# List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts

This article is a list of heads of state and government who have survived assassination attempts. Many notable heads of state and heads of government have been survivors of assassination attempts.
For survivors who were neither, see List of people who survived assassination attempts. For successful assassinations, see List of assassinations.

## List

| Article | Date | Date | Intended victim(s) | Title at the time | Place | Country | Perpetrator(s) |
| | 354 BC | – | Mausolus | Satrap of Caria and Lycia | Labraunda | Achaemenid Empire | Manitas Paktyо̄ and Thyssos Syskо̄ |
| | 227 BC | – | Qin Shi Huang | King of Qin | Xianyang | Ancient China (Warring States period) | Jing Ke |
| | 218 BC | – | Qin Shi Huang | First Emperor of a unified China | China | Imperial China (Qin dynasty) | Ordered by Zhang Liang (Western Han) |
| Feast at Swan Goose Gate | 206 BC | – | Liu Bang | King of Han | Xianyang | Imperial China (Chu–Han Contention) | Xiang Zhuang |
| | 156–5 BC | – | Ptolemy VIII of Egypt | Pharaoh of Egypt | Alexandria | Ancient Egypt | Ordered by Ptolemy VI Philometor, his brother |
| | 135 BC | – | John Hyrcanus | Crown Prince and High Priest of Israel | Jerusalem | Judea (Hasmonean Dynasty) | Ptolemy son of Abubus collaborating with the Selucid Empire |
| | 399 AD | – | Emperor Richū | Crown Prince | Naniwa | Ancient Japan (Kofun period) | Prince Suminoe no Nakatsu (住吉仲皇子) (Younger brother) |
| | 626 AD | Mar–Apr | Saint Edwin of Northumbria | King of Deira and Bernicia | York, Northumbria | England | Agents of Cwichelm of Wessex |
| | 1298 | Dec | Edward I | King of England | Westminster | England | Merchants of Lucca |
| | 1323 | 30 Nov | Edward II | King of England | Coventry | England | John of Nottingham |
| | 1330 | 17 Apr | Charles I | King of Hungary | Visegrád | Hungary | Felician Záh |
| | 1400 | 4 Jan | Henry IV | King of England | Windsor Castle | England | Members of the Epiphany Rising |
| | 1401 | 8 Sep | Henry IV | King of England | Westminster | England | Unknown |
| | 1402 | – | 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 | England | Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell |
| Renyin palace plot | 1542 | Nov | 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 | France | Caboche |
| | 1564 | Jan | Akbar | Mughal Emperor | Delhi | Mughal Empire | A slave of Mirza Sharfuddin |
| | 1571 | bef. Apr | Elizabeth I | Queen of England | Westminster | England | Members of the Ridolfi Plot |
| | 1583 | bef. Nov | Elizabeth I | Queen of England | Westminster | England | Francis Throckmorton |
| | 1584 | Mar–Nov | Elizabeth I | Queen of England | Westminster | England | William Parry |
| | 1586 | Jul–Aug | Elizabeth I | Queen of England | Westminster | England | Anthony Babington |
| | 1594 | 27 Dec | Henry IV | King of France | Paris | France | Jean Châtel |
| Gunpowder Plot | 1605 | 5 Nov | James I | King of England | Westminster | England | Guy Fawkes |
| | 1657 | 8 Jan | Oliver Cromwell | Lord Protector | London | England | Miles Sindercombe |
| 1696 Jacobite assassination plot | 1696 | 15–22 Feb | William III | King of England | Kew Bridge | England | Ambrose Rookwood |
| | 1757 | 5 Jan | Louis XV | King of France | Versailles | France | Robert-François Damiens |
| | 1758 | 3 Sep | Joseph I | King of Portugal and the Algarves | Ajuda, Lisbon | Portugal | Unclear; possibly the Távora family (see Távora affair) |
| | 1800 | 15 May | George III | King of Britain and Ireland | Westminster | United Kingdom | James Hadfield |
| Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise | 1800 | 24 Dec | Napoleon Bonaparte | First Consul of France | Paris | France | François-Joseph Carbon |
| | 1809 | 12 Oct | Napoleon I | Emperor of the French | Schönbrunn | Austrian Empire | Friedrich Staps |
| | 1835 | 30 Jan | Andrew Jackson | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Richard Lawrence |
| | 1835 | 28 Jul | Louis-Philippe | King of France | Paris | France | Giuseppe Marco Fieschi |
| | 1840 | 10 Jun | Queen Victoria | Queen of the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | Edward Oxford |
| | 1842 | 30 May | Queen Victoria | Queen of the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | John Francis |
| | 1852 | 26 Jul | Nasser al-Din Shah | Shahanshah of Persia | Tehran | Persia | Babis |
| | 1853 | 18 Feb | Franz Joseph I | Austria-Hungarian Emperor | Vienna | Austria-Hungary | János Libényi |
| | 1858 | 14 Jan | Napoleon III | Emperor of the French | Paris | France | Felice Orsini |
| | 1861 | 14 Jul | Wilhelm I | King of Prussia | Baden-Baden | Prussia | Oskar Becker |
| | 1866 | 4 Apr | Alexander II | Emperor of Russia | Saint Petersburg | Russian Empire | Dmitry Karakozov |
| | 1866 | 7 May | Otto von Bismarck | Minister President of Prussia | Berlin | German Confederation | Ferdinand Cohen-Blind |
| | 1873 | 22 Aug | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | President of Argentina | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Ricardo López Jordán |
| | 1874 | 13 Jul | Otto von Bismarck | Chancellor of the German Reich | Bad Kissingen | German Empire | Eduard Kullman |
| | 1878 | 11 May | Wilhelm I | German Emperor | Berlin | German Empire | Max Hödel |
| | 1878 | 2 Jun | Wilhelm I | German Emperor | Berlin | German Empire | Karl Nobiling |
| | 1878 | 17 Nov | Umberto I | King of Italy | Naples | Italy | Giovanni Passannante |
| | 1879 | 20 Apr | Alexander II | Emperor of Russia | Saint Petersburg | Russian Empire | Alexander Soloviev |
| | 1880 | 5 Feb | Alexander II | Emperor of Russia | Saint Petersburg | Russian Empire | Stephan Khalturin |
| | 1882 | 2 Mar | Queen Victoria | Queen of the United Kingdom | Windsor | United Kingdom | Roderick Maclean |
| | 1883 | 28 Sep | Wilhelm I | German Emperor | Rüdesheim am Rhein | German Empire | August Reinsdorf |
| | 1887 | 13 Jan | Shirley Waldemar Baker | Prime Minister of Tonga | Nukuʻalofa | Tonga | Muʻa conspirators |
| Attempted assassination of Pedro II of Brazil | 1889 | 15 Jul | Pedro II | Emperor of Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Empire of Brazil | Adriano Augusto do Valle |
| | 1889 | 18 Oct | Ōkuma Shigenobu | Prime Minister of Japan | Tokyo | Japan | Member of the Genyōsha |
| | 1897 | 22 Apr | Umberto I | King of Italy | Rome | Italy | Pietro Acciarito |
| Attack against Porfirio Díaz of 1897 | 1897 | 16 Sep | Porfirio Díaz | President of Mexico | Alameda Central, Mexico City | Mexico | Arnulfo Arroyo |
| Attempted assassination of Prudente de Morais | 1897 | 5 Nov | 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 | France | Francois Salson |
| | 1900 | 16 Nov | Wilhelm II | German Emperor | Breslau | German Empire | Selma Schnapka |
| | 1901 | 6 Mar | Wilhelm II | German Emperor | Bremen | German Empire | Johann-Dietrich Weiland |
| | 1902 | 15 Nov | Leopold II | King of the Belgians | Brussels | Belgium | Gennaro Rubino |
| | 1905 | 1 Jun | Émile Loubet | President of France | Paris | France | Unidentified anarchist |
| | 1905 | 1 Jun | Alfonso XIII | King of Spain | Paris | France | Unidentified anarchist |
| Yıldız assassination attempt | 1905 | 21 Jul | Abdul Hamid II | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | Armenian Revolutionary Federation |
| Morral affair | 1906 | 31 May | Alfonso XIII | King of Spain | Madrid | Spain | Mateu Morral |
| | 1908 | 15 Mar | Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar | Shah of Persia | Tehran | Persia | Constitutionalists |
| | 1909 | 16 Oct | William Howard Taft | President of the United States | Ciudad Juárez | Mexico | Crowd member |
| | 1915 | 2 Jul | Thomas R. Marshall | Vice President of the United States | His office at U.S. Senate | United States | Eric Muenter |
| Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin | 1918 | Aug 30 | Vladimir Lenin | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR | Moscow | Russian SFSR | Fanny Kaplan |
| | 1918 | 6 Dec | Sidónio Pais | President of Portugal | Lisbon | Portugal | Luís Maria Baptista |
| | 1919 | 19 Feb | Georges Clemenceau | Prime Minister of France | Paris | France | Émile Cottin |
| | 1921 | 25 Sep | Józef Piłsudski | Chief of State of Poland | Lviv | Poland | Stepan Fedak |
| Attempted assassination of Alexandre Millerand | 1922 | 14 Jul | Alexandre Millerand | President of France | Paris | France | Gustave Bouvet |
| | 1924 | 5 Sep | Stanisław Wojciechowski | President of Poland | Lviv | Poland | Teofil Olszansky |
| | 1926 | 7 Apr | Benito Mussolini | Prime Minister of Italy | Rome | Italy | Violet Gibson |
| | 1926 | 11 Sep | Benito Mussolini | Prime Minister of Italy | Rome | Italy | Gino Lucetti |
| | 1926 | 31 Oct | Benito Mussolini | Prime Minister of Italy | Bologna | Italy | Anteo Zamboni |
| | 1931 | 21 Feb | Zog I | King of Albania | Vienna | Austria | Ndok Gjeloshi, Aziz Çami |
| | 1932 | 9 Jan | Hirohito | Emperor of Japan | Tokyo | Japan | Lee Bong-chang |
| | 1933 | 15 Feb | Franklin D. Roosevelt | President-elect of the United States | Miami | United States | Giuseppe Zangara |
| | 1933 | Oct | Engelbert Dollfuss | Chancellor of Austria | Vienna | Austria | Rudolf Dertill |
| | 1935 | 2 Jun | Gabriel Terra | President of Uruguay | Montevideo | Uruguay | Bernardo García |
| | 1936 | 26 Feb | Keisuke Okada | Prime Minister of Japan | Tokyo | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army officers |
| | 1936 | 16 Jul | Edward VIII | King of the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | George McMahon |
| | 1937 | 4 Jul | António de Oliveira Salazar | Prime Minister of Portugal | São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon | Portugal | Emídio Santana and several anarcho-syndicalist and communist conspirators |
| | 1941 | 17 May | Victor Emmanuel III | King of Italy | Tirana | Albania | Vasil Laçi |
| | 1943 | 13 Mar | Adolf Hitler | German Führer | Wolf's Lair | Nazi Germany | Henning von Tresckow, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff |
| 20 July plot | 1944 | 20 Jul | Adolf Hitler | German Führer | Wolf's Lair | Nazi Germany | Claus von Stauffenberg |
| | 1947 | 10 Mar | Manuel Roxas | President of the Philippines | Manila | Philippines | Julio Guillen |
| | 1949 | 4 Feb | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Shah of Iran | Tehran | Iran | Nasser Fakhraraei |
| Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman | 1950 | 1 Nov | Harry Truman | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola (FALN) |
| | 1952 | 27 Mar | Konrad Adenauer | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany | Munich | West Germany | Herut |
| | 1954 | 26 Oct | Gamal Abdel Nasser | President of Egypt | Alexandria | Egypt | Mohammed Abdel Latif |
| | 1954 | 27 Oct | Ismail al-Azhari | Prime Minister of Sudan | Malakal | Sudan | Southern official |
| | 1955 | 12 Mar | Jawaharlal Nehru | Prime Minister of India | Nagpur | India | Baburao Laxman Kochale |
| | 1955 | 11 Apr | Zhou Enlai | Chinese Premier | Hong Kong | British Hong Kong | Kuomintang agents |
| | 1957 | 22 Feb | Ngô Đình Diệm | President of the Republic of Vietnam | Buôn Ma Thuột | South Vietnam | Hà Minh Tri |
| | 1957 | 30 Nov | Sukarno | President of Indonesia | Jakarta | Indonesia | 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 | Poland | Stanisław Jaros |
| Maukar Incident | 1960 | 9 Mar | Sukarno | President of Indonesia | Jakarta | Indonesia | Manguni Group, Permesta |
| | 1960 | 9 Apr | Hendrik Verwoerd | Prime Minister of South Africa | Johannesburg | South Africa | David Pratt |
| Assassination attempt of Rómulo Betancourt | 1960 | 24 Jun | Rómulo Betancourt | President of Venezuela | Caracas | Venezuela | Ordered by Dominican Republic President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo |
| | 1960 | 14 Jul | Nobusuke Kishi | Prime Minister of Japan | | Japan | Taisuke Aramaki |
| | 1960 | 11 Dec | John F. Kennedy | President-elect of the United States | Florida | United States | Richard Paul Pavlick |
| | 1962 | 27 Feb | Ngô Đình Diệm | President of the Republic of Vietnam | Saigon | South Vietnam | Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc |
| | 1962 | 14 May | Sukarno | President of Indonesia | Jakarta | Indonesia | Darul Islam/Tentara Islam Indonesia |
| Petit-Clamart attack | 1962 | 22 Aug | Charles de Gaulle | President of France | Petit-Clamart | France | Jean Bastien-Thiry |
| | 1964 | 21 Feb | İsmet İnönü | Prime Minister of Turkey | Ankara | Turkey | Mesut Suna |
| | 1964 | 11 Aug | Francisco Franco | Generalissimo Caudillo of Spain | Madrid | Francoist Spain | Stuart Christie |
| | 1965 | 12 Apr | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi | Shah of Iran | Tehran | Iran | Reza Shamsabadi |
| | 1968 | 13 Aug | Georgios Papadopoulos | President of Greece | Between Lagonisi and Athens | Greece | Alexandros Panagoulis |
| Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev | 1969 | 22 Jan | Leonid Brezhnev | General Secretary of the CPSU | Moscow | Soviet Union | Viktor Ilyin |
| | 1970 | 27 Nov | Pope Paul VI | Bishop of Rome | Manila | Philippines | Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores |
| | 1970 | 1 Sep | Hussein I | King of Jordan | Amman | Jordan | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| 1971 Moroccan coup attempt | 1971 | 10 Jul | Hassan II | King of Morocco | Skhirat | Morocco | M'hamed Ababou and Mohamed Medbouh |
| Lin Biao incident | 1971 | 13 Sep | Mao Zedong | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party | China | China | Lin Biao (alleged) |
| | 1972 | 16 Aug | Hassan II | King of Morocco | Kenitra | Morocco | Mohamed Amekrane |
| | 1973 | 14 Jan | Golda Meir | Prime Minister of Israel | Rome | Italy | Black September Organization |
| | 1973 | 4 Mar | Golda Meir | Prime Minister of Israel | New York City | United States | Black September Organization |
| | 1974 | 15 Aug | Park Chung-hee | President of South Korea | Seoul | South Korea | Mun Se-gwang |
| | 1974 | 22 Feb | Richard Nixon | President of the United States | Baltimore/Washington International Airport | United States | Samuel Byck |
| Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in Sacramento | 1975 | 5 Sep | Gerald Ford | President of the United States | Sacramento | United States | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme |
| Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in San Francisco | 1975 | 22 Sep | Gerald Ford | President of the United States | San Francisco | United States | Sara Jane Moore |
| | 1976 | Feb | Jean-Bédel Bokassa | President of the Central African Republic | Bangui M'Poko International Airport | Central African Republic | Unknown |
| | 1977 | 18 Feb | Jorge Rafael Videla | President of Argentina | Aeroparque Jorge Newbery | Argentina | Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo |
| | 1977 | 22 Sep | Bhumibol Adulyadej | King of Thailand | Yala | Thailand | Patani United Liberation Organisation |
| Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan | 1981 | 30 Mar | Ronald Reagan | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | John Hinckley Jr. |
| Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II | 1981 | 13 May | Pope John Paul II | Bishop of Rome | St. Peter's Square | Vatican City State | Mehmet Ali Ağca |
| | 1981 | 13 Jun | Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | Marcus Sarjeant |
| | 1982 | 12 May | Pope John Paul II | Bishop of Rome | Fátima | Portugal | Juan María Fernández y Krohn |
| | 1982 | 8 Jul | Saddam Hussein | President of Iraq | Dujail | Iraq | Islamic Dawa Party |
| | 1983 | 19 Oct | Chun Doo-hwan | President of South Korea | Rangoon | Burma | North Korean agents |
| Brighton hotel bombing | 1984 | 12 Oct | Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Brighton | United Kingdom | Irish Republican Army |
| Attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet | 1986 | 7 Sep | Augusto Pinochet | President of Chile | Cajón del Maipo | Chile | Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front |
| | 1986 | 3 Oct | Rajiv Gandhi | Prime Minister of India | New Delhi | India | Karamjit Singh |
| | 1987 | 18 Jun | Turgut Özal | President of Turkey | Ankara | Turkey | Kartal Demirağ |
| | 1987 | 30 Jul | Rajiv Gandhi | Prime Minister of India | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Vijitha Rohana |
| 1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament | 1987 | 18 Aug | Junius Richard Jayewardene | President of Sri Lanka | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
| 1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament | 1987 | 18 Aug | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
| 1988 Maldives coup attempt | 1988 | 3 Nov | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | President of the Maldives | Malé | Maldives | People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam Abdullah Luthufi Ahmed Nasir Ahmed Ismail Manik |
| | 1990 | 27 Jul | A. N. R. Robinson | Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Trinidad and Tobago | Jamaat al Muslimeen rebels |
| 1990 October Revolution Parade | 1990 | 7 Nov | Mikhail Gorbachev | President of the Soviet Union | Moscow | Soviet Union | Alexander Shmonov |
| | 1991 | | Mohammed Zahir Shah | Last King of Afghanistan | Rome | Italy | Disguised person |
| | 1991 | 7 Feb | John Major | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | Irish Republican Army |
| | 1993 | 27 Jan | Boris Yeltsin | President of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Ivan Kislov |
| | 1993 | Nov | Atef Sedki | Prime Minister of Egypt | Cairo | Egypt | Vanguards of Conquest |
| | 1994 | 26 Jan | Prince Charles | Prince of Wales | Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour in Sydney | Australia | David Kang |
| | 1994 | 29 Oct | Bill Clinton | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Francisco Martin Duran |
| | 1995 | 25 Jun | Hosni Mubarak | President of Egypt | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | National Islamic Front |
| | 1995 | 29 Aug | Eduard Shevardnadze | President of Georgia | Tbilisi | Georgia | Mkhedrioni rebels |
| | 1995 | 3 Oct | Kiro Gligorov | President of Macedonia | Skopje | Macedonia | Unknown |
| | 1995 | 5 Nov | Jean Chrétien | Prime Minister of Canada | Ottawa | Canada | André Dallaire |
| | 1996 | Feb | Muammar Gaddafi | Libyan leader | Sirte | Libya | Islamic extremists |
| | 1996 | 17 Jul | Pavlo Lazarenko | Prime Minister of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Unknown |
| | 1998 | 9 Feb | Eduard Shevardnadze | President of Georgia | Tbilisi | Georgia | Anti-government forces |
| | 1998 | 12 Jun | Muammar Gaddafi | Libyan Revolutionary leader | Derna | Libya | Islamic militants |
| Attempted assassination of Chandrika Kumaratunga | 1999 | 18 Dec | Chandrika Kumaratunga | President of Sri Lanka | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| | 2000 | 24 Feb | Vladimir Putin | Acting President of Russia | Saint Petersburg | Russia | Chechen mafia |
| | 2000 | 18 Aug | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Yalta | Ukraine | Unknown |
| | 2001 | 9 Jan | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Baku | Azerbaijan | Kyanan Rostam |
| | 2001 | 7 Feb | George W. Bush | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Robert W. Pickett |
| | 2001 | 16 Oct | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | | Iran | Unknown |
| | 2002 | 6 Feb | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Ivan Zaytsev |
| | 2002 | 14 Jul | Jacques Chirac | President of France | Paris | France | Maxime Brunerie |
| | 2002 | 5 Sep | Hamid Karzai | President of Afghanistan | Kandahar | Afghanistan | Lone gunman |
| | 2003 | 25 Dec | Pervez Musharraf | President of Pakistan | Rawalpindi | Pakistan | Ordered by Amjad Farooqi |
| | 2004 | 19 Mar | Chen Shui-bian | President of the Republic of China | Tainan | Taiwan | Unknown |
| | 2004 | 11 June | José Manuel Durão Barroso | Prime Minister of Portugal | Porto | Portugal | Nouredine el Fahtni |
| | 2004 | 29 Jul | Shaukat Aziz | Prime Minister of Pakistan | Fateh Jang | Pakistan | Al-Qaeda sympathizers |
| | 2004 | 21 Aug | Sheikh Hasina | Prime Minister of Bangladesh | Dhaka | Bangladesh | Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami |
| | 2005 | 15 Mar | Ibrahim Rugova | President of Kosovo | Pristina | Kosovo | Unknown |
| | 2005 | 10 May | Mikheil Saakashvili | President of Georgia | Tbilisi | Georgia | Vladimir Arutyunian |
| | 2005 | 10 May | George W. Bush | President of the United States | Tbilisi | Georgia | Vladimir Arutyunian |
| | 2006 | 18 Sep | Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed | President of Somalia | Baidoa | Somalia | Islamic Courts Union (blamed) |
| | 2007 | 29 Jun | Guillaume Soro | Prime Minister of Ivory Coast | Bouaké | Ivory Coast | Unknown |
| | 2007 | 6 Jul | Pervez Musharraf | President of Pakistan | Rawalpindi | Pakistan | Taliban |
| | 2007 | Oct | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Tehran | Iran | Unknown |
| | 2008 | 8 Jan | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | President of the Maldives | Hoarafushi | Maldives | Mohamed Murshid |
| | 2008 | 15 Mar | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Shakhvelad Osmanov |
| | 2008 | 15 Mar | Dmitry Medvedev | President-elect of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Shakhvelad Osmanov |
| | 2008 | 11 Feb | José Ramos-Horta | President of Timor-Leste | Dili | East Timor | Alfredo Reinado |
| | 2008 | 11 Feb | Xanana Gusmão | Prime Minister of Timor-Leste | Dili | East Timor | Alfredo Reinado |
| 2009 attack on the Dutch royal family | 2009 | 30 Apr | Queen Beatrix, Prince Willem-Alexander, and other members of the Dutch royal family | Queen of the Netherlands | Apeldoorn | Netherlands | Karst Tates |
| | 2009 | 19 Aug | Vladimir Putin | Prime Minister of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| | 2009 | 3 Dec | Moussa Dadis Camara | President of Guinea | Conakry | Guinea | Lt. Abubakar Diakite |
| | 2011 | 3 Jun | Ali Abdullah Saleh | President of Yemen | Sana'a | Yemen | Unknown |
| | 2011 | 19 Jul | Alpha Condé | President of Guinea | Conakry | Guinea | Republic of Guinea Armed Forces officers |
| | 2012 | | Vladimir Putin | Prime Minister of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Dokka Umarov (alleged) |
| | 2013 | Apr | Barack Obama | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | James Everett Dutschke |
| | 2017 | Nov | Theresa May | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman |
| | 2018 | Jan | Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel | Jerusalem | Israel | Muhammad Jamal Rashdeh, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| 2018 Bulawayo bombing | 2018 | 23 Jun | Emmerson Mnangagwa | President of Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | Zimbabwe | Unknown |
| 2018 Caracas drone attack | 2018 | 4 Aug | Nicolás Maduro | President of Venezuela | Caracas | Venezuela | Uncertain (claimed by Soldados de Franelas) |
| 2020 Barquisimeto shooting | 2020 | 29 Feb | Juan Guaidó | Disputed President of Venezuela | Barquisimeto | Venezuela | Pro-government colectivos |
| | 2020 | 9 Mar | Abdalla Hamdok | Prime Minister of Sudan | Khartoum | Sudan | Unknown |
| | 2020 | 2 Jul | Justin Trudeau | Prime Minister of Canada | Ottawa | Canada | Corey Barclay Hurren |
| | 2021 | 20 Jul | Assimi Goïta | President of Mali | Bamako | Mali | Unknown |
| Attempted assassination of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi | 2021 | 7 Nov | Mustafa Al-Kadhimi | Prime Minister of Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq | Unknown |
| | 2022 | 10 Feb | Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh | Prime Minister of Libya | Tripoli | Libya | Unknown |
| Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 2022 | 26 Feb | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Chechen mercenaries |
| Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 2022 | Feb | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Kadyrovites |
| Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 2022 | Feb | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Redut |
| Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 2022 | Feb | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Wagner Group |
| Attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida | 2023 | 15 Apr | Fumio Kishida | Prime Minister of Japan | Wakayama | Japan | Ryūji Kimura |
| Kremlin drone attack | 2023 | 3 May | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Disputed |
| Attempted assassination of Robert Fico | 2024 | 15 May | Robert Fico | Prime Minister of Slovakia | Handlová | Slovakia | Juraj Cintula |
| Attempted assassination of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan | 2024 | 30 July | Abdel Fattah al-Burhan | Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council | Jubayt | Sudan | Unknown |
| | 2024 | 13 September | Azali Assoumani | President of the Comoros | Salimani | Comoros | Ahmed Abdou |
| 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence | 2024 | 19 October | Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel | Caesarea | Israel | Hezbollah, Iran (alleged) |

## Gallery

* Gallery
* Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Andrew Jackson outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., 30 January 1835
* Assassination attempt of King of Spain Alfonso XIII in Madrid, 31 May 1906
* Assassination attempt of Russian Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, Aug 30 1918
* Wolf's Lair conference room after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, 20 July 1944
* Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Shah in hospital after the failed assassination attempt by Fada'iyan-e Islam in 1949
* 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.
* Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Gerald Ford outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, 5 September 1975
* Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Gerald Ford in San Francisco, 22 September 1975
* Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, 30 March 1981
* Brighton Grand Hotel after the bomb attack to attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 12 October 1984