 Nov 1988) Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army
• Nikola Stedul (20 October 1988), Croatian emigrant politician
• Junius Richard Jayewardene (18 August 1987), President of Sri Lanka in a grenade attack
• Ranasinghe Premadasa (18 August 1987), Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (see above)
• Turgut Ozal (1987), President of Turkey
• Augusto Pinochet (1986), President of Chile
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1986), political dissident and future President of Haiti
• Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, (8 March 1985), Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah
• Margaret Thatcher (1984), British prime minister
• Gerry Adams (Mar 14, 1984), Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin
• Shlomo Argov (3 June 1982), Israeli ambassador to the U.K. (survived for over 20 years —died due to complications from his wounds, in February 2003)
• Pope John Paul II (1981, 1982), Catholic leader
• Ronald Reagan (30 March 1981), President of the United States

1971–1980

• Tariq Aziz (1980), Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
• Antonio Cubillo (1978), Canary Islands nationalist
• Ayad Allawi (1978), Iraqi exile leader and future (interim) Prime Minister of Iraq
• Larry Flynt (6 March 1978), U.S. owner of Hustler magazine
• Mengistu Haile Mariam (1977, 1978), President of Ethiopia
• Muammar Gaddafi (20 April 1976, 15 April 1986 and 12 June 1998), Libyan leader
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1976), President of the Central African Republic
• Bernardo Leighton (6 October 1975), former Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile.
• Gerald Ford (5 and 22 Sept 1975), President of the United States
• Richard Nixon (17 February 1974), President of the United States
• Park Chung-hee (1974), President of South Korea
• Joseph Sieff (1973), honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation
• Imelda Marcos (7 December 1972), First Lady of the Philippines
• Robert McNamara (29 September 1972), former U.S. Defense Secretary
• George Wallace (15 May 1972), U.S. presidential candidate

1951–1970

• Pope Paul VI (1970), Catholic leader
• Makarios III (1970), President of Cyprus
• Leonid Brezhnev, (22 January 1969), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Andy Warhol (1968), U.S. artist
• Rudi Dutschke (1968), German dissident
• Arthur Calwell (1966), Australian House of Representatives member and former Australian Labor Party leader
• Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, British high commissioner in Aden (December 10, 1963)
• Charles de Gaulle (22 August 1962), President of France
• Rómulo Betancourt (1960), President of Venezuela
• Hendrik Verwoerd (1960), Prime Minister of South Africa, (assassinated 1966)
• Fidel Castro (1959, 1960; others), Cuban President
• Ngo Dinh Diem (22 February 1957; 27 February 1962), President of the Republic of Vietnam, (the second attempt was during the presidential palace bombing), (assassinated 2 November 1963)
• Ngo Dinh Nhu (27 February 1962), chief Republic of Vietnam presidential adviser and brother of Ngo Dinh Diem, (see above, also assassinated 2 November 1963)
• Zhou Enlai (11 April 1955), Chinese Premier
• Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954), President of Egypt
• Konrad Adenauer (1952), first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
• King Hussein (20 July 1951; others), future King of Jordan

1931–1950

• Harry Truman (1 Nov 1950), President of the United States
• Adolf Hitler (13 March 1943; 21 March 1943; several other attempts from 1939 to 1945 —the most notable being the Wolf's Lair plot 20 July 1944), German dictator
• Leon Trotsky (1940), Russian communist party leader, (assassinated several weeks later).
• Keisuke Okada (26 Feb 1936), Prime Minister of Japan (February 26 Incident)
• Kantarō Suzuki (26 Feb 1936), future Prime Minister of Japan
• Viscount Makino Nobuaki, (26 Feb 1936), Japanese statesman
• Edward VIII (1936), British Monarch
• Mohandas Gandhi (1934 —3 attempts), Indian independence leader, (assassinated 1948)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (Feb 1933), President-elect of the United States
• Engelbert Dollfuss (1933), Chancellor of Austria,( assassinated, 1934)
• Zog I (1931 —survived 54 other assassination attempts), King of Albania

1901–1930

• Umberto II (24 Oct 1929), Prince of Piedmont and future King of Italy
• Benito Mussolini (7 April 1926; 11 September 1926; 31 October 1926; others), Prime Minister of Italy
• Albrecht von Graefe, (March 1926), German politician
• Hirohito (27 December 1923), Prince regent and future Emperor of Japan (Toranomon Incident)
• Alexandre Millerand (14 July 1922), President of France
• Eleftherios Venizelos (Aug 1920), Greek revolutionary and statesman
• A. Mitchell Palmer (1919), United States Attorney General
• Ole Hanson (1919), Mayor of Seattle, Washington
• Thomas W. Hardwick (1919), United States Senator
• Vladimir Lenin (1918), Russian communist party (Bolshevik) leader
• Thomas R. Marshall (4 July 1916), Vice President of the United States
• J. P. Morgan, Jr. (3 July 1915), American banker and philanthropist
• Grigori Rasputin (June 29, 1914), counsel to the Tsaritsa of Russia, (assassinated 16–17 December 1916)
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (28 June 1914), (the heir-apparent of Austria) and his wife, Sophie, survive an attempt by the Black Hand (both assassinated later that same day)
• Lord Hardinge, (23 Dec 1912), British Viceroy of India
• Edward Henry, (27 Nov 1912), Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis of London, U.K.
• Theodore Roosevelt (14 Oct 1912), former President of the United States
• Alfred Dreyfus (1908), French Jewish military officer
• Nicholas Salmeron y Alonso (18 April 1907), Spanish statesman
• Alfonso XIII of Spain (1905, 1906), Spanish Monarch
• Émile Loubet (1905), President of France —same attempt as on King Alfonso XIII of Spain (above)
• Sultan Abdul Hamid II (21 July 1905), Emperor of the Ottomans
• Leopold II (15 November 1902), King of the Belgians
• Victor von Wahl (1902), governor of Vilna, Lithuania

1801–1900

• Wilhelm II of Germany (1900), German Emperor
• Edward VII (1900), Prince of Wales and future King of the United Kingdom
• Henry Clay Frick (1892), American industrialist
• Nicholas II of Russia (11 May 1891), Tsarevich and future Russian Emperor
• Itagaki Taisuke (1882), Japanese liberal activist
• Prince Alfred (1868), Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent and Earl of Ulster
• Alexander II of Russia (5 attempts from 4 April 1866 to 1880), Russian Emperor, (assassinated 1881)
• William H. Seward (1865), U.S. Secretary of State (part of the coordinated attacks on American officials during the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln)
• Napoleon III (1858), Emperor of the French
• Franz Joseph I (1853), Austria-Hungarian Emperor
• Lilburn Boggs (May 6, 1842), Governor of Missouri
• Queen Victoria, (21 November 1840; 29 May 1842; 2 July 1842; others), Queen of the United Kingdom
• Andrew Jackson (30 Jan 1835), President of the United States
• Louis-Philippe of France (1835), French Monarch
• Napoleon I (24 December 1800; Jan 1804), First Consul and future Emperor of the French

Prior to 1800

• Louis XV of France (1757), French Monarch
• King James I of England and VI of Scotland, (4 November 1605), King of England and Scotland (in the Gunpowder Plot)
• Elizabeth I of England (1570), British Monarch
• Admiral Gaspard de Coligny (22 August 1572), leader of the Huguenots (assassinated 24 August 1572)
• Hugh II (1134), Count of Jaffa, Jerusalem
• Saint Edwin (626), King of Deira and Bernicia
• Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (2nd century BC), Egyptian Monarch
• Qin Shi Huang (3rd century BC), Chinese Emperor

See also

• List of assassinated persons