List of heads of state and government who died in office

Prior to 1850

Charles II, King of Spain (1700)

Peter II, King of Portugal (1706)

Frederick I, King in Prussia (1713)

Anne, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland (1714)

Louis XIV, King of France & Navarre (1715)

Charles XII, King of Sweden (1718)

Louis I, King of Spain (1724)

Peter I, Emperor of Russia (1725)

Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1727)

George I, King of Great Britain & Ireland, Elector of Hanover (1727)

Peter II, Emperor of Russia (1730)

Frederick IV, King of Denmark (1730)

Anna, Empress of Russia (1740)

Frederick William I, King in Prussia (1740)

Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1743)

Christian VI, King of Denmark (1746)

Philip V, King of Spain (1746)

John V, King of Portugal (1750)

Frederick I, King of Sweden (1751)

Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1754)

Ferdinand VI, King of Spain (1759)

George II, King of Great Britain & Ireland, Elector of Hanover (1760)

Elizabeth, Empress of Russia (1762)

Frederick V, King of Denmark (1766)

Adolph Frederick, King of Sweden (1771)

Louis XV, King of France & Navarre (1774)

Joseph I, King of Portugal (1777)

Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1782)

Frederick II, King of Prussia (1786)

Charles III, King of Spain (1788)

Gustav III, King of Sweden (1792) – assassinated

Catherine II, Empress of Russia (1796)

Frederick William II, King of Prussia (1797)

Pedro de Melo, viceroy of the Río de la Plata (1797)

Paul I, Emperor of Russia (1801) – assassinated

Charles Leclerc, Governor of Saint-Domingue (1802)

Joaquín del Pino y Rozas, Viceroy of the Río de la Plata (1804)

William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1806)

Christian VII, King of Denmark (1808)

Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1812) – assassinated

Maria I, Queen of Portugal (1816)

Alexandre Pétion, President of Haiti (1818)

Charles XIII & II, King of Sweden & King of Norway (1818)

George III, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover (1820)

Louis XVIII, King of France (1824)

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia (1825)

John VI, King of Portugal (1826)

George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1827)

George IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover (1830)

Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece (1831) – assassinated

Casimir Pierre Perier, Prime Minister of France (1832)

Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1833)

William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover (1837)

Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1839)

Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1840)

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Supreme Dictator of Paraguay (1840)

William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (1841)

Charles XIV & III, King of Sweden & King of Norway (1844)

Philippe Guerrier, President of Haiti (1845)

Jean-Baptiste Riché, President of Haiti (1847)

Christian VIII, King of Denmark (1848)

William II, King of the Netherlands & Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1849)

1850–1899

Zachary Taylor, President of the United States (1850)

Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Prime Minister of Austria (1852)

Maria II, Queen of Portugal (1853)

Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1855)

Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1855)

Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia (1855)

Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1856)

Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1857)

Oscar I, King of Sweden & King of Norway (1859)

Carl Edvard Rotwitt, Prime Minister of Denmark (1860)

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy (1861)

Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1861)

Jonas Furrer, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1861)

Peter V, King of Portugal (1861)

José Santos Guardiola, President of Honduras (1862) – assassinated

Barbu Catargiu, Prime Minister of Romania (1862) – assassinated

Carlos Antonio López, President of Paraguay (1862)

Frederick VII, King of Denmark (1863)

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (1865) – assassinated

Rafael Carrera, President of Guatemala (1865)

Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1865)

Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché, Joint Premier of Canada (1865)

Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1865)

Victor Ruffy, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1869)

Charles XV & IV, King of Sweden & King of Norway (1872)

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1872)

Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (1872)

Adolfo Ballivián, President of Bolivia (1874)

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Prime Minister of Belgium (1874)

Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador (1875) – assassinated

Konstantinos Kanaris, Prime Minister of Greece (1877)

Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (1878)

Francisco Linares Alcántara, President of Venezuela (1878) - assassinated

Johann Jakob Scherer, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1878)

Alexander II, Emperor of Russia (1881) – assassinated

James A. Garfield, President of the United States (1881) – survived an attempted assassination but later died

Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez, President of Costa Rica (1882)

Francisco Javier Zaldúa, President of Colombia (1882)

Alfonso XII, King of Spain (1885)

Próspero Fernández Oreamuno, President of Costa Rica (1885)

Agostino Depretis, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy (1887)

William I, Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia (1888)

Frederick III, Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia (1888)

Wilhelm Hertenstein, President of the Swiss Confederation (1888)

Louis I, King of Portugal (1889)

Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1889)

William III, King of the Netherlands & Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1890)

Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1891)

John Ballance, Premier of New Zealand (1893)

Louis Ruchonnet, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1893)

Alexander III, Emperor of Russia (1894)

Remigio Morales Bermúdez, President of Peru (1894)

Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (1894) – assassinated

Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (1894)

Karl Schenk, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1895)

Joseph James Cheeseman, President of Liberia (1896)

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (1896) – assassinated

Florvil Hyppolite, President of Haiti (1896)

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain (1897) – assassinated

José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala (1898) – assassinated

Félix Faure, President of France (1899)

Ulises Heureaux, President of the Dominican Republic (1899) – assassinated

1900–1949

Umberto I, King of Italy (1900) – assassinated

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland (1901)

William McKinley, President of the United States (1901) – assassinated

Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, President of Chile (1901)

Ramon Riu i Cabanes, Co-Prince of Andorra (1901)

Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1901)

Walter Hauser, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1902)

Alexander I, King of Serbia (1903) – assassinated

Manuel Candamo, President of Peru (1904)

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1905)

Theodoros Deligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece (1905) – assassinated

Christian IX, King of Denmark (1906)

Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906)

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (1907)

Dimitar Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1907) – assassinated

Jules de Trooz, Cabinet Chief of Belgium (1907)

Oscar II, King of Sweden (1907)

Carlos I, King of Portugal (1908) – assassinated

Afonso Pena, President of Brazil (1909)

Leopold II, King of the Belgians (1909)

Pedro Montt, President of Chile (1910)

Elias Fernandez, acting President of Chile (1910)

Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland (1910)

Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt (1910) – assassinated

Emilio Estrada Carmona, President of Ecuador (1911)

Prithvi, King of Nepal (1911)

Ernst Brenner, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1911)

Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia (1911) – assassinated

William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1912)

José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain (1912) – assassinated

Meiji, Emperor of Japan (1912)

Cincinnatus Leconte, President of Haiti (1912)

Frederick VIII, King of Denmark (1912)

Adolf Deucher, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1912)

George I, King of Greece (1913) – assassinated

Tancrède Auguste, President of Haiti (1913)

Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (1913)

Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1913)

Roque Sáenz Peña, President of Argentina (1914)

Carol I, King of Romania (1914)

Paul Eyschen, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1915)

Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China (1916)

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary (1916)

Sidónio Pais, President of Portugal (1918) – assassinated

Manuel Franco, President of Paraguay (1919)

Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1919)

Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1919)

Yakov Sverdlov, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (1919)

Alexander, King of Greece (1920)

Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (1920) – assassinated

Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan (1921) – assassinated

Peter I, King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1921)

Giacomo De Martino, Governor of Cyrenaica (1921)

Arthur Griffith, President of the Dáil of Ireland (1922)

Michael Collins, Chairman of the Provisional Government of Ireland (1922) – assassinated

Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1922)

Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland (1922) – assassinated

Warren G. Harding, President of the United States (1923)

Vladimir Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (1924)

Bogd Khan, Khagan of Mongolia (1924)

Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (1925)

William Ferguson Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925)

Vajiravudh, King of Siam (1925)

Sun Yat-sen, Generalissimo of the National Government of the Republic of China (1925)

Jón Magnússon, Prime Minister of Iceland (1926)

Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (1926)

Count Katō Takaaki, Prime Minister of Japan (1926)

Taishō (Yoshihito), Emperor of Japan (1926)

Jānis Čakste, President of Latvia (1927)

Ferdinand I, King of Romania (1927)

Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1929)

Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia (1930)

Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime Minister of Japan (1932) – assassinated

Paul Doumer, President of France (1932) – assassinated

Faisal I, King of Iraq (1933) – assassinated

Ion G. Duca, Prime Minister of Romania (1933) – assassinated

Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933) – assassinated

Albert I, King of the Belgians (1934)

Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (1934) – assassinated

Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia (1934) – assassinated

Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany (1934)

Juan Vicente Gómez, President of Venezuela (1935)

Józef Piłsudski, Leader of the Second Polish Republic (1935)

George V, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions (1936)

Fuad I, King of Egypt (1936)

Konstantinos Demertzis, Prime Minister of Greece (1936)

Gyula Gömbös, Prime Minister of Hungary (1936)

Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey (1938)

Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938)

Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (1939)

Ghazi, King of Iraq (1939)

Aurelio Mosquera, President of Ecuador (1939)

Armand Călinescu, Prime Minister of Romania (1939) – assassinated

Pope Pius XI, Sovereign of the Vatican (1939)

Justí Guitart i Vilardebó, Co-Prince of Andorra (1940)

Giuseppe Motta, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1940)

Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940)

Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (1940)

Italo Balbo, Governor-General of Libya (1940) – killed in action

Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (1941)

Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece (1941)

Count Pál Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (1941) – suicide

Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1942)

Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China (1943)

Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (1943)

Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (1944)

Wang Jingwei, Chairman of the National Government of China at Nanjing (1944)

John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (1945)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States (1945)

Adolf Hitler, Führer of Germany (1945) – suicide

Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946)

Juan Antonio Ríos, President of Chile (1946)

Ananda Mahidol, King of Siam (Thailand) (1946)

Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (1946) – assassinated

Nguyen Van Thinh, Presidents of the Provisional Government of Cochinchina (1946) – suicide

George II, King of Greece (1947)

Christian X, King of Denmark (1947)

Aung San, Premier of Burma (1947)

Tomás Berreta, President of Uruguay (1947)

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, King of Yemen (1948)

Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines (1948)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Governor-General of Pakistan (1948)

Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1948) – assassinated

Georgi Dimitrov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria (1949)

Themistoklis Sophoulis, Prime Minister of Greece (1949)

Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1949)

Domingo Díaz Arosemena, President of Panama (1949)

Husni al-Za'im, President of Syria (1949) – executed

Muhsin al-Barazi, Prime Minister of Syria (1949) – executed

1950–1999

Vasil Kolarov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1950)

Enrico Mizzi, Prime Minister of Malta (1950)

Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes, President of Nicaragua (1950)

Gustaf V, King of Sweden (1950)

Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela (1950) - assassinated

Karl Renner, President of Austria (1950)

Óscar Carmona, President of Portugal (1951)

Abdullah I, King of Jordan (1951) – assassinated

Prince Rangsit Prayurasakdi, President of Council of Regency of Thailand (1951)

Haj Ali Razmara, Prime Minister of Iran (1951) – assassinated

Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1951) – assassinated

George VI, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions (1952)

Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (1952)

D. S. Senanayake, Prime Minister of Ceylon (1952)

Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Mongolia (1952)

Sveinn Björnsson, President of Iceland (1952)

Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel (1952)

Adrian Alberga, Prime Minister of Suriname (1952)

Pierre Dupong, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1953)

Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1953)

Klement Gottwald, President of Czechoslovakia (1953)

Gonchigiin Bumtsend, Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural (head of state) of Mongolia (1953)

Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1953)

Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (1954) – suicide

José Antonio Remón Cantera, President of Panama (1955) – assassinated

Tribhuvan, King of Nepal (1955)

Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark (1955)

Alexandros Papagos, Prime Minister of Greece (1955)

Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua (1956) – assassinated

Bolesław Bierut, de facto leader (Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party) of Poland (1956)

Theodor Körner, President of Austria (1957)

Antonín Zápotocký, President of Czechoslovakia (1957)

Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala (1957) – assassinated

Ramón Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (1957) – plane crash

Haakon VII, King of Norway (1957)

Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly, President of the Government Council of Upper Volta (1958)

Barthélemy Boganda, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (1958) – plane crash

Petru Groza, President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (head of state) of Romania (1958)

Faisal II, King of Iraq (1958) – assassinated

Markus Feldmann, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1958)

Georgi Damyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (head of state) of Bulgaria (1958)

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, Prime Minister of South Africa (1958)

Pope Pius XII, Sovereign of the Vatican (1958)

Ernest George Jansen, Governor-General of South Africa (1959)

Pierre Frieden, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959)

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon (1959) – assassinated

Sisavang Vong, King of Laos (1959)

Hans Christian Hansen, Prime Minister of Denmark (1960)

Wilhelm Pieck, President of East Germany (1960)

Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia (1960)

Norodom Suramarit, King of Cambodia (1960)

Hazza' al-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan (1960) – assassinated

Hisamuddin, King of Malaysia (1960)

Abebe Aregai, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1960)

Prince Louis Rwagasore, Prime Minister of Rwanda (1961) – assassinated

Cardinal Nicola Canali, President of the Governorate of Vatican City & President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (1961)

William Morrison, Viscount Dunrossil, Governor-General of Australia (1961)

Mohammed V, King of Morocco (1961)

Rafael Trujillo, de facto leader of the Dominican Republic (1961) – assassinated

Ahmad bin Yahya, King of Yemen (1962)

Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo (1963) – assassinated

Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole, Head of State of Western Samoa (1963)

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (1963)

John F. Kennedy, President of the United States (1963) – assassinated

Pope John XXIII, Sovereign of the Vatican (1963)

Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (1963)

Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (1963) – assassinated

Dimitur Ganev, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (head of state) of Bulgaria (1964)

Paul, King of Greece (1964)

Jigme Palden Dorji, Prime Minister of Bhutan (1964) – assassinated

Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (1964)

Sir Milton Margai, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (1964)

Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1964)

Aleksander Zawadzki, Chairman of the Council of State (head of state) of Poland (1964)

Luis Giannattasio, President of Uruguay (1965)

Hassan Ali Mansur, Prime Minister of Iran (1965) – assassinated

Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi (1965) – assassinated

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, President of the State Council (head of state) of Romania (1965)

Adolf Schärf, President of Austria (1965)

Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (1965)

Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (1966) – plane crash

Chris Soumokil, President of South Maluku (state without international recognition) (1966) – executed

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria (1966) – assassinated

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (1966)

Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966) – assassinated

René Schick, President of Nicaragua (1966)

Óscar Diego Gestido, President of Uruguay (1967)

Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (1967)

Léon M'ba, President of Gabon (1967) – drowned

Sir Donald Burns Sangster, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1967)

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (1967) – drowned

Peter Mohr Dam, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1968)

Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (1969)

Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (1969)

Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, President of Somalia (1969) – assassinated

René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (1969) – helicopter crash

Zakir Husain, President of India (1969)

Sir David Rose, Governor-General of Guyana (1969) – accident

Bjarni Benediktsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (1970) – fire

Said Mohamed Cheikh, President of the Government Council of Comoros (1970)

Yusof bin Ishak, President of Singapore (1970)

Gamal Abdel Nasser, President and Prime Minister of Egypt (1970)

François Duvalier, President of Haiti (1971)

Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan (1971) – assassinated

William Tubman, President of Liberia (1971)

Frederick IX, King of Denmark (1972)

Mahendra, King of Nepal (1972)

Jamsrangiin Sambuu, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (head of state) of Mongolia (1972)

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (1972)

Sir Leonard Williams, Governor-General of Mauritius (1972)

Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1973) – suicide

Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (1973) – assassinated

Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the State Council (head of state) of East Germany (1973)

Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden (1973)

Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of Ireland (1974)

Franz Jonas, President of Austria (1974)

Norman Eric Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1974)

Juan Perón, President of Argentina (1974)

Georges Pompidou, President of France & Co-Prince of Andorra (1974)

Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (1975)

Faisal, King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia (1975) – assassinated

Long Boret, Prime Minister of the Khmer Republic (1975) – executed

Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II, Prime Minister of Western Samoa (1975)

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1975) – assassinated

Richard Ratsimandrava, President of the Malagasy Republic (1975) – assassinated

François Tombalbaye, President and Prime Minister of Chad (1975) – assassinated

Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1975)

Abdul Razak Hussein, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1976)

Murtala Mohammed, Head of the Federal Military Government (head of state) of Nigeria (1976) – assassinated

Joel Rakotomalala, Prime Minister of Madagascar (1976) – helicopter crash

El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (unrecognized state) (1976) – died in combat

Sir Arleigh Winston Scott, Governor-General of Barbados (1976)

Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (1976)

Mao Zedong, de facto leader (Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party) of China (1976)

Zhu De, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (head of state) of the People's Republic of China (1976)

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (1977)

Tafari Benti, Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council (head of state) of Ethiopia (1977) – executed

Ibrahim al-Hamdi, President of North Yemen (1977) – assassinated

Džemal Bijedić, President of the Federal Executive Council (head of government) of Yugoslavia (1977) – plane crash

Makarios III, President of Cyprus (1977)

Marien Ngouabi, President of the Republic of Congo (1977) – assassinated

Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (1977)

Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (1978) – assassinated

Ahmad al-Ghashmi, President of North Yemen (1978) – assassinated

Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria (1978)

Francisco Mendes, Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau (1978) – car crash

John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (1978)

Salim Rubai Ali, President of South Yemen (1978) – executed

Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Premier of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1978)

Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs, State President of South Africa (1978)

Pope Paul VI, Sovereign of the Vatican (1978)

Pope John Paul I, Sovereign of the Vatican (1978)

Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (1978)

Botha Sigcau, President of Transkei (unrecognized state) (1978)

Sir Milo Butler, Governor-General of The Bahamas (1979)

Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See (1979)

Agostinho Neto, President of Angola (1979)

Mashiur Rahman, Chief Minister of Bangladesh (1979)

Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (1979)

Nur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (1979) – assassinated

Hafizullah Amin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council (head of state) & Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Afghanistan (1979) – assassinated

Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (1979) – assassinated

Maphevu Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland (1979)

Paul Southwell, Premier of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1979)

Sir Seretse Khama, President of Botswana (1980)

Tôn Đức Thắng, President of Vietnam (1980)

James Alexander George Smith McCartney, Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1980)

Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (1980)

William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (1980) – executed

Abdelhamid Sharaf, Prime Minister of Jordan (1980)

Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (1980)

Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (1980) – plane crash

Benjamin Henry Sheares, President of Singapore (1981)

Mehmet Shehu, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Albania (1981) – suicide (disputed)

Jaime Roldós Aguilera, President of Ecuador (1981) – plane crash

Omar Torrijos, de facto leader of Panama (1981) – plane crash

Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (1981) – assassinated

Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1981)

Anwar Sadat, President and Prime Minister of Egypt (1981) – assassinated

Mohammad-Ali Rajai, President of Iran (1981) – assassinated

Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran (1981) – assassinated

Antonio Guzmán Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic (1982) – suicide

Khalid, King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia (1982)

Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (1982)

Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) of the Soviet Union (1982)

Willi Ritschard, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1983)

Sir Deighton Lisle Ward, Governor-General of Barbados (1984)

Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) of the Soviet Union (1984)

Edward Sokoine, Prime Minister of Tanzania (1984) – car crash

Chan Sy, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Kampuchea (1984)

Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, Prime Minister of Egypt (1984)

Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984) – assassinated

Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (1984)

Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados (1985)

Enver Hoxha, de facto leader (First Secretary of the Communist Party) of Albania (1985)

Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (1985)

Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau (1985) – assassinated

Konstantin Chernenko, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) of the Soviet Union (1985)

Tancredo Neves, President-elect of Brazil (1985)

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Governor-General of Mauritius (1985)

Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1986) – assassinated

Lê Duẩn, de facto leader (General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party) of Vietnam (1986)

Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (1986) – plane crash

Errol Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1987)

Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon (1987) – assassinated

Seyni Kountché, President of the Supreme Military Council of Niger (1987)

Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso (1987) – assassinated

Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (1988)

Patrick Mphephu, President of Venda (unrecognized state) (1988)

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1988) – plane crash

Lazarus Salii, President of Palau (1988) – suicide

Phạm Hùng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (1988)

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1989)

Herbert Blaize, Prime Minister of Grenada (1989)

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (1989)

Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1989)

Ahmed Abdallah, President of Comoros (1989) – assassinated

René Moawad, President of Lebanon (1989) – assassinated

Sir Ignatius Kilage, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (1989)

Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (1990) – executed

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (1990)

Olav V, King of Norway (1991)

Nasirdin Isanov, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (1991) – car crash

Artur Mkrtchyan, Chairman of Parliament (head of state) of Nagorno-Karabakh (state without international recognition) (1992) – assassinated

Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (1992)

Sir Robert Rex, Prime Minister of Niue (1992)

József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary (1993)

Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka (1993) – assassinated

Baudouin, King of the Belgians (1993)

Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, President of Fiji (1993)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (1993)

Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi (1993) – assassinated

Turgut Özal, President of Turkey (1993)

Zhiuli Shartava, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (state without international recognition) (1993) – assassinated

Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (1994) – assassinated

Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (1994) – assassinated

Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (1994) – assassinated

Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (1994)

Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (1995) – assassinated

Dame Nita Barrow, Governor-General of Barbados (1995)

Hamilton Lavity Stoutt, Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands (1995)

Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (1996) – car crash

Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands (1996)

Dzhokhar Dudayev, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (state without international recognition) (1996) – assassinated

Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (1997)

Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1997) – plane crash

Sani Abacha, Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria (1998)

Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of Comoros (1998)

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger (1999) – assassinated

Jumabek Ibraimov, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (1999)

Hussein, King of Jordan (1999)

Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Emir of Bahrain (1999)

Hassan II, King of Morocco (1999)

Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (1999)

Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (1999) – assassinated

2000–present

Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (2000)

Rosie Douglas, Prime Minister of Dominica (2000)

Ionatana Ionatana, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (2000)

Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (2001) – assassinated

Salahuddin, King of Malaysia (2001)

Birendra, King of Nepal (2001) – assassinated

Dipendra, King of Nepal (2001) – suicide

Sir Charles Antrobus, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2002)

Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, President of Somaliland (state without international recognition) (2002)

Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (2003)

Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (2003) – assassinated

Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority (2004)

Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (2004)

Ezzedine Salim, President of the Governing Council of Iraq (2004) – assassinated

Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (2004)

Boris Trajkovski, President of Macedonia (2004) – plane crash

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (2004)

Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (2005)

Pope John Paul II, Sovereign of the Vatican (2005)

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (2005)

Aslan Maskhadov, President & Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (state without international recognition) (2005) – assassinated

Fahd, King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia (2005)

Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (2005) – accident

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (2006)

Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (2006)

Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (2006)

Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (2006)

Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (2006)

Pascal Yoadimnadji, Prime Minister of Chad (2007)

Andranik Markaryan, Prime Minister of Armenia (2007)

Malietoa Tanumafili II, Head of State of Samoa (2007)

Sir John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (2007)

Soe Win, Prime Minister of Burma (2007)

Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (2008)

Lansana Conté, President of Guinea (2008)

Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (2009)

João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (2009) – assassinated

Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (2010) – plane crash

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (2010)

David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados (2010)

Sergey Bagapsh, President of Abkhazia (state without wide international recognition) (2011)

Kim Jong-Il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (2011)

Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea Bissau (2012)

George Tupou V, King of Tonga (2012)

Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi (2012)

John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (2012)

Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (2012)

Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (2013)

Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (2013)

Michael Sata, President of Zambia (2014)

Abdullah, King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia (2015)

Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of Western Sahara (state without wide international recognition) (2016)

Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (2016)

Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (2016)

Sir Michael Ogio, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (2017)