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62,000,000 - World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)

36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)

30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)

25,000,000 - Manchu conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)

20,000,000–50,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)

17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)

15,000,000–66,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties) note that the larger number includes Spanish flu deaths

10,000,000-25,000,000 - Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)

5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War (1917–1921)

3,800,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2004)

3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)

3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)

2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953)

2,300,000–3,800,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)

1,300,000+ - The Merv massacre 1221

1,200,000 - The Urgench massacre 1220

300,000–1,300,000 - First Indochina War (1945–1954)

100,000–300,000 - Vietnamese Civil War (1954–1960)

1,750,000–2,100,000 - American phase (1960–1973)

170,000 - Final phase (1973–1975)

175,000–1,150,000 - Secret War (1962–1975)

2,000,000–4,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)

1,700,000–2,300,000 - Khmer Rouge (1975–1979)

1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghanistan (1979–2001)

1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet invasion (1979–1989)

1,300,000–6,100,000 - Chinese Civil War (1928–1949) note that this figure excludes World War II casualties

300,000–3,100,000 before 1937

1,000,000–3,000,000 after World War II

1,000,000–1,200,000 - Seven Years' War (1756–1763)

1,000,000 - Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)

1,000,000 - Sudanese Civil War (1983–2002)

1,000,000 - Biafran War (1967–1970)

900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976–1993)

800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991–1997)

655,000 - Iraq War (2003-Present) (''total'' mortality as of July 2006; iraqbodycount.net records 52,000 reported deaths)

620,000 - American Civil War (1861–1865)

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 - 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)

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)

125,000 - Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)

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 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)

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 - Peru/Shining Path conflict (1980 - )

60,000 - Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983-)

50,000–200,000 - First Chechen War (1994–1996)

35,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)

31,000–100,000 - Second Chechen War (1999 - )

30,000 - Turkey/PKK conflict (1984 - )

30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)

23,000 - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)

20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001 – 2002)

13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)

12,000 - Croatian Independence War (1991–1995)

7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)

5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)

4,000 - Waziristan War (2004-2006)

3,700 - Northern Ireland conflict (1969 - 1998)

3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 - )

2,000 - Football War (1969)

1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000 -)

1,547–2,173+ - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)

1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)

1,000 - Falklands War (1982)

537–3,000 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)

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2,000,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916)

1,800,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)

1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)

700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)

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-Sandomir (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)

26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)

24,000 - Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)

22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)

21,000 - Battle of Guam (1944)

20,000–30,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC)

20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)

20,000 - Battle of Zama (202 BC)

19,000 - Battle of Vienna (1683)

18,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812)

18,500 - Operation Market Garden (1944)

17,000 - Battle of Bataan (1942)

16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939)

15,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815)

15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC)

13,500 - Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)

12,000 - Siege of Tobruk (1941)

11,000 - Battle of Heraclea (180 BC)

11,000 - Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864–1865)

10,500 - Battle of Asculum (279 BC)

10,360 - Battle of Mons Graupius (83 or 84)

10,000 - Battle of 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)

8,000+ - Battle of Agincourt, (Hundred Years' War, 1415)

7,200 - Kokoda Track Campaign, (1942–1943)

7,058 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)

6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)

6,500 - Battle of the Kasserine Pass (1943)

6,500 - Battle of Tinian (1944)

5,600–6,600 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 Dara (530)

5,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)

4,808 - Battle of Antietam (1862)

4,360 - Battle of Chickamauga (1863)

4,329 - Battle of Isandlwana (1879)

4,175 - Battle of Leuthen (1757)

3,750 - Battle of the Wilderness (1864)

3,477 - Battle of Shiloh (1862)

3,205 - Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)

2,800 - Battle of Midway (1942)

2,400 - La Noche Triste (1520)

2,000+ - Battle of 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)

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27,000,000-73,000,000* - People's Republic of China (1949-1975) under Mao Zedong *

17,267,000*^{(Table 3.1)} - Slavery of Africans

13,778,000* - Democide of the Native American populations.

10,000,000 - 31,000,000* Democides (1933 -1945) of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, including the Holocaust

5,964,000* - 30,000,000* - 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.

4,000,000 - 50,000,000 - Soviet Union (1924-1953) under Joseph Stalin*

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* - 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)

250,000–500,0000 - (1919-1923)

937,000 - Genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)

800,000–1,000,000 - India/Pakistan Partition, (1947-1948)

~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

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
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182,000 - Iraq (1986-1989) under Saddam Hussein, see also Al-Anfal Campaign

175,000 Yugoslavia (1944-1948) Anti-german purge by Josip Broz Tito's Partisans.

150,000 - 300,000 East Timor (1970's) under President Suharto of Indonesia

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

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1,100,000-1,400,000 - Auschwitz concentration camp (by Nazi-Germany, located in Oświęcim, Poland, 1940-1945)

700,000-1,000,000 - Treblinka extermination camp, (by Nazi-Germany, located in Treblinka, Poland, 1942-1943)

260,000 - Sobibór extermination camp

250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)

220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (58 BC)

200,000+ - Sack of Moscow by Crimean Tatars, 1571

200,000–400,000 - Rape of Nanking under 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)

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)

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)

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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)

299 - US and French barracks bombings, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)

270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)

257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)

225 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, (Tanzania, Kenya, 1998)

209 - 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings.

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)

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)

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)

40 - 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 massacre, (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)

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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 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)

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

63 - Arson at a Macedonian disco in Gothenburg, Sweden (1998)

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)

35 - Port Arthur Massacre, Australia (1996)

33 - John Wayne Gacy, Chicago, (1970s)

29-40 - Charles Cullen, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, USA (1988 - 2003)

27–63 Marcel Petiot, France, (1926 - 1944)

27 - Dean Corll, Houston, Texas, USA (1970 - 1973)

27 - Maria Swanenburg Leiden, Netherlands, (1880-1883)

24+ - 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 - Mattias Flink, Falun, Sweden - (1994)

7 - Myyrmanni bombing, Vantaa, Finland - (2002)

6+ - "Zodiac Killer", California, USA (1966 - 1969?)

5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)

5+ - Juan Covington, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania USA

5 - Johan Filip Nordlund onboard a steamer on its way to Stockholm, Sweden - (1900)

4 - Tommy Zethraeus (The Stureplan Murders) Stockholm, Sweden - (1994)

2-15 - Henry Lee Lucas, Texas, USA (1960 - 1983)

2 - Ed Gein, Plainfield, Wisconsin (1957)

2 - Ian Huntley, Soham, England (2002)

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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)

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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

50–60 - 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)

50 - Champ-de-Mars massacre (Paris, 1791)

43 - Attica Prison riots (New York, 1971)

43 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, 1967)

40–50 - Newton Rebellion (Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, 1607)

39+ - Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, although recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

36 - 1964 Race Riots (Singapore, 1964)

34 - Watts Riot (Los Angeles, 1965)

25 - Corpus Christi Massacre (Mexico City, 1971)

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)

1 - Murray-Hill riot (Montréal, 1969)

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ca. 2,500 - Church of La Compañía (Santiago, Chile, 1863)

ca. 2,000 - Peshtigo Fire, (Wisconsin, 1871)

1,700 - Waterfront fire, (Chongqing, China, 1949)

1,670 - Theater fire (Canton, China, 1845)

1,100–2,700 - Salang tunnel fire (Afghanistan, 1982)

694 - Theater fire (Xinjiang, China, 1977)

658 - Antoung Movie Theater (China, 1937)

620 - Ring Theatre (Vienna, Austria, 1881)

602 - Iroquois Theater Fire, (Chicago, 1903)

559 - forest fire (Cloquet, Minnesota, 1918)

500 - Pemex LP gas fire (Mexico City, Mexico, 1984)

500 - Flood-spread Fuel fire (Durunka, Egypt, 1994)

492 - Cocoanut Grove fire, (Boston, 1942)

468 - Texas City Disaster, (Texas City, Texas, 1947)

465+ - Asunción Paraguay supermarket fire, (2004)

441 - Rajiv Marriage Palace (school function) (Mandi Dabwali, India, 1995)

418 - Hinckley Fire (Minnesota, 1894)

400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)

326 - North German Lloyd Steamship Line piers (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1900)

324 - Movie theater, (Xinjiang, China, 1994)

323 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)

322 - L'Innovation department store (Brussels, Belgium, 1967)

320 - Ohio State Penitentiary fire, (Columbus, Ohio, 1930)

310 - Theater fire (Karamay, China, 1994)

309 - Disco fire (Luoyang, China, 2000)

300 - Subway fire, (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1995)

300 - Great Chicago Fire (Chicago, 1871)

285 - Conway's Theater, (New York City, 1876)

282 - Thumb Fire, (Michigan, 1881)

216 - Propylene Truck explosion on hot summers day at campsite, (Tarragona, Spain, July 11th 1978)

194 - República Cromagnon nightclub fire, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004)

189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)

189 - Joelma Fire, (São Paulo, Brazil, 1974)

187 - Doll factory (Bangkok, Thailand, 1993)

178 - School fire Collinwood, Ohio, 1908)

170 - Rhoads Opera House (Boyerton, Pennsylvania, 1908)

167 - Piper Alpha oil platform, (North Sea, 1988)

165 - Beverly Hills Supper Club fire, (Southgate, Kentucky, 1977)

168 - Hartford Circus Fire, (Hartford, Connecticut, 1944)

162 - Hotel Daeyungak, Seoul, South Korea (25 December 1971)

162 - Ozone Disco, Metro Manila, Philippines (March 19, 1996 *

160 - Richmond Theater, (Richmond, Virginia, 1811)

160 - Miramichi Fire, (New Brunswick, 1825)

156 - Alpine tunnel fire (Kaprun, Austria, 2000)

150 - Clifford's Tower, (York, England, 1190)

150 - Exeter Theatre Royal fire, (Exeter, England, 1887)

145 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, (New York, 1911)

119 - Winecoff Hotel Fire, (Atlanta, Georgia, December 7, 1946)

100 - The Station nightclub fire (Rhode Island, 2003)

99 - Knights of Columbus Disaster, St. John's, Newfoundland, December 12, 1942

97 - Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)

92 - School Fire Kumbakonam,Tamil Nadu,India(16th July 2004)

84 - Paris Metro train fire (Paris, France, 1903)

76 - Ash Wednesday fires (Australia, 1983)

72 - Branch Davidian church (Waco, Texas, 1993)

71 - "Black Friday" bushfires (Australia, 1939)

63 - Discotheque fire (Göteborg, Sweden, 1998)

62 - Hobart bushfire (Australia, 1967)

51 - Summerland disaster (Douglas, Isle of Man, 1973)

48 - Stardust Nightclub, (Dublin, Ireland, 1981)

41 - Ballantyne's Department Store fire (Christchurch, New Zealand, 1947)

39 - Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, (France/Italy, 1999)

36 - Hindenburg disaster, (Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937)

30 - King's Cross Station, Escalator fire, (London, 1987)

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1,635 - 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

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)

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1,909 - Vajont Dam, landslide and megatsunami, Italy, 1961

1,200 - 1,600 Möhne Reservoir destroyed by bombing, Germany, 1943

? - Edersee dam destroyed by bombing, Germany, 1943

421 - Malpasset dam collapse, France, 1959

>400 - 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

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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, United Kingdom, 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)

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)

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2,997 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001) (the exact death toll is not known; the number given is the minimum confirmed dead)

583 - Tenerife disaster (Tenerife, 27 march, 1977)

520 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, (Japan, 1985)

350 - cargo plane crashes on marketplace (Kinshasa, Zaire, 1996)

349 - Saudi Arabian Airlines plane collided with a Kazak Airlines plane, (New Delhi, 1996)

346 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Paris, 1974)

329 - Air India flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)

301 - Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, 1980)

290 - Iran Air Flight 655 (Persian Gulf, 1988)

276 - Iranian military airplane, (Sirach Mountains, 2003)

275 - American Airlines Flight 191 (Chicago, 1979)

270 - Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, 1988)

269 - Korean Air Flight 7 (Sakhalin Island, 1983)

265 - American Airlines Flight 587, (New York City, 2001)

264 - China Airlines (Nagoya, 1994)

261 - Haj charter plane (Jedda, 1991)

257 - Mount Erebus disaster (Antarctica, 1979)

256 - Arrow Air U.S. military charter (Gander, Newfoundland, 1985)

230 - TWA Flight 800 (Long Island, 1996)

229 - Swissair Flight 111 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998)

225 - China Airlines Flight 611 (Penghu Islands, 2002)

202 - EgyptAir Flight 990 (Cape Cod, 2001)

160 - China Northwest Airlines (Xian, China) (6 June 1994)