Table placing „History’s Most Fatal Events“: Influenza pandemic (1918-19) 20-40 million fatalities; black death/plague (1348-50), 20-25 million deaths, AIDS pandemic (with 2000) 21.8 million fatalities, The second world war (1937-45), 15.9 million deaths, and also World war (1914-18) 9.2 million fatalities.