War and military action

These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, and atrocities as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
45,000,000–68,000,000 - World War II (1937–1945), (see World War II casualties)
30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
33,000,000–36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
25,000,000–Manchu Conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)
20,000,000–50,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)
15,000,000–66,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties) note that the larger number includes Spanish flu deaths
17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
10,000,000-25,000,000 - Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)
5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War (1917–1921)
3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years War (1618–1648)
1,300,000–6,100,000 - Chinese Civil War (1928–1949) note that this figure excludes World War II casualties
300,000–3,100,000 before 1937
1,000,000–3,000,000 after World War II
3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
3,800,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2004)
2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953)
2,300,000–3,100,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)
300,000–1,300,000 - First Indochina War (1945–1954)
100,000–300,000 - Vietnamese Civil War (1954–1960)
1,750,000–2,100,000 - American phase (1960–1973)
170,000 - Final phase (1973–1975)
175,000–1,150,000 - Secret War (1962–1975)
2,000,000–4,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)
300,000–3,000,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War
1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghanistan (1979–2001)
1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet invasion (1979–1989)
300,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
230,000–1,400,000 - Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
1,000,000–1,200,000 - Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
1,000,000 - Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)
1,000,000 - Sudanese Civil War (1983–2002)
1,000,000 - Biafran War (1967–1970)
1,000,000 - Aztec conquests (1427–1519)
100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976–1993)
800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991–1997)
558,052 - American Civil War (1861–1865)
550,000 - Somalian Civil War (1988 - )
500,000 - Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
500,000 - Ugandan Civil War (1979–1986)
400,000–1,000,000 - War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay (1864–1870)
360,000–1,000,000 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
278,000 - 1992-1995 war in Bosnia
270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
220,000 - Liberian Civil War (1989 - )
200,000–800,000 - Warlord era in China (1917–1928)
200,000 - Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2000)
200,000 - Guatemaltec Civil War (1960–1996)
190,000 - Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
150,000 - Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
150,000 - North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
150,000 - Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
120,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991 - )
100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
100,000 - Gulf War (1991)
30,000–100,000 - American led invasion and occupation of Iraq (2003 - )
75,000 - Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)
75,000 - El Salvador Civil War (1980–1992)
75,000 - Second Boer War (1898–1902)
69,000 - Peru/Shining Path conflict (1980 - )
60,000 - Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983-)
35,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)
30,000 - Turkey/PKK conflict (1984 - )
30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)
7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)
5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
3,000 - Northern Ireland conflict. (1969 - 1998)
3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 - )
2,000 - Football War (1969)
1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
1,000 - Falklands War (1982)
537–3,000 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)


Individual battles and sieges
1,600,000–1,800,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
1,000,000–1,600,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916)
670,000–1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
400,000–680,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
500,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
230,000–350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916)
280,000 - Warsaw Uprising (1944
280,000 - Second Battle of the Aisne (1917)
270,000 - Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (1942)
270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944)
260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916)
260,000 - Battle of the Caucasus (1942)
165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
240,000 - Third Battle of the Aisne (1918)
240,000(est) - Battle of Bibracte (58 BC)
230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
207,000 - Battle of Plataea (479 BC)
200,000 - Siege of Tenochtitlan (1520–1521)
200,000 - Battle of Carthage (149 BC–146 BC)
190,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1941)
180,000 - Battle of France (1940)
170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943)
170,000 - Battle of Königsberg (1945)
150,000 - Battle of Rostov (1941)
150,000 - Battle of Okinawa (1945)
150,000 - Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
150,000 - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
140,000 - Battle of Vercellae (101 BC)
132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944)
130,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
130,000 - Battle of Budapest (1945)
125,000 - Third Battle of Nanking (1864)
125,000 - Battle of Lemberg (1914)
120,000 - Battle of Arausio (105 BC)
117,000 - Battle for the Liberation of Manila (1945)
115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914)
110,000 - Battle of Issus (333 BC)
100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943)
100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943)
100,000(est) - Battle of Lugdunum (197)
90,000 - Battle of Cambrai (1917)
90,000 - Battle of Aquae Sextiae (102 BC)
83,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1941)
80,000 - Battle of Gazala (1942)
80,000 - Battle of the Somme (1918)
80,000 - Second Battle of the Marne (1918)
80,000(est) - Battle of Watling Street (AD 61)
74,000 - Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia (1941)
72,000+ - Battle of Belgorod (1943)
70,000 - Second Battle of El Alamein (1942)
70,000 - Second Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)
70,000 - Second Battle of Anchialus (917)
69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944)
66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943)
56,000–66,000 - Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
65,000 - Battle of Lvov-Sandomir (1944)
62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915)
61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Basra (1985–1988)
60,000 - Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Arras (1917)
60,000 - First Battle of Ypres (1914)
60,000 - Battle of Champagne (1915)
40,000–56,000 - Tet Offensive (1968)
55,000 - Korsun Pocket (1944)
55,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1943)
50,000–80,000 - Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
50,000 - Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918)
50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
50,000 - Battle of Caporetto (1917)
50,000 - Battle of Hsuchow (1927)
30,000–50,000 - Battle of Naissus (268)
45,000 - Fourth Battle of Kharkov (1943)
45,000 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest (1944–1945)
44,000 - Battle of the Crimea (1944)
42,000 - Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945)
40,000 - Battle of Imphal (1944)
40,000 - Battle of Adrianople (378)
38,000 - Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945)
37,000 - Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
36,500 - Battle of the Ebro (1938)
35,000 - Battle of Mukden (1905)
30,300–34,000 - Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)
32,000 - Battle of Lepanto (1571)
31,000 - Battle of Thapsus (46 BC)
31,000 - Battle of Taierzhuang (1937)
30,000 - Battle of Saipan (1944)
30,000 - Battle of Konotop (1659)
30,000 - Battle of Marignan (1515)
30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
20,000–30,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC)
29,000 - Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
28,000–38,000 - Battle of Towton, (Wars of the Roses, 1461)
26,000 - Battle of Guadalcanal, (1942–1943)
25,000 - Battle of Pydna (168 BC)
26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
24,000 - Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)
21,000 - Battle of Guam (1944)
20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)
20,000 - Battle of Zama (202 BC)
19,000 - Battle of Vienna (1683)
18,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812)
18,500 - Operation Market Garden (1944)
17,000 - Battle of Bataan (1942)
16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939)
15,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815)
15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
13,500 - Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)
12,000 - Siege of Tobruk (1941)
11,000 - Battle of Heraclea (180 BC)
11,000 - Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864–1865)
7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
10,500 - Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
10,360 - Battle of Mons Graupius (83 or 84)
10,000 - Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC)
10,000 - Battle of Celaya (1913)
8,700 - Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC)
8,600 - Battle of Jutland (1916)
8,000+ - Battle of Agincourt, (Hundred Years' War, 1415)
7,200 - Kokoda Track Campaign, (1942–1943)
7,058 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
6,500 - Battle of the Kasserine Pass (1943)
6,500 - Battle of Tinian (1944)
5,700 - Battle of Tarawa (1943)
5,350+ - Battle of Suomussalmi (1939–1940)
5,000–8,000 - Battle of Hastings (1066)
5,000+ - Battle of Dara (530)
5,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
4,808 - Battle of Antietam (1862)
4,360 - Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
4,329 - Battle of Isandlwana (1879)
4,175 - Battle of Leuthen (1757)
3,750 - Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
3,477 - Battle of Shiloh (1862)
3,205 - Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
200–2,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8–November 14, 2004)
2,800 - Battle of Midway (1942)
2,400 - La Noche Triste (1520)
2,000+ - Battle of Manzikert (1071)
1,900 - First Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
1,705 - Battle of Cold Harbor (June 1-3, 1864)
1,700 - Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
1,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
868 - First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
567 - Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879)
495 - Battle of Monongahela (1755)
383 - Battle of the Alamo (1836)
366 - Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
350 - Battle of Spion Kop (1900)
302 - Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)


Genocide and democide
2,000,000 - 100,000,000 - Destruction of Native Americans (after 1492) This is the range of estimated death tolls. For details of the controversy, see the article.
40,000,000 - Mao Zedong's Regime (China, 1949-1975)
20,000,000–62,000,000 - Stalin's regime (1924-53), (not including WWII)[1].
6,000,000–60,000,000 - African and Atlantic slave trade (16th - 19th century)
11,000,000–19,000,000 - Slave trade in Islamic World over 1200 years (7th - 19th century)
5,000,000–12,000,000 - Nazi internments and Holocaust in Europe
6,000,000 - Jews
3,000,000 - victims of camps of other nationalities, mostly Eastern European
2,600,000–4,000,000 Soviet prisoners of war
1,000,000+ - Political prisoners
250,000–1,000,000 Roma
70,000–275,000 Handicapped
10,000–220,000 Homosexuals
5,000,000–10,000,000 - Congo Free State, (1877 - 1908)
1,000,000–3,000,000 Armenian Massacres (1895-1923) Heavily Disputed. Most cited number is 1.5 million. The Turkish government denies the genocide and accuses the Armenians of killing Turks instead
30,000–300,000 - Hamidian (First Armenian) Massacre (1895-1896)
6,000–30,000 - 1909
600,000–2,000,000 - Second Armenian Massacre (1915-1918)
250,000–500,0000 - (1919-1923)
2,000,000–3,000,000 - Pol Pot's communization program (Cambodia, 1975-1979)
500,000–1,500,000 - Degars killed in Vietnam, (Vietnam,1975 - present)
800,000–1,000,000 - Partition of India and Pakistan, (1947-1948)
250,000–1,000,000 - Massacre of alleged communists, (Indonesia, 1965-1966)
937,000 - Genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)
~400,000 - Ustasha/Independent State of Croatia genocide of Serbs, Jews, Roma people during World War II (1941-1945)
300,000 - Idi Amin's dictatorship (Uganda, 1971-1979)
220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (58 BC)
260,000 - Greeks killed in Asia Minor (Turkey, 1912 - 1923)
182,000 - Al-Anfal Campaign (Iraq, 1986-1989)
130,000-200,000 - civil war and highland massacres (Guatemala, civil war 1962-1996; intense period of highland massacres, early 1980s)
40,000–100,000 - Herero massacre, (Namibia, 1904-1908)
30,000 - Dictatorship of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, (Haiti, 1964 - 1971)
10,000–30,000 Argentina's Dirty War, (Argentina, 1976 - 1983)
18,000 - Duke_of_Alba (Spanish Netherlands, 1567-1573)
15,000–18,000 - Dictatorship of Fidel Castro, (Cuba, 1959 - present)
3,000 - Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (Chile, 1973 - 1990)


Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps
1,100,000 - Auschwitz concentration camp (Oświęcim, Poland, 1940-1945)
700,000–1,000,000 - Treblinka extermination camp, (Treblinka, Poland, 1942-1943)
500,000–900,000 - 1938 Huang He flood, caused by sabotage in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1938)
250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
50,000–350,000 - Rape of Nanking, China (1937)
100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnitzki, (1648 - 1649)
260,000 - Sobibór extermination camp
200,000+ - Sack of Moscow by Crimean Tatars, 1571
100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
100,000 Tokyo_firebombing,1945
66,000–237,062 - Hiroshima Bombing (Japan, 1945)
39,000–108,000 - Nagasaki Bombing (Japan, 1945)
100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
30,000–40,000 - massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible
30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
10,000–30,000 228 Incident, (Taiwan, 1947)
25,000–60,000 Bombing of Dresden in World War II, (Germany,1945)
25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years War, Germany, 1631)
20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)
20,000 - Massacre of Praga (Poland, 1794)
14,000 - Haitians massacred by Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's government. (Dominican Republic, 1937)
12,000 - La matanza (El Salvador, 1931)
10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
5,000–12,000 - Massacre of Indians and Arabs in Zanzibar (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1964)
8,000 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
5,000–7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
5,000 - Massacre of Mamluks (Egypt, 1811)
328–5,500 - Sabra and Shatila Massacre (Lebanon, 1982)
1,645 - Guernica (1937)
379–1,000 - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Amritsar, India, 1919)
900 - El Mozote Massacre (El Salvador, 1981)
622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
347–504 - My Lai Massacre (Vietnam, 1968)
360 - Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania, United States, 1778)
320 - Bloody Assizes (England, 1685)
300 - Weenen Massacre (Natal, South Africa, 1838)
300 - Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota, United States, 1890)
100–300 - Waterloo Creek Massacre (Australia, 1838)
268 - Plan de Sánchez massacre (Guatemala, 1982)
91–200 - Kristallnacht (Germany, 1938)
150–200 Lawrence Massacre (Kansas, 1863)
192 - Tartu Massacre (Estonia, 1944)
150 - Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado, United States, 1864)
120 - Mountain Meadows Massacre (Utah, United States, 1857)
119 - Bojayá Massacre (Chocó, Colombia, 2002)
113 - Waxhaw Massacre (South Carolina, United States, 1780)
111 - Carandiru Massacre (São Paulo, Brazil, 1992)
78 - Massacre of Glencoe (1692)
67 - Hebron 1929 Massacre (Palestine, 1929)
45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)


Terrorism

Note that Terrorism can be considered a point of view. See the Terrorism article for discussion of the different meanings of the word.
2,994 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001)
344 - Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
329 - Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
299 - US and French barracks bombings, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
225 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, (Tanzania, Kenya, 1998)
220 - Kerbala and Baghdad attacks [2], (Iraq, 2004)
202 - 2002 Bali bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
200 - 1946 King David Hotel, (Jerusalem, 1946)
191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, (Spain, 2004)
171 - UTA Flight UT-772, (Niger, 1989)
170 - Moscow Theatre Siege, (Russia, 2002)
168 - Oklahoma City bombing, (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 1995)
116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
101 - fuel tanker explosives throw a suicide bomber (Musayyib, Iraq (2005)
90 - Central Bank Bombing, (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1996)
90 - 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks, (Egypt, 2005)
89 - Russian airplane bombings, (Russia, 2004)
88 - TWA Flight 841, (Ionian Sea, 1974)
86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
85 - Stazione Centrale bombing, (Bologna, Italy, 1980)
63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
57 - 2003 Istanbul Bombings, (Turkey, 2003)
56 - 7 July 2005 London bombings (London, 2005)
52 - 2003 Mumbai bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2003)
46 - Casablanca Attacks, (Morocco, 2003)
40 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
34 - 2004 Sinai bombings, Taba and Nuweib, Egypt, 2004
33 - Pan Am Flight 110, (Italy, 1973)
33 - Coimbatore blasts, (India, 1998)
33 - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, (Ireland, 1974)
30 - Passover massacre, (Israel, 2002)
29 - Israeli Embassy Attack in Buenos Aires, (Argentina, 1992)
29 - Omagh Bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1998)
29 - Mosque of Abraham massacre, West Bank, (1994)
26 - bus No. 18 Jerusalem massacre, (Israel, 1996)
26 - Lod Airport Massacre, (Israel 1972)
26 - Riyadh Compound Bombings, (Saudi Arabia, 2003)
23 - Jerusalem bus 2 massacre, (Israel, 2003)
22 - No. 5 bus Tel-Aviv massacre, (Israel, 1994)
22 - Tel-Aviv central bus station massacre, (Israel, 2003)
21 - Dolphinarium massacre, (Israel, 2001)
21 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing, (Israel, 2003)
21 - Beit Lid junction massacre, (Israel, 1995)
21 - Hipercor bombing by ETA, (Barcelona, Spain, 1987)
19 - bus No. 18 Jerusalem massacre, (Israel, 1996)
19 - Patt junction massacre, (Israel, 2002)
19 - Birmingham pub bombing, (England, 1974)
15 - Sbarro massacre, (Israel, 2001)
15 - Matza restaurant massacre, (Israel, 2002)
12 - Sarin attack, Tokyo Subway, (Tokyo, Japan, 1995)
11 - Deal barracks bombing, (Deal, Kent, England, 1989)
11 - Jerusalem bus 20 massacre, (Israel, 2002)
9 - Bloody Friday, (Northern Ireland, 1972)
6 - World Trade Center bombing, (New York, United States, 1993)
5 - Guildford pub bombing, (England, 1974)
5 - Brighton bombing, (England, 1984)
4 - Murder of Lord Mountbatten, (Northern Ireland, 1979)
3 - Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, (Australia, 1978)
3 - Baltic Exchange bombing, (London, England, 1992)


Murder (other than through terrorism)
400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
323 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)
~250 - Dr. Harold Shipman, Hyde, United Kingdom, (1970s?-1998)
189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
140 - Luis Garavito, Colombia, (1992-1998)
20-100 - H. H. Holmes, Chicago, USA (1890s)
97 - Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
87 - Happyland Fire, New York City, (1990)
9-80 - Peter Kürten, Düsseldorf, Germany (1925 - 1929)
63 - Arson at a Macedonian disco in Gothenburg, Sweden (1998)
53 - Andrei Chikatilo, Ukraine, (1982 - 1990)
52 - Anatoly Onopriyenko, Ukraine, (1996)
48 - Gary Ridgway, Green River Killer, Washington, USA (1980s)
45 - Bath School Disaster, Bath, Michigan, USA (1927)
35 - Port Arthur Massacre, Australia (1996)
33 - John Wayne Gacy, Chicago, (1970s)
27 - Dean Corll, Houston, Texas, USA (1970 - 1973)
27 - Maria Swanenburg Leiden, Netherlands, (1880-1883)
24 - Bela Kiss, Cinkota, Hungary (1912 - 1916)
23 - Ted Bundy, Florida, (1970s)
22+ - Robert Pickton (alleged), (Vancouver, 1990s)
21 - Yoo Young-Chul, (Seoul, 2003-2004)
21 - James Oliver Huberty, McDonald's massacre, San Ysidro, California, USA (1984)
18 - Dunblane Massacre, Scotland, United Kingdom (1996)
17 - Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee, (1978-1991)
17 - Hungerford Massacre, England, (1987)
16 - Charles Whitman, University of Texas sniper, Austin, Texas (1966)
16 - Postal shooting, Edmond, Oklahoma (1986)
16 - Erfurt massacre, Erfurt, Germany (2002)
16 - West Port murders, Edinburgh, Scotland, (1827-1828)
15 - Columbine High School massacre Colorado, (1999)
15 - Dennis Nilsen London, United Kingdom, (1978-1983)
2-15 - Henry Lee Lucas, Texas, USA (1960 - 1983)
14 - École Polytechnique Massacre, Montreal, Canada, (1989)
13 - Howard Unruh, Camden, New Jersey, (1949)
13 - Hatfield-McCoy feud West Virginia/Kentucky (1860 - 1891)
13 - Boston Strangler, Boston, USA (1962 - 1964)
13 - Peter Sutcliffe, West Yorkshire, UK (1975 - 1980)
13 - Richard Ramirez, Southern California, USA (1985)
12 - Fred West, Gloucester, England, (1973 - 1987)
11 - Clifford Robert Olson, Lower Mainland, British Columbia (1981)
11 - Henri Désiré Landru, Paris, France, (1914 - 1918)
11 - Juan Manuel Alvarez, Glendale, California, (2005)
10 - Edmund Kemper, Santa Cruz, California (1964 - 1973)
10 - Hillside Strangler, Los Angeles, USA (1977 - 1978)
6+ - "Zodiac killer", California, USA (1966 - 1969?)
5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)
5+ - Juan Covington, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania USA {1998 - 2005}
2 - Ed Gein, Plainfield, Wisconsin (1957)


Human sacrifice
2,000,000 - Thuggee cult (13th century - 1840)
80,000 (estimated) - suicides of Japanese civilians during the Battle of Okinawa, (1945)
15,000 (estimated) - Holy Inquisition (Europe). 1184 - 1800
80,000 ('classic' estimate) - 3,000 (modern estimate) - temple of Huitzilopochtli
8,000 - suicides of Japanese civilians and troops during the Battle of Saipan, (1944)
960 - Jewish zealots, after a prolonged siege of Masada, during the Roman-Jewish war of 66-73
913 - Jonestown mass suicide & murders (Guyana, 1978)
53 - Order of the Solar Temple (Switzerland and Canada; October 5, 1994)
39 - Heaven's Gate (California, 1997)
16 - Order of the Solar Temple (France; December 23, 1995)


Riot or political demonstration
87,000 - Chinese massacres of Tibetan pro-independence protestors (Tibet, China 1959)
30,000 - Nika riots (Constantinople, 532)
11,000 - Romanian Peasants' Revolt, 1907
7,500 - March 1st Movement (Seoul, Korea, 1919)
3,000 - Burma 1988 demonstrations (Yangon, (a.o.) Myanmar, 1988)
1,000 - Bloody Sunday (1905) (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1905)
300–5,000 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
500–2,600 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
400 - Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, 1987)
300 - Tulsa Race Riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921)
200–300 - Tlatelolco massacre (Mexico, 1968)
285 - Gordon riots (England, 1780)
184 - May 13 Incident (Kuala Lumpur, 1969)
100 - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" (Paris, 1795)
100 - New York Draft Riots (New York City, 1863)
95 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921 (Tel Aviv, 1921)
94 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947
84 - Riot and crushing during mass arrests (Narathiwat province, Thailand, 2004)
50–60 - 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)
7–60 - Massacre in Côte d'Ivoire by French troops (Côte d'Ivoire, 2004)
50 - Champ-de-Mars massacre (Paris, 1791)
43 - Attica Prison riots (New York, 1971)
43 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, 1967)
40–50 - Newton Rebellion (Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, 1607)
34 - Watts Riot (Los Angeles, 1965)
25 - Corpus Christi Massacre (Mexico City, 1971)
18 - Maria Hertogh riots (Singapore, 1950)
14 - Bloody Sunday (1972) (Derry, Northern Ireland)
13 - Chinese Middle School riots (Singapore, 1956)
11 - Peterloo massacre (England, 1819)
5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)


Deaths caused by natural disasters


Earthquake
830,000 - Shaanxi earthquake (China, 1556)
286,000 - Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis (outside Indonesia, 2004)
242,000 - Tangshan earthquake (China, 1976)
230,000 - Aleppo earthquake (Syria, 1138)
200,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1920)
200,000 - Xining earthquake (China, 1927)
200,000 - Damghan earthquake (Iran, 856)
150,000 - Ardabil earthquake (Iran, 893)
140,000 - Great Kanto earthquake (Japan, 1923)
110,000 - Ashgabat earthquake (Turkmenistan, 1948)
100,000 - Messina earthquake (Italy, 1908)
100,000 - 1755 Lisbon earthquake (Portugal, 1755)
100,000 - Chihli earthquake, (China, 1290)
80,333+ -(still rising) 2005 Kashmir earthquake, (Pakistan, India, 2005)
80,000 - Shemakha earthquake (Caucasus, 1667)
77,000 - Tabriz earthquake (Iran, 1727)
70,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1932)
66,000 - Ancash earthquake (Peru, 1970)
60,000 - Sicily earthquake (1693)
60,000 - Quetta earthquake (Pakistan, 1935)
50,000 - Calabria earthquake (Italy, 1783)
50,000 - Iran earthquake (1990)
31,000–41,000 - Bam earthquake (Iran, 2003)
32,700 - Erzincan earthquake (Turkey, 1939)
25,000 - Spitak Earthquake (Armenia, 1988)
23,000 - Guatemala earthquake (1976)
20,000 - Gujarat earthquake (India, 2001)
20,000 - Valparaíso earthquake (Chile, 1960)
17,118 - Izmit earthquake (Turkey, 1999)
15,621 - Tonghai earthquake (China, 1970)
11,000 - Naples earthquake, (Italy, 1857)
10,700 - Bihar earthquake (India, 1934)
10,000 - Agadir earthquake (Morocco, 1960)
9,748 - India earthquake (India, 1993)
9,500 - Michoacán earthquake (Mexico, 1985)
6,433 - Great Hanshin earthquake, (Kobe, Japan, 1995)
2,400 - Chi-Chi earthquake (Taiwan, 1999)
1,570 - Romania earthquake (Romania, 1977)
700 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake (California, 1906)
571 - Morocco earthquake (Al Hoceima Province, 2004)
564 - Zarand (Iran, 2005)
258 - Napier earthquake (New Zealand, 1931)
131 - Good Friday Earthquake (Alaska, 1964)
115 - Long Beach earthquake of 1933 (California, 1933)
66 - Loma Prieta earthquake (California, 1989)
65+ - Sylmar earthquake (California, 1971)
57 - Northridge earthquake (California, 1994)
27 - 1872 Lone Pine earthquake (California, 1872)
13 - Newcastle earthquake (Australia, 1989)

A severe earthquake occurred on 5 July 1201 in the area of the eastern Mediterranean - (Upper Egypt, Syria). Every major city in the Near East was disrupted, and contemporary estimates put the total number killed at 1,100,000.


Volcanic eruption
92,000 - Mount Tambora, (Indonesia, 1815) (see also Year Without a Summer)
40,000 - Mount Pelée, (Martinique, 1902)
36,000 - Krakatoa, (Indonesia, 1883)
23,000 - Nevado del Ruiz, (Colombia, 1985)
18,000 - Mount Vesuvius, (Italy, 1631)
15,000 - Mount Unzen, (Japan, 1792)
10,000 - Kelut, (Indonesia, 1586)
9,350 - Laki, (Iceland, 1783)
3,600 - Mount Vesuvius, (79)
1,680 - Soufrière, (St. Vincent, West Indies, 1902)
1,000 - Cotopaxi, (Ecuador, 1887)
700 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines, 1991)
245 - Nyiragongo, (Congo, 2002)
57 - Mount St. Helens (Washington, 1980)

A supervolcano that erupted at Lake Toba 74,000 years ago is thought to have reduced the global modern human population to less than 10 thousand individuals; see Toba catastrophe theory.


Tsunami
228,000–310,000 - Indian Ocean earthquake with tsunami, (Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Somalia, Myanmar, and other countries) 2004
100,000 - 1755 Lisbon earthquake, tsunami, earthquake and fire, 1755, Portugal and Morocco
70,000 - Messina, Italy, earthquake and tsunami, 1908
40,000 - South China Sea, 1782, including deaths in Taiwan
36,000 - Krakatoa volcano explosion, 1883
30,000 - Tokaido-Nankaido, Japan, 1707
27,000 - Japan, 1826
25,674 - Chile, 1868
22,070 - Sanriku, Japan, 1896
15,030 - caused by Mount Unzen, Southwest Kyushu, Japan, 1792
13,486 - Ryukyu Trench, 1771
5,233 - Tokaido-Kashima, Japan, 1703
5,000 - Nankaido, Japan, 1605
5,000 - Moro Gulf, Philippines, 1976
3,000 - Papua New Guinea, 1998
3,008 - Sanriku, Japan, 1933
2,000 - Great Chilean Earthquake, deaths in Chile, U.S. (Hawaii), Philippines and Japan, 1960
2,000 - Bristol Channel floods, 1607, possible tsunami, United Kingdom
165 - Aleutian Island earthquake, deaths in Hawaii and Alaska, U.S., 1946
122 - Good Friday Earthquake, Alaska and Hawaii, U.S., 1964
27 or 51 - Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, 1929
23 - Nice, France, 1979


Extreme weather
35,000 - European Heat Wave of 2003 (Europe, 2003)
15,000 - torrential rains and mudslides in Venezuela (1999)
12,000 - Great Smog of 1952, (United Kingdom, 1952)
4,000 - heat waves in Texas, Middle East and India (1998)
1,300 - tornado, Shaturia, Bangladesh (1989)
739 - Chicago Heat Wave of 1995 (Chicago, 1995)
695 - Tri-State Tornado, (1925)
669 - heavy storms ("Winnie") (and 695 missing), (Philippines, 2004)
271 - heat waves in Midwest and Northeast (1999)
250+ - Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (Great Lakes basin region, 1913)
246 - hail, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh India (1888)
81 - lightning struck Boeing 707 airliner, near Elkton, Maryland (1963)


Hurricane, typhoon, and tropical cyclone
500,000 - Bhola cyclone (Bangladesh, 1970)
229,000 - Super Typhoon Nina, China, 1975 - contributed to Banqiao Dam failure
138,000 - 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, (Chittagong Bangladesh, 1991)
60,000 - typhoon, (China, 1922)
60,000 - 1864 Calcutta cyclone, (India, 1864)
50,000 - typhoon, (China, 1912)
40,000 - cyclone, (India, 1942)
30,000 - cyclone (Bangladesh, June 1, 1965)
22,000 - Great Hurricane of 1780, (Barbados, Martinique, St. Eustatius 1780)
22,000 - cyclone (Pakistan, 1963)
20,000 - cyclone (India, 1977)
18,277 - Hurricane Mitch (Central America 1998)
17,000 - cyclone (Bangladesh, May 11, 1965)
10,000 - cyclone (Karachi, Pakistan, 1965)
10,000 - cyclone in Orissa, India (1999)
10,000 - typhoon (Hong Kong, 1906)
9,574 - cyclone (India, 1999)
8,000 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (Texas, United States September 8, 1900)
8,000 - hurricane (Dominican Republic, 1930)
8,000 - Hurricane Fifi (Honduras, 1974)
7,200 - Hurricane Flora (Haiti, Cuba, 1963)
6,000 - Typhoon Thelma (Philippines, 1991)
6,000 - cyclone, (Pakistan, 1960)
5,000 - Typhoon Vera (Japan, 1958)
4,170 - Hurricane of Independence, (U.S., Canada, 1776)
4,000 - hurricane, (Canada, 1775)
3,433 - hurricane, (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, 1899)
3,411 - Lake Okeechobee Hurricane, (U.S., 1928)
3,107 - hurricane, (Cuba, 1932)
3,037 - Hurricane Jeanne, (Haiti, 2004)
3,000 - hurricane, (Atlantic Ocean, 1782)
3,000 - hurricane, (Cuba, 1791)
3,000 - 1737 Calcutta cyclone (India)
2,334 - Typhoon Iris (China, 1959)
2,150 - hurricane, (Caribbean, 1935)
2,060 - Hurricane David, (Dominican Republic, U.S., 1979)
2,000-3,000 - hurricane, (Central America, 1934)
2,000 - hurricane, (Gulf of Mexico, 1780)
2,000 - hurricane, (Florida, 1781)
2,000 - hurricane, (Cuba, Florida, 1870)
2,000 - Chenier Caminada Hurricane, (Louisiana, 1893)
1,600 - Typhoon Mary, (China, 1960)
1,500-2,500 - hurricane, (Windward Islands, 1831)
1,500-2,500 - hurricane, (Central America, 1931)
1,500 - hurricane, (Greater Antilles, Mexico, 1909)
1,300 - Typhoon Ike, (Philippines, 1984)
1,277 - Hurricane Katrina, (United States, 2005)
1,200 - Hurricane Hazel (Grenada, Bahamas, Haiti, U.S., Canada, 1954)
1,153 - Hurricane Stan, (Mexico, Central America, 2005)
1,145 - Hurricane Gordon (Haiti, U.S., 1994)
1,115 - hurricane, (Jamaica, Cuba, 1780)
1,000-2,000 - Sea Islands Hurricane, (Georgia, South Carolina, 1893)
1,000 - Hurricane Inez, (Greater Antilles, Mexico, 1966)
1,000 - cyclone (India, 1998)
921 - hurricane, (Greater Antilles, Mexico, 1888)
709 - hurricane, (Cuba, 1926)
700 - hurricane, (Georgia, 1881)
700 - hurricane, (Greater Antilles, 1891)
600-700 - hurricane, (U.S., 1788)
650 - 1938 New England Hurricane, (U.S., 1938)
602 - Hurricane Georges, (Greater Antilles, 1998)
600 - hurricane (Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Texas, 1919)
600 - Hurricane Fox, (Cuba, 1952)
540-680 - Hurricane Janet, (Honduras, Mexico, 1955)
424 - hurricane, (North Carolina, 1857)
408 - Labor Day Hurricane (Florida, 1935)
400 - Last Island Hurricane, (Louisiana, 1856)
400 - Cyclone Mahina (Australia, 1899)
400 - Hurricane Hattie, (Belize, 1961)
400 - hurricane, (Texas, 1915)
399-550 - Hurricane Audrey, (Louisiana, 1957)
390 - hurricane, (U.S., 1944)
387 - hurricane, (U.S., 1866)
383 - hurricane, (Windward Islands, 1898)
350 - hurricane, (Louisiana, 1909)
265-350 - Great Miami Hurricane, (Florida, Louisiana, 1926)
256 - Hurricane Camille, (U.S., 1969)
228 - Hurricane Allen (Caribbean, U.S. 1980)
200 - Hurricane Hilda (Mexico, 1955)
120 - Hurricane Ivan, (Caribbean, Alabama, Florida,2004)
96 - Hurricane Diana, (Mexico, 1990)
86 - Hurricane Hugo (Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, 1989)
65 - Cyclone Tracy (Australia, 1974)
57 - Hurricane Floyd, (Bahamas, North Carolina, 1999)
41 - Tropical Storm Allison (Texas. 2001)
40 - Hurricane Isabel (North Carolina, 2003)
35 - Hurricane Charley (Jamaica, Cuba, Florida, 2004)
26 - Hurricane Andrew (Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana, 1992)


Floods
1,000,000–3,700,000 - 1931 Huang He flood (China, 1931)
900,000–2,000,000 - 1887 Huang He flood (China, 1887)
229,000 - Banqiao Dam failure, China, 1975. Approximately 86,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics.
145,000 - 1935 Yangtze river flood
142,000 - 1931 Yangtze river flood
100,000 - flood (North Vietnam, 1971)
100,000 - 1911 Yangtze river flood
30,000 - 1954 Yangtze river flood
10,000 - Great Iran Flood, (Iran, 1954)
2,200 - Johnstown Flood (Pennsylvania, 1889)
2,142 - North Sea Flood of 1953 storm surge, (Netherlands, United Kingdom, 1953)
2,000–5,000 - Manchhu River dam burst, (Morvi, Gujarat, India, 1979) some reports list as many as 12,000 dead.
1,909 - Vajont Dam landslide and flood, (Italy, 1963)
1,605–3,363 - spring flooding in Haiti and Dominican Republic (2004)
1,000 - Mumbai (Bombay) and the surrounding state Maharashtra, India, 26th July 2005
400 - St. Francis Dam failure, (California, 1928)
270 - Great Sheffield flood dam disaster, (England, 1864)
94 - Mameyes Disaster lanslide(Ponce,Puerto Rico,1985)
81 - Holmfirth Flood - Bilberry Resevoir Dam failure, West Yorkshire, England, 1852
78 - Austin Dam failure, (Pennsylvannia, 1911)
47 - McDonald Dam failure, (Austin, Texas, 1900)
16 - Brisbane flood (Australia, 1974)


Blizzards
4,000 - Iran, 1972
400 - Great Blizzard of '88, (Northeastern United States, 1888)
318 - 1993 North American Storm Complex, (Northeastern United States, 1993)
235 - Schoolhouse Blizzard, (Great Plains, USA, 1888)
144 - Armistice Day Blizzard, (Midwest, USA, 1940)
29 - Blizzard of 1977 (Buffalo, New York, USA, 1977)


Contractible disease
300,000,000+ - Smallpox (20th Century)
200,000,000 - Bubonic Plague (worldwide, 1300s)
100,000,000 - Plague of Justinian (Europe 540-590) (disputed)
10,000,000 - 100,000,000 - deaths from diseases in Europe (millions) and the Americas (tens of millions) from diseases exchanged between continents after 1492
20,000,000 - Spanish Flu (worldwide, 1918 - 1919)
19,000,000 - AIDS (worldwide, 1981 - )
10,000,000 - Bubonic Plague (China, 1892 - 1896)
5,000,000 - Antonine Plague (Roman Empire 165 - 180)
4,000,000 - Asian Flu pandemic (worldwide, 1957)
1,000,000 - Hong Kong Flu pandemic (worldwide, 1968)
130,000 - North American smallpox epidemic (1775 - 1782)
60,000 - Great Plague of London (1665)
775 - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (Mostly East Asia, few cases in Europe, Canada and United States, 2002-2003)
677 - West Nile Virus outbreak (North America, 1999 - 2004)


Famine

some of these famines may be partially or completely caused by humans
1,000,000–43,000,000 - Period of Three Difficult Years (China, 1958 - 1961) (most estimates are between 25 and 35 million)
24,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1907
5,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1936
5,000,000 Holodomor (USSR 1932-1934)
5,000,000 Ukraine and Volga Famine (USSR 1921-1922)
3,000,000 Chinese Drought 1941
3,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1928-1930
3,000,000 Indian Drought of 1900
1,500,000 - 3,000,000 Bengal Famine of 1943 (India, 1943)
1,500,000 Indian Drought of 1965-1967
1,200,000 - North Korean famine (North Korea, 1995 - 1998)
1,100,000 - Irish potato famine (1846-1849)
1,000,000 - Ethiopian famine (1984)
30,000 - Dutch famine of 1944


Death from other causes


Fire
ca. 2,500 - Church of La Compana (Santiago, Chile, 1863)
ca. 2,000 - Peshtigo Fire, (Wisconsin, 1871)
1,700 - Waterfront fire, (Chongqing, China, 1949)
1,670 - theater fire (Canton, China, 1845)
150-1,000 - Salang tunnel fire (Afghanistan, 1982)
694 - theater fire (Xinjiang, China, 1977)
658 - Antoung Movie Theater (China, 1937)
620 - Ring Theatre (Vienna, Austria, 1881)
602 - Iroquois Theater Fire, (Chicago, 1903)
559 - forest fire (Cloquet, Minnesota, 1918)
500 - Pemex LP gas fire (Mexico City, Mexico, 1984)
500 - flood-spread fuel fire (Durunka, Egypt, 1994)
492 - Cocoanut Grove fire, (Boston, 1942)
468 - Texas City Disaster, (Texas City, Texas, 1947)
465+ - Asunción Paraguay supermarket fire, (2004)
441 - Rajiv Marriage Palace (school function) (Mandi Dabwali, India, 1995)
418 - Hinckley Fire (Minnesota, 1894)
400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
326 - North German Lloyd Steamship Line piers (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1900)
324 - movie theater, (Xinjiang, China, 1994)
323 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)
322 - L'Innovation department store (Brussels, Belgium, 1967)
320 - Ohio State Penitentiary fire, (Columbus, Ohio, 1930)
310 - theater fire (Karamay, China, 1994)
309 - Disco fire (Luoyang, China, 2000)
300 - subway fire, (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1995)
300 - Great Chicago Fire (Chicago, 1871)
285 - Conway's Theater, (New York City, 1876)
282 - Thumb Fire, (Michigan, 1881)
189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
189 - Joelma Fire, (São Paulo, Brazil, 1974)
187 - Doll factory (Bangkok, Thailand, 1993)
186 - República Cromagnon nightclub fire, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004)
178 - School fire Collinwood, Ohio, 1908)
170 - Rhoads Opera House (Boyerton, Pennsylvania, 1908)
167 - Piper Alpha oil platform, (North Sea, 1988)
165 - Beverly Hills Supper Club fire, (Southgate, Kentucky, 1977)
168 - Hartford Circus Fire, (Hartford, Connecticut, 1944)
162 - Hotel Daeyungak, Seoul, South Korea (25th December 1971)
160 - Richmond Theater, (Richmond, Virginia, 1811)
160 - Miramichi Fire, (New Brunswick, 1825)
156 - Alpine tunnel fire (Kaprun, Austria, 2000)
150 - Clifford's Tower, (York, England, 1190)
150 - Exeter Theatre Royal fire, (Exeter, England, 1887)
145 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, (New York, 1911)
140 - Gas truck crash, (Tarragona, Spain, 1978)
100 - The Station nightclub fire (Rhode Island, 2003)
97 - Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
92 - School Fire Kumbakonam,Tamil Nadu,India(16th July 2004)
84 - Paris Metro train fire (Paris, France, 1903)
76 - "Ash Wednesday" bushfires (Australia, 1983)
72 - Branch Davidian compound (Waco, Texas, 1993)
71 - "Black Friday" bushfires (Australia, 1939)
63 - discotheque fire (Göteborg, Sweden, 1998)
62 - Hobart bushfire (Australia, 1967)
51 - Summerland disaster (Douglas, Isle of Man, 1973)
48 - Stardust Nightclub, (Dublin, Ireland, 1981)
41 - Ballantyne's Department Store fire (Christchurch, New Zealand, 1947)
39 - Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, (France/Italy, 1999)
36 - Hindenburg disaster, (Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937)
30 - King's Cross Station, Escalator fire, (London, 1987)


See also List of historic fires


Explosion

not including bombings, aviation incidents and mine disasters
1,635 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, 1917)
1,100 - ammunition trucks (Cali, Colombia, 1956)
1,000 - Ammunition dump fire, (Lagos, Nigeria, 2002), many deaths were from drowning during the panic
568 - Texas City Disaster (Texas, 1947)
500 - Pipeline explosion beside Trans-Siberian railway (Ufa, Russia, 1989)
430 - chemical plant (Oppau, Germany, 1921)
322 - Port Chicago disaster (Port Chicago, California, 1944)
294 - New London School explosion (New London, Texas, 1937)
206 - gas explosions (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1992)
130 - LP gas tanks (Cleveland, Ohio, 1944)
126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
103 - USS Bennington, (off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, 1954)
100+ - Delft Explosion (Netherlands, 1654)
48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
40 - Lapua ammo factory (Finland, 1976)
33 - Humberto Vidal Explosion (San Juan, Puerto Rico,1996)
22 - Fireworks factory (Enschede, Netherlands, 2000)
21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
7 - Myyrmanni bombing (Finland, 2002), unclear if this was an intentional bombing


Coal mine disasters
1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
1,060 - Coal mine explosion (Courrières, France, 1903)
472 - coal mine (Wankie, Rhodesia, 1972)
447 - coal mine (Omuta, Japan, 1963)
437 - coal mine (Coalbrook, South Africa, 1960)
375 - coal mine (Bihar, India, 1965)
372 - coal mine (Dhanbad, India, 1975)
362 - coal mine (Monongah, West Virginia, 1907)
344 - Pretoria Pit Disaster, (Westhoughton, England, 1910)
298 - coal mine (Saarland, West Germany, 1962)
263 - coal mine (Dawson, New Mexico, 1913)
262 - coal mine (Marcinelle, Belgium, 1956)
259 - coal mine (Cherry, Illinois, 1909)
239 - coal mine (Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, 1907)
236 - coal mine (Fukuoka, Japan, 1965)
210 - 2005 Liaoning mine disaster (China, 2005)
200 - coal mine (Scofield, Utah, 1900)
166 - coal mine (Chenjiashan mine, Shaanxi province, China, 28 Nov 2004)
148 - coal mine (Daping mine, Henan province, China, 20 Oct 2004)
123 - coal mine (Daxing mine, Guangdong province, China, 6 Aug 2005)
83 - coal mine (Fukang city, Xinjiang region, China, 13 Jul 2005)
59 - coal mine (Xishui mine, Shanxi province, China, 20 Mar 2005)
43 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guizhou province, China, 24 Feb 2003)


Aviation

other than terrorism
583 - Tenerife disaster (Tenerife, 1977)
520 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, (Japan, 1985)
350 - cargo plane crashes on marketplace (Kinshasa, Zaire, 1996)
349 - Saudi Arabian Airlines plane collided with a Kazak Airlines plane, (New Delhi, 1996)
346 - Turkish Airlines (Paris, 1974)
329 - Air India flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
301 - Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, 1980)
290 - Iran Air Flight 655 (Persian Gulf, 1988)
276 - Iranian military airplane, (Sirach Mountains, 2003)
275 - American Airlines Flight 191 (Chicago, 1979)
270 - Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, 1988)
269 - Korean Air Flight 7 (Sakhalin Island, 1983)
265 - American Airlines Flight 587, (New York City, 2001)
264 - China Airlines (Nagoya, 1994)
261 - Haj charter plane (Jedda, 1991)
257 - Mount Erebus disaster (Antarctica, 1979)
256 - Arrow Air U.S. military charter (Gander, Newfoundland, 1985)
230 - TWA Flight 800 (Long Island, 1996)
229 - Swissair Flight 111 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998)
225 - China Airlines Flight 611 (Penghu Islands, 2002)
202 - EgyptAir Flight 990 (Cape Cod, 2001)
160 - (China Northwest Airlines; Xian, China, 6 June 1994)
160 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708(Venezuela, 2005)
141 - (China Southern Airlines; Guangzhou, China, 24 November 1992)
137 - Delta Airlines Flight 191 (Dallas, TX, 1985)
128 - (Air China; Pusan, South Korea, 15 April 2002
121 - Helios Airways Flight 522 (Greece, 2005)
112 - (China Northern MD82; Dalian, China, 7 May 2002)
110 - ValuJet Flight 592 (Florida Everglades, 1996)
109 - Air France Flight 4590 - Concorde crash (Gonesse, France, 2000)
104 - Silkair Flight MI-185 (Sumatra, 1997)
99 - TAM Linhas Aéreas's Fokker 100 disaster (São Paulo, Brazil - 1996)
83 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 (Taipei, 2000)
78 - Air Florida Flight 90 (Washington, DC, 1982)
70 - Ramstein airshow disaster (Germany, 1988)
67 - LAPA Airlines Flight 3142 crash, (Argentina, 1999)
61 - (China Southwest Airlines; Ruian, China, 24 February 1999)
53 - (China Eastern Airlines Flight Mu5210) (Baotou City, China, 21 Nov 2004)
35 - Hindenburg disaster (New Jersey, 1937)
31 - Superga air disaster (Superga, near Turin, 1949)


Maritime


Wartime ship disasters
6,050 - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945 (sometimes reported as high as 9,343 ? )
6,000 - Goya, 1945 (minimum)
6,000 - Chinese troopship (near Yingkow, Manchuria, November 1, 1948)
5,620 - Junyo Maru, 1944
5,400 - Toyama Maru, 1944 (approx.)
5,000 - Ukishima Maru, 1945 (approx.)
4,650 - Cap Arcona, 1945
4,000 - HMT Lancastria, 1940
3,000 - SS General von Steuben, 1945
3,000 - Yoshida Maru, 1944
2,750 - Thielbek, 1945
2,571 - M.S. Rigel, 1944
2,498 - Yamato, 1945
2,097 - DKM Bismarck, 1941
2,003 - Awa Maru, 1945
2,000 - Ural Maru, 1944 (approx.)
2,000 - Josef Stalin, 1941
1,932 - Scharnhorst, 1943
1,875 - Arisan Maru, 1944
1,650 - Taiho, 1944
1,529 - Tsushima Maru, 1944
1,435 - Shinano, 1944
1,414 - HMS Hood, 1941
1,400 - Yamashiro, 1944
1,400 - Fuso, 1944 (approx.)
1,297 - SS Khedive Ismail, 1944
1,263 - Shokaku, 1944
1,250 - Kongo, 1944
1,239 - Unryu, 1944
1,209 - Conte Rosso, 1941
1,207 - HMS Glorious, 1940
1,198 - RMS Lusitania, 1915
1,177 - USS Arizona (BB-39), (Pearl Harbor 1941)
1,023 - Musashi, 1944
1,000 - Tirpitz, 1944
946 - Operation Tiger sinkings, (1944)
920 - Blücher, 1940
883 - USS Indianapolis (CA-35), 1945
862 - HMS Barham, 1941
843 - Zuikaku, 1944
814 - Kaga, 1942
718 - Soryu, 1942
631 - Shoho, 1942
513 - HMS Repulse, 1941
380 - Mary Rose (Portsmouth, 1545)
338 - HMS Curacao, 1942
327 - HMS Prince of Wales, 1941
130 - Surcouf accidentally rammed by US merchantman, (Caribbean, 1942)


Peacetime ship disasters
1,550–3,000 - Doña Paz, ferry, (Philippines, 1987)
1,547 - Sultana, 1865
1,517 - RMS Titanic, 1912
1,172 - Toya Maru (Tsugaru Straight, 1954)
1,100 - Kiangya (Shanghai, December 3, 1948)
1,021 - General Slocum, (New York 1904)
1,012 - RMS Empress of Ireland, (Saint Lawrence River 1914)
1,000 - Joola, (2002)
1,000 - Hong Kong (South China Sea, March 18, 1921)
852 - MS Estonia, (Baltic Sea 1994)
835 - Eastland, (Chicago, 1915)
800+ - HMS Royal George (Spithead, 29 August 1782)
627 - S/S Norge (Rockall, 28 June 1904)
608 - Novorossiysk (Sevastopol, 1955)
600 - Princess Alice (Thames, 1878)
558 - Principe de Asturias (off Brazil, 1916)
546 - RMS Atlantic (Nova Scotia, 1873)
450 - HMS Birkenhead (near Cape Town, 1852)
400 - Lady Elgin (Chicago, 1860)
400 - Cataraqui (King Island, Australia, 1865)
358 - HMS Victoria (near Tripoli, Lebanon, 1893)
353 - SIEV-X (off Indonesia, 2001)
260 - USS Maine (Havana, Cuba, 1898) it is disputed over whether this was accidental or an act of terrorism
260 - Earl of Abergavenny (off Portland Bill, 1805)
260 - Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Florida Keys, 1622)
250+ - Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (Great Lakes basin region, 1913)
226 - Ville du Havre (North Atlantic, 1873)
200 - SS Victoria (London, Ontario, 1881)
185 - Batavia (off Australia, 1629) includes both drowned and murdered
193 - Herald of Free Enterprise (English Channel, 1987)
170 - Staffordshire (Cape Sable, 1853)
158 - Scandinavian Star (Skagerrak, 1990)
148 - Medusa (off Senegal, 1816)
134 - SS Morro Castle (off Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1934)
129 - USS Thresher, (N. Atlantic, 1963)
128 - HMS Gladiator (Isle of Wight, 1908)
124+ - SS Yongala (Townsville, Australia, 1911)
118 - Kursk (2000)
99 - USS Scorpion (near Azores, 1968)
80 - Pamir (1957)
51 - TEV Wahine (Wellington, NZ, 1968)
51 - SS Andrea Doria (off Nantucket, Mass. 1956)
45 - SS Elingamite (Three Kings Islands, NZ, 1902)
36 - FV Gaul (Barents Sea, 1974)
35 - HMS Pandora (Torres Strait, 1791)
31 - SS Carnatic (Red Sea, 1869)
29 - SS Edmund Fitzgerald (Lake Superior, 1975)
28 - Soviet submarine K-19 fire 24 February 1972.
20 - Ethan Allen (Lake George (New York), 2 October 2005)
13 - Essex (South Pacific, 1819)


Space travel
7 - Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (United States, 2003)
7 - Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Florida, 1986)
3 - Soyuz 11 (space, 1971)
3 - Apollo 1 (Florida, 1967)
1 - Soyuz 1 (SE of Orenburg, Russia, 1967)

See also List of space disasters


Sporting events
100,000–650,000 - Deaths in the Roman Colosseum for public entertainment (Rome, 80–404)
1,112 - Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c.140 AD)
604 - Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Racecourse, stand collapsed and caught fire, 1918. Figure is conservative and found via the Guinness Book of World Records. Most online sources give the death toll as 6,000.
340 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, 1982)
300 - (estimated) Peru vs. Argentina football game riot (Lima, Peru, May 24, 1964)
123 - Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko soccer match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001)
96 - Hillsborough disaster crush (England, 1989)
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica soccer match crush (Guatemala City,
82 - 24 hours of Le Mans disaster (France, 1955)
80 - soccer match crush (Katmandu, Nepal, 1988)
72 - River Plate vs Boca Juniors football match, stampede at gate 12 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 23, 1968)
66 - Second Ibrox disaster crush (Glasgow, 1971)
56 - Bradford City soccer stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985)
43 - Ellis Park Stadium Disaster, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 10, 2001
39 - Heysel Stadium disaster soccer stadium hooliganism (Bruxelles, Belgium, 1985)
26 - First Ibrox disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, 1902)
21 - Olympiacos stampede at the old Karaiskaki stadium (Piraeus, Greece, 1981)


Industrial accidents
15,000+ - Bhopal Disaster India (1984)
1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
568 - Texas City Disaster (Texas, 1947)
167 - Piper Alpha oil rig disaster (North Sea, 1988)
125 - Buffalo Creek Flood / Pittston Coal Company dam failure, (West Virginia, United States, 1972)
105 - mine elevator failure, (South Africa, 1995)
21 - Boston Molasses Disaster (Boston, 1919)


Stampedes and Panics
4,000 - mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of the city, most deaths caused by suffocation (Chongqing, China, 1941)
1,426 - stampede by pilgrims inside a pedestrian tunnel (Mecca, 1990)
1,400–2,000 - stampede at coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, (Moscow, 1896)
953 - Baghdad bridge stampede, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2005)
800 - crowd crush at religious festival (Allahabad, India, 1954)
340 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, 1982)
270 - stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 1994)
258 - crowd crush at religious festival (Wai, Maharashtra, India, 2005)
251 - stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2004)
173 - Bethnal Green tube station panic (London, 1943)
123 - Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko soccer match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001)
118 - pilgrims trampled to death (Mecca, 1998)
96 - Hillsborough disaster crush (England, 1989)
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica soccer match crush (Guatemala City,
72 - River Plate vs Boca Juniors football match, stampede at gate 12 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 23, 1968)
66 - Second Ibrox disaster crush (Glasgow, 1971)
21 - Olympiacos stampede at the old Karaiskaki stadium (Piraeus, Greece, 1981)


Other accidents
3,000 - Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 2004)
ca. 1,700 "Queen of the Sea" train disaster, Telwatta, Sri Lanka caused by the tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
1,635 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, 1917)
800+ - train wreck, (Bihar, India, 1981)
436 - Man-eating tigress, (Champawat, India, 1907)
151 - Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 1953)
144 - Aberfan landslide disaster (Wales, 1966)
126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
114 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981)
103 - Amagasaki rail crash, (Japan, 2005)
101 - ICE high-speed train disaster, (Germany, 1998)
83 - Granville train disaster, Granville, Sydney, Australia
75 - Tay Rail Bridge (Scotland, 1879)
64 - Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (Soviet Union, 1979)
48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
42 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1976)
21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
20 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft
11 - Petrobras 36 Oil Platform explosions (Brazil, 2001)


Nuclear accidents
200+ - Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion, (Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, 29 September 1957), figure is a conservative estimate, 270,000 people exposed to dangerous radiation levels. More than 30 small communities had been removed from USSR maps since 1958.
31 - Chernobyl accident (Soviet Union, 1986, uncertain number of later casualties from cancer and other radiation-induced sickness.)
8 - Soviet submarine K-19 4 July 1961.
3 - SL-1 (US Army) 1961.
1 - Tokai, Ibaraki nuclear fuel reprocessing plant (Japan, 1986).

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