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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.
Heads of state or government assassinated or executed after they left office (e.g. Aldo Moro, Saddam Hussein and Shinzo Abe) are excluded. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Died of a stroke: Robert II: House of Stuart (Scotland) 2 March 1316 1371–1390 19 April 1390 Died of old age aged 74. Robert III: c. 1340 1390–1406 4 April 1406 Death said to have been caused by the shock of hearing that his son James (later King James I of Scotland) had been captured by the English. Henry IV: House of Lancaster (England ...
Margaret died later that year, bringing an end to the plan. [41] Edward's mother, Eleanor, died shortly afterwards, followed by his grandmother, Eleanor of Provence. [42] Edward I was distraught at his wife's death and held a huge funeral for her; his son inherited the County of Ponthieu from Eleanor. [42]
Systems differ in how they deal with the death of an office holder. In some death results in a casual vacancy, whereby the office is unfilled for a time. The office may subsequently be filled by a by-election or by appointment. A person may temporarily take the powers and responsibilities of the deceased in an "acting" capacity before a ...
Sandringham House in Norfolk, where the King died. George VI had undergone a lung operation in September 1951 from which he never fully recovered. In the evening of 5 February 1952, he had a meal with his family at Sandringham House, Norfolk, and retired to bed at 10:30 pm. [1] He died in his sleep on 6 February 1952 at the age of 56. [2]
A number of heads of state and heads of government have taken their own lives, either while in office or after leaving office. National leaders who take their own lives while in office generally do so because their leadership is somehow threatened – for instance, by a coup or an invading army. Some have done so under compulsion
King of Epirus: Epirus: 316 BC–313 BC Pyrrhus: King of Epirus: Epirus: 302 BC–297 BC Cleombrotus II: King of Sparta: Sparta: 240 BC–unknown† Tegea: Cleomenes III: King of Sparta: Sparta: 222 BC–219 BC† Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt: Demetrius III Eucaerus: King of Syria: Seleucid Empire: 87 BC–after 87 BC† Parthia: Herod Antipas ...