List of wars and disasters by death toll

This is a list of wars and disasters by death toll. A death toll is the number of dead as a result of war, violence, accident, natural disaster, extreme weather, or disease.

Below is a list of death tolls for various infamous incidents. Most numbers are estimates and are often in dispute.The incidents are ranked by the lowest estimate given.

Some events overlap categories.

Deaths caused by humans

In total, all these events combined account for of at least 398,218,714, perhaps as high as 640,951,868. Reliable figures are not available for ancient wars and similar incidents.

War and military action

These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc. as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
* 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)
** 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)
* 558,052 - American Civil War (1861–1865)
* 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)
* 120,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991 - )
* 100,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)
* 100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
* 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 - Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)
* 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)
* 49,385–230,253 - American led invasion, occupation of Iraq, and Iraqi Sectarian Violence (2003 - ) (See Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003)
* 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)
* 20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001 â€" 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)
* 1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000 -)
* 3,000 - Northern Ireland conflict (1969 - 1998)
* 3,000 - Civil war in CÃ´te d'Ivoire (2002 - )
* 2,000 - Football War (1969)
* 1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
* 1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
* 1,000 - Falklands War (1982)
* 803–1,110 - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
* 537–3,000 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)

Individual battles and sieges

Genocide and democide

* 30,000,000 - 200,000,000 - African/Atlantic slave trade (16th - 19th century)
* 27,000,000-72,000,000 - People's Republic of China (1949-1975) under Mao Zedong [1]
* 15,000,000[2] - 31,000,000 Democides (1933 -1945) of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler
* 3,000,000 - 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. [3]
* 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[4]
* 2,000,000–3,000,000 - Cambodia (1975-1979) under Pol Pot
* 1,000,000–3,000,000 Armenian Massacres (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)
* 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
* 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
* 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 FranÃ§ois "Papa Doc" Duvalier
* 10,000–30,000 - Argentina's Dirty War, (Argentina, 1976 - 1983)
* ~8,000 - Srebrenica massacre (Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995)
* 3,000 - Chile (1973 - 1990) under Augusto Pinochet

Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps

* 1,100,000-1,400,000 - Auschwitz concentration camp (by Germany, located in OÅ›wiÄ™cim, Poland, 1940-1945)
* 700,000-1,000,000 - Treblinka extermination camp, (by Germany, located in Treblinka, Poland, 1942-1943)
* 260,000 - SobibÃ³r 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
* 100,000–300,000 - Jews massacred in Poland by the Cossacks led by Chmielnitzki, (1648 - 1649)
* 100,000 - Massacre of Romans by Mithridates VI Eupator (Anatolia, 88 BC)
* 100,000-300,000 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)
* 50,000–350,000 - Rape of Nanking under Imperial Japan, in China (1937)
* 50,000 - Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (Germany, 1943)
* 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, (Germany,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 LeÃ³nidas 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 BÃ©ziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
* ~8,000 - 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 Huáº¿ (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 SÃ¡nchez 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 - BojayÃ¡ Massacre (ChocÃ³, Colombia, 2002)
* 113 - Waxhaw Massacre (South Carolina, United States, 1780)
* 111 - 1992 Carandiru Massacre (SÃ£o 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)
* 78 - Massacre of Glencoe (Scotland, 1692)
* 50 - TelavÃ¥g (Norway, 1942)
* 45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)

Terrorism

Murder (by individuals, other than through terrorism)

* 931 - Behram, Thugee cult, India, (1790 - 1830)
* ~650 - ErzsÃ©bet BÃ¡thory, Kingdom of Hungary, (c.1585 - 1610) - total disputed
* 400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
* 323 - Circus arson, (NiterÃ³i, Brazil, 1961)
* 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)
* 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)
* 27â€"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 - Ted Bundy, Florida, (1970s)
* 22+ - Robert Pickton (alleged), (Vancouver, 1990s)
* 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 - Ã‰cole 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 Robert Olson, Lower Mainland, British Columbia (1981)
* 11 - Henri DÃ©sirÃ© Landru, Paris, France, (1914 - 1918)
* 11 - Juan Manuel Alvarez, Glendale, California, (2005)
* 10 - Tore Hedin, AnnelÃ¶v 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 KÃ¼rten, DÃ¼sseldorf, 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 {1998 - 2005}
* 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)

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)
* 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)

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
* 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 CÃ´te d'Ivoire by French troops (CÃ´te d'Ivoire, 2004)
* 5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
* 5 - Ã…dalen shootings (Sweden, 1931)
* 4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
* 4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)
* 1 - Murray-Hill riot (MontrÃ©al, 1969)

Deaths caused by natural disasters

See List of natural disasters by death toll

Death from other causes

Fire

* ca. 2,500 - Church of La CompaÃ±Ãa (Santiago, Chile, 1863)
* ca. 2,000 - Peshtigo Fire, (Wisconsin, 1871)
* 1,700 - Waterfront fire, (Chongqing, China, 1949)
* 1,670 - theater fire (Canton, China, 1845)
* 1,100â€"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+ - AsunciÃ³n 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, (NiterÃ³i, 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 - RepÃºblica Cromagnon nightclub fire, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004)
* 189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
* 189 - Joelma Fire, (SÃ£o 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)
* 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" bushfires (Australia, 1983)
* 72 - Branch Davidian church (Waco, Texas, 1993)
* 71 - "Black Friday" bushfires (Australia, 1939)
* 63 - discotheque fire (GÃ¶teborg, 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)

See also List of historic fires

Explosion

not including bombings, aviation incidents and mine disasters
* 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)

Coal mine disasters

* 1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
* 1,099 - Coal mine explosion (CourriÃ¨res, 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 (Bergkemen, 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)
* 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)
* 59 - coal mine (Xishui mine, Shanxi province, China, 20 Mar 2005)
* 43 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guizhou province, China, 24 Feb 2003)

Aviation

* 2,990 - 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, 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)
* 160 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708(Venezuela, 2005)
* 159 - South African Airways Flight 295 (Helderberg disaster) (Indian Ocean, 1987)
* 143 - Gulf Air Flight 072 (Bahrain, 2000)
* 141 - China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou, China) (24 November (1992)
* 137 - Delta Airlines Flight 191 (Dallas, TX, 1985)
* 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)
* 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)
* 109 - Air France Flight 4590 - Concorde crash (Gonesse, France, 2000)
* 104 - Silkair Flight MI-185 (Sumatra, 1997)
* 99 - TAM Linhas AÃ©reas's Fokker 100 disaster (SÃ£o 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)
* 47 - Swissair Flight 330 (WÃ¼renlingen, near ZÃ¼rich, Switzerland, February 21, 1970)
* 35 - Hindenburg disaster (New Jersey, 1937)
* 31 - Superga air disaster (Superga, near Turin, 1949)
* 14 - Tallinn copter crash (Gulf of Finland, off the coast near Tallinn, 2005)

Maritime

Wartime ship disasters

* 6,050 - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945 (sometimes reported as high as 9,343 ? )
* 6,000 - Goya, 1945 (minimum)
* 6,000 - Chinese troopship (near Yingkow, Manchuria, November 1, 1948)
* 5,620 - Junyo 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 - Taiho, 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 - Fuso, 1944 (approx.)
* 1,297 - SS Khedive Ismail, 1944
* 1,263 - Shokaku, 1944
* 1,255 - HMS Queen Mary, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
* 1,250 - Kongo, 1944
* 1,239 - Unryu, 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 - BlÃ¼cher, 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 BlÃ¼cher, (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 - Soryu, 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 - Shoho, 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
* 189 - HMS Orpheus (1861), (Auckland, 1863)
* 137 - SS Caribou, (Newfoundland, 1942)

Peacetime ship disasters

* 1,863 - MV Joola, (Senegal, 2002)
* 1,550–4,375 - DoÃ±a Paz, (Philippines, 1987)
* 1,547 - Sultana, (Mississippi River, 1865)
* 1,517 - RMS Titanic, (North Atlantic, 1912)
* 1,155 - Toya Maru (Tsugaru Strait, 1954)
* 1,100 - Kiangya (Shanghai, December 3, 1948)
* 1,021 - General Slocum, (New York 1904)
* 1,018 - Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 (Red Sea, 2006)
* 1,012 - RMS Empress of Ireland, (Saint Lawrence River 1914)
* 1,000 - Hong Kong (South China Sea, March 18, 1921)
* 900 â€" 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 tranport-lost off Cape Hatteras March 31, 1865 {About 34 survived} LINK {reference only} {[5] 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)
* 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 SeÃ±ora 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)
* 170 - Staffordshire (Cape Sable, 1853)
* 158 - Scandinavian Star (Skagerrak, 1990)
* 148 - Medusa (off Senegal, 1816)
* 140 - 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)
* 81 - Samina (near Paros, Greece, 2000)
* 80 - Pamir (1957)
* 51 - TEV Wahine (Wellington, NZ, 1968)
* 51 - SS Andrea Doria (off Nantucket, Mass. 1956)
* 45 - SS Elingamite (Three Kings Islands, NZ, 1902)
* 36 - FV Gaul (Barents Sea, 1974)
* 35 - HMS Pandora (Torres Strait, 1791)
* 31 - SS Carnatic (Red Sea, 1869)
* 29 - SS Edmund Fitzgerald (Lake Superior, 1975)
* 28 - Soviet submarine K-19 fire 24 February 1972.
* 20 - Ethan Allen (Lake George (New York), 2 October, 2005)
* 17 - 1979 Fastnet race (Fastnet Rock, 1979)
* 16 - MS Sleipner (Norway, 1999)
* 13 - Essex'' (South Pacific, 1819)

Space travel

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

See also List of space disasters.

Sporting events

* 1,112 - Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c.140 AD) ^{[citation needed]}* 604 - Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Racecourse, stand collapsed and caught fire, 1918. Figure conservative, from the Guinness Book of World Records. Most online sources give the death toll as 6,000. ^{[citation needed]}* 340 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, 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 disaster crush (England, 1989) ^{[citation needed]}* 84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica football match crush (Guatemala City, ^{[citation needed]}* 82 - 24 hours of Le Mans disaster (France, 1955) ^{[citation needed]}* 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 disaster crush (Glasgow, 1971) ^{[citation needed]}* 56 - Bradford City football stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985) ^{[citation needed]}¦¦}}
* 43 - Ellis Park Stadium Disaster, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 10, 2001 ^{[citation needed]}* 39 - Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Bruxelles, Belgium, 1985) ^{[citation needed]}* 33 - Burnden Park disaster (Bolton, England, 1946) ^{[citation needed]}* 26 - First Ibrox disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, 1902) ^{[citation needed]}* 21 - Olympiacos stampede at the old Karaiskaki stadium (Piraeus, Greece, 1981) ^{[citation needed]}* 17 - 1979 Fastnet race (Fastnet Rock, 1979) ^{[citation needed]}* 12 - Baker Bowl Collapse Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August 8, 1912) ^{[citation needed]}* 11 - Munich Olympics massacre 1972 Olympics, (Munich, Germany, 1972)For references, see Munich massacre#References

Industrial accidents

* 15,000+ - 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)

Stampedes and panics

* 4,000 - mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of Chonqing, 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)
* 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)
* 200 â€" Victoria Hall theatre panic (Sunderland, 1883) [6]
* 173 - Bethnal Green tube station panic (London, 1943)
* 123 - Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko soccer match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001)
* 118 - pilgrims trampled to death (Mecca, 1998)
* 96 - Hillsborough disaster crush (England, 1989)
* 88 - Manila Stadium stampede, 2006[7]
* 84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica soccer match crush (Guatemala City,
* 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)
* 29 - Mosque stampede (Karachi, 2006) [8]
* 21 - Olympiacos stampede at the old Karaiskaki stadium (Piraeus, Greece, 1981)
* 11 The Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio

Animal attacks

* 980 - Burmese saltwater crocodiles (Ramree, Burma, February 19, 1945)
* 436 - The Champawat Tigress (Champawat, India, 1903-1907)
* 400 - Panar Leopard
* nearly 140 - Tsavo maneaters (Kenya, 1898)
* over 125 - Leopard of Rudraprayag

Nuclear accidents

* 200+ - Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion, (Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, 29 September 1957), figure is a conservative estimate, 270,000 people 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).

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.
* 1,635 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, 1917)
* 800+ - train wreck, (Bihar, India, 1981)
* 151 - Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 1953)
* 150 - Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 2004)
* 144 - Aberfan landslide disaster (Wales, 1966)
* 126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
* 114 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981)
* 103 - Amagasaki rail crash, (Japan, 2005)
* 101 - ICE high-speed train disaster, (Germany, 1998)
* 83 - Granville train disaster, Granville, Sydney, Australia
* 75 - Tay Rail Bridge (Scotland, 1879)
* 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)
* 27 - Tretten train accident (Norway, 1975)
* 21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
* 20 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft
* 19 - Ã…sta train accident (Norway, 2000)
* 11 - Petrobras 36 Oil Platform explosions (Brazil, 2001)

References

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

List of wars and disasters by death toll: Encyclopedia BETA

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