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This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Alias Robot Gedek. Homeless man that killed 12 boys. Sentenced to death on May 21, 1997. Died in prison on March 26, 2007. Sergey Golovkin Soviet Union Russia: 1986–1992 11 40+ Killed at least 11 boys in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. [202] Executed by gunshot in 1996; last person executed in Russia before the death penalty was abolished.
Died 26 hours later on 6 June. Sirhan was convicted on 17 April 1969, and less than a week later was sentenced to death. [34] The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972. 13 June 1969
He began heavily promoting himself via comic book ads as the Deadliest Man Alive. [16] One had only to mail order his instructional booklet World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets (in which he outlined the "Dance of Death") to also receive a free Black Dragon Fighting Society membership card. These comic book ads account for much of Count Dante's ...
This is a list of mass/spree killers who attacked schools. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period. [76] [77] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [78] [79] [80]
World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion. This year witnessed the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan ...
The exact death toll is unknown, although scholarly sources estimate the number of Arabs killed to be between 13,000 and more than 20,000. [166] [167] 25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964. [166] Maya genocide: Guatemala: 1962 1996 166,000 [169] 166,000 [170]
This is a list of mass or spree killers. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills two or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]