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This list includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by genocides that are recognised in significant scholarship as genocides. It excludes mass killings which have not been explicitly defined as genocidal, but called mass murder, crimes against humanity, politicide, classicide, or war crimes, such as the Thirty Years' War (4.5 to 8 million deaths), Japanese war ...
Lists of deaths by year. This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in August 2024) and then linked here.
Deaths Injuries Year Ref; 1 1 Las Vegas shooting† Paradise, Nevada: LV 60 LV ≈ 867 2017 [1] 2 1 Pulse nightclub shooting† Orlando, Florida: 49 P 58 2016 [2] 3 1 Virginia Tech shooting† Blacksburg, Virginia: 32 VT 23 2007 [3] 4 2 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting† Newtown, Connecticut: 26 2 2012
The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle during these wars recorded by Greek writers, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Punic Wars. 1,620,000–1,920,000+. 264 BC–146 BC. Roman Republic vs. Carthaginian Empire. Western Europe / North Africa. First Punic War.
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection. [ 1] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988.
This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
This is a list of human deaths caused by bear attacks in North America by decade in reverse chronological order. These fatalities have been documented through news media, reports, cause-of-death statistics, scientific papers, or other sources. For general information on the topic, see bear attack.