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Survivors of assassination attempts in reverse chronological order:
[edit] Since 1990
- José Ramos-Horta (2008), President of Timor-Leste
- Xanana Gusmão (2008), Prime Minister of Timor-Leste
- Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (2008), Maldives president
- Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, (2007), Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India
- Adil Abdul Mahdi, (2007), Vice President of Iraq
- Georgios Voulgarakis, (2006), Greek Minister of Culture
- Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, (2006), President of Somalia
- Sibghatullah Mojadeddi, (2006), President of the Senate of Afghanistan
- Ali Muhammad Ghedi, (2005), Prime Minister of Somalia
- Anatoly Chubais, (2005), Russian politician
- Ibrahim Rugova, (2005), President of Kosovo
- George W. Bush, (2005). President of the United States of America [1]
- Viktor Yushchenko, (2004), President of Ukraine
- Murat Zyazikov, (2004), President of Ingushetia
- Chen Shui-bian, (2004), President of Taiwan
- Annette Lu, (2004), Vice-President of Taiwan
- John Abizaid, (2004), military commander of Iraq
- Shaukat Aziz, (2004), Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Ahmad Chalabi, (2004), Iraqi politician
- Saddam Hussein, (2003), former President of Iraq
- Romano Prodi, (2003), former Prime Minister of Italy
- Pervez Musharraf, (2003), President of Pakistan (2 attempts)
- Paul Bremer, (2003), administrator of Iraq
- Saparmurat Niyazov (2002), President of Turkmenistan
- Jacques Chirac, (2002), President of France
- Bertrand Delanoë, (2002), Mayor of Paris
- Hamid Karzai, (2002), President of Afghanistan
- Dora Bakoyannis, (2002), future Greek Foreign Affairs Minister
- Ezekiel Alebua, (2001), former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as premier of Guadalcanal at the time
- Edi Rama, (2000), Mayor of Tirana
- George Harrison, (1999), musician, spiritual activist, former member of the Beatles
- Islom Karimov, (1999), President of Uzbekistan
- Wayne Thomson, (1997), Mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Uday Hussein, (1996), son of Saddam Hussein
- Imomali Rakhmonov, (1996), President of Tajikistan
- Pavlo Lazarenko, (1996), Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Eduard Shevardnadze, (several attempts), President of Georgia
- José María Aznar, (1995)
- Kiro Gligorov, (1995), President of Macedonia
- Heydar Aliyev, (1995), President of Azerbaijan
- Hosni Mubarak, (1994 and 1995), President of Egypt
- Hassan al-Alfi, (1993), Interior Minister of Egypt
- Atef Sedki, (1993), Prime Minister of Egypt
- William Nygaard, (1989), Norwegian publisher
[edit] 1941-1990
- Wolfgang Schäuble, (1990), German minister of the interior
- Oskar Lafontaine, (1990), German politician
- Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney (May 24, 1990), Earth First! activists
- Motoshima Hitoshi, (January 18, 1990), Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan
- Turgut Özal, (1987), President of Turkey
- Augusto Pinochet, (1986), President of Chile
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (1986), Haitian dissident
- Margaret Thatcher, (1984), British prime minister
- Selim al-Hoss, (1984), Prime Minister of Lebanon
- Pope John Paul II, (1981 and 1995)
- Ronald Reagan, (1981), President of the United States
- Ahmed Sékou Touré, (1980), President of Guinea
- Tariq Aziz, (1980), Iraqi politician
- Bob Marley, (1978), Jamaican reggae singer
- Antonio Cubillo, (1978), Canarian nationalist
- John Brooke-Little, (1978), British founder of The Heraldry Society
- Iyad Allawi, (1978), Iraqi exile leader
- Mengistu Haile Mariam, (1977 and 1978), Ethiopian president.
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa, (1976), President of the Central African Republic
- Félix Malloum, (1976), President of Chad
- Priscilla Davis, (1976), Fort Worth, Texas socialite
- Gerald Ford, (two attempts in 1975), President of the United States
- Park Chung Hee, (1974), President of South Korea
- Joseph Sieff, (1973), honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation
- Mao Zedong, (1973), Chairman of the Communist Party of China
- George C. Wallace, (1972), US Presidential candidate
- Pope Paul VI, (1970)
- Ahmed Sékou Touré, (1969), President of Guinea.
- Houari Boumedienne, (1968), President of Algeria.
- Andy Warhol, (1968), artist
- Rudi Dutschke, (1968), German dissident
- Arthur Calwell, (1966), Former leader of the Australian Labor Party.
- Léopold Biha, (1965), Prime Minister of Burundi
- John F. Kennedy, (1961 and 1963), President of the United States; attempts on his life in Miami and Chicago were thwarted before his successful assassination in Dallas
- Charles De Gaulle, 1962, President of France
- Kwame Nkrumah, (1962), President of Ghana
- Rómulo Betancourt, (1960), President of Venezuela, suspectedly ordered by Dominican dictator Trujillo
- Nobusuke Kishi, (July 1960), Prime Minister of Japan
- Hendrik Verwoerd, (1960), Prime Minister of South Africa (successfully assassinated in 1966)
- Abdul Karim Qassim, (1959), Prime Minister of Iraq.
- King Hussein of Jordan, at least 12 attempts, mostly during the 1950s and 1960s
- Fidel Castro, several attempts, particularly during the 1960s
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, (1954), Egyptian leader.
- Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, (1954), former President of Nicaragua
- Harry Truman, (1950), President of the United States
- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence leader, (several attempts throughout the 1940s, successfully assassinated in 1948 by the same people who failed in some of the previous attempts)
- Kantarō Suzuki, (1945), Prime Minister of Japan who survived February 26 Incident in 1936
- Adolf Hitler, (German dictator) (hundreds of attempts, with the most notable attempt on July 20, 1944)
- Pierre Laval, (1941), prime minister of Vichy France
[edit] Prior to 1940
- Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader, successfully assassinated several weeks later.
- Keisuke Okada, (1936), Prime Minister of Japan (see February 26 Incident)
- Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, (1936)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1933), when President-elect of the United States
- Engelbert Dollfuss, (1933), Chancellor of Austria, successfully assassinated the following year
- Hirohito, (1923), later emperor of Japan (see Toranomon Incident)
- Vladimir Ilich Lenin, (1918), Russian communist leader
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-apparent of Austria, survives an attempt by the Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Black Hand) (June 28, 1914), he is successfully assassinated later that day.
- Theodore Roosevelt, (1912), former President of the United States
- Alfred Dreyfus, (1908), French Military
- Alfonso XIII of Spain (1905, 1906)
- Émile Loubet, President of France, (1905 - same attempt as on King Alfonso of Spain, above)
- Wilhelm II of Germany, (1900), emperor of Germany
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom, as Prince of Wales (1900)
- Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist (1892)
- Nicholas II of Russia, as Tsarevich during visit to Japan (1891)
- Jules Verne, (1886), author, shot by his nephew.
- Itagaki Taisuke, (1882), Japanese liberal activist
- Alexander II of Russia, five failed attempts from 1866 to 1880, successfully assassinated in 1881
- William H. Seward, (1865), U.S. Secretary of State; stabbed as part of attack on American officials following the Civil War, including the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
- Napoleon III, {1858}, Emperor of the French
- Andrew Jackson, (1835), President of the United States
- Louis-Philippe of France, (1835)
- Victoria of the United Kingdom (numerous attempts)
- Justo Rufino Barrios, President of Guatemala
- Napoleon I, (1809), Emperor of the French
- Louis XV of France, (1757)
- Elizabeth I of England, (1570)
- Ptolemy VIII of Egypt, 2nd century BC
- Qin Shi Huang, (3rd century BC), Chinese Emperor
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