List of wars and disasters by death toll

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[edit] Deaths caused by humans

[edit] 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)
970,000 - American Civil War (including 350,000 from disease)(1861–1865)
900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976–1993)
800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991–1997)
600,000 to 1,300,000 - First Jewish-Roman War
580,000 - Bar Kokhba’s revolt (132–135CE)
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)
125,000 - Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)
120,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991 - )
100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
100,000 - 1,000,000 - War of the two brothers (1531–1532)
100,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)
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 - 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-)
52,000 - Iraq War (2003-Present) (iraqbodycount.net reported deaths of Iraqi civilians.The Lancet surveys of mortality rates before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq estimates 655,000 total casualties as of July 2006.)
50,000–200,000 - First Chechen War (1994–1996)
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)
23,000 - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)
20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001 – 2002)
13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)
12,000 - Croatian Independence War (1991–1995)
7,000–24,000 War of 1812 (1812-1815) note that the larger number includes deaths from disease and other non-combat casualties
7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)
5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
4,000 - Waziristan War (2004-2006)
3,700 - Northern Ireland conflict (1969 - 1998)
3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 - )
2,000 - Football War (1969)
1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000 -)
1,547–2,173+ - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
907 - Falklands War (1982)
537–3,000 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)

[edit] Individual battles and sieges

2,000,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916)
1,800,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
1,300,000+ - The Merv massacre 1221
1,200,000 - The Urgench massacre 1220
700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
552,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
330,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
310,000 - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916)
280,000 - Warsaw Uprising (1944)
280,000 - Second Battle of the Aisne (1917)
270,000 - Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (1942)
270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944)
260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916)
260,000 - Battle of the Caucasus (1942)
240,000 - Third Battle of the Aisne (1918)
240,000(est) - Battle of Bibracte (58 BC)
230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
230,000–350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
207,000 - Battle of Plataea (479 BC)
200,000 - Battle of Carthage (c.149 BC) (149 BC–146 BC)
190,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1941)
180,000 - Battle of France (1940)
175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943)
170,000 - Battle of Königsberg (1945)
165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
150,000 - Battle of Rostov (1941)
150,000 - Battle of Okinawa (1945)
150,000 - Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
140,000 - Battle of Vercellae (101 BC)
132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944)
130,000 - Battle of Budapest (1945)
125,000 - Third Battle of Nanking (1864)
125,000 - Battle of Lemberg (1914)
120,000 - Battle of Arausio (105 BC)
117,000 - Battle for the Liberation of Manila (1945)
115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914)
110,000 - Battle of Issus (333 BC)
100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943)
100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943)
100,000(est) - Battle of Lugdunum (197)
90,000 - Battle of Cambrai (1917)
90,000 - Battle of Aquae Sextiae (102 BC)
83,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1941)
80,000 - Battle of Gazala (1942)
80,000 - Battle of the Somme (1918)
80,000 - Second Battle of the Marne (1918)
80,000(est) - Battle of Watling Street (AD 61)
74,000 - Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia (1941)
72,000+ - Battle of Belgorod (1943)
70,000 - Second Battle of El Alamein (1942)
70,000 - Second Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)
70,000 - Second Battle of Anchialus (917)
69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944)
66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943)
65,000 - Battle of Lvov-Sandomir (1944)
62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915)
61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Basra (655)
60,000 - Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Arras (1917)
60,000 - First Battle of Ypres (1914)
60,000 - Second Battle of Champagne (1915)
56,000–66,000 - Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
55,000 - Korsun Pocket (1944)
55,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
50,000–80,000 - Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
50,000 - Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918)
50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
50,000 - Battle of Caporetto (1917)
50,000 - Battle of Hsuchow (1927)
45,000 - Fourth Battle of Kharkov (1943)
45,000 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest (1944–1945)
44,000 - Battle of the Crimea (1944)
42,000 - Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945)
40,000–56,000 - Tet Offensive (1968)
40,000 - Battle of Imphal (1944)
40,000 - Battle of Adrianople (378)
38,000 - Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945)
37,000 - Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
36,500 - Battle of the Ebro (1938)
35,000 - Battle of Mukden (1905)
32,000 - Battle of Lepanto (1571)
31,000 - Battle of Thapsus (46 BC)
31,000 - Battle of Taierzhuang (1937)
30,000 - Hartmannswillerkopf (1914-1918)
30,000 - Battle of Saipan (1944)
30,000 - Battle of Konotop (1659)
30,000 - Battle of Marignan (1515)
30,000–50,000 - Battle of Naissus (268)
30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
30,300–34,000 - Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)
29,000 - Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
28,000–38,000 - Battle of Towton, (Wars of the Roses, 1461)
26,000 - Battle of Guadalcanal, (1942–1943)
25,000 - Battle of Pydna (168 BC)
26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)
21,000 - Battle of Guam (1944)
20,000–30,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC)
20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)
20,000 - Battle of Zama (202 BC)
19,000 - Battle of Vienna (1683)
18,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812)
18,500 - Operation Market Garden (1944)
17,000 - Battle of Bataan (1942)
16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939)
15,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815)
15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
15,000 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
13,500 - Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)
12,000 - Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
12,000 - Siege of Tobruk (1941)
11,000 - Battle of Heraclea (180 BC)
11,000 - Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864–1865)
10,500 - Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
10,360 - Battle of Mons Graupius (83 or 84)
10,000 - Battle of Điện Biên Phủ (1954)
10,000 - Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC)
10,000 - Battle of Celaya (1913)
8,700 - Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC)
8,600 - Battle of Jutland (1916)
8,400 - Battle of Tinian (1944)
8,000+ - Battle of Agincourt, (Hundred Years' War, 1415)
7,200 - Kokoda Track Campaign, (1942–1943)
7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
6,500 - Battle of the Kasserine Pass (1943)
5,600–6,600 Battle of Tali-Ihantala (1944)
5,700 - Battle of Tarawa (1943)
5,350+ - Battle of Suomussalmi (1939–1940)
5,000–8,000 - Battle of Hastings (1066)
5,000+ - Battle of Dara (530)
5,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
4,808 - Battle of Antietam (1862)
4,360 - Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
4,329 - Battle of Isandlwana (1879)
4,175 - Battle of Leuthen (1757)
3,750 - Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
3,477 - Battle of Shiloh (1862)
3,205 - Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
2,800 - Battle of Midway (1942)
2,400 - La Noche Triste (1520)
2,000+ - Battle of Vimeiro (August 20, 1808)
2,000+ - Battle of Manzikert (1071)
1,900 - First Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
1,705 - Battle of Cold Harbor (June 1-June 3, 1864)
1,700 - Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
1,015 - Battle of Bud Dajo (Philippines, 1906)
1,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
868 - First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
639 - Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
586 - Battle of the Alamo (1836)
567 - Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879)
495 - Battle of Monongahela (1755)
366 - Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
350 - Battle of Spioen Kop (1900)
302 - Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
200–2,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8–November 14, 2004)

[edit] Genocide and democide

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27,000,000-73,000,000[1] - People's Republic of China (1949-1975) under Mao Zedong [2]
17,267,000[3]^{(Table 3.1)} - Slavery of Africans
13,778,000[4] - Democide of the Native American populations.
10,000,000<ref>Grenville, J. A. S., A History of the World in the Twentieth Century, (1994); confirmed at: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Hitler </ref> - 31,000,000[5] Democides (1933 -1945) of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, including the Holocaust
5,964,000[6] - 30,000,000[7] - 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. Note: These figures are included in World War II death toll.
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 [8]
2,400,000 - 3,000,000 - Bangladesh (1971) East Pakistan wanted independence from West Pakistan. After the expulsion of the West Pakistan army, another 150,000 were killed by the vengeful victors.
2,000,000–3,000,000 - Cambodia (1975-1979) under Pol Pot
1,634,000[9] - Democides by the United States (1900-1987)
1,000,000–3,000,000 Armenian Genocide (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)
- 100,000-200,000 - Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia
Pontic Greek Genocide in modern day Turkey.
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 of Indonesia
150,000 - Harrying of the North (England, 1069-1070) by William the Conqueror
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 François "Papa Doc" Duvalier
10,000–30,000 - Argentina's Dirty War, (Argentina, 1976 - 1983)
3,000 - Chile (1973 - 1990) under Augusto Pinochet

[edit] 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)
300 - 1000 - Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, ([[Uganda, March, 2000)
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)

[edit] 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 Côte d'Ivoire by French troops (Côte d'Ivoire, 2004)
5 - Greensboro massacre (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1979)
5 - Ådalen shootings (Sweden, 1931)
4 - Kent State shootings (Kent, Ohio, 1970)
4 - Hock Lee bus riots (Singapore, 1955)
1 - Murray-Hill riot (Montréal, 1969)

[edit] Deaths caused by natural disasters

See List of natural disasters by death toll

[edit] Death from other causes

[edit] Fire

ca. 2,500 - Church of La Compañía (Santiago, Chile, 1863) ^{[citation needed]}
ca. 2,000 - Peshtigo Fire, (Wisconsin, 1871)
1,700 - Waterfront fire, (Chongqing, China, 1949)
1,670 - Theater fire (Canton, China, 1845)
1,100–2,700 - 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+ - Asunción 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, (Niterói, 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 - República Cromagnon nightclub fire, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004)
189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
189 - Joelma Fire, (São Paulo, Brazil, 1974)
187 - Doll factory (Bangkok, Thailand, 1993)
178 - School fire Collinwood, Ohio, 1908)
170 - Rhoads Opera House (Boyertown, 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)
162 - Ozone Disco, Metro Manila, Philippines (March 19, 1996 [10]
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 fires (Australia, 1983)
72 - Branch Davidian church (Waco, Texas, 1993)
71 - "Black Friday" bushfires (Australia, 1939)
63 - Discotheque fire (Göteborg, 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Flood disasters

excluding natural disasters i.e. floods caused by natural forces such as tsunami or high rainfall and dam failure caused by natural disaster such as earthquake or exceptional rainfall

1,909 - Vajont Dam, landslide and megatsunami, Italy, 1961
1,200 - 1,600 Möhne Reservoir destroyed by bombing, Germany, 1943
? - Edersee dam destroyed by bombing, Germany, 1943
421 - Malpasset dam collapse, France, 1959
>400 - St. Francis Dam failure, United States, 1928
270 - Great Sheffield Flood, Dale Dike Dam collapse, England, 1864
268 - Val di Stava Dam Collapse, Italy, 1985
125 - Buffalo Creek Flood, dam collapse, United States, 1972
39 - Kelly Barnes Dam failure, United States, 1977
14 - Teton Dam collapse, United States, 1976

[edit] Coal mine disasters

1,549 - Benxihu Colliery explosion, (China, 1942)
1,099 - Coal mine explosion (Courrières, 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 (Bergkamen, 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)
125 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 21 February 1891)
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)
74 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 23 October, 1958)
59 - coal mine (Xishui mine, Shanxi province, China, 20 Mar 2005)
43 - coal mine (Muchonggou mine, Guizhou province, China, 24 Feb 2003)
39 - coal mine (Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1 November 1956)

[edit] Aviation

583 - Tenerife disaster (Tenerife, 27 march, 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 Flight 140 (Nagoya, 1994)
261 - Haj charter plane (Jedda, 1991)
257 - Mount Erebus disaster (Antarctica, 1979)
256 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 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)
184 - Icelandair DC-8 Super 63CF (Katunayake, Sri Lanka, 1978)
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)
155 - Spantax Flight 275 (Tenerife, 3 December, 1972)
148 - Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2006)
146 - Dan Air Flight 1008, (Tenerife, 25 abril, 1981)
143 - Gulf Air Flight 072 (Bahrain, 2000)
141 - China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou, China) (24 November (1992)
137 - Vasp Flight 168 (Ceará, Brazil, 1982)
137 - Delta Airlines Flight 191 (Dallas, TX, 1985)
131 - Air Philippines Boeing 737 (Davao City, Philippines, 2000)
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)
118 - Linate Airport disaster (Milan, Italy, 8 October 2001)
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 - Cebu Pacific DC-9 (Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, 1998)
104 - Silkair Flight MI-185 (Sumatra, 1997)
99 - TAM Linhas Aéreas's Fokker 100 disaster (São 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)
49 - Comair Flight 5191; Lexington, Kentucky, 27 Aug 2006
47 - Swissair Flight 330 (Würenlingen, near Zürich, Switzerland, February 21, 1970)
35 - Hindenburg disaster (New Jersey, 1937)
35 - Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708
34 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 40
31 - Superga air disaster (Superga, near Turin, 1949)
20 - Port-au-Prince air disaster in 1995
14 - Tallinn copter crash (Gulf of Finland, off the coast near Tallinn, 2005)

[edit] Maritime

[edit] Wartime ship disasters

9,000 - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945 (minimum)
6,000 - Goya, 1945 (minimum)
6,000 - Chinese troopship (near Yingkow, Manchuria, November 1, 1948)
5,620 - Junyō 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 - Taihō, 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 - Fusō, 1944 (approx.)
1,297 - SS Khedive Ismail, 1944
1,263 - Shōkaku, 1944
1,255 - HMS Queen Mary, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
1,250 - Kongō, 1944
1,239 - Unryū, 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 - Blücher, 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 Blücher, (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 - Sōryū, 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 - Shōhō, 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
137 - SS Caribou, (Newfoundland, 1942)

[edit] Peacetime ship disasters

4,300 - 4,500 - Doña Paz, (Philippines, 1987)(Estimates vary because of overloading and unmanifested passengers, only 21 survived [11][12][13])
3,000 - Kiangya (Shanghai, December 3, 1948) (minimum)
1,863 - MV Joola, (Senegal, 2002)
1,547 - Sultana, (Mississippi River, 1865)
1,517 - RMS Titanic, (North Atlantic, 1912)
1,155 - Toya Maru (Tsugaru Strait, 1954)
1,021 - General Slocum, (New York 1904)
1,018 - Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 (Red Sea, 2006)
1,012 - Empress of Ireland, (Saint Lawrence River 1914)
1,000 - Hong Kong (South China Sea, March 18, 1921)
900 – 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} {[14] 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)
423 - Admiral Nakhimov (Black Sea, 1986)
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 Señora 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)
189 - HMS Orpheus (1861), (Auckland, 1863)
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)
82 - STV Royston Grange (off Montevideo, Uruguay, 1972)
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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Sporting events

1,112 - Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c.140 AD) <ref> Guinness World Records: Worst Sport Disaster </ref>
604 - Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Racecourse, stand collapsed and caught fire. Figure conservative, from the Guinness Book of World Records. Most online sources give the death toll as 6,000. (Hong Kong, 1918) ^{[citation needed]}
340 - Moscow soccer match crush (Moscow, USSR, 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 stadium crush (Sheffield, England, 1989)
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica football match crush (Guatemala City, Guatemala) ^{[citation needed]}
80+ - 24 hours of Le Mans auto race crash (Le Mans, France, 1955)
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 stadium disaster, stairway collapse & ensuing crowd crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 1971)
56 - Bradford City football stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985)
43 - Ellis Park Stadium disaster (Johannesburg, South Africa, May 10, 2001) ^{[citation needed]}
39 - Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Bruxelles, Belgium, 1985)
33 - Burnden Park disaster (Bolton, England, 1946) ^{[citation needed]}
26 - First Ibrox stadium disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, Scotland, 1902)
21 - Gate 7 stampede at the old Karaiskaki stadium at the end of a football game between Olympiacos and AEK (Piraeus, Greece, February 8, 1981) <ref>

Olympiacos Official website for Karaiskaki stadium Gate 7 tragedy of 8/2/1981 (and in greek). Also in the greek Wikipedia entry for Olympiacos including the names of the dead.</ref>

17 - 1979 Fastnet yachting race storms (Fastnet Rock, Ireland, 1979)
12 - Baker Bowl Collapse (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1912) ^{[citation needed]}
11 - Munich Olympics massacre (Munich, Germany, 1972)<ref>For references, see Munich massacre#References</ref>

[edit] Industrial accidents

18,000+ - 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)

[edit] Stampedes and panics

4,000 - mass panic at air raid shelter, during Japanese bombing of Chongqing, 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 – Victoria Hall theatre panic (Sunderland, 1883) [15]
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 [16]
84 - Guatemala and Costa Rica soccer match crush (Guatemala City,
74 - PhilSports Arena stampede, Manila, Philippines, February 4, 2006
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) [17]
11 The Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio

[edit] 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

[edit] Nuclear accidents

Main article: List of 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).

[edit] 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.
800+ - Bihar train disaster, (Bihar, India, 1981)
383 - Al Ayatt train disaster, (Egypt, 2002)
281 - Igandu train disaster, (Tanzania, 2002)
227 - Quintinshill rail crash, (Scotland, 1915)
151 - Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 1953)
150 - Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 2004)
144 - Aberfan landslide disaster (Wales, 1966)
130+ - Rafiganj train disaster (India, 2002)
126 - Nedelin catastrophe, (USSR, 1960)
114+ - Veligonda train disaster, (India, 2005)
114 - Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, (Kansas City, Missouri, 1981)
112 - Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, (England, 1952)
103 - Amagasaki rail crash, (Japan, 2005)
101 - ICE high-speed train disaster, (Germany, 1998)
90 - Lewisham rail crash, (England, 1957)
88 - Armagh rail disaster, (Northern Ireland, 1889)
83 - Granville train disaster, Granville, Sydney, Australia
75+ - Tay Bridge Disaster, (Scotland, 1879)
75 - Quebec Bridge, (Canada, 1907]
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)
35 - West Gate Bridge collapse, (Australia, 1970)
27 - Tretten train accident (Norway, 1975)
20 - Cavalese cable-car disaster, (Italy, 1998) cable severed by United States Marine Corps military aircraft
19 - Åsta train accident (Norway, 2000)
11 - Petrobras 36 Oil Platform explosions (Brazil, 2001)
7 - 87-Automobile pile-up on Highway 401 freeway just east of Windsor Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake Saint Clair, Sept. 3 (Labour Day) 1999.

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