List of wars and disasters by death toll

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

Contents 1 War and military action 1.1 Individual battles and sieges 2 Genocide and democide 2.1 Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps 3 Terrorism 4 Murder (criminal rather than terrorism or state sponsored) 5 Mailbombings 6 Human sacrifice and mass suicide 7 Riot or political demonstration 8 Explosion 9 Flood disasters 10 Coal mine disasters 11 Aviation 12 Maritime 12.1 Wartime ship disasters 12.2 Peacetime ship disasters 13 Space travel 14 Sporting events 15 Industrial accidents 16 Stampedes and panics 17 Animal attacks 18 Nuclear accidents 19 Other accidents 20 References 21 See also 22 External links

[edit] War and military action

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

• 72,000,000 - World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
• 36,000,000 - An Shi 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'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)
• 2,300,000–3,800,000 - 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 - Afghan Civil War (1979 -)
  • 1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet intervention (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 - Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2002)
• 1,000,000 - Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)
• 970,000 - American Civil War (including 350,000 from disease) (1861–1865)
• 900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976–1993)
• 800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991–1997)
• 600,000 to 1,300,000 - First Jewish-Roman War
• 580,000 - Bar Kokhba’s revolt (132–135CE)
• 550,000 - Somali Civil War (1988 - )
• 500,000 - 1,000,000 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
• 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)
• 371,000 - Continuation War (1941-1944)
• 300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
• 300,000–3,000,000 - Bangladesh Liberation War
• 300,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
• 270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
• 255,000-1,120,000 - Philippine-American War (1898-1913)
• 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)
• 148,000-1,000,000 - Winter War (1939)
• 125,000 - Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)
• 120,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)
• 120,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991 - )
• 100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
• 100,000 - 1,000,000 - War of the two brothers (1531–1532)
• 100,000 - Gulf War (1991)
• 100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
• 100,000 - One Thousand Days War (1899–1901)
• 75,000 - El Salvador Civil War (1980–1992)
• 75,000 - Second Boer War (1898–1902)
• 69,000 - Internal conflict in Peru (1980 - )
• 60,000 - Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983-)
• 55,464 - 655,000 - Iraq War (2003-Present) As of 2007, this conflict is still ongoing; the death toll is extremely disputed; the number of 655,000 deaths only includes deaths up to July 2006; it is the most scientific estimate published in the second of two surveys backed by Johns Hopkins University et alia; the surveys were very publicly disputed following publication in The Lancet; many parties contend that the actual death toll is significantly lower; as of February 4th 2007, a tally of minimum civilian deaths that were reported in English-language media stands at 55,464; the Iraqi health ministry has said that at least 150,000 civilians and about 60,000 insurgents and Iraqi soldiers –ie. soldiers who fought during the initial phase of the war when Saddam was still in power– had died by the end of 2006.
• 50,000–200,000 - First Chechen War (1994–1996)
• 41,00–100,000 - Kashmiri insurgency (1989 - )
• 35,000 - 40,000 - War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
• 36,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)
• 31,000–100,000 - Second Chechen War (1999 - )
• 30,000 - Turkey/PKK conflict (1984 - )
• 30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
• 23,384 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971)
• 23,000 - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)
• 20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001 – 2002)
• 15,000–20,000 - Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
• 13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)
• 7,264–10,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (August-September 1965)
• 7,000–24,000 - War of 1812 (1812-1815) note that the larger number includes deaths from disease and other non-combat casualties
• 7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)
• 5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
• 4,000 - Waziristan War (2004-2006)
• 3,700 - Northern Ireland conflict (1969 - 1998)
• 3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 - )
• 2,604–7,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (October 1947 - December 1948)
• 2,000 - Football War (1969)
• 1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000 -)
• 1,547–2,173+ - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
• 1,724 - War of Lapland (1945)
• 1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
• 1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
• 907 - Falklands War (1982)
• 884–6,000 - Kargil War (May-July 1999)
• 537–3,000 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)

[edit] Individual battles and sieges

Main article: Most lethal battles in world history

• 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 Voronezh (1942)
• 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 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)
• 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-Sandomierz (1944)
• 62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915)
• 61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944)
• 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 - 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 - 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)
• 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)
• 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 Gettysburg (1863)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1,015 - 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)

[edit] Genocide and democide

• 27,000,000-73,000,000[1] - People's Republic of China (1949-1975) under Mao Zedong [2]
• 17,267,000[3]^{(Table 3.1)} - Slavery of Africans (15th - 19th centuries)
• 13,778,000[4] - Democide of the Native American populations.
• 5,964,000[5] - 30,000,000[6] - War crimes of Imperial Japan, especially in China and other Asian regions, 1930's-1945, under Hideki Tojo and others. See also Japanese war crimes. Note: These figures are included in World War II death toll.
• 5,000,000 - 30,000,000 - Congo Free State (1877 - 1908) under King Leopold II of Belgium.
• 5,000,000 - 7,000,000 - Democides (1933 -1945) of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, including the Holocaust
• 4,000,000 - 50,000,000 - Soviet Union (1924-1953) under Joseph Stalin[7]
• 2,800,000 - Soviet Prisoners of War killed by Germans (1941-42) [8]
• 2,000,000 - 3,500,000 - North Korea under Kim Jung Il
• 2,400,000 - 3,000,000 - Bangladesh (1971) East Pakistan wanted independence from West Pakistan. After the expulsion of the West Pakistan army, another 150,000 were killed by the vengeful victors.
• 2,000,000–3,000,000 - Cambodia (1975-1979) under Pol Pot
• 1,634,000[9] - Democides by the United States (1900-1987)
• 1,000,000–3,000,000 Armenian Genocide (1895-1923) . Most cited number is 1.5 million. Includes:
  • 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)
  • 250,000–500,000 - (1919-1923)
• 1,100,000 Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849). Has been referred to the Irish Holocaust in some sources.
• 937,000 - Genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)
• 800,000–1,000,000 - India-Pakistan Partition, (1947-1948)
• 400,000 - Darfur Genocide in Sudan. (2003-present)
• ~400,000 - Ustasha/Independent State of Croatia genocide of Serbs, Jews, Roma people during World War II (1941-1945)
  • 100,000-200,000 - Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia
• Pontic Greek Genocide in modern day Turkey.
• 300,000 - Uganda (1971-1979) under Idi Amin
• 250,000–1,000,000 - Indonesia (1965-1966) under President Suharto (anti-communist purges).
• 225,000 - (1788 - 1888) Population decline of the Australian Aborigines in the first 100 years of British settlement *(source)
• 182,000 - Iraq (1986-1989) under Saddam Hussein, see also Al-Anfal Campaign
• 150,000 - 300,000 East Timor (1970's) under President Suharto of Indonesia
• 150,000 - Harrying of the North (England, 1069-1070) by William the Conqueror
• 130,000-200,000 - Guatemala (1962-1996), under Rios Montt and others see also civil war and highland massacres
• 100,000 - cumulative total attributed to Thuggee, ? - 1840
• 75,000 - England (1509-1547) under King Henry VIII
• 40,000–100,000 - Namibia (1904-1908). See also Herero massacre
• 40,000 - France (1793-1794) under the Jacobin Reign of Terror (estimates vary from 18,000 to 60,000 but this is the generally accepted figure).
• 30,000 - Haiti (1964 - 1971) under François "Papa Doc" Duvalier
• 10,000–30,000 - Argentina's Dirty War, (Argentina, 1976 - 1983)
• 3,000 - Chile (1973 - 1990) under Augusto Pinochet

[edit] Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps

See also List of massacres

• 1,000,000-1,400,000^[1] - Treblinka extermination camp, (by Nazi Germany, located in Treblinka, Poland, 1942-1943)
• 800,000-5,000,000^[2] - Auschwitz extermination camp (by Nazi-Germany, located in Oświęcim, Poland, 1940-1945)
• 480,000-600,000^[3][4][5] - 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)
• 100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnicki, (1648 - 1649)
• 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)
• 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 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, 1943)
• 43,000 - The Blitz (London, 1940 - 1941)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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, (Republic of China (Taiwan), 1947)
• 10,000 Bataan Death March, (Philippines, 1942)
• 10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
• 7,000-8,100 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
• 7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
• 7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
• 5,000-12,000 - 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 Massacre at Huế (Vietnam, 1968)
• 1,645 - Guernica (Spain, 1937)
• 1,400 - Operation Linebacker 2 'Christmas bombing' (Vietnam), 1972)
• 900 - El Mozote Massacre (El Salvador, 1981)
• 622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 - 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)

[edit] Terrorism

See also List of terrorist incidents and List of assassins

• 2,997 - 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)
• 290 - Iran Air Flight 655 (Straight of Hormuz 1988)
• 270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
• 257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
• 257 - 1998 United States embassy bombings 1998
• 215 - Sadr City bombings, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
• 209 - 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2006)
• 202 - 2002 Bali bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
• 192 - 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)
• 135 - 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
• 112 - Avianca Flight 203, (Colombia, 1989)
• 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)
• 88 - 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
• 85 - Stazione Centrale bombing, (Bologna, Italy, 1980)
• 63 - DAS Building bombing, (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989)
• 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)
• 38 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
• 37 - Attack on USS Stark by Iraq, (Persian Gulf, 1987)
• 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 - Ma'alot massacre, (Israel, 1974)
• 26 - Riyadh Compound Bombings, (Saudi Arabia, 2003)
• 23 - Jerusalem bus 2 massacre, (Israel, 2003)
• 22 - Rizal Day bombings, (Philippines, 2000)
• 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)
• 20 - Khobar Towers bombing, (Saudi Arabia, 1996)
• 19 - Patt junction massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 19 - Birmingham pub bombing, (England, 1974)
• 18 - Kiryat Shmona massacre, (Israel, 1974)
• 17 - USS Cole Bombing, (Yemen, 2000)
• 17 - Haifa bus 37 massacre, (Israel, 2003)
• 15 - Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing, (Israel, 2001)
• 15 - Matza restaurant massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 12 - Avivim school bus massacre, (Israel, 1970)
• 12 - Sarin attack, Tokyo Subway, (Tokyo, Japan, 1995)
• 11 - Deal barracks bombing, (Deal, Kent, England, 1989)
• 11 - Jerusalem bus 20 massacre, (Israel, 2002)
• 11 - Jerusalem bus 19 massacre, (Israel, 2004)
• 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)

[edit] Murder (criminal rather than terrorism or state sponsored)

See also List of serial killers by country and Spree killer

• 931 - Behram, Thugee cult, India, (1790 - 1830)
• ~650 - Erzsébet Báthory, Kingdom of Hungary, (c.1585 - 1610) - total disputed
• 500 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)
• 400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
• 300+ - Pedro Lopez, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, (1969 - 1980) - total disputed
• ~250 - Dr. Harold Shipman, Hyde, United Kingdom, (1970s?-1998)
• 198 - Daugu Subway Fire (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
• 163+ - Dr John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne, United Kingdom, (1946-1956). Acquitted controversially but pathologist Francis Camps suspected him of killing 163 patients.^[6]
• 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
• 97 - Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
• 87 - Happyland Fire, New York City, (1990)
• 80+ - Bruno Ludke, Germany, (1928 - 1943) there is some evidence that Ludke may have been framed by the Nazis
• 65 - Yang Xinhai, China (PRC), (1999 - 2004)
• 63 - Arson at a Macedonian disco in Gothenburg, Sweden (1998)
• 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 - 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)
• 6+ - "Zodiac Killer", California, USA (1966 - 1969?)
• 5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)
• 2-15 - Henry Lee Lucas, Texas, USA (1960 - 1983)

[edit] Mailbombings

• 4 - Franz Fuchs, Austria, (1993 - 1997)
• 3 - Theodore Kaczynski, USA, (1978 - 1995)

[edit] Human sacrifice and mass suicide

• 80,000 (estimated) - suicides of Japanese civilians during the Battle of Okinawa, (1945)
• 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)
• 300 - 1000 - Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, (Uganda, March, 2000)
• 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)

[edit] 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 - 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 - 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)

[edit] Explosion

not including bombings, aviation incidents and mine disasters

• 1,950 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, Canada 1917)
• 1,100 - 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
• 322 - Port Chicago disaster (Port Chicago, California, 1944)
• 294 - New London School explosion (New London, Texas, 1937)
• 206 - Gas explosions (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1992)
• 130 - LP gas tanks (Cleveland, Ohio, 1944)
• 126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
• 103 - USS Bennington, (off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, 1954)
• 100+ - Delft Explosion (Netherlands, 1654)
• 48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
• 40 - Lapua ammo factory (Finland, 1976)
• 33 - Humberto Vidal Explosion (San Juan, Puerto Rico,1996)
• 22 - Fireworks factory (Enschede, Netherlands, 2000)
• 21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
• 3 - 2006 Falk Corporation explosion (Milwaukee)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)
• 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 Nov 2004)
• 159 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guangxi province, China, 26 Sep 2000)
• 150 - Nanaimo mine explosion (Canada, 1887)
• 148 - coal mine (Daping mine, Henan province, China, 20 Oct 2004)
• 125 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 21 February 1891)
• 123 - coal mine (Daxing mine, Guangdong province, China, 6 Aug 2005)
• 111 - coal mine (Centralia Mine Disaster, Centralia, IL, March 25, 1947)
• 83 - coal mine (Fukang city, Xinjiang region, China, 13 Jul 2005)
• 74 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 23 October, 1958)
• 59 - coal mine (Xishui mine, Shanxi province, China, 20 Mar 2005)
• 43 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guizhou province, China, 24 Feb 2003)
• 39 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1 November 1956)
• 24 - Nanshan Colliery disaster (Shanxi Province, China, 13 Nov 2006)

[edit] Aviation

• 583 - Tenerife disaster (Tenerife, 27 March 1977)
• 520 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, (Japan, 1985)
• 350 - cargo plane crashes on marketplace (Kinshasa, Zaire, 1996)
• 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 (Jeddah, 1980)
• 290 - Iran Air Flight 655 (Persian Gulf, 1988)
• 276 - Iranian military airplane, (Sirach Mountains, 2003)
• 275 - American Airlines Flight 191 (Chicago, 1979)
• 270 - Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, 1988)
• 269 - Korean Air Flight 007 (Sakhalin Island, 1983)
• 265 - American Airlines Flight 587, (New York City, 2001)
• 264 - China Airlines Flight 140 (Nagoya, 1994)
• 261 - Haj charter plane (Jedda, 1991)
• 257 - Mount Erebus disaster (Antarctica, 1979)
• 256 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 U.S. military charter (Gander, Newfoundland, 1985)
• 230 - TWA Flight 800 (Long Island, 1996)
• 229 - Swissair Flight 111 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998)
• 225 - China Airlines Flight 611 (Penghu Islands, 2002)
• 217 - EgyptAir Flight 990 (Cape Cod, 1999)
• 184 - Icelandair DC-8 Super 63CF (Katunayake, Sri Lanka, 1978)
• 160 - China Northwest Airlines (Xian, China) (6 June 1994)
• 160 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708(Venezuela, 2005)
• 159 - South African Airways Flight 295 (Helderberg disaster) (Indian Ocean, 1987)
• 156 - Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (Romulus, Michigan, 1987)
• 155 - Spantax Flight 275 (Tenerife, 3 December 1972)
• 148 - Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2006)
• 146 - Dan Air Flight 1008, (Tenerife, 25 April 1981)
• 144 - PSA Flight 182 collision with a Cessna 172, (San Diego, CA, September 25, 1978)
• 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 Boeing 737 (Davao City, Philippines, 2000)
• 128 - (Air China; Pusan, South Korea, 15 April 2002)
• 122 - Russian Airbus A-310, (Irkutsk, 9 July 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 MD82; Dalian, China, 7 May 2002)
• 110 - United Airlines Flight 232 (Sioux City, Iowa, 1989)
• 110 - ValuJet Flight 592 (Florida Everglades, 1996)
• 104 - Cebu Pacific DC-9 (Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, 1998)
• 104 - Silkair Flight MI-185 (Sumatra, 1997)
• 99 - TAM Linhas Aéreas's Fokker 100 disaster (São Paulo, Brazil - 1996)
• 84 - Sknyliv (Ukraine) airshow disaster 2002
• 83 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 (Taipei, 2000)
• 78 - Air Florida Flight 90 (Washington, DC, 1982)
• 70 - Ramstein airshow disaster (Germany, 1988)
• 67 - LAPA Airlines Flight 3142 crash, (Argentina, 1999)
• 61 - (China Southwest Airlines; Ruian, China, 24 February 1999)
• 53 - (China Eastern Airlines Flight Mu5210) (Baotou City, China, 21 Nov 2004)
• 49 - Comair Flight 5191; Lexington, Kentucky, 27 Aug 2006
• 47 - Swissair Flight 330 (Würenlingen, near Zürich, Switzerland, February 21, 1970)
• 42 - Braniff Flight 250 (Falls City, Nebraska)
• 35 - Hindenburg disaster (New Jersey, 1937)
• 35 - Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708
• 34 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 40
• 31 - Superga air disaster (Superga, near Turin, 1949)
• 20 - Port-au-Prince air disaster in 1995
• 14 - Tallinn copter crash (Gulf of Finland, off the coast near Tallinn, 2005)

[edit] Maritime

[edit] Wartime ship disasters

• 9,000 - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945 (minimum)
• 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.)
• 5,000 - Ukishima Maru, 1945 (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
• 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
• 690 - HMS St. George, (Denmark, 1811)
• 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)
• 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

[edit] Peacetime ship disasters

• 4,300 - 4,500 - Doña Paz, (Philippines, 1987)(Estimates vary because of overloading and unmanifested passengers, only 21 survived [10][11][12])
• 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} {[13] 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)
• 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)

[edit] Space travel

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

See also List of space disasters.

[edit] Sporting events

• 1,112 - Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c.140 AD)^[7]
• 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]}
• 340 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, USSR, 1982) ^{[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) ^{[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)
• 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)^[8]
• 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)^[9]

[edit] 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)
• 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)

[edit] 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[14]
• 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) [15]
• 11 - The Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio

[edit] Animal attacks

• 980 - Burmese saltwater crocodiles (Ramree, Burma, February 19, 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

[edit] Nuclear accidents

Main article: List of nuclear accidents

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

[edit] Other 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)
• 144 - Aberfan landslide disaster (Wales, 1966)
• 130+ - Rafiganj train disaster (India, 2002)
• 126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
• 114+ - Veligonda train disaster, (India, 2005)
• 114 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981)
• 112 - Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, (England, 1952)
• 103 - Amagasaki rail crash, (Japan, 2005)
• 101 - ICE high-speed train disaster, (Germany, 1998)
• 90 - Lewisham rail crash, (England, 1957)
• 88 - Armagh rail disaster, (Northern Ireland, 1889)
• 83 - Granville train disaster, Granville, Sydney, Australia
• 75+ - Tay Bridge Disaster, (Scotland, 1879)
• 75 - Quebec Bridge, (Canada, 1907]
• 64 - Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (Soviet Union, 1979)
• 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)
• 27 - Tretten train accident (Norway, 1975)
• 20 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft
• 19 - Åsta train accident (Norway, 2000)
• 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.

[edit] References

1. ^ Encyclopedia Americana
2. ^ Brian Harmon, John Drobnicki, Historical sources and the Auschwitz death toll estimates
3. ^ 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
4. ^ Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Yale University Press, 2003, revised hardcover edition, ISBN 0-300-09557-0
5. ^ Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987, NCR 0-253-34293-7
6. ^ Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
7. ^ Guinness World Records: Worst Sport Disaster
8. ^ 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.
9. ^ For references, see Munich massacre#References

[edit] See also

• Mass murder | Genocide | Democide
• Mass deaths and atrocities of the twentieth century
• List of wars | List of battles - List of invasions
• Most lethal battles in world history
• List of disasters | List of historic fires
• List of earthquakes | List of notable tropical cyclones
• List of massacres | List of riots
• List of rail accidents
• List of terrorist incidents
• Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
• List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
• United States casualties of war
• Invasion and occupation of Iraq casualties

[edit] External links

• Bloodiest Battles of the 20th Century
• Death Tolls for Battles of the 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries
• Wars of the 20th Century
• Death Toll from Disasters, War, Terrorists