# List of heads of state and government who died in office

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

| Name | Year | Country | Title | Place of death | 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 |
| 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 – peptic ulceration |
| 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 | Illness – pneumonia |
| Pedro Blanco Soto | 1829 | Bolivia | Provisional President | La Plata | Bolivia | Assassination |
| Ioannis Kapodistrias | 1831 | 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 |
| 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 – pneumonia or enteric fever |
| Agustín Gamarra | 1841 | Peru | President | Ingavi | Peru | Killed in action |
| Philippe Guerrier | 1845 | Haiti | President | Saint-Marc | Haiti | Illness |
| Mathabarsingh Thapa | 1845 | Nepal | Prime Minister | Kathmandu | Kingdom of Nepal | Assassination – shooting |
| Fateh Jung Shah | 1846 | Nepal | Prime Minister | Kathmandu | Kingdom of Nepal | Assassination |
| Jean-Baptiste Riché | 1847 | Haiti | President | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Illness or poisoning |

## 1850–1899

| Name | Year | Country | Title | Place of death | Place of death | Cause of death |
| Zachary Taylor | 1850 | United States | President | Washington, D.C. | United States | Illness – cholera or gastroenteritis |
| 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 | Stroke |
| Stefano Franscini | 1857 | Switzerland | Member of the Federal Council | Bern | Switzerland | |
| Mustafa Reşid Pasha | 1858 | Ottoman Empire | Grand Vizier | Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | Myocardial infarction |
| 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 – fever |
| Marcos Paz | 1868 | Argentina | Interim President | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Illness – cholera |
| Ramón María Narváez | 1868 | Spain | Prime Minister | Madrid | Spain | Illness – lung disease |
| 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 – cold |
| Benito Juárez | 1872 | Mexico | President | Mexico City | Mexico | Myocardial infarction |
| Tomás Gutiérrez | 1872 | Peru | Supreme Leader of the Republic | Lima | Peru | Assassination |
| Milivoje Blaznavac | 1873 | Serbia | President of the Ministry | Belgrade | Serbia | Myocardial infarction |
| Adolfo Ballivián | 1874 | Bolivia | President | La Paz | Bolivia | Illness – stomach cancer |
| 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 | Myocardial infarction 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 and complications following surgery |
| John A. Macdonald | 1891 | Canada | Prime Minister | Ottawa | Canada | Stroke |
| John Ballance | 1893 | New Zealand | Prime Minister | Wellington | New Zealand | Intestinal disease and complications following surgery |
| Louis Ruchonnet | 1893 | Switzerland | Member of the Federal Council | Bern | Switzerland | Myocardial infarction |
| 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 | Stroke |
| John Sparrow David Thompson | 1894 | Canada | Prime Minister | Berkshire | United Kingdom | Myocardial infarction |
| Karl Schenk | 1895 | Switzerland | Member of the Federal Council | Bern | Switzerland | Accident – struck by carriage |
| Florvil Hyppolite | 1896 | Haiti | President | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Stroke |
| 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 | Myocardial infarction |
| Ulises Heureaux | 1899 | Dominican Republic | President | Moca | Dominican Republic | Assassination |

## 1900–1949

| Name | Year | Country | Title | Place of death | 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 Diligiannis | 1905 | Greece | Prime Minister | Athens | Greece | Assassination – stabbing |
| Manuel Quintana | 1906 | Argentina | President | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Illness – pneumonia |
| Richard Seddon | 1906 | New Zealand | Prime Minister | At sea | At sea | Heart attack |
| 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 | Panama City | Panama | |
| 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 | Illness – cold |
| 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 – shooting and stabbing |
| Tancrède Auguste | 1913 | Haiti | President | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Illness – anemia |
| Mahmud Shevket Pasha | 1913 | Ottoman Empire | Grand Vizier | Istanbul | Ottoman Empire | Assassination – shooting |
| 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 – beating |
| 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 – shooting |
| 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 |
| Yakov Sverdlov | 1919 | Russian SFSR | Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee | Moscow | Russian SFSR | Illness – Spanish flu or typhus |
| Manuel Franco | 1919 | Paraguay | President | Asunción | Paraguay | Cardiac arrest |
| Louis Botha | 1919 | South Africa | Prime Minister | Pretoria | South Africa | Illness – Spanish flu |
| 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 or apoplexy |
| Eduardo Dato | 1921 | Spain | Prime Minister | Madrid | Spain | Assassination – shooting |
| 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 |
| 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 | Heart attack |
| 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 | Blood clot |
| 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 | Germany | Illness – testicular cancer |
| Panas Lyubchenko | 1937 | Ukrainian SSR | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars | Moscow | Soviet Union | Suicide – shooting |
| Mustafa 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 | Illness – liver infection or 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 crash |
| Hassan Sabry Pasha | 1940 | Egypt | Prime Minister | Cairo | Egypt | Heart failure |
| Kyösti Kallio | 1940 | Finland | President | Helsinki | Finland | Heart attack |
| Ioannis Metaxas | 1941 | Greece | Prime Minister | Athens | Greece | Illness – septicemia or internal haemorrhage |
| Pál Teleki | 1941 | Hungary | Prime Minister | Budapest | Hungary | Suicide – shooting |
| Alexandros Koryzis | 1941 | Greece | Prime Minister | Athens | Greece | Suicide – shooting |
| Johannes Lauristin | 1941 | Estonian SSR | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars | At sea | At sea | |
| 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 | Illness |
| Taj al-Din al-Hasani | 1943 | Syria | President | Damascus | Syria | Heart attack |
| Władysław Sikorski | 1943 | Poland | Prime Minister | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | Accident – plane crash |
| 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 Maher Pasha | 1945 | Egypt | Prime Minister | Cairo | Egypt | Assassination – shooting |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1945 | United States | President | Warm Springs | United States | Illness – cerebral haemorrhage |
| John Curtin | 1945 | Australia | Prime Minister | Canberra | Australia | Heart attack |
| Adolf Hitler | 1945 | Germany | Führer | Berlin | Germany | Suicide – shooting |
| Joseph Goebbels | 1945 | Germany | Chancellor | Berlin | Germany | Suicide – shooting |
| 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 – shooting |
| 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 – heart and liver disease, abdominal cancer and internal haemorrhages |
| 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 |

## 1950–1999

| Name | Year | Country | Title | Place of death | Place of death | Cause of death |
| Vasil Kolarov | 1950 | Bulgaria | Prime Minister | Sofia | Bulgaria | Illness |
| Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes | 1950 | Nicaragua | President | Philadelphia | United States | Complications following stomach cancer surgery |
| Carlos Delgado Chalbaud | 1950 | Venezuela | President | Caracas | Venezuela | Assassination – shooting and beating |
| 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 – heart disease |
| 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 | Stroke |
| Chaim Weizmann | 1952 | Israel | President | Rehovot | Israel | Illness – respiratory inflammation |
| 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 | Illness – pneumonia |
| Gonchigiin Bumtsend | 1953 | Mongolia | Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural | Ulaanbaatar | Mongolia | |
| Pierre Dupong | 1953 | Luxembourg | Prime Minister | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Heart attack |
| Getúlio Vargas | 1954 | Brazil | President | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Suicide – gunshot |
| 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 and heart failure |
| Bolesław Bierut | 1956 | Poland | General Secretary of the United Workers' Party | Moscow | Soviet Union | Heart attack |
| Anastasio Somoza García | 1956 | Nicaragua | President | Ancón | Panama | Complications from gunshot wound |
| Theodor Körner | 1957 | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Heart attack |
| Ramón Magsaysay | 1957 | Philippines | President | Balamban | Philippines | Accident – plane crash |
| Carlos Castillo Armas | 1957 | Guatemala | President | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Assassination – shooting |
| Antonín Zápotocký | 1957 | Czechoslovakia | President | Prague | Czechoslovakia | Heart attack |
| Petru Groza | 1958 | Romania | President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly | Bucharest | Romania | Complications following stomach surgery |
| Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom | 1958 | South Africa | Prime Minister | Cape Town | South Africa | Illness – heart disease |
| 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 crash |
| 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 | Heart attack |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 – heart and liver disease |
| 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 | Illness |
| 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 | Complications from gunshot wound |
| Luis Giannattasio | 1965 | Uruguay | President | Punta del Este | Uruguay | Heart attack |
| Adolf Schärf | 1965 | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Illness – influenza and liver disease |
| 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 crash |
| 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 | Heart attack |
| 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; presumed drowning |
| Peter Mohr Dam | 1968 | Faroe Islands | Prime Minister | Tórshavn | Faroe Islands | |
| Levi Eshkol | 1969 | Israel | Prime Minister | Jerusalem | Israel | Heart attack |
| René Barrientos | 1969 | Bolivia | President | Arque | Bolivia | Accident – helicopter crash |
| 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 – crushed |
| Artur da Costa e Silva | 1969 | Brazil | President | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Heart attack |
| 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 | Singapore | Heart attack |
| François Duvalier | 1971 | Haiti | President for life | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Illness – diabetes and heart disease |
| William Tubman | 1971 | Liberia | President | London | United Kingdom | Complications following prostate surgery |
| 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 | Illness – heart failure |
| Salvador Allende | 1973 | Chile | President | Santiago | Chile | Suicide – gunshot |
| Luis Carrero Blanco | 1973 | Spain | Prime Minister | Madrid | Spain | Assassination – bombing |
| Franz Jonas | 1974 | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Illness – stomach cancer |
| Georges Pompidou | 1974 | France | President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) | Paris | France | Illness – Waldenström's macroglobulinemia |
| Juan Perón | 1974 | Argentina | President | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Illness – heart and kidney failure |
| Norman Eric Kirk | 1974 | New Zealand | Prime Minister | Wellington | New Zealand | Illness – heart failure |
| 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 | President | Dhaka | Bangladesh | Assassination – shooting |
| Francisco Franco | 1975 | Spain | Head of State (Caudillo) | Madrid | Spain | Illness – complications of heart disease, kidney failure and gastric haemorrhage |
| Zhou Enlai | 1976 | China | Premier | Beijing | China | Illness – bladder cancer |
| Abdul Razak Hussein | 1976 | Malaysia | Prime Minister | London | United Kingdom | Illness – leukemia |
| 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 | Killed in action |
| 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 crash |
| Arleigh Winston Scott | 1976 | Barbados | Governor-General | St. Michael | Barbados | Heart attack |
| 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 crash |
| Tafari Benti | 1977 | Ethiopia | Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | Assassination – shooting |
| 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 | Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | Accident – car crash |
| 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 – Waldenström's macroglobulinemia |
| Milo Butler | 1979 | Bahamas | Governor-General | Nassau | Bahamas | Illness |
| Jean-Marie Villot | 1979 | Vatican City/Holy See | Cardinal Secretary of State | Vatican City/Holy See | 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 |
| 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 – shooting |
| Tôn Đức Thắng | 1980 | Vietnam | President | Hanoi | Vietnam | Illness – respiratory failure |
| William Tolbert | 1980 | Liberia | President | Monrovia | Liberia | Assassination |
| Josip Broz Tito | 1980 | Yugoslavia | Leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and President | Ljubljana | Yugoslavia | Illness – gangrene |
| J. A. G. S. McCartney | 1980 | Turks and Caicos Islands | Chief Minister | Vineland | United States | Accident – plane crash |
| 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 | Singapore | Illness – lung cancer |
| Jaime Roldós Aguilera | 1981 | Ecuador | President | Celica | Ecuador | Accident – plane crash |
| 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 – gunshot |
| 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 | Illness – 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 | Heart attack |
| 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 – heart failure and diabetes |
| 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 | |
| Nasirdin Isanov | 1991 | Tajikistan | Prime Minister | Jalal-Abad–Osh Motorway | Kyrgyzstan | Accident – car crashed on road |
| Abbas al-Musawi | 1992 | Lebanon | Secretary-General of Hezbollah | Nabatieh Governorate | Lebanon | Assassination - airstrike |
| Artur Mkrtchyan | 1992 | Artsakh | Chairman of the Supreme Council | Stepanakert | Artsakh/ Azerbaijan | Assassination – shooting |
| 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 | |
| Cyprien Ntaryamira | 1994 | Burundi | President | Kigali | Rwanda | Assassination – plane shot down |
| Juvénal Habyarimana | 1994 | Rwanda | President | Kigali | Rwanda | Assassination – plane shot down |
| Agathe Uwilingiyimana | 1994 | Rwanda | Prime Minister | Kigali | Rwanda | Assassination – shooting |
| Kim Il Sung | 1994 | North Korea | General Secretary of the Workers' Party and President | Hyangsan | North Korea | Heart attack |
| 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 | 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

| Name | Year | Country | Title | Place of death | 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 |
| 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 |
| Pierre Charles | 2004 | Dominica | Prime Minister | Roseau | Dominica | Heart attack |
| 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 crash |
| 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 | Complications following 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Miusera | 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 |
| Jovenel Moïse | 2021 | Haiti | President | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Assassination – shooting |
| Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | 2022 | United Arab Emirates | President | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | Natural causes |
| Hage Geingob | 2024 | Namibia | President | Windhoek | Namibia | Illness – unspecified form of cancer |
| Ebrahim Raisi | 2024 | Iran | President | Varzaqan | Iran | Accident – helicopter crash |
| Nguyễn Phú Trọng | 2024 | Vietnam | General Secretary of the Communist Party | Hanoi | Vietnam | Illness |
| Didier Guillaume | 2025 | Monaco | Minister of State | Nice | France | Illness |