Rasputin, Russian mystic; survived being poisoned with potassium cyanide, as well as being shot, bludgeoned, and being thrown into a frozen river before he finally died by drowning Clare Boothe Luce, fell ill from arsenic poisoning in 1956 but did not die Nikolay Khokhlov, poisoned by radioactive thallium in Germany in 1957 for refusing to work as a KGB assassin Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician; survived an attempt to poison him with strontium-90 in 1968 Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan; survived a poisoning by a Soviet agent in 1979 Zhu Ling, Chinese university student poisoned with thallium in 1995 Khaled Mashal, leader of Palestinian fundamentalist organization Hamas; survived being poisoned by Israeli assassins in 1997 after two of the assassins were captured and an antidote was supplied by Israel in exchange for their release Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist; poisoned during a flight to Beslan in 2004 Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian politician; poisoned with dioxin during the 2004 Ukrainian electoral campaign Viktor Kalashnikov, Russian ex-KGB colonel; both he and his wife survived being poisoned with mercury in 2010 Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politician; poisoned in 2017 (also possibly in 2015) with an unknown toxin Sergei and Yulia Skripal, Russian former double-agent and his daughter; poisoned in 2018 in Salisbury, England with Novichok nerve agent Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, poisoned in 2020 with Novichok, during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow Unnamed Taylor Child deliberate destruction of a child's liver caused by her mother, Shauna Taylor, in an act of Munchausen by proxy and intentional iron poisoning. Alleged Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) Mithridates VI of Pontus (d. 63 BC), king of Pontus and Armenia Minor Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (d. 44 BC); if so, by his sister Cleopatra Augustus (d. 14), Roman Emperor, with poisoned figs by his wife Livia Germanicus (d. 19), Roman general Claudius (d. 54), Roman Emperor, by his wife Agrippina the Younger Boudica (d. 60 or 61), Queen of the Iceni tribe and leader of the rebellion against Roman rule in Britain; committed suicide by poison according to Tacitus, though Dio Cassius claimed natural illness Constance of Normandy (d. 1090), daughter of King William I of England King John of England (d. 1216); with peaches Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304) Stefan Dusan (d. 1355), Serbian king Anne Neville (d. 1485), Queen Consort of England, died of tuberculosis but said to have been poisoned by her husband