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)
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
1572 22 August Gaspard de Coligny Leader of the Huguenots 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 New South Wales Colony of New South Wales Henry James O'Farrell
1869 11 July Thomas Eyre Lambert Irish landlord Athenry, County Galway  United Kingdom Peter Barrett
1889 15 November José da Costa Azevedo [PT] 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 Infante of Portugal (future 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 Suffragettes (WSPU)
1913 14 May[10][11] Henry Curtis-Bennett Magistrate Bow Street, London  United Kingdom Suffragettes (WSPU)
1913 16 May[12] Henry Curtis-Bennett Magistrate Margate  United Kingdom Suffragettes (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  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 Republic of Vietnam presidential adviser and brother of Ngô Đình Diệm Saigon  South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Cử and 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 [PT] Federal Deputy for Pernambuco Brasília, Federal District  Brazil Nelson Carneiro [PT] [18]
1967 8 June Nelson Carneiro [PT] Federal Deputy for Guanabara Brasília, Federal District  Brazil Estácio Souto Maior [PT] [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 Alexander Solzhenitsyn[21][22] 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 Chilean Christian Democrat vice-president in exile. Rome  Italy DINA, Avanguardia Nazionale
1975 December Íbis Cruz [PT] 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 People's Mujahedin of 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] Lebanese 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] 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] 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 Sunni Wahhabi and 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 oligarch and later prominent 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] 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 Labour 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 [PT] 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 House Majority Whip & Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st 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 G.U. Intelligence Service agents 'Alexander Petrov' and 'Ruslan Boshirov' (both names believed to be aliases), "almost certainly" on the direct orders of the Kremlin[112][113][114]
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]

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