IBNGVIROL Shooting - Remember, Remember, The 5th of November
Antique World
Achilles' son Neoptolemus - April 24, 1479 B.C.E - Priam legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War - killed on the altar of Zeus
Ay - 1323 BC - Tutankhamun, Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty - Killed
Harmodius and Aristogeiton - 514 BC - Hipparchus, the tyrant of Athens - Killed
Pausanias of Orestis - October 336 BC - Philip II of Macedon - Killed
Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang - 228 BC - Ying Zheng, King of Qin state - Survived
Roman Empire
Achillas, Septimius and Salvius - September 29, 48 BC - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Triumvirate memeber - Stabbed
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others - March 15, 44 BC - Roman Dictator Julius Caesar - Killed
Cassius Chaerea - January 24, 41 - the Roman emperor Caligula - Killed
Locusta from Gaul - October 13, 54 - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Roman Emperor - Poisoned & Died
Maximus and Stephanus - September 18, 96 - Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus, Roman Emperor - Killed
notarius Mucapor - September 275 - Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus, Roman Emperor - Killed
Medieval Period
Zhu Wen - February 908 - Ai of Tang, the emperor of China - Poisoned and Died
four knights - December 29, 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury - 4 strikes of sword
Jakub Kaszuba - February 8, 1296 - Przemysl II, king of Poland - Killed
Måns Bengtsson - May 4, 1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader - Killed
Robert Graham - February 21, 1437 - James I, King of Scots - Killed
Bernardo Bandi and Francesco de' Pazzi - April 26, 1478 - Giuliano de' Medici, co-ruler of Florence - stabbed 19 times
James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh - January 23, 1570 - James Stuart, 1st Earl of Moray the regent of Scotland - Matchlock carbine shot from a window of his uncle Archbishop Hamilton's house
Balthasar Gérard - 1584 - Dutch Stadtholder William the Silent - Killed (The first assassination carried out with a firearm.)
the Forty-five the king's bodyguard - December 23, 1588 - Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu - assassinated
the Forty-five the king's bodyguard - December 24, 1588 - Louis II, Cardinal of Guise - assassinated
Jacques Clément - August 1, 1589 - Henry III of France - killed by plunging a knife into his abdomen
Constantine's Qizilbash - March 12, 1605 - Alexander II of Kakheti - massacred in bloody coup
Guy Fawkes - November 5, 1605 - King James I of England, Parliament of England - Survived
François Ravaillac - 14 May 1610 - King Henri IV of France - Killed
Peace of Westphalia 1648
Sheikh ul-Islam - August 18, 1648 - Ibrahim I, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - strangled in Constantinople
Salah Bey, captain of the guards - June 19, 1747 - Nader Shah, ruled as Shah of Iran - stabbed with a sword
Robert-François Damiens - January 5, 1757 - King Louis XV of France - slightly wounded
Alex Orloff - July 17, 1762 - Tsar Peter III - Killed
Jacob Johan Anckarström - March 29, 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden - Killed from Flintlock pistol
Charlotte Corday - July 13, 1793 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat - Killed
valets Khodadad-e Esfahani and Abbas-e Mazandarani - June 17, 1797 - Agha Muḥammad Khān Qājār, the Emperor/Shah of Persia - murdered with dagger and knife
James Hadfield - May 15, 1800 - King George III of the United Kingdom - Survived
François-Joseph Carbon - December 24, 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul of France - Survived (the Plot of the Rue SaintNicaise)
Adjudant Joseph Antoine Aréna - October 10, 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul of France - Survived (Conspiration des poignards)
John Bellingham - May 11, 1812 - Spencer Perceval, UK Prime Minister - Shot from Screw-barrel .50 caliber flint-lock pistol
Congress of Vienna 1815
Royalists - March 19, 1817 - Antoine Bernardin Fualdès,imperial prosecutor - slaughtered and his body thrown into the waters of Aveyron
Louis Pierre Louvel - February 13, 1820 - Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, fils de France, duc de Berry - Stabbed
Francisco de Paula Santander - September 25, 1828 - Simón Bolívar, Gran Colombia lifetime president - survived
Konstantinos & Georgios Mavromichalis - October 9, 1831 - Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, the first head of state of Greece - shot through the head & stabbed
Richard Lawrence - January 30, 1835 - Andrew Jackson, US President - Survived (Both guns misfired)
Giuseppe Fieschi - July 1835 - King Louis Philippe - Survived
Edward Oxford - June 10, 1840- Alexandrina Victoria queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Survived
Felice Orsini - January 14, 1858 - Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire - Survived
John Wilkes Booth - April 14, 1865 - US President Abraham Lincoln - Killed (after two attempts in 1861, 1864) from .44 calibre muzzleloading derringer
Aurelio Sánchez - November 23, 1871 - Mariano Melgarejo, Bolivian President - Assassinated
Sher Ali Afridi - February 8, 1872 - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Viceroy of India - Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
League of the Three Emperors 1873
Eduard Kullmann - 1874 - Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany - Survived (and more 1866)
Faustino Rayo - August 6, 1875 Gabriel García Moreno, Ecuadorian President - Shot outside Quito Cathedral
Charles J. Guiteau, anarchist - July 2, 1881 - US President James Garfield - Killed
Ignacy Hryniewiecki, anarchist - March 13, 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia - Killed
Unknown assassin - June 13, 1886 - Ludwig II King of Bavaria - Shot to death
Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist - June 24, 1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, the fourth president of the Third French Republic - Stabbed
Frederick Russell Burnham - 1896 - Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader - Killed
Mirza Reza Kermani - May 1, 1896 - Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King of Iran - Killed
Michele Angiolillo, an Italian anarchist - August 8, 1897 - Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain - Killed
Luigi Lucheni, anarchist - September 10, 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria - Killed
Gaetano Bresci, Italo-American anarchist - July 29, 1900 - Umberto the First, by the Grace of God, King of Italy - Killed
Leon Czolgosz, anarchist - September 6, 1901 - US President William McKinley - Killed
Hirsh Lekert, bund leader - May 18, 1902 - General Victor von Wahl, governor of Vilna - wounded
Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis officers - June 11, 1903 - the Serbian King Alexander Obrenović, Queen Draga, and ministers - killed
Eugen Schauman - June 16, 1904 - Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland - assassinated (shot) in Helsinki
Yegor Sazonov, anarchist - July 15, 1904 - Vyacheslav von Plehve, Imperial Russia's Minister of the Interior - killed by bomb (survived 3 attempts - not counted)
Ivan Kalyayev - February 17, 1905 - Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia - killed by bomb
E.S.Larichkin and few Black Hundreds - July 31, 1906 - Mikhail Yakovlevich Herzenstein (Gerzenstein), deputy 1st State Duma - Shot in Terijoki
Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buiça - February 1, 1908 - Carlos I, the King of Portugal and the Algarves - Shot
Empress Dowager - November 14, 1908 - Guangxu, Chinese Emperor - Poisoned & Died
An Jung-geun - October 26, 1909 - Itō Hirobumi, resident-general of Korea and Prime Minister of Japan - Killed
Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani - February 20, 1910 - Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt - Shot
Dmitry Bogrov - September 14, 1911 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian Prime Minister - Killed in theater in Kiev
John Schrank - October 14, 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States - Survived
Yakup Cemil, officer of Enver Pasha - January 23, 1913 - Nazım Pasha, the Chief of Staff of the military of the Ottoman Empire - shot
Alexandros Schinas - March 18, 1913 - King George I of Greece - Killed
I World War 1914
Gavrilo Princip - June 28, 1914 - Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Killed (Considered the start of World War I. Survived assassination attempt in 1853. )
Raoul Villain - July 31, 1914 - French socialist leader Jean Jaurès - Killed
Fritz Joubert Duquesne - June 5, 1916 - Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War - Killed
Felix Yusupov - December 29, 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic influenced Russian Tsar Nicholas II - killed
Yakov Blumkin - July 6, 1918 - Wilhelm von Mirbach, German ambassador to Russia - Killed
Leonid Kanegisser - August 17, 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, head of the Cheka in Petrograd - Killed
Fanny Kaplan - August 30, 1918 - Vladimir Lenin - Survived
Stepan Fedak - September 25, 1921 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish Chief of State - Survived
Gustave Bouvet - July 14, 1922 - President of France Alexandre Millerand - Survived
Eligiusz Niewiadomski - December 16, 1922 - First Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz - Killed
Violet Gibson - April 7, 1926 - Benito Mussolini, 40th Prime Minister of Italy - Survived
Sholom Schwartzbard - May 25, 1926 - Symon Petliura, the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic - shot five times
Aziz Çami and Ndok Gjeloshi - February 20, 1931 - Ahmet Muhtar Bey Zogolli, King of the Albanians, and Eqrem Libohova, Prime Minister of Albania - Both Survived
Vasyl Bilas and Dmytro Danylyshyn - August 29, 1931 - Tadeusz Hołówko, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs - Shot
Paul Gorguloff - May 6, 1932 - Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, the President of France - die of a gunshot wound
Stavsky? - June 16, 1933 - left-wing Zionist leader Haim Arlosoroff - shot
Nicolae Constantinescu - December 30, 1933 - Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania - shot to death
Hryhorij Maciejko - June 15, 1934 - Bronisław Pieracki, Polish minister of internal affairs - shot from behind twice in the back of his head
Vlado Chernozemski - October 9, 1934 - Alexander I of Yugoslavia - Killed
Mark Zborowski, Gertrude Schildbach - September 4, 1937 - Ignace Reiss, IV International activist - Killed
Mark Zborowski - February 16, 1938 - Lev Sedov, the eldest son by Leon Trotsky - Poisoned
Pavel Sudoplatov - May 23, 1938 - Yevhen Konovalets, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - assassinated in Rotterdam by a bomb
Mark Zborowski - July 12, 1938 - Rudolf Klement IV International secretary - Killed
II World War 1939
Herschel Grynszpan - November 9, 1938 - Ernst Eduard vom Rath, German diplomat - shot
Georg Elser - November 8, 1939 - Adolf Hitler via a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall - Survived
Ramón Mercader - August 21, 1940 - Leon Trotsky, the head of the Fourth International - killed
Francisco Franco - October 15, 1940 - Lluís Companys, the 123rd President of Catalonia - executed by firing squad
Jan Kubiš - May 27, 1942 - Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office - Killed
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle - December 24, 1942 - François Darlan, 122nd Prime Minister of France - Shot
Eliyahu BetZuri and Eliyahu Hakim - November 6, 1944 - Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC - Killed in Cairo
Claus von Stauffenberg - July 20, 1944 - German dictator Adolf Hitler - Survived
Nathuram Godse - January 30, 1948 - Political and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi - Killed
Yitzhak Yezernitsky, Nathan Yellin-Mor, Matityahu Shmueliwitz and Yehoshua Cohen - September 17, 1948 - Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg - shot
Cold War in Mid East and Operation Condor 1950
Rafael Simon Urbina - November 13, 1950 - Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela - kidnapped and assassinated
member of the Syrian Nationalist Party - July 17, 1951 - Riad as-Solh, first Prime Minister of Lebanon - Killed
Mustafa Ashu - July 20, 1951 - Abdullah I of Jordan - Killed
Saad Akbar - October 16, 1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan - Killed
Bohdan Stashynsky - October 12, 1957 - Lev Rebet, cabinet member in the Ukrainian government - killed using a poison atomizer mist gun
Captain Abdul Sattar Sabaa Al-Ibousi - July 14, 1958 - Faisal II the last king of Iraq - executed together with crown prince, princess and prime minister
Bohdan Stashynsky by order of Alexander Shelepin - October 15, 1959 - Stepan Bandera, a head of a militant wing of the Ukrainian independence movement - poisoned
Dmitri Shepilov order - January 4, 1960 - Albert Camus, french philosopher, author, and journalist - The accident seemed to have been caused by a blowout or a broken axle
Otoya Yamaguchi - October 12, 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party - killed with samurai sword
Belgian Captain Julien Gat and Police Commissioner Verscheure - January 17, 1961 - Patrice Émery Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo - executed by firing squads (with Maurice Mpolo, Joseph Okito)
Jean Bastien-Thiry and the OAS - August 22, 1962 - French President Charles de Gaulle - Survived
Nguyen Van Cu and Pham Phu Quoc - February 27, 1962 - President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem - Survived in palace bombing
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - August 22, 1962 - French president Charles de Gaulle - De Gaulle and his wife and entourage escaped, uninjured machine gun fire
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny - September 1, 1962 - Heinz Krug, the chief of a Munich company supplying military hardware to Egypt - murdered (Operation Damocles)
Étienne Eyadéma - January 13, 1963 - Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio, President of Togo - Killed
the Ba'athist coup org - Feb 7, 1963 - Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraq prime minister - shot soon after short show trial
Nguyễn Văn Nhung - November 2, 1963 - President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem - Killed
Lee Harvey Oswald - November 22, 1963 - US President John F. Kennedy - Killed
Mario Terán - October 9, 1967 - Ernesto Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary leader - shot
James Earl Ray - April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., leader in the African American civil rights movement - killed
Sirhan Sirhan - June 5, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy - Killed from .22 caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver
Viktor Ilyin - January 22, 1969 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Survived
2 members of Montoneros - May 29, 1970 - Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 32nd President of Argentina - Killed
General Camilo Valenzuela and CIA - October 25, 1970 - General René Schneider Chereau the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army - Killed
Antonio Veciana Blanch and Alpha 66 of CIA - November 29, 1971 - Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz President of Cuba - unsuccessful (overall 638 attempts)
Inocêncio Kani - January 20, 1973 - Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral, Guinea-Bissau's national leader - Shot
General Augusto Pinochet - September 11, 1973 - Salvador Allende Gossens, Chilean president - Killed (according to May 23, 2011 Allende's body autopsy)
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional - September 30, 1974 - Carlos Prats González Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army - assassinated in Buenos Aires by a car bomb with his wife
Prince Faisal bin Musa'id - March 25, 1975 - Saudi King Faisal - Killed
the Chadian military - April 13, 1975 - François Tombalbaye, the first president of Chad - Killed
KM Obaidur Rahman & 17 officers - August 15, 1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh - killed with 30 family and stuff members
Stefano Delle Chiaie - October 6, 1975 - Bernardo Leighton Guzmán, Chilean minister of state - shot together with his wife and severely injured
with the acquiescence of Hugo Banzer - June 2, 1976 - Juan José Torres González 50th president of Bolivia - kidnapped and murdered in Buenos Aires (operation Condor)
by order of Sérgio Paranhos Fleury - August 22, 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira the 21st president of Brazil - killed in car accident
DINA agents - September 21, 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the USA - Killed by Car Bomb (operation Condor)
by order of Sérgio Paranhos Fleury - December 6, 1976 - João Belchior Marques Goulart the 24th president of Brazil until a military coup d'état - poizoned (operation Condor)
Barthélemy Kikadidi and others - March 18, 1977 - Marien Ngouabi, President of the Congo - Shot
members of the PDP of Afghanistan - April 27, 1978 - Mohammed Daoud Khan and most of his family, 5th Prime Minister of Afghanistan - killed
Mario Moretti - May 9, 1978 - Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro, Prime Minister of Italy - kidnapped and killed
Salim Rubai Ali - June 24, 1978 - Ahmad bin Hussein al-Ghashmi - the President of the Yemen Arab Republic - exploded briefcase
Dan White - November 27, 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk - Killed
IRA member Thomas McMahon - August 27, 1979 - Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma - the boat blast by 20kg attached a radio-controlled bomb
three men under Hafizullah Amin's orders - October 8, 1979 - Nur Muhammad Taraki President of Afghanistan - suffocated with pillows
Kim Jae Kyu - October 26, 1979 - South Korean President Park Chung Hee - Killed
Colonel V. Kolesnik and GRU Alpha - December 27, 1979 - Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of PDP Afghan - Killed
Mark David Chapman - December 8, 1980 - John Lennon, British musician - Killed
John Hinckley, Jr. - March 30, 1981 - Ronald Reagan - Survived
Major General Abul Monjur - May 30, 1981 - Ziaur Rahman, the president of Bangladesh - killed
Khalid Islambouli - October 6, 1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat - Killed
Mehmet Ali Ağca - May 13, 1981 - Catholic Pope John Paul II - Survived
Hussein Ghassan Said, Marwan al-Banna, and Nawaf al-Rosan - June 3, 1982 - Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom - shot and stay paralyzed 21 years (died in 2003)
Habib Tanious Shartouni - September 14, 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, the Lebanese president-elect - Killed with 26 others
Unknown - August 21, 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Senator of the Philippines - Shot
Bernard Coard & General Austin - October 19, 1983 - Maurice Rupert Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada - executed by an army firing squad.
Satwant Singh and Beant Singh - October 31, 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi - Killed
Unknown assassin - November 28, 1985 - Gérard Hoarau, head of the Seychelles National Movement - killed
Unknown assassin - February 28, 1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme - Killed
Blaise Compaoré + 12 - October 15, 1987 - Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, President of Burkina Faso - Killed
Post Cold War Era 1987
El Sayyid Nosair - November 4, 1990 - Israeli Knesset member rabi Meir Kahane - Killed
Thenmuli Rajaratnam - May 21, 1991 - Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - Killed
Unknown Assasin - November 5, 1991 - Ian Robert Maxwell, Member of Parliament (British) - thrown from Yacht
Lieutenant Lambarek Boumaarafi - June 29, 1992 - Mohamed Boudiaf , Chairman of the High Council of State - killed from submachine gun
Kazem Darabi, Abbas Rhayel - September 17, 1992 - Sadegh Sharafkandi, Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders - killed with 3 others at Mykonos restaurant in Berlin
Janusz Walus - 1993 - South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani - Killed
militant Hutus - April 6, 1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of the Republic of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi - killed (airplane shot down by 2 surface-to-air missiles)
Yigal Amir - November 4, 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - Killed
André Dallaire - November 5, 1995 - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien - Survived
Russian reconnaissance aircraft - April 21, 1996 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria - Killed
Andrew Cunanan - July 15, 1997 - Giovanni Maria Versace an Italian fashion designer - shot execution-style with a .40 caliber Taurus PT100
Unknown assassin - August 31, 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales - The accident seemed to have been caused by a blowout or a broken axle
Yuri Kolchin and Vitali Akishin - November 20, 1998 - Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova, Russian politician - gunned down in the entryway of her apartment building
Luis Alberto Rojas and Fidencio Vega Barrios - March 23, 1999 - Luis Maria Argana, Paraguayan vice-president - Killed
Nairi Hunanyan, his brother Karen, their uncle Vram and two others - October 27, 1999 - Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan the first Defence Minister of Armenia and Armenia's Prime Minister - shot from Kalashnikov rifle hidden under long coat
Oleksiy Pukach, Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych - September 17, 2000 - Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist - decapitated
Rashidi Muzele - January 16, 2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - shot
Prince Dipendra - June 1, 2001 - King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya - Killed
Hamdi Quran - October 17, 2001 - Rehavam Ze'evi, Israel's tourism minister - killed by three shots in the head from a close distance
Maxime Brunerie - July 14, 2002 - French President Jacques Chirac - Survived
Zvezdan Jovanović - March 12, 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić - Killed
Mijailo Mijailović - September 11, 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs - Killed
Unknown assassin - May 9, 2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, the President of the Chechen Republic - Killed
Kazbek Dukuzov, Musa Vakhayev, and Fail Sadretdinov - July 9, 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, Russian-American journalist - Shot from passing car
Unknown assassin - February 14, 2005 - Rafic Hariri, former Lebanon Prime Minister - killed
Unknown assassin - October 7, November 1, 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko - Killed
three to four gunmen - November 21, 2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanon Minister of Industry - Killed
Al-Qaeda - September 13, 2007 - Abdul Sattar Abu Risha sheikh of the Abu-Risha tribe and the leader of an alliance of Iraqi Sunni Arab - killed by improvised explosive device planted on the road near the gate of his house in Ramadi
Unknown 15 yrs old - December 27, 2007 - Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto - Killed
Karst Roeland Tates - April 30, 2009 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and royal family - Survived
Abdullah Hassan al Asiri - August 8, 2009 - Saudi Prince and Deputy Minister of the Interior Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud - injured
Arab Spring 2010
Navy SEALs - May 2, 2011 - Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda - killed
Unknown assassin - June 3, 2011 - Ali Abdullah Saleh first President of the Republic of Yemen - injured (with 3 other officials)
Anders Behring Breivik - July 22, 2011 - Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg - saved (other 69 killed)
Unknown assassin - October 20, 2011 - Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al Gaddafi, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya - Killed
( They try to kill him in 69,76,81,86,93,96,98, but I'll count only once )
Unknown assassin - July 18, 2012 - Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha & 4 other - killed by a bomb attack (15 kilos of explosives detonated remotely)
Aminat Kurbanova (suicide bomber) - August 28, 2012 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, scholar in Shafii mazhab - killed + six of his followers
two suicide bombers and two gunmen - September 12, 2012 - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia - Survived
Shabab gunmen Militants - September 3, 2013 - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia - Survived
Kouachi brothers - January 7, 2015 - Stéphane Charbonnier, cartoonist, columnist, and director of publication of Charlie Hebdo - killed with 6 others incl Georges Wolinski and Jean Cabut
unknown assassin - January 18, 2015 - Natalio Alberto Nisman, an Argentine federal prosecutor - Killed
Anzor Gubashev - February 27, 2015 - Boris Nemtsov, cochair of the People's Freedom Party - Shot
Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş - December 19, 2016 - Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey - shot from Canik 55 TP9 handgun
two women - February 13, 2017 - Kim Jongnam, the halfbrother of North Korean leader Kim Jongun - attacked him with VX nerve agent
Houthi sniper - December 4, 2017 - Ali Abdullah Saleh - the inaugural president of Yemen - shot
15-member squad of Saudi assassins - October 2, 2018 - Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi, general manager and editorinchief of the AlArab News Channel - ambushed, suffocated, and dismembered
CIA - January 3, 2020 - Qasem Soleimani, Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - killed by drone
FSB employees Kudriavtsev, Alexandrov and Tayakin - August 20, 2020 - Alexei Anatolievich Navalny a Russian opposition leader - poisoned by Novichok but survived
CIA - November 27, 2020 - Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian nuclear scientists - shot with remote-controlled machine gun (there are 6 more killed in previous years, I count only one)
Front for Change and Concord in Chad - April 20, 2021 - Idriss Déby President of Chad - killed
team of mercenaries - July 7, 2021 - Jovenel Moïse President of Haiti - shot with 12 bullets in his chest
Tetsuya Yamagami, a former JMSDF member - July 8, 2022 - Shinzo Abe Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - 2nd shot in heart from homemade gun
Hadi Matar - Aug 11, 2022 - Salman Rushdie, British Indian novelist and essayist - received stab injuries
Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel - Sep 1, 2022 - Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Vice President of Argentina - attempted to fire a semiautomatic pistol but failed
Unind gunman- November 3, 2022 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan - wounded
six killers - June 18, 2023 - Hardeep Singh Nijjar a Canadian Sikh separatist leader - gunned down, hit by 34 bullets
Thomas Matthew Crooks - July 13, 2024 - Donald Trump ex president of USA - opened fire from a rooftop outside the rally venue in Butler
12 bombs - July 13, 2024 - Mohammed Deif, the Hamas Leader - killed with 90 others
Statistics by Month:
January 16
February 16
March 11
April 11
May 16
June 19
July 22
August 19
September 22
October 24
November 21
December 14
Winter 46
Spring 38
Summer 61
Autumn 67
Grand Total 212
Few more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_and_assassination_attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_survived_assassination_attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_assassination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_and_executed_heads_of_state_and_government
http://www.lasius.narod.ru/index/died/d-king-2.htm
Roman Emperors
http://www.livius.org/ei-er/emperors/emperors01.html
Fidel Castro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/638_Ways_to_Kill_Castro
51 journalist killed in 1995, 8 in Russia
http://cpj.org/killed/1995/
Operation Condor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Achilles' son Neoptolemus - April 24, 1479 B.C.E - Priam legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War - killed on the altar of Zeus
Ay - 1323 BC - Tutankhamun, Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty - Killed
Harmodius and Aristogeiton - 514 BC - Hipparchus, the tyrant of Athens - Killed
Pausanias of Orestis - October 336 BC - Philip II of Macedon - Killed
Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang - 228 BC - Ying Zheng, King of Qin state - Survived
Roman Empire
Achillas, Septimius and Salvius - September 29, 48 BC - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Triumvirate memeber - Stabbed
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others - March 15, 44 BC - Roman Dictator Julius Caesar - Killed
Cassius Chaerea - January 24, 41 - the Roman emperor Caligula - Killed
Locusta from Gaul - October 13, 54 - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Roman Emperor - Poisoned & Died
Maximus and Stephanus - September 18, 96 - Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus, Roman Emperor - Killed
notarius Mucapor - September 275 - Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus, Roman Emperor - Killed
Medieval Period
Zhu Wen - February 908 - Ai of Tang, the emperor of China - Poisoned and Died
four knights - December 29, 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury - 4 strikes of sword
Jakub Kaszuba - February 8, 1296 - Przemysl II, king of Poland - Killed
Måns Bengtsson - May 4, 1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader - Killed
Robert Graham - February 21, 1437 - James I, King of Scots - Killed
Bernardo Bandi and Francesco de' Pazzi - April 26, 1478 - Giuliano de' Medici, co-ruler of Florence - stabbed 19 times
James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh - January 23, 1570 - James Stuart, 1st Earl of Moray the regent of Scotland - Matchlock carbine shot from a window of his uncle Archbishop Hamilton's house
Balthasar Gérard - 1584 - Dutch Stadtholder William the Silent - Killed (The first assassination carried out with a firearm.)
the Forty-five the king's bodyguard - December 23, 1588 - Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu - assassinated
the Forty-five the king's bodyguard - December 24, 1588 - Louis II, Cardinal of Guise - assassinated
Jacques Clément - August 1, 1589 - Henry III of France - killed by plunging a knife into his abdomen
Constantine's Qizilbash - March 12, 1605 - Alexander II of Kakheti - massacred in bloody coup
Guy Fawkes - November 5, 1605 - King James I of England, Parliament of England - Survived
François Ravaillac - 14 May 1610 - King Henri IV of France - Killed
Peace of Westphalia 1648
Sheikh ul-Islam - August 18, 1648 - Ibrahim I, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - strangled in Constantinople
Salah Bey, captain of the guards - June 19, 1747 - Nader Shah, ruled as Shah of Iran - stabbed with a sword
Robert-François Damiens - January 5, 1757 - King Louis XV of France - slightly wounded
Alex Orloff - July 17, 1762 - Tsar Peter III - Killed
Jacob Johan Anckarström - March 29, 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden - Killed from Flintlock pistol
Charlotte Corday - July 13, 1793 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat - Killed
valets Khodadad-e Esfahani and Abbas-e Mazandarani - June 17, 1797 - Agha Muḥammad Khān Qājār, the Emperor/Shah of Persia - murdered with dagger and knife
James Hadfield - May 15, 1800 - King George III of the United Kingdom - Survived
François-Joseph Carbon - December 24, 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul of France - Survived (the Plot of the Rue SaintNicaise)
Adjudant Joseph Antoine Aréna - October 10, 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul of France - Survived (Conspiration des poignards)
John Bellingham - May 11, 1812 - Spencer Perceval, UK Prime Minister - Shot from Screw-barrel .50 caliber flint-lock pistol
Congress of Vienna 1815
Royalists - March 19, 1817 - Antoine Bernardin Fualdès,imperial prosecutor - slaughtered and his body thrown into the waters of Aveyron
Louis Pierre Louvel - February 13, 1820 - Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, fils de France, duc de Berry - Stabbed
Francisco de Paula Santander - September 25, 1828 - Simón Bolívar, Gran Colombia lifetime president - survived
Konstantinos & Georgios Mavromichalis - October 9, 1831 - Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, the first head of state of Greece - shot through the head & stabbed
Richard Lawrence - January 30, 1835 - Andrew Jackson, US President - Survived (Both guns misfired)
Giuseppe Fieschi - July 1835 - King Louis Philippe - Survived
Edward Oxford - June 10, 1840- Alexandrina Victoria queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Survived
Felice Orsini - January 14, 1858 - Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire - Survived
John Wilkes Booth - April 14, 1865 - US President Abraham Lincoln - Killed (after two attempts in 1861, 1864) from .44 calibre muzzleloading derringer
Aurelio Sánchez - November 23, 1871 - Mariano Melgarejo, Bolivian President - Assassinated
Sher Ali Afridi - February 8, 1872 - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Viceroy of India - Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
League of the Three Emperors 1873
Eduard Kullmann - 1874 - Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany - Survived (and more 1866)
Faustino Rayo - August 6, 1875 Gabriel García Moreno, Ecuadorian President - Shot outside Quito Cathedral
Charles J. Guiteau, anarchist - July 2, 1881 - US President James Garfield - Killed
Ignacy Hryniewiecki, anarchist - March 13, 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia - Killed
Unknown assassin - June 13, 1886 - Ludwig II King of Bavaria - Shot to death
Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist - June 24, 1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, the fourth president of the Third French Republic - Stabbed
Frederick Russell Burnham - 1896 - Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader - Killed
Mirza Reza Kermani - May 1, 1896 - Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King of Iran - Killed
Michele Angiolillo, an Italian anarchist - August 8, 1897 - Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain - Killed
Luigi Lucheni, anarchist - September 10, 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria - Killed
Gaetano Bresci, Italo-American anarchist - July 29, 1900 - Umberto the First, by the Grace of God, King of Italy - Killed
Leon Czolgosz, anarchist - September 6, 1901 - US President William McKinley - Killed
Hirsh Lekert, bund leader - May 18, 1902 - General Victor von Wahl, governor of Vilna - wounded
Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis officers - June 11, 1903 - the Serbian King Alexander Obrenović, Queen Draga, and ministers - killed
Eugen Schauman - June 16, 1904 - Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland - assassinated (shot) in Helsinki
Yegor Sazonov, anarchist - July 15, 1904 - Vyacheslav von Plehve, Imperial Russia's Minister of the Interior - killed by bomb (survived 3 attempts - not counted)
Ivan Kalyayev - February 17, 1905 - Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia - killed by bomb
E.S.Larichkin and few Black Hundreds - July 31, 1906 - Mikhail Yakovlevich Herzenstein (Gerzenstein), deputy 1st State Duma - Shot in Terijoki
Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buiça - February 1, 1908 - Carlos I, the King of Portugal and the Algarves - Shot
Empress Dowager - November 14, 1908 - Guangxu, Chinese Emperor - Poisoned & Died
An Jung-geun - October 26, 1909 - Itō Hirobumi, resident-general of Korea and Prime Minister of Japan - Killed
Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani - February 20, 1910 - Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt - Shot
Dmitry Bogrov - September 14, 1911 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian Prime Minister - Killed in theater in Kiev
John Schrank - October 14, 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States - Survived
Yakup Cemil, officer of Enver Pasha - January 23, 1913 - Nazım Pasha, the Chief of Staff of the military of the Ottoman Empire - shot
Alexandros Schinas - March 18, 1913 - King George I of Greece - Killed
I World War 1914
Gavrilo Princip - June 28, 1914 - Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Killed (Considered the start of World War I. Survived assassination attempt in 1853. )
Raoul Villain - July 31, 1914 - French socialist leader Jean Jaurès - Killed
Fritz Joubert Duquesne - June 5, 1916 - Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War - Killed
Felix Yusupov - December 29, 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic influenced Russian Tsar Nicholas II - killed
Yakov Blumkin - July 6, 1918 - Wilhelm von Mirbach, German ambassador to Russia - Killed
Leonid Kanegisser - August 17, 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, head of the Cheka in Petrograd - Killed
Fanny Kaplan - August 30, 1918 - Vladimir Lenin - Survived
Stepan Fedak - September 25, 1921 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish Chief of State - Survived
Gustave Bouvet - July 14, 1922 - President of France Alexandre Millerand - Survived
Eligiusz Niewiadomski - December 16, 1922 - First Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz - Killed
Violet Gibson - April 7, 1926 - Benito Mussolini, 40th Prime Minister of Italy - Survived
Sholom Schwartzbard - May 25, 1926 - Symon Petliura, the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic - shot five times
Aziz Çami and Ndok Gjeloshi - February 20, 1931 - Ahmet Muhtar Bey Zogolli, King of the Albanians, and Eqrem Libohova, Prime Minister of Albania - Both Survived
Vasyl Bilas and Dmytro Danylyshyn - August 29, 1931 - Tadeusz Hołówko, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs - Shot
Paul Gorguloff - May 6, 1932 - Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, the President of France - die of a gunshot wound
Stavsky? - June 16, 1933 - left-wing Zionist leader Haim Arlosoroff - shot
Nicolae Constantinescu - December 30, 1933 - Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania - shot to death
Hryhorij Maciejko - June 15, 1934 - Bronisław Pieracki, Polish minister of internal affairs - shot from behind twice in the back of his head
Vlado Chernozemski - October 9, 1934 - Alexander I of Yugoslavia - Killed
Mark Zborowski, Gertrude Schildbach - September 4, 1937 - Ignace Reiss, IV International activist - Killed
Mark Zborowski - February 16, 1938 - Lev Sedov, the eldest son by Leon Trotsky - Poisoned
Pavel Sudoplatov - May 23, 1938 - Yevhen Konovalets, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - assassinated in Rotterdam by a bomb
Mark Zborowski - July 12, 1938 - Rudolf Klement IV International secretary - Killed
II World War 1939
Herschel Grynszpan - November 9, 1938 - Ernst Eduard vom Rath, German diplomat - shot
Georg Elser - November 8, 1939 - Adolf Hitler via a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall - Survived
Ramón Mercader - August 21, 1940 - Leon Trotsky, the head of the Fourth International - killed
Francisco Franco - October 15, 1940 - Lluís Companys, the 123rd President of Catalonia - executed by firing squad
Jan Kubiš - May 27, 1942 - Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office - Killed
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle - December 24, 1942 - François Darlan, 122nd Prime Minister of France - Shot
Eliyahu BetZuri and Eliyahu Hakim - November 6, 1944 - Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC - Killed in Cairo
Claus von Stauffenberg - July 20, 1944 - German dictator Adolf Hitler - Survived
Nathuram Godse - January 30, 1948 - Political and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi - Killed
Yitzhak Yezernitsky, Nathan Yellin-Mor, Matityahu Shmueliwitz and Yehoshua Cohen - September 17, 1948 - Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg - shot
Cold War in Mid East and Operation Condor 1950
Rafael Simon Urbina - November 13, 1950 - Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela - kidnapped and assassinated
member of the Syrian Nationalist Party - July 17, 1951 - Riad as-Solh, first Prime Minister of Lebanon - Killed
Mustafa Ashu - July 20, 1951 - Abdullah I of Jordan - Killed
Saad Akbar - October 16, 1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan - Killed
Bohdan Stashynsky - October 12, 1957 - Lev Rebet, cabinet member in the Ukrainian government - killed using a poison atomizer mist gun
Captain Abdul Sattar Sabaa Al-Ibousi - July 14, 1958 - Faisal II the last king of Iraq - executed together with crown prince, princess and prime minister
Bohdan Stashynsky by order of Alexander Shelepin - October 15, 1959 - Stepan Bandera, a head of a militant wing of the Ukrainian independence movement - poisoned
Dmitri Shepilov order - January 4, 1960 - Albert Camus, french philosopher, author, and journalist - The accident seemed to have been caused by a blowout or a broken axle
Otoya Yamaguchi - October 12, 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party - killed with samurai sword
Belgian Captain Julien Gat and Police Commissioner Verscheure - January 17, 1961 - Patrice Émery Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo - executed by firing squads (with Maurice Mpolo, Joseph Okito)
Jean Bastien-Thiry and the OAS - August 22, 1962 - French President Charles de Gaulle - Survived
Nguyen Van Cu and Pham Phu Quoc - February 27, 1962 - President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem - Survived in palace bombing
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - August 22, 1962 - French president Charles de Gaulle - De Gaulle and his wife and entourage escaped, uninjured machine gun fire
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny - September 1, 1962 - Heinz Krug, the chief of a Munich company supplying military hardware to Egypt - murdered (Operation Damocles)
Étienne Eyadéma - January 13, 1963 - Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio, President of Togo - Killed
the Ba'athist coup org - Feb 7, 1963 - Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraq prime minister - shot soon after short show trial
Nguyễn Văn Nhung - November 2, 1963 - President of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem - Killed
Lee Harvey Oswald - November 22, 1963 - US President John F. Kennedy - Killed
Mario Terán - October 9, 1967 - Ernesto Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary leader - shot
James Earl Ray - April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., leader in the African American civil rights movement - killed
Sirhan Sirhan - June 5, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy - Killed from .22 caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver
Viktor Ilyin - January 22, 1969 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Survived
2 members of Montoneros - May 29, 1970 - Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 32nd President of Argentina - Killed
General Camilo Valenzuela and CIA - October 25, 1970 - General René Schneider Chereau the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army - Killed
Antonio Veciana Blanch and Alpha 66 of CIA - November 29, 1971 - Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz President of Cuba - unsuccessful (overall 638 attempts)
Inocêncio Kani - January 20, 1973 - Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral, Guinea-Bissau's national leader - Shot
General Augusto Pinochet - September 11, 1973 - Salvador Allende Gossens, Chilean president - Killed (according to May 23, 2011 Allende's body autopsy)
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional - September 30, 1974 - Carlos Prats González Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army - assassinated in Buenos Aires by a car bomb with his wife
Prince Faisal bin Musa'id - March 25, 1975 - Saudi King Faisal - Killed
the Chadian military - April 13, 1975 - François Tombalbaye, the first president of Chad - Killed
KM Obaidur Rahman & 17 officers - August 15, 1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh - killed with 30 family and stuff members
Stefano Delle Chiaie - October 6, 1975 - Bernardo Leighton Guzmán, Chilean minister of state - shot together with his wife and severely injured
with the acquiescence of Hugo Banzer - June 2, 1976 - Juan José Torres González 50th president of Bolivia - kidnapped and murdered in Buenos Aires (operation Condor)
by order of Sérgio Paranhos Fleury - August 22, 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira the 21st president of Brazil - killed in car accident
DINA agents - September 21, 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the USA - Killed by Car Bomb (operation Condor)
by order of Sérgio Paranhos Fleury - December 6, 1976 - João Belchior Marques Goulart the 24th president of Brazil until a military coup d'état - poizoned (operation Condor)
Barthélemy Kikadidi and others - March 18, 1977 - Marien Ngouabi, President of the Congo - Shot
members of the PDP of Afghanistan - April 27, 1978 - Mohammed Daoud Khan and most of his family, 5th Prime Minister of Afghanistan - killed
Mario Moretti - May 9, 1978 - Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro, Prime Minister of Italy - kidnapped and killed
Salim Rubai Ali - June 24, 1978 - Ahmad bin Hussein al-Ghashmi - the President of the Yemen Arab Republic - exploded briefcase
Dan White - November 27, 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk - Killed
IRA member Thomas McMahon - August 27, 1979 - Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma - the boat blast by 20kg attached a radio-controlled bomb
three men under Hafizullah Amin's orders - October 8, 1979 - Nur Muhammad Taraki President of Afghanistan - suffocated with pillows
Kim Jae Kyu - October 26, 1979 - South Korean President Park Chung Hee - Killed
Colonel V. Kolesnik and GRU Alpha - December 27, 1979 - Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of PDP Afghan - Killed
Mark David Chapman - December 8, 1980 - John Lennon, British musician - Killed
John Hinckley, Jr. - March 30, 1981 - Ronald Reagan - Survived
Major General Abul Monjur - May 30, 1981 - Ziaur Rahman, the president of Bangladesh - killed
Khalid Islambouli - October 6, 1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat - Killed
Mehmet Ali Ağca - May 13, 1981 - Catholic Pope John Paul II - Survived
Hussein Ghassan Said, Marwan al-Banna, and Nawaf al-Rosan - June 3, 1982 - Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom - shot and stay paralyzed 21 years (died in 2003)
Habib Tanious Shartouni - September 14, 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, the Lebanese president-elect - Killed with 26 others
Unknown - August 21, 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Senator of the Philippines - Shot
Bernard Coard & General Austin - October 19, 1983 - Maurice Rupert Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada - executed by an army firing squad.
Satwant Singh and Beant Singh - October 31, 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi - Killed
Unknown assassin - November 28, 1985 - Gérard Hoarau, head of the Seychelles National Movement - killed
Unknown assassin - February 28, 1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme - Killed
Blaise Compaoré + 12 - October 15, 1987 - Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, President of Burkina Faso - Killed
Post Cold War Era 1987
El Sayyid Nosair - November 4, 1990 - Israeli Knesset member rabi Meir Kahane - Killed
Thenmuli Rajaratnam - May 21, 1991 - Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - Killed
Unknown Assasin - November 5, 1991 - Ian Robert Maxwell, Member of Parliament (British) - thrown from Yacht
Lieutenant Lambarek Boumaarafi - June 29, 1992 - Mohamed Boudiaf , Chairman of the High Council of State - killed from submachine gun
Kazem Darabi, Abbas Rhayel - September 17, 1992 - Sadegh Sharafkandi, Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders - killed with 3 others at Mykonos restaurant in Berlin
Janusz Walus - 1993 - South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani - Killed
militant Hutus - April 6, 1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of the Republic of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi - killed (airplane shot down by 2 surface-to-air missiles)
Yigal Amir - November 4, 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - Killed
André Dallaire - November 5, 1995 - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien - Survived
Russian reconnaissance aircraft - April 21, 1996 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria - Killed
Andrew Cunanan - July 15, 1997 - Giovanni Maria Versace an Italian fashion designer - shot execution-style with a .40 caliber Taurus PT100
Unknown assassin - August 31, 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales - The accident seemed to have been caused by a blowout or a broken axle
Yuri Kolchin and Vitali Akishin - November 20, 1998 - Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova, Russian politician - gunned down in the entryway of her apartment building
Luis Alberto Rojas and Fidencio Vega Barrios - March 23, 1999 - Luis Maria Argana, Paraguayan vice-president - Killed
Nairi Hunanyan, his brother Karen, their uncle Vram and two others - October 27, 1999 - Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan the first Defence Minister of Armenia and Armenia's Prime Minister - shot from Kalashnikov rifle hidden under long coat
Oleksiy Pukach, Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych - September 17, 2000 - Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist - decapitated
Rashidi Muzele - January 16, 2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - shot
Prince Dipendra - June 1, 2001 - King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya - Killed
Hamdi Quran - October 17, 2001 - Rehavam Ze'evi, Israel's tourism minister - killed by three shots in the head from a close distance
Maxime Brunerie - July 14, 2002 - French President Jacques Chirac - Survived
Zvezdan Jovanović - March 12, 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić - Killed
Mijailo Mijailović - September 11, 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs - Killed
Unknown assassin - May 9, 2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, the President of the Chechen Republic - Killed
Kazbek Dukuzov, Musa Vakhayev, and Fail Sadretdinov - July 9, 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, Russian-American journalist - Shot from passing car
Unknown assassin - February 14, 2005 - Rafic Hariri, former Lebanon Prime Minister - killed
Unknown assassin - October 7, November 1, 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko - Killed
three to four gunmen - November 21, 2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanon Minister of Industry - Killed
Al-Qaeda - September 13, 2007 - Abdul Sattar Abu Risha sheikh of the Abu-Risha tribe and the leader of an alliance of Iraqi Sunni Arab - killed by improvised explosive device planted on the road near the gate of his house in Ramadi
Unknown 15 yrs old - December 27, 2007 - Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto - Killed
Karst Roeland Tates - April 30, 2009 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and royal family - Survived
Abdullah Hassan al Asiri - August 8, 2009 - Saudi Prince and Deputy Minister of the Interior Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud - injured
Arab Spring 2010
Navy SEALs - May 2, 2011 - Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda - killed
Unknown assassin - June 3, 2011 - Ali Abdullah Saleh first President of the Republic of Yemen - injured (with 3 other officials)
Anders Behring Breivik - July 22, 2011 - Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg - saved (other 69 killed)
Unknown assassin - October 20, 2011 - Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al Gaddafi, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya - Killed
( They try to kill him in 69,76,81,86,93,96,98, but I'll count only once )
Unknown assassin - July 18, 2012 - Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha & 4 other - killed by a bomb attack (15 kilos of explosives detonated remotely)
Aminat Kurbanova (suicide bomber) - August 28, 2012 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, scholar in Shafii mazhab - killed + six of his followers
two suicide bombers and two gunmen - September 12, 2012 - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia - Survived
Shabab gunmen Militants - September 3, 2013 - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia - Survived
Kouachi brothers - January 7, 2015 - Stéphane Charbonnier, cartoonist, columnist, and director of publication of Charlie Hebdo - killed with 6 others incl Georges Wolinski and Jean Cabut
unknown assassin - January 18, 2015 - Natalio Alberto Nisman, an Argentine federal prosecutor - Killed
Anzor Gubashev - February 27, 2015 - Boris Nemtsov, cochair of the People's Freedom Party - Shot
Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş - December 19, 2016 - Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey - shot from Canik 55 TP9 handgun
two women - February 13, 2017 - Kim Jongnam, the halfbrother of North Korean leader Kim Jongun - attacked him with VX nerve agent
Houthi sniper - December 4, 2017 - Ali Abdullah Saleh - the inaugural president of Yemen - shot
15-member squad of Saudi assassins - October 2, 2018 - Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi, general manager and editorinchief of the AlArab News Channel - ambushed, suffocated, and dismembered
CIA - January 3, 2020 - Qasem Soleimani, Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - killed by drone
FSB employees Kudriavtsev, Alexandrov and Tayakin - August 20, 2020 - Alexei Anatolievich Navalny a Russian opposition leader - poisoned by Novichok but survived
CIA - November 27, 2020 - Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian nuclear scientists - shot with remote-controlled machine gun (there are 6 more killed in previous years, I count only one)
Front for Change and Concord in Chad - April 20, 2021 - Idriss Déby President of Chad - killed
team of mercenaries - July 7, 2021 - Jovenel Moïse President of Haiti - shot with 12 bullets in his chest
Tetsuya Yamagami, a former JMSDF member - July 8, 2022 - Shinzo Abe Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - 2nd shot in heart from homemade gun
Hadi Matar - Aug 11, 2022 - Salman Rushdie, British Indian novelist and essayist - received stab injuries
Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel - Sep 1, 2022 - Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Vice President of Argentina - attempted to fire a semiautomatic pistol but failed
Unind gunman- November 3, 2022 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan - wounded
six killers - June 18, 2023 - Hardeep Singh Nijjar a Canadian Sikh separatist leader - gunned down, hit by 34 bullets
Thomas Matthew Crooks - July 13, 2024 - Donald Trump ex president of USA - opened fire from a rooftop outside the rally venue in Butler
12 bombs - July 13, 2024 - Mohammed Deif, the Hamas Leader - killed with 90 others
Statistics by Month:
January 16
February 16
March 11
April 11
May 16
June 19
July 22
August 19
September 22
October 24
November 21
December 14
Winter 46
Spring 38
Summer 61
Autumn 67
Grand Total 212
Few more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_and_assassination_attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_survived_assassination_attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_assassination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_and_executed_heads_of_state_and_government
http://www.lasius.narod.ru/index/died/d-king-2.htm
Roman Emperors
http://www.livius.org/ei-er/emperors/emperors01.html
Fidel Castro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/638_Ways_to_Kill_Castro
51 journalist killed in 1995, 8 in Russia
http://cpj.org/killed/1995/
Operation Condor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor