# List of people who survived assassination attempts

This is a list of survivors of assassination attempts. For successful assassination attempts, see List of assassinations.

## Non-heads of state

| Attempted assassination date | Attempted assassination date | Intended victim(s) | Occupation at the time | Location of attempt | Country of attempt | Perpetrator(s) |
| 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 | France | Maurevert |
| 1582 | 18 March | William of Orange | Leader of the United Provinces | Antwerp | Dutch Republic | Juan de Jáuregui |
| 1799 | 28 April | Jean Debry | French envoy to the Congress of Rastatt | Rastatt | Holy Roman Empire | Unidentified hussars |
| 1842 | 6 May | Lilburn Boggs | ex-Governor of Missouri | Zion, Missouri | United States | Unknown |
| 1861 | February | Abraham Lincoln | President-elect of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Baltimore Plotters |
| 1865 | 14 April | William H. Seward | United States Secretary of State | Washington, D.C. | United States | 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 | United Kingdom | Peter Barrett |
| 1889 | 15 November | José da Costa Azevedo [PT] | Minister of the Navy of the Empire of Brazil | Rio de Janeiro, Neutral Municipality of the Court | Empire of Brazil | Unknown |
| 1891 | 11 May | Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich | Tsarevich of Russia | Ōtsu | Japan | Tsuda Sanzō |
| 1892 | 23 July | Henry Clay Frick | American industrialist | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | United States | Alexander Berkman |
| 1900 | 5 April | Edward, Prince of Wales | Prince of Wales | Brussels | Belgium | Jean-Baptiste Sipido |
| 1902 | 18 May | Victor von Wahl | Tsarist governor of Vilna | Vilna | Russian Empire | Hirsh Lekert |
| 1907 | 18 April | Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso | Spanish statesman | Barcelona | Spain | Political foe |
| 1908 | 1 February | Manuel, Duke of Beja | Infante of Portugal (future King of Portugal) | Lisbon | Portugal | Carbonária (Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buíça) |
| 1908 | 4 June | Alfred Dreyfus | French military officer | Paris | France | Louis Gregori |
| 1910 | 9 August | William Jay Gaynor | Mayor of New York City | Hoboken, New Jersey | United States | James J. Gallagher |
| 1912 | 7 June | István Tisza | Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary | Budapest | Austria-Hungary | Gyula Kovács |
| 1912 | 14 October | Theodore Roosevelt | Former president of the United States and U.S. presidential candidate | Milwaukee | United States | John Flammang Schrank |
| 1913 | 29 January and following weeks | David Lloyd George | Chancellor of the Exchequer | Sent from various sources | United Kingdom | Suffragettes (WSPU) |
| 1913 | 14 May | Henry Curtis-Bennett | Magistrate | Bow Street, London | United Kingdom | Suffragettes (WSPU) |
| 1913 | 16 May | Henry Curtis-Bennett | Magistrate | Margate | United Kingdom | Suffragettes (WSPU) |
| 1914 | 17 March | John Purroy Mitchel | Mayor of New York City | New York City | United States | Michael P. Mahoney |
| 1914 | 29 June | Grigori Rasputin | Russian monk | Pokrovskoye | Russian Empire | Khioniya Guseva |
| 1915 | 17 May | João Chagas | Prime Minister-designate of Portugal | Santarém | Portugal | João José de Freitas |
| 1919 | April–June | A. Mitchell Palmer | United States Attorney General | Washington, D.C. | United States | Galleanisti |
| 1920 | August | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek revolutionary and statesman | Paris | France | Greek royalists |
| 1923 | 27 December | Hirohito | Prince regent | Tokyo | Japan | Daisuke Namba |
| 1928 | 19 November | Herbert Hoover | President-elect of the United States | Andes mountains | Chile | Severino Di Giovanni |
| 1929 | 24 October | Umberto of Savoy | Prince of Piedmont | Brussels | Belgium | Fernando de Rosa |
| 1931 | 22 July | John Ernest Buttery Hotson | Acting Governor of Bombay | Pune, Bombay State | British India | Vasudeo Balwant Gogte |
| 1933 | 15 February | Franklin D. Roosevelt | President-elect of the United States | Miami | United States | Giuseppe Zangara |
| 1936 | 26 February | Makino Nobuaki | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Tokyo | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers |
| 1936 | March | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek revolutionary and statesman | Athens | Greece | Greek royalists |
| 1940 | 24 May | Leon Trotsky | Prominent anti-Stalinist figure | Mexico City | Mexico | NKVD |
| 1942 | 24 February | Franz von Papen | Nazi Germany's Ambassador to Turkey | Ankara | Turkey | NKVD agents |
| 1943 | 5 June | José P. Laurel | Commissioner of the Interior, Philippine Executive Commission | Mandaluyong | Philippines | Feliciano Lizardo (Disputed) |
| 1951 | 20 July | Hussein of Jordan | 2nd in line to the throne | East Jerusalem | Jordan | Mustapha Shukri Usho [ar] |
| 1952 | 20 January | Anton Vovk | Auxiliary bishop of Ljubljana | Novo Mesto | Yugoslavia | Avgust Mežnaršič |
| 1954 | 5 August | Carlos Lacerda | Candidate for federal deputy for the Federal District | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Alcino João do Nascimento |
| 1958 | 20 September | Martin Luther King Jr. | American civil rights activist and Baptist minister | New York City | United States | Izola Curry |
| 1962 | 27 February | Ngô Đình Nhu | Chief Republic of Vietnam presidential adviser and brother of Ngô Đình Diệm | Saigon | South Vietnam | Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc |
| 1963 | 10 April | Edwin Walker | United States Army officer | Dallas | United States | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1966 | 21 June | Arthur Calwell | Australian Opposition Leader, Leader of the Australian Labor Party | Mosman, Sydney | Australia | Peter Kocan |
| 1966 | 25 July | Artur da Costa e Silva | Minister of War of Brazil and candidate for the Presidency of Brazil | Recife, Pernambuco | Brazil | Unknown |
| 1966 | 18 October | Bhim Singh | President of the National Students Union of India | Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir | India | Senior superintendent of police |
| 1967 | 8 June | Estácio Souto Maior [PT] | Federal Deputy for Pernambuco | Brasília, Federal District | Brazil | Nelson Carneiro |
| 1967 | 8 June | Nelson Carneiro | Federal Deputy for Guanabara | Brasília, Federal District | Brazil | Estácio Souto Maior [PT] |
| 1968 | 11 April | Rudi Dutschke | German student activist | West Berlin | West Germany | Josef Bachmann |
| 1968 | 3 June | Andy Warhol | American artist | New York City | United States | Valerie Solanas |
| 1970 | 24 April | Chiang Ching-kuo | Vice Premier of the Republic of China | New York City | United States | Peter Huang |
| 1971 | 8 August | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Soviet dissident | Novocherkassk | Soviet Union | KGB |
| 1972 | 15 May | George Wallace | U.S. presidential candidate | Laurel, Maryland | United States | Arthur Bremer |
| 1972 | 7 December | Imelda Marcos | First Lady of the Philippines | Manila | Philippines | Carlito Dimahilig |
| 1973 | 30 December | Joseph Sieff | Honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation | London | United Kingdom | Ilich Ramírez Sánchez |
| 1974 | 8 March | Asari Giichi | Mayor of Shiraoi, Hokkaido | Shiraoi, Hokkaido | Japan | Yagi Tatsumi |
| 1974 | | Ali Hassan Salameh | Black September operative | Tarifa | Spain | Mossad |
| 1975 | 6 October | Bernardo Leighton | Former Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile. | Rome | Italy | DINA, Avanguardia Nazionale |
| 1975 | December | Íbis Cruz [PT] | Mayor of Jundiaí, São Paulo | Jundiaí, São Paulo | Brazil | Unnamed |
| 1976 | 3 December | Bob Marley | Jamaican reggae musician | Kingston | Jamaica | Unknown |
| 1976 | 12 December | Raymond Eddé | Lebanese member of parliament | Beirut | Lebanon | Unknown |
| 1978 | 6 March | Larry Flynt | American newspaper publisher | Lawrenceville, Georgia | United States | Joseph Paul Franklin |
| 1978 | February | Ayad Allawi | Iraqi opposition politician in exile | Surrey | United Kingdom | Saddam Hussein's agents |
| 1978 | 5 April | Antonio Cubillo | Canarian nationalist Movement leader | Algiers | Algeria | Spanish secret service members |
| 1979 | 3 May | Amine Gemayel | Kataeb Regulatory Forces general | Bikfaya | Lebanon | Unknown |
| 1979 | 4 June | Pierre Gemayel | President of the Kataeb Party | Matn | Lebanon | Unknown |
| 1979 | 25 June | Alexander Haig | Supreme Allied Commander Europe | Mons | Belgium | Rolf Clemens Wagner |
| 1980 | April | Tariq Aziz | Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq | Islamic Dawa Party members |
| 1980 | 29 May | Vernon Jordan | American Civil Rights Movement activist | Fort Wayne, Indiana | United States | Joseph Paul Franklin |
| 1980 | 10 June | Percy Wood | President and CEO of United Airlines | Lake Forest, Illinois | United States | Ted Kaczynski |
| 1980 | 25 October | Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary | Black September operative | Beirut | Lebanon | Unknown |
| 1981 | 16 January | Bernadette and Michael McAliskey | Irish socialist and republican political activists | Coalisland, County Tyrone | United Kingdom | Ulster Freedom Fighters |
| 1981 | June | Ali Khamenei | Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam | Tehran | Iran | People's Mujahedin of Iran, Furqan Group |
| 1981 | 1 August | Abu Daoud | Black September operative | Warsaw | Poland | Khaled |
| 1982 | 3 June | Shlomo Argov | Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | Abu Nidal Organization |
| 1984 | 14 March | Gerry Adams | Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin | Belfast | United Kingdom | Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) |
| 1985 | 8 March | Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah | Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah | Beirut | Lebanon | CIA linked group |
| 1985 | 12 November | Camille Chamoun | Former president of Lebanon and leader of the National Liberal Party | Beirut | Lebanon | Vanguard of Arab Christians |
| 1985 | 12 November | Elie Karamé [fr] | President of the Kataeb Party | Beirut | Lebanon | Vanguard of Arab Christians |
| 1986 | 25 May | Malkiat Singh Sidhu | Planning Minister in the Government of Punjab, India | Gold River | Canada | Jaspal Atwal, Jasbir Singh Atwal, Amarjit Singh Dhindsa and Sukhdial Singh Gill |
| 1988 | 18 June | Turgut Özal | Prime Minister of Turkey | Ankara | Turkey | Kartal Demirağ |
| 1988 | 11 September | Jean-Bertrand Aristide | Catholic Salesian priest, political dissident, and future President of Haiti | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Ex-Tonton Macoute member |
| 1988 | 20 October | Nikola Štedul | Croat émigré from Yugoslavia and head of the Croatian Statehood Movement | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | United Kingdom | Vinko Sindičić, UDBA agent |
| 1988 | 17 November | Antoine Lahad | Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army | Southern Lebanon | Lebanon | Souha Bechara |
| 1989 | 14 July | Jani Allan | South African columnist | Johannesburg | South Africa | Cornelius Lottering, Orde van die Dood member |
| 1989 | 3 August | Salman Rushdie | British Indian novelist and essayist | London | United Kingdom | Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh |
| 1989 | 27 November | César Gaviria | Candidate of 1990 Colombian presidential election | Bogota | Colombia | Medellin Cartel |
| 1990 | 18 January | Motoshima Hitoshi | Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan | Nagasaki | Japan | Seikijuku member |
| 1990 | 25 April | Oskar Lafontaine | Minister-President of Saarland | Cologne | West Germany | Adelheid Streidel |
| 1990 | 18 September | Peter Terry | British Governor of Gibraltar | Milford, Staffordshire | United Kingdom | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
| 1990 | 12 October | Wolfgang Schäuble | German Minister of the Interior | Oppenau | Germany | Dieter Kaufmann |
| 1990 | 25 October | Byron Barrera | Guatemalan journalist | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Members of the military implicated |
| 1992 | 5 December | Jiří Svoboda | Leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | Prague | Czechoslovakia | Unknown |
| 1993 | 2 July | Aziz Nesin | Turkish translator of "The Satanic Verses" | Sivas | Turkey | Sunni Wahhabi and Salafist extremist mob |
| 1993 | 11 October | William Nygaard | Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses | Oslo | Norway | Khaled Moussawi and an accomplice |
| 1994 | June | Boris Berezovsky | Russian oligarch and later prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 1994 | 14 October | Naguib Mahfouz | Egyptian writer | Cairo | Egypt | Ordered by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman |
| 1995 | 19 April | José María Aznar | Head of the People's Party and future Prime Minister of Spain | Madrid | Spain | ETA |
| 1995 | 4 November | Mengistu Haile Mariam | Former President of Ethiopia | Harare | Zimbabwe | Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael and Abraham Goletom Joseph |
| 1996 | 4 July | Nimal Siripala de Silva | Sri Lankan Minister of Housing | Jaffna | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 1996 | 12 December | Uday Hussein | Son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein | Baghdad | Iraq | Salman Sharif, and three others |
| 1997 | 25 September | Khaled Mashal | Leader of Hamas | Amman | Jordan | Mossad |
| 1998 | 6 December | General Anuruddha Ratwatte | Sri Lankan Minister of Energy and Deputy Defence Minister | Oddusuddan | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 1999 | 3 October | Vuk Drašković | Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Ibar Highway | FR Yugoslavia | Serbian State Security Special Ops Force |
| 1999 | 30 December | George Harrison | Musician and former member of the Beatles | Henley-on-Thames | United Kingdom | Michael Abram |
| 2000 | March | Saeed Hajjarian | Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist | Tehran | Iran | Members of the Basij militia |
| 2000 | 15 June | Vuk Drašković | Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Budva | FR Yugoslavia | Milorad Ulemek and Slobodan Milošević |
| 2001 | 1 June | Ezekiel Alebua | Former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as Premier of Guadalcanal | Guadalcanal | Solomon Islands | Harold Keke's Isatabu Freedom Movement |
| 2002 | 5 October | Bertrand Delanoë | Mayor of Paris | Paris | France | Azedine Berkane |
| 2003 | April | Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello | Nigerian Commissioner for Health | Ogun State | Nigeria | Unknown |
| 2004 | 19 March | Annette Lu | Vice President of the Republic of China | Tainan | Taiwan | Chen Yi-hsiung |
| 2004 | 10 June | Ahsan Saleem Hayat | Commander V Corps | Karachi | Pakistan | Jundallah |
| 2004 | 1 September | Anna Politkovskaya | Journalist | Rostov-on-Don | Russia | Unknown |
| 2004 | 1 September | Ahmad Chalabi | Iraqi politician | Latifiya | Iraq | Unknown |
| 2004 | September | Viktor Yushchenko | Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, candidate for President of Ukraine | Unknown | Ukraine | Unknown |
| 2004 | 1 October | Marwan Hamadeh | Minister of Economy and Trade | Beirut | Lebanon | Unknown |
| 2005 | 17 March | Anatoly Chubais | Former deputy Prime Minister of Russia administrator of RAO UES | Moscow | Russia | Vladimir Kvachkov |
| 2005 | 12 July | Elias Murr | Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon | Antelias | Lebanon | Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah. |
| 2005 | 25 September | May Chidiac | Lebanese journalist | Beirut | Lebanon | Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah. |
| 2006 | February | Suhaylah Abd-Jaafar | Minister of Displacement and Migration | Baghdad | Iraq | Unknown |
| 2006 | 12 March | Sibghatullah Mojadeddi | President of the Senate of Afghanistan | Kabul | Afghanistan | Unknown |
| 2006 | 25 April | Lt. General Sarath Fonseka | Commander of the Sri Lanka Army | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2006 | 30 May | Georgios Voulgarakis | Greek Minister of Culture | Athens | Greece | Revolutionary Struggle |
| 2006 | 16 October | Alexander Litvinenko | Prominent Russian opposition figure | London | United Kingdom | FSB agents Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, "probably" approved by FSB head Nikolai Patrushev and Russian president Vladimir Putin |
| 2006 | 25 October | Alexander Litvinenko | Prominent Russian opposition figure | London | United Kingdom | FSB agents Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, "probably" approved by FSB head Nikolai Patrushev and Russian president Vladimir Putin |
| 2006 | 24 November | Yegor Gaidar | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2006 | 1 December | Gotabaya Rajapaksa | Secretary of Defense of Sri Lanka and brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa | Kollupitiya | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2007 | February | Robert O. Blake Jr. | United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives | Batticaloa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2007 | 26 February | Adil Abdul-Mahdi | Vice President of Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq | Unknown |
| 2007 | 27 February | Dick Cheney | Vice President of the United States | Bagram Airfield | Afghanistan | Taliban |
| 2007 | 14 April | Onyema Ugochukwu | Gubernatorial candidate in Abia State | Abia State | Nigeria | Unknown |
| 2007 | 9 May | Ramzan Kadyrov | Head of the Chechen Republic | Moscow | Russia | Adam Osmayev (alleged) |
| 2007 | June | Boris Berezovsky | Prominent opponent to Vladimir Putin | London | United Kingdom | Russian security services |
| 2007 | 18 October | Benazir Bhutto | Pakistani opposition leader and ex-Prime Minister | Karachi | Pakistan | Usama al-Kini and Baitullah Mehsud |
| 2008 | October | Karinna Moskalenko | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Likely Russian security services |
| 2008 | 8 October | Maithripala Sirisena | Sri Lankan Minister of Agricultural Development & Agrarian Services | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2009 | 11 March | Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena | Sri Lankan Minister of Cultural Affairs | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2009 | 11 March | Ameer Ali Shihabdeen | Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Disaster Relief Services | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2009 | 11 March | Pandu Bandaranaike | Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Religious Affairs | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2009 | 11 March | A. H. M. Fowzie | Sri Lankan Minister of Petroleum & Petroleum Resources Development | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2009 | 11 March | Chandrasiri Gajadeera | Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2009 | 11 March | Mahinda Wijesekara | Sri Lankan Minister of Special Projects | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| 2008 | November | Mikhail Beketov | Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2009 | June | Yunus-Bek Yevkurov | Head of Ingushetia | Nazran, Ingushetia | Russia | Chechen rebels (blamed) |
| 2009 | 31 July | Anvar-qori Tursunov | Uzbekistani imam | Tashkent | Uzbekistan | Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan |
| 2010 | 1 January | Kurt Westergaard | Cartoonist | Aarhus | Denmark | 28-year-old Somali |
| 2010 | 14 May | Stephen Timms | British Labour MP | Beckton | United Kingdom | Roshonara Choudhry |
| 2010 | November | Viktor Kalashnikov | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Berlin | Germany | Likely FSB |
| 2010 | November | Marina Kalashnikova | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Berlin | Germany | Likely FSB |
| 2010 | 6 November | Oleg Kashin | Prominent journalist and Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2011 | 8 January | Gabby Giffords | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Casas Adobes, Arizona | United States | Jared Lee Loughner |
| 2011 | 13 May | Joss Stone | Singer, songwriter and actress | East Devon | United Kingdom | Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw |
| 2011 | 29 September | Adel al-Jubeir | Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri |
| 2012 | 4 April | Samir Geagea | Executive Chairman of the Lebanese Forces | Meerab, Mount Lebanon | Lebanon | Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah. |
| 2012 | 9 September | Pauline Marois | Premier-designate of Quebec | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | Richard Henry Bain |
| 2012 | 9 October | Malala Yousafzai | Human rights activist | Mingora | Pakistan | Pakistani Taliban |
| 2013 | 4 January | Mohammed Magariaf | Head of Libya's General National Congress | Sabha | Libya | Unknown |
| 2013 | 19 January | Ahmed Dogan | Chairman of the DPS party | Sofia | Bulgaria | Oktai Enimehmedov |
| 2013 | 5 February | Lars Hedegaard | Chairman of the Danish Free Press Society | Copenhagen | Denmark | Basil Hassan |
| 2013 | 26 June | Maqbool Baqar | Judge of the High Court of Sindh | Karachi | Pakistan | Jundallah |
| 2013 | 27 October | Narendra Modi | Chief Minister of Gujarat and the prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Indian general election | Patna, Bihar | India | Indian Mujahideen Students' Islamic Movement of India |
| 2014 | 29 October | Yehuda Glick | Chairman of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation | Jerusalem | Israel | Mutaz Hijazi |
| 2015 | 26 May | Vladimir Kara-Murza | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Likely the FSB (independent investigators discovered that Kara-Muza had been trailed by the same agents who had trailed Alexei Navalny in 2020 before his poisoning and also Dmitry Bykov in 2019 before his poisoning) |
| 2015 | 17 October | Henriette Reker | Mayor of Cologne | Cologne | Germany | Unnamed 44-year-old far-right extremist |
| 2016 | 1 March | Aaidh al-Qarni | Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, author, and activist | Zamboanga City | Philippines | 21-year-old Filipino |
| 2016 | 28 September | José Eliton [PT] | Vice Governor of Goiás | Itumbiara, Goiás | Brazil | Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral |
| 2017 | 2 February | Vladimir Kara-Murza | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Likely FSB (an independent investigation found that the same agents who had trailed Alexei Navalny and Dmitry Bykov before their poisonings in 2020 and 2019, respectively, also trailed Kara-Murza before both his 2017 and previous 2015 poisonings) |
| 2017 | 12 May | Abdul Ghafoor Haideri | Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan | Mastung | Pakistan | ISIL |
| 2017 | 12 June | Steve Scalise | House Majority Whip & Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st district | Virginia | United States | James Hodgkinson |
| 2017 | 2 September | Yulia Latynina | Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2017 | 23 October | Tatyana Felgenhauer | Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2017 | 11 November | Nyesom Wike | Governor of Rivers State | Port Harcourt | Nigeria | Special Anti Robbery Squad |
| 2018 | 4 March | Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal | Intelligence officer | Salisbury | United Kingdom | 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 Presidential candidate for the 2018 Brazilian general election | Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais | Brazil | Adélio Bispo de Oliveira |
| 2018 | 12 September | Pyotr Verzilov | Musician, opposition activist | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2018 | 18 October | Austin S. Miller | United States Army general and Commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission | Kandahar | Afghanistan | Taliban gunman |
| 2019 | 13 April | Dmitry Bykov | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Mid-air flight between Yekaterinburg and Ufa | Russia | Likely the FSB (an investigation found agents which had also possibly poisoned Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza had been trailing Bykov when he was poisoned) |
| 2019 | July | Alexei Navalny | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
| 2019 | 10 October | Wiranto | Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Indonesia | Pandeglang Regency | Indonesia | Jamaah Ansharut Daulah |
| 2019 | 6 November | Junius Ho | Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong | Tuen Mun | Hong Kong | Unknown |
| 2020 | 19 February | Cid Gomes | Senator for the state of Ceará | Sobral, Ceará | Brazil | Mutinying police officers |
| 2020 | 29 February | Juan Guaidó | Disputed president of Venezuela and Speaker of the National Assembly | Barquisimeto | Venezuela | Pro-government colectivos |
| 2020 | 26 June | Omar García Harfuch | Secretary of Public Security of Mexico City | Mexico City | Mexico | Jalisco New Generation Cartel |
| 2020 | 6 July | Alexei Navalny | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Kaliningrad | Russia | Likely FSB (an investigation found that he and his wife Yulia Navalnaya were being trailed by FSB agents, who would go on to poison Navalny one month later) |
| 2020 | 6 July | Yulia Navalnaya | Prominent Russian opposition figure, wife of Alexei Navalny | Kaliningrad | Russia | Likely FSB (an investigation found that she and her husband Alexei Navalny were being trailed by FSB agents, who would go on to poison Alexei Navalny one month later) |
| 2020 | 20 August | Alexei Navalny | Prominent Russian opposition figure | Tomsk | Russia | FSB (specifically agents Alexey Alexandrov, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev) |
| 2020 | 25 August | Saba Sahar | Actress and filmmaker | Kabul | Afghanistan | Unknown |
| 2022 | 14 February | Craig Greenberg | Candidate for mayor of Louisville | Louisville, Kentucky | United States | Quintez Brown |
| 2022 | 12 August | Salman Rushdie | British-Indian novelist and essayist | Chautauqua, New York | United States | Hadi Matar |
| 2022 | 1 September | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | Vice President of Argentina | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel |
| 2022 | 28 October | Paul Pelosi | American businessman | San Francisco, California | United States | David DePape |
| 2022 | 3 November | Imran Khan | Former Prime Minister of Pakistan | Wazirabad | Pakistan | Muhammad Naveed |
| 2022 | 23 November | Friendlyjordies | YouTuber/Journalist | Bondi Beach | Australia | Coronation Property Group (alleged) |
| 2023 | 14 May | Lúcio Tembé | Tembé leader | Tomé-Açu, Pará | Brazil | Unknown |
| 2023 | 17 September | Uddika Premarathna | Sri Lankan MP and actor | Anuradhapura | Sri Lanka | Unknown gunmen |
| 2023 | 23 December | Lucas Aparecido Assumção | Mayor of Palmares Paulista, São Paulo | Palmares Paulista, São Paulo | Brazil | Unnamed |
| 2024 | 2 January | Lee Jae-myung | South Korean MP and Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea | Gadeokdo, Busan | South Korea | Kim Jin-sung |
| 2024 | 15 April | Mar Mari Emmanuel | Assyrian Australian prelate and bishop | Wakeley, New South Wales | Australia | Unnamed 16-year-old boy |
| 2024 | 13 July | Donald Trump | Former president of the United States and U.S. presidential candidate | Butler, Pennsylvania | United States | Thomas Matthew Crooks |
| 2024 | 28 August | Ahmed Haitham | Former Member of the People's Majlis of Maldives | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Unnamed |
| 2024 | 15 September | Donald Trump | Former president of the United States and U.S. presidential candidate | West Palm Beach, Florida | United States | Ryan Wesley Routh |

## Heads of state and government

| Date | Date | Article | 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) |
| 206 BC | – | Feast at Swan Goose Gate | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 1605 | 5 Nov | Gunpowder Plot | James I | King of England | Westminster | England | Guy Fawkes |
| 1657 | 8 Jan | | Oliver Cromwell | Lord Protector | London | England | Miles Sindercombe |
| 1696 | 15–22 Feb | 1696 Jacobite assassination plot | 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 |
| 1800 | 24 Dec | Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise | 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 |
| 1864 | August | | Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States | Washington, D.C | | Unknown Sniper |
| 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 |
| 1889 | 15 Jul | Attempted assassination of Pedro II of Brazil | 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 |
| 1897 | 16 Sep | Attack against Porfirio Díaz of 1897 | Porfirio Díaz | President of Mexico | Alameda Central, Mexico City | Mexico | 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 | 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 |
| 1905 | 21 Jul | Yıldız assassination attempt | Abdul Hamid II | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | Armenian Revolutionary Federation |
| 1906 | 31 May | Morral affair | 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 |
| 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 | United States | Eric Muenter |
| 1918 | Aug 30 | Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin | 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 | 9 Jan | | Karel Kramář | Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia | Prague | Czechoslovakia | Alois Josef Šťastný [cs] |
| 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 |
| 1922 | 14 Jul | Attempted assassination of Alexandre Millerand | 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 | 20 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 |
| 1944 | 20 Jul | 20 July plot | 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 |
| 1950 | 1 Nov | Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman | 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 | Attempted assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser | 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 |
| 1960 | 9 Mar | Maukar Incident | Sukarno | President of Indonesia | Jakarta | Indonesia | Manguni Group, Permesta |
| 1960 | 9 Apr | | Hendrik Verwoerd | Prime Minister of South Africa | Johannesburg | South Africa | David Pratt |
| 1960 | 24 Jun | Attempted assassination of Rómulo Betancourt | 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 |
| 1962 | 22 Aug | Petit-Clamart attack | 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 | 21 Jan | Blue House raid | Park Chung Hee | President of South Korea | Seoul | South Korea | North Korean commandos |
| 1968 | 13 Aug | | Georgios Papadopoulos | President of Greece | Between Lagonisi and Athens | Greece | Alexandros Panagoulis |
| 1969 | 22 Jan | Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev | 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 | 10 Jul | 1971 Moroccan coup attempt | Hassan II | King of Morocco | Skhirat | Morocco | M'hamed Ababou and Mohamed Medbouh |
| 1971 | 13 Sep | Lin Biao incident | Mao Zedong | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party | China | China | Lin Biao (alleged) |
| 1972 | 16 Aug | 1972 Moroccan coup attempt | 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 |
| 1975 | 5 Sep | Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in Sacramento | Gerald Ford | President of the United States | Sacramento | United States | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme |
| 1975 | 22 Sep | Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in San Francisco | 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 |
| 1980 | 26 June | Attempted assassination of Hafez al-Assad | Hafez al-Assad | President of Syria | Damascus | Syria | Muslim Brotherhood |
| 1981 | 30 Mar | Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan | Ronald Reagan | President of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | John Hinckley Jr. |
| 1981 | 13 May | Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II | 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 |
| 1984 | 12 Oct | Brighton hotel bombing | Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Brighton | United Kingdom | Irish Republican Army |
| 1986 | 7 Sep | Attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet | 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 | 18 Aug | 1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament | Junius Richard Jayewardene | President of Sri Lanka | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
| 1987 | 18 Aug | 1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
| 1988 | 3 Nov | 1988 Maldives coup attempt | 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 | 7 Nov | 1990 October Revolution Parade | 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 |
| 1999 | 18 Dec | Attempted assassination of Chandrika Kumaratunga | 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 | March 19 shooting incident | Chen Shui-bian | President of the Republic of China | Tainan | Taiwan | Chen Yi-hsiung |
| 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 | 30 Apr | 2009 attack on the Dutch royal family | 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 | 23 Jun | 2018 Bulawayo bombing | Emmerson Mnangagwa | President of Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | Zimbabwe | Unknown |
| 2018 | 4 Aug | 2018 Caracas drone attack | Nicolás Maduro | President of Venezuela | Caracas | Venezuela | Uncertain (claimed by Soldados de Franelas) |
| 2020 | 29 Feb | 2020 Barquisimeto shooting | 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 |
| 2021 | 7 Nov | Attempted assassination of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi | Mustafa Al-Kadhimi | Prime Minister of Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq | Unknown |
| 2022 | 10 Feb | | Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh | Prime Minister of Libya | Tripoli | Libya | Unknown |
| 2022 | 26 Feb | Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Chechen mercenaries |
| 2022 | Feb | Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Kadyrovites |
| 2022 | Feb | Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Redut |
| 2022 | Feb | Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President of Ukraine | Kyiv | Ukraine | Wagner Group |
| 2023 | 15 Apr | Attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida | Fumio Kishida | Prime Minister of Japan | Wakayama | Japan | Ryūji Kimura |
| 2023 | 3 May | Kremlin drone attack | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Moscow | Russia | Disputed |
| 2024 | 15 May | Attempted assassination of Robert Fico | Robert Fico | Prime Minister of Slovakia | Handlová | Slovakia | Juraj Cintula |
| 2024 | 30 July | Attempted assassination of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan | 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 | 19 October | 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence | Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel | Caesarea | Israel | Hezbollah, Iran (alleged) |
| 2025 | 18 March | Attempted assassination of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud | Hassan Sheikh Mohamud | President of Somalia | Mogadishu | Somalia | Al-Shabaab (claimed) |

## Gallery

* Gallery
* 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
* Crime scene of the attack on Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker in Cologne on 17 October 2015
* Federal deputy and Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro after being stabbed by Adélio Bispo de Oliveira during a campaign event on 6 September 2018.
* 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