List of unsuccessful assassinations

This is a list of assassinations that have failed. They are arranged in order of the targets. The names of failed assassins then follow.

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• Charles de Gaulle, President of France - Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
• Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan - Namba Daisuke (27 December 1923)
• Adolf Hitler - Claus von Stauffenberg (through a time bomb at the Wolfsschanze on July 20 1944)
• John Paul II - Mehmet Ali Agca (1981)
• Alexandre Millerand, President of France - Gustave Bouvet
• Richard Nixon, U.S. President - Samuel Byck
• Qin Shi Huang, first Chinese emperor - Jing Ke
• Ronald Reagan, U.S. President - John Hinckley Jr. (1981)
• Joseph Sieff - Carlos (the Jackal) (1973)
• George Wallace, governor of Alabama - Arthur Herman Bremer (1972)
• Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine - unknown (dioxin poisoning attempt while he was opposition candidate prior to his presidency in 2004)

President Roosevelt by Italian Giuseppe Zangara 1933 killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak but failed to kill FDR

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Harry Truman by Puerto Rican immigrient Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola. Torresola was shot and killed.

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