Name Year Country Title Place of death Cause of death Vasil Kolarov 1950 Bulgaria Prime Minister Sofia Bulgaria Illness[83] Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes 1950 Nicaragua President Philadelphia United States Heart attack Carlos Delgado Chalbaud 1950 Venezuela President Caracas Venezuela Assassination Enrico Mizzi 1950 Malta Prime Minister Valletta Malta Karl Renner 1950 Austria President Vienna Austria Stroke Rangsit Prayurasakdi 1951 Thailand Regent Bangkok Thailand Heart attack Óscar Carmona 1951 Portugal President Lisbon Portugal Illness – bronchopneumonia Haj Ali Razmara 1951 Iran Prime Minister Tehran Iran Assassination – shooting Liaquat Ali Khan 1951 Pakistan Prime Minister Rawalpindi Pakistan Assassination – shooting Sveinn Björnsson 1952 Iceland President Reykjavík Iceland Illness Khorloogiin Choibalsan 1952 Mongolia Chairman of the Council of Ministers Moscow Soviet Union Illness – kidney cancer D. S. Senanayake 1952 Ceylon Prime Minister Colombo Ceylon Accident – fell off horse Chaim Weizmann 1952 Israel President Rehovot Israel Illness Adriaan Alberga 1952 Surinam Prime Minister Paramaribo Surinam Joseph Stalin 1953 Soviet Union Chairman of the Council of Ministers Moscow Soviet Union Illness – cerebral haemorrhageKlement Gottwald 1953 Czechoslovakia President Prague Czechoslovakia Heart attack Gonchigiin Bumtsend 1953 Mongolia Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural Ulaanbaatar Mongolia Pierre Dupong 1953 Luxembourg Prime Minister Luxembourg Luxembourg Stroke[84] Getúlio Vargas 1954 Brazil President Rio de Janeiro Brazil Suicide José Antonio Remón Cantera 1955 Panama President Panama City Panama Assassination – shooting Hans Hedtoft 1955 Denmark Prime Minister Stockholm Sweden Heart attack Alexandros Papagos 1955 Greece Prime Minister Athens Greece Illness – lung haemorrhage Bolesław Bierut 1956 Poland General Secretary of the United Workers' Party Moscow Soviet Union Heart attack[85] Anastasio Somoza García 1956 Nicaragua President Ancón Panama Assassination – shooting Theodor Körner 1957 Austria President Vienna Austria Stroke Ramón Magsaysay 1957 Philippines President Balamban Philippines Accident – plane crashed into mountainCarlos Castillo Armas 1957 Guatemala President Guatemala City Guatemala Assassination – shooting Antonín Zápotocký 1957 Czechoslovakia President Prague Czechoslovakia Heart attack[86] Petru Groza 1958 Romania President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly Bucharest Romania Illness – stomach complications Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom 1958 South Africa Prime Minister Cape Town South Africa Illness – cancer Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly 1958 Upper Volta President of the Government Council Paris France Markus Feldmann 1958 Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Bern Switzerland Georgi Damyanov 1958 Bulgaria Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly Sofia Bulgaria Pierre Frieden 1959 Luxembourg Prime Minister Zürich Switzerland Barthélemy Boganda 1959 Central African Republic Prime Minister Boda Central African Republic Accident – plane exploded and crashed on ground S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike 1959 Ceylon Prime Minister Colombo Ceylon Assassination – shootingErnest George Jansen 1959 South Africa Governor-General Pretoria South Africa Illness – leukemia H. C. Hansen 1960 Denmark Prime Minister Copenhagen Denmark Illness – cancer Hazza' al-Majali 1960 Jordan Prime Minister Amman Jordan Assassination – bombing Wilhelm Pieck 1960 East Germany President Berlin East Germany Stroke Abebe Aregai 1960 Ethiopia Prime Minister Addis Ababa Ethiopia Assassination – shooting William Morrison 1961 Australia Governor-General Canberra Australia Illness – pulmonary embolism Rafael Trujillo 1961 Dominican Republic Generalissimo Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic Assassination – shooting Nicola Canali 1961 Vatican City /Holy See President of the Governorate & President of the Pontifical Commission Vatican City /Holy See Illness – pneumonia Louis Rwagasore 1961 Burundi Prime Minister Bujumbura Burundi Assassination – shooting Saftar Jafarov 1961 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 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi 1963 Israel President Jerusalem Israel Illness – cancer[87] Ngo Dinh Diem 1963 South Vietnam President Saigon South Vietnam Assassination – shootingJohn F. Kennedy 1963 United States President Dallas United States Assassination – shootingSarit Thanarat 1963 Thailand Prime Minister Bangkok Thailand Illness – liver failure Jigme Palden Dorji 1964 Bhutan Prime Minister Phuntsholing Bhutan Assassination – shooting Dimitar Ganev 1964 Bulgaria Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly Sofia Bulgaria Milton Margai 1964 Sierra Leone Prime Minister Freetown Sierra Leone Jawaharlal Nehru 1964 India Prime Minister New Delhi India Stroke Aleksander Zawadzki 1964 Poland Chairman of the Council of State Warsaw Poland Illness – cancer Otto Grotewohl 1964 East Germany Chairman of the Council of Ministers Berlin East Germany Illness – brain haemorrhage Slobodan Penezić 1964 SR Serbia President of the Executive Council Šopić Yugoslavia Accident – car crash Pierre Ngendandumwe 1965 Burundi Prime Minister Bujumbura Burundi Assassination – shooting Hassan Ali Mansur 1965 Iran Prime Minister Tehran Iran Assassination – shooting Luis Giannattasio 1965 Uruguay President London United Kingdom Adolf Schärf 1965 Austria President Vienna Austria Illness – liver failure Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej 1965 Romania President of the State Council Bucharest Romania Illness – lung cancer Hasan Brkić 1965 SR Bosnia and Herzegovina President of the Executive Council Sarajevo Yugoslavia Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966 India Prime Minister Tashkent Soviet Union Disputed, officially ruled to be a heart attack, but suspected to be poisoned Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 1966 Nigeria Prime Minister Lagos Nigeria Assassination – shooting Chris Soumokil 1966 South Maluku President Ubi Island Indonesia Execution by firing squad Abdul Salam Arif 1966 Iraq President Al Nashwa Iraq Accident – plane crashed on ground Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi 1966 Nigeria Head of State Lagelu Nigeria Assassination – shooting René Schick 1966 Nicaragua President Managua Nicaragua Heart attack Hendrik Verwoerd 1966 South Africa Prime Minister Cape Town South Africa Assassination – stabbing Georges Vanier 1967 Canada Governor General Ottawa Canada Illness Donald Burns Sangster 1967 Jamaica Prime Minister Montreal Canada Illness – subarachnoid haemorrhage Léon M'ba 1967 Gabon President Paris France Illness – cancer Óscar Diego Gestido 1967 Uruguay President Montevideo Uruguay Heart attack Harold Holt 1967 Australia Prime Minister Cheviot Beach Australia Disappeared . Subsequently, ruled as accidental drowning (body never recovered).Peter Mohr Dam 1968 Faroe Islands Prime Minister Tórshavn Faroe Islands Levi Eshkol 1969 Israel Prime Minister Jerusalem Israel Illness René Barrientos 1969 Bolivia President Arque Bolivia Accident – helicopter crashed on ground Zakir Husain 1969 India President New Delhi India Heart attack Ho Chi Minh 1969 North Vietnam Chairman of the Workers' Party and President Hanoi North Vietnam Heart attack Abdirashid Ali Shermarke 1969 Somalia President Las Anod Somaliland / Somalia Assassination – shooting David Rose 1969 Guyana Governor-General London United Kingdom Accident Artur da Costa e Silva 1969 Brazil President Rio de Janeiro Brazil Stroke Saïd Mohamed Cheikh 1970 Comoros President of the Government Council Antananarivo Madagascar Heart attack Bjarni Benediktsson 1970 Iceland Prime Minister Þingvellir Iceland Accident – fire Gamal Abdel Nasser 1970 Egypt President and Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Heart attack Yusof bin Ishak 1970 Singapore President Singapore Heart attack François Duvalier 1971 Haiti President for life Port-au-Prince Haiti Heart disease and diabetes William Tubman 1971 Liberia President London United Kingdom Wasfi al-Tal 1971 Jordan Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Assassination – shooting Jamsrangiin Sambuu 1972 Mongolia Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural Ulaanbaatar Mongolia Illness – cancer Leonard Williams 1972 Mauritius Governor-General Port Louis Mauritius Richard Sharples 1973 Bermuda Governor Hamilton Bermuda Assassination – shooting Walter Ulbricht 1973 East Germany Chairman of the State Council Templin East Germany Stroke Salvador Allende 1973 Chile President Santiago Chile Suicide Luis Carrero Blanco 1973 Spain Prime Minister Madrid Spain Assassination – bombingFranz Jonas 1974 Austria President Vienna Austria Illness – cancer Georges Pompidou 1974 France President (also Co-Prince of Andorra )Paris France Illness – macroglobulinemia Juan Perón 1974 Argentina President Buenos Aires Argentina Heart attack Norman Eric Kirk 1974 New Zealand Prime Minister Wellington New Zealand Illness – pulmonary embolism Erskine Childers 1974 Ireland President Dublin Ireland Heart attack Richard Ratsimandrava 1975 Madagascar President Antananarivo Madagascar Assassination – shooting Chiang Kai-shek 1975 Republic of China President Taipei Republic of China Heart attack François Tombalbaye 1975 Chad President and Prime Minister N'Djamena Chad Assassination – shootingLong Boret 1975 Khmer Republic Prime Minister Phnom Penh Khmer Republic Execution by firing squad Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II 1975 Western Samoa Prime Minister Apia Western Samoa Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1975 Bangladesh Prime Minister Dhaka Bangladesh Assassination – shootingFrancisco Franco 1975 Spain Head of State (dictator)Madrid Spain Illness – heart failure Zhou Enlai 1976 China Premier Beijing China Illness – cancer Abdul Razak Hussein 1976 Malaysia Prime Minister London United Kingdom Illness Murtala Mohammed 1976 Nigeria Head of the Federal Military Government Lagos Nigeria Assassination – shooting El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed 1976 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic President Inchiri Mauritania Died in combat Zhu De 1976 China Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Beijing China Joël Rakotomalala 1976 Madagascar Prime Minister Antsirabe Madagascar Accident – helicopter crashed on ground Arleigh Winston Scott 1976 Barbados Governor-General St. Michael Barbados Mao Zedong 1976 China Chairman of the Central Committee Beijing China Heart attack Džemal Bijedić 1977 Yugoslavia President of the Federal Executive Council Kreševo Yugoslavia Accident – plane crashed into mountain Tafari Benti 1977 Ethiopia Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council Addis Ababa Ethiopia Execution by firing squad Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1977 India President New Delhi India Heart attack Marien Ngouabi 1977 Congo-Brazzaville President Brazzaville Republic of the Congo Assassination Makarios III 1977 Cyprus President Nicosia Cyprus Heart attack Ibrahim al-Hamdi 1977 North Yemen President Sana'a North Yemen Assassination – shooting Mohammed Daoud Khan 1978 Afghanistan President Kabul Afghanistan Assassination – shootingRobert Llewellyn Bradshaw 1978 Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Premier Basseterre Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Illness – prostate cancer Ahmad al-Ghashmi 1978 North Yemen President Sana'a North Yemen Assassination – bombing Salim Rubai Ali 1978 South Yemen President Aden South Yemen Execution Francisco Mendes 1978 Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Accident – car crashed on road Nico Diederichs 1978 South Africa President Cape Town South Africa Heart attack Jomo Kenyatta 1978 Kenya President Mombasa Kenya Heart attack John Wrathall 1978 Rhodesia President Harare Rhodesia Heart attack Botha Sigcau 1978 Transkei President Umtata South Africa Heart attack Houari Boumediene 1978 Algeria President Algiers Algeria Illness – macroglobulinemia Milo Butler 1979 Bahamas Governor-General Nassau Bahamas Jean-Marie Villot 1979 Vatican City /Holy See Cardinal Secretary of State Vatican City /Holy See Illness – bronchopneumonia Mashiur Rahman 1979 Bangladesh Chief Minister Dhaka Bangladesh Paul Southwell 1979 Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Premier Castries Saint Lucia Heart attack Agostinho Neto 1979 Angola President Moscow Soviet Union Illness – cancer and hepatitis Nur Muhammad Taraki 1979 Afghanistan General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council Kabul Afghanistan Assassination Maphevu Dlamini 1979 Swaziland Prime Minister Mbabane Swaziland Park Chung Hee 1979 South Korea President Seoul South Korea Assassination – shootingHafizullah Amin 1979 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 Tôn Đức Thắng 1980 Vietnam President Hanoi Vietnam Illness – respiratory failure William Tolbert 1980 Liberia President Monrovia Liberia Assassination J. A. G. S. McCartney 1980 Turks and Caicos Islands Chief Minister Vineland United States Accident – plane crashed Masayoshi Ōhira 1980 Japan Prime Minister Tokyo Japan Heart attack Seretse Khama 1980 Botswana President Gaborone Botswana Illness – pancreatic cancer Abdelhamid Sharaf 1980 Jordan Prime Minister Amman Jordan Heart attack Francisco de Sá Carneiro 1980 Portugal Prime Minister Loures Portugal Accident – plane crashSultan Ibraimov 1980 Kyrgyz SSR Chairman of the Council of Ministers Cholpon-Ata Soviet Union Assassination – shooting Eric Williams 1981 Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Benjamin Henry Sheares 1981 Singapore President Singapore Illness – lung cancer Jaime Roldós Aguilera 1981 Ecuador President Celica Ecuador Accident – plane crashed into mountain Ziaur Rahman 1981 Bangladesh President Chittagong Bangladesh Assassination – shootingOmar Torrijos 1981 Panama Military leader (de facto ) Penonomé Panama Accident – plane crashed into mountain Mohammad-Ali Rajai 1981 Iran President Tehran Iran Assassination – bombingMohammad-Javad Bahonar 1981 Iran Prime Minister Tehran Iran Assassination – bombingAnwar Sadat 1981 Egypt President and Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Assassination – shootingMehmet Shehu 1981 Albania Chairman of the Council of Ministers Tirana Albania Suicide (disputed) Antonio Guzmán Fernández 1982 Dominican Republic President Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Suicide Bachir Gemayel 1982 Lebanon President-elect Beirut Lebanon Assassination – bombingLeonid Brezhnev 1982 Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Zarechye Soviet Union Heart attack Willi Ritschard 1983 Switzerland Member of the Federal Council Grenchenberg Switzerland Heart failure Deighton Lisle Ward 1984 Barbados Governor-General Barbados Yuri Andropov 1984 Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Moscow Soviet Union Illness – kidney failure Ahmed Sékou Touré 1984 Guinea President Cleveland United States Heart attack Edward Sokoine 1984 Tanzania Prime Minister Morogoro Tanzania Accident – car crashed on road Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin 1984 Egypt Prime Minister Cairo Egypt Indira Gandhi 1984 India Prime Minister New Delhi India Assassination – shootingChan Sy 1984 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, emphysema, and liver cirrhosis Tom Adams 1985 Barbados Prime Minister Saint Michael Barbados Heart attack Enver Hoxha 1985 Albania First Secretary of the Party of Labour Tirana Albania Illness Tancredo Neves 1985 Brazil President-elect São Paulo Brazil Illness – diverticulitis Haruo Remeliik 1985 Palau President Koror Palau Assassination – shooting Forbes Burnham 1985 Guyana President Georgetown Guyana Illness – throat infection Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam 1985 Mauritius Governor-General Port Louis Mauritius Olof Palme 1986 Sweden Prime Minister Stockholm Sweden Assassination – shootingLê Duẩn 1986 Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist Party Hanoi Vietnam Illness Samora Machel 1986 Mozambique President Mbuzini South Africa Accident – plane crashed on groundSir Edward Youde 1986 British Hong Kong Governor Beijing China Heart attack Errol Barrow 1987 Barbados Prime Minister Bridgetown Barbados Rashid Karami 1987 Lebanon Prime Minister Beirut Lebanon Assassination – bombing Cedric Phatudi 1987 KaNgwane Chief Minister Lebowakgomo South Africa Thomas Sankara 1987 Burkina Faso President Ouagadougou Burkina Faso Assassination – shooting Seyni Kountché 1987 Niger President of the Supreme Military Council Paris France Illness – brain tumour Chiang Ching-kuo 1988 Republic of China President Taipei Taiwan Phạm Hùng 1988 Vietnam Prime Minister Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Heart attack Patrick Mphephu 1988 Venda President Thohoyandou South Africa Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq 1988 Pakistan President Bahawalpur Pakistan Accident – plane crashed on groundLazarus Salii 1988 Palau President Koror Palau Suicide Ruhollah Khomeini 1989 Iran Supreme Leader Tehran Iran Heart attack René Moawad 1989 Lebanon President Beirut Lebanon Assassination – bombing Ahmed Abdallah 1989 Comoros President Moroni Comoros Assassination – shooting Herbert Blaize 1989 Grenada Prime Minister St George's Grenada Illness – prostate cancer Ignatius Kilage 1989 Papua New Guinea Governor-General Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Samuel Doe 1990 Liberia President Monrovia Liberia Execution Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum 1990 United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Dubai UAE Artur Mkrtchyan 1992 Artsakh Chairman of Parliament Stepanakert Artsakh / Azerbaijan Assassination – shooting Nasirdin Isanov 1991 Tajikistan Prime Minister Jalal-Abad –Osh Motorway Kyrgyzstan Accident – car crashed on road Mohamed Boudiaf 1992 Algeria Chairman of the High Council of State Annaba Algeria Assassination – shootingKaysone Phomvihane 1992 Laos President Vientiane Laos Robert Rex 1992 Niue Premier Alofi Niue Turgut Özal 1993 Turkey President Ankara Turkey Heart attack (Suspected poisoning) Ranasinghe Premadasa 1993 Sri Lanka President Colombo Sri Lanka Assassination – bombing Zhiuli Shartava 1993 Abkhazia Prime Minister Sukhumi Abkhazia / Georgia Assassination – shooting Melchior Ndadaye 1993 Burundi President Bujumbura Burundi Assassination – shooting Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1993 Côte d'Ivoire President Yamoussoukro Ivory Coast Illness – prostate cancer József Antall 1993 Hungary Prime Minister Budapest Hungary Illness – cancer Penaia Ganilau 1993 Fiji President Washington, D.C. United States Agathe Uwilingiyimana 1994 Rwanda Prime Minister Kigali Rwanda Assassination – shootingJuvénal Habyarimana 1994 Rwanda President Kigali Rwanda Assassination – plane shot down[88] Cyprien Ntaryamira 1994 Burundi President Kim Il Sung 1994 North Korea General Secretary of the Workers' Party and President Hyangsan North Korea Heart attack [89] Hamilton Lavity Stoutt 1995 British Virgin Islands Chief Minister Tortola British Virgin Islands Yitzhak Rabin 1995 Israel Prime Minister Tel Aviv Israel Assassination – shootingNita Barrow 1995 Barbados Governor-General Bridgetown Barbados Dzhokhar Dudayev 1996 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria President Chechnya Russia Assassination – shooting Mohamed Farrah Aidid 1996 Somalia President [a] Mogadishu Somalia Killed in action Amata Kabua 1996 Marshall Islands President Honolulu United States Illness Cheddi Jagan 1997 Guyana President Washington, D.C. United States Heart attack Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai 1997 Afghanistan Prime Minister Bamyan Afghanistan Accident – plane crashed on ground Sani Abacha 1998 Nigeria Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council Abuja Nigeria Heart attack Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim 1998 Comoros President Moroni Comoros Jumabek Ibraimov 1999 Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Bishkek Kyrgyzstan Illness – stomach cancer Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara 1999 Niger President Niamey Niger Assassination – shooting Vazgen Sargsyan 1999 Armenia Prime Minister Yerevan Armenia Assassination – shootingFranjo Tuđman 1999 Croatia President Zagreb Croatia Illness – cancer