21Maumoon Gayoom
As a knife-wielding assassin jumped out of a crowd of people and lunged toward Maumoon Gayoom, the President of the Maldives, a quick-thinking Boy Scout who was standing in the crowd in his uniform grabbed the blade and saved the leader’s life. As in the US, the motto of the Maldivian Boy Scouts is: “Be Prepared.”
22Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was subject to two assassination attempts, both by women whose names were Sara Jane Moore and Lynette Fromme. These are the only two presidential assassination attempts by women in US history.
23Anwar Sadat
Egyptian politician Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel in 1979, the first Arab nation to do so. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and Sadat was assassinated.
24Patrice Lumumba
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally ordered the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, to be assassinated by poisoning his toothpaste.
25Richard Paul Pavlick
A disgruntled postal worker named Richard Paul Pavlick got close enough to assassinate President-elect John F. Kennedy using dynamite but didn’t because children were around.
26Queen Min
Queen Min, the last Queen of Korea, was killed by Japanese assassins in her own palace as she forged closer ties with Russia to counter the growing Japanese Empire.
27Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny was a Lieutenant Colonel in Hitler's SS who was once called “the most dangerous man in Europe” by Allied intelligence. Years after the war, Skorzeny became an agent for the Israeli Mossad and assassinated Heinz Krug, an ex-Nazi rocket scientist.
