Photo Ambassador Post Place Country Date of death Killed by Envoys of Xerxes I Persian envoys to Sparta Sparta Sparta 481 B.C. Leonidas I Gaius Fulcinius Roman envoys to Fidenae Fidenae Roman Republic 438 B.C. On orders of Lars Tolumnius Lucius Roscius Spurius Antius Tullus Cloelius Ambassadors of Genghis Khan Mongol ambassadors to the Khwarezmian Empire Otrar /Urgench Khwarezmian Empire 1218 A Mongolian trade caravan including ambassadors was massacred by Inalchuq . Later on, a Muslim ambassador was beheaded on orders of Sultan Muhammad II Ambassadors of Hulagu Khan Mongol ambassadors to the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanate Mayyafariqin Ayyubid Sultanate 1260 A Jacobite priest was crucified on the orders of Ayyubid emir Al-Kamil Muhammad Egypt Mamluk Sultanate Sultan Qutuz Ambassador of Timur Timurid ambassador to the Mamluk Sultanate Damascus Mamluk Sultanate 1400 On orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun Antonio Rincon French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Rivoli Venice July 3, 1541 Venetian Imperial Guard Alexander Griboyedov Russian Ambassador to Persia Tehran Persia February 11, 1829 Iranian mob Clemens von Ketteler German Ambassador to China Beijing China June 20, 1900 Boxer rebel Wilhelm von Mirbach German Ambassador to Russia Moscow Russian SFSR July 6, 1918 Left Socialist Revolutionaries Vatslav Vorovsky Soviet Representative to Italy Lausanne Switzerland May 10, 1923 Maurice Conradi Rayko Daskalov Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia August 26, 1923 Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Pyotr Voykov Soviet Ambassador to Poland Warsaw Poland June 7, 1927 Boris Kowerda Ceno bej Kryeziu Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia October 14, 1927 Alkibijad Bebi Henry Gurney United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya Fraser's Hill Malaya October 6, 1951 Members of the Malayan Communist Party Kokkat Sankara Pillai First Secretary in High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada Ottawa Canada April 19, 1961 Killed by a mentally unstable Yugoslav immigrant to Canada John Gordon Mein United States Ambassador to Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemala August 28, 1968 Rebel Armed Forces Karl von Spreti West German Ambassador to Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemala April 5, 1970 Rebel Armed Forces Vladimir Rolović Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden Stockholm Sweden April 15, 1971 Croatian National Resistance Marcel Dupret Belgian Ambassador to Morocco Skhirat Morocco July 10, 1971 Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II [ 5] Germain Mba Gabonese Ambassador to Japan Libreville Gabon September 17, 1971 African mercenaries led by Bob Denard [ citation needed ] Cleo A. Noel, Jr. United States Ambassador to Sudan Khartoum Sudan March 2, 1973 Black September Rodger Davies United States Ambassador to Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus August 19, 1974 EOKA B Daniş Tunalıgil Turkish Ambassador to Austria Vienna Austria October 22, 1975 Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide İsmail Erez Turkish Ambassador to France Paris France October 24, 1975 Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia Joaquin Zenteno Anaya Bolivian Ambassador to France Paris France May 11, 1976 Hugo Banzer regime[ citation needed ] Carlos Abdala Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay Asunción Paraguay June 8, 1976 Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood Francis E. Meloy, Jr. United States Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon June 16, 1976 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Christopher Ewart-Biggs United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland Dublin Ireland July 21, 1976 Provisional Irish Republican Army Taha Carım Turkish Ambassador to Holy See Rome Italy June 9, 1977 Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide Héctor Hidalgo Solá Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela Buenos Aires Argentina July 18, 1977 (disappearance)unknown Mario García Incháustegui Cuban Ambassador to Japan Kuala Lumpur Malaysia December 4, 1977 killed in the deliberate crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 Said Hammami Palestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United Kingdom London United Kingdom January 4, 1978 Abu Nidal Organization (alleged) Adolph Dubs United States Ambassador to Afghanistan Kabul Afghanistan February 14, 1979 Settam-e-Melli (alleged) Richard Sykes United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands The Hague Netherlands March 22, 1979 Provisional Irish Republican Army Gottfried Lessing East German Ambassador to Uganda Kampala Uganda April 11, 1979 Uganda National Liberation Front Archibald Gardner Dunn South African Ambassador to El Salvador San Salvador El Salvador October 8, 1980 Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí [ citation needed ] Louis Delamare French Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon September 4, 1981 Pro-Syrian militants[ citation needed ] Domingo Garcia Rodriguez Cuban Ambassador to Egypt Cairo Egypt October 6, 1981 Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat [ citation needed ] Abdul Razzak Lafta Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon December 15, 1981 killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party Shlomo Argov Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom London United Kingdom February 23, 2003 June 3, 1982 ) Abu Nidal Organization Galip Balkar Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia Belgrade Yugoslavia March 11, 1983 Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide Lee Gye-cheol South Korean Ambassador to Burma Rangoon Burma October 9, 1983 North Korean agents as part of an assassination plot against visiting South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak Emirati Ambassador to France Paris United Arab Emirates February 8, 1984 Abu Nidal Organization Salih Mahdi Ammash Iraqi Ambassador to Finland Helsinki Finland January 30, 1985 Baathist Iraqi agents[ citation needed ] Pedro Manuel de Aristegui Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon April 16, 1989 killed by a rocket[ citation needed ] Philippe Bernard French Ambassador to Zaire Kinshasa Zaire January 28, 1993 killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers [ 6] Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica Kingston Jamaica November 6, 1997 unknown [ 7] Michael Courtney Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi Bujumbura Burundi December 29, 2003 National Forces of Liberation Ihab el-Sherif Egyptian ambassador to Iraq Baghdad Iraq July 7, 2005 kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq J. Christopher Stevens United States Ambassador to Libya Benghazi Libya September 11, 2012 Ansar al-Sharia Jamal al-Jamal Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia Prague Czechia January 1, 2014 killed by a bomb Andrei Karlov Russian Ambassador to Turkey Ankara Turkey December 19, 2016 Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş Kyriakos Amiridis Greek Ambassador to Brazil Nova Iguaçu Brazil December 26, 2016 Sérgio Moreira Luca Attanasio Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo February 22, 2021 unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt 
