Columns: Year | Date | Intended Victim(s) | Title at the Time | Location | Would-be Assassin(s) | Method | Initial Outcome / Notes
1990 | Apr 25 | Oskar Lafontaine | Minister-President of Saarland | Cologne , West Germany | A deranged woman, Adelheid Streidel. | Knife attack | Serious neck wound | 1990 | Jan 18 | Motoshima Hitoshi | Mayor of Nagasaki , Japan | Nagasaki, Japan | a member of the right-wing group, Seikijuku . | Gun attack . | Shot in the back. | 1989 | Jul 14 | Jani Allan | n South Africa columnist | Residence, Johannesburg , South Africa | Orde van die Dood member, Cornelius Lottering . | Bomb attack. | No one injured. | 1987 | Aug 18 | Junius Richard Jayewardene | President of Sri Lanka | Parliament Building, Colombo , Sri Lanka | Unknown | Grenade attack on Parliament . | Two dead, sixteen injured. | 1987 | Aug 18 | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | Parliament Building, Colombo , Sri Lanka | Unknown | Grenade attack. | Same event as Jayewardene's . | 1985 | Mar 08 | Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah | Lebanese Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah | Beirut , Lebanon | Unknown | Beirut car bombing . | 80 killed; 200 injured. | 1984 | Oct 12 | Margaret Thatcher | British prime minister | Grand Hotel, Brighton , Great Britain | IRA | Bomb blast | Five killed. | 1983 | Oct 19 | Chun Doo-hwan | President of South Korea . | Martyrs' Mausoleum, Rangoon , Burma | Three North Korean agents | Rangoon bombing attack | Chun uninjured; 21 killed; 46 injured. | 1982 | Jun 03 | Shlomo Argov | i Israel ambassador to the U.K. | Dorchester Hotel , Park Lane , London | ANO agents | Gun assault. | Shot in the head; permanently hospitalized. | 1982 | May 12 | Pope John Paul II ‡ | Catholic leader | Fátima , Portugal | Juan María Fernández y Krohn | Bayonet attack. | Slightly wounded. | 1981 | May 13 | Pope John Paul II ‡ | Catholic leader | St. Peter's Square , Vatican City | Mehmet Ali Ağca , a Turkish Grey Wolves assassin. | Pistol attack. | Shot four times and severely wounded. | 1981 | Mar 30 | Ronald Reagan | President of the United States | Hilton Washington , Washington, D.C. | A deranged man, John Hinckley . | Gun attack. | Three seriously injured, including Reagan.