List of people who survived assassination attempts
This is a list of survivors of assassination attempts, listed chronologically. It does not include those who were heads of state or government at the time of the assassination attempt. See List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.
List
Attempted assassination date | Intended victim(s) | Occupation at the time | Location of attempt | Country of attempt | Perpetrator(s) | |
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1134 | Hugh II of Jaffa[1] | Count of Jaffa | Jerusalem | Holy Land | A Breton knight | |
1272 | June | Edward Longshanks[2]
|
Heir to the English throne | Acre, Jerusalem | Holy Land | Unnamed Muslim
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1572 | 22 August | Gaspard de Coligny | Leader of the Huguenots
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Paris | France | Maurevert[3] |
1582 | 18 March | William of Orange[4] | Leader of the United Provinces | Antwerp | Dutch Republic | Juan de Jáuregui |
1799 | 28 April | Jean Debry | French envoy to the Congress of Rastatt | Rastatt | Holy Roman Empire | Unidentified hussars
|
1842 | 6 May | Lilburn Boggs[5] | ex- Governor of Missouri
|
Zion, Missouri | United States | Unknown |
1861 | February | Abraham Lincoln | President-elect of the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Baltimore Plotters |
1865 | 14 April | William H. Seward[6] | United States Secretary of State | Washington, D.C. | United States | Lewis Powell |
1868 | 12 March | Prince Alfred | Duke of Edinburgh | Sydney | Colony of New South Wales | Henry James O'Farrell
|
1869 | 11 July | Thomas Eyre Lambert | Irish landlord | County Galway
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United Kingdom | Peter Barrett |
1889 | 15 November | José da Costa Azevedo | Minister of the Navy of the Empire of Brazil | Rio de Janeiro, Neutral Municipality of the Court | Empire of Brazil | Unknown |
1891 | 11 May[7] | Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich
|
Tsarevich of Russia | Ōtsu | Japan | Tsuda Sanzō |
1892 | 23 July | Henry Clay Frick[8] | American industrialist
|
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
United States | Alexander Berkman |
1900 | 5 April | Edward, Prince of Wales | Prince of Wales | Brussels | Belgium | Jean-Baptiste Sipido |
1902 | 18 May | Victor von Wahl
|
Tsarist governor of Vilna | Vilna
|
Russian Empire | Hirsh Lekert |
1907 | 18 April | Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso | Spanish statesman
|
Barcelona | Spain | Political foe |
1908 | 1 February | Manuel, Duke of Beja | King of Portugal )
|
Lisbon | Portugal | Carbonária (Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buíça) |
1908 | 4 June | Alfred Dreyfus | French military officer | Paris | France | Louis Gregori |
1910 | 9 August | William Jay Gaynor | Mayor of New York City | Hoboken, New Jersey | United States | James J. Gallagher |
1912 | 7 June | István Tisza | Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary | Budapest | Austria-Hungary | Gyula Kovács |
1912 | 14 October | Theodore Roosevelt | Former president of the United States | Milwaukee | United States | John Flammang Schrank
|
1913 | 29 January and following weeks[9] | David Lloyd George | Chancellor of the Exchequer
|
Sent from various sources | United Kingdom | WSPU )
|
1913 | 14 May[10][11] | Henry Curtis-Bennett | Magistrate | Bow Street, London | United Kingdom | WSPU )
|
1913 | 16 May[12] | Henry Curtis-Bennett | Magistrate | Margate | United Kingdom | WSPU )
|
1914 | 17 March | John Purroy Mitchel | Mayor of New York City | New York City | Michael P. Mahoney | |
1914 | 29 June | Grigori Rasputin | Russian monk | Pokrovskoye | Russian Empire | Khioniya Guseva |
1915 | 17 May | João Chagas | Prime Minister-designate of Portugal | Santarém | Portugal | João José de Freitas |
1919 | April-June | A. Mitchell Palmer | United States Attorney General | Washington, D.C. | United States | Galleanisti |
1920 | August | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek revolutionary and statesman | Paris | France | Greek royalists |
1923 | 27 December | Hirohito | Prince regent | Tokyo | Japan | Daisuke Namba
|
1928 | 19 November | Herbert Hoover | President-elect of the United States | Andes mountains
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Chile | Severino Di Giovanni |
1929 | 24 October | Umberto of Savoy | Prince of Piedmont | Brussels | Belgium | Fernando de Rosa |
1931 | 22 July | John Ernest Buttery Hotson
|
Acting Governor of Bombay
|
Pune, Bombay State
|
British India | Vasudeo Balwant Gogte |
1933 | 15 February | Franklin D. Roosevelt | President-elect of the United States | Miami | United States | Giuseppe Zangara |
1936 | 26 February | Makino Nobuaki | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Tokyo | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers |
1936 | March | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek revolutionary and statesman | Athens | Greece | Greek royalists |
1940 | 24 May | Leon Trotsky[13][14] | Prominent anti- Stalinist figure
|
Mexico City | Mexico | NKVD |
1942 | 24 February | Franz von Papen | Nazi Germany's Ambassador to Turkey | Ankara | Turkey | NKVD agents |
1943 | 5 June | José P. Laurel
|
Commissioner of the Interior, Philippine Executive Commission | Mandaluyong | Philippines | Feliciano Lizardo (Disputed) |
1951 | 20 July | Prince Hussein[15] | Crown Prince of Jordan | East Jerusalem | Jordan | Mustapha Shukri Usho |
1952 | 20 January | Anton Vovk[16] | Auxiliary bishop of Ljubljana | Novo Mesto | Yugoslavia | Avgust Mežnaršič |
1954 | 5 August | Carlos Lacerda | Candidate for federal deputy for the Federal District | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Alcino João do Nascimento |
1958 | 20 September | Martin Luther King Jr. | American civil rights activist and Baptist minister
|
New York City | United States | Izola Curry |
1962 | 27 February | Ngô Đình Nhu | Chief Ngô Đình Diệm
|
Saigon
|
South Vietnam | Phạm Phú Quốc
|
1963 | 10 April | Edwin Walker | United States Army officer | Dallas | United States | Lee Harvey Oswald |
1966 | 21 June | Arthur Calwell | Australian Opposition Leader, Leader of the Australian Labor Party
|
Mosman, Sydney | Australia | Peter Kocan |
1966 | 25 July | Artur da Costa e Silva | Minister of War of Brazil and candidate for the Presidency of Brazil | Recife, Pernambuco | Brazil | Unknown |
1966 | 18 October | Bhim Singh[17] | President of the National Students Union of India
|
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir | India | Senior superintendent of police |
1967 | 8 June | Estácio Souto Maior | Federal Deputy for Pernambuco | Brasília, Federal District | Brazil | Nelson Carneiro [18] |
1967 | 8 June | Nelson Carneiro | Federal Deputy for Guanabara | Brasília, Federal District | Brazil | Estácio Souto Maior [19] |
1968 | 11 April | Rudi Dutschke[20] | German student activist | West Berlin | West Germany | Josef Bachmann |
1968 | 3 June | Andy Warhol | American artist | New York City | United States | Valerie Solanas |
1970 | 24 April | Chiang Ching-kuo | Vice Premier of the Republic of China
|
New York City | United States | Peter Huang |
1970 | 24 April | Chiang Ching-kuo | Vice Premier of the Republic of China
|
New York City | United States | Peter Huang |
1971 | 8 August | Soviet dissident
|
Novocherkassk | Soviet Union | KGB | |
1972 | 15 May | George Wallace[23] | U.S. presidential candidate
|
Laurel, Maryland | United States | Arthur Bremer |
1972 | 7 December | Imelda Marcos | First Lady of the Philippines | Manila | Philippines | Carlito Dimahilig |
1973 | 30 December | Joseph Sieff[24] | Honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation
|
London | United Kingdom | Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
|
1974 | Ali Hassan Salameh[25] | Black September operative | Tarifa | Spain | Mossad | |
1975 | 6 October | Bernardo Leighton | Former Christian Democrat vice-president in exile.
|
Rome | Italy | DINA, Avanguardia Nazionale |
1975 | December | Íbis Cruz | Mayor of Jundiaí, São Paulo | Jundiaí, São Paulo | Brazil | Unnamed[26] |
1976 | 3 December | Bob Marley[27] | Jamaican reggae musician | Kingston | Jamaica | Unknown |
1978 | 6 March | Larry Flynt[28] | American newspaper publisher | Lawrenceville, Georgia | United States | Joseph Paul Franklin |
1978 | February | Ayad Allawi[29] | Iraqi opposition politician in exile | Surrey | United Kingdom | Saddam Hussein's agents |
1978 | 5 April | Antonio Cubillo[30] | Canarian nationalist Movement leader | Algiers | Algeria | Spanish secret service members |
1979 | 25 June | Alexander Haig | Supreme Allied Commander Europe | Mons | Belgium | Rolf Clemens Wagner |
1980 | April | Tariq Aziz[31] | Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
|
Baghdad | Iraq | Islamic Dawa Party members |
1980 | 29 May | Vernon Jordan | American Civil Rights Movement activist
|
Fort Wayne, Indiana | United States | Joseph Paul Franklin |
1980 | 25 October | Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary[32] | Black September operative | Beirut | Lebanon | Unknown |
1981 | 16 January | Bernadette and Michael McAliskey | Irish socialist and republican political activists
|
Coalisland, County Tyrone | United Kingdom | Ulster Freedom Fighters
|
1981 | June | Ali Khamenei[33] | Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam | Tehran | Iran | Furqan Group
|
1981 | 1 August | Abu Daoud[25] | Black September operative | Warsaw | Poland | Khaled[who?] |
1982 | 3 June | Shlomo Argov[34] | Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | Abu Nidal Organization |
1984 | 14 March | Gerry Adams[35] | Irish Republican politician and President of Sinn Féin | Belfast | United Kingdom | Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
|
1985 | 8 March | Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah[36] | Grand Ayatollah and mentor to Hezbollah
|
Beirut | Lebanon | Unknown |
1986 | 25 May | Malkiat Singh Sidhu[37] | Planning Minister in the Government of Punjab, India | Gold River | Canada | Jaspal Atwal, Jasbir Singh Atwal, Amarjit Singh Dhindsa and Sukhdial Singh Gill |
1988 | 11 September | Jean-Bertrand Aristide[38] | Catholic Salesian priest, political dissident, and future President of Haiti | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Ex-Tonton Macoute member |
1988 | 20 October | Nikola Štedul[39]
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Croat émigré from Yugoslavia and head of the Croatian Statehood Movement | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | United Kingdom | Vinko Sindičić, UDBA agent
|
1988 | 17 November | Antoine Lahad[40] | Lebanese general and leader of the South Lebanon Army | Southern Lebanon | Lebanon | Souha Bechara |
1989 | 14 July | Jani Allan[41] | South African columnist | Johannesburg | South Africa | Cornelius Lottering, Orde van die Dood member |
1989 | 3 August | Salman Rushdie | British Indian novelist and essayist
|
London | United Kingdom | Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh |
1989 | 27 November | César Gaviria | Candidate of 1990 Colombian presidential election | Bogota
|
Colombia | Medellin Cartel
|
1990 | 18 January | Motoshima Hitoshi[42]
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Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan | Nagasaki | Japan | Seikijuku member |
1990 | 25 April | Oskar Lafontaine[43] | Minister-President of Saarland | Cologne | West Germany | Adelheid Streidel |
1990 | 18 September | Peter Terry[44] | British Governor of Gibraltar | Milford, Staffordshire | United Kingdom | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
1990 | 12 October | Wolfgang Schäuble[45] | German Minister of the Interior
|
Oppenau | Germany | Dieter Kaufmann |
1990 | 25 October | Byron Barrera[46] | Guatemalan journalist | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Members of the military implicated
|
1992 | 5 December | Jiří Svoboda[47] | Leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | Prague | Czechoslovakia | Unknown |
1993 | 2 July | Aziz Nesin[48] | Turkish translator of "The Satanic Verses" | Sivas | Turkey | Salafist extremist mob
|
1993 | 11 October | William Nygaard[49] | Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses | Oslo | Norway | Khaled Moussawi and an accomplice[50] |
1993 | 13 April | George H. W. Bush | Former president of the United States | Kuwait City | Kuwait | Iraqi Intelligence Service |
1994 | June | Boris Berezovsky[51][52] | Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
1994 | 14 October | Naguib Mahfouz[53] | Egyptian writer | Cairo | Egypt | Ordered by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman |
1995 | 19 April | José María Aznar[54] | Head of the People's Party and future Prime Minister of Spain | Madrid | Spain | ETA |
1995 | 4 November | Mengistu Haile Mariam | Former President of Ethiopia | Harare[55] | Zimbabwe | Solomon Haile Ghebre Michael and Abraham Goletom Joseph |
1996 | 4 July | Nimal Siripala de Silva[56] | Sri Lankan Minister of Housing | Jaffna | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
1996 | 12 December | Uday Hussein[57] | Son and heir-apparent of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
|
Baghdad | Iraq | Salman Sharif, and three others[58] |
1997 | 25 September | Khaled Mashal[59] | Leader of Hamas | Amman | Jordan | Mossad |
1998 | 6 December | General Anuruddha Ratwatte[60] | Sri Lankan Minister of Energy and Deputy Defence Minister
|
Oddusuddan | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
1999 | 3 October | Vuk Drašković[61] | Former deputy prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Ibar Highway
|
FR Yugoslavia
|
Serbian State Security Special Ops Force
|
1999 | 30 December | George Harrison[62] | Musician and former member of the Beatles | Henley-on-Thames | United Kingdom | Michael Abram |
2000 | March | Saeed Hajjarian[63] | Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist | Tehran | Iran | Members of the Basij militia |
2000 | 15 June | Vuk Drašković[64] | Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Budva | FR Yugoslavia
|
Milorad Ulemek and Slobodan Milošević |
2001 | 1 June | Ezekiel Alebua[65] | Former Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, serving as Premier of Guadalcanal
|
Guadalcanal | Solomon Islands | Harold Keke's Isatabu Freedom Movement |
2002 | 5 October | Bertrand Delanoë[66] | Mayor of Paris | Paris | France | Azedine Berkane |
2003 | April | Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello
|
Nigerian Commissioner for Health | Ogun State | Nigeria | Unknown |
2004 | 19 March | Annette Lu[67] | Vice President of the Republic of China | Tainan | Taiwan | Unknown |
2004 | 10 June | Ahsan Saleem Hayat | Commander V Corps | Karachi | Pakistan | Jundallah |
2004 | 1 September | Anna Politkovskaya | Journalist | Rostov-on-Don | Russia | Unknown |
2004 | 1 September | Ahmad Chalabi[68]
|
Iraqi politician | Latifiya | Iraq | |
2004 | September | Viktor Yushchenko[69][70] | Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, candidate for President of Ukraine | Unknown | Ukraine | |
2005 | 17 March | Anatoly Chubais[71] | Former Prime Minister of Russia administrator of RAO UES | Moscow | Russia | Vladimir Kvachkov |
2005 | 25 September | May Chidiac | Lebanese journalist | Beirut | Lebanon | Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah. |
2006 | 12 March | Sibghatullah Mojadeddi[72]
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President of the Senate of Afghanistan | Kabul | Afghanistan | Unknown |
2006 | 25 April | Lt. General Sarath Fonseka[73][74] | Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
|
Colombo | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
2006 | 30 May | Georgios Voulgarakis[75] | Greek Minister of Culture | Athens | Greece | Revolutionary Struggle |
2006 | 16 October 2006[76] | Alexander Litvinenko | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
London | United Kingdom | FSB agents Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, "probably" approved by FSB head Nikolai Patrushev and Russian president Vladimir Putin[76][77][78] |
2006 | 25 October 2006[77] | Alexander Litvinenko | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
London | United Kingdom | FSB agents Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, "probably" approved by FSB head Nikolai Patrushev and Russian president Vladimir Putin[76][77][78] |
2006 | 24 November | Yegor Gaidar[79] | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2006 | 1 December | Gotabaya Rajapaksa[80] | Secretary of Defense of Sri Lanka and brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa | Kollupitiya | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
2007 | February | Robert O. Blake Jr.[81] | United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
|
Batticaloa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
2007 | 26 February | Adil Abdul-Mahdi[82] | Vice President of Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq | Unknown |
2007 | 27 February | Dick Cheney[83] | Vice President of the United States | Bagram Airfield | Afghanistan | Taliban |
2007 | 14 April | Onyema Ugochukwu[84] | Gubernatorial candidate in Abia State | Abia State | Nigeria | Unknown |
2007 | 9 May | Ramzan Kadyrov[85] | Head of the Chechen Republic | Moscow | Russia | Adam Osmayev (alleged) |
2007 | June | Boris Berezovsky[86][87][88] | Prominent opponent to Vladimir Putin
|
London | United Kingdom | Russian security services |
2007 | 18 October | Benazir Bhutto[67] | Pakistani opposition leader and ex-Prime Minister | Karachi
|
Pakistan | Usama al-Kini and Baitullah Mehsud
|
2008 | October | Karinna Moskalenko | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Likely Russian security services[89] |
2008 | 8 October | Maithripala Sirisena[90][91] | Sri Lankan Minister of Agricultural Development & Agrarian Services | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
2009 | 11 March | Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena | Sri Lankan Minister of Cultural Affairs | Akuressa | Sri Lanka | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam[92] |
Ameer Ali Shihabdeen | Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Disaster Relief Services | |||||
Pandu Bandaranaike | Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Religious Affairs | |||||
A. H. M. Fowzie | Sri Lankan Minister of Petroleum & Petroleum Resources Development | |||||
Chandrasiri Gajadeera | Sri Lankan Non-Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs | |||||
Mahinda Wijesekara | Sri Lankan Minister of Special Projects | |||||
2008 | November | Mikhail Beketov[93] | Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2009 | June | Yunus-Bek Yevkurov[94]
|
Head of Ingushetia | Nazran, Ingushetia | Russia | Chechen rebels (blamed)
|
2009 | 31 July | Anvar-qori Tursunov[95] | Uzbekistani imam | Tashkent | Uzbekistan | Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan |
2010 | 14 May | Stephen Timms[96] | British MP
|
Beckton | United Kingdom | Roshonara Choudhry
|
2010 | November | Viktor Kalashnikov[97][98] | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Berlin | Germany | Likely FSB[98] |
2010 | November | Marina Kalashnikova[97][98] | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Berlin | Germany | Likely FSB[98] |
2010 | 6 November | Oleg Kashin[99] | Prominent journalist and Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2011 | 8 January | Gabby Giffords[100] | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Casas Adobes, Arizona | United States | Jared Lee Loughner |
2011 | 13 May | Joss Stone[101] | Singer, songwriter and actress | East Devon | United Kingdom | Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw |
2011 | 29 September | Adel al-Jubeir | Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States | Washington, D.C. | United States | Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri |
2012 | 4 April | Samir Geagea[102] | Executive Chairman of the Lebanese Forces | Meerab, Mount Lebanon | Lebanon | Speculators claim the perpetrators to be pro-Syrian forces, most likely Hezbollah. |
2012 | 9 September | Pauline Marois | Premier-designate of Quebec
|
Montreal, Quebec | Canada | Richard Henry Bain
|
2012 | 9 October | Malala Yousafzai[103] | Human rights activist | Mingora | Pakistan | Pakistani Taliban |
2013 | 4 January | Mohammed Magariaf | Head of Libya's General National Congress | Sabha | Libya | Unknown |
2013 | 19 January | Ahmed Dogan | Chairman of DPS party | Sofia | Bulgaria | Oktai Enimehmedov |
2013 | 26 June | Maqbool Baqar | Judge of the High Court of Sindh
|
Karachi | Pakistan | Jundallah |
2013 | 27 October | Narendra Modi[104] | Chief Minister of Gujarat and the prime ministerial candidate
|
Patna, Bihar | India | Indian Mujahideen |
2014 | 29 October | Yehuda Glick
|
Chairman of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation
|
Jerusalem | Israel | Mutaz Hijazi |
2015 | 26 May | Vladimir Kara-Murza[105] | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Likely the FSB (independent investigators discovered that Kara-Muza had been trailed by the same agents who had trailed Alexei Navalny in 2020 before his poisoning and also Dmitry Bykov in 2019 before his poisoning)[106] |
2015 | 17 October | Henriette Reker | Mayor of Cologne | Cologne | Germany | Unnamed 44-year-old far-right[107] extremist |
2016 | 1 March | Aaidh al-Qarni
|
Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, author, and activist | Zamboanga City | Philippines | 21-year-old Filipino |
2016 | 28 September | José Eliton | Vice Governor of Goiás | Itumbiara, Goiás | Brazil | Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral |
2017 | 2 February | Vladimir Kara-Murza[105] | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Likely FSB (an independent investigation found that the same agents who had trailed Alexei Navalny and Dmitry Bykov before their poisonings in 2020 and 2019, respectively, also trailed Kara-Murza before both his 2017 and previous 2015 poisonings[106]) |
2017 | 12 May | Abdul Ghafoor Haideri | Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan | Mastung | Pakistan | ISIL
|
2017 | 12 June | Steve Scalise | district | Virginia | United States | James Hodgkinson |
2017 | 2 September | Yulia Latynina[108][109] | Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2017 | 23 October | Tatyana Felgenhauer[110] | Journalist and prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2017 | 11 November | Nyesom Wike | Governor of Rivers State | Port Harcourt | Nigeria | Special Anti Robbery Squad[111] |
2018 | 4 March | Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal | Intelligence officer | Salisbury | United Kingdom | |
2018 | 6 September | Jair Bolsonaro | Federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro Presidential candidate for the 2018 Brazilian general election |
Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais | Brazil | Adélio Bispo de Oliveira
|
2018 | 12 September | Pyotr Verzilov | Musician, opposition activist
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2018 | 18 October | Austin S. Miller[115] | United States Army general and Commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission | Kandahar | Afghanistan | Taliban gunman |
2019 | 13 April | Dmitry Bykov | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Mid-air flight between Yekaterinburg and Ufa | Russia | Likely the FSB (an investigation found agents which had also possibly poisoned Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza had been trailing Bykov when he was poisoned)[106] |
2019 | July[116][117] | Alexei Navalny | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Moscow | Russia | Unknown |
2019 | 10 October | Wiranto | Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Indonesia | Pandeglang Regency | Indonesia | Jamaah Ansharut Daulah |
2019 | 6 November | Junius Ho | Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong | Tuen Mun | Hong Kong | Unknown |
2020 | 19 February | Cid Gomes | Senator for the state of Ceará | Sobral, Ceará | Brazil | Mutinying police officers[118] |
2020 | 29 February | Juan Guaidó | Disputed president of Venezuela and Speaker of the National Assembly | Barquisimeto | Venezuela | Pro-government colectivos[119][120] |
2020 | 6 July | Alexei Navalny | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Kaliningrad | Russia | Likely FSB (an investigation found that he and his wife Yulia Navalnaya were being trailed by FSB agents, who would go on to poison Navalny one month later)[121] |
2020 | 6 July | Yulia Navalnaya | Prominent Russian opposition figure, wife of Alexei Navalny
|
Kaliningrad | Russia | Likely FSB (an investigation found that she and her husband Alexei Navalny were being trailed by FSB agents, who would go on to poison Alexei Navalny one month later)[121][122] |
2020 | 20 August | Alexei Navalny | Prominent Russian opposition figure
|
Tomsk | Russia | FSB (specifically agents Alexey Alexandrov, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev)[121] |
2020 | 25 August | Saba Sahar | Actress and filmmaker | Kabul | Afghanistan | Unknown |
2022 | 14 February | Craig Greenberg | Candidate for mayor of Louisville | Louisville, Kentucky | United States | Quintez Brown[123] |
2022 | 11 August | Salman Rushdie | British-Indian novelist and essayist | Chautauqua, New York | United States | Hadi Matar |
2022 | 1 September | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | Vice President of Argentina
|
Buenos Aires | Argentina | Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel [124] |
2022 | 3 November | Imran Khan | Former Prime Minister of Pakistan | Waziristan | Pakistan | Muhammad Naveed[125] |
2023 | 14 May
|
Lúcio Tembé | Tembé leader | Tomé-Açu, Pará | Brazil | Unknown[126][127] |
2023 | 17 September | Uddika Premarathna[128] | Sri Lankan MP and actor | Anuradhapura | Sri Lanka | Unknown gunmen |
2023 | 23 December
|
Lucas Aparecido Assumção | Mayor of Palmares Paulista, São Paulo | Palmares Paulista, São Paulo | Brazil | Unnamed[129][130] |
2024 | 2 January | Lee Jae-myung | South Korean MP and Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea | Gadeokdo, Busan
|
South Korea | Kim Jin-sung[131] |
Gallery
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Arrest ofPanthéon from the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, 4 June 1908
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Crime scene of the attack on Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker in Cologne on 17 October 2015
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Federal deputy andAdélio Bispo de Oliveiraduring a campaign event on 6 September 2018.
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