User:Gatoclass/List of battles

(Original title: List of battles and other violent events by death toll).

This page lists mortalities from battles and other individual military operations or acts of violence, sorted by death toll. For wars and events more extensive in scope, see List of wars and disasters by death toll. For natural disasters, see List of natural disasters by death toll.

Battles and sieges

Many of the entries in this section are currently for total casualties rather than deaths. Until this notice is removed, check the individual links to confirm what the figure represents.

Main article: Most lethal battles in world history

1. 1,530,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943) (figure for total casualties)
2. 1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
3. 1,425,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916) (total casualties)
4. 1,338,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943) (figure for total casualties)
5. 1,300,000+ - The Merv massacre 1221
6. 1,200,000 - The Urgench massacre 1220
7. 900,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
8. 552,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
9. 500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
10. 400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
11. 370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
12. 330,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
13. 310,000 - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
14. 302,300 - Battle of Salsu (612)
15. 300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916)
16. 280,000 - Warsaw Uprising (1944)
17. 280,000 - Second Battle of the Aisne (1917)
18. 270,000 - Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (1942)
19. 270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944)
20. 260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916)
21. 260,000 - Battle of the Caucasus (1942)
22. 240,000 - Third Battle of the Aisne (1918)
23. 240,000(est) - Battle of Bibracte (58 BC)
24. 230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
25. 230,000–350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
26. 200,000+ - Battle of Red Cliffs, China (208 AD)
27. 200,000 - Battle of Carthage (c.149 BC) (149 BC–146 BC)
28. 190,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1941)
29. 180,000 - Battle of France (1940)
30. 175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
31. 170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943)
32. 170,000 - Battle of Königsberg (1945)
33. 165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
34. 150,000 - Battle of Rostov (1941)
35. 150,000 - Battle of Okinawa (1945)
36. 150,000 - Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
37. 140,000 - Battle of Vercellae (101 BC)
38. 132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944)
39. 130,000 - Battle of Budapest (1945)
40. 125,000 - Third Battle of Nanking (1864)
41. 125,000 - Battle of Lemberg (1914)
42. 120,000 - Battle of Arausio (105 BC)
43. 117,000 - Battle for the Liberation of Manila (1945)
44. 115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914)
45. 105,000 - Operation Karbala-5 (1987)
46. 100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943)
47. 100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943)
48. 100,000(est) - Battle of Lugdunum (197)
49. 95,000(est) - Battle of Sarikamish (1915)
50. 90,000+ - Battle of Gwiju (1018)

Air raids

• 100,000 - Tokyo firebombing by the USAAF, 1945
• 66,000–237,062 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the USAAF, (Japan, 1945)
• 50,000 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, July 1943)
• 43,000 - The Blitz (London, 1940 - 1941)
• 39,000–108,000 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the USAAF, (Japan, 1945)
• 24,000–40,000 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II, (in Germany by Allied forces, 1945)
• 17,000 - Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II (Germany, February 23, 1945)
• 7,500-8,500 - Bombings of Cap Arcona and Thielbek, (Germany, 1945)
• 2000–5000 - Bombing of Le Havre by Allied forces (France, 1944)
• 1500–4000 - Bombing of Caen by Allied forces (France, 1944)
• 3,000 - Taihoku air raid (Taiwan, 1943-1945)
• 1,645 - Bombing of Guernica (Spain, 1937)
• 1,400 - Operation Linebacker 2 'Christmas bombing' (Vietnam), 1972)
• 800-900 - Terror bombing of Rotterdam by Nazi Germany, 14 May 1940.

Wartime ship disasters

Prior to World War I

Estimate	Name	Nat.	Ship Type	Principal victims	Where sunk	Date	Year
900	HMS Victory	GB	1st-rate	Crew	The Casquets	Oct 3	1744
838	HMS St George	UK	1st-rate	Crew	North Sea	Dec 24	1811
800+	HMS Royal George	GB	1st-rate	Crew	Spithead	Aug 29	1782
800	HMS Association	GB	2nd-rate	Crew	Isles of Scilly	Oct 22	1707
699	HMS Ramilles	GB	3rd-rate	Crew	Bolt Head	Feb 15	1760
673	HMS Queen Charlotte	GB	1st-rate	Crew	Livorno	Mar 17	1800
566	General Lyon	US	Transport	Discharged Union soldiers, Confederate POWs	Cape Hatteras	Mar 31	1865
600	HMS Hero	UK	3rd-rate	Crew	Wadden Sea	Dec 28	1811
555	HMS Defence	UK	3rd-rate	Crew	North Sea	Dec 24	1811
450	HMS Birkenhead	UK	Troopship	Soldiers, crew	Western Cape	Feb 26	1852
380	Mary Rose	Eng	Carrack	Soldiers, crew	The Solent	Jul 19	1545
372	Arniston	Eng	East Indiaman	Soldiers, crew & their family	Cape Agulhas	May 30	1815

World War I

Estimate	Name	Nat.	Ship Type	Principal victims	Where sunk	Date	Year
1,255	HMS Queen Mary	UK	Battlecruiser	Crew	North Sea	May 31	1916
1,198	RMS Lusitania	UK	Ocean Liner	Civilians		May 7	1915
1,015	HMS Invincible	UK	Battlecruiser	Crew	North Sea	May 31	1916
1,013	HMS Indefatigable	UK	Battlecruiser	Crew	North sea	May 31	1916
903	HMS Defence	UK	Armoured cruiser	Crew	North Sea	May 31	1916
900	HMS Good Hope	UK	Armoured Cruiser	Crew	Pacific Ocean	Nov 1	1914
857	HMS Black Prince	UK	Armoured Cruiser	Crew	North Sea	May 31	1916
843	HMS Vanguard	UK	Battleship	Crew		Jul 19	1917
839	SMS Pommern	Ger	Battleship	Crew	North Sea	Jun 1	1916
782	SMS Blücher	Ger	Armoured Cruiser	Crew	Dogger Bank	Jan 24	1915
764	SMS Scharnhorst	Ger	Armoured Cruiser	Crew	Falkland Islands	Dec 8	1914
750	HMS Monmouth	UK	Armoured Cruiser	Crew		Nov 1	1914
738	HMS Bulwark	UK	Battleship	Crew	Sheerness	Nov 26	1914
648	Suffren	Fr	Battleship	Crew	off Lisbon	Nov 26	1916
646	SS Mendi	UK	Troopship	Troops	English Channel	Feb 21	1917
600	Bouvet	Fr	Battleship	Crew	Dardanelles	Mar 18	1915
501	RMS Leinster	UK	Mail Ship	Military personnel	Irish Sea	Oct 10	1918
577	SMS Gneisenau	Ger	Armoured Cruiser	Crew	Falkland Islands	Dec 8	1918
570	HMS Goliath	UK	Battleship	Crew	Dardanelles	May 13	1915
460	HMS Hawke	UK	Cruiser	Crew	North Sea	Oct 15	1914

World War II

Estimate	Name	Nat.	Ship Type	Principal victims	Where sunk	Date	Year
9,400	Wilhelm Gustloff	Ger	Transport	Refugees	Baltic Sea	Jan 30	1945
6,000	Goya	Ger	Transport	Wounded, refugees	Baltic Sea	Apr 16	1945
5,620	Junyō Maru	Jap	Transport	Allied POW's	Indian Ocean	Sep 18	1944
5,400~	Toyama Maru	Jap	Transport	Troops	Sea of Japan	Jun 29	1944
5,000	Armenia	Sov	Hospital	Wounded, refugees	Black Sea	Nov 7	1941
4,650	Cap Arcona	Ger	Transport	Concentration camp prisoners	Baltic Sea	May 3	1945
4,000 - 6,500 {1,738 known dead; 2,477 survived}	HMT Lancastria	Brit	Transport	Troops, refugees	Bay of Biscay	Jun 17	1940
3,850	Orion	Ger	Aux. Cruiser	Refugees	Baltic Sea	May 4	1945
3,000	SS General von Steuben	Ger	Transport	Wounded, refugees	Baltic Sea	Feb 10	1945
3,000	Yoshida Maru	Jap	Transport	Troops		Apr 26	1944
2,750	Thielbek	Ger	Freighter	Concentration camp prisoners	Baltic Sea	May 3	1945
2,571	MS Rigel	Ger	Transport	Troops, Soviet POW's		Nov 27	1944
2,498	Yamato	Jap	Battleship	Crew	Sea of Japan	Apr 7	1945
2,097	Bismarck	Ger	Battleship	Crew	Atlantic Ocean	May 27	1941
2,003	Awa Maru	Jap	Hospital	Civilians	Taiwan Straits	Apr 1	1945
2,000	Ural Maru	Jap	Transport	N/A		Sep 27	1944
2,000	Iosif Stalin	Sov	Transport	Troops, crew	Baltic Sea	Dec 3	1941
1,932	Scharnhorst	Ger	Battlecruiser	Crew	Arctic Ocean	Dec 26	1943
1,875	Arisan Maru	Jap	Freighter	US POW's	China Sea	Oct 24	1944
1,650	Taihō	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew	Philippine Sea	Mar 7	1944
1,600	Roma	Ita	Battleship	Crew	Mediterranean	Sep 8	1943
1,529	Tsushima Maru	Jap	Transport	Schoolchildren, civilians	Sea of Japan	Aug 22	1944
1,435	Shinano	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew		Nov 29	1944
1,414	HMS Hood	UK	Battlecruiser	Crew	Denmark Strait	May 24	1941
1,400	Yamashiro	Jap	Battleship	Crew	Surigao Strait	Oct 25	1944
1,400	Fusō	Jap	Battleship	Crew	Surigao Strait	Oct 25	1944
1,297	SS Khedive Ismail	UK	Transport	Troops	Indian Ocean	Feb 12	1944
1,263	Shōkaku	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew	Philippine Sea	Jun 19	1944
1,250	Kongō	Jap	Battleship	Crew	Formosa Strait	Nov 21	1944
1,239	Unryū	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew		Dec 19	1944
1,209	SS Conte Rosso	Ita	Troopship	Troops, crew	Mediterranean	May 24	1941
1,207	HMS Glorious	UK	Air. Carrier	Crew	Norwegian Sea	Jun 8	1940
1,177	USS Arizona	US	Battleship	Crew	Pearl Harbor	Dec 7	1941
1,124	Montevideo Maru	Jap	Transport	Australian POW's, civilians	Philippine Sea?	Jul 1	1942
1,023	Musashi	Jap	Battleship	Crew	Leyte Gulf	Oct 24	1944
1,000	Tirpitz	Ger	Battleship	Crew	Tromso	Nov 12	1944
946	Exercise Tiger	UK	(Military exercise)	US troops	South Devon	Apr 28	1944
920	Blücher	Ger	Hvy Cruiser	Troops, crew	Oslofjord	Apr 9	1940
883	USS Indianapolis	US	Hvy Cruiser	Crew	Philippine Sea	Jul 30	1945
862	HMS Barham	UK	Battleship	Crew	Mediterranean	Nov 25	1941
843	Zuikaku	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew	Leyte Gulf	Oct 25	1944
833	HMS Royal Oak	UK	Battleship	Crew	Scapa Flow	Oct 14	1939
814	Kaga	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew	Midway	Jun 4	1942
718	Sōryū	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew	Midway	Jun 4	1942
655	SS Ceramic	UK	Passenger	Civilians	Atlantic Ocean	Dec 6	1942
645	HMAS Sydney	Aus	Lt Cruiser	Crew	Indian Ocean	Nov 19	1941
631	Shōhō	Jap	Air. Carrier	Crew	Coral Sea	May 7	1942
549	Ukishima Maru	Jap	Transport	Korean forced labourers	Maizuru, Japan	Aug 24	1945
518	HMS Courageous	UK	Air. Carrier	Crew	Irish coast	Sep 17	1939
513	HMS Repulse	UK	Battlecruiser	Crew	South China Sea	Dec 10	1941
353	HMAS Perth	Aus	Lt Cruiser	Crew	Sunda Strait	Mar 1	1942
338	HMS Curacoa	UK	Lt Cruiser	Crew	Atlantic?	Oct 2	1942
327	HMS Prince of Wales	UK	Battleship	Crew	South China Sea	Dec 10	1941
271	Ilmarinen	Fin	Coastal def. ship	Crew	Baltic Sea	Sep 13	1941
159 {KIA & POW}	USS Asheville (PG-21)	US	Gunboat	crew	Java Sea	March 3	1942)
137	SS Caribou	Can	Ferry	Passengers, crew	Cabot Strait	Oct 14	1942)

Post World War II

Estimate	Name	Nat.	Ship Type	Principal victims	Where sunk	Date	Year
2,750	Kiangya	Chi	Steamship	Refugees	Shanghai	Dec 3	1948
323	ARA General Belgrano	Arg	Cruiser	Crew	South Atlantic	May 2	1982
34	USS Liberty	US	Tech research	Crew	Not Applicable	Jun 8	1967

Massacres

See also List of massacres

1. 1,300,000+ - Merv massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Tolui khan), located in Merv (present Mary) in Turkestan.
2. 1,200,000 - Kunya Urgench massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Ögedei Khan), located in Kunya Urgench (then Guranj) in Uzbekistan
3. 500,000+ - The genocide in the time of transition from Soekarno Era to Soeharto Era. the side effect of G30S or September, 30 Movement incident in Indonesia
4. 250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
5. 220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (by Roman Empire 58 BC)
6. 200,000+ - Sack of Moscow (by Crimean Tatars, 1571)
7. 200,000–400,000 - Rape of Nanking (by Imperial Japan, in China, 1937)
8. 150,000 - 300,000 - Kalmyks from east of the Volga set out to return to China but two-thirds of them were massacred on the way by theirs Kazakh enemies (Central Asia, 1770-1771)
9. 100,000 - Ponary massacre of Jews, Poles and Russians by German SD and SS (Lithuania 1941-1944)
10. 100,000–500,000 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian nationalists from Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the German occupation of Ukraine between 1942 and 1944
11. 100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnicki, (1648 - 1649). During the Deluge, series of wars between 1648 and 1660, Poland lost an estimated one-third of its population.
12. 100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
13. 100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
14. 100,000-150,000 - Sack of Carthage, (146BC)
15. 100,000 - Siege of Antioch (1268)
16. 100,000 - Hindu captives executed by Timur (1398)
17. 70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
18. 70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
19. 60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
20. 50,000-150,000 - Harki Algerians massacred by the National Liberation Front (Algeria) (1962)
21. 50,000-100,000 - Sook Ching massacre (Singapore, 1942)
22. 50,000 - Defenders of Somnath massacred by Mahmud of Ghazni (1026)
23. 50,000 - Wola massacre in Warsaw (1944)
24. 42,000 - Chios Massacre (Greek War of Independence, 1822)
25. 36,000 - Odessa massacre (1941)
26. 30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
27. 30,000 - Massacre of Greeks in Constantinople (1821)
28. 26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
29. 25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years' War, Germany, 1631)
30. 25,000 - Rumbula Forest massacre of the Riga Jews (1941)
31. 20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)
32. 20,000 - Massacre of Praga (Poland, 1794)
33. 14,000 - Haitians massacred by Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's government. (Dominican Republic, 1937)
34. 12,000 - Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Afghanistan, 1842)
35. 12,000 - La matanza (El Salvador, 1931)
36. 10,000-30,000 228 Incident, (Republic of China (Taiwan), 1947)
37. 10,000 Bataan Death March, (Philippines, 1942)
38. 10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
39. 8,000 - Sack of Antwerp (1576)
40. 7,000-8,100 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
41. 7,000 - Kragujevac massacre, (Kragujevac, Serbia, 1941)
42. 7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
43. 7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
44. 5,000-17,000 - Massacre and ethnic cleansing of Indians and Arabs by the descendants of black African slaves during the Zanzibar Revolution (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1964)
45. 5,000-7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
46. 5,000 - Batak massacre of Bulgarian civilians by bashi-bazouk Ottoman army irregulars (1876)
47. 5,000 - Siege of Limerick (Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1651)
48. 5,000 - Massacre of Mamluks (Egypt, 1811)
49. 4,500 - Massacre of Saxons in Verden by Charlemagne (Lower Saxony, 782)
50. 4,000 - Prebilovci massacre 1941, NDH

Terrorist attacks

See also List of terrorist incidents and List of assassins

1. 2,983 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, NY, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001)
2. 796 - 2007 Qahtaniya bombings, (Qahtaniya, Iraq, 2007)
3. 438 - Cinema Rex fire, (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
4. 365 - Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
5. 329 - Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
6. 307 - 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
7. 290- Persian Gulf Iranian Commercial Airline hit by US naval ship
8. 270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
9. 257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
10. 257 - 1998 United States embassy bombings (Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998)
11. 215 - Sadr City bombings, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
12. 209 - Mumbai train bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2006)
13. 202 - 2002 Bali bombings, (Bali, Indonesia, 2002)
14. 198 - 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Iraq, 2007)
15. 191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, (Spain, 2004)
16. 181 - Kerbala and Baghdad attacks, (2004, see Ashoura Massacre)
17. 171 - UTA Flight UT-772, (Niger, 1989)
18. 170 - Moscow Theatre Siege, (Russia, 2002)
19. 168 - Oklahoma City bombing, (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 1995)
20. 152 - 2007 Tal Afar bombings and massacre (Tal Afar, Iraq, 2007)
21. 136 - 2007 Karachi bombing (Karachi, Pakistan, 2007)
22. 135 - 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
23. 127 - 2005 Al Hillah bombing (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2005)
24. 120 - 2007 Al Hillah bombings (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2007)
25. 117 - 2004 Irbil bombings, (Irbil, Iraq, 2004)
26. 116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
27. 112 - 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2004)
28. 112 - Avianca Flight 203, (Colombia, 1989)
29. 98 - Musayyib fuel tanker bombing, (Musayyib, Iraq, 2005) (see Triangle of Death (Iraq))
30. 91 - King David Hotel bombing, (Jerusalem, 1946)
31. 90 - Central Bank Bombing, (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1996)
32. 90 - 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks, (Egypt, 2005)
33. 89 - Russian airplane bombings, (Russia, 2004)
34. 88 - TWA Flight 841, (Ionian Sea, 1974)
35. 88 - 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
36. 86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
37. 85 - Buratha Mosque bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2006)
38. 85 - Stazione Centrale bombing, (Bologna, Italy, 1980)
39. 83 - Imam Ali Mosque bombing, (Najaf, Iraq, 2003)
40. 76 - 12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
41. 74 - 2005 Khanaqin bombings, (Khanaqin, Iraq, 2005)
42. 74 - 21 April 2004 Basra bombings, (Basra, Iraq, 2004)
43. 74 - 2004 Kufa shelling, (Kufa, Iraq, 2004)
44. 70 - 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
45. 68 - 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, (India, 2007)
46. 63 - 18 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
47. 63 - DAS Building bombing, (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989)
48. 63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
49. 62 - 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
50. 61 - 29 October 2005 New Delhi bombings, (New Delhi, 2005)
51. 60 - 2005 Amman bombings, (Amman, 2005)
52. 57 - 2003 Istanbul Bombings, (Turkey, 2003)
53. 52 - 7 July 2005 London bombings (London, 2005)
54. 52 - 2003 Mumbai bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2003)
55. 46 - Casablanca Attacks, (Morocco, 2003)
56. 42 - 2004 Moscow metro bombing, Russia, 2004)
57. 38 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
58. 34 - 2004 Sinai bombings, Taba and Nuweiba, Egypt, 2004
59. 33 - Pan Am Flight 110, (Italy, 1973)
60. 33 - Coimbatore blasts, (India, 1998)
61. 33 - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, (Ireland, 1974)
62. 30 - Passover massacre, (Israel, 2002)

Human sacrifice and mass suicide

This section lists notable individual episodes of mass suicide or human sacrifice. For tolls arising from the systematic practice of suicide or sacrifice, see Human sacrifice and ritual suicide.

Low Estimate	High Estimate	Description	Group	Location	From	To	See also
80,000	80,000	Mass suicide	Japanese civilians	Japan	1945	1945	Battle of Okinawa
8,000	8,000	Mass suicide	Japanese civilians	Mariana Islands	1944	1944	Battle of Saipan
3,000	80,000	Mass human sacrifice	Aztecs	Huitzilopochtli, Tenochtitlan	1487	1487
960	960	Mass suicide	Jewish zealots	Judea	73	73	Siege of Masada
913	913	Mass suicide, murder	Peoples Temple	Guyana	1978	1978	Jonestown
300	1000	Mass suicide	Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God	Uganda	2000, March	2000, March
53	53	Mass suicide	Order of the Solar Temple	Switzerland, Canada	1994	1994
39	39	Mass suicide	Heaven's Gate	California	1997	1997
16	16	Mass suicide	Order of the Solar Temple	France	1995, December 23	1995, December 23

Riot or political demonstration

1. 30,000 - Nika riots (Constantinople, 532)
2. 30,000 - La semaine sanglante (Paris, 1871)
3. 30,000 - 228 Incident, (Taiwan, 1947)
4. 11,000 - Romanian Peasants' Revolt, 1907
5. 7,500 - March 1st Movement (Seoul, Korea, 1919)
6. 3,000 - Burma 1988 demonstrations (Yangon, (a.o.) Myanmar, 1988)
7. 2,000 - Santa María School massacre (Iquique, Chile, 1907)
8. 1,000 - Bloody Sunday (1905) (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1905)
9. 400 - Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, 1987)
10. 300–3,000 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
11. 285 - Gordon Riots (England, 1780)
12. 249 - Riots in Palestine of 1929, (Mandate of Palestine, 1929)
13. 200–300 - Tlatelolco massacre (Mexico, 1968)
14. 184 - May 13 Incident (Kuala Lumpur, 1969)
15. 139 - Cartoon Riots (2006)
16. 100 - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" (Paris, 1795)
17. 100 - New York Draft Riots (New York City, 1863)
18. 95 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921 (Tel Aviv, 1921)
19. 94 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947
20. 84 - Riot and crushing during mass arrests (Narathiwat province, Thailand, 2004)
21. 69 - Sharpeville Massacre (South Africa, 1960)
22. 53 - 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)
23. 50 - Champ de Mars massacre (Paris, 1791)
24. 46 - Boipatong Massacre (South Africa, 1992)
25. 43 - Attica Prison riots (New York, 1971)
26. 43 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, 1967)
27. 40–50 - Newton Rebellion (Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, 1607)
28. 39+ - Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, although recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
29. 36 - 1964 Race Riots (Singapore, 1964)
30. 34 - Watts Riot (Los Angeles, 1965)
31. 25 - Palingoproer (Amsterdam, 1886)
32. 25 - Corpus Christi Massacre (Mexico City, 1971)
33. 22 - Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Australia, 1854)
34. 20 - Ludlow Massacre (Ludlow, Colorado, 1914)
35. 18 - Maria Hertogh riots (Singapore, 1950)
36. 14 - Bloody Sunday (1972) (Derry, Northern Ireland)
37. 13 - Socialist riot (1932) (Geneva, Switzerland)
38. 13 - Chinese Middle School riots (Singapore, 1956)
39. 13 - Mendiola Massacre (Philippines, 1987)
40. 9 - Riots in Palestine of 1920 (Jerusalem, 1920)
41. 11 - Peterloo massacre (England, 1819)
42. 7–60 - Massacre in Côte d'Ivoire by French troops (Côte d'Ivoire, 2004)
43. 5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
44. 5 - Ådalen shootings (Sweden, 1931)
45. 4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
46. 4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)

See also

Other lists organized by death toll

• List of wars and disasters by death toll
• List of natural disasters by death toll
• List of accidents and disasters by death toll
• List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
• Most prolific murderers by number of victims

Other lists with similar topics

• List of wars | List of battles | List of invasions
• List of disasters | List of historic fires
• List of earthquakes | List of notable tropical cyclones
• List of famines | Famine | Infectious diseases
• List of massacres | List of riots
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of rail accidents
• Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners

Topics dealing with similar themes

• Mass murder | Genocide | Democide
• Genocide in history
• Mass deaths and atrocities of the twentieth century
• Most lethal battles in world history
• United States casualties of war
• Invasion and occupation of Iraq casualties

External links

• Bloodiest Battles of the 20th Century
• Death Tolls for Battles of the 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries
• Wars of the 20th Century
• The world's worst massacres Whole Earth Review
• War Disaster and Genocide
• Killers of the 20th Century
• Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II
• Top 100 aviation disasters on AirDisaster.com
• Maritime disasters of World War II

Category:Disaster lists Category:Lists by death toll Category:Death-related lists Category:Population *

ang:Dēaðes toln et:Hukkunute arv