Name | Year | Country | Title | Place of death | Cause of death |
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Vasil Kolarov | 1950 | Bulgaria | Prime Minister | Sofia | Bulgaria | Illness [152] |
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes | Nicaragua | President | Philadelphia | United States | Complications following stomach cancer surgery |
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud | Venezuela | President | Caracas | Venezuela | Assassination – lynching |
Enrico Mizzi | Malta | Prime Minister | Valletta | Malta [155] | |
Karl Renner | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Stroke [156] |
Óscar Carmona | 1951 | Portugal | President | Lisbon | Portugal | Illness – bronchopneumonia |
Haj Ali Razmara | Iran | Prime Minister | Tehran | Iran | Assassination – shooting |
Liaquat Ali Khan | Pakistan | Prime Minister | Rawalpindi | Pakistan | Assassination – shooting |
Sveinn Björnsson | 1952 | Iceland | President | Reykjavík | Iceland | Illness – heart disease |
Khorloogiin Choibalsan | Mongolia | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Moscow | Soviet Union | Illness – kidney cancer [161] |
D. S. Senanayake | Ceylon | Prime Minister | Colombo | Ceylon | Stroke [162] |
Chaim Weizmann | Israel | President | Rehovot | Israel | Illness – respiratory inflammation |
Adriaan Alberga | Surinam | Prime Minister | Paramaribo | Surinam [164] | |
Joseph Stalin | 1953 | Soviet Union | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Moscow | Soviet Union | Illness – cerebral haemorrhage [165] |
Klement Gottwald | Czechoslovakia | President | Prague | Czechoslovakia | Illness – pneumonia |
Gonchigiin Bumtsend | Mongolia | Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural | Ulaanbaatar | Mongolia | |
Pierre Dupong | Luxembourg | Prime Minister | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Heart attack |
Getúlio Vargas | 1954 | Brazil | President | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Suicide – gunshot [169] |
José Antonio Remón Cantera | 1955 | Panama | President | Panama City | Panama | Assassination – shooting |
Hans Hedtoft | Denmark | Prime Minister | Stockholm | Sweden | Heart attack |
Alexandros Papagos | Greece | Prime Minister | Athens | Greece | Illness – lung haemorrhage and heart failure |
Bolesław Bierut | 1956 | Poland | General Secretary of the United Workers' Party | Moscow | Soviet Union | Heart attack [173] |
Anastasio Somoza García | Nicaragua | President | Ancón | Panama | Complications from gunshot wound |
Theodor Körner | 1957 | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Heart attack |
Ramón Magsaysay | Philippines | President | Balamban | Philippines | Accident – plane crash |
Carlos Castillo Armas | Guatemala | President | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Assassination – shooting [177] |
Antonín Zápotocký | Czechoslovakia | President | Prague | Czechoslovakia | Heart attack [178] |
Petru Groza | 1958 | Romania | President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly | Bucharest | Romania | Complications following stomach surgery |
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom | South Africa | Prime Minister | Cape Town | South Africa | Illness – heart disease |
Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly | Upper Volta | President of the Government Council | Paris | France | Illness [181] |
Markus Feldmann | Switzerland | Member of the Federal Council | Bern | Switzerland | Illness – heart failure [182] |
Georgi Damyanov | Bulgaria | Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly | Sofia | Bulgaria | |
Pierre Frieden | 1959 | Luxembourg | Prime Minister | Zürich | Switzerland | |
Barthélemy Boganda | Central African Republic | Prime Minister | Boda | Central African Republic | Accident – plane crash [185] |
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike | Ceylon | Prime Minister | Colombo | Ceylon | Assassination – shooting |
Ernest George Jansen | South Africa | Governor-General | Pretoria | South Africa | Illness – pneumonia [187] |
H. C. Hansen | 1960 | Denmark | Prime Minister | Copenhagen | Denmark | Illness – cancer |
Hazza' al-Majali | Jordan | Prime Minister | Amman | Jordan | Assassination – bombing |
Wilhelm Pieck | German Democratic Republic | President | Berlin | German Democratic Republic | Heart attack |
Abebe Aregai | Ethiopia | Prime Minister | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | Assassination – shooting |
William Morrison | 1961 | Australia | Governor-General | Canberra | Australia | Illness – pulmonary embolism |
Rafael Trujillo | Dominican Republic | Generalissimo | Ciudad Trujillo | Dominican Republic | Assassination – shooting [193] |
Nicola Canali | Vatican City/Holy See | President of the Governorate & President of the Pontifical Commission | Vatican City/Holy See | Illness – pneumonia [194] |
Louis Rwagasore | Burundi | Prime Minister | Bujumbura | Burundi | Assassination – shooting [195] |
Saftar Jafarov | Azerbaijan SSR | Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Baku | Soviet Union | Illness – cardiovascular disease |
Sylvanus Olympio | 1963 | Togo | President | Lomé | Togo | Assassination – shooting |
Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole | Western Samoa | Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) | Apia | Western Samoa | Illness |
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi | Israel | President | Jerusalem | Israel | Illness – cancer [198] |
Ngo Dinh Diem | South Vietnam | President | Saigon | South Vietnam | Assassination – shooting [199] |
John F. Kennedy | United States | President | Dallas | United States | Assassination – shooting |
Sarit Thanarat | Thailand | Prime Minister | Bangkok | Thailand | Illness – heart and liver disease |
Jigme Palden Dorji | 1964 | Bhutan | Prime Minister | Phuntsholing | Bhutan | Assassination – shooting |
Dimitar Ganev | Bulgaria | Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly | Sofia | Bulgaria | |
Milton Margai | Sierra Leone | Prime Minister | Freetown | Sierra Leone | Illness |
Jawaharlal Nehru | India | Prime Minister | New Delhi | India | Internal haemorrhage, stroke, and heart attack [203] |
Aleksander Zawadzki | Poland | Chairman of the Council of State | Warsaw | Poland | Illness – cancer |
Otto Grotewohl | German Democratic Republic | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Berlin | German Democratic Republic | Illness – brain haemorrhage [205] |
Slobodan Penezić | SR Serbia | President of the Executive Council | Šopić | Yugoslavia | Accident – car crash [206] |
Pierre Ngendandumwe | 1965 | Burundi | Prime Minister | Bujumbura | Burundi | Assassination – shooting |
Hassan Ali Mansur | Iran | Prime Minister | Tehran | Iran | Complications from gunshot wound |
Luis Giannattasio | Uruguay | President | Punta del Este | Uruguay | Heart attack |
Adolf Schärf | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Illness – influenza and liver disease |
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | Romania | President of the State Council | Bucharest | Romania | Illness – lung cancer [210] |
Hasan Brkić | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | President of the Executive Council | Sarajevo | Yugoslavia | |
Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1966 | India | Prime Minister | Tashkent | Soviet Union | Heart attack [a] [211] |
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | Nigeria | Prime Minister | Lagos | Nigeria | Assassination – shooting |
Chris Soumokil | South Maluku | President | Ubi Island | Indonesia | Execution by firing squad [213] |
Abdul Salam Arif | Iraq | President | Al Nashwa | Iraq | Accident – plane crash |
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi | Nigeria | Head of State | Lagelu | Nigeria | Assassination – shooting |
René Schick | Nicaragua | President | Managua | Nicaragua | Heart attack |
Hendrik Verwoerd | South Africa | Prime Minister | Cape Town | South Africa | Assassination – stabbing [217] |
Georges Vanier | 1967 | Canada | Governor General | Ottawa | Canada | Heart attack |
Donald Burns Sangster | Jamaica | Prime Minister | Montreal | Illness – subarachnoid haemorrhage |
Léon M'ba | Gabon | President | Paris | France | Illness – cancer |
Óscar Diego Gestido | Uruguay | President | Montevideo | Uruguay | Heart attack |
Harold Holt | Australia | Prime Minister | Cheviot Beach | Australia | Disappeared; presumed drowning [222] |
Peter Mohr Dam | 1968 | Faroe Islands | Prime Minister | Tórshavn | Faroe Islands | |
Levi Eshkol | 1969 | Israel | Prime Minister | Jerusalem | Israel | Heart attack |
René Barrientos | Bolivia | President | Arque | Bolivia | Accident – helicopter crash |
Zakir Husain | India | President | New Delhi | India | Heart attack |
Ho Chi Minh | North Vietnam | Chairman of the Workers' Party and President | Hanoi | North Vietnam | Heart attack |
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke | Somali Republic | President | Las Anod | Somali Republic | Assassination – shooting |
David Rose | Guyana | Governor-General | London | United Kingdom | Accident – crushed [228] |
Artur da Costa e Silva | Brazil | President | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Heart attack |
Saïd Mohamed Cheikh | 1970 | Comoros | President of the Government Council | Soavinandriana | Madagascar | Heart attack [230] |
Bjarni Benediktsson | Iceland | Prime Minister | Þingvellir | Iceland | Accident – fire |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Egypt | President and Prime Minister | Cairo | Egypt | Heart attack |
Yusof bin Ishak | Singapore | President | Singapore | Heart attack |
François Duvalier | 1971 | Haiti | President for life | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | Illness – diabetes and heart disease [234] |
William Tubman | Liberia | President | London | United Kingdom | Complications following prostate surgery |
Wasfi al-Tal | Jordan | Prime Minister | Cairo | Egypt | Assassination – shooting |
Abeid Karume | 1972 | Zanzibar | President | Zanzibar City | Zanzibar | Assassination – shooting [237] |
Jamsrangiin Sambuu | Mongolia | Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural | Ulaanbaatar | Mongolia | Illness – cancer [238] |
Leonard Williams | Mauritius | Governor-General | Port Louis | Mauritius | Heart attack [239] |
Richard Sharples | 1973 | Bermuda | Governor | Hamilton | Bermuda | Assassination – shooting [240] |
Walter Ulbricht | German Democratic Republic | Chairman of the State Council | Templin | German Democratic Republic | Illness – heart failure |
Salvador Allende | Chile | President | Santiago | Chile | Suicide – gunshot [241] [b] |
Luis Carrero Blanco | Spain | Prime Minister | Madrid | Spain | Assassination – bombing [242] |
Franz Jonas | 1974 | Austria | President | Vienna | Austria | Illness – stomach cancer |
Georges Pompidou | France | President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) | Paris | France | Illness – Waldenström's macroglobulinemia [244] |
Juan Perón | Argentina | President | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Illness – heart and kidney failure |
Norman Eric Kirk | New Zealand | Prime Minister | Wellington | New Zealand | Illness – heart failure |
Erskine Childers | Ireland | President | Dublin | Ireland | Heart attack |
Richard Ratsimandrava | 1975 | Madagascar | President | Antananarivo | Madagascar | Assassination – shooting |
Chiang Kai-shek | Republic of China | President | Taipei | Republic of China | Heart attack |
François Tombalbaye | Chad | President and Prime Minister | N'Djamena | Chad | Assassination – shooting |
Long Boret | Khmer Republic | Prime Minister | Phnom Penh | Khmer Republic | Execution by firing squad |
Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II | Western Samoa | Prime Minister | Apia | Western Samoa | |
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Bangladesh | President | Dhaka | Bangladesh | Assassination – shooting |
Francisco Franco | Spain | Head of State (Caudillo) | Madrid | Spain | Illness – complications of heart disease, kidney failure and gastric haemorrhage |
Zhou Enlai | 1976 | China | Premier | Beijing | China | Illness – bladder cancer [254] |
Abdul Razak Hussein | Malaysia | Prime Minister | London | United Kingdom | Illness – leukemia |
Murtala Mohammed | Nigeria | Head of the Federal Military Government | Lagos | Nigeria | Assassination – shooting |
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | President | Inchiri | Mauritania | Killed in action [257] |
Zhu De | China | Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | Beijing | China | |
Joël Rakotomalala | Madagascar | Prime Minister | Antsirabe | Madagascar | Accident – helicopter crash |
Arleigh Winston Scott | Barbados | Governor-General | St. Michael | Barbados | Heart attack |
Mao Zedong | China | Chairman of the Central Committee | Beijing | China | Heart attack [260] |
Džemal Bijedić | 1977 | Yugoslavia | President of the Federal Executive Council | Kreševo | Yugoslavia | Accident – plane crash |
Tafari Benti | Ethiopia | Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | Assassination – shooting [262] |
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | India | President | New Delhi | India | Heart attack [263] |
Marien Ngouabi | Congo-Brazzaville | President | Brazzaville | Republic of the Congo | Assassination – shooting |
Makarios III | Cyprus | President | Nicosia | Cyprus | Heart attack |
Ibrahim al-Hamdi | North Yemen | President | Sana'a | North Yemen | Assassination – shooting |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | 1978 | Afghanistan | President | Kabul | Afghanistan | Assassination – shooting [267] |
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw | Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla | Premier | Basseterre | Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla | Illness – prostate cancer [268] |
Ahmad al-Ghashmi | North Yemen | President | Sana'a | North Yemen | Assassination – bombing |
Salim Rubai Ali | South Yemen | President | Aden | South Yemen | Assassination – shooting |
Francisco Mendes | Guinea-Bissau | Prime Minister | Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | Accident – car crash |
Nico Diederichs | South Africa | State President | Cape Town | South Africa | Heart attack |
Jomo Kenyatta | Kenya | President | Mombasa | Kenya | Heart attack [272] |
John Wrathall | Rhodesia | President | Salisbury | Rhodesia | Heart attack |
Botha Sigcau | Transkei | President | Umtata | South Africa | Heart attack |
Houari Boumediene | Algeria | President | Algiers | Algeria | Illness – Waldenström's macroglobulinemia |
Milo Butler | 1979 | Bahamas | Governor-General | Nassau | Bahamas | Illness |
Jean-Marie Villot | Vatican City/Holy See | Cardinal Secretary of State | Vatican City/Holy See | Illness – bronchopneumonia [277] |
Mashiur Rahman | Bangladesh | Chief Minister | Dhaka | Bangladesh | Heart attack [278] |
Paul Southwell | Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla | Premier | Castries | Saint Lucia | Heart attack |
Ahmed Ould Bouceif | Mauritania | Prime Minister | Off the coast of Dakar | Senegal | Accident – plane crash [279] |
Agostinho Neto | Angola | President | Moscow | Soviet Union | Illness – pancreatic cancer |
Maphevu Dlamini | Swaziland | Prime Minister | Mbabane | Swaziland | |
Park Chung Hee | South Korea | President | Seoul | South Korea | Assassination – shooting [282] |
Hafizullah Amin | Afghanistan | General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council and Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Kabul | Afghanistan | Assassination – shooting [283] |
Tôn Đức Thắng | 1980 | Vietnam | President | Hanoi | Vietnam | Heart attack |
William Tolbert | Liberia | President | Monrovia | Liberia | Assassination – shooting |
Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslavia | Leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and President | Ljubljana | Yugoslavia | Illness – heart failure [284] |
J. A. G. S. McCartney | Turks and Caicos Islands | Chief Minister | Vineland | United States | Accident – plane crash [285] |
Masayoshi Ōhira | Japan | Prime Minister | Tokyo | Japan | Heart attack |
Seretse Khama | Botswana | President | Gaborone | Botswana | Illness – pancreatic cancer |
Abdelhamid Sharaf | Jordan | Prime Minister | Amman | Jordan | Heart attack |
Francisco Sá Carneiro | Portugal | Prime Minister | Loures | Portugal | Accident – plane crash [289] [c] |
Sultan Ibraimov | Kyrgyz SSR | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Cholpon-Ata | Soviet Union | Assassination – shooting [292] |
Eric Williams | 1981 | Trinidad and Tobago | Prime Minister | Port of Spain | Trinidad and Tobago | |
Benjamin Henry Sheares | Singapore | President | Singapore | Cerebral haemorrhage |
Jaime Roldós Aguilera | Ecuador | President | Celica | Ecuador | Accident – plane crash [d] |
Ziaur Rahman | Bangladesh | President | Chittagong | Bangladesh | Assassination – shooting |
Omar Torrijos | Panama | Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution | Penonomé | Panama | Accident – plane crash [298] |
Mohammad-Ali Rajai | Iran | President | Tehran | Iran | Assassination – bombing |
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar | Prime Minister | Assassination – bombing |
Anwar Sadat | Egypt | President and Prime Minister | Cairo | Egypt | Assassination – shooting |
Mehmet Shehu | Albania | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Tirana | Albania | Suicide – gunshot [e] [302] |
Antonio Guzmán Fernández | 1982 | Dominican Republic | President | Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | Suicide – gunshot |
Bachir Gemayel | Lebanon | President-elect | Beirut | Lebanon | Assassination – bombing [304] |
Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Zarechye | Soviet Union | Heart attack [305] |
Willi Ritschard | 1983 | Switzerland | Member of the Federal Council | Grenchenberg | Switzerland | Illness – heart failure [306] |
Deighton Lisle Ward | 1984 | Barbados | Governor-General | | Barbados [307] | |
Yuri Andropov | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Moscow | Soviet Union | Illness – kidney failure [308] |
Ahmed Sékou Touré | Guinea | President | Cleveland | United States | Heart attack |
Edward Sokoine | Tanzania | Prime Minister | Morogoro | Tanzania | Accident – car crash |
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin | Egypt | Prime Minister | Cairo | Egypt | Heart attack |
Indira Gandhi | India | Prime Minister | New Delhi | India | Assassination – shooting [312] |
Chan Sy | People's Republic of Kampuchea | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Moscow | Soviet Union | Heart attack |
Konstantin Chernenko | 1985 | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | Moscow | Soviet Union | Illness – heart failure and emphysema [314] |
Tom Adams | Barbados | Prime Minister | Saint Michael | Barbados | Heart attack |
Enver Hoxha | Albania | First Secretary of the Party of Labour | Tirana | Albania | Illness – complications from diabetes [316] |
Tancredo Neves | Brazil | President-elect | São Paulo | Brazil | Illness – infected leiomyoma [f] [317] |
Haruo Remeliik | Palau | President | Koror | Palau | Assassination – shooting |
Forbes Burnham | Guyana | President | Georgetown | Guyana | Heart attack [318] |
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | Mauritius | Governor-General | Port Louis | Mauritius | Illness |
Olof Palme | 1986 | Sweden | Prime Minister | Stockholm | Sweden | Assassination – shooting |
Lê Duẩn | Vietnam | General Secretary of the Communist Party | Hanoi | Vietnam | Illness – lung and kidney disease |
Samora Machel | Mozambique | President | Mbuzini | South Africa | Accident – plane crash [321] [g] |
Edward Youde | British Hong Kong | Governor | Beijing | China | Heart attack [323] |
Errol Barrow | 1987 | Barbados | Prime Minister | Bridgetown | Barbados | |
Rashid Karami | Lebanon | Prime Minister | Beirut | Lebanon | Assassination – bombing |
Cedric Phatudi | KaNgwane | Chief Minister | Lebowakgomo | South Africa | Illness – complications from diabetes and bone cancer [325] |
Thomas Sankara | Burkina Faso | President | Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | Assassination – shooting [326] |
Seyni Kountché | Niger | President of the Supreme Military Council | Paris | France | Illness – brain tumour |
Chiang Ching-kuo | 1988 | Republic of China | President | Taipei | Republic of China | Heart attack |
Phạm Hùng | Vietnam | Prime Minister | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | Heart attack |
Patrick Mphephu | Venda | President | Thohoyandou | South Africa | Illness [330] |
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | Pakistan | President | Bahawalpur | Pakistan | Accident – plane crash |
Lazarus Salii | Palau | President | Koror | Palau | Suicide – gunshot [332] |
Ruhollah Khomeini | 1989 | Iran | Supreme Leader | Tehran | Iran | Heart attack [333] |
René Moawad | Lebanon | President | Beirut | Lebanon | Assassination – bombing |
Ahmed Abdallah | Comoros | President | Moroni | Comoros | Assassination – shooting |
Herbert Blaize | Grenada | Prime Minister | St George's | Grenada | Illness – prostate cancer |
Ignatius Kilage | Papua New Guinea | Governor-General | Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea | |
Samuel Doe | 1990 | Liberia | President | Monrovia | Liberia | Assassination – torture [h] [337] |
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | United Arab Emirates | Prime Minister | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | Illness |
Nasirdin Isanov | 1991 | Kyrgyzstan | Prime Minister | Jalal-Abad–Osh Motorway | Kyrgyzstan | Accident – car crash |
Artur Mkrtchyan | 1992 | Artsakh | Chairman of the Supreme Council | Stepanakert | Artsakh / Azerbaijan | Assassination – shooting [340] |
Mohamed Boudiaf | Algeria | Chairman of the High Council of State | Annaba | Algeria | Assassination – shooting |
Kaysone Phomvihane | Laos | President | Vientiane | Laos | Illness |
Robert Rex | Niue | Premier | Alofi | Niue [343] | |
Turgut Özal | 1993 | Turkey | President | Ankara | Turkey | Heart attack [344] [i] |
Ranasinghe Premadasa | Sri Lanka | President | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Assassination – bombing |
Zhiuli Shartava | Abkhazia | Chairman of the Government | Sukhumi | Abkhazia / Georgia | Assassination – shooting [348] |
Melchior Ndadaye | Burundi | President | Bujumbura | Burundi | Assassination – stabbing [349] |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Ivory Coast | President | Yamoussoukro | Ivory Coast | Illness – prostate cancer |
József Antall | Hungary | Prime Minister | Budapest | Hungary | Illness – lymphoma |
Penaia Ganilau | Fiji | President | Washington, D.C. | United States | Illness – sepsis [352] |
Cyprien Ntaryamira | 1994 | Burundi | President | Kigali | Rwanda | Assassination – plane shot down [353] |
Juvénal Habyarimana | Rwanda | President |
Agathe Uwilingiyimana | Prime Minister | Assassination – shooting [354] |
Kim Il Sung | North Korea | General Secretary of the Workers' Party and President | Hyangsan | North Korea | Heart attack [355] |
Hamilton Lavity Stoutt | 1995 | British Virgin Islands | Chief Minister | Tortola | British Virgin Islands [356] | |
Yitzhak Rabin | Israel | Prime Minister | Tel Aviv | Israel | Assassination – shooting [357] |
Nita Barrow | Barbados | Governor-General | Bridgetown | Barbados [358] | |
Dzhokhar Dudayev | 1996 | Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | President | Gekhi-Chu | Chechen Republic of Ichkeria / Russia | Assassination – missile strike [359] |
Mohamed Farrah Aidid | Somalia | President [j] | Mogadishu | Somalia | Killed in action [360] |
Amata Kabua | Marshall Islands | President | Honolulu | United States | Illness [361] |
Cheddi Jagan | 1997 | Guyana | President | Washington, D.C. | Heart attack [362] |
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai | Afghanistan | Prime Minister | Bamyan | Afghanistan | Accident – plane crash [363] |
Sani Abacha | 1998 | Nigeria | Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council | Abuja | Nigeria | Heart attack [364] [k] |
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim | Comoros | President | Moroni | Comoros | Heart attack [365] |
Jumabek Ibraimov | 1999 | Kyrgyzstan | Prime Minister | Bishkek | Kyrgyzstan | Illness – stomach cancer [366] |
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara | Niger | President | Niamey | Niger | Assassination – shooting [367] |
Vazgen Sargsyan | Armenia | Prime Minister | Yerevan | Armenia | Assassination – shooting [368] |
Franjo Tuđman | Croatia | President | Zagreb | Croatia | Illness – stomach cancer, complications from surgery [369] |