11Louis Philippe I
In 1835, a man named Giuseppe Mario Fieschi with two other conspirators attempted to assassinate Louis Philippe I, the king of France with a hand-made 25-barrel rifle. The discharge killed 18 people and wounded 22. The king was only grazed by a bullet.
12King Louis XV
King Louis XV of France was stabbed with a knife in an assassination attempt and fearing he's dying requested to confess and asked forgiveness from his wife for having a number of affairs. He didn't die. The knife only penetrated less than an inch of skin.
13Huey Long
On September 8th, 1935, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, senator Huey Long was assassinated by Carl Weiss. Years later, the case was reopened, and it was revealed that senator Long was accidentally shot to death by his bodyguards, who opened fire on Carl Weiss when he pulled out his gun.
14Alboin
Alboin, the king of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in war. At one point, he made her drink from her father's skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to "drink merrily with your father." She had him assassinated.
15Bob Marley
In 1976, Bob Marley planned a non-political free concert 'Smile Jamaica' which led to an assassination attempt. Bob would survive and perform the 90-minute set, still healing from the gunshot wound.
16Andrew Johnson
There was a plot to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State concurrently with the Lincoln assassination. The Secretary of State was stabbed in the face but lived, and the assailant who was to kill the Vice President got drunk instead.
17Queen Victoria
During her 67-year reign, Queen Victoria survived at least 7 assassination attempts. One attempt was by an 18-year-old hunchbacked dwarf, who was later caught when police rounded up every hunchback and dwarf in London.
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18Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was also planned to be assassinated along with Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth but did not attend the play at Ford Theater because their wives were not on good terms.
19Matsutarō Shōriki
Japanese right-wing nationalists tried to assassinate Matsutarō Shōriki for allowing foreigners to play baseball in the Jingu Stadium. He survived but received a 16-inch-long scar from a broadsword during the assassination attempt.
20James Hinds
James Hinds, the first sitting member of Congress to be assassinated was an Arkansas Congressman who was murdered by the K.K.K in 1868. Despite identifying his killer by name before his death, the assassin was never arrested or charged with a crime.
