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.

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 Chi Bi, 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 Sarıkamış (1915)
50. 90,000+ - Battle of Gwiju (1018)
51. 90,000 - Battle of Cambrai (1917) (1917)
52. 90,000 - Battle of Aquae Sextiae (102 BC)
53. 83,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1941)
54. 80,000 - Operation Ramadan (1982)
55. 80,000 - Battle of the Somme (1918)
56. 80,000 - Second Battle of the Marne (1918)
57. 80,000(est) - Battle of Watling Street (AD 61)
58. 74,000 - Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia (1941)
59. 72,000+ - Battle of Belgorod (1943)
60. 70,000 - Second Battle of El Alamein (1942)
61. 70,000 - Second Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)
62. 70,000 - Second Battle of Anchialus (917)
63. 69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944)
64. 66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943)
65. 65,000 - Battle of Lvov-Sandomierz (1944)
66. 62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915)
67. 61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944)
68. 60,000 - 100,000 Third Battle of Panipat, India, 1761
69. 60,000 - Battle of Basra (655)
70. 60,000 - Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
71. 60,000 - Battle of Arras (1917)
72. 60,000 - First Battle of Ypres (1914)
73. 60,000 - Second Battle of Champagne (1915)
74. 56,000–66,000 - Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
75. 55,000 - Korsun Pocket (1944)
76. 55,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
77. 50,000–80,000 - Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
78. 50,000 - Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918)
79. 50,000 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
80. 50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
81. 50,000 - Battle of Caporetto (1917)
82. 50,000 - Battle of Hsuchow (1927)
83. 49,000 - Battle of the Marshes (1984)
84. 45,000 - Fourth Battle of Kharkov (1943)
85. 45,000 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest (1944–1945)
86. 44,000 - Battle of the Crimea (1944)
87. 42,000 - Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945)
88. 40,000–56,000 - Tet Offensive (1968)
89. 40,000 - Battle of Imphal (1944)
90. 40,000 - Battle of Adrianople (378)
91. 40,000 - Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
92. 40,000 - Battle of Vaslui (1475)
93. 38,000 - Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945)
94. 37,000 - Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
95. 37,000 - Battle of Issus (333 BC)
96. 37,000 - Battle of Platea (479 BC)
97. 36,500 - Battle of the Ebro (1938)
98. 35,000 - Battle of Mukden (1905)
99. 32,000 - Battle of Lepanto (1571)
100. 31,000 - Battle of Thapsus (46 BC)
101. 31,000 - Battle of Taierzhuang (1937)
102. 30,000 - Hartmannswillerkopf (1914-1918)
103. 30,000 - Battle of Saipan (1944)
104. 30,000 - Battle of Konotop (1659)
105. 30,000 - Battle of Marignan (1515)
106. 30,000–50,000 - Battle of Naissus (268)
107. 30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
108. 30,300–34,000 - Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)
109. 29,000 - Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
110. 28,000–38,000 - Battle of Towton, (Wars of the Roses, 1461)
111. 27,500 - Battle of Chosin Reservoir (1950)
112. 27,000 - Operation Badr (Iran-Iraq War) (1985)
113. 26,000 - Battle of Guadalcanal, (1942–1943)
114. 25,000 - Battle of Pydna (168 BC)
115. 25,000 - Operation Dawn V (1984)
116. 24,000 - Battle of Mohács (1526)
117. 22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)
118. 21,000 - Battle of Guam (1944)
119. 20,000 - The Night Attack (1462)
120. 20,000–30,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC)
121. 20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)
122. 20,000 - Battle of Zama (202 BC)
123. 19,000 - Battle of Vienna (1683)
124. 19,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812)
125. 18,500 - Operation Market Garden (1944)
126. 17,000 - Battle of Bataan (1942)
127. 16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939)
128. 15,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815)
129. 15,000 - Operation Karbala-4 (1986)
130. 15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
131. 15,000 - Battle of Mohács (1526)
132. 13,500 - Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)
133. 12,000 - Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
134. 12,000 - Siege of Tobruk (1941)
135. 11,000 - Battle of Heraclea (180 BC)
136. 11,000 - Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864–1865)
137. 10,800 - Operation Mersad (1988)
138. 10,500 - Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
139. 10,360 - Battle of Mons Graupius (83 or 84)
140. 10,000 - Battle of Điện Biên Phủ (1954)
141. 10,000 - Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC)
142. 10,000 - Battle of Celaya (1913)
143. 9,500 - Battle at Lund (Slaget vid Lund) (1677)
144. 9,019 - Battle of Hansando (1592)
145. 8,700 - Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC)
146. 8,600 - Battle of Jutland (1916)
147. 8,400 - Battle of Tinian (1944)
148. 8,000+ - Battle of Agincourt, (Hundred Years' War, 1415)
149. 8,000 - Battle of Grunwald (1410)
150. 7,200 - Kokoda Track Campaign, (1942–1943)
151. 7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
152. 6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
153. 6,500 - Battle of the Kasserine Pass (1943)
154. 5,600–6,600 Battle of Tali-Ihantala (1944)
155. 5,700 - Battle of Tarawa (1943)
156. 5,350+ - Battle of Suomussalmi (1939–1940)
157. 5,000–8,000 - Battle of Hastings (1066)
158. 5,000+ - Battle of Daraa (530)
159. 5,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
160. 4,808 - Battle of Antietam (1862)
161. 4,614 - Outpost Harry (1953)
162. 4,360 - Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
163. 4,329 - Battle of Isandlwana (1879)
164. 4,175 - Battle of Leuthen (1757)
165. 4,000 - Battle of Okpo (1592)
166. 3,750 - Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
167. 3,477 - Battle of Shiloh (1862)
168. 3,205 - Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
169. 2,800 - Battle of Midway (1942)
170. 2,400 - La Noche Triste (1520)
171. 2,000+ - Battle of Vimeiro (August 20, 1808)
172. 2,000+ - Battle of Manzikert (1071)
173. 1,900 - First Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
174. 1,705 - Battle of Cold Harbor (June 1-June 3, 1864)
175. 1,700 - Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
176. 1,463 - Second Battle of Fallujah (2004)
177. 1,300 - Battle of Culloden (1746)
178. 1,015 - Battle of Bud Dajo (Philippines, 1906)
179. 1,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
180. 868 - First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
181. 700 - Battle of Hamburger Hill (1969)
182. 639 - Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
183. 586 - Battle of the Alamo (1836)
184. 567 - Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879)
185. 495 - Battle of Monongahela (1755)
186. 366 - Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
187. 350 - Battle of Spioen Kop (1900)
188. 302 - Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
189. 215 - Battle of Tra Binh Dong (1967)
190. 200–2,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8–November 14, 2004)

Air raids

• 100,000-300,000 - Tokyo firebombing by the USAF, 1945
• 66,000–237,062 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the USAF, (Japan, 1945)
• 50,000 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, 1943)
• 43,000 - The Blitz (London, 1940 - 1941)
• 39,000–108,000 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the USAF, (Japan, 1945)
• 25,000–60,000 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II, (in Germany by Allied forces, 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 [...] Germany, 14 May 1940.

Wartime ship disasters

Prior to World War I

World War I

World War II

Post World War II

Massacres

See also List of massacres

• 1,300,000+ - Merv massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Tolui khan), located in Merv (present Mary) in Turkestan.
• 1,200,000 - Urgench massacre, by Mongol Empire (ordered by Ögedei khan), located in Urgench (then Guranj) in Uzbekistan
• 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 - [...] of Nanking (by Imperial Japan, in China, 1937)
• 150,000 - 300,000 - Kalmyks from east of the Volga set out to return to China but two-thirds of them were massacred on the way by theirs Kazakh enemies (Central Asia, 1770-1771)
• 100,000 - Ponary massacre of Jews, Poles and Russians by German SD and SS (Lithuania 1941-1944)
• 100,000–500,000 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian nationalists from Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the German occupation of Ukraine between 1942 and 1944
• 100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnicki, (1648 - 1649). During the Deluge, series of wars between 1648 and 1660, Poland lost an estimated one-third of its population.
• 100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
• 100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
• 100,000-150,000 - Sack of Carthage, (146BC)
• 100,000 - Siege of Antioch (1268)
• 100,000 - Hindu captives executed by Timur (1398)
• 70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
• 70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
• 60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
• 50,000-150,000 - Harki Algerians massacred by the National Liberation Front (Algeria) (1962)
• 50,000-100,000 - Sook Ching massacre (Singapore, 1942)
• 50,000 - Defenders of Somnath massacred by Mahmud of Ghazni (1026)
• 50,000 - Wola massacre in Warsaw (1944)
• 42,000 - Chios Massacre (Greek War of Independence, 1822)
• 36,000 - Odessa massacre (1941)
• 30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
• 30,000 - Massacre of Greeks in Constantinople (1821)
• 30,000 - Rajput defenders of Chittorgarh massacred by Akbar the Great (1568)
• 26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
• 25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years' War, Germany, 1631)
• 25,000 - Rumbula Forest massacre of the Riga Jews (1941)
• 20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)
• 20,000 - Massacre of Praga (Poland, 1794)
• 14,000 - Haitians massacred by Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's government. (Dominican Republic, 1937)
• 12,000 - Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Afghanistan, 1842)
• 12,000 - La matanza (El Salvador, 1931)
• 10,000-30,000 228 Incident, (Republic of China (Taiwan), 1947)
• 10,000 Bataan Death March, (Philippines, 1942)
• 10,000 - Sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
• 8,000 - Sack of Antwerp (1576)
• 7,000-8,100 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
• 7,000 - Kragujevac massacre, (Kragujevac, Serbia, 1941)
• 7,000 - Massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
• 7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
• 6,000-16,000 - Jews are blamed as the cause of the Black Death (1348)
• 5,000-17,000 - Massacre and ethnic cleansing of Indians and Arabs by the descendants of black African slaves during the Zanzibar Revolution (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1964)
• 5,000-7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
• 5,000 - Batak massacre of Bulgarian civilians by bashi-bazouk Ottoman army irregulars (1876)
• 5,000 - Siege of Limerick (Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1651)
• 5,000 - Massacre of Mamluks (Egypt, 1811)
• 4,500 - Massacre of Saxons in Verden by Charlemagne (Lower Saxony, 782)
• 4,000 - Prebilovci massacre 1941, NDH
• 4,000 - Direct Action Day (India, 1946)
• 2,500-12,000 - Massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible
• 3,500 - Siege of Drogheda (Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1649)
• 3,000 - 300,000 - Japanese biological warfare program Unit 731 (1931-1945)
• 3,000 Massacre at Huế (Vietnam, 1968)
• 2,000 - Jiali Massacre (Taiwan, 1895)
• 2,000 - Oluja [...] and complete ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Serbs from Krajina (Croatia, 1995)
• 1,800+ - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Brigadier Reginald Dyer on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children (Amritsar, India, 1919)
• 1,500-3,500 - Oran massacre of 1962 in Algeria
• 900 - El Mozote Massacre (El Salvador, 1981)
• 800 - White settlers massacred throughout Minnesota as part of the Dakota War of 1862
• 700 - Slaughter of the Jews of Medina by Muhammad (626)
• 622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
• 600 - MacDonnell clans-people massacred by Francis Drake (Rathlin Island, 1575)
• 500 - Crow Creek massacre (South Dakota, 1325)
• 409 - Lonoy Massacre (Philippines, 1901)
• 379-1,000 - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Amritsar, India, 1919)
• 360 - Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania, United States, 1778)
• 347-504 - My Lai Massacre (Vietnam, 1968)
• 328-5,500 - Sabra and Shatila Massacre (Lebanon, 1982)
• 320 - Bloody Assizes (England, 1685)
• 300 - Weenen Massacre (Natal, South Africa, 1838)
• 300 - Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota, United States, 1890)
• 268 - Plan de Sánchez massacre (Guatemala, 1982)
• 260 - Vukovar massacre (Croatia, 1991)
• 202-300 Bentalha massacre (Algiers, 1997)
• 192 - Tartu massacre (Estonia, 1944)
• 173 - Tenes massacre (Algiers, 1994)
• 150-200 Lawrence Massacre (Kansas, 1863)
• 150 - Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado, United States, 1864)
• 149 - Khatyn massacre (Belarus, 1943)
• 133 - 1929 Palestine riots (67 in Hebron, 18 in Safed, the rest in Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine), 1929
• 125-15,000 - Balangiga Massacre (Philippines, 1901)
• 120-400 Sidi-Hamed massacre (Algiers, 1998)
• 120 - Gospic massacre (Croatia, 1991)
• 120 - Mountain Meadows Massacre (Utah, United States, 1857)
• 119 - Bojayá Massacre (Chocó, Colombia, 2002)
• 113 - Waxhaw Massacre (South Carolina, United States, 1780)
• 111 - 1992 Carandiru Massacre (São Paulo, Brazil, 1992)
• 106 - Qana Massacre, (Qana, Lebanon, 1996)
• 100-400 - Rais massacre (Aligers, 1997)
• 100-300 - Waterloo Creek Massacre (Australia, 1838)
• 91–200 - Kristallnacht (Germany, 1938)
• 94 - Waco Siege -(United States, 1993)
• 78 - Massacre of Glencoe (Scotland, 1692)
• 50 - Telavåg (Norway, 1942)
• 45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)
• 28 - Myall Creek massacre (Australia, 1838)
• 14 - Bloody Sunday (Ireland, 1972)

[...] attacks

See also List of [...] incidents and List of assassins

• 2,983 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York City, NY, Arlington, VA, Shanksville, PA, United States, 2001)
• 572 - 2007 Qahtaniya bombings, (Qahtaniya, Iraq, 2007)
• 438 - Cinema Rex fire, (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
• 365 - Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
• 329 - Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
• 307 - 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
• 270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
• 257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
• 257 - 1998 United States embassy bombings (Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998)
• 215 - Sadr City bombings, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
• 209 - Mumbai train bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2006)
• 202 - 2002 Bali bombings, (Bali, Indonesia, 2002)
• 198 - 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Iraq, 2007)
• 191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, (Spain, 2004)
• 181 - Kerbala and Baghdad attacks, (2004, see Ashoura Massacre)
• 171 - UTA Flight UT-772, (Niger, 1989)
• 170 - Moscow Theatre Siege, (Russia, 2002)
• 168 - Oklahoma City bombing, (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 1995)
• 152 - 2007 Tal Afar bombings and massacre (Tal Afar, Iraq, 2007)
• 136 - 2007 Karachi bombing (Karachi, Pakistan, 2007)
• 135 - 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 127 - 2005 Al Hillah bombing (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2005)
• 120 - 2007 Al Hillah bombings (Al Hillah, Iraq, 2007)
• 117 - 2004 Irbil bombings, (Irbil, Iraq, 2004)
• 116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
• 112 - 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2004)
• 112 - Avianca Flight 203, (Colombia, 1989)
• 98 - Musayyib fuel tanker bombing, (Musayyib, Iraq, 2005) (see Triangle of Death (Iraq))
• 91 - King David Hotel bombing, (Jerusalem, 1946)
• 90 - Central Bank Bombing, (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1996)
• 90 - 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks, (Egypt, 2005)
• 89 - Russian airplane bombings, (Russia, 2004)
• 88 - TWA Flight 841, (Ionian Sea, 1974)
• 88 - 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
• 85 - Buratha Mosque bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2006)
• 85 - Stazione Centrale bombing, (Bologna, Italy, 1980)
• 83 - Imam Ali Mosque bombing, (Najaf, Iraq, 2003)
• 76 - 12 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 74 - 2005 Khanaqin bombings, (Khanaqin, Iraq, 2005)
• 74 - 21 April 2004 Basra bombings, (Basra, Iraq, 2004)
• 74 - 2004 Kufa shelling, (Kufa, Iraq, 2004)
• 70 - 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 68 - 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, (India, 2007)
• 63 - 18 February 2007 Baghdad bombings, (Baghdad, Iraq, 2007)
• 63 - DAS Building bombing, (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989)
• 63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
• 62 - 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing, (Sadr City, Iraq, 2006)
• 61 - 29 October 2005 New Delhi bombings, (New Delhi, 2005)
• 60 - 2005 Amman bombings, (Amman, 2005)
• 57 - 2003 Istanbul Bombings, (Turkey, 2003)
• 52 - 7 July 2005 London bombings (London, 2005)
• 52 - 2003 Mumbai bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2003)
• 46 - Casablanca Attacks, (Morocco, 2003)
• 42 - 2004 Moscow metro bombing, Russia, 2004)
• 38 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
• 34 - 2004 Sinai bombings, Taba and Nuweiba, Egypt, 2004
• 33 - Pan Am Flight 110, (Italy, 1973)
• 33 - Coimbatore blasts, (India, 1998)
• 33 - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, (Ireland, 1974)
• 30 - Passover massacre, (Israel, 2002)

Human sacrifice and mass [...]

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

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)
• 2,000 - Santa Maria School Slaughter (Iquique, Chile, 1907)
• 1,000 - Bloody Sunday (1905) (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1905)
• 400 - Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca, 1987)
• 300–3,000 - 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)
• 53 - 1992 Los Angeles riots (1992)
• 50 - Champ de Mars massacre (Paris, 1791)
• 46 - Boipatong Massacre (South Africa, 1992)
• 43 - Attica Prison riots (New York, 1971)
• 43 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, 1967)
• 40–50 - Newton Rebellion (Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, 1607)
• 39+ - Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, although recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
• 36 - 1964 Race Riots (Singapore, 1964)
• 34 - Watts Riot (Los Angeles, 1965)
• 25 - Palingoproer (Amsterdam, 1886)
• 25 - Corpus Christi Massacre (Mexico City, 1971)
• 22 - Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Australia, 1854)
• 20 - Ludlow Massacre (Ludlow, Colorado, 1914)
• 18 - Maria Hertogh riots (Singapore, 1950)
• 14 - Bloody Sunday (1972) (Derry, Northern Ireland)
• 13 - Socialist riot (1932) (Geneva, Switzerland)
• 13 - Chinese Middle School riots (Singapore, 1956)
• 13 - Mendiola Massacre (Philippines, 1987)
• 9 - Riots in Palestine of 1920 (Jerusalem, 1920)
• 11 - Peterloo massacre (England, 1819)
• 7–60 - Massacre in Côte d'Ivoire by French troops (Côte d'Ivoire, 2004)
• 5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
• 5 - Ådalen shootings (Sweden, 1931)
• 4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
• 4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)

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 [...] incidents
• List of rail accidents
• Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners

Topics dealing with similar themes

• Mass [...] | [...] | Democide
• [...] 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 [...]
• Killers of the 20th Century
• Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten [...] Victims of World War II
• Top 100 aviation disasters on AirDisaster.com
• Maritime disasters of World War II

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