 | List of wars and disasters by death toll: Encyclopedia II - List of wars and disasters by death toll - Deaths caused by humans
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Deaths caused by humans
List of wars and disasters by death toll - War and military action
These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, and atrocities as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
- 62,000,000 - World War II (1937–1945), (see World War II casualties)
- 36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
- 30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
- 25,000,000 - Manchu Conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)
- 20,000,000–50,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)
- 17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
- 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
- 10,000,000-25,000,000 - Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)
- 5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War (1917–1921)
- 3,800,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2004)
- 3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
- 3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years War (1618–1648)
- 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)
- 1,700,000–2,300,000 - Khmer Rouge (1975–1979)
- 1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghanistan (1979–2001)
- 1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet invasion (1979–1989)
- 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
- 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)
- 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 - Somali 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)
- 300,000–3,000,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War
- 300,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
- 278,000 - 1992-1995 war in Bosnia
- 270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
- 230,000–1,400,000 - Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
- 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)
- 100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
- 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)
- 30,000–100,000 - American led invasion and occupation of Iraq (2003 - )
- 30,000 - Turkey/PKK conflict (1984 - )
- 30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
- 20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan
- 13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)
- 12,000 - Croatian Independence War (1991–1995)
- 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)
- 2,000,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916)
- 1,800,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
- 1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
- 700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
- 500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
- 400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
- 370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
- 370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
- 330,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
- 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)
- 240,000 - Third Battle of the Aisne (1918)
- 240,000(est) - Battle of Bibracte (58 BC)
- 230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
- 230,000–350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
- 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)
- 175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
- 170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943)
- 170,000 - Battle of Königsberg (1945)
- 165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
- 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)
- 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)
- 56,000–66,000 - Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
- 55,000 - Korsun Pocket (1944)
- 55,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
- 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)
- 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)
- 40,000–56,000 - Tet Offensive (1968)
- 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)
- 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)
- 30,000–50,000 - Battle of Naissus (268)
- 30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
- 30,300–34,000 - Battle of Thermopylae (480 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)
- 20,000–30,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
- 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)
- 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-June 3, 1864)
- 1,700 - Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
- 1,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
- 868 - First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
- 639 - Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
- 586 - Battle of the Alamo (1836)
- 567 - Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879)
- 495 - Battle of Monongahela (1755)
- 366 - Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
- 350 - Battle of Spioen Kop (1900)
- 302 - Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
- 200–2,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8–November 14, 2004)
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Genocide and democide
- 40,000,000, contradictory - Mao Zedong's Regime (China, 1949-1975)[1].
- 30,000,000–62,000,000 - Stalin's regime (1924-53), (not including WWII)[2].
- 11,000,000–19,000,000 - Slave trade in Islamic World over 1200 years (7th - 19th century) -needs explanation
- 6,000,000–60,000,000 - African and Atlantic slave trade (16th - 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
- 500,000-600,000 - Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia
- 250,000–1,000,000 Roma
- 70,000–275,000 Disabled
- 10,000–220,000 Homosexuals
- 5,000,000–10,000,000 - Congo Free State, (1877 - 1908)
- 2,000,000–100,000,000 - Destruction of Native Americans (after 1492) The estimates involved are controversial. For details of the controversy, see the linked article.
- 2,000,000–3,000,000 - Pol Pot's communization program (Cambodia, 1975-1979)
- 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)
- 800,000–1,000,000 - Partition of India and Pakistan, (1947-1948)
- 500,000–1,500,000 - Degars killed in Vietnam, (Vietnam,1975 - present)
- ~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)
- 250,000–1,000,000 - Massacre of alleged communists, (Indonesia, 1965-1966)
- 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)
- 100,000 - cumulative total attributed to Thuggee (? - 1840)
- 75,000 - religious and political oppression under Henry VIII (1509-1547)
- 40,000–100,000 - Herero massacre, (Namibia, 1904-1908)
- 30,000 - Dictatorship of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, (Haiti, 1964 - 1971)
- 10,000 - Bosnian Genocide
- 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)
- 1,100,000 - Auschwitz concentration camp (Oświęcim, Poland, 1940-1945)
- 937,000 - Genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)
- 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)
- 260,000 - Sobibór extermination camp
- 250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
- 220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (58 BC)
- 200,000+ - Sack of Moscow by Crimean Tatars, 1571
- 100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnitzki, (1648 - 1649)
- 100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
- 100,000-300,000 Tokyo firebombing,1945
- 100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
- 70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
- 70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
- 66,000–237,062 - Hiroshima Bombing (Japan, 1945)
- 60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
- 50,000–350,000 - Rape of Nanking, China (1937)
- 50,000 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, 1943)
- 39,000–108,000 - Nagasaki Bombing (Japan, 1945)
- 30,000–40,000 - massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible
- 30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
- 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)
- 10,000-30,000 228 Incident, (Taiwan, 1947)
- 10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
- 8,000 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
- 7,000 - the Spanish Fury in Antwerp, Belgium by mutining spanish troops, 1576
- 7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
- 7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
- 5,000-12,000 - Massacre of Indians and Arabs in Zanzibar (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1964)
- 5,000-7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
- 5,000 - Massacre of Mamluks (Egypt, 1811)
- 3,000-5,000 Massacre at Hue (Vietnam, 1968)
- 1,645 - Guernica (Spain, 1937)
- 900 - El Mozote Massacre (El Salvador, 1981)
- 622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
- 379-1,000 - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Amritsar, India, 1919)
- 360 - Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania, United States, 1778)
- 347-504 - My Lai Massacre (Vietnam, 1968)
- 328-5,500 - Sabra and Shatila Massacre (Lebanon, 1982)
- 320 - Bloody Assizes (England, 1685)
- 300 - Weenen Massacre (Natal, South Africa, 1838)
- 300 - Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota, United States, 1890)
- 268 - Plan de Sánchez massacre (Guatemala, 1982)
- 202-300 Bentalha massacre (Algiers, 1997)
- 192 - Tartu Massacre (Estonia, 1944)
- 173 - Tenes massacre (Algiers, 1994)
- 150-200 Lawrence Massacre (Kansas, 1863)
- 150 - Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado, United States, 1864)
- 120-400 Sidi-Hamed massacre (Algiers, 1998)
- 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)
- 100-400 - Rais massacre (Aligers, 1997)
- 100-300 - Waterloo Creek Massacre (Australia, 1838)
- 91–200 - Kristallnacht (Germany, 1938)
- 78 - Massacre of Glencoe (Scotland, 1692)
- 67 - Hebron 1929 Massacre (Palestine, 1929)
- 45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)
- 13 - Santiago Atitlan massacre - "el masacre" (Guatemala, 1990)
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Terrorism
Not all terrorist acts have been accounted for. Just well known ones.
- 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)
- 202 - 2002 Bali bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
- 191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, (Spain, 2004)
- 181 - Kerbala and Baghdad attacks, (2004, see Ashoura Massacre)
- 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)
- 98 - Fuel tanker bombing, (Musayyib, Iraq, 2005)
- 91 - King David Hotel bombing, (Jerusalem, 1946)
- 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)
- 61 - 29 October 2005 New Delhi bombings, (New Delhi, 2005)
- 60 - 2005 Amman bombings, (Amman, 2005)
- 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)
- 17 - USS Cole Bombing, (Yemen, 2000)
- 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)
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Murder by individuals other than through terrorism
- ~650 - Erzsébet Báthory, Kingdom of Hungary, (c.1585 - 1610) - total disputed
- 400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
- 323 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)
- 300+ - Pedro Lopez, South America, (1969 - 1980) - total disputed
- ~250 - Dr. Harold Shipman, Hyde, United Kingdom, (1970s?-1998)
- 189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
- 140 - Luis Garavito, Colombia, (1992-1998)
- 125 - Behram, Thugee cult, India, (1790 - 1830)
- 100 - Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, serial killer from Johnsonville, South Carolina who prior to his execution, claimed over 100 killed
- 97 - Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
- 87 - Happyland Fire, New York City, (1990)
- 80+ - Bruno Ludke, Germany, (1928 - 1943)
- 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)
- 29-40 - Charles Cullen, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, USA (1988 - 2003)
- 27–63 Marcel Petiot, France, (1926 - 1944)
- 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)
- 20-100 - H. H. Holmes, Chicago, USA (1890s)
- 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)
- 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 - Tore Hedin, Annelöv outside Landskrona, Sweden - (1951 - 1952)
- 10 - Edmund Kemper, Santa Cruz, California (1964 - 1973)
- 10 - Dennis Rader ("BTK killer"), Kansas, USA (1974 - 1991)
- 10 - Hillside Strangler, Los Angeles, USA (1977 - 1978)
- 9-80 - Peter Kürten, Düsseldorf, Germany (1925 - 1929)
- 8 - Postal shooting, Goleta, California (2006)
- 7 - Mattias Flink, Falun, Sweden - (1994)
- 6+ - "Zodiac killer", California, USA (1966 - 1969?)
- 5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)
- 5+ - Juan Covington, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania USA {1998 - 2005}
- 5 - Johan Filip Nordlund onboard a steamer on its way to Stockholm, Sweden - (1900)
- 4 - Tommy Zethraeus (The Stureplan Murders) Stockholm, Sweden - (1994)
- 2-15 - Henry Lee Lucas, Texas, USA (1960 - 1983)
- 2 - Ed Gein, Plainfield, Wisconsin (1957)
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Human sacrifice and mass suicide
- 80,000 (estimated) - suicides of Japanese civilians during the Battle of Okinawa, (1945)
- 15,000 (estimated) - Holy Inquisition (Europe). 1184 - 1800
- 8,000 - suicides of Japanese civilians and troops during the Battle of Saipan, (1944)
- 3,000 (modern estimate) - 80,000 ('classic' estimate) - temple of Huitzilopochtli, Tenochtitlan
- 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)
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Riot or political demonstration
- 87,000 - Chinese massacres of Tibetan pro-independence protestors (Tibet, China 1959)
- 30,000 - Nika riots (Constantinople, 532)
- 30,000 - La semaine sanglante (Paris, 1871)
- 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)
- 500–2,600 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
- 400 - Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, 1987)
- 300–5,000 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
- 285 - Gordon Riots (England, 1780)
- 200–300 - Tlatelolco massacre (Mexico, 1968)
- 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)
- 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)
- 39+ - Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, although recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
- 36 - 1964 Race Riots (Singapore, 1964)
- 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)
- 7–60 - Massacre in Côte d'Ivoire by French troops (Côte d'Ivoire, 2004)
- 5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
- 4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
- 4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)
- 1 - Murray-Hill riot (Montréal, 1969)
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Tibet, Timur, Timur Lenk, Tlatelolco massacre, Toba catastrophe theory, Tokai, Ibaraki, Tokaido, Tokyo, Tokyo firebombing, Tore Hedin, Torres Strait, Townsville, Toya Maru, Trans-Siberian railway, Treblinka, Treblinka extermination camp, Tri-State Tornado, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Tripoli, Lebanon, Tropical Storm Allison, Tsar, Tsunami, Tsushima Maru, Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Turin, Turkey, Turkish Airlines, Turkmenistan, Tuzla, Typhoon Ike, Typhoon Vera, U.S., U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan, UK, US Army, US and French barracks bombings, USA, USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Maine, USS Scorpion, USS Thresher, USS Bennington, USS Cole Bombing, USSR, UTA Flight UT-772, Ufa, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, United States Marine Corps, United States casualties of war, University of Texas, Upper Egypt, Ustasha, Utah, Uttar Pradesh, Vajont Dam, Valparaíso, ValuJet Flight 592, Vancouver, Venezuela, Vienna, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Volcanic eruption, Vostok rocket, Waco, Texas, Wai, Maharashtra, Wales, Wall Street bombing, Wankie, War, War of the Triple Alliance, Warlord, Wars of the Roses, Warsaw Uprising, Washington, Washington, DC, Waterloo Creek Massacre, Watts Riot, Waxhaw Massacre, Weenen Massacre, Wellington, West Bank, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, West Germany, West Indies, West Nile Virus, West Port murders, West Virginia, West Yorkshire, Westhoughton, Windward Islands, Wisconsin, World Trade Center bombing, World War I, World War I casualties, World War II, World War II casualties, Wounded Knee Massacre, Wyoming Valley Massacre, Xining, Xinjiang, Yangon, Year Without a Summer, Yemen, Yoo Young-Chul, York, Yugoslavia, Zanzibar, Zapatista uprising, Zarand, Zodiac killer, Zonguldak, Zulus, ammo, basin, democide, disease, factory, flood, flooding, football, forest fire, grapeshot, hail, high-speed train disaster, hooliganism, lightning, mass suicide, merchantman, natural disasters, nuclear waste, occupation of Iraq, oil platform, stampede by pilgrims, stoning of the devil, supervolcano, the Spanish Fury, tornado, torrential rains and mudslides, troopship, tropical cyclone, tsunami, typhoon, zealots, École Polytechnique Massacre
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