List of assassination attempts
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This is a list of assassinations that have failed. They are arranged in order of the targets. The names of failed assassins then follow.
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- Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Maldives president - Mohamed Murshid January 8, 2008
- George W. Bush, U.S. president – Vladimir Arutinian (May 10, 2005)
- Arvin Brdarevic, notable Slovak director - Janusz Waluś
- Chen Shui-bian, ROC president (3-19 shooting incident, 2004-03-19) – Chen Yi-hsiung
- Dick Cheney, U.S. Vice President – 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing
- Jacques Chirac, President of France, on July 14, 2002
- Bill Clinton, U.S. president 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran
- Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese artist and politician, in Jounieh, Lebanon, 1993.
- Charles de Gaulle, President of France – Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
- Bob Marley, Reggae musician – December 1976
- Larry Flynt, Founder of Hustler Magazine
- Gerald Ford, U.S. President – Sara Jane Moore and Lynette Fromme
- George Harrison, Former Beatle and solo musician – Michael Abram (2001)
- Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan – Namba Daisuke (December 27, 1923)
- Adolf Hitler – Claus von Stauffenberg (placed time bomb at the Wolfsschanze on July 20, 1944)
- Andrew Jackson ,U.S. president – Richard Lawrence
- Prince Afred – Sydney, Australia (1868)
- Pope John Paul II – Mehmet Ali Ağca (1981)
- Vladimir Lenin, President of Soviet Socialist Federative Republic of Russia (futurely USSR), by Fanny Kaplan
- John Brooke-Little, British founder of The Heraldry Society - 1978 by an unknown man.
- Alexandre Millerand, President of France – Gustave Bouvet
- Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan (2004)
- Andy Warhol, American pop artist – Valerie Solanas(1968)
- Napoleon Bonaparte – Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise December 1800 by Chouans
- Napoleon III, Emperor of the French – Felice Orsini
- Richard Nixon, U.S. President – Samuel Byck
- Theodore Roosevelt , U.S. president – John Shrank
- Ronald Reagan, U.S. President – John Hinckley, Jr. (1981)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President – Giuseppe Zangara killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak but failed to kill FDR (1933)
- Qin Shi Huang, first Chinese emperor – Jing Ke
- Harry Truman by Puerto Rican immigrant Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola. Torresola was shot and killed.
- Queen Victoria – John Francis, John William Bean (both 1841, separate attempts), Four other attempts.
- Hasina Wazed, Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Leader of the Awami League opposition party. (2005)
- George Wallace, Governor of Alabama – Arthur Herman Bremer (1972).
- Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine – unknown (dioxin poisoning attempt while he was opposition candidate prior to his presidency in 2004).
- Leopold II, King of the Belgians – Gennaro Rubino (1902).
- Imelda Romualdez Marcos, First Lady, Republic of the Philippines, December 7, 1972, by unknown farmer
- Fidel Castro, President, Cuba, numerous times, by CIA
- Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, during visit to Japan while heir to the throne.
- Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, by a Hungarian nationalist taylor servant, János Libényi (1853).