List of heads of state and government who died in office

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This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.

Such deaths have most often been from natural causes, but there are also cases of assassination, execution, suicide, accident and even death in battle.

The list is in chronological order. The name is listed first, followed by the year of death, the country, the name of the office the person held at the time of death, the location of the death (where known) and the cause of death.

Prior to 1850[edit]

Name Year Country Title Place of death Cause of death
Spencer Compton 1743  Great Britain Prime Minister Westminster  Kingdom of Great Britain Illness
Henry Pelham 1754  Great Britain Prime Minister Westminster  Kingdom of Great Britain Illness – skin infection[1]
Charles Watson-Wentworth 1782  Great Britain Prime Minister Wimbledon  Kingdom of Great Britain Illness – influenza
William Pitt the Younger 1806  United Kingdom Prime Minister Putney  United Kingdom Illness
Mateo de Toro Zambrano 1811  Chile President of the Government Junta Santiago  Chile
Spencer Perceval 1812  United Kingdom Prime Minister Westminster  United Kingdom Assassination – shooting
George Canning 1827  United Kingdom Prime Minister Chiswick  United Kingdom Pneumonia[2]
Pedro Blanco Soto 1829  Bolivia Provisional President La Plata  Bolivia Assassination[3]
José Tomás Ovalle 1831  Chile Acting President Santiago  Chile Illness – tuberculosis
Ioannis Kapodistrias 1831 Greece Greece Governor Nafplion  Greece Assassination – shooting and stabbing
Manuel González Salmón 1832  Spain Prime Minister Madrid  Spain Illness
Casimir Pierre Périer 1832 France Prime Minister Paris  France Illness – cholera
Felipe Santiago Salaverry 1836  Peru President Arequipa  Peru Execution
Miguel Barragán 1836  Mexico President Mexico City  Mexico Illness – typhus
José Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia 1840  Paraguay Supreme Dictator Asunción  Paraguay Illness
William Henry Harrison 1841  United States President Washington, D.C.  United States Illness – enteric fever
Agustín Gamarra 1841  Peru President Ingavi  Peru Killed in action
Philippe Guerrier 1845 Haiti Haiti President Saint-Marc  Haiti Assassination – shooting and stabbing
Mathabarsingh Thapa 1845 Kingdom of Nepal Nepal Prime Minister Kathmandu  Kingdom of Nepal Assassination – shooting
Fateh Jung Shah 1846 Kingdom of Nepal Nepal Prime Minister Kathmandu  Kingdom of Nepal Assassination
Jean-Baptiste Riché 1847 Haiti Haiti President Port-au-Prince  Haiti Illness, or possibly poisoned
Ioannis Kolettis 1847 Kingdom of Greece Greece Prime Minister Athens Kingdom of Greece Greece Illness – kidney inflammation

1850–1899[edit]

Name Year Country Title Place of death Cause of death
Zachary Taylor 1850  United States President Washington, D.C.  United States Illness – stomach disease
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg 1852  Austria Minister-President Vienna  Austrian Empire Stroke
Avram Petronijević 1852  Serbia Representative of the Prince Constantinople  Ottoman Empire
Josef Munzinger 1855   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland
Henri Druey 1855   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland
Stefano Franscini 1857   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland
Mustafa Reşid Pasha 1858  Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier Constantinople  Ottoman Empire Heart attack
Carl Edvard Rotwitt 1860  Denmark Prime Minister Copenhagen  Denmark
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour 1861  Italy Prime Minister Turin  Kingdom of Italy Illness – malaria
Jonas Furrer 1861   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bad Ragaz   Switzerland Illness – kidney disease
José Santos Guardiola 1862  Honduras President Comayagua  Honduras Assassination – shooting
Barbu Catargiu 1862 Romanian United Principalities Prime Minister Bucharest Romanian United Principalities Assassination – shooting
Carlos Antonio López 1862  Paraguay President Asunción  Paraguay Illness – gout and other diseases
José Antonio Salcedo 1864  Dominican Republic President Maimón  Dominican Republic Assassination – shooting
Rafael Carrera 1865  Guatemala President Guatemala City  Guatemala Illness – dysentery
Abraham Lincoln 1865  United States President Washington, D.C.  United States Assassination – shooting
Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston 1865  United Kingdom Prime Minister Hertfordshire  United Kingdom Illness
Marcos Paz 1868  Argentina Interim President Buenos Aires  Argentina Illness – cholera
Ramón María Narváez 1868  Spain Prime Minister Madrid  Spain Illness
Victor Ruffy 1869   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland
Francisco Solano López 1870  Paraguay President Cerro Corá  Paraguay Killed in action
Juan Prim 1870  Spain Prime Minister Madrid  Spain Assassination
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha 1871  Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier Constantinople  Ottoman Empire Illness – tuberculosis
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke 1872  Netherlands Prime Minister The Hague  Netherlands Illness
Benito Juárez 1872 Mexico President Mexico City Mexico Heart attack
Tomás Gutiérrez 1872  Peru Supreme Leader of the Republic Lima  Peru Assassination
Milivoje Blaznavac 1873  Serbia President of the Ministry Belgrade  Serbia Heart attack
Adolfo Ballivián 1874  Bolivia President La Paz  Bolivia Cancer of the stomach
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt 1874  Belgium Prime Minister Heusden  Belgium
Gabriel García Moreno 1875  Ecuador President Quito  Ecuador Assassination – shooting and stabbing
Ahmed Esad Pasha 1875  Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier İzmir  Ottoman Empire Assassination – poisoning
Juan Bautista Gill 1877  Paraguay President Villarrica  Paraguay Assassination – shooting
Konstantinos Kanaris 1877  Greece Prime Minister Athens  Greece Heart attack and hemiplegia
Francisco Linares Alcántara 1878  Venezuela President La Guaira  Venezuela Illness – bronchial disorder
Johann Jakob Scherer 1878   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland Illness – appendicitis
Cándido Bareiro 1880  Paraguay President Asunción  Paraguay Stroke
James A. Garfield 1881  United States President Elberon  United States Assassination – shooting and medical ineptitude
Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez 1882  Costa Rica President Alajuela  Costa Rica Illness – tuberculosis
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno 1885  Costa Rica President Atenas  Costa Rica
Justo Rufino Barrios 1885  Guatemala President Chalchuapa  El Salvador Killed in battle
Ranodip Singh Kunwar 1885  Nepal Prime Minister Kathmandu  Nepal Assassination
Francisco Javier Zaldúa 1885  Colombia President Bogotá  Colombia
Agostino Depretis 1887  Italy Prime Minister Stradella  Italy Illness – gout
Wilhelm Hertenstein 1888   Switzerland President of the Confederation Bern   Switzerland Illness
John A. Macdonald 1891  Canada Prime Minister Ottawa  Canada Stroke
John Ballance 1893  New Zealand Prime Minister Wellington  New Zealand Intestinal disease after major surgical operation
Louis Ruchonnet 1893   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland Heart attack
Lazar Dokić 1893  Serbia President of the Ministry Opatija  Austria-Hungary
Remigio Morales Bermúdez 1894  Peru President Lima  Peru Illness – appendicitis
Marie François Sadi Carnot 1894  France President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) Lyon  France Assassination – stabbing
Rafael Núñez 1894  Colombia President Bogotá  Colombia
John Sparrow David Thompson 1894  Canada Prime Minister Berkshire  United Kingdom Heart attack
Karl Schenk 1895   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland Accident – struck by carriage
Florvil Hyppolite 1896  Haiti President Port-au-Prince  Haiti Illness
Joseph James Cheeseman 1896  Liberia President Monrovia  Liberia
Friedrich Stellwag von Carion 1896  Liechtenstein State Administrator Vienna  Austria-Hungary
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo 1897  Spain Prime Minister Mondragón  Spain Assassination – shooting
Juan Idiarte Borda 1897  Uruguay President Montevideo  Uruguay Assassination – shooting
José María Reina Barrios 1898  Guatemala President Guatemala City  Guatemala Assassination – shooting
Félix Faure 1899  France President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) Paris  France Stroke
Ulises Heureaux 1899  Dominican Republic President Moca  Dominican Republic Assassination


1900–1949[edit]

Name Year Country Title Place of death Cause of death
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren 1901  Chile President Valparaíso  Chile Illness – cerebral thrombosis
William McKinley 1901  United States President Buffalo  United States Assassination – shooting
Halil Rifat Pasha 1901  Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier Constantinople  Ottoman Empire
Ramon Riu i Cabanes 1901  Andorra Co-Prince La Seu d'Urgell  Spain
Walter Hauser 1902   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland Stroke
Dimitrije Cincar-Marković 1903  Serbia President of the Ministry Belgrade  Serbia Assassination
Manuel Candamo 1904  Peru President Arequipa  Peru Heart attack
Theodoros Deligiannis 1905 Greece Prime Minister Athens Greece Assassination – stabbing
Manuel Quintana 1906  Argentina President Buenos Aires  Argentina Illness
Richard Seddon 1906  New Zealand Prime Minister At sea
Dimitar Petkov 1907  Bulgaria Prime Minister Sofia  Bulgaria Assassination – shooting
Ali-Asghar Atabak 1907 Iran Prime Minister Tehran Iran Assassination – shooting
Jules de Trooz 1907  Belgium Cabinet Chief Brussels  Belgium
Afonso Pena 1909  Brazil President Rio de Janeiro  Brazil Illness – pneumonia
José Domingo de Obaldía 1910 Panama President
Boutros Ghali 1910 Egypt Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Assassination – shooting
Pedro Montt 1910  Chile President Bremen  German Empire Stroke
Elías Fernández Albano 1910  Chile Acting President Santiago  Chile Heart attack
Ernst Brenner 1911   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Menton  France Stroke
Pyotr Stolypin 1911  Russian Empire Prime Minister Kiev  Russian Empire Assassination – shooting
Ramón Cáceres 1911  Dominican Republic President Santo Domingo  Dominican Republic Assassination – shooting
Emilio Estrada Carmona 1911  Ecuador President Guayaquil  Ecuador Heart attack
Adolf Deucher 1912   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland Illness
Cincinnatus Leconte 1912  Haiti President Port-au-Prince  Haiti Accident – explosion
José Canalejas 1912  Spain Prime Minister Madrid  Spain Assassination – shooting
Manuel Enrique Araujo 1913  El Salvador President San Salvador  El Salvador Assassination – stabbing
Tancrède Auguste 1913  Haiti President Port-au-Prince  Haiti Illness
Mahmud Shevket Pasha 1913  Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier Istanbul  Ottoman Empire Assassination
Carl von In der Maur 1913  Liechtenstein State Administrator Vaduz  Liechtenstein Stroke
Roque Sáenz Peña 1914  Argentina President Buenos Aires  Argentina Illness
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam 1915  Haiti President Port-au-Prince  Haiti Assassination
Paul Eyschen 1915  Luxembourg Prime Minister Luxembourg  Luxembourg Illness – heart and kidney disease
Yuan Shikai 1916 China President Beijing China Illness – uraemia
Karl von Stürgkh 1916  Austria-Hungary Minister-President of Cisleithania Vienna  Austria-Hungary Assassination
Sidónio Pais 1918  Portugal President Lisbon  Portugal Assassination – shooting
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves 1919  Brazil President-elect Rio de Janeiro  Brazil Illness – Spanish flu epidemic
Yakov Sverdlov 1919  Russian SFSR Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Moscow  Russian SFSR Illness – Spanish flu epidemic
Manuel Franco 1919  Paraguay President Asunción  Paraguay Heart attack
Louis Botha 1919 South Africa Prime Minister Pretoria South Africa Illness – Spanish flu epidemic
Eduard Müller 1919   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland
Alexander Kolchak 1920  Russian State Supreme Ruler Irkutsk  Russian State Execution – shooting
Venustiano Carranza 1920  Mexico President Tlaxcalantongo  Mexico Assassination – shooting
António Maria Baptista 1920  Portugal Prime Minister Lisbon  Portugal Stroke
António Granjo 1921  Portugal Prime Minister Lisbon  Portugal Assassination – shooting
Hara Takashi 1921  Japan Prime Minister Tokyo  Japan Assassination – stabbing
Arthur Griffith 1922  Ireland President of Dáil Éireann Dublin  Ireland Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
Michael Collins 1922  Ireland Chairman of the Provisional Government Béal na Bláth  Ireland Assassination – shooting
Gabriel Narutowicz 1922 Poland President Warsaw Poland Assassination – shooting
Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar 1923  Mongolia Prime Minister Niislel Khüree China
Warren G. Harding 1923  United States President San Francisco  United States Heart attack
Vladimir Lenin 1924  Soviet Union Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Gorki  Soviet Union Stroke
Rafael López Gutiérrez 1924  Honduras President Amapala  Honduras Illness – diabetes
Friedrich Ebert 1925  Germany President Berlin  Germany Illness – septic shock
Sun Yat-sen 1925 China Generalissimo of the National Government Beijing China Illness – gall bladder cancer
William Ferguson Massey 1925  New Zealand Prime Minister Wellington  New Zealand Illness – cancer
Count Katō Takaaki 1926  Japan Prime Minister Tokyo  Japan Illness – pneumonia
Jón Magnússon 1926  Iceland Prime Minister Neskaupstaður  Iceland
José María Orellana 1926  Guatemala President Antigua Guatemala  Guatemala Angina pectoris
Jānis Čakste 1927  Latvia President Riga  Latvia
Charles Coghlan 1927  Southern Rhodesia Premier Salisbury  Southern Rhodesia Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
Balingiin Tserendorj 1928  Mongolia Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Ulaanbaatar  Mongolia Illness
Zhang Zuolin 1928 China Generalissimo of the Military Government Shenyang China Assassination - bombing
Peder Kolstad 1932  Norway Prime Minister Oslo  Norway Illness
Paul Doumer 1932 France President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) Paris France Assassination – shooting
Inukai Tsuyoshi 1932  Japan Prime Minister Tokyo  Japan Assassination – shooting
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro 1933  Peru President Lima  Peru Assassination – shooting
Ion G. Duca 1933 Romania Prime Minister Prahova Romania Assassination – shooting
Engelbert Dollfuss 1934 Austria Chancellor Vienna Austria Assassination – shooting
Paul von Hindenburg 1934 Germany President Neudeck Germany Illness – lung cancer
Józef Piłsudski 1935 Poland Minister of Military Affairs Warsaw Poland Illness – liver cancer
Juan Vicente Gómez 1935  Venezuela President Maracay  Venezuela Illness – prostate cancer
Konstantinos Demertzis 1936 Greece Prime Minister Athens Greece Heart attack
Gyula Gömbös 1936 Hungary Prime Minister Munich  Nazi Germany Illness – testicular cancer
Panas Lyubchenko 1937  Ukrainian SSR Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Moscow  Soviet Union Suicide
Kemal Atatürk 1938  Turkey President Istanbul  Turkey Illness – liver cirrhosis
Patriarch Miron 1939 Romania Prime Minister Cannes  France Illness – pneumonia
Joseph Lyons 1939  Australia Prime Minister Sydney  Australia Heart attack
Germán Busch 1939  Bolivia President La Paz  Bolivia Suicide
Armand Călinescu 1939 Romania Prime Minister Bucharest Romania Assassination – shooting
Aurelio Mosquera 1939  Ecuador President Quito  Ecuador Suicide
Giuseppe Motta 1940   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland Stroke
Justí Guitart i Vilardebó 1940  Andorra Co-Prince Barcelona  Spain
Lord Tweedsmuir 1940  Canada Governor-General Montreal  Canada Head injury following stroke
Jacinto Peynado 1940  Dominican Republic President Santo Domingo  Dominican Republic
Michael Joseph Savage 1940  New Zealand Prime Minister Wellington  New Zealand Illness – colon cancer
José Félix Estigarribia 1940  Paraguay President Altos  Paraguay Accident – plane crashed on ground
Hassan Sabry Pasha 1940 Egypt Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Illness – heart failure; occurred while giving a speech in Parliament
Kyösti Kallio 1940  Finland President Helsinki  Finland Heart attack
Ioannis Metaxas 1941 Greece Prime Minister Athens Greece Illness – toxaemia
Pál Teleki 1941 Hungary Prime Minister Budapest Hungary Suicide
Alexandros Koryzis 1941 Greece Prime Minister Athens Greece Suicide
Johannes Lauristin 1941  Estonian SSR Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Tallinn  Soviet Union Disputed
Pedro Aguirre Cerda 1941  Chile President Santiago  Chile Illness – tuberculosis
José Abad Santos 1942  Philippines Interim President Malabang  Empire of Japan Execution – shooting
Thorvald Stauning 1942  Denmark Prime Minister Copenhagen  Denmark
Taj al-Din al-Hasani 1943 Syria President Damascus Syria Heart attack
Władysław Sikorski 1943 Poland Prime Minister Gibraltar  Gibraltar Accident – plane crashed into sea
Lin Sen 1943 China Chairman of the National Government Chongqing China Stroke
Manuel L. Quezon 1944  Philippines President Saranac Lake  United States Illness – tuberculosis
Wang Jingwei 1944  Republic of China Chairman of the National Government (at Nanjing) Nagoya  Japan Complications from gunshot wound
Ahmad Mahir Pasha 1945 Egypt Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Assassination – shooting
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945  United States President Warm Springs  United States Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
Benito Mussolini 1945  Italy Duce Giulino  Italian Social Republic Execution by firing squad
John Curtin 1945  Australia Prime Minister Canberra  Australia Heart attack
Adolf Hitler 1945  Germany Führer Berlin  Nazi Germany Suicide
Joseph Goebbels 1945  Germany Chancellor Berlin  Nazi Germany Suicide
Juan Antonio Ríos 1946  Chile President Santiago  Chile Illness – cancer
Gualberto Villarroel 1946  Bolivia President La Paz  Bolivia Assassination – shooting
Per Albin Hansson 1946  Sweden Prime Minister Stockholm  Sweden Heart attack
Nguyen Van Thinh 1946 Cochinchina President of the Provisional Government Saigon Cochinchina Suicide
Johannes Vares 1946  Estonian SSR Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Tallinn  Soviet Union Suicide
Aung San 1947  Burma Premier Yangon  Burma Assassination
Tomás Berreta 1947  Uruguay President Montevideo  Uruguay Illness – prostate cancer
Manuel Roxas 1948  Philippines President Clark Air Base  Philippines Heart attack
Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1948  Pakistan Governor-General Karachi  Pakistan Illness – tuberculosis
Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha 1948  Egypt Prime Minister Cairo  Egypt Assassination – shooting
Mir Bashir Gasimov 1949  Azerbaijan SSR Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Baku  Soviet Union
Themistoklis Sofoulis 1949 Greece Prime Minister Kifissia Greece Illness
Georgi Dimitrov 1949 Bulgaria Chairman of the Council of Ministers Barvikha  Soviet Union Illness
Husni al-Za'im 1949 Syria President Damascus Syria Execution by firing squad
Muhsin al-Barazi 1949 Syria Prime Minister Damascus Syria Execution by firing squad
Domingo Díaz Arosemena 1949  Panama President Panama City  Panama Heart attack
Ehmetjan Qasim 1949  East Turkestan Republic President Kabansk  Soviet Union Accident – plane crash

1950–1999[edit]

Name Year Country Title Place of death Cause of death
Vasil Kolarov 1950  Bulgaria Prime Minister Sofia  Bulgaria Illness[4]
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes 1950  Nicaragua President Philadelphia  United States Heart attack
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud 1950  Venezuela President Caracas  Venezuela Assassination
Enrico Mizzi 1950  Malta Prime Minister Valletta  Malta
Karl Renner 1950  Austria President Vienna  Austria Stroke
Rangsit Prayurasakdi 1951  Thailand Regent Bangkok  Thailand Heart attack
Óscar Carmona 1951  Portugal President Lisbon  Portugal Illness – bronchopneumonia
Haj Ali Razmara 1951  Iran Prime Minister Tehran  Iran Assassination – shooting
Liaquat Ali Khan 1951  Pakistan Prime Minister Rawalpindi  Pakistan Assassination – shooting
Sveinn Björnsson 1952  Iceland President Reykjavík  Iceland Illness
Khorloogiin Choibalsan 1952  Mongolia Chairman of the Council of Ministers Moscow  Soviet Union Illness – kidney cancer
D. S. Senanayake 1952  Ceylon Prime Minister Colombo  Ceylon Accident – fell off horse
Chaim Weizmann 1952  Israel President Rehovot  Israel Illness
Adriaan Alberga 1952 Surinam Prime Minister Paramaribo Surinam
Joseph Stalin 1953  Soviet Union Chairman of the Council of Ministers Moscow  Soviet Union Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
Klement Gottwald 1953  Czechoslovakia President Prague  Czechoslovakia Heart attack
Gonchigiin Bumtsend 1953  Mongolia Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural Ulaanbaatar  Mongolia
Pierre Dupong 1953  Luxembourg Prime Minister Luxembourg  Luxembourg Stroke[5]
Getúlio Vargas 1954  Brazil President Rio de Janeiro  Brazil Suicide
José Antonio Remón Cantera 1955  Panama President Panama City  Panama Assassination – shooting
Hans Hedtoft 1955  Denmark Prime Minister Stockholm  Sweden Heart attack
Alexandros Papagos 1955  Greece Prime Minister Athens  Greece Illness – lung haemorrhage
Bolesław Bierut 1956  Poland General Secretary of the United Workers' Party Moscow  Soviet Union Heart attack[6]
Anastasio Somoza García 1956  Nicaragua President Ancón  Panama Assassination – shooting
Theodor Körner 1957  Austria President Vienna  Austria Stroke
Ramón Magsaysay 1957  Philippines President Balamban  Philippines Accident – plane crashed into mountain
Carlos Castillo Armas 1957  Guatemala President Guatemala City  Guatemala Assassination – shooting
Antonín Zápotocký 1957  Czechoslovakia President Prague  Czechoslovakia Heart attack[7]
Petru Groza 1958  Romania President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly Bucharest  Romania Illness – stomach complications
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom 1958  South Africa Prime Minister Cape Town  South Africa Illness – cancer
Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly 1958  Upper Volta President of the Government Council Paris  France
Markus Feldmann 1958   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern   Switzerland
Georgi Damyanov 1958  Bulgaria Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly Sofia  Bulgaria
Pierre Frieden 1959  Luxembourg Prime Minister Zürich   Switzerland
Barthélemy Boganda 1959  Central African Republic Prime Minister Boda  Central African Republic Accident – plane exploded and crashed on ground
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike 1959  Ceylon Prime Minister Colombo  Ceylon Assassination – shooting
Ernest George Jansen 1959  South Africa Governor-General Pretoria  South Africa Illness – leukemia
H. C. Hansen 1960  Denmark Prime Minister Copenhagen  Denmark Illness – cancer
Hazza' al-Majali 1960  Jordan Prime Minister Amman  Jordan Assassination – bombing
Wilhelm Pieck 1960  East Germany President Berlin  East Germany Stroke
Abebe Aregai 1960  Ethiopia Prime Minister Addis Ababa  Ethiopia Assassination – shooting
William Morrison 1961  Australia Governor-General Canberra  Australia Illness – pulmonary embolism
Rafael Trujillo 1961  Dominican Republic Generalissimo Ciudad Trujillo  Dominican Republic Assassination – shooting
Nicola Canali 1961  Vatican City/Holy See President of the Governorate & President of the Pontifical Commission  Vatican City/Holy See Illness – pneumonia
Louis Rwagasore 1961 Burundi Prime Minister Bujumbura Burundi Assassination – shooting
Saftar Jafarov 1961  Azerbaijan SSR Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Baku  Soviet Union Illness – cardiovascular disease
Sylvanus Olympio 1963  Togo President Lomé  Togo Assassination – shooting
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi 1963  Israel President Jerusalem  Israel Illness – cancer[8]
Ngo Dinh Diem 1963  South Vietnam President Saigon  South Vietnam Assassination – shooting
John F. Kennedy 1963  United States President Dallas  United States Assassination – shooting
Sarit Thanarat 1963  Thailand Prime Minister Bangkok  Thailand Illness – liver failure
Jigme Palden Dorji 1964  Bhutan Prime Minister Phuntsholing  Bhutan Assassination – shooting
Dimitar Ganev 1964  Bulgaria Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly Sofia  Bulgaria
Milton Margai 1964  Sierra Leone Prime Minister Freetown  Sierra Leone
Jawaharlal Nehru 1964  India Prime Minister New Delhi  India Stroke
Aleksander Zawadzki 1964  Poland Chairman of the Council of State Warsaw  Poland Illness – cancer
Otto Grotewohl 1964  East Germany Chairman of the Council of Ministers Berlin  East Germany Illness – brain haemorrhage
Slobodan Penezić 1964  SR Serbia President of the Executive Council Šopić  Yugoslavia Accident – car crash
Pierre Ngendandumwe 1965  Burundi Prime Minister Bujumbura  Burundi Assassination – shooting
Hassan Ali Mansur 1965  Iran Prime Minister Tehran  Iran Assassination – shooting
Luis Giannattasio 1965  Uruguay President London  United Kingdom
Adolf Schärf 1965  Austria President Vienna  Austria Illness – liver failure
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej 1965  Romania President of the State Council Bucharest  Romania Illness – lung cancer
Hasan Brkić 1965  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina President of the Executive Council Sarajevo  Yugoslavia
Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966  India Prime Minister Tashkent  Soviet Union Disputed, officially ruled to be a heart attack, but suspected to be poisoned
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 1966  Nigeria Prime Minister Lagos  Nigeria Assassination – shooting
Chris Soumokil 1966  South Maluku President Ubi Island  Indonesia Execution by firing squad
Abdul Salam Arif 1966  Iraq President Al Nashwa  Iraq Accident – plane crashed on ground
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi 1966  Nigeria Head of State Lagelu  Nigeria Assassination – shooting
René Schick 1966  Nicaragua President Managua  Nicaragua Heart attack
Hendrik Verwoerd 1966  South Africa Prime Minister Cape Town  South Africa Assassination – stabbing
Georges Vanier 1967  Canada Governor General Ottawa  Canada Illness
Donald Burns Sangster 1967  Jamaica Prime Minister Montreal  Canada Illness – subarachnoid haemorrhage
Léon M'ba 1967  Gabon President Paris  France Illness – cancer
Óscar Diego Gestido 1967  Uruguay President Montevideo  Uruguay Heart attack
Harold Holt 1967  Australia Prime Minister Cheviot Beach  Australia Disappeared. Subsequently, ruled as accidental drowning (body never recovered).
Peter Mohr Dam 1968  Faroe Islands Prime Minister Tórshavn  Faroe Islands
Levi Eshkol 1969  Israel Prime Minister Jerusalem  Israel Illness
René Barrientos 1969  Bolivia President Arque  Bolivia Accident – helicopter crashed on ground
Zakir Husain 1969  India President New Delhi  India Heart attack
Ho Chi Minh 1969  North Vietnam Chairman of the Workers' Party and President Hanoi  North Vietnam Heart attack
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke 1969  Somalia President Las Anod  Somaliland/ Somalia Assassination – shooting
David Rose 1969  Guyana Governor-General London  United Kingdom Accident
Artur da Costa e Silva 1969  Brazil President Rio de Janeiro  Brazil Stroke
Saïd Mohamed Cheikh 1970  Comoros President of the Government Council Antananarivo  Madagascar Heart attack
Bjarni Benediktsson 1970  Iceland Prime Minister Þingvellir  Iceland Accident – fire
Gamal Abdel Nasser 1970  Egypt President and Prime Minister Cairo  Egypt Heart attack
Yusof bin Ishak 1970  Singapore President  Singapore Heart attack
François Duvalier 1971  Haiti President for life Port-au-Prince  Haiti Heart disease and diabetes
William Tubman 1971  Liberia President London  United Kingdom
Wasfi al-Tal 1971  Jordan Prime Minister Cairo  Egypt Assassination – shooting
Jamsrangiin Sambuu 1972  Mongolia Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural Ulaanbaatar  Mongolia Illness – cancer
Leonard Williams 1972  Mauritius Governor-General Port Louis  Mauritius
Richard Sharples 1973  Bermuda Governor Hamilton  Bermuda Assassination – shooting
Walter Ulbricht 1973  East Germany Chairman of the State Council Templin  East Germany Stroke
Salvador Allende 1973  Chile President Santiago  Chile Suicide
Luis Carrero Blanco 1973  Spain Prime Minister Madrid  Spain Assassination – bombing
Franz Jonas 1974  Austria President Vienna  Austria Illness – cancer
Georges Pompidou 1974  France President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) Paris  France Illness – macroglobulinemia
Juan Perón 1974  Argentina President Buenos Aires  Argentina Heart attack
Norman Eric Kirk 1974  New Zealand Prime Minister Wellington  New Zealand Illness – pulmonary embolism
Erskine Childers 1974  Ireland President Dublin  Ireland Heart attack
Richard Ratsimandrava 1975  Madagascar President Antananarivo  Madagascar Assassination – shooting
Chiang Kai-shek 1975  Republic of China President Taipei  Republic of China Heart attack
François Tombalbaye 1975  Chad President and Prime Minister N'Djamena  Chad Assassination – shooting
Long Boret 1975  Khmer Republic Prime Minister Phnom Penh  Khmer Republic Execution by firing squad
Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II 1975  Western Samoa Prime Minister Apia  Western Samoa
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1975  Bangladesh Prime Minister Dhaka  Bangladesh Assassination – shooting
Francisco Franco 1975  Spain Head of State (dictator) Madrid  Spain Illness – heart failure
Zhou Enlai 1976  China Premier Beijing  China Illness – cancer
Abdul Razak Hussein 1976  Malaysia Prime Minister London  United Kingdom Illness
Murtala Mohammed 1976  Nigeria Head of the Federal Military Government Lagos  Nigeria Assassination – shooting
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed 1976  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic President Inchiri  Mauritania Died in combat
Zhu De 1976  China Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Beijing  China
Joël Rakotomalala 1976  Madagascar Prime Minister Antsirabe  Madagascar Accident – helicopter crashed on ground
Arleigh Winston Scott 1976  Barbados Governor-General St. Michael  Barbados
Mao Zedong 1976  China Chairman of the Central Committee Beijing  China Heart attack
Džemal Bijedić 1977  Yugoslavia President of the Federal Executive Council Kreševo  Yugoslavia Accident – plane crashed into mountain
Tafari Benti 1977  Ethiopia Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council Addis Ababa  Ethiopia Execution by firing squad
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1977  India President New Delhi  India Heart attack
Marien Ngouabi 1977  Congo-Brazzaville President Brazzaville  Republic of the Congo Assassination
Makarios III 1977  Cyprus President Nicosia  Cyprus Heart attack
Ibrahim al-Hamdi 1977  North Yemen President Sana'a  North Yemen Assassination – shooting
Mohammed Daoud Khan 1978 Afghanistan President Kabul Afghanistan Assassination – shooting
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw 1978  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Premier Basseterre  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Illness – prostate cancer
Ahmad al-Ghashmi 1978  North Yemen President Sana'a  North Yemen Assassination – bombing
Salim Rubai Ali 1978  South Yemen President Aden  South Yemen Execution
Francisco Mendes 1978  Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Accident – car crashed on road
Nico Diederichs 1978  South Africa President Cape Town  South Africa Heart attack
Jomo Kenyatta 1978  Kenya President Mombasa  Kenya Heart attack
John Wrathall 1978  Rhodesia President Harare  Rhodesia Heart attack
Botha Sigcau 1978  Transkei President Umtata  South Africa Heart attack
Houari Boumediene 1978  Algeria President Algiers  Algeria Illness – macroglobulinemia
Milo Butler 1979  Bahamas Governor-General Nassau  Bahamas
Jean-Marie Villot 1979  Vatican City/Holy See Cardinal Secretary of State  Vatican City/Holy See Illness – bronchopneumonia
Mashiur Rahman 1979  Bangladesh Chief Minister Dhaka  Bangladesh
Paul Southwell 1979  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Premier Castries  Saint Lucia Heart attack
Agostinho Neto 1979  Angola President Moscow  Soviet Union Illness – cancer and hepatitis
Nur Muhammad Taraki 1979 Afghanistan General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
and Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council		 Kabul Afghanistan Assassination
Maphevu Dlamini 1979  Swaziland Prime Minister Mbabane  Swaziland
Park Chung Hee 1979  South Korea President Seoul  South Korea Assassination – shooting
Hafizullah Amin 1979 Afghanistan General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council
and Chairman of the Council of Ministers		 Kabul Afghanistan Assassination
Tôn Đức Thắng 1980  Vietnam President Hanoi  Vietnam Illness – respiratory failure
William Tolbert 1980  Liberia President Monrovia  Liberia Assassination
J. A. G. S. McCartney 1980  Turks and Caicos Islands Chief Minister Vineland  United States Accident – plane crashed
Masayoshi Ōhira 1980  Japan Prime Minister Tokyo  Japan Heart attack
Seretse Khama 1980  Botswana President Gaborone  Botswana Illness – pancreatic cancer
Abdelhamid Sharaf 1980  Jordan Prime Minister Amman  Jordan Heart attack
Francisco de Sá Carneiro 1980  Portugal Prime Minister Loures  Portugal Accident – plane crash
Sultan Ibraimov 1980  Kyrgyz SSR Chairman of the Council of Ministers Cholpon-Ata  Soviet Union Assassination – shooting
Eric Williams 1981  Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Port of Spain  Trinidad and Tobago
Benjamin Henry Sheares 1981  Singapore President  Singapore Illness – lung cancer
Jaime Roldós Aguilera 1981  Ecuador President Celica  Ecuador Accident – plane crashed into mountain
Ziaur Rahman 1981  Bangladesh President Chittagong  Bangladesh Assassination – shooting
Omar Torrijos 1981  Panama Military leader (de facto) Penonomé  Panama Accident – plane crashed into mountain
Mohammad-Ali Rajai 1981  Iran President Tehran  Iran Assassination – bombing
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar 1981  Iran Prime Minister Tehran  Iran Assassination – bombing
Anwar Sadat 1981  Egypt President and Prime Minister Cairo  Egypt Assassination – shooting
Mehmet Shehu 1981  Albania Chairman of the Council of Ministers Tirana  Albania Suicide (disputed)
Antonio Guzmán Fernández 1982  Dominican Republic President Santo Domingo  Dominican Republic Suicide
Bachir Gemayel 1982  Lebanon President-elect Beirut  Lebanon Assassination – bombing
Leonid Brezhnev 1982  Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party
and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet		 Zarechye  Soviet Union Heart attack
Willi Ritschard 1983   Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Grenchenberg   Switzerland Heart failure
Deighton Lisle Ward 1984  Barbados Governor-General  Barbados
Yuri Andropov 1984  Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party
and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet		 Moscow  Soviet Union Illness – kidney failure
Ahmed Sékou Touré 1984  Guinea President Cleveland  United States Heart attack
Edward Sokoine 1984  Tanzania Prime Minister Morogoro  Tanzania Accident – car crashed on road
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin 1984  Egypt Prime Minister Cairo  Egypt
Indira Gandhi 1984  India Prime Minister New Delhi  India Assassination – shooting
Chan Sy 1984  People's Republic of Kampuchea Chairman of the Council of Ministers Moscow  Soviet Union Heart attack
Konstantin Chernenko 1985  Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party
and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet		 Moscow  Soviet Union Illness – heart failure, emphysema, and liver cirrhosis
Tom Adams 1985  Barbados Prime Minister Saint Michael  Barbados Heart attack
Enver Hoxha 1985  Albania First Secretary of the Party of Labour Tirana  Albania Illness
Tancredo Neves 1985  Brazil President-elect São Paulo  Brazil Illness – diverticulitis
Haruo Remeliik 1985  Palau President Koror  Palau Assassination – shooting
Forbes Burnham 1985  Guyana President Georgetown  Guyana Illness – throat infection
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam 1985  Mauritius Governor-General Port Louis  Mauritius
Olof Palme 1986  Sweden Prime Minister Stockholm  Sweden Assassination – shooting
Lê Duẩn 1986  Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist Party Hanoi  Vietnam Illness
Samora Machel 1986  Mozambique President Mbuzini  South Africa Accident – plane crashed on ground
Sir Edward Youde 1986  British Hong Kong Governor Beijing  China Heart attack
Errol Barrow 1987  Barbados Prime Minister Bridgetown  Barbados
Rashid Karami 1987  Lebanon Prime Minister Beirut  Lebanon Assassination – bombing
Cedric Phatudi 1987  KaNgwane Chief Minister Lebowakgomo  South Africa
Thomas Sankara 1987  Burkina Faso President Ouagadougou  Burkina Faso Assassination – shooting
Seyni Kountché 1987  Niger President of the Supreme Military Council Paris  France Illness – brain tumour
Chiang Ching-kuo 1988  Republic of China President Taipei  Taiwan
Phạm Hùng 1988  Vietnam Prime Minister Ho Chi Minh City  Vietnam Heart attack
Patrick Mphephu 1988  Venda President Thohoyandou  South Africa
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq 1988  Pakistan President Bahawalpur  Pakistan Accident – plane crashed on ground
Lazarus Salii 1988  Palau President Koror  Palau Suicide
Ruhollah Khomeini 1989  Iran Supreme Leader Tehran  Iran Heart attack
René Moawad 1989  Lebanon President Beirut  Lebanon Assassination – bombing
Ahmed Abdallah 1989  Comoros President Moroni  Comoros Assassination – shooting
Herbert Blaize 1989  Grenada Prime Minister St George's  Grenada Illness – prostate cancer
Ignatius Kilage 1989  Papua New Guinea Governor-General Port Moresby  Papua New Guinea
Samuel Doe 1990  Liberia President Monrovia  Liberia Execution
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum 1990  United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Dubai  UAE
Artur Mkrtchyan 1992  Artsakh Chairman of Parliament Stepanakert  Artsakh/ Azerbaijan Assassination – shooting
Nasirdin Isanov 1991  Tajikistan Prime Minister Jalal-Abad–Osh Motorway  Kyrgyzstan Accident – car crashed on road
Mohamed Boudiaf 1992  Algeria Chairman of the High Council of State Annaba  Algeria Assassination – shooting
Kaysone Phomvihane 1992  Laos President Vientiane  Laos
Robert Rex 1992  Niue Premier Alofi  Niue
Turgut Özal 1993  Turkey President Ankara  Turkey Heart attack (Suspected poisoning)
Ranasinghe Premadasa 1993  Sri Lanka President Colombo  Sri Lanka Assassination – bombing
Zhiuli Shartava 1993  Abkhazia Prime Minister Sukhumi  Abkhazia/ Georgia Assassination – shooting
Melchior Ndadaye 1993  Burundi President Bujumbura  Burundi Assassination – shooting
Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1993  Côte d'Ivoire President Yamoussoukro  Ivory Coast Illness – prostate cancer
József Antall 1993  Hungary Prime Minister Budapest  Hungary Illness – cancer
Penaia Ganilau 1993  Fiji President Washington, D.C.  United States
Agathe Uwilingiyimana 1994  Rwanda Prime Minister Kigali  Rwanda Assassination – shooting
Juvénal Habyarimana 1994  Rwanda President Kigali  Rwanda Assassination – plane shot down[9]
Cyprien Ntaryamira 1994  Burundi President
Kim Il Sung 1994  North Korea General Secretary of the Workers' Party
and President		 Hyangsan  North Korea Heart attack[10]
Hamilton Lavity Stoutt 1995  British Virgin Islands Chief Minister Tortola  British Virgin Islands
Yitzhak Rabin 1995  Israel Prime Minister Tel Aviv  Israel Assassination – shooting
Nita Barrow 1995  Barbados Governor-General Bridgetown  Barbados
Dzhokhar Dudayev 1996  Chechen Republic of Ichkeria President Chechnya  Russia Assassination – shooting
Mohamed Farrah Aidid 1996  Somalia President[a] Mogadishu  Somalia Killed in action
Amata Kabua 1996  Marshall Islands President Honolulu  United States Illness
Cheddi Jagan 1997  Guyana President Washington, D.C.  United States Heart attack
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai 1997  Afghanistan Prime Minister Bamyan  Afghanistan Accident – plane crashed on ground
Sani Abacha 1998  Nigeria Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council Abuja  Nigeria Heart attack
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim 1998  Comoros President Moroni  Comoros
Jumabek Ibraimov 1999  Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Bishkek  Kyrgyzstan Illness – stomach cancer
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara 1999  Niger President Niamey  Niger Assassination – shooting
Vazgen Sargsyan 1999  Armenia Prime Minister Yerevan  Armenia Assassination – shooting
Franjo Tuđman 1999  Croatia President Zagreb  Croatia Illness – cancer

2000–present[edit]

Name Year Country Title Place of death Cause of death
Hafez al-Assad 2000  Syria President Damascus  Syria Illness
Rosie Douglas 2000  Dominica Prime Minister Portsmouth  Dominica officially ruled a heart attack; assassination suggested by some[11][12]
Donald Dewar 2000  Scotland First Minister Edinburgh  Scotland Cerebral haemorrhage
Ionatana Ionatana 2000  Tuvalu Prime Minister Funafuti  Tuvalu Illness
Laurent-Désiré Kabila 2001  Democratic Republic of the Congo President Kinshasa  Democratic Republic of Congo Assassination – shooting
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal 2002  Somaliland President Pretoria  South Africa Died during surgery
Sir Charles Antrobus 2002  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Governor-General Toronto  Canada Parkinson's disease
Bernard Dowiyogo 2003  Nauru President Washington, D.C.  United States Illness – complications from diabetes
Zoran Đinđić 2003  Serbia and Montenegro Prime Minister Belgrade  Serbia and Montenegro Assassination – shooting
Boris Trajkovski 2004  Macedonia President Berkovići  Bosnia and Herzegovina Accident – plane crashed into mountain
Ezzedine Salim 2004  Iraq President of the Governing Council Baghdad  Iraq Assassination – bombing
Thomas Klestil 2004  Austria President Vienna  Austria Heart attack
Yasser Arafat 2004  Palestine President Paris  France Disputed
Zurab Zhvania 2005  Georgia Prime Minister Tbilisi  Georgia Accident – poisoning
Gnassingbé Eyadéma 2005  Togo President Tunis  Tunisia Heart attack
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum 2006  United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Gold Coast  Australia Heart attack
Ibrahim Rugova 2006  Kosovo President Pristina  Kosovo Illness – lung cancer
Saparmurat Niyazov 2006  Turkmenistan President Ashgabat  Turkmenistan Heart attack
Pascal Yoadimnadji 2007  Chad Prime Minister Paris  France Heart attack
Andranik Markaryan 2007  Armenia Prime Minister Yerevan  Armenia Heart attack
Sir John Compton 2007  Saint Lucia Prime Minister Castries  Saint Lucia Stroke
Soe Win 2007  Burma Prime Minister Beijing  China Illness – leukaemia
Levy Mwanawasa 2008  Zambia President Paris  France Stroke
Lansana Conté 2008  Guinea President Conakry  Guinea Illness
João Bernardo Vieira 2009  Guinea-Bissau President Bissau  Guinea-Bissau Assassination – shooting
Omar Bongo 2009  Gabon President Barcelona  Spain Heart attack
Lech Kaczyński 2010  Poland President Smolensk  Russia Accident – plane crashed on ground
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua 2010  Nigeria President Milan  Italy Illness – pericarditis
David Thompson 2010  Barbados Prime Minister Saint Philip  Barbados Illness – pancreatic cancer
Sergey Bagapsh 2011  Abkhazia President Moscow  Russia Illness – complications from surgery
Muammar Gaddafi 2011  Libya Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Sirte  Libya Assassination – shooting
Kim Jong Il 2011  North Korea General Secretary of the Workers' Party Pyongyang  North Korea Heart attack[13]
Malam Bacai Sanhá 2012  Guinea-Bissau President Paris  France Illness
Bingu wa Mutharika 2012  Malawi President Lilongwe  Malawi Heart attack
John Atta Mills 2012  Ghana President Accra  Ghana Stroke
Meles Zenawi 2012  Ethiopia Prime Minister Brussels  Belgium Illness
Hugo Chávez 2013  Venezuela President Caracas  Venezuela Illness – colorectal cancer
Zillur Rahman 2013  Bangladesh President  Singapore Illness – lung problems
Michael Sata 2014  Zambia President London  United Kingdom Illness
Mohamed Abdelaziz 2016  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Secretary General of the Polisario Front
President		 Tindouf  Algeria Illness – lung cancer
Islam Karimov 2016  Uzbekistan President Omsk  Russia Stroke
Sir Michael Ogio 2017  Papua New Guinea Governor-General Port Moresby  Papua New Guinea Illness
Baldwin Lonsdale 2017  Vanuatu President Port Vila  Vanuatu Heart attack
Alexander Zakharchenko 2018  Donetsk People's Republic Head of the Republic and Prime Minister Donetsk  Donetsk People's Republic/ Ukraine Assassination – bombing
Gennadi Gagulia 2018  Abkhazia Prime Minister Myussera  Abkhazia/ Georgia Accident – car crashed on road
Trần Đại Quang 2018  Vietnam President Hanoi  Vietnam Illness – viral infection
Beji Caid Essebsi 2019  Tunisia President Tunis  Tunisia Illness
ʻAkilisi Pōhiva 2019  Tonga Prime Minister Auckland  New Zealand Illness – pneumonia
Pierre Nkurunziza 2020  Burundi President Karuzi  Burundi Illness – cardiac arrest & suspected COVID-19
Amadou Gon Coulibaly 2020  Ivory Coast Prime Minister Abidjan  Ivory Coast Illness
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa 2020  Bahrain Prime Minister Rochester  United States Illness
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini 2020  Eswatini Prime Minister Johannesburg  South Africa Illness – COVID-19
Hamed Bakayoko 2021  Ivory Coast Prime Minister Freiburg im Breisgau  Germany Illness – malaria, cancer & suspected COVID-19
John Magufuli 2021  Tanzania President Dar es Salaam  Tanzania Illness – heart condition & suspected COVID-19
Idriss Déby 2021  Chad President Tibesti  Chad Killed in action[14]
Jovenel Moïse 2021  Haiti President Port-au-Prince  Haiti Assassination – shooting
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan 2022[15]  United Arab Emirates President Abu Dhabi  United Arab Emirates Natural causes
Hage Geingob 2024[16]  Namibia President Windhoek  Namibia Illness – unspecified form of cancer

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Disputed with Ali Mahdi Muhammad.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Henry Pelham (1694-1754)".
  2. ^ "History of George Canning". GOV.UK.
  3. ^ O'Connor, Francisco Burdett (1915). Independencia americana: Recuerdos de Francisco Burdett O'Connor ... (in Spanish). González y Medina. pp. 277–278.
  4. ^ "Another Premier dies in Bulgaria". The Courier-Mail. No. 4107. 24 January 1950. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Prime Minister of Luxembourg dies". St. Cloud Times. 24 December 1953. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  6. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (2015). On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton University Press. p. 246. ISBN 9781400874217. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Zapotocky Is Dead; Czechs' President". The New York Times. 13 November 1957. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Passes Away". Center for Israel Education. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  9. ^ Diamond, Jared (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. Penguin Books. p. 315. ISBN 0-140-27951-2.
  10. ^ Demick, Barbara (2010). Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea. London: Granta Publications. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-84708-337-1.
  11. ^ West, Michael O. (November 27, 2017). "History vs. Historical Memory: Rosie Douglas, Black Power on Campus, and the Canadian Color Conceit". Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. 6 (1): 84–100. doi:10.1353/pal.2017.0012. S2CID 198773895 – via Project MUSE.
  12. ^ "POLITICS: How Did Dominica's Prime Minister Rosie Douglas Die?". Inter Press Service. March 8, 2001.
  13. ^ "North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies 'of heart attack'". BBC News. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  14. ^ "Chad's President Idriss Déby dies 'in clashes with rebels'". BBC News. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  15. ^ "UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed dies". Reuters. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  16. ^ "President Hage Geingob is dead". Retrieved 3 February 2024.
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