Death toll

A death toll is a presentation of the number of dead as a result of war, violence, accidents, natural distasters, extreme weather and disease.

Below is a list of death tolls as found in other Wikipedia articles. Most are estimates and are often in dispute. The number listed is the highest number in a range.

Some events overlap categories.

War and military actions

50,000,000 - World War II, (see World War II casualties)
20,000,000 - World War I (1914-1918)
10,000,000+ - Sino-Japanese War (1931 - 1942)
6,194,000 - Chinese Civil War (1928 - 1949) (excludes World War II casualties)
5,000,000 - Russian Civil War (1917 - 1921)
1,900,000 - Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) (1960-1975)
1,200,000 - Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
1,000,000 - Congo Civil War (1998-2004)
1,000,000 - Sudanese Civil War (1983 - 2002)
1,000,000 - Ethiopian Civil War (1974 - 1991)
1,000,000 - Biafran War (1967-1970)
900,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976 - 1993)
800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991 - 1997)
644,000 - Korean War (1950-1953)
558,052 - American Civil War (1862-1865)
550,000 - Somalian Civil War (1988 - )
500,000 - Angolan Civil War (1975 - 2002)
500,000 - Ugandan Civil War (1979 - 1986)
500,000 - Pakistan - Bangladesh Civil War (1971)
300,000 - 2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920)
300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
220,000 - Liberian Civil War (1989 - )
200,000 - Sierra Leone Civil War (1991 - 2000)
150,000 - North Yemen Civil War (1962 - 1970)
150,000 - Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905)
100,000 - American invasion and occupation of Iraq (2003 - 2004)
100,000 - Gulf War (1991)
75,000 - Ethiopia - Eritrea War (1998 - 2000)
30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)
5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
(figure needed) - Kosovo War (1996 - 1999)
3,000 - Ivorian Civil War (2002 - )
537 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)
300 - Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota, 1890)

Genocide and Democide

20,000,000 - Great Purge (Soviet Union, 1930s)
6,000,000 - 12,000,000 - Nazi internments and Holocaust in Europe
5,000,000 - 10,000,000 - Congo Free State, (1877 - 1908)
1,700,000 - Pol Pot's communalisation program (Cambodia, 1976-1979)
1,500,000 - Second Armenian Massacre (Turkey, 1915 - 1916)
800,000-1,000,000 - Partition of India and Pakistan, (1947-1948)
800,000 - Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)
300,000 - Idi Amin's dictatorship (Uganda, 1971-1979)
300,000 - Nanjing Massacre (China, 1937-1938)
264,000 - Greeks killed in Asia Minor (Turkey, 1912 - 1923)
100,000-300,000 - Hamidian (First Armenian) Massacre, (Turkey, 1894-1896)
40,000-100,000 - Herero massacre, (Namibia, 1904-1908)
70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
10,000-30,000 Argentine's Dirty War, (Argentine, 1976 - 1983)

Terrorism

Note that any number of individual IRA attacks, and PLO suicide bombings and other attacks, are not individually listed here. Generally these have been in the low to mid tens of deaths.

2,992 - September 11, 2001 attacks, (New York, Washington, DC, 2001) (see Casualties)
330 - Beslan School Siege, (Beslan, Russia, 2004)
329 - Air India flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
299 - US and French barracks bombings, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
270 - Pan Am Flight 103, (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)
257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
225 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, (Tanzania, Kenya, 1998)
202 - 2002 Bali terrorist bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks, (Spain, 2004)
171 - UTA Flight UT-772, (1989)
170 - Moscow Theatre Siege, (Russia, 2003)
168 - Oklahoma City bombing, (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1995)
116 - Superferry 14 bombing, (Philippines, 2004)
90 - Central Bank Bombing, (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1996)
86 - AMIA Bombing, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994)
63 - April 1983 US Embassy bombing, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
52 - 2003 Mumbai bombings, (Mumbai, India, 2003)
40 - Wall Street bombing, (New York City, 1920)
33 - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, (Ireland, 1974)
29 - Israeli Embassy Attack in Buenos Aires, (Argentina, 1992)
29 - Omagh Bombing, (Northern Ireland, 1998)
19 - Birmingham pub bombing, (United Kingdom, 1974)
6 - World Trade Center bombing, (New York, 1993)
3 - Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, (Australia, 1978)

Murder (other than through terrorism)

400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
323 - Circus arson, (Niteroi, Brazil, 1961)
215 - Dr. Harold Shipman, United Kingdom, (1970s?-1998)
189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
140 - Luis Garavito, Colombia, (1992-1998)
97 - DuPont Plaza Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
87 - Happyland Fire, New York City, (1990)
52 - Anatoly Onopriyenko, Ukraine, (1996)
48 - Gary Ridgway, Green River Killer, Washington State, USA (1980s)
45 - Bath School Disaster, Bath, Michigan, USA (1927)
35 - Port Arthur Massacre, Australia (1996)
33 - John Wayne Gacy, Chicago, (1970s)
23 - Ted Bundy, Florida, (1970s)
22+ - Robert Pickton, (Vancouver, 1990s)
21 - Charles Whitman, McDonald's shooter, San Ysidro, California, USA (1984)
18 - Dunblane Massacre, Scotland, United Kingdom (1996)
17 - Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee, (1978-1991)
17 - Hungerford Massacre, England, (1987)
16 - Charles Whitman, University of Texas sniper, Austin, Texas (1966)
16 - Postal shooting, Edmond, Oklahoma (1986)
16 - Happyland Fire, Erfurt, Germany (2002)
15 - Columbine High School massacre (Colorado, 1999)
14 - Montreal Massacre, Montreal, Canada, (1989)
13 - Howard Unruh, Camden, New Jersey, (1949)
13 - Hatfield-McCoy feud West Virginia/Kentucky (1860 - 1891)
5+ - Jack the Ripper, London, England (1888)

Riots

87,000 - Tibetan riots against Chinese Government (Tibet, China) 1959)
30,000 - Nika riots (Constantinople, 532)
500 -- 2,600 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (China, 1989)
400 - Iranian pilgrim riot, (Mecca, 1987)
300 - Tulsa Race Riot
285 - Gordon riots, (1780)
184 - May 13 Incident, ( Kuala Lumpur, 1969)
100 - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot", (Paris, 1795)
100 - New York Draft Riots, (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)
50 -- 60 - L.A. riot (1991)
50 - Champ-de-Mars massacre, (Paris, 1791)
43 - Attica Prison riots (New York, 1971)
43 - 12th Street Riot (Detroit, 1967)
34 - Watts Riot (Los Angeles, 1965)

Earthquakes

830,000 - Shansi earthquake (China, 1556)
400,000 - Tangshan earthquake (China, 1976)
200,000 - Xining earthquake (China, 1927)
200,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1920)
140,000 - Great Kanto earthquake (Japan, 1923)
100,000 - Messina earthquake (Italy, 1908)
100,000 - 1755 Lisbon earthquake (Portugal, 1755)
80,000 - Shemakha earthquake (Caucasus, 1667)
77,000 - Tabriz earthquake (Iran, 1727)
70,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1932)
66,000 - Peru earthquake (1970)
60,000 - Sicily earthquake (1693)
60,000 - Quetta earthquake (Pakistan, 1935)
50,000 - Calabria earthquake (Italy, 1783)
50,000 - Iran earthquake (1990)
32,700 - Erzincan earthquake (Turkey, 1939)
31,000 - Bam earthquake (Iran, 2003)
25,000 - Spitak earthquake (Armenia, 1988)
23,000 - Guatemala earthquake (1976)
20,000 - Gujarat earthquake (India, 2001)
20,000 - Valpara�so earthquake (Chile, 1960)
17,118 - Izmit earthquake (Turkey, 1999)
15,621 - Tonghai earthquake (China, 1970)
11,000 - Naples earthquake, (Italy, 1857)
10,700 - Bihar earthquake (India, 1934)
10,000 - Agadir earthquake (Morocco, 1960)
9,748 - earthquake (India, 1993)
9,500 - Michoacan earthquake (Mexico, 1985)
6,433 - Great Hanshin earthquake, (Kobe, Japan, 1995)
700 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake (California, 1906)
571 - Morocco earthquake (Al Hoceima Province, 2004)
258 - Napier earthquake (New Zealand, 1931)
27 - 1872 Lone Pine earthquake (California, 1872)
13 - Newcastle earthquake (Australia, 1989)

Volcanoes

92,000 - Mount Tambora, (Indonesia, 1815) (see also Year Without a Summer)
40,000 - Mount Pel�e, (Martinique, 1902)
36,000 - Krakatoa, (Indonesia, 1883)
23,000 - Nevado del Ruiz, (Colombia, 1985)
18,000 - Mount Vesuvius, (1631)
15,000 - Unzen, (Japan, 1792)
10,000 - Kelut, (Indonesia, 1586)
9,350 - Laki, (Iceland, 1783)
3,600 - Mount Vesuvius, (79)
1,680 - Soufri�re, (St. Vincent, West Indies, 1902)
1,000 - Cotopaxi, (Ecuador, 1887)
700 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines, 1991)
245 - Nyiragongo, (Congo, 2002)
57 - Mount St. Helens (Washington, 1980)

Hurricanes and Cyclones

500,000 - Bhola cyclone (Bangladesh, 1970)
138,000 - cyclone, (Chittagong Bangladesh, 1991)
60,000 - typhoon, (China, 1922)
60,000 - typhoon, (India, 1864)
50,000 - typhoon, (China, 1912)
40,000 - typhoon, (India, 1942)
30,000 - cyclone (Bangladesh, June 1, 1965)
22,000 - Great Hurricane of 1780, (Barbados, Martinique, St. Eustatius 1780)
22,000 - cyclone (Pakistan, 1963)
20,000 - cyclone (India, 1977)
17,000 - cyclone (Bangladesh, May 11, 1965)
6,000 - 12,000 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (Texas, United States September 8, 1900)
11,000 - Hurricane Mitch (Central America 1998)
10,000 - cyclone (Karachi, Pakistan, 1965)
10,000 - cyclone in Orissa, India (1999) (see Extreme weather)
10,000 - typhoon with tsunami (Hong Kong, 1906)
9,573 - cyclone (India, 1999)
8,000 - cyclone (Dominican Republic, 1930)
8,000 - Hurricane Fifi (Hondurus, 1974)
7,200 - Hurricane Flora (Haiti, Cuba, 1963)
6,000 - Typhoon Thelma (Philippines, 1991)
6,000 - cyclone, (Pakistan, 1960)
5,000 - Typhoon Vera (Japan, 1958)
4,170 - Hurricane of Independence, (U.S., Canada, 1776)
3,037 - Hurricane Jeanne, (Haiti, 2004)
2,334 - Typhoon Iris (China, 1959)
1,836 - hurricane (Florida, 1928)
1,600 - Typhoon Mary, (China, 1960)
1,500 - Hurricane Hazel (Grenada, Bahamas, Haiti, U.S., Canada, 1954)
1,300 - Typhoon Ike, (Philippines, 1984)
1,200 - Hurricane David, (Dominican Republic, U.S., 1980)
1,130 - Hurricane Gordon (Haiti, U.S., 1994)
1,000 - cyclone (India, 1998)
650 - hurricane (Cuba, 1926)
650 - New England Hurricane, (U.S., 1938)
600 - hurricane (Florida, Louisiana, Texas, 1919)
500 - Hurricane Janet, (Honduras, Mexico, 1955)
408 - Labor Day Hurricane (Florida, 1935)
400 - Cyclone Mahina (Australia, 1899)
400 - Hurricane Hattie, (Belize, 1961)
256 - Hurricane Camille, (U.S., 1969)
228 - Hurricane Allen (Caribbean, U.S. 1980)
200 - Hurricane Hilda (Mexico, 1955)
120 - Hurricane Ivan, (Caribbean, USA, 2004)
86 - Hurricane Hugo (Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, US mainland)
65 - Cyclone Tracy (Australia, 1974)
57 - Hurricane Floyd, (Bahamas, U.S., 1999)
41 - Tropical Storm Allison (U.S.. 2001)
40 - Hurricane Isabel (United States, 2003)
26 - Hurricane Andrew (Bahamas, United States, 1992)

Extreme weather

3,700,000 - flood Huang He river (1931)
100,000 - flood, (North Vietnam, 1971)
35,000 - European Heat Wave of 2003 (Europe, 2003)
15,000 - mudslide in Venezuela (1999) (see Extreme weather)
10,000 - Great Iran Flood, (Iran, 1954)
8,000 - Great Smog of London, (United Kingdom, 1952)
4,000 - heat waves in Texas, Middle East and India (1998) (see Extreme weather)
4,000 - blizzard, (Iran, 1972)
2,000 - storm surge, (Netherlands, United Kingdom, 1953)
1,605 - 3,363 - spring flooding in Haiti and Dominican Republic (2004)
739 - Chicago Heat Wave of 1995 (Chicago, 1995)
695 - Tri-State Tornado, (1925)
271 - heat waves in Midwest and Northeast (1999) (see Extreme weather)
16 - Brisbane flood (Australia, 1974)

Fires

2,500 (approx.) - Church of La Compana (Santiago, Chile, 1863)
2,000 (approx.) - Peshtigo Fire, (Wisconsin, 1871)
1,700 - Waterfront fire, (Chongqing, China, 1949)
1,670 - theater fire (Canton, China, 1845)
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+ - Asunci�n Paraguay supermarket fire, (2004)
441 - Rajiv Marriage Palace (school function) (Mandi Dabwali, India, 1995)
418 - Hinckley Fire (Minnesota, 1891)
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, (Niteroi, 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)
189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
189 - multi-story bank building, (S�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)
160 - Richmond Theater, (Richmond, Virginia, 1811)
160 - Miramichi Fire, (New Brunswick, 1825)
156 - Alpine tunnel fire (Kaprun, Austria, 2000)
145 - Triangle Factory fire, (New York, 1911)
140 - Gas truck crash, (Tarragona, Spain, 1978)
100 - The Station nightclub fire (Rhode Island, 2003)
97 - Hindenburg disaster, (Lakehurst, New Jersey
97 - DuPont Hotel arson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1986)
76 - "Ash Wednesday" bushfires (Australia, 1983)
72 - Branch Davidian compound (Waco, Texas, 1993)
71 - "Black Friday" bushfires (Australia, 1939)
62 - Hobart bushfire (Australia, 1967)

Explosion

1,635 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, 1917)
1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
1,100 - ammunition trucks (Cali, Colombia, 1956)
1,060 - Coal mine explosion (Courri�res, France, 1903)
1,000 - Ammunition dump fire, (Lagos, Nigeria, 2002), many deaths were from drowning during the panic
568 - Texas City Disaster (Texas, 1947)
500 - Pipeline explosion beside Trans-Siberian railway (Uta, Russia, 1989)
472 - coal mine (Wankie, Rhodesia, 1972)
447 - coal mine (Omuta, Japan, 1963)
437 - coal mine (Coalbrook, South Africa, 1960)
430 - chemical plant (Oppau, Germany, 1921)
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)
329 - Air India flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, 1985)
322 - Port Chicago disaster (Port Chicago, California, 1944)
299 - US and French barracks bombings, (Beirut, Lebanon, 1983)
298 - coal mine (Saarland, West Germany, 1962)
294 - schoolhouse (New London, Texas, 1937)
263 - coal mine (Dawson, New Mexico, 1913)
262 - coal mine (Marcinelle, Belgium, 1956)
259 - coal mine (Cherry, Illinois, 1909)
257 - 1993 Mumbai bombings (Mumbai, India, 1993)
239 - coal mine (Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, 1907)
236 - coal mine (Fukuoka, Japan, 1965)
225 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, (Tanzania, Kenya, 1998)
202 - 2002 Bali terrorist bombing, (Indonesia, 2002)
200 - coal mine (Scofield, Utah, 1900)
191 - 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks, (Spain, 2004)
171 - UTA Flight UT-772, (1989)
168 - Oklahoma City bombing, (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1995)
130 - LP gas tanks (Cleveland, Ohio, 1944)
126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
103 - USS Bennington, (off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, 1954)
48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)

Disease

100,000,000 - Justinian Plague (Europe 540-590) (disputed)
55,000,000 - Black Death (Europe, Asia 1300s)
25 - 50,000,000 - Spanish Flu (worldwide, 1918 - 1919)
19,000,000 - AIDS (worldwide, 1981 - )
10,000,000 - Bubonic Plague (China, 1892 - 1896)
1,000,000 - Asian flu pandemic (worldwide, 1957)
1,000,000 - Hong Kong flu pandemic (worldwide, 1968)

Famine

est. 20-40 million - Chinese famine of 1958-1961
24,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1907
5,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1936
5,000,000 Ukraine and Volga Famine (USSR 1921-1922
3,000,000 Chinese Drought 1941
3,000,000 Chinese Famine of 1928-1930
3,000,000 Indian Drought of 1900
1,500,000 Indian Drought of 1965-1967
1,200,000 - North Korean famine (North Korea, 1995 - 1998)
1,100,000 - Irish potato famine (1846-1849)
1,000,000 - Ethiopian famine (1984)
30,000 - Dutch famine of 1944

Aviation

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 (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 - Air New Zealand Flight 901 (Antarctica, 1979)
256 - Arrow Air U.S. military charter (Gander, Newfoundland, 1985)
230 - TWA Flight 800 (Long Island, 1996)
225 - China Airlines Flight 611 (Penghu Islands, 2002)
202 - EgyptAir Flight 990 (Cape Cod), 2001
83 - Singapore Airlines Flight 6 (Singapore, 2000)
70 - Ramstein airshow disaster (Germany, 1988)
35 - Hindenburg disaster (New Jersey, 1937)

Maritime

7,000 - Goya, 1945 (minimum)
6,050 - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945 (sometimes reported as high as 10,000)
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
3,000 - 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 - DKM Bismarck, 1941
2,003 - Awa Maru, 1945
2,000 - Ural Maru, 1944 (approx.)
2,000 - Josef Stalin, 1941
1,875 - Arisan Maru, 1944
1,650 - Taiho, 1944
1,550+ - Do�a Paz ferry, (Philippines, 1987)
1,547 - Sultana, 1865
1,529 - Tsushima Maru, 1944
1,518 - RMS Titanic, 1912
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
1,250 - 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, 1941
1,021 - General Slocum, 1904
1,000 - Joola, 2002
852 - MS Estonia, 1994

Space

7 - Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (Texas, 2003)
7 - Space Shuttle Challenger (Florida, 1986)
3 - Soyuz 11 (space, 1971)

Accidents

8,000 - Bhopal Disaster India
4,000 - mass panic, (Chongqing, China, 1941)
3,000 - Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 2004)
1,635 - Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, 1917)
1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
800+ - train wreck, (Bihar, India, 1981)
568 - Texas City Disaster (Texas, 1947)
300 - subway fire, (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1995)
126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
105 - mine elevator failure, (South Africa, 1995)
75 - Tay Rail Bridge (Scotland, 1878)
48 - Vostok rocket explosion (Soviet Union, 1980)
31 - Chernobyl accident (Soviet Union, 1986), uncertain number of later casualties from cancer, etc
21 - Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
21 - Boston Molasses Disaster (Boston, 1919)

Sporting events

340 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, 1982)
300 - Peru vs. Argentina soccer game riot (Lima, Peru, 1964)
123 - Hearts of Oak vs. Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko soccer match crush (Accra, Ghana, 2001)
96 - Hillsborough disaster crush (England, 1989)
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica soccer match crush (Guatemala City, 1988)
82 - 24 hours of Le Mans disaster (France, 1955)
80 - soccer match crush (Katmandu, Nepal, 1988)
66 - Rangers football match crush (Glasgow, 1971)
56 - Bradford soccer stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985)

External links

Wars of the 20th Century (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-list.htm)
Death Toll from Disasters, War, Terrorists (http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/hist/disasters-war.html)

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