List of people who survived assassination attempts

Survivors of assassination attempts in reverse chronological order:

ince 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 [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/bush.georgia/]
*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 (Later tried and executed)
*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
*Charles, Prince of Wales (1994), heir to the British throne
*Hassan al-Alfi, (1993), Interior Minister of Egypt
*Atef Sedki, (1993), Prime Minister of Egypt
*William Nygaard, (1989), Norwegian publisher

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
*Robert McNamara, (1963), US Defence Secretary; Assassination attempt planned during his visit to Saigon.
*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) (several attempts, with the most notable attempt being the July 20 Plot in 1944)
*Pierre Laval, (1941), prime minister of Vichy France

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

ee also

*List of assassinated persons
*List of unsuccessful assassinations