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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance of Iraq — 21 April 2003 12 May 2003 21 days Democratic — Paul Bremer بول بريمر (born 1941) Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq — 12 May 2003 28 June 2004 1 year, 47 days Republican: → • Republic of Iraq (2004–present) • → —
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 ...
team of rafiqs from the Order of Assassins: Harald Gille: King of Norway: December 14, 1136: Bergen Norway: Sigurd Slembe: Eric II: King of Denmark: September 18, 1137: Urnohoved Denmark: Murdered by Sorte Plov during a Ting [93] Al-Rashid: Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate: June 6, 1138: Mosul or Isfahan: Abbasid Caliphate: a team of men in his ...
Iraq became one of the top purchasers of US military equipment with their army trading its AK‑47 assault rifles for the US M‑16 and M‑4 rifles, among other equipment. [275] In 2008 alone, Iraq accounted for more than $12.5 billion of the $34 billion US weapon sales to foreign countries (not including the potential F-16 fighter planes.). [276]
Sentenced to death, died in uncertain circumstances before sentence was carried out Saddam Hussein Iraq: April 28, 1937: President (1979–2003) December 30, 2006: Executed by hanging Sima Chi: China (Western Jin) 284: Emperor (307 to 311) March 14, 313: Executed prisoner of war Sima Ye: China (Western Jin) 300: Emperor (313 to 316) February 7, 318
(Birth–Death) Term of office Time in office Political party Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure [3] (1767–1855) 26 February 1848 9 May 1848 73 days Moderate Republicans: 1848: Appointed President of the Provisional Government by the National Assembly, during the February Revolution. Resigned in May 1848, making way for the Executive Commission.
A September 14, 2007, estimate by Opinion Research Business (ORB), an independent British polling agency, suggested that the total Iraqi violent death toll due to the Iraq War since the U.S.-led invasion was in excess of 1.2 million (1,220,580). These results were based on a survey of 1,499 adults in Iraq from August 12–19, 2007.