1María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar
María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, the mayor of Tiquicheo Mexico, survived 3 assassination attempts and despite her wounds refused to resign. In 2011, her term as mayor ended and her police protection was withdrawn. In November 2012, she was abducted, stabbed and brutally beaten to death.
2Alexander I
Alexander I of Yugoslavia refused to attend public events on Tuesdays after three family members died on that day of the week. After finally being forced to appear on Tuesday, he was promptly assassinated.
3Andrew Jackson
The very first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President, Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant (Richard Lawrence) brutally with his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressman.
4Oliver Sipple
A man named Oliver Sipple who saved President Ford from assassination then had his life ruined as the media outed him as gay.
5Ahmad Shah Massoud
Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan resistance leader, who in April 2001 warned the European Parliament about a large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil being imminent. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001, 2 days before the 9/11 attacks.
6Gerald Bull
A Canadian inventor named Gerald Bull tried to create a “supergun” which could fire satellites into orbit from a 512 foot-long barrel embedded inside a hill. When Western funding failed, he turned to the military application of his ideas for Saddam Hussein, but then he was assassinated in Brussels.
7Henriette Caillaux
In 1914, Henriette Caillaux, the wife of the French prime minister assassinated Gaston Calmette, a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions.'
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8Claudius
Claudius, Caligula’s uncle survived the assassination of his nephew by hiding behind a curtain. As he was the last man of his family, he was declared emperor. Despite his lack of experience, he proved to be an able administrator. He had also survived past purges due to his infirmity.
9Talaat Pasha
Talaat Pasha, the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, was assassinated by an Armenian revolutionary and genocide survivor. Despite the assassination occurring in broad daylight, and with the assassin pleading guilty, he was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity. He is a national hero in Armenia.
10Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt. Despite being was shot in the chest, he proceeded to deliver a 90-minute speech. He opened with: “Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
