List of wars and disasters by death toll

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A death toll is the number of dead as a result of war, violence, accident, natural disaster, extreme weather, or disease.

Below is a list of death tolls for various infamous incidents. Most numbers are estimates and are often in dispute. The incidents are ranked by the highest estimate given.

Some events overlap categories.

Contents

1 Deaths caused by humans 1.1 War and military action 1.1.1 Individual battles and sieges 1.2 Genocide and Democide 1.2.1 Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps 1.3 Terrorism 1.4 Murder (other than through terrorism) 1.5 Religious sacrifice 1.6 Riot or political demonstration 2 Deaths caused by natural disasters 2.1 Earthquake 2.2 Extreme weather 2.3 Hurricane and cyclone 2.4 Tsunami 2.5 Volcanic eruption 2.6 Contractible disease 2.7 Famine 3 Death from other causes 3.1 Fire 3.2 Explosion 3.3 Coal mine disasters 3.4 Aviation 3.5 Maritime 3.5.1 Wartime ship disasters 3.5.2 Peacetime ship disasters 3.6 Space travel 3.7 Sporting events 3.8 Industrial accidents 3.9 Other accidents 4 Nuclear accidents 5 See also 6 External links

Deaths caused by humans

War and military action

These figures include deaths of civilians from disease, 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)
• 17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
• 10,000,000+ - Sino-Japanese War (1931–1942)
• 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)
• 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 intervention (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 - North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
• 150,000 - Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
• 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 - Second Boer War (1898–1902)
• 35,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)
• 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

• 800,000–1,600,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
• 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 - 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)
• 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)
• 230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
• 200,000 - Siege of Tenochtitlan (1520–1521)
• 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)
• 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)
• 115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914)
• 100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943)
• 100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943)
• 90,000 - Battle of the Aisne (1917)
• 83,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1941)
• 80,000 - Battle of the Somme (1918)
• 80,000 - Battle of the Marne (1918)
• 74,000 - Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia (1941)
• 72,000+ - Battle of Belgorod (1943)
• 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)
• 64,000 - Battle of the Aisne (1918)
• 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 - Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918)
• 50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
• 50,000 - Battle of Hsuchow (1927)
• 30,000–50,000 - Battle of Naissus (268)
• 45,000 - Fourth Battle of Kharkov (1943)
• 44,000 - Battle of the Crimea (1944)
• 42,000 - Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945)
• 40,000 - Battle of Imphal
• 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)
• 25,000 - Battle of Pydna (168 BC)
• 26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
• 22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)
• 20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)
• 18,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812)
• 16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939)
• 15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
• 14,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815)
• 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)
• 7,058 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
• 6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
• 5,350+ - Battle of Suomussalmi (1939–1940)
• 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)
• 3,477 - 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)
• 1,705 - 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)
• 622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
• 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) The long-term decimation, sometimes by government policy and sometimes not, of the Natives of South and North America by Europeans is estimated to be one of the largest and longest in history. [1] (http://www.usna.edu/Users/history/kolp/HH345/PRE1492.HTM). The numbers are controversial.
• 6,000,000–60,000,000 - African and Atlantic slave trade (16th - 19th century)
• 3,500,000–60,000,000 - Great Purge (Soviet Union, 1930s) (Probably 26,000,000)
• 250,000–20,000,000 - Cultural Revolution (China, 1966 - 1976 most estimates are around 1 to 2 million)
• 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
  • 2,600,000–4,000,000 Soviet POWs
  • 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)
• 1,700,000 - Pol Pot's communalisation program (Cambodia, 1976-1979)
• 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)
• 800,000 - Genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)
• 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)
• 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
• 700,000–1,000,000 - Treblinka extermination camp
• 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 (1937)
• 260,000 Sobibór extermination camp
• 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 Terible
• 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, 1964)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 150 - Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado, United States, 1864)
• 120 - Mountain Meadows Massacre (Utah, United States, 1857)
• 113 - Waxhaw Massacre (South Carolina, United States, 1780)
• 78 - Massacre of Glencoe (1692)
• 67 - Hebron 1929 Massacre (Palestine, 1929)
• 45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)

Terrorism

Note that any number of individual non-noteworthy attacks by various groups are not listed here. Generally these have been in the low to mid tens of deaths. Also note that Terrorism can be considered a point of view. Some people, for example, may consider the American Revolution, French Revolution, and the numerous Civil Wars as acts of terrorism. The following is a list of acts that have little to no dispute as to their being terrorist attacks.

• 2,992 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York, Washington, DC, United States, 2001) (see Casualties)
• 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] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1160859,00.html), (Iraq, 2004)
• 202 - 2002 Bali terrorist bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
• 191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks, (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)
• 90 - Central Bank Bombing, (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1996)
• 89 - Russian airplane bombings, (Russia, 2004)
• 86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
• 63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
• 57 - 2003 Istanbul Bombings, (Turkey, 2003)
• 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 - 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)
• 26 - bus No. 18 Jerusalem massacre, (Israel, 1996)
• 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)
• 19 - bus No. 18 Jerusalem massacre, (Israel, 1996)
• 19 - Patt junction massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 19 - Birmingham pub bombing, (England, 1974)
• 18 - Warrenpoint massacre, (Northern Ireland, 1979)
• 17 - Droppin' Well bombing, (Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, 1982)
• 17 - Meggido junction massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 17 - Haifa bus 37 massacre, (Israel, 2003)
• 17 - Jerusalem bus 14A massacre, (Israel, 2003)
• 16 - Mahane Yehuda massacre, (Israel, 1997)
• 16 - Rishon Lezion massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 16 - Beersheba massacre, (Israel, 2004)
• 15 - McGurk's Bar bombing, (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1971)
• 15 - Sbarro massacre, (Israel, 2001)
• 15 - Haifa Bus 16 massacre, (Israel, 2001)
• 15 - Matza restaurant massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 14 - Bus 841 massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 12 - Munich Massacre, Summer Olympics, (Germany, 1972)
• 12 - La Mon House Hotel massacre, (Comber, Northern Ireland, 1978)
• 12 - Sarin attack, Tokyo Subway, (Tokyo, Japan, 1995)
• 11 - M62 coach bomb, (near Leeds, England, 1974)
• 11 - Enniskillen bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1987)
• 11 - Deal barracks bombing, (Deal, Kent, England, 1989)
• 11 - Ben Yehuda St. massacre, (Israel, 2001)
• 11 - Beit Yisrael massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 11 - Moment cafe massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 11 - Jerusalem bus 20 massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 11 - Jerusalem bus 19 massacre, (Israel, 2004)
• 10 - Kingsmills massacre, (Northern Ireland, 1976)
• 10 - Shankill bombing, (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1993)
• 10 - Ashdod Port massacre, (Israel, 2004)
• 9 - Bloody Friday, (Northern Ireland, 1972)
• 9 - Claudy bombings, (Northern Ireland, 1972)
• 9 - Newry mortar attack, (Northern Ireland, 1985)
• 8 - London park bombings, (England, 1982)
• 8 - Lisburn bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1988)
• 8 - Ballygawley bus bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1988)
• 8 - Teebane bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1992)
• 7 - Aldershot barracks bombing, (England, 1972)
• 7 - Greysteel killings, (Northern Ireland, 1993)
• 6 - Harrods bombing, (London, England, 1983)
• 6 - Coshquin bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1990)
• 6 - World Trade Center bombing, (New York, United States, 1993)
• 6 - Loughlinisland killings, (Northern Ireland, 1994)
• 5 - Guildford pub bombings, (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 - Herman Mudgett, 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 State, 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)
• 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 - Montreal 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)
• 5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)
• 2 - Ed Gein, Plainfield, Wisconsin (1957)

Religious sacrifice

• 2,000,000 - Thuggee cult (13th century - 1840)
• 15,000 (estimated) - Holy Inquisition (Europe). 1184 - 1800
• 80,000 ('classic' estimate) - 3,000 (modern estimate) - temple of Huitzilopochtli
• 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 - Tibetan riots against Chinese Government (Tibet, China 1959)
• 30,000 - Nika riots (Constantinople, 532)
• 11,000 - Romanian Peasants' Revolt, 1907
• 7,500 - March 1st Movement (Seoul, Korea, 1919)
• 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
• 200–300 - Tlatelolco massacre (Mexico, 1968)
• 285 - Gordon riots, (1780)
• 184 - May 13 Incident, ( Kuala Lumpur, 1969)
• 100 - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot", (Paris, 1795)
• 100 - New York Draft Riots, (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)
• 13 - Chinese Middle School riots (Singapore), 1956
• 11 - Peterloo massacre (England, 1819)
• 5 - Greensboro massacre (United States, 1979)
• 4 - Kent State shootings (United States, 1970)
• 4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore), 1955

Deaths caused by natural disasters

Earthquake

• 830,000 - Shaanxi earthquake (China, 1556)
• 400,000 - Tangshan earthquake (China, 1976)
• 286,000 - Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis (outside Indonesia, 2004)
• 200,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1920)
• 200,000 - Xining earthquake (China, 1927)
• 140,000 - Great Kanto earthquake (Japan, 1923)
• 100,000 - Messina earthquake (Italy, 1908)
• 100,000 - 1755 Lisbon earthquake (Portugal, 1755)
• 80,000 - Shemakha earthquake (Caucasus, 1667)
• 77,000 - Tabriz earthquake (Iran, 1727)
• 70,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1932)
• 66,000 - Peru earthquake (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)
• 24,000 - Chi-Chi earthquake (Taiwan, 1999)
• 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)
• 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)

Extreme weather

• 1,000,000–3,700,000 - 1931 Huang He flood (China, 1931)
• 900,000–2,000,000 - 1887 Huang He flood (China, 1887)
• 145,000 - 1935 Yangtze river flood
• 142,000 - 1931 Yangtze river flood
• 100,000 - flood (North Vietnam, 1971)
• 100,000 - 1911 Yangtze river flood
• 35,000 - European Heat Wave of 2003 (Europe, 2003)
• 30,000 - 1954 Yangtze river flood
• 15,000 - torrential rains and mudslides in Venezuela (1999)
• 12,000 - Great Smog of 1952, (United Kingdom, 1952)
• 10,000 - Great Iran Flood, (Iran, 1954)
• 4,000 - heat waves in Texas, Middle East and India (1998)
• 4,000 - blizzard, (Iran, 1972)
• 2,142 - North Sea Flood of 1953 storm surge, (Netherlands, United Kingdom, 1953)
• 1,909 - Vajont Dam landslide and flood disaster, (Italy, 1963)
• 1,605–3,363 - spring flooding in Haiti and Dominican Republic (2004)
• 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)
• 16 - Brisbane flood (Australia, 1974)

Hurricane and cyclone

• 500,000 - Bhola cyclone (Bangladesh, 1970)
• 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 (