This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
Such deaths have most often been from natural causes, but there are also cases of assassination, execution, suicide, accident and even death in battle.
The list is in chronological order. The name is listed first, followed by the year of death, the country, the name of the office the person held at the time of death, the location of the death (where known) and the cause of death.
Prior to 1850
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Year !! Country !! Title
! colspan="2" |Place of death
!Cause of death
|-
| Spencer Compton || 1743 || rowspan="3" | || rowspan="4" | Prime Minister || rowspan="2" | Westminster
| rowspan="3" ||| Illness
|-
| Henry Pelham || 1754 ||Illness – skin infection
|-
| Charles Watson-Wentworth || 1782 || Wimbledon|| Illness – influenza
|-
| William Pitt the Younger || 1806 || || Putney
||| Illness – peptic ulceration
|-
| Mateo de Toro Zambrano || 1811 || || President of the Government Junta || Santiago
|||
|-
| Spencer Perceval || 1812 || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | Prime Minister || Westminster
| rowspan="2" ||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| George Canning || 1827 || Chiswick|| Illness – pneumonia
|-
| Pedro Blanco Soto || 1829 || || Provisional President || La Plata
||| Assassination
|-
| Ioannis Kapodistrias || 1831 || Greece || Governor || Nafplion
||| Assassination – shooting and stabbing
|-
| Manuel González Salmón || rowspan="2" | 1832 || || Prime Minister || Madrid
||| Illness
|-
| Casimir Pierre Périer || France || Prime Minister || Paris
||| Illness – cholera
|-
| Miguel Barragán || 1836 || || President || Mexico City
| || Illness – typhus
|-
| José Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia || 1840 || || Supreme Dictator || Asunción
||| Illness
|-
| William Henry Harrison || rowspan="2" | 1841 || || President || Washington, D.C.
||| Illness – pneumonia or enteric fever
|-
| Agustín Gamarra || || President || Ingavi
||| Killed in action
|-
| Philippe Guerrier || rowspan="2" | 1845 || Haiti || President || Saint-Marc
||| Illness
|-
| Mathabarsingh Thapa || rowspan="2" | Nepal|| rowspan="2" | Prime Minister|| rowspan="2" | Kathmandu|| rowspan="2" ||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Fateh Jung Shah || 1846 || Assassination
|-
| Jean-Baptiste Riché || 1847 || Haiti || President || Port-au-Prince
||| Illness or poisoning
|}
1850–1899
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Year !! Country !! Title
! colspan="2" |Place of death
!Cause of death
|-
| Zachary Taylor || 1850 || || President || Washington, D.C.
| || Illness – cholera or gastroenteritis(Possible assassination)
|-
| Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg || 1852 || || Minister-President || Vienna
| || Stroke
|-
| Avram Petronijević || 1852 || || Representative of the Prince || Constantinople
| ||
|-
| Josef Munzinger || rowspan="2" | 1855 || rowspan="3" | || rowspan="3" | Member of the Federal Council || rowspan="2" | Bern
| rowspan="3" | ||
|-
| Henri Druey || Stroke
|-
| Stefano Franscini || 1857 || Bern||
|-
| Mustafa Reşid Pasha || 1858 || || Grand Vizier || Constantinople
| || Myocardial infarction
|-
| Carl Edvard Rotwitt || 1860 || || Prime Minister || Copenhagen
| ||
|-
| Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour || rowspan="2" | 1861 || || Prime Minister || Turin
| || Illness – malaria
|-
| Jonas Furrer || || Member of the Federal Council || Bad Ragaz
| || Illness – kidney disease
|-
| José Santos Guardiola || rowspan="3" | 1862 || || President || Comayagua
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Barbu Catargiu || Romanian United Principalities || Prime Minister || Bucharest
| Romanian United Principalities || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Carlos Antonio López || || President || Asunción
| ||Illness – gout and other diseases
|-
| José Antonio Salcedo || 1864 || || President || Maimón
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Rafael Carrera || rowspan="3" | 1865 || || President || Guatemala City
| || Illness – dysentery
|-
| Abraham Lincoln || || President || Washington, D.C.
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston || || Prime Minister || Hertfordshire
| || Illness – fever
|-
| Marcos Paz || rowspan="2" | 1868 || || Interim President || Buenos Aires
| || Illness – cholera
|-
| Ramón María Narváez || || Prime Minister || Madrid
| || Illness – lung disease
|-
| Victor Ruffy || 1869 || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
| ||
|-
| Francisco Solano López || rowspan="2" | 1870 || || President || Cerro Corá
| || Killed in action
|-
| Juan Prim || || Prime Minister || Madrid
| || Assassination
|-
| Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha || 1871 || || Grand Vizier || Constantinople
| || Illness – tuberculosis
|-
| Johan Rudolph Thorbecke || rowspan="4" | 1872 || || Prime Minister || The Hague
| || Illness – cold
|-
| Benito Juárez || Mexico || President || Mexico City
| Mexico || Myocardial infarction
|-
| José Balta || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | President|| rowspan="2" | Lima
| rowspan="2" | || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Tomás Gutiérrez || Assassination – lynching
|-
| Milivoje Blaznavac || 1873 || || President of the Ministry || Belgrade
| || Myocardial infarction
|-
| Adolfo Ballivián || rowspan="2" | 1874 || || President || La Paz
| || Illness – stomach cancer
|-
| Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt || || Prime Minister || Heusden
| ||
|-
| Gabriel García Moreno || rowspan="2" | 1875 || || President || Quito
| || Assassination – shooting and stabbing
|-
| Ahmed Esad Pasha || || Grand Vizier || İzmir
| || Assassination – poisoning
|-
| Juan Bautista Gill || rowspan="2" | 1877 || || President || Villarrica
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Konstantinos Kanaris || || Prime Minister || Athens
| ||Myocardial infarction and hemiplegia
|-
| Francisco Linares Alcántara || rowspan="2" | 1878 || || President || La Guaira
| || Illness – bronchial disorder
|-
| Johann Jakob Scherer || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
| || Illness – appendicitis
|-
| Tēvita ʻUnga || 1879 || || Premier || Auckland
| || Illness – liver disease
|-
| Cándido Bareiro || rowspan="2" | 1880 || || President || Asunción
| || Stroke
|-
| Fridolin Anderwert || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
| || Suicide – gunshot
|-
| James A. Garfield || 1881|| || President || Elberon
| || Assassination – shooting and medical ineptitude
|-
| Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez || 1882 || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | President || Alajuela
| rowspan="2" | || Illness – tuberculosis
|-
| Próspero Fernández Oreamuno || rowspan="4" | 1885 || Atenas||
|-
| Justo Rufino Barrios || || President || Chalchuapa
| || Killed in battle
|-
| Ranodip Singh Kunwar || || Prime Minister || Kathmandu|| || Assassination
|-
| Francisco Javier Zaldúa || || President || Bogotá
| ||
|-
| Agostino Depretis || 1887 || || Prime Minister || Stradella
| || Illness – gout
|-
| Wilhelm Hertenstein || 1888 || || President of the Confederation || Bern
| || Illness and complications following surgery
|-
| Francisco Menéndez || 1890 || || President || San Salvador || || Killed during a coup
|-
| John A. Macdonald || 1891 || || Prime Minister || Ottawa
| || Stroke
|-
| John Ballance || rowspan="3" | 1893 || || Prime Minister|| Wellington
| || Intestinal disease and complications following surgery
|-
| Louis Ruchonnet || || Member of the Federal Council|| Bern
| || Myocardial infarction
|-
| Lazar Dokić || || President of the Ministry|| Opatija
| ||
|-
| Remigio Morales Bermúdez || rowspan="4" | 1894 || || President || Lima
| || Illness – appendicitis
|-
| Marie François Sadi Carnot || || President (also Co-Prince of Andorra)|| Lyon
| || Assassination – stabbing
|-
| Rafael Núñez || || President || Bogotá
| || Stroke
|-
| John Sparrow David Thompson || || Prime Minister || Berkshire
| || Myocardial infarction
|-
| Karl Schenk || 1895 || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
| || Accident – struck by carriage
|-
| Florvil Hyppolite || rowspan="3" | 1896 || || President || Port-au-Prince
| || Stroke
|-
| Joseph James Cheeseman || || President || Monrovia
| ||
|-
| Friedrich Stellwag von Carion || || State Administrator || Vienna
|||
|-
| Antonio Cánovas del Castillo || rowspan="2" | 1897 || || Prime Minister || Mondragón
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Juan Idiarte Borda || || President || Montevideo
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| José María Reina Barrios || 1898 || || President || Guatemala City
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Félix Faure || rowspan="2" | 1899|| || President (also Co-Prince of Andorra)|| Paris
| || Myocardial infarction
|-
| Ulises Heureaux || || President || Moca
| || Assassination – shooting
|}
1900–1949
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Year !! Country !! Title !! colspan="2" |Place of death
!Cause of death
|-
| Federico Errázuriz Echaurren || rowspan="4" | 1901 || || President || Valparaíso
||| Illness – cerebral thrombosis
|-
| William McKinley || || President || Buffalo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Halil Rifat Pasha || || Grand Vizier || Constantinople
| ||
|-
| Ramon Riu i Cabanes || || Co-Prince || La Seu d'Urgell
| ||
|-
| Walter Hauser || 1902 || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
| || Stroke
|-
| Dimitrije Cincar-Marković || 1903 || || President of the Ministry
|Belgrade||
| Assassination
|-
| Manuel Candamo || 1904 || || President || Arequipa
||| Heart attack
|-
| Theodoros Deligiannis || 1905 || Greece || Prime Minister || Athens
| Greece|| Assassination – stabbing
|-
| Manuel Quintana || rowspan="2" | 1906 || || President || Buenos Aires
||| Illness – pneumonia
|-
| Richard Seddon || || Prime Minister|| colspan="2" |At sea || Heart attack
|-
| Dimitar Petkov || rowspan="3" | 1907 || || Prime Minister || Sofia
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Ali-Asghar Atabak || Iran || Prime Minister || Tehran
| Iran|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Jules de Trooz || || Cabinet Chief || Brussels
|||
|-
| Afonso Pena || 1909 || || President || Rio de Janeiro
|||Illness – pneumonia
|-
|José Domingo de Obaldía || rowspan="4" | 1910 || || President || Panama City || ||
|-
| Boutros Ghali || Egypt || Prime Minister || Cairo
| Egypt|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Pedro Montt || || President || Bremen
| || Stroke
|-
| Elías Fernández Albano || || Acting President || Santiago
||| Illness – cold
|-
| Ernst Brenner || rowspan="4" | 1911 || || Member of the Federal Council || Menton
| || Stroke
|-
| Pyotr Stolypin || || Prime Minister || Kiev
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Ramón Cáceres || || President || Santo Domingo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Emilio Estrada Carmona || || President || Guayaquil
||| Heart attack
|-
| Adolf Deucher || rowspan="3" | 1912 || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
||| Illness
|-
| Cincinnatus Leconte || || President || Port-au-Prince
||| Accident – explosion
|-
| José Canalejas || || Prime Minister || Madrid
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Manuel Enrique Araujo || rowspan="4" | 1913 || || President || San Salvador
||| Assassination – shooting and stabbing
|-
| Tancrède Auguste || || President || Port-au-Prince
||| Illness – anemia
|-
| Mahmud Shevket Pasha || || Grand Vizier || Istanbul
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Carl von In der Maur|| || State Administrator || Vaduz
|||Stroke
|-
| Roque Sáenz Peña || 1914 || || President || Buenos Aires
||| Illness
|-
| Vilbrun Guillaume Sam || rowspan="2" | 1915 || || President || Port-au-Prince
||| Assassination – beating
|-
| Paul Eyschen || || Prime Minister || Luxembourg
||| Illness – heart and kidney disease
|-
| Yuan Shikai || rowspan="2" | 1916 || China || President || Beijing
| China|| Illness – uraemia
|-
| Karl von Stürgkh || || Minister-President of Cisleithania
|Vienna|| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Sidónio Pais || 1918 || || President || Lisbon
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Rodrigues Alves|| rowspan="5" | 1919 || || President-elect || Rio de Janeiro
||| Illness – Spanish flu
|-
| Yakov Sverdlov || || Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee || Moscow
||| Illness – Spanish flu or typhus
|-
| Manuel Franco || || President || Asunción
||| Cardiac arrest
|-
| Louis Botha || South Africa || Prime Minister || Pretoria
| South Africa|| Illness – Spanish flu
|-
| Eduard Müller || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
|||
|-
| Alexander Kolchak || rowspan="3" | 1920 || || Supreme Ruler
|Irkutsk|| || Execution – shooting
|-
| Venustiano Carranza || || President ||Tlaxcalantongo
|
|Assassination – shooting
|-
| António Maria Baptista || || Prime Minister
|Lisbon|| || Stroke or apoplexy
|-
| Eduardo Dato || rowspan="3" | 1921 || || Prime Minister || Madrid
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| António Granjo || || Prime Minister || Lisbon
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Hara Takashi || || Prime Minister || Tokyo
||| Assassination – stabbing
|-
| Arthur Griffith || rowspan="3" | 1922 || rowspan="2" | || President of Dáil Éireann
|Dublin|| rowspan="2" | || Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
|-
| Michael Collins || Chairman of the Provisional Government
|Béal na Bláth||Assassination – shooting
|-
| Gabriel Narutowicz || Poland || President || Warsaw
| Poland|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar || rowspan="2" | 1923 || || Prime Minister || Niislel Khüree
| China||
|-
| Warren G. Harding || || President || San Francisco
||| Heart attack
|-
| Vladimir Lenin || rowspan="2" | 1924 || || Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars || Gorki
||| Stroke
|-
| Rafael López Gutiérrez || || President || Amapala
||| Illness – diabetes
|-
| Friedrich Ebert || rowspan="3" | 1925 || || President || Berlin
||| Illness – septic shock
|-
| Sun Yat-sen || China || Generalissimo of the National Government || Beijing
| China|| Illness – gall bladder cancer
|-
| William Ferguson Massey || || Prime Minister || Wellington
||| Illness – cancer
|-
| Katō Takaaki || rowspan="3" | 1926 || || Prime Minister || Tokyo
||| Illness – pneumonia
|-
| Jón Magnússon || || Prime Minister || Neskaupstaður
|||
|-
| José María Orellana || || President || Antigua Guatemala
||| Heart attack
|-
| Jānis Čakste || rowspan="2" | 1927 || || President || Riga
|||
|-
| Charles Coghlan || || Premier || Salisbury
||| Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
|-
| Balingiin Tserendorj || rowspan="2" | 1928 || || Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
|Ulaanbaatar|| || Illness
|-
| Zhang Zuolin || China || Generalissimo of the Military Government
|Shenyang|| China|| Assassination – bombing
|-
| Abdul Muhsin al-Sa'dun || 1929 || || Prime Minister || Baghdad|| || Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Peder Kolstad || rowspan="3" | 1932 || || Prime Minister || Oslo
||| Blood clot
|-
| Paul Doumer || France || President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) || Paris
| France|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Inukai Tsuyoshi || || Prime Minister || Tokyo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro || rowspan="2" | 1933 || || President || Lima
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Ion G. Duca || Romania || Prime Minister || Prahova
| Romania|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Engelbert Dollfuss || rowspan="2" | 1934 || Austria || Chancellor || Vienna
| Austria|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Paul von Hindenburg || Germany || President || Neudeck
| Germany|| Illness – lung cancer
|-
| Józef Piłsudski || rowspan="2" | 1935 || Poland || Minister of Military Affairs || Warsaw
| Poland|| Illness – liver cancer
|-
| Juan Vicente Gómez || || President || Maracay
|||Illness – prostate cancer
|-
| Konstantinos Demertzis || rowspan="2" | 1936 || Greece || Prime Minister || Athens
| Greece|| Heart attack
|-
| Gyula Gömbös || Hungary || Prime Minister || Munich
| || Illness – testicular cancer
|-
|Panas Lyubchenko||1937||||Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars|| Moscow
|||Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk || 1938 || || President || Istanbul
||| Illness – liver cirrhosis
|-
| Patriarch Miron || rowspan="5" | 1939 || Romania || Prime Minister || Cannes
||| Illness – pneumonia
|-
| Joseph Lyons || || Prime Minister || Sydney
||| Heart attack
|-
| Germán Busch || || President || La Paz
||| Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Armand Călinescu || Romania || Prime Minister || Bucharest
| Romania|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Aurelio Mosquera || || President || Quito
||| Illness – liver infection or suicide
|-
| Giuseppe Motta || rowspan="8" | 1940 || || Member of the Federal Council || Bern
| || Stroke
|-
| Justí Guitart i Vilardebó || || Co-Prince || Barcelona
|||
|-
| Lord Tweedsmuir || || Governor General || Montreal
||| Head injury following stroke
|-
| Jacinto Peynado || || President || Santo Domingo
|||
|-
| Michael Joseph Savage || || Prime Minister || Wellington
||| Illness – colon cancer
|-
| José Félix Estigarribia || || President || Altos
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| Hassan Sabry Pasha || Egypt || Prime Minister || Cairo
| Egypt|| Heart failure
|-
| Kyösti Kallio || || President || Helsinki
||| Heart attack
|-
| Ioannis Metaxas || rowspan="5" | 1941 || Greece || Prime Minister || Athens
| Greece|| Illness – septicemia or internal haemorrhage
|-
| Pál Teleki || Hungary || Prime Minister || Budapest
| Hungary|| Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Alexandros Koryzis || Greece || Prime Minister || Athens
| Greece|| Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Johannes Lauristin || || Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars|| colspan="2" |At sea ||
|-
| Pedro Aguirre Cerda || || President || Santiago
||| Illness – tuberculosis
|-
| José Abad Santos || rowspan="2" | 1942 || || Interim President
|Malabang|| || Execution – shooting
|-
| Thorvald Stauning || || Prime Minister || Copenhagen
||| Illness
|-
| Taj al-Din al-Hasani || rowspan="3" | 1943 || Syria || President || Damascus
| Syria || Heart attack
|-
| Władysław Sikorski || Poland || Prime Minister || Gibraltar
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| Lin Sen || China || Chairman of the National Government || Chongqing
| China || Stroke
|-
| Manuel L. Quezon || rowspan="2" | 1944 || || President || Saranac Lake
||| Illness – tuberculosis
|-
| Wang Jingwei || || Chairman of the National Government (at Nanjing) || Nagoya
||| Complications from gunshot wound
|-
| Ahmad Maher Pasha || rowspan="5" | 1945 || Egypt || Prime Minister || Cairo
| Egypt|| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Franklin D. Roosevelt || || President || Warm Springs
|||Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
|-
| John Curtin || || Prime Minister || Canberra
||| Heart attack
|-
| Adolf Hitler || rowspan="2" | || Führer || rowspan="2" | Berlin
| rowspan="2" | || Suicide – gunshot
|-
|Joseph Goebbels||Chancellor||Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Juan Antonio Ríos || rowspan="5" | 1946 || || President || Santiago
||| Illness – cancer
|-
| Gualberto Villarroel || || President || La Paz
||| Assassination – lynching
|-
| Per Albin Hansson || || Prime Minister || Stockholm
||| Heart attack
|-
| Nguyen Van Thinh || || President of the Provisional Government
|Saigon || || Suicide – hanging
|-
| Johannes Vares || || Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
|Tallinn|| || Suicide
|-
| Aung San || rowspan="2" | 1947 || || Premier || Yangon
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Tomás Berreta || || President || Montevideo
||| Illness – prostate cancer
|-
| Manuel Roxas || rowspan="3" | 1948 || || President || Clark Air Base
||| Heart attack
|-
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah || || Governor-General || Karachi
||| Illness – heart failure
|-
| Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha || || Prime Minister || Cairo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Mir Bashir Gasimov || rowspan="5" | 1949 || || Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet || Baku
| ||
|-
| Themistoklis Sofoulis || Greece || Prime Minister || Kifissia
| Greece|| Illness
|-
| Georgi Dimitrov || Bulgaria || Chairman of the Council of Ministers || Barvikha
||| Illness – heart and liver disease, abdominal cancer and internal haemorrhages
|-
| Husni al-Za'im || rowspan="2" | Syria|| President || rowspan="2" | Damascus
| rowspan="2" | Syria|| rowspan="2" | Execution by firing squad
|-
| Muhsin al-Barazi || Prime Minister
|}
1950–1999
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Year !! Country !! Title
! colspan="2" |Place of death
!Cause of death
|-
| Vasil Kolarov || rowspan="5" | 1950 || || Prime Minister || Sofia
||| Illness
|-
| Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes |||| President || Philadelphia
||| Complications following stomach cancer surgery
|-
| Carlos Delgado Chalbaud |||| President || Caracas
||| Assassination – lynching
|-
| Enrico Mizzi |||| Prime Minister || Valletta
|||
|-
| Karl Renner |||| President || Vienna
||| Stroke
|-
| Óscar Carmona || rowspan="3" | 1951 |||| President || Lisbon
|||Illness – bronchopneumonia
|-
| Haj Ali Razmara |||| Prime Minister || Tehran
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Liaquat Ali Khan |||| Prime Minister || Rawalpindi
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Sveinn Björnsson || rowspan="5" | 1952 |||| President || Reykjavík
||| Illness – heart disease
|-
| Khorloogiin Choibalsan |||| Chairman of the Council of Ministers || Moscow
||| Illness – kidney cancer
|-
| D. S. Senanayake |||| Prime Minister || Colombo
||| Stroke
|-
| Chaim Weizmann |||| President || Rehovot
||| Illness – respiratory inflammation
|-
| Adriaan Alberga || Surinam|| Prime Minister || Paramaribo
| Surinam||
|-
| Joseph Stalin || rowspan="4" | 1953 |||| Chairman of the Council of Ministers || Moscow
||| Illness – cerebral haemorrhage
|-
| Klement Gottwald |||| President || Prague
||| Illness – pneumonia
|-
| Gonchigiin Bumtsend || ||Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural||Ulaanbaatar
| ||
|-
| Pierre Dupong |||| Prime Minister || Luxembourg
||| Heart attack
|-
| Getúlio Vargas || 1954 |||| President || Rio de Janeiro
||| Suicide – gunshot
|-
| José Antonio Remón Cantera || rowspan="3" | 1955 |||| President || Panama City
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Hans Hedtoft |||| Prime Minister || Stockholm
||| Heart attack
|-
| Alexandros Papagos |||| Prime Minister || Athens
||| Illness – lung haemorrhage and heart failure
|-
| Bolesław Bierut || rowspan="2" | 1956 || || General Secretary of the United Workers' Party|| Moscow
||| Heart attack
|-
| Anastasio Somoza García |||| President || Ancón
||| Complications from gunshot wound
|-
| Theodor Körner || rowspan="4" | 1957 |||| President || Vienna
||| Heart attack
|-
| Ramón Magsaysay |||| President || Balamban
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| Carlos Castillo Armas |||| President || Guatemala City
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Antonín Zápotocký || || President || Prague
| || Heart attack
|-
| Petru Groza || rowspan="5" | 1958 || || President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly|| Bucharest
| || Complications following stomach surgery
|-
| Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom || || Prime Minister || Cape Town
| || Illness – heart disease
|-
| Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly |||| President of the Government Council || Paris
|||Illness
|-
| Markus Feldmann |||| Member of the Federal Council || Bern
|||Illness – heart failure
|-
| Georgi Damyanov || || Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly|| Sofia
| ||
|-
| Pierre Frieden || rowspan="4" | 1959 |||| Prime Minister || Zürich
|||
|-
| Barthélemy Boganda |||| Prime Minister || Boda
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |||| Prime Minister || Colombo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Ernest George Jansen || || Governor-General || Pretoria
| || Illness – pneumonia
|-
| H. C. Hansen || rowspan="4" | 1960 |||| Prime Minister || Copenhagen
||| Illness – cancer
|-
| Hazza' al-Majali |||| Prime Minister || Amman
||| Assassination – bombing
|-
| Wilhelm Pieck |||| President || Berlin
||| Heart attack
|-
| Abebe Aregai || || Prime Minister || Addis Ababa
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| William Morrison || rowspan="5" | 1961 |||| Governor-General || Canberra
||| Illness – pulmonary embolism
|-
| Rafael Trujillo |||| Generalissimo || Ciudad Trujillo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Nicola Canali ||/Holy See|| President of the Governorate & President of the Pontifical Commission || colspan="2" | /Holy See
|Illness – pneumonia
|-
| Louis Rwagasore || Burundi || Prime Minister || Bujumbura
| Burundi || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Saftar Jafarov || || Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet || Baku
| || Illness – cardiovascular disease
|-
| Sylvanus Olympio || rowspan="6" | 1963 |||| President || Lomé
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole |||| Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) || Apia
||| Illness
|-
| Yitzhak Ben-Zvi |||| President || Jerusalem
||| Illness – cancer
|-
| Ngo Dinh Diem || || President || Saigon
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| John F. Kennedy || || President || Dallas
|||Assassination – shooting
|-
| Sarit Thanarat || || Prime Minister || Bangkok
| || Illness – heart and liver disease
|-
| Jigme Palden Dorji || rowspan="7" | 1964 || || Prime Minister || Phuntsholing
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Dimitar Ganev || || Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly|| Sofia
| ||
|-
| Milton Margai || || Prime Minister || Freetown
| || Illness
|-
| Jawaharlal Nehru |||| Prime Minister || New Delhi
||| Internal haemorrhage, stroke, and heart attack
|-
| Aleksander Zawadzki || || Chairman of the Council of State|| Warsaw
| || Illness – cancer
|-
| Otto Grotewohl || || Chairman of the Council of Ministers || Berlin
| || Illness – brain haemorrhage
|-
| Slobodan Penezić || || President of the Executive Council || Šopić
| || Accident – car crash
|-
| Pierre Ngendandumwe || rowspan="6" | 1965 |||| Prime Minister || Bujumbura
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Hassan Ali Mansur || || Prime Minister || Tehran
| || Complications from gunshot wound
|-
| Luis Giannattasio |||| President || Punta del Este
||| Heart attack
|-
| Adolf Schärf |||| President || Vienna
||| Illness – influenza and liver disease
|-
| Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |||| President of the State Council|| Bucharest
||| Illness – lung cancer
|-
| Hasan Brkić |||| President of the Executive Council|| Sarajevo
|||
|-
| Lal Bahadur Shastri || rowspan="7" | 1966 |||| Prime Minister || Tashkent
||| Heart attack
|-
| Abubakar Tafawa Balewa |||| Prime Minister || Lagos
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Chris Soumokil || ' || President || Ubi Island
||| Execution by firing squad
|-
| Abdul Salam Arif |||| President || Al Nashwa
| || Accident – plane crash
|-
| Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi |||| Head of State || Lagelu
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| René Schick |||| President || Managua
||| Heart attack
|-
| Hendrik Verwoerd |||| Prime Minister || Cape Town
||| Assassination – stabbing
|-
| Georges Vanier || rowspan="5" | 1967 |||| Governor General || Ottawa
| rowspan="2" ||| Heart attack
|-
| Donald Burns Sangster |||| Prime Minister || Montreal|| Illness – subarachnoid haemorrhage
|-
| Léon M'ba |||| President || Paris
||| Illness – cancer
|-
| Óscar Diego Gestido |||| President || Montevideo
||| Heart attack
|-
| Harold Holt || || Prime Minister || Cheviot Beach
||| Disappeared; presumed drowning
|-
| Peter Mohr Dam || 1968 |||| Prime Minister || Tórshavn
|||
|-
| Levi Eshkol || rowspan="7" | 1969 |||| Prime Minister || Jerusalem
||| Heart attack
|-
| René Barrientos |||| President || Arque
||| Accident – helicopter crash
|-
| Zakir Husain |||| President || New Delhi
||| Heart attack
|-
| Ho Chi Minh |||| Chairman of the Workers' Party and President || Hanoi
||| Heart attack
|-
| Abdirashid Ali Shermarke |||| President || Las Anod
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| David Rose || || Governor-General || London
||| Accident – crushed
|-
| Artur da Costa e Silva |||| President || Rio de Janeiro
||| Heart attack
|-
| Saïd Mohamed Cheikh || rowspan="4" | 1970 |||| President of the Government Council || Soavinandriana
||| Heart attack
|-
| Bjarni Benediktsson |||| Prime Minister || Þingvellir
||| Accident – fire
|-
| Gamal Abdel Nasser |||| President and Prime Minister || Cairo
||| Heart attack
|-
| Yusof bin Ishak |||| President || colspan="2" |
|Heart attack
|-
| François Duvalier || rowspan="3" | 1971 |||| President for life || Port-au-Prince
||| Illness – diabetes and heart disease
|-
| William Tubman |||| President || London
|||Complications following prostate surgery
|-
| Wasfi al-Tal |||| Prime Minister || Cairo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Abeid Karume || rowspan="3" | 1972 || || President|| Zanzibar City
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Jamsrangiin Sambuu || || Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural|| Ulaanbaatar
| || Illness – cancer
|-
| Leonard Williams |||| Governor-General || Port Louis
| ||Heart attack
|-
| Richard Sharples || rowspan="4" | 1973 || || Governor || Hamilton
| || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Walter Ulbricht || || Chairman of the State Council|| Templin
| || Illness – heart failure
|-
| Salvador Allende |||| President || Santiago
||| Suicide – gunshot
|-
| Luis Carrero Blanco |||| Prime Minister || Madrid
||| Assassination – bombing
|-
| Franz Jonas || rowspan="5" | 1974 |||| President || Vienna
||| Illness – stomach cancer
|-
| Georges Pompidou |||| President (also Co-Prince of Andorra) || Paris
||| Illness – Waldenström's macroglobulinemia
|-
| Juan Perón |||| President || Buenos Aires
||| Illness – heart and kidney failure
|-
| Norman Eric Kirk |||| Prime Minister || Wellington
||| Illness – heart failure
|-
| Erskine Childers |||| President || Dublin
||| Heart attack
|-
| Richard Ratsimandrava || rowspan="7" | 1975 || || President || Antananarivo
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Chiang Kai-shek || || President || Taipei
| || Heart attack
|-
| François Tombalbaye |||| President and Prime Minister || N'Djamena
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Long Boret |||| Prime Minister || Phnom Penh
||| Execution by firing squad
|-
| Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II |||| Prime Minister || Apia
| ||
|-
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |||| President || Dhaka
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Francisco Franco |||| Head of State (Caudillo) || Madrid
||| Illness – complications of heart disease, kidney failure and gastric haemorrhage
|-
| Zhou Enlai || rowspan="8" | 1976 |||| Premier || Beijing
||| Illness – bladder cancer
|-
| Abdul Razak Hussein |||| Prime Minister || London
||| Illness – leukemia
|-
| Murtala Mohammed |||| Head of the Federal Military Government|| Lagos
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed ||'|| President || Inchiri
||| Killed in action
|-
| Zhu De |||| Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress|| Beijing
|||
|-
| Joël Rakotomalala |||| Prime Minister || Antsirabe
||| Accident – helicopter crash
|-
| Arleigh Winston Scott |||| Governor-General || St. Michael
| || Heart attack
|-
| Mao Zedong |||| Chairman of the Central Committee|| Beijing
||| Heart attack
|-
| Džemal Bijedić|| rowspan="6" | 1977 |||| President of the Federal Executive Council|| Kreševo
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| Tafari Benti |||| Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council|| Addis Ababa
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |||| President || New Delhi
||| Heart attack
|-
| Marien Ngouabi|||| President|| Brazzaville
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Makarios III|||| President|| Nicosia
||| Heart attack
|-
| Ibrahim al-Hamdi|||| President|| Sanaa
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Mohammed Daoud Khan|| rowspan="10" | 1978 || Afghanistan || President
|Kabul|| Afghanistan || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw|||| Premier|| Basseterre
||| Illness – prostate cancer
|-
| Ahmad al-Ghashmi|||| President|| Sanaa
||| Assassination – bombing
|-
| Salim Rubai Ali|| || President|| Aden
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Francisco Mendes|||| Prime Minister || Bissau
| || Accident – car crash
|-
| Nico Diederichs|||| State President|| Cape Town
||| Heart attack
|-
| Jomo Kenyatta|||| President|| Mombasa
||| Heart attack
|-
| John Wrathall|||| President|| Salisbury
||| Heart attack
|-
| Botha Sigcau||'|| President || Umtata
||| Heart attack
|-
| Houari Boumediene|||| President|| Algiers
||| Illness – Waldenström's macroglobulinemia
|-
| Milo Butler|| rowspan="9" | 1979 |||| Governor-General|| Nassau
||| Illness
|-
| Jean-Marie Villot||/Holy See|| Cardinal Secretary of State|| colspan="2" | /Holy See
|Illness – bronchopneumonia
|-
| Mashiur Rahman|||| Chief Minister|| Dhaka
| ||Heart attack
|-
| Paul Southwell|||| Premier|| Castries
||| Heart attack
|-
| Ahmed Ould Bouceif|||| Prime Minister|| Off the coast of Dakar
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| Agostinho Neto|||| President|| Moscow
||| Illness – pancreatic cancer
|-
| Maphevu Dlamini|||| Prime Minister|| Mbabane
| ||
|-
| Park Chung Hee|||| President|| Seoul
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Hafizullah Amin|| Afghanistan || General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council<br/>and Chairman of the Council of Ministers|| Kabul
| Afghanistan || Assassination – shooting
|-
| Tôn Đức Thắng|| rowspan="9" | 1980 |||| President|| Hanoi
||| Heart attack
|-
| William Tolbert|||| President|| Monrovia
||| Assassination – shooting
|-
| Josip Broz Tito||||Leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and President|| Ljubljana
|||Illness – heart failure
|-
| J. A. G. S. McCartney|||| Chief Minister|| Vineland
||| Accident – plane crash
|-
| Masayoshi Ōhira|||| Prime Minister|| Tokyo
||| Heart attack
|-
| Seretse Khama|||| President|| Gaborone
||| Illness – pancreatic cancer
|-
| Abdelhamid Sharaf|||| Prime Minister|| Amman
||| Heart attack
|-
| Francisco Sá Carneiro|||| Prime Minister|| Loures
||| Accident – plane crash