List of assassinations and assassination attempts

Assassin(s)	Year	Target	Result	Notes
Ehud	1200 BC	Moabite king Eglon	Killed	Stabbed to death in his throne room (Judges 3:12-30).
Arda Mulissi	681 BC	Assyrian king Sennacherib	Killed	Stabbed to death while at prayer in a temple, or possibly crushed under a winged child angelica.[1]
Jing Ke	227 BC	Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang	Survived	One of the earliest documented attempts.
A strongman hired by Zhang Liang	218 BC	Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang	Survived	Long-distance heavy hammer (30-kg) throwing; the origin of a Chinese idiom 誤中副車 ("mistakenly hit the escort carriage").
Achillas, Lucius Septimius and Salvius	48 BC	Roman leader and rival of Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus	Killed
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others	44 BC	Roman Dictator Julius Caesar	Killed	Resulted in Civil War and indirectly in the end of the Roman Republic
Cassius Chaerea, members of the Praetorian Guard, and others	41	Roman Emperor Caligula	Killed
Uncertain, reputed to be Agrippina the Younger on behalf of Nero	54	Roman Emperor Claudius	Killed
Various freedmen, possibly with the help of the Praetorian Guard	96	Roman Emperor Domitian	Killed
Members of the Praetorian Guard	192	Roman Emperor Commodus	Killed
Fan Qiang, Zhang Da	221	military general of Shu Han Zhang Fei	Killed
Members of the Praetorian Guard	238	Roman Emperors Pupienus and Balbinus	Killed	See Year of the Six Emperors.
Mucapor and members of the Praetorian Guard	275	Roman Emperor Aurelian	Killed
Abu Lulu	644	Umar, 3rd Caliph of Islam	Killed
Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam	661	Ali ibn Abi Talib	Killed
Nandhini - Pazhuvetrudaiyar	969	Aditya Karikalan	Killed
Hashshashin	1192	Conrad of Montferrat	Killed
Pazzi Conspiracy	1478	Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici	Killed (Giuliano)/Survived (Lorenzo)	Giuliano died, after being stabbed 19 times, but Lorenzo escaped.
Oda Nobunaga	1557	Sengoku period Oda Nobuyuki	Killed
James Hamilton	1570	James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray	Killed	The first assassination carried out with a firearm.
Akechi Mitsuhide	1582	Sengoku period Oda Nobunaga	Killed
Balthasar Gérard	1584	Dutch Stadtholder William the Silent	Killed
Jacques Clément	1589	King Henry III of France	Killed	Religious-political antagonism.
Guy Fawkes	1605	King James I of England, Parliament of England	Survived	See the Gunpowder Plot.
François Ravaillac	1610	King Henry IV of France	Killed	Religious-political antagonism.
John Felton	1628	George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham	Killed	Stabbed to death. Felton believed he had been passed over for promotion by Buckingham. The event is important in the plot of The Three Musketeers.
Army officers	1747	King Nader Shah	Killed	He was able to kill two of the assassins before dying.
Jacob Johan Anckarström	1792	King Gustav III of Sweden	Killed	The king was shot at a masquerade ball and died two weeks later from his wounds.
Charlotte Corday	1793	French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat	Killed	Later often seen as a patriotic act.
James Hadfield	1800	King George III of the United Kingdom	Survived
François-Joseph Carbon	1800	French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte	Survived	Detonated an explosion by the roadside in an attempt to kill Bonaparte, which he narrowly missed. The attempt is referred to as the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise.
John Bellingham	1812	UK Prime Minister Spencer Perceval	Killed	First and only U.K. Prime Minister to be assassinated.
Richard Lawrence	1835	US President Andrew Jackson	Survived	First attempt to kill a US President, January 30. Both guns misfired.
Edward Oxford	1840	Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom	Survived	Oxford fired twice, but both bullets missed.
Unknown	1842	Former Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs	Survived	Orrin Porter Rockwell, a close associate of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., charged but acquitted of all charges.
János Libényi	1853	Austrian Emperor, King of Bohemia Franz Joseph I of Austria	Survived	Attacked with a dagger to the back of the neck. Survived due to the thick collar of his uniform.
Cipriano Ferrandini	1861	US President Abraham Lincoln	Survived	see Baltimore Plot
Unknown	1864	US President Abraham Lincoln	Survived	Shot at while riding alone. Though he was not hurt, a bullet hole was discovered in his hat. See the List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
John Wilkes Booth	1865	US President Abraham Lincoln	Killed	First assassination of a sitting United States President. See Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Ferdinand Cohen-Blind	1866	Prussian Minister President Otto von Bismarck	Survived
Patrick J. Whelan	1868	Canadian Member of Parliament Thomas D'Arcy McGee	Killed	Only Canadian victim of assassination at the federal level.
Henry James O'Farrell	1868	Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Survived	Shot through the spine, first attempted political assassination in Australia.
Aurelio Sánchez	1871	Bolivian President Mariano Melgarejo	Killed	Assassin's sister, Juana, was the President's lover.
Sher Ali Afridi	1872	Viceroy of India Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo	Killed	Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Eduard Kullmann	1874	Chancellor of Germany Otto von Bismarck	Survived	The assassination attempt was a reaction to the Kulturkampf
Faustino Rayo	1875	Ecuadorian President Gabriel García Moreno	Killed	Shot outside Quito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views.
Giovanni Passannante	1878	King Umberto I of Italy	Survived	Attacked with a dagger during a royal parade in Naples. He was slightly wounded in one arm. The prime minister Benedetto Cairoli, while defending the king, was injured in a leg.
Charles J. Guiteau	1881	US President James Garfield	Killed	Died 80 days following the shooting. See James A. Garfield assassination.
Ignacy Hryniewiecki	1881	Tsar Alexander II of Russia	Killed	Assassination plot concluded with bombs.
Irish National Invincibles (suspectedly led by James Carey	1882	Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke	Killed	Stabbed, see Phoenix Park murders.
Tsuda Sanzo	1891	Tsar Nicholas II of Russia	Survived	The Tsar was attacked with a sabre during a state visit to Japan.
Sante Geronimo Caserio	1894	French President Sadi Carnot	Killed	Stabbed to death after a speech in Lyon.
Mirza Reza Kermani	1896	King Naser al-Din Shah Qajar	Killed	Ironically assassinated on the day of his fiftieth kingship ceremony.
Frederick Russell Burnham	1896	Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader	Killed	Effectively ended the Second Matabele War.
Michele Angiolillo	1897	Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo	Killed	Shot at a spa in Mondragón, northern Spain.
Luigi Lucheni	1898	Empress Elisabeth of Austria	Killed	Lucheni attacked the Empress randomly on the street of Geneva. Elisabeth was stabbed in the heart once with a sharp needle file. Due to her extremely tight corset, she had no idea she has been wounded and collapsed suddenly two hours later due to slow internal hemorrhaging.
Unknown	1900	William Goebel, Governor of Kentucky	Killed
Gaetano Bresci	1900	King Umberto I of Italy	Killed	He was shot four times with a revolver. The reason was the royal decoration of the general Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, who ordered a bloody repression in Milan in 1898. Influenced Leon Czologsz to kill William McKinley in 1901.
Leon Czolgosz	1901	US President William McKinley	Killed	Died 8 days later of gangrene; see William McKinley assassination.
Army officers led by Dragutin Dimitrijević	1903	King Alexander I of Serbia	Killed	Part of the May Overthrow.
Eugen Schauman	1904	Governor-General of Finland Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov	Killed	Happens on day described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, is briefly mentioned in the book
Albert Horsley, aka Harry Orchard	1905	Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg	Killed	Steunenberg killed by a bomb rigged to his front gate
Mateu Morral	1906	King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain	Survived	Royal couple attacked by bomb after their wedding; weapon missed them and members of royal procession killed instead.
Manuel Buíça and Alfredo Costa	1908	King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Royal Luís Filipe	Killed	Shot by assassins sympathetic to Republican interests and aided by anti-monarchic society Portuguese Carbonária.
An Jung-geun	1909	Prime Minister of Japan Itoh Hirobumi	Killed
John Schrank	1912	former US President Theodore Roosevelt	Survived	Shot at campaign event; Roosevelt continued with his speech.
Alexandros Schinas	1913	King George I of Greece	Killed	Possible conspiracy.
Gavrilo Princip	1914	Austro-Hungarian Archduke Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria	Killed	Considered the start of World War I.
Raoul Villain	1914	French socialist leader Jean Jaurès	Killed	The assassin was tried and acquitted in 1919.
Fritz Joubert Duquesne	1916	Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War	Killed	Killed on the HMS Hampshire after the cruiser struck a mine; Duquesne falsely claimed to have sabotaged Hampshire.
Fanny Kaplan	1918	Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin	Survived	Shot on factory meeting, Fanny Kaplan was captured and executed by Bolsheviks. Lenin died 6 years later due to unrelated causes, but within Russian pop culture, Kaplan is still widely considered to have killed him.
Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo	1919	Emiliano Zapata	Killed	Shot at his hacienda in Mexico.
Sonny O'Neill	1922	Michael Collins	Killed	Killed in an ambush firefight near the end of Irish Civil War.
Eligiusz Niewiadomski	1922	First Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz	Killed	Killed five days after his inauguration, while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
Unknown	1923	Mexican statesman Pancho Villa	Killed	Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral in Mexico. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed.
Violet Gibson	1926	Benito Mussolini	Survived
Severino Di Giovanni	1928	Herbert Hoover	Survived	Would-be assassin arrested before he could even place the bombs on the train.
Paul Gorguloff	1932	French President Paul Doumer	Killed	Shot at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris.
Giuseppe Zangara	1933	Anton Cermak	Killed	Killed in Miami, Florida during a visit of president-elect of Franklin Roosevelt.
Paul Hudl, Otto Planetta and other Austrian Nazis	1934	Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss	Killed	Part of a failed coup d'état, the July Putsch.
Vlado Chernozemski	1934	King Alexander I of Yugoslavia	Killed	Killed in Marseille during a state visit.
Carl Weiss	1935	US Senator Huey Long	Killed	Shot in a Louisiana State Capitol hallway.
George Andrew McMahon	1936	King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom	Survived	Would-be assassin's revolver fell out of his hand when he was approached by police from behind.
Johann Georg Elser	1939	Adolf Hitler	Survived
Udham Singh	1940	Michael O'Dwyer	Killed	Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall, London.
Ramón Mercader	1940	Lev Bronstein Trotsky	Killed	Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe.
Vasil Laçi	1941	King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy	Survived
Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík	1942	SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich	Killed
NKVD	1942	German ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen	Survived	The assassin's bomb detonated prematurely, killing him and slightly wounding von Papen.
Uncertain	1943	Philippine President José P. Laurel	Survived
Armia Krajowa	1944	SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw District Franz Kutschera	Killed	See the Operation Kutschera.
Claus von Stauffenberg	1944	Chancellor and Führer of Germany Adolf Hitler	Survived	See the July 20 plot.
Nathuram Godse	1948	Political and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi	Killed
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola	1950	US President Harry S. Truman	Survived	Attempt to draw attention to the Puerto Rico independence movement, in which both attempted killers were active. See Truman assassination attempt.
Unknown	1951	Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Riad Al Solh	Killed	Shot at Amman Airport during visit to Jordan.
Khalil Tahmasebi	1951	Prime Minister of Iran Haj Ali Razmara	Killed	Shot in a mosque
Unknown, believed to be agent of Amin al-Husseini	1952	King Abdullah bin Hussein of Jordan	Killed	Shot in a mosque in Amman.
Izola Curry	1958	Martin Luther King Jr.	Survived	Stabbed in the chest with a mail cutter during a book signing in New York City.
Talduwe Somarama	1959	Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Solomon Bandaranaike	Killed	Assassinated by a Buddhist monk as part of a conspiracy.
Otoya Yamaguchi	1960	Inejiro Asanuma	Killed	Asanuma was pierced to assassin's bayonet while making a speech.
Juan Orta and Dr. Anthony Verona	1960	Fidel Castro	Survived	Attempts to introduce poison supplied by the CIA into Castro's food; Castro supposedly survived 638 assassination attempts in all.
Richard Paul Pavlick	1960	US President-elect John F. Kennedy	Survived	December 11   See: John F. Kennedy
Jean Bastien-Thiry and the OAS	1962	French President Charles de Gaulle	Survived
Nguyen Van Cu and Pham Phu Quoc	1962	President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem	Survived	See 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
Believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald	1963	Retired US General and political activist Edwin Walker	Survived	Notable for preceding Oswald's successful attempt on the life of John F. Kennedy
Nguyen Van Troi	1963	Robert Mcnamara and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr	Survived
Byron De La Beckwith	1963	Medgar Evers	Killed	Evers, an African American activist and NAACP leader, was shot by De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994.
Generally believed to be Nguyen Van Nhung and Duong Hieu Nghia, on orders from Duong Van Minh	1963	President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem	Killed	Part of the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. See Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald	1963	US President John F. Kennedy	Killed	For general information on the incident, see John F. Kennedy assassination. The US Government's official report concluded that Oswald acted alone, however a subsequent investigation contradicted the Warren Commission's findings. See: House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979)
Jack Ruby	1963	Lee Harvey Oswald	Killed	First live murder ever seen on US television
Norman 3X Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson, Talmadge Hayer	1965	Activist Malcolm X	Killed	Tensions and departure from the Nation of Islam
Dmitri Tsafendas	1966	Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd	Killed	Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death with a dagger in the House of Assembly due to his opposition to Verwoerd's policy of apartheid.
Unknown	1967	American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell	Survived	Fired at twice by a person hiding behind his driveway pillars, narrowly missing his head.
John Patler	1967	American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell	Killed	Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat.
Uncertain, believed to be James Earl Ray or Loyd Jowers	1968	Political activist Martin Luther King, Jr.	Killed	Ray was convicted on a guilty plea but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot. See Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Josef Bachmann	1968	German Extra-Parliamentary Opposition leader Rudi Dutschke	Survived	Dutschke was targeted by the vehemently anti-communist Bachmann due to his prominent role in the left-wing German student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. While Dutschke survived the assassination attempt, he was badly injured and died of related medical issues 11 years later.
Sirhan Sirhan	1968	US Senator Robert F. Kennedy	Killed	See Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Chicago Police with FBI involvement	1969	Fred Hampton Political activist,Black Panther Party	Killed	Communist black activist. Tensions with the Police and American Government.
Viktor Ilyin	1969	Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev	Survived	See Brezhnev assassination attempt
Huang Wen-hsiung	1970	Vice Prime Minister of Republic of China Chiang Ching-kuo	Survived
Members of the Front de libération du Québec	1970	Vice Premier of Quebec Pierre Laporte	Killed	Kidnapped and later killed. One of only two political assassinations in Canadian history.
Juan Montañez	1971	King Curtis	Killed	Stabbed to death on the streets of New York.
Arthur Bremer	1972	US Presidential candidate George Wallace	Survived	Wallace was paralyzed for life
ETA	1973	President of the Government of Spain Luis Carrero Blanco	Killed	The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco was, according to ETA, then to intensify existing divisions within the Franco regime between the "openness" and "purists".
Erskine "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn	1973	Governor of Bermuda Richard Sharples	Killed	Shot outside Bermuda's Government House. Sharples' aide-de-camp Captain Hugh Sayers was also killed.
Samuel Byck	1974	US President Richard Nixon	Survived	Attempted to hijack a commercial jet with the intention of crashing it into the White House.
Prince Faisal bin Musa'id	1975	Saudi King Faisal	Killed
Soldiers of the Chadian Army	1975	First President of Chad François Tombalbaye	Killed
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad and coup	1975	First Bangladeshi President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	Killed	The coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League colleagues and military officers who were led by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, and they targeted to exterminate his entire family.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme	1975	US President Gerald Ford	Survived
Sara Jane Moore	1975	US President Gerald Ford	Survived
Chilean DINA agents	1976	Orlando Letelier	Killed	Killed by a car bomb, September 21, 1976, along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt.
Red Army Faction	1977	German Prosecutor-General Siegfried Buback	Killed
Dan White	1978	San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk	Killed	Killed over not reappointing Dan White supervisor. See Moscone–Milk assassinations.
Red Brigades	1978	Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro	Killed	Kidnapped and later killed. See Kidnapping of Aldo Moro.
Larry Layton and other members of the Peoples Temple	1978	Leo Ryan, Congressman from California	Killed	Killed in Guyana during an official visit to investigate allegations of abuse of American citizens at the Jonestown compound of the Peoples Temple religious organization. See Leo_Ryan#Jungle_ambush.
Raymond Lee Harvey	1979	US President Jimmy Carter	Survived
Kim Jae-kyu	1979	South Korean President Park Chung-hee	Killed	See Park Chung-hee assassination.
Rolf Clemens-Wagner, member of the Red Army Faction	1979	Supreme Commander of NATO Alexander Haig	Survived	A land mine blew up under the bridge on which Haig's car was traveling, narrowly missing Haig's car and wounding three of his bodyguards in a following car.
Members of the Irish National Liberation Army	1979	British politician Airey Neave	Killed	Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster.
Thomas McMahon	1979	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma	Killed	Killed along with three others while on a fishing trip with his family by a bomb planted onto his boat by McMahon. McMahon was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who claimed responsibility for the attack.
Unknown	1980	Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero	Killed	Shot at a hospital chapel by unknown hand.
Mark David Chapman	1980	John Lennon	Killed	Obsession with The Catcher in the Rye. See Assassination of John Lennon.
John Hinckley, Jr.	1981	US President Ronald Reagan	Survived	To impress actress Jodie Foster. See Reagan assassination attempt.
Khalid Islambouli	1981	Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat	Killed	Rare attack carried out by a group.
Mehmet Ali Ağca	1981	Pope John Paul II	Survived	See Pope John Paul II assassination attempt.
Group of army officers	1981	Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman	Killed	Plotted by a faction of officers of Bangladesh Army led by General Abul Monjur.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn	1982	Pope John Paul II	Survived	Attempted to stab the Pope with a bayonet.
Habib Tanious Shartouni	1982	Lebanese President Bachir Gemayel	Killed	Bomb explosion in the Phalange's Beirut headquarters.
Rogelio B. Moreno	1983	Philippine Senator Benigno Aquino	Killed	Believed to have been ordered by then President Ferdinand Marcos.
North Korea	1983	South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan	Survived	Bomb explosion took place at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Yangon, Burma during the president's visit. See Rangoon bombing
Satwant Singh and Beant Singh	1984	Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi	Killed	Assassinated by personal bodyguards.
Provisional Irish Republican Army	1984	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher	Survived	Detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.
Unknown	1986	Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme	Killed	Shot on his way home from a cinema on a street in central Stockholm. See Assassination of Olof Palme.
Members of Action Directe	1986	CEO of Renault Georges Besse	Killed	Shot while emerging from his car in Paris.
Lebanese Forces	1987	Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami	Killed	Only victim of helicopter bombing.
Uncertain reputed to be various members of SA government and the CCB	1989	Namibian Human Rights Lawyer Anton Lubowski	Killed	Shot in front of his home in central Windhoek, Namibia.
Dieter Kaufmann	1990	German Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble	Survived	Shot in back and face after an election campaign event in Oppenau. Has been paralysed and using a wheelchair ever since.
IRA members	1990	British MP Ian Gow	Killed	Killed by a car bomb near his house.
Provisional Irish Republican Army	1991	British Prime Minister John Major	Survived	Mortar attack during a meeting at 10 Downing Street
Thenmuli Rajaratnam	1991	Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi	Killed	Killed in an explosion triggered by a LTTE suicide bomber. First head of state to be killed by a suicide bomber. See Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Janusz Walus	1993	South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani	Killed	Anti-Communist killing
Fourteen men under employment of Saddam Hussein	1993	US President George H.W. Bush	Survived
Unknown	1993	Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa	Killed	Attack carried out by an LTTE suicide bomber on May Day parade.
Unknown	1993	Mexican Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo	Killed	Assassinated among 6 other people by anti-catholic group.
Mario Aburto	1994	Mexican Candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio	Killed	Assassinated rally at campaign in Tijuana.
Uncertain; see main article for theories	1994	Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira	Killed	Plane carrying the two leaders shot down by unknown attackers with a surface-to-air missile. The attack was the catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide. See Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
Frank Eugene Corder	1994	US President Bill Clinton	Survived	Corder was the only casualty.
Francisco Martin Duran	1994	US President Bill Clinton	Survived	Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn before being tackled by pedestrians.
André Dallaire	1995	Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien	Survived	Dallaire viewed himself as a "secret agent" avenging the loss of sovereigntist forces in the 1995 Quebec referendum, and that he believed killing the Prime Minister would cause him to "become a hero for the nation".[2]
Ramzi Yousef	1995	Pope John Paul II	Survived	Part of Operation Bojinka.
Yigal Amir	1995	Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin	Killed	Attack carried out by Israeli opposed to Oslo Accords. See Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Osama Bin Laden	1996	US President Bill Clinton	Survived	Attempt to bomb Clinton's presidential motorcade driving over a bridge in Manila, Philippines.
Byron Looper	1998	Tennessee State Senator Tommy Burks	Killed	Shot while campaigning for election by his political opponent. His wife Charlotte won the election in his place as a write-in candidate.
Michael Abram	1999	George Harrison	Survived	Abram broke into Harrison's house and repeatedly stabbed him.
Nairi Hunanyan	1999	Armenian Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Speaker Karen Demirchyan	Killed	The attack took place in the Armenian Parliament. See 1999 Armenian parliament shooting.
ETA	2000	Member of the Basque Parliament Fernando Buesa	Killed	Car bombing
Robert Pickett	2001	US President George W. Bush	Survived	see 2001 White House shooting
Mohamed Atta	2001	US President George W. Bush	Survived
Dipendra	2001	King Birendra of Nepal and other royal family members of same country	Killed	See Nepalese royal massacre.
Volkert van der Graaf	2002	Dutch Election Candidate Pim Fortuyn	Killed	The attack took place in a parking lot outside a radio studio in Hilversum, where Fortuyn had just given an interview.
Maxime Brunerie	2002	French President Jacques Chirac	Survived	Brunerie attempted to shoot the President during the Bastille Day Military Parade.
Mijailo Mijailović	2003	Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh	Killed	Lindh was stabbed while visiting a shopping centre in Stockholm. She died the following morning.
Zvezdan Jovanović	2003	Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić	Killed	Jovanović killed his victim with a sniper rifle (a relatively rare type of assassination); see Assassination of Zoran Đinđić.
Chen Yi-hsiung	2004	President of Republic of China Chen Shui-bian	Survived	See 3-19 shooting incident.
Presumed to be Chechen Islamists	2004	President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov	Killed	Killed along with about 30 others in a football stadium during a Soviet Victory Day parade, by a bomb that had been built into the concrete of one of the stadium's supporting columns.
Mohammed Bouyeri	2004	Dutch film maker (and great-great-nephew of painter Vincent van Gogh) Theo van Gogh	Killed	Van Gogh was cycling to work in Amsterdam. He was shot on his bicycle eight times with an HS2000 handgun. Bouyeri also tried to decapitate van Gogh with one knife, and stabbed him in the chest with another.
Unknown, presumed to be Hezbulla in concert with Syrian intelligence services	2005	Former Lebanese Prime Minister and billionaire Rafik Hariri	Killed	Assassination via car bomb in Beirut.
Vladimir Arutyunian	2005	U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili	Survived	Threw a hand grenade at Bush, which failed to detonate.
Unknown; many theories	2006	Journalist Anna Politkovskaya	Killed	Shot in the elevator block of her apartment in Moscow. See Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya.
Unknown, though believed to be figures within the government of Russia	2006	Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko	Killed	Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210. See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
Ogün Samast	2007	Turkish citizen of Armenian descent editor, journalist and columnist Hrant Dink	Killed	Fired three shots at Dink's head from the back at point blank range before fleeing the scene on foot. See Assassination of Hrant Dink.
Unknown, widely believed to be Islamic militants	2007	Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto	Killed	Killed while entering a vehicle upon leaving a political rally for the Pakistan People's Party in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. See Assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Soldiers	2009	President of Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira	Killed	Hacked to death during armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
Karst Tates	2009	Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and royal family	Survived	Attempted to ram the Queen's bus with his car. See 2009 attack on the Dutch Royal Family.
Men under his aide de camp	2009	President of Guinea Moussa Dadis Camara	Survived	Currently in Burkina Faso
Unknown, widely believed to be Mossad agents	2010	Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, senior Hamas military commander	Killed	Exact cause unknown; possibilities include suffocation, strangulation, and electrocution. See Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Casey Brezik	2010	Missouri Governor Jay Nixon	Survived	Mistakenly stabbed a college dean in a hallway by a lectern where Nixon was to speak. Brezik told police that he thought he had stabbed Nixon.[3][4][5]
Unknown, believed to be two ranch workers	2010	Eugène Terre'Blanche, founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging in South Africa	Killed	He was found hacked and beaten to death at his farm, allegedly killed by two of his workers.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri	2011	Salmaan Taseer, 26th Governor of Punjab	Killed	Killed by one of his security guards due to Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Jared Lee Loughner	2011	Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative from Arizona	Survived	Shot, along with several staffers, a U.S. District Judge (John Roll, who was killed) and several civilians, at a constituent event in her district. There were a total of at least 6 deaths and 12 injured.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan	2011	Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Minorities of Pakistan	Killed	Killed due to his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Sardar Mohammad	2011	Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai	Killed	Shot twice in the head and chest by his security guard as he was coming out of his bathroom
Unknown, possibly security guards or members of the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade	2011	Abdul Fatah Younis, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Libyan Republic	Killed	Shot due to his prior history before defecting to the NTC
Unknown, possibly members of the Taliban or the Haqqani network.	2011	Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani	Killed	Assassinated while leading peace negotiations between the internationally recognized Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and the Taliban.
Manssor Arbabsiar	2011	Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States Adel Al-Jubeir	Survived	Arbabsiar and Golham Shakuri (an Iranian government official) plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States by hiring a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel member, who was in fact an undercover DEA agent. See 2011 alleged Iran assassination plot.[6]
Either Liwa al Islam or the Free Syrian Army (both claimed responsibility)	2012	Syria's Defense Minister General Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, former Defense Minister General Hasan Turkmani, and Intelligence and National Security Chief Hisham Ikhtiyar	Killed	Killed either with a remotely detonated bomb or via suicide attack as part of the Syrian civil war. Several other leading government officials may have been injured or killed.
Unknown; pro-al Qaeda group located in Libya is currently the chief suspect	2012	U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens	Killed	Stevens was killed by asphyxiation, while three other men were shot and killed after they were moved to a safehouse during an uprising at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. See U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi.
Oktai Enimehmedov	2013	Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan	Survived	Would be assassin went onto the stage as Dogan addressed his party and pointed a gas pistol within a foot of Dogan's head before he was disarmed and beaten up.
Unknown assailants	2013	Tunisian politician Chokri Belaid, leader of the Democratic Patriots' Movement	Killed	Belaid, a Marxist lawyer and politican, was shot outside his home in El Menzah, sparking protests against the ruling Ennahda party and calls for a general strike.