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This is a list of wars and man-made disasters by death toll. Some events overlap categories.

For natural disasters and smog see: List of natural disasters by death toll

Wars

These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc. as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.

Where only one estimate is available, it appears in both the low and high estimates. This is a sortable table. Click on the column sort buttons to sort results numerically or alphabetically.

See also List of wars

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To	See also
60,000,000	72,000,000	World War II	Asia, Europe, Africa, Pacific	1939	1945	World War II casualties
40,000,000	40,000,000	Three Kingdoms War	China	184	280	Ancient warfare
36,000,000	36,000,000	An Shi Rebellion	China	756	763	Medieval warfare
30,000,000	60,000,000	Mongol Conquests	Asia, Europe, Middle East	1207	1279	Mongol invasions and Tatar invasions
25,000,000	25,000,000	Manchu conquest of Ming Dynasty	China	1616	1644	Qing Dynasty
20,000,000	50,000,000	Taiping Rebellion	China	1851	1864	Dungan revolt
20,000,000	20,000,000	Second Sino-Japanese War	China	1931	1945
15,000,000	66,000,000	World War I. (High estimate includes Spanish flu deaths)	Europe	1914	1918	World War I casualties
10,000,000	10,000,000	Warring States Era	China	BC475	BC221	List of conflicts in Asia
7,000,000	20,000,000	Conquests of Timur the Lame	Middle East, India, Asia, Russia	1369	1405	List of wars in the Muslim world^[1]
5,000,000	9,000,000	Russian Civil War	Russia	1917	1921	List of civil wars
3,800,000	13,800,000	Second Congo War	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1998	2003
3,500,000	16,000,000	Napoleonic Wars	Europe	1804	1815	see Napoleonic Wars casualties
3,000,000	8,000,000	Thirty Years' War	Germany	1618	1648
3,000,000	7,000,000	Yellow Turban Rebellion	China	184	205	part of Three Kingdoms War
2,500,000	3,500,000	Korean War	Korean Peninsula	1950	1953	Cold War
2,495,000	5,020,000	Vietnam War	South East Asia	1945	1975
2,000,000	4,000,000	French Wars of Religion	France	1562	1598	Religious war
2,000,000	2,000,000	Shaka's conquests	Africa	1816	1828
1,500,000	2,000,000	Afghan Civil War	Afghanistan	1979	present	Soviet intervention
1,300,000	6,100,000	Chinese Civil War	China	1928	1949	This figure excludes World War II casualties
1,000,000	1,000,000	Iran-Iraq War	Persian Gulf	1980	1988
1,000,000	1,000,000	Second Sudanese Civil War	Southern Sudan	1983	2002	Persecution of Christians
1,000,000	1,000,000	Nigerian Civil War	Nigeria	1967	1970
970,000	970,000	American Civil War	the Northern and Southern states of USA	1861	1865	including 350,000 from disease
900,000	1,000,000	Mozambique Civil War	Republic of Mozambique	1976	1993
868,000^[2]	1,400,000^[3]	Seven Years' War	Europe, Africa, India, North America, Philippines	1756	1763
800,000	1,000,000	Rwandan Civil War	Rwanda	1990	1994
800,000	800,000	Congo Civil War	Zaire	1991	1997
600,000	1,300,000	First Jewish-Roman War	Judea	66	73	List of Roman wars
580,000	580,000	Bar Kokhba’s revolt	Judea	132	135
550,000	550,000	Somali Civil War	Somalia	1988	present
500,000	1,000,000	Spanish Civil War	Spain	1936	1939
570,000	570,000	Eritrean War of Independence	Eritrea	1961	1991
500,000	500,000	First Sudanese Civil War	Sudan	1955	1972
500,000	500,000	Angolan Civil War	Angola	1975	2002
500,000	500,000	Ugandan Civil War	Uganda	1979	1986
400,000	1,000,000	War of the Triple Alliance	Paraguay	1864	1870
371,000	371,000	Continuation War	Finland, Karelia, Murmansk	1941	1944
315,000	735,000	Wars of the Three Kingdoms	England, Scotland, Ireland	1639	1651	English campaign ~40,000, Scottish 73,000, Irish 200,000-620,000
300,000	4,000,000	Russian-Circassian War	Caucasus	1763	1864
300,000	3,000,000	Bangladesh Liberation War	Bangladesh, Pakistan, India	1971
300,000	2,000,000	Mexican Revolution	Mexico	1910	1920
300,000	1,500,000	Caucasian War	Caucasus	1817	1864	Part of Russian-Circassian War
300,000	300,000	First Burundi Civil War	Burundi	1993	2006
270,000	300,000	Crimean War	Crimean Peninsula, Baltic Sea	1854	1856
255,000	1,120,000	Philippine-American War	The Philippines	1898	1913
230,000	1,400,000	Ethiopian Civil War	Ethiopia	1974	1991
220,000	220,000	Liberian Civil War	Liberia	1989	2003
200,000	800,000	Warlord Era	China	1917	1928
214,000	655,000+	Iraq War	Iraq	2003	present	2003 invasion of Iraq
200,000?	400,000?	First Punic War	Sicily, North Africa, Mediterranean	BC264	BC241
200,000	200,000	Second Punic War	Italy, Iberia, North Africa	BC218	BC204	List of Roman battles
200,000	200,000	Sierra Leone Civil War	Sierra Leone	1991	2000
200,000	200,000	Guatemaltec Civil War	Guatemala	1960	1996
190,000	190,000	Franco-Prussian War	France, Germany	1870	1871
180,000	300,000	La Violencia	Colombia	1948	1958
150,000	150,000	Lebanese Civil War	Lebanon	1975	1990
150,000	150,000	North Yemen Civil War	Yemen	1962	1970
150,000	150,000	Russo-Japanese War	Manchuria, Yellow Sea	1904	1905
148,000	1,000,000	Winter War	Eastern Finland	1939
125,000	125,000	Eritrean-Ethiopian War	Ethiopia, Eritrea	1998	2000
120,000	384,000	Great Turkish War	Balkans	1683	1699	Ottoman-Habsburg wars
120,000+	120,000+	Third Servile War	Italia	BC73	BC71
120,000	200,000	Algerian Civil War	Algeria	1991	present
101,000	115,000	Arab-Israeli conflict	Israel, Middle East	1929	2024
100,500	100,500	Chaco War	Gran Chaco	1932	1935
100,000	1,000,000	War of the two brothers	Peru, Ecuador	1531	1532
100,000	100,000	Gulf War	Persian Gulf	1991
100,000	1,000,000	Algerian War of Independence	Algeria	1954	1962	Harki
100,000	100,000	Thousand Days War	Colombia	1899	1901
95,000	105,000	Bosnian War	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1992	1995	Yugoslav wars
80,000	80,000	Third Punic War	North Africa	BC149	BC146
75,000	200,000?	Conquests of Alexander the Great	Greece, Middle East, India	BC336	BC323
75,000	200,000	Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	1945	1949
75,000	75,000	El Salvador Civil War	El Salvador	1980	1992
75,000	75,000	Second Boer War	South Africa	1898	1902
70,000^[4]	70,000	Boudica's uprising	Roman Britain	AD60	AD61
70,000~	70,000~	Julian civil war	Southern Europe, Africa	BC49	BC45
70,000	70,000	Shining Path insurgency	Peru	1980	present
67,000	68,000	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	1983	present
60,000+	300,000+	Gallic Wars	Gaul	BC58	BC51
60,000	60,000	Nicaraguan Rebellion		1972	1991
52,000	52,000	Angolan War of Independence	Angola	1961	1974
50,000	200,000	First Chechen War	Chechnya	1994	1996
50,000	50,000	Wars of the Roses	England	1455	1485	Wars involving England
45,000	45,000	Greek Civil War	Greece	1945	1949
44,000	44,000	Mahdist War	Sudan	1881	1899
41,000	100,000	Kashmiri insurgency	Kashmir	1989	present
35,000	40,000	War of the Pacific	South America	1879	1884
36,000	36,000	Finnish Civil War	Finland	1918
35,000	45,000	Knights of Malta-Ottoman War	Malta	1565		Ottoman wars in Europe Siege of Malta
31,000	100,000	Second Chechen War	Chechnya, North Caucasus	1999	present
30,000	50,000	First Sino-Japanese War	Korea, China	1894	1895
30,000	30,000	Turkey/PKK conflict	Turkey	1984	present
30,000	30,000	Sino-Vietnamese War	Vietnam	1979
23,384	23,384	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971	India, Pakistan, Bangladesh	1971
23,000	23,000	Nagorno-Karabakh War	Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan	1988	1994
20,000	49,600	U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan	Afghanistan	2001	2002
15,000	20,000	Croatian War of Independence	Croatia	1991	1995
13,000	13,000	South Yemen Civil War	Yemen	1986
11,503	70,000	Mau Mau Uprising	Kenya	1952	1960
11,053	11,053	Malayan Emergency	Malaya	1948	1960
7,264	10,000	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965	Indian subcontinent	1965
7,000	24,000	War of 1812	North America, Mexican Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific	1812	1815
7,000	20,000	Kosovo War	Kosovo	1996	1999
7,000+	7,000+	Spanish-American War	Caribbean, Pacific	1898	1898	List of Spanish wars
5,000	5,000	Turkish invasion of Cyprus	Cyprus	1974		Turkish wars in Europe
4,588	4,588	Sino-Indian War	India/Tibet	1962	1962
4,478	4,478	Al Aqsa Intifada	Israel, Palestinian territories	2000	present
4,000	4,000	Waziristan War	Waziristan, Pakistan	2004	2006
3,700	3,700	Northern Ireland conflict	Ireland	1969	1998
3,222	3,222	Hungarian Uprising	Hungary	1956	1956
3,000	3,000	Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire	Côte d'Ivoire	2002	present
2,604	7,000	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947	Kashmir	1947	1948	Massive population exchanges
2,000+	2,000+	Shifta War	Kenya	1963	1967
2,000	2,000	Football War	El Salvador, Honduras	1969
1,547	2,173+	Israel-Lebanon conflict	Lebanon, Israel	2006
1,724	1,724	War of Lapland	Lapland, Finland	1945
1,500	1,500	Romanian Revolution	Romania	1989
1,000+	1,000+	Urabi Revolt	Egypt	1879	1882
1,000	1,000	Zapatista uprising	Chiapas	1994
907	907	Falklands War	Falkland Islands, South Georgia	1982
884	6,000	Kargil War	Kashmir	1999
537	3,000	Operation Just Cause	Panama	1989
64	64	Ten Day War	Slovenia	1991	1991

Vietnam War

A list of the different phases of the long-running Vietnam War, listed in chronological order.

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To
300,000	1,300,000	French phase	Vietnam	1945	1954
100,000	300,000	Vietnamese Civil War	Vietnam	1954	1960
1,750,000	2,100,000	American phase	Vietnam	1960	1973
170,000	170,000	Final phase	Vietnam	1973	1975
175,000	1,150,000	Secret War	Laos	1962	1975
2,495,000	5,020,000	TOTALS

Arab-Israeli conflict

A list of wars and other periods of violence in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict, from the 1929 Palestine riots to the present day. Listed in chronological order.

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To	Other
1,000,000,000	1,000,000,000
249	249	1929 Palestine riots	British Mandate of Palestine	1929	1929	116 Jews, 133 Arabs
5600	5600	Arab revolt	British Mandate of Palestine	1936	1939	5000 Arabs, 400 Jews, 200 British
2000	2000	1947-48 Palestinian Civil War	British Mandate of Palestine	1947	1948
16,500	21,500	Israeli War of Independence	Israel, former British Mandate	1948	1949	6,363 Israelis, 10,000-15,000 Arabs
3850^[5]	6200^[5]	Border Violence	Israel, Jordan, Syria, Egypt	1949	1956	550 Israelis, 3300-5600 Arabs
913	913	Suez War	Egypt	1956	1956	197 Israelis, 56 British, 10 French, 650 Egyptians
22,000	22,000	Six Day War	Israel, Egypt. Syria, Jordan	1967	1967	779 Israelis, 21,000 Arabs
10,700	10,700	War of Attrition	Egypt	1968	1970	721+ Israelis, 10,000 Egyptians
11,200	17,700	Yom Kippur War	Egypt, Syria	1973	1973	2,656 Israelis, 8528-15000 Arabs
220	320	1978 South Lebanon conflict	Lebanon	1978	1978	20 Israelis, 2-300 PLO militants
18,500	18,500	1982 Lebanon War	Lebanon	1982	1982	670 Israelis, 17,825 Arabs
3000<	3000<	1982-2000 South Lebanon conflict	Lebanon	1982	2000
1365^[6]	1365	First Intifada	Israel, Palestinian territories	1987	1993	203 Israelis, 1165 Palestinians
651^[6]	651	Oslo Peace Process	Israel, Palestinian territories	1993	2000	250 Israelis, 401 Palestinians
5616^[7]	5616	Second Intifada	Israel, Palestinian territories	2000	present	63 foreigners, 1023 Israelis, 4530 Palestinians
1250	1950	2006 Lebanon War	Israel, Lebanon	2006	2006	162 Israelis, 1100-1800 Arabs
217	217	Palestinian Civil War	Gaza	2006	present	57 Hamas, 100 Fatah, 80 civilians
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~101,000	~115,000	TOTAL 14,110 Israelis / 86,000-100,000 Arabs / 256 British / 73 others

Genocide

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This is a summary list of genocides or alledged genocides that appear in the article genocides in history

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To	See also
1,000,000,000	1,000,000,000
21,000,000^{[citation needed]}	26,000,000^{[citation needed]}	Genocides Nazi Germany under Hitler, including the Holocaust	Europe	1933	1945	see Holocaust and Consequences of German Nazism
4,000,000	8,000,000	Genocide, Larger figure includes 6-8 million famine victims (see Holodomor)	Soviet Union	1932	1932	Number of Stalin's victims
1,700,000	3,000,000	Genocide	Kampuchea	1975	1979	Khmer Rouge
1,000,000	3,000,000	Armenian genocide	Turkey	1895	1923	Assyrian Genocide Greek Genocide
800,000	800,000	Rwandan genocide	Rwanda	1994	1994
400,000	700,000^[8]	Ustashe genocide of Serbs, Jews, Roma	Balkans	1941	1945	Independent State of Croatia
400,000	400,000	Ethnic cleansing/genocide of black Africans	Sudan	2003	2007	Darfur conflict
300,000	3,000,000	Bangladesh/Pakistan partition	Pakistan	1971	1971
225,000	225,000	Depopulation of Australian aborigines (inc. massacres, introduced disease)	Australia	1788	1888	History wars [2]
200,000	200,000	Burundi genocide	Burundi	1972	1972
130,000	200,000	Genocide, massacres	Guatemala	1962	1996	Efrain Rios Montt
117,000	500,000	Revolt in the Vendée	France	1793	1796	French Revolution
150,000	300,000	Genocide, political repression	East Timor	1975	1990's
100,000	400,000	Genocide of West Papuans	Indonesia	1961	present	Genocide in West Papua
40,000	100,000	Herero and Namaqua genocide	Namibia	1904	1908	Imperial Germany

Democide

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This list includes those events that R. J. Rummel considers democides.

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To	See also	Claimants
1,000,000,000	1,000,000,000
27,000,000^[9]	72,000,000^[10]	Political repression & Great Leap Forward famine, see note^[11]	Peoples Republic of China	1949	1975	Mao Zedong.	^{[citation needed]}
21,000,000^[12]	26,000,000^[13]	Genocides & democides of Nazi Germany under Hitler, including the Holocaust	Europe	1933	1945	see Holocaust and Consequences of German Nazism	^{[citation needed]}
13,778,000^[14]	15,000,000^[15]	Democide/genocide of Native Americans	Americas	1500s	2000s	Amerindian history	^{[citation needed]}
6,000,000^[16]	60,000,000^[17]	Atlantic slave trade (including African tribal warfare promoted by the trade)	Africa, Americas	1600's	1900's	African slave trade	^{[citation needed]}
6,000,000^[18]	30,000,000^[19]	Imperial Japan's occupation of Asia	Asia	1930's	1945	Japanese war crimes	^{[citation needed]}
3,600,000^[20]	20,000,000^[21]	Arab slave trade	Africa, Asia, Europe	800's	2000's	Islam & slavery and Slavery in Modern Africa	^{[citation needed]}
3,000,000^[22]	22,000,000^[22]	Depopulation (from forced labour & consequent spread of disease, massacres)	Congo Free State	1877	1908	Leopold II of Belgium	^{[citation needed]}
1,000,000	5,000,000^[23]	Genocide of Chinese Muslims	China	1856	1873	Panthay Rebellion Muslim Rebellion	^{[citation needed]}
800,000	1,000,000	India-Pakistan Partition	India	1947	1948		^{[citation needed]}
500,000+^[24]	500,000+	Anticommunist purge	Indonesia	1965	1965
400,000	400,000	Taiwan under Japanese rule	Taiwan	1895	1945		^{[citation needed]}
300,000	300,000	Democide	Uganda	1971	1979	Idi Amin	^{[citation needed]}
300,000	300,000	Ethnic cleansing of Circassians	Caucasus	1763	1864	Russian-Circassian War.	^{[citation needed]}
150,000	150,000	Harrying of the North	England	1069	1070	William the Conqueror	^{[citation needed]}
100,000	1,200,000	Democide of Tibetans (included in totals for People's Republic of China above)	Tibet	1950	present	Tibetan genocide trial and Human rights in China	^{[citation needed]}
72,000+	252,000	Russian pogroms	Russia	1881	1922	Revolution/Civil War	^{[citation needed]}
72,000	72,000	Executions	England	1509	1547	Henry VIII	^{[citation needed]}
50,000	182,000	Genocide, ethnic cleansing	Iraq	1986	1989	Al-Anfal Campaign	^{[citation needed]}
40,000	100,000^[25]	Massacres	Wallachia	1448	1462	Vlad III the Impaler	^{[citation needed]}
33,000	43,000	Concentration camps	South Africa	1899	1902	Second Boer War	^{[citation needed]}
18,000	60,000	Reign of Terror	France	1793	1794	Jacobin Club	^{[citation needed]}
40,000	40,000	Witch hunts	Europe	1450	1700		^{[citation needed]}
30,000	30,000	Political repression	Haiti	1964	1971	"Papa Doc" Duvalier	^{[citation needed]}
15,000	23,000^[26]	Political repression	Cuba	1959	2007	Fidel Castro	^{[citation needed]}
12,000	24,000	The 228 Incident	Taiwan	1947	1947	Kwo Mintang (KMT)	^{[citation needed]}
10,000	30,000	The Dirty War	Argentina	1976	1983		^{[citation needed]}
3,000	3,000	Political repression	Chile	1973	1990	Augusto Pinochet	^{[citation needed]}
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Man-made famines

This section includes famines alleged by some researchers to have been caused partly or wholly by human agency.

See also Famine and List of famines

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To	Other
51,000,000	51,000,000+	Famines in India under the British Raj and British East India Company	India	1630	1943
20,000,000	43,000,000	Famines in China under the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong	People's Republic of China	1959	1962	Chinese scholars record 1,828 famines from 108 B.C. to 1911
6,000,000	8,000,000	Famines in the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin	Russia	1932	1933	See also Holodomor
5,000,000	5,000,000	Bengal famine of 1943	Bangladesh and West Bengal	1943	1943	Included in figure for British Raj
500,000	2,000,000	Great Irish Famine in British-ruled Ireland	Ireland	1846	1849
400,000	2,000,000	Vietnamese Famine of 1945 under French and Imperial Japanese administration	Vietnam	1945	1945

Famines in India

Lowest Estimate	Highest Estimate	Event	Location	From	To	Other
16,000,000	16,000,000+	Nine major famines under the British East India Company	India	1630	1857
35,000,000	35,000,000+	25 major famines under the British Raj	India	1858	1943

Individual battles and sieges

Note that the figures from most of these battles are included under various entries in the "Wars" section above.

1,530,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
1,425,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916)
1,338,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
1,300,000+ - The Merv massacre 1221
1,200,000 - The Urgench massacre 1220
900,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
552,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
330,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
310,000 - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
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+ - Battle of Chi Bi, China (208 AD)
200,000 - Battle of Carthage (c.149 BC) (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)
140,000 - Battle of Vercellae (101 BC)
132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944)
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)
95,000(est) - Battle of Sarıkamış (1915)
90,000 - Battle of Cambrai (1917) (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-Sandomierz (1944)
62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915)
61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944)
60,000 - 100,000 Third Battle of Panipat, India, 1761
60,000 - Battle of Basra (655)
60,000 - Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Arras (1917)
60,000 - First Battle of Ypres (1914)
60,000 - Second 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 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
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)
40,000 - Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
40,000 - Battle of Vaslui (1475)
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 - Hartmannswillerkopf (1914-1918)
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)
24,000 - Battle of Mohács (1526)
22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)
21,000 - Battle of Guam (1944)
20,000 - The Night Attack (1462)
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)
19,500 - 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)
15,000 - Battle of Mohács (1526)
13,500 - Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)
12,000 - Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
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 Điện Biên Phủ (1954)
10,000 - Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC)
10,000 - Battle of Celaya (1913)
9,500 - Battle at Lund (Slaget vid Lund) (1677)
8,700 - Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC)
8,600 - Battle of Jutland (1916)
8,400 - Battle of Tinian (1944)
8,000+ - Battle of Agincourt, (Hundred Years' War, 1415)
8,000 - Battle of Grunwald (1410)
7,200 - Kokoda Track Campaign, (1942–1943)
7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
6,500 - Battle of the Kasserine Pass (1943)
5,600–6,600 Battle of Tali-Ihantala (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 Daraa (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 Vimeiro (August 20, 1808)
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)
1,300 - Battle of Culloden (1746)
1,015 - Battle of Bud Dajo (Philippines, 1906)
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)

Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps

See also List of massacres

1,300,000+ - Merv massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Tolui khan), located in Merv (present Mary) in Turkestan
1,200,000 - Urgench massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Ögedei khan), located in Urgench (then Guranj) in Uzbekistan
1,000,000-1,400,000^[27] - Treblinka extermination camp, (by Nazi Germany, located in Treblinka, Poland, 1942-1943)
800,000-4,000,000^[28] - Auschwitz extermination camp (by Nazi-Germany, located in Oświęcim, Poland, 1940-1945)
700,000-840,000^[29] - Jasenovac extermination camp - (by NDH Ustasha nazi regime in Croatia. Most of the victims were Serbs)
480,000-600,000^[30]^[31]^[32] - Belzec extermination camp, (by Nazi Germany, located in Belzec Poland, 1942-1943)
350,000 - Majdanek extermination camp, (by Nazi Germany, located in Lublin Poland, 1942-1944)
300,000 - Chelmno extermination camp, (by Nazi Germany, located in Chelmno Poland, 1941-1943)
260,000 - Sobibór extermination camp, (by Nazi Germany, located in Sobibor Poland, 1942-1943)
250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (by Roman Empire 58 BC)
200,000+ - Sack of Moscow (by Crimean Tatars, 1571)
200,000–400,000 - Rape of Nanking (by Imperial Japan, in China, 1937)
150,000 - 300,000 - Kalmyks from east of the Volga set out to return to China but two-thirds of them were massacred on the way by theirs Kazakh enemies (Central Asia, 1770-1771)
100,000 - Ponary massacre of Jews, Poles and Russians by German SD and SS (Lithuania 1941-1944)
100,000–500,000 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian nationalists from Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the German occupation of Ukraine between 1942 and 1944
100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnicki, (1648 - 1649). During the Deluge, series of wars between 1648 and 1660, Poland lost an estimated one-third of its population.
100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
100,000-300,000 United States' Tokyo firebombing,1945
100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
100,000-150,000 - Sack of Carthage, (146BC)
100,000 - Siege of Antioch (1268)
100,000 - Hindu captives executed by Timur (1398)
90,000 - Operation Rolling Thunder Bombing of North Vietnam, (1966-1968)
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)
50,000-150,000 - Harki Algerians massacred by the National Liberation Front (Algeria) (1962)
50,000-100,000 - Sook Ching massacre (Singapore, 1942)
55,000 - Neuengamme concentration camp, (by Nazi Germany, located by Hamburg, Germany, 1938-1945)
50,000 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, 1943)
50,000 - Defenders of Somnath massacred by Mahmud of Ghazni (1026)
50,000 - Wola massacre in Warsaw (1944)
43,000 - The Blitz (London, 1940 - 1941)
42,000 - Chios Massacre (Greek War of Independence, 1822)
39,000–108,000 - Nagasaki Bombing (Japan, 1945)
36,000 - Odessa massacre (1941)
30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
30,000 - Massacre of Greeks in Constantinople (1821)
30,000 - Rajput defenders of Chittorgarh massacred by Akbar the Great (1568)
26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
25,000–60,000 Bombing of Dresden in World War II, (in Germany by Allied forces, 1945)
25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years' War, Germany, 1631)
25,000 - Rumbula Forest massacre of the Riga Jews (1941)
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 - Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Afghanistan, 1842)
12,000 - La matanza (El Salvador, 1931)
10,000-30,000 228 Incident, (Republic of China (Taiwan), 1947)
10,000 Bataan Death March, (Philippines, 1942)
10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
8,000 - Sack of Antwerp (1576)
7,500-8,500 - Bombings of Cap Arcona and Thielbek, (Germany, 1945)
7,000-8,100 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
7,000 - Kragujevac massacre, (Kragujevac, Serbia, 1941)
7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
6,000-16,000 - Jews are blamed as the cause of the Black Death (1348)
5,000-17,000^[33] - Massacre and ethnic cleansing of Indians and Arabs by the descendants of black African slaves during the Zanzibar Revolution (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1964)
5,000-7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
5,000 - Batak massacre of Bulgarian civilians by bashi-bazouk Ottoman army irregulars (1876)
5,000 - Siege of Limerick (Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1651)
5,000 - Massacre of Mamluks (Egypt, 1811)
4,500 - Massacre of Saxons in Verden by Charlemagne (Lower Saxony, 782)
4,000 - Prebilovci massacre 1941, NDH
4,000 - Direct Action Day (India, 1946)
2,500-12,000 - Massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible
3,500 - Siege of Drogheda (Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1649)
3,000 - 300,000 - Japanese biological warfare program Unit 731 (1931-1945)
3,000 - Taihoku air raid (Taiwan, 1943-1945)
3,000 Massacre at Huế (Vietnam, 1968)
2,000 - Jiali Massacre (Taiwan, 1895)
2,000 - Oluja Genocide and complete ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Serbs from Krajina (Croatia, 1995)
1,645 - Bombing of Guernica (Spain, 1937)
1,500-3,500 - Oran massacre of 1962 in Algeria
1,400 - Operation Linebacker 2 'Christmas bombing' (Vietnam), 1972)
900 - El Mozote Massacre (El Salvador, 1981)
800 - White settlers massacred throughout Minnesota as part of the Dakota War of 1862
700 - Slaughter of the Jews of Medina by Muhammad (626)
622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
600 - MacDonnell clans-people massacred by Francis Drake (Rathlin Island, 1575)
500 - Crow Creek massacre (South Dakota, 1325)
409 - Lonoy Massacre (Philippines, 1901)
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)
260 - Vukovar massacre (Croatia, 1991)
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)
149 - Khatyn massacre (Belarus, 1943)
133 - 1929 Palestine riots (67 in Hebron, 18 in Safed, the rest in Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine), 1929
125-15,000 - Balangiga Massacre (Philippines, 1901)
120-400 Sidi-Hamed massacre (Algiers, 1998)
120 - Gospic massacre (Croatia, 1991)
120 - Mountain Meadows Massacre (Utah, United States, 1857)
119 - Bojayá Massacre (Chocó, Colombia, 2002)
113 - Waxhaw Massacre (South Carolina, United States, 1780)
111 - 1992 Carandiru Massacre (São Paulo, Brazil, 1992)
106 - Qana Massacre, (Qana, Lebanon, 1996)
100-400 - Rais massacre (Aligers, 1997)
100-300 - Waterloo Creek Massacre (Australia, 1838)
91–200 - Kristallnacht (Germany, 1938)
94 - Waco Siege -(United States, 1993)
78 - Massacre of Glencoe (Scotland, 1692)
50 - Telavåg (Norway, 1942)
45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)
28 - Myall Creek massacre (Australia, 1838)
14 - Bloody Sunday (Ireland, 1972)

Terrorist attacks

2,997 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001)
430 - Cinema Rex fire, (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
400 - 2007 Qahtaniya bombings, (Qahtaniya, Iraq, 2007)
365 - Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
329 - Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
307 - 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
257 - 1998 United States embassy bombings (Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998)
215 - Sadr City bombings, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
209 - 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2006)
202 - 2002 Bali bombing, (Bali, Indonesia, 2002)
198 - 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Iraq, 2007)
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)
152 - 2007 Tal Afar bombings and massacre (Tal Afar, Iraq, 2007)
135 - 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
127 - 2005 Al Hillah bombing (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2005)
120 - 2007 Al Hillah bombings (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2007)
117 - 2004 Irbil bombings, (Irbil, Iraq, 2004)
116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
112 - 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2004)
112 - Avianca Flight 203, (Colombia, 1989)
98 - Musayyib fuel tanker bombing, (Musayyib, Iraq, 2005) (see Triangle of Death (Iraq))
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)
88 - 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
85 - Buratha Mosque bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2006)
85 - Stazione Centrale bombing, (Bologna, Italy, 1980)
83 - Imam Ali Mosque bombing, (Najaf, Iraq, 2003)
76 - 12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
74 - 2005 Khanaqin bombings, (Khanaqin, Iraq, 2005)
74 - 21 April 2004 Basra bombings, (Basra, Iraq, 2004)
74 - 2004 Kufa shelling, (Kufa, Iraq, 2004)
70 - 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
68 - 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, (India, 2007)
63 - 18 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
63 - DAS Building bombing, (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989)
63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
62 - 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
61 - 29 October 2005 New Delhi bombings, (New Delhi, 2005)
60 - 2005 Amman bombings, (Amman, 2005)
57 - 2003 Istanbul Bombings, (Turkey, 2003)
52 - 7 July 2005 London bombings (London, 2005)
52 - 2003 Mumbai bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2003)
46 - Casablanca Attacks, (Morocco, 2003)
42 - 2004 Moscow metro bombing, Russia, 2004)
38 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
34 - 2004 Sinai bombings, Taba and Nuweiba, 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)

Murders (by individuals other than terrorist or state-sponsored)

931 - Behram, Thugee cult leader, India, (1790 - 1830)
~650 - Erzsébet Báthory, Kingdom of Hungary, (c.1585 - 1610)
300+ - Pedro Lopez, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, (1969 - 1980)
~250 - Dr. Harold Shipman, Hyde, United Kingdom, (1970s?-1998)
163+ - Dr John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne, United Kingdom, (1946-1956). Acquitted controversially but pathologist Francis Camps suspected him of killing 163 patients.^[34]
140 - Luis Garavito, Colombia, (1992-1998)
100 - Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, serial killer from Johnsonville, South Carolina who prior to his execution, claimed over 100 killed
80+ - Bruno Lüdke, Germany, (1928 - 1943) there is some evidence that Lüdke may have been framed by the Nazis
65 - Yang Xinhai, China (PRC), (1999 - 2004)
58+ - Giuseppe Greco, Mafiosi from Sicily (1977 - 1985)
57 - Woo Bum-Kon, South Korea (1982)
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)
38 - Moses Sithole, South Africa, (1994 - 1995)
35 - Port Arthur massacre, Australia (1996)
33 - Virginia Tech Massacre, (2007)
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+ - Cedric Maake, South Africa, (1996 -1997)
27 - Dean Corll, Houston, Texas, USA (1970 - 1973)
27 - Maria Swanenburg Leiden, Netherlands, (1880-1883)
24+ - Fritz Haarmann, Hanover, Germany (1919-1924)
24 - Bela Kiss, Cinkota, Hungary (1912 - 1916)
23 - Albert Guay, Quebec, (1949)
23+ - Ted Bundy, Florida, (1970s)
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 - Michael Robert Ryan, 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 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 - Vaclav Mrazek, Czechoslovakia (1951-1956)
6+ - "Zodiac Killer", California, USA (1966 - 1969?)
5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)
5 - Andrew Cunanan, USA (1997)
4 - Franz Fuchs, Austria, (1993 - 1997)
4 - Nathan Gale, Columbus, Ohio, USA, (2004)
3 - Theodore Kaczynski, USA, (1978 - 1995)
2-15 - Henry Lee Lucas, Texas, USA (1960 - 1983)

Human sacrifice and mass suicide

Low Estimate	High Estimate	Description	Group	Location	From	To	See also
2,000,000	2,000,000	Human sacrifice	Thuggee	India	1300's	1890
2,000,000	2,000,000	Human sacrifice	Aztecs	Mexico	1400's	1600's	Human sacrifice in Aztec culture
80,000	80,000	Mass suicide	Japanese civilians	Japan	1945	1945	Battle of Okinawa
62,400	62,400	Individual suicides	Sati (practice)	India	1900's	1988?
13,000^[35]	13,000	Human sacrifice	Shang dynasty	China	BC1300	BC1050	Last 250 years of rule
8,000	8,000	Mass suicide	Japanese civilians	Mariana Islands	1944	1944	Battle of Saipan
3,000	80,000	Mass human sacrifice	Aztecs	Huitzilopochtli, Tenochtitlan	1487	1487
960	960	Mass suicide	Jewish zealots	Judea	73	73	Siege of Masada
913	913	Mass suicide, murder	Peoples Temple	Guyana	1978	1978	Jonestown
300	1000	Mass suicide	Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God	Uganda	2000, March	2000, March
53	53	Mass suicide	Order of the Solar Temple	Switzerland, Canada	1994	1994
39	39	Mass suicide	Heaven's Gate	California	1997	1997
16	16	Mass suicide	Order of the Solar Temple	France	1995, December 23	1995, December 23

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)
30,000 - 228 Incident, (Taiwan, 1947)
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)
400 - Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, 1987)
300–5,000 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
285 - Gordon Riots (England, 1780)
249 - Riots in Palestine of 1929, (Mandate of Palestine, 1929)
200–300 - Tlatelolco massacre (Mexico, 1968)
184 - May 13 Incident (Kuala Lumpur, 1969)
139 - Cartoon Riots (2006)
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)
69 - Sharpeville Massacre (South Africa, 1960)
50–60 - 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)
50 - Champ de Mars massacre (Paris, 1791)
46 - Boipatong Massacre (South Africa, 1992)
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 - Palingoproer (Amsterdam, 1886)
25 - Corpus Christi Massacre (Mexico City, 1971)
22 - Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Australia, 1854)
20 - Ludlow Massacre (Ludlow, Colorado, 1914)
18 - Maria Hertogh riots (Singapore, 1950)
14 - Bloody Sunday (1972) (Derry, Northern Ireland)
13 - Socialist riot (1932) (Geneva, Switzerland)
13 - Chinese Middle School riots (Singapore, 1956)
13 - Mendiola Massacre (Philippines, 1987)
9 - Riots in Palestine of 1920 (Jerusalem, 1920)
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)
5 - Ådalen shootings (Sweden, 1931)
4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)

Explosion

Not including bombings, aviation incidents and mine disasters

3,920 - Ship explosion in Shanghai harbour, (China, 1948)
1,950 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, Canada 1917)
1,200 - Ammunition trucks (Cali, Colombia, 1956)
1,000 - Ammunition dump fire, (Lagos, Nigeria, 2002), many deaths were from drowning during the panic
800 - Bombay Docks Explosion (Bombay, India, 1944)
575 - Ufa train disaster (Ufa, Russia, 1989)
568 - Texas City Disaster (Texas, 1947)
565 - Oppau explosion, Germany, 1921, possibly as many as 1,500 killed
322 - Port Chicago disaster (Port Chicago, California, 1944)
294 - New London School explosion (New London, Texas, 1937)
217 - Los Alfaques Disaster, (Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Tarragona, Spain 1978)
206 - Gas explosions (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1992)
182 - Chemical plant (Ludwigshafen, West Germany, 1948)
160 - Voorbode, (Norway, 1944)
151 - Gunpowdership disaster (Leiden, The Netherlands, 1807)
133 - Munitions plant (Pennsylvania, 1917)
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)
100 - Chemical plant (Pittsburgh, 1918)
94 - Munitions factory (New Jersey, 1918)
73 - TNT factory (London, 1917)
70 - Vergarolla explosion (Pula, Italy/Yugoslavia, 1946)
48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
40 - Lapua ammo factory (Finland, 1976)
35 - Ammunition factory near Leeds, England (1916)
33 - Humberto Vidal Explosion (San Juan, Puerto Rico,1996)
22 - Fireworks factory (Enschede, Netherlands, 2000)
21 - Arsenal dump (New Jersey, 1926)
21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
4 - West Pharmaceutical Plant explosion
3 - 2006 Falk Corporation explosion (Milwaukee)

Flood disasters

Excluding natural disasters i.e. floods caused by natural forces such as tsunami or high rainfall and dam failure caused by natural disaster such as earthquake or exceptional rainfall

1,909 - Vajont Dam landslide into dam caused megatsunami, Italy, 1963
1,200 - 1,600 Möhne Reservoir destroyed by bombing, Germany, 1943
749+ - Edersee dam destroyed by bombing, Germany, 1943
421 - Malpasset dam collapse, France, 1959
373-400 {600 estimated}- St. Francis Dam failure, United States, 1928
270 - Great Sheffield Flood, Dale Dike Dam collapse, England, 1864
268 - Val di Stava Dam Collapse, Italy, 1985
125 - Buffalo Creek Flood, dam collapse, United States, 1972
39 - Kelly Barnes Dam failure, United States, 1977
14 - Teton Dam collapse, United States, 1976

Coal mine disasters

1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
1,099 - Coal mine explosion (Courrières, France, 1903)
472 - coal mine (Wankie, Rhodesia, 1972)
447 - coal mine (Omuta, Japan, 1963)
439 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster (Senghenydd, Wales, 1913)
437 - coal mine (Coalbrook, South Africa, 1960)
405 - coal mine (Bergkamen, West Germany, 1946)
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)
266 - Gresford Disaster (Gresford, Wales, 1934)
263 - coal mine (Dawson, New Mexico, 1913)
263 - coal mine (Zonguldak, Turkey, 1992)
262 - coal mine (Marcinelle, Belgium, 1956)
259 - coal mine (Cherry, Illinois, 1909)
257 - coal mine (Grundy, Virginia, 1937)
239 - coal mine (Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, 1907)
236 - coal mine (Fukuoka, Japan, 1965)
214 - 2005 Liaoning mine disaster (China, 2005)
200 - coal mine (Scofield, Utah, 1900)
189 - coal mine (Hillcrest mine, Canada, 1914)
180 - coal mine (Tuzla, Yugoslavia, 1990)
166 - coal mine (Chenjiashan mine, Shaanxi province, China, 28 November 2004)
159 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guangxi province, China, 26 September 2000)
150 - Nanaimo mine explosion (Canada, 1887)
148 - coal mine (Daping mine, Henan province, China, 20 October 2004)
125 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 21 February 1891)
123 - coal mine (Daxing mine, Guangdong province, China, 6 August 2005)
111 - coal mine (Centralia Mine Disaster, Centralia, IL, March 25, 1947)
83 - coal mine (Fukang city, Xinjiang region, China, 13 July 2005)
74 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 23 October 1958)
59 - coal mine (Xishui mine, Shanxi province, China, 20 March 2005)
43 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guizhou province, China, 24 February 2003)
39 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1 November 1956)
24 - Nanshan Colliery disaster (Shanxi Province, China, 13 November 2006)
12 - Sago Mine Disaster (Sago, West Virginia, 2 January 2006)

Aviation

583 - Tenerife disaster (Tenerife, 27 march, 1977)
520 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, (Japan, 1985)
349 - Saudia Flight 763 plane collided with Air Kazakhstan Flight 1907, (New Delhi, 1996)
346 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Paris, 1974)
329 - Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
301 - Saudia Flight 163 (Riyadh, 1980)
297–350^[36] - cargo plane crashes on marketplace (Kinshasa, Zaire, 1996)
290 - Iran Air Flight 655 (Persian Gulf, 1988)
276 - Iranian military airplane, (Sirach Mountains, 2003)
273 - American Airlines Flight 191 (Chicago, 1979)
270 - Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, 1988)
269 - Korean Air Flight 007 (Sakhalin Island, 1983)
265 - American Airlines Flight 587, (New York City, 2001)
264 - China Airlines Flight 140 (Nagoya, 1994)
261 - Haj charter plane (Jeddah, 1991)
257 - Mount Erebus disaster (Antarctica, 1979)
256 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 U.S. military charter (Gander, Newfoundland, 1985)
234 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (Indonesia, 1997)
230 - TWA Flight 800 (Long Island, 1996)
229 - Swissair Flight 111 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998)
228 - Korean Air Flight 801 (Guam, 1997)
225 - China Airlines Flight 611 (Penghu Islands, 2002)
223 - Lauda Air Flight 004 (Thailand, 1991)
217 - EgyptAir Flight 990 (Cape Cod, 1999)
213 - Air India Flight 855 (India, 1978)
202 - China Airlines Flight 676 (Taipei, 1998)
200 - Aeroflot Flight 7425 (Uzbek, USSR, 1985)
199 - TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 (São Paulo, Brazil, 17 July 2007)
191 - a Martinair DC-8 (Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, 1974)
189 - Birgenair Flight 301 (Dominican Republic, 1996)
188 - a Royal Jordanian Airlines B-707 hits mountain (Immouzer, Morocco, 3 August 1975)
184 - Icelandic Airlines Flight LL 001 (Katunayake, Sri Lanka, 1978)
183 - LOT Polish Airlines flight 5055 (Warsaw, Poland, 9 May 1987)
181 - Avianca Flight 011 (Spain, 1983)
180 - an Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 hits mountain (Ajaccio, Corsica, 1981)
176 - Surinam Airways Flight PY764 (Suriname, 1989)
176 - Zagreb mid-air collision (Yugoslavia, 1976)
176 - an Alia Royal Jordanian B-707 (Nigeria, 1973)
176 - an Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 (Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, 13 October 1972)
171 - UTA Flight 772 (Sahara Desert, 1989)
170 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 (Ukraine, 2006)
169 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 (Côte d'Ivoire, 2000)
167 - PIA Flight 268 (Nepal, 1992)
167 - Mexicana Flight 940 (Mexico, 1986)
160 - China Northwest Airlines (Xian, China) (6 June 1994)
160 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708(Venezuela, 2005)
159 - American Airlines Flight 965 (Colombia, 1995)
159 - South African Airways Flight 295 (Helderberg disaster) (Indian Ocean, 1987)
156 - Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (Romulus, Michigan, 1987)
156 - PIA Flight 740 (Saudi Arabia, 1979)
155 - Spantax Flight 275 (Tenerife, 3 December, 1972)
154 - Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (Brazil, 2006)
153 - Pan Am Flight 759 (Louisiana, 1982)
146 - Dan-Air Flight 1008, (Tenerife, 1980)
144 - PSA Flight 182 collision with a Cessna 172, (San Diego, CA, September 25, 1978)
144 - Independent Air Flight 1851 (Santa Maria, 1989)
143 - Gulf Air Flight 072 (Bahrain, 2000)
141 - China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou, China) (24 November (1992)
137 - Vasp Flight 168 (Ceará, Brazil, 1982)
137 - Delta Airlines Flight 191 (Dallas, TX, 1985)
131 - Air Philippines Flight 541 (Davao City, Philippines, 2000)
130 - Indian Airlines Flight 113, Ahmedabad, India
129 - US Air Force C-124 Globemaster II crash (Tachikawa Air Force Base, Tokyo, Japan, 1953)
128 - Air China Flight 129 (Busan, South Korea, 2002)
128 - [[Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 (Guangzhou, China, 1990)
123 - Peruvian airliner "Faucett" (Arequipa, Peru 1996)
124 - S7 Airlines Flight 778 (Irkutsk, Russia, 2006)
121 - Helios Airways Flight 522 (Greece, 2005)
118 - Linate Airport disaster (Milan, Italy, 8 October 2001)
113 - Air France Flight 4590 - Concorde crash (Gonesse, France, 2000)
112 - China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 (Dalian, China, 2002)
112 - United Airlines Flight 232 (Sioux City, Iowa, 1989)
110 - ValuJet Flight 592 (Florida Everglades, 1996)
104 - Cebu Pacific Air Flight 387 (Philippines, 1998)
104 - SilkAir Flight 185 (Indonesia, 1997)
99 - Peruvian airliner "Lansa" (Cusco, Peru. 1970)
99 - TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 402 (São Paulo, Brazil, 1996)
92 - Indian Airlines Flight 605, Bangalore, India
84 - Sknyliv (Ukraine) airshow disaster (2002)
83 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 (Taipei, 2000)
78 - Air Florida Flight 90 (Washington, DC, 1982)
74 - Peruvian air force "FAP" (Andoas, Peru. 1998)
70 - Aeroperu (Lima, Peru. 1996)
70 - Ramstein airshow disaster (Germany, 1988)
69 - Indian Airlines Flight 257, Imphal, India
56 - Indian Airlines Flight 491, Aurangabad, India
55 - China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 {Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, (2004)
51 - Alliance Air Flight 7412, Patna, India
49 - Comair 5191 (Kentucky, 2006)
47 - Kegworth air disaster (England, 1989)
46 - Tans (Chachapoyas, Peru. 2003)
44 - Peruvian Navy (Lima, Peru. 1987)
40 - Tans (Pucallpa, Peru. 2005)
35 - Hindenburg disaster (New Jersey, 1937)
31 - Superga air disaster (Italy, 1949)

Maritime

Wartime ship disasters

6,000-9,000 - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945
6,000 - Goya, 1945 (minimum)
6,000 - Chinese troopship (near Yingkow, Manchuria, November 1, 1948)
5,620 - Junyō Maru, 1944
5,400 - Toyama Maru, 1944 (approx.)
4,650 - Cap Arcona, 1945
4,000 - HMT Lancastria, 1940
3,850 - Orion, 1945
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 - 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 - Taihō, 1944
1,600 - Roma, 1943
1,529 - Tsushima Maru, 1944
1,435 - Shinano, 1944
1,414 - HMS Hood, 1941
1,400 - Yamashiro, 1944
1,400 - Fusō, 1944 (approx.)
1,297 - SS Khedive Ismail, 1944
1,263 - Shōkaku, 1944
1,255 - HMS Queen Mary, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
1,250 - Kongō, 1944
1,239 - Unryū, 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
1,015 - HMS Invincible, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
1,013 - HMS Indefatigable, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
1,000 - Tirpitz, 1944
920 - Blücher, 1940
903 - HMS Defence, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
900 - HMS Good Hope, (Battle of Coronel) 1914
883 - USS Indianapolis (CA-35), 1945
862 - HMS Barham, 1941
857 - HMS Black Prince, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
843 - Zuikaku, 1944
843 - HMS Vanguard 1917
839 - SMS Pommern, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
838 - HMS St George, (Denmark, 1811)
833 - HMS Royal Oak 1939
814 - Kaga, 1942
800 - HMS Association 1707
782 - SMS Blücher, (Battle of Dogger Bank) 1915
764 - SMS Scharnhorst (Battle of the Falkland Islands) 1914
750 - SMS Monmouth, (Battle of Coronel) 1914
749 - Exercise Tiger sinkings, (1944)
718 - Sōryū, 1942
655 - SS Ceramic, 1942
648 - Suffren, 1916
646 - SS Mendi, troopship struck by SS Darro, off Isle of Wight, 21 February 1917
645 - HMAS Sydney, 1941
631 - Shōhō, 1942
600 - Bouvet, (Gallipoli) 1915
600 - HMS Hero, 1811
577 - SMS Gneisenau (Battle of the Falkland Islands) 1914
570 - HMS Goliath, (Gallipoli) 1915
555 - HMS Defence, (Denmark, 1811)
549 - Ukishima Maru, 1945
518 - HMS Courageous, 1939
513 - HMS Repulse, 1941
501 - RMS Leinster, 1918
500 - HMS Eagle 1707
460 - HMS Hawke, 1914
380 - Mary Rose (Portsmouth, 1545)
353 - HMAS Perth, 1942
338 - HMS Curacoa, 1942
327 - HMS Prince of Wales, 1941
323 - ARA General Belgrano, 1982
271 - Ilmarinen, 1941
137 - SS Caribou, (Newfoundland, 1942)
34 - USS Liberty (AGTR-5), (Six-Day War), (USS Liberty incident), 1967

Peacetime ship disasters

4,300 - 4,500 - Doña Paz, (Philippines, 1987)(Estimates vary because of overloading and unmanifested passengers, only 21 survived [3][4][5])
3,000 - Kiangya (Shanghai, December 3, 1948) (minimum)
1,863 - MV Joola, (Senegal, 2002)
1,547 - Sultana, (Mississippi River, 1865)
1,517 - RMS Titanic, (North Atlantic, 1912)
1,155 - Toya Maru (Tsugaru Strait, 1954)
1,021 - General Slocum, (New York 1904)
1,018 - Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 (Red Sea, 2006)
1,012 - Empress of Ireland, (Saint Lawrence River 1914)
1,000 - Hong Kong (South China Sea, March 18, 1921)
900 – HMS Victory (The Casquets, October 3 1744)
852 - M/S Estonia, (Baltic Sea 1994)
835 - Eastland, (Chicago, 1915)
800+ - HMS Royal George (Spithead, 29 August 1782)
786 - Princess Alice and Bywell Castle (River Thames, September 3 1878)
738 - HMS Bulwark (Sheerness, November 26 1914)
699 - HMS Ramillies (Bolt Head, Devon, 15 February 1760)
690 - HMS Queen Charlotte (Livorno, 17 March 1800)
627 - SS Norge (Rockall, 28 June 1904)
608 - Novorossiysk (Sevastopol, 1955)
600 - Princess Alice (Thames, 1878)
566 - General Lyons {Army transport-lost off Cape Hatteras March 31, 1865 {About 34 survived} LINK {reference only} {[6] which leads to additional links}
558 - Principe de Asturias (off Brazil, 1916)
546 - RMS Atlantic (Nova Scotia, 1873)
450 - HMS Birkenhead (near Cape Town, 1852)
423 - Admiral Nakhimov (Black Sea, 1986)
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)
205 - HMS Iolaire (off Stornoway, 1919)
200 - SS Victoria (London, Ontario, 1881)
185 - Batavia (off Australia, 1629) includes both drowned and murdered
193 - Herald of Free Enterprise (English Channel, 1987)
189 - HMS Orpheus (1861), (Auckland, 1863)
170 - Staffordshire (Cape Sable, 1853)
158 - Scandinavian Star (Skagerrak, 1990)
148 - Medusa (off Senegal, 1816)
140 - SS Koombana (off Port Hedland, Western Australia, 1912)
134 - SS Morro Castle (off Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1934)
131 - Tararua (off Waipapa Point, New Zealand, 1881)
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)
82 - STV Royston Grange (off Montevideo, Uruguay, 1972)
81 - Samina (near Paros, Greece, 2000)
80 - Pamir (1957)
70 - Ming 361 (2003)
54 - MS Jan Heweliusz (Baltic Sea, 1993)
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)
17 - 1979 Fastnet race (Fastnet Rock, 1979)
16 - MS Sleipner (Norway, 1999)
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)

Sporting events

1,112 - Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c.140 AD)^[37]
604 - Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Racecourse, stand collapsed and caught fire. Figure conservative, from the Guinness Book of World Records. Most online sources give the death toll as 6,000. (Hong Kong, 1918) ^{[citation needed]}
300 - (estimated) Peru vs. Argentina football game riot (Lima, Peru, May 24 , 1964) ^{[citation needed]}
123 - Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko soccer match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001) ^{[citation needed]}
96 - Hillsborough stadium crush (Sheffield, England, 1989)
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica football match crush (Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1996) ^{[citation needed]}
80+ - 24 hours of Le Mans auto race crash (Le Mans, France, 1955)
80 - football match crush (Katmandu, Nepal, 1988) ^{[citation needed]}
72 - River Plate vs Boca Juniors football match, stampede at gate 12 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 23, 1968) ^{[citation needed]}
66 - Second Ibrox stadium disaster, stairway collapse & ensuing crowd crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 1971)
66 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, USSR, 1982)
56 - Bradford City football stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985)
43 - Ellis Park Stadium disaster (Johannesburg, South Africa, May 10, 2001) ^{[citation needed]}
39 - Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Bruxelles, Belgium, 1985)
33 - Burnden Park disaster (Bolton, England, 1946) ^{[citation needed]}
26 - First Ibrox stadium disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, Scotland, 1902)
21 - Gate 7 stampede at the old Karaiskaki stadium at the end of a football game between Olympiacos and AEK (Piraeus, Greece, February 8, 1981)^[38]
17 - 1979 Fastnet yachting race storms (Fastnet Rock, Ireland, 1979)
12 - Baker Bowl Collapse (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1912) ^{[citation needed]}
11 - Munich Olympics massacre (Munich, Germany, 1972)^[39]

Industrial accidents

18,000+ - 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)
146 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, (New York City, 1911)
125 - Buffalo Creek Flood / Pittston Coal Company dam failure, (West Virginia, United States, 1972)
105 - mine elevator failure, (South Africa, 1995)
40 - Lapua ammunition factory explosion (Finland, 1976)
21 - Boston Molasses Disaster (Boston, 1919)
15 - BP Americas Texas City isomerization unit explosion (Houston, Texas, USA, 2005)

Stampedes and panics

4,000 - mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of Chongqing, 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) (note: because the stampede was triggered by reports of a bombing, this figure is also included in the higher estimate for casualties of the War in Iraq)^{[citation needed]}
800 - crowd crush at religious festival (Allahabad, India, 1954)
362 - stampede at the stoning of the devil ritual (Mecca, 2006)
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)
183 – Victoria Hall theatre panic (Sunderland, 1883)
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)
88 - Manila Stadium stampede, 2006 [7]
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica soccer match crush (Guatemala City,
74 - PhilSports Arena stampede, Manila, Philippines, February 4, 2006
73 - Italian Hall Disaster (Calumet, Michigan, 1913)
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)
53 - Niamiha metro station stampede (Minsk, Belarus, May 31, 1999)
39 - Heysel Stadium disaster (Brussels, May 29, 1985)
29 - Mosque stampede (Karachi, 2006) [8]
11 - Crush at The Who concert in the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio (3 December 1979)

Animal attacks

34,075 - According to official statistics [9], 34,075 people were killed by tigers in British-administered India, 1875-1912.
980 - Burmese saltwater crocodiles (Ramree, Burma, February 19, 1945)
600 - Shark attack (USS Indianapolis (CA-35), Pacific, 1945)
436 - The Champawat Tigress (Champawat, India, 1903-1907)
400 - Panar Leopard
300 - Gustave (Burundi, Africa)
nearly 140 - Tsavo maneaters (Kenya, 1898)
over 125 - Leopard of Rudraprayag

Nuclear accidents

200+ - Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion, (Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, 29 September 1957), figure is a conservative estimate, 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over thirty small communities had been removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991.
56 - Chernobyl accident (Soviet Union, 1986, uncertain number of later casualties from cancer and other radiation-induced sickness.)^[40]
8 - Soviet submarine K-19 4 July 1961.
3 - SL-1 (US Army) 1961.
2 - Tokai, Ibaraki nuclear fuel reprocessing plant (Japan, September 30, 1999).

Train accidents

ca. 1,700 "Queen of the Sea" train disaster, Telwatta, Sri Lanka caused by the tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
800+ - Bihar train disaster (Bihar, India, 1981)
ca. 500 Balvano train disaster (Italy, 1944)
383 - Al Ayatt train disaster (Egypt, 2002)
281 - Igandu train disaster (Tanzania, 2002)
227 - Quintinshill rail crash (Scotland, 1915)
151 - Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 1953)
150 - Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 2004)
130+ - Rafiganj train disaster (India, 2002)
114+ - Veligonda train disaster (India, 2005)
112 - Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash (England, 1952)
103 - Amagasaki rail crash (Japan, 2005)
101 - ICE high-speed train disaster (Germany, 1998)
93 - Malbone Street Wreck (New York City, United States, 1918)
90 - Lewisham rail crash (England, 1957)
88 - Armagh rail disaster (Northern Ireland, 1889)
83 - Granville train disaster (Granville, Sydney, Australia, 1977)
75+ - Tay Bridge Disaster (Scotland, 1879)
47 - Big Bayou Canot train disaster (United States, 1993)
45 - Illinois Central Gulf commuter rail crash (Chicago, United States, 1972)
27 - Tretten train accident (Norway, 1975)
19 - Åsta train accident (Norway, 2000)

Other accidents

323 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)
198 - Daugu Subway Fire (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
144 - Aberfan landslide disaster (Wales, 1966)
126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
114 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981)
97 - Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
87 - Happyland Fire, New York City, (1990)
75 - Quebec Bridge, (Canada, 1907]
64 - Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (Soviet Union, 1979)
63 - Arson at a Macedonian disco in Gothenburg, Sweden (1998)
48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
47 - Miles City, Montana bridge collapse (United States, 1938)
42 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1976)
35 - West Gate Bridge collapse, (Australia, 1970)
20 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft
11 - Petrobras 36 Oil Platform explosions (Brazil, 2001)
7 - 87-Automobile pile-up on Highway 401 freeway just east of Windsor Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake Saint Clair, Sept. 3 (Labour Day) 1999.

Footnotes

^ Matthew's White's website (a compilation of scholarly estimates) -Miscellaneous Oriental Atrocities
^ Clodfelter, cited by White
^ Urlanis, cited by White
^ Dig uncovers Boudicca's brutal streak
^ ^a ^b Morris, Benny - Israel's Border Wars 1949-1956, Oxford University Press 1997 ISBN 0-19-829262-7
^ ^a ^b Btselem Israeli HRO - First Intifada statistics
^ Btselem - Second Intifada statistics
^ Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
^ John Heidenrich, How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen, cited by White
^ Rummel - China's Bloody Century.
^ The estimates listed here include 20-43 million victims of the Great Leap Forward famine. Some scholars believe the regime knew about and tolerated the famine, which would thus make it a democide. The famine high estimate of 43 million is therefore included as a component of the table's high estimate. The table's low estimate similarly includes a famine component, but since it has not been established whether the source in this case also regards the famine as a wilful crime, the estimate is subject to revision and should be treated with particular caution.
^ R J Rummel, Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder Transaction Publishers 1992, extract.
^ Churchill - Assaults on Truth & Memory, ZMag, February 1997.
^ R J Rummel, Pre-20th Century Democide: Estimates, Sources and Calculations, Table 2.1A - see line 212.
^ David Barrett, World Christian Trends, cited by White
^ A. Greebaum, Is the Holocaust Unique, 1996, cited by White
^ David Stannard, American Holocaust 1992, cited by White
^ Rummel - Democides of Imperial Japan.
^ Johnson, Chalmers, London Review of Books:The Looting of Asia
^ Rummel - Oriental slave trade (see line 74).
^ The Forgotten Holocaust: The Eastern Slave Trade
^ ^a ^b White - Congo Free State
^ Rummel - [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP3.HTM Chapter 3 Pre-Twentieth Century Democide]
^ Forbes, Mark: Indonesian academics fight burning of books on 1965 coup, Sydney Morning Herald, August 9 2007, accessed 22 August 2007.
^ Vlad II the Impaler
^ http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat6.htm
^ Encyclopedia Americana
^ Brian Harmon, John Drobnicki, Historical sources and the Auschwitz death toll estimates
^ Vladimir Dedijer - The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican Buffalo (NY) 1992 ISBN-13: 978-0-87975-752-6
^ Peter Witte and Stephen Tyas, A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during "Einsatz Reinhardt" 1942, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Winter 2001, ISBN 0-19-922506-0
^ Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Yale University Press, 2003, revised hardcover edition, ISBN 0-300-09557-0
^ Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987, NCR 0-253-34293-7
^ Country Histories - Empire's Children
^ Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
^ National Geographic, July 2003, cited by White
^ William Henry (2006-06-13). The Forgotten Disaster in Zaire. Airliners.net. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Guinness World Records: Worst Sport Disaster
^ Olympiacos Official website for Karaiskaki stadium Gate 7 tragedy of 8/2/1981 (and in Greek). Also in the Greek Wikipedia entry for Olympiacos including the names of the dead.
^ For references, see Munich massacre#References
^ [1] Uranium Information Centre

External links

[1] Matthew's White's website (a compilation of scholarly estimates) -Miscellaneous Oriental Atrocities

[2] Clodfelter, cited by White

[3] Urlanis, cited by White

[4] Dig uncovers Boudicca's brutal streak

[borderwars-5] Morris, Benny - Israel's Border Wars 1949-1956, Oxford University Press 1997 ISBN 0-19-829262-7

[firstint-6] Btselem Israeli HRO - First Intifada statistics

[secondint-7] Btselem - Second Intifada statistics

[8] Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls

[9] John Heidenrich, How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen, cited by White

[10] Rummel - China's Bloody Century.

[11] The estimates listed here include 20-43 million victims of the Great Leap Forward famine. Some scholars believe the regime knew about and tolerated the famine, which would thus make it a democide. The famine high estimate of 43 million is therefore included as a component of the table's high estimate. The table's low estimate similarly includes a famine component, but since it has not been established whether the source in this case also regards the famine as a wilful crime, the estimate is subject to revision and should be treated with particular caution.

[12] R J Rummel, Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder Transaction Publishers 1992, extract.

[13] Churchill - Assaults on Truth & Memory, ZMag, February 1997.

[Rummel-212-14] R J Rummel, Pre-20th Century Democide: Estimates, Sources and Calculations, Table 2.1A - see line 212.

[15] David Barrett, World Christian Trends, cited by White

[16] A. Greebaum, Is the Holocaust Unique, 1996, cited by White

[17] David Stannard, American Holocaust 1992, cited by White

[18] Rummel - Democides of Imperial Japan.

[19] Johnson, Chalmers, London Review of Books:The Looting of Asia

[20] Rummel - Oriental slave trade (see line 74).

[21] The Forgotten Holocaust: The Eastern Slave Trade

[whitecongo-22] White - Congo Free State

[Rummel-ch-3-23] Rummel - [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP3.HTM Chapter 3 Pre-Twentieth Century Democide]

[24] Forbes, Mark: Indonesian academics fight burning of books on 1965 coup, Sydney Morning Herald, August 9 2007, accessed 22 August 2007.

[25] Vlad II the Impaler

[26] ttp://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat6.htm

[ea-27] Encyclopedia Americana

[28] Brian Harmon, John Drobnicki, Historical sources and the Auschwitz death toll estimates

[29] Vladimir Dedijer - The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican Buffalo (NY) 1992 ISBN-13: 978-0-87975-752-6

[witte-tyas-30] Peter Witte and Stephen Tyas, A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during "Einsatz Reinhardt" 1942, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Winter 2001, ISBN 0-19-922506-0

[31] Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Yale University Press, 2003, revised hardcover edition, ISBN 0-300-09557-0

[arad-32] Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987, NCR 0-253-34293-7

[33] Country Histories - Empire's Children

[34] Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9

[35] National Geographic, July 2003, cited by White

[36] William Henry (2006-06-13). The Forgotten Disaster in Zaire. Airliners.net. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.

[37] Guinness World Records: Worst Sport Disaster

[38] Olympiacos Official website for Karaiskaki stadium Gate 7 tragedy of 8/2/1981 (and in Greek). Also in the Greek Wikipedia entry for Olympiacos including the names of the dead.

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