| Photo |
Ambassador |
Post |
Place |
Country |
Date of death |
Killed by |
|
Envoys of Xerxes I |
Persian envoys to Sparta |
Sparta |
Sparta |
481 B.C. |
Leonidas I |
|
Gaius Fulcinius |
Roman envoys to Fidenae |
Fidenae |
Roman Republic |
438 B.C. |
On orders of Lars Tolumnius |
|
Lucius Roscius |
|
Spurius Antius |
|
Tullus Cloelius |
|
Ambassadors of Genghis Khan |
Mongol ambassadors to the Khwarezmian Empire |
Otrar/Urgench |
Khwarezmian Empire |
1218 |
A Mongolian trade caravan including ambassadors was massacred by Inalchuq. Later on, a Muslim ambassador was beheaded on orders of Sultan Muhammad II |
|
Ambassadors of Hulagu Khan |
Mongol ambassadors to the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanate |
Mayyafariqin |
 Ayyubid Sultanate |
1260 |
A Jacobite priest was crucified on the orders of Ayyubid emir Al-Kamil Muhammad |
| Egypt |
Mamluk Sultanate |
Sultan Qutuz |
|
Ambassador of Timur |
Timurid ambassador to the Mamluk Sultanate |
Damascus |
Mamluk Sultanate |
1400 |
On orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun |
 |
Antonio Rincon |
French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire |
Rivoli |
 Venice |
July 3, 1541 |
Venetian Imperial Guard |
 |
Alexander Griboyedov |
Russian Ambassador to Persia |
Tehran |
 Persia |
February 11, 1829 |
Iranian mob |
 |
Clemens von Ketteler |
German Ambassador to China |
Beijing |
 China |
June 20, 1900 |
Boxer rebel |
 |
Wilhelm von Mirbach |
German Ambassador to Russia |
Moscow |
 Russian SFSR |
June 6, 1918 |
Left Socialist Revolutionaries |
 |
Vatslav Vorovsky |
Soviet Representative to Italy |
Lausanne |
 Switzerland |
May 10, 1923 |
Maurice Conradi |
 |
Rayko Daskalov |
Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia |
Prague |
 Czechoslovakia |
August 23, 1923 |
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization |
 |
Pyotr Voykov |
Soviet Ambassador to Poland |
Warsaw |
 Poland |
June 7, 1927 |
Boris Kowerda |
 |
Ceno bej Kryeziu |
Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia |
Prague |
Czechoslovakia |
July 26, 1927 |
Alkibijad Bebi |
 |
Henry Gurney |
United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya |
Fraser's Hill |
 Malaya |
October 6, 1951 |
Members of the Malayan Communist Party |
|
Kokkat Sankara Pillai |
First Secretary in High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada |
Ottawa |
 Canada |
April 19, 1961 |
Killed by a mentally unstable Yugoslav immigrant to Canada |
 |
John Gordon Mein |
United States Ambassador to Guatemala |
Guatemala City |
 Guatemala |
August 28, 1968 |
Rebel Armed Forces |
|
Karl von Spreti |
West German Ambassador to Guatemala |
Guatemala City |
Guatemala |
May 4, 1970 |
Rebel Armed Forces |
| Vladimir Rolović | Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden | Stockholm |  Sweden | April 15, 1971 | Croatian National Resistance |
| Joaquin Zenteno Anaya | Bolivian Ambassador to France | Paris |  France | April 15, 1971 | Hugo Banzer regime[citation needed] |
| Marcel Dupret | Belgian Ambassador to Morocco | Skhirat |  Morocco | July 10, 1971 | Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II[5] |
 | Germain Mba | Gabonese Ambassador to Japan | Libreville |  Gabon | November 5, 1971 | African mercenaries led by Bob Denard[citation needed] |
| Cleo A. Noel, Jr. | United States Ambassador to Sudan |
Khartoum |
 Sudan |
March 2, 1973 |
Black September |
| Rodger Davies | United States Ambassador to Cyprus | Nicosia |  Cyprus | August 19, 1974 | EOKA B |
|
Daniş Tunalıgil | Turkish Ambassador to Austria | Vienna |  Austria | October 22, 1975 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
|
İsmail Erez | Turkish Ambassador to France | Paris | France | October 24, 1975 | Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia |
| Christopher Ewart-Biggs | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland | Dublin |  Ireland | June 21, 1976 | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
| Carlos Abdala | Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay | Asunción |  Paraguay | November 5, 1976 | Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood |
|
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. | United States Ambassador to Lebanon |
Beirut |
 Lebanon |
June 16, 1976 |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Taha Carım | Turkish Ambassador to Holy See | Rome |  Italy | June 9, 1977 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
 |
Héctor Hidalgo Solá | Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela | Buenos Aires |  Argentina | July 17, 1977 (disappearance) | unknown |
| Mario García Incháustegui | Cuban Ambassador to Japan | Kuala Lumpur |  Malaysia | December 4, 1977 | killed in the deliberate crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 |
| Said Hammami | Palestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United Kingdom | London |  United Kingdom | January 4, 1978 | Abu Nidal Organization (alleged) |
|
Adolph Dubs | United States Ambassador to Afghanistan | Kabul |  Afghanistan | February 14, 1979 | Settam-e-Melli (alleged) |
| Richard Sykes | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands | The Hague |  Netherlands | March 22, 1979 | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
| Gottfried Lessing | East German Ambassador to Uganda | Kampala |  Uganda | April 11, 1979 | Uganda National Liberation Front |
|
Archibald Gardner Dunn |
South African Ambassador to El Salvador |
San Salvador |
 El Salvador |
October 8, 1980 |
Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí[citation needed] |
|
Louis Delamare |
French Ambassador to Lebanon |
Beirut |
Lebanon |
September 5, 1981 |
Pro-Syrian militants[citation needed] |
|
Domingo Garcia Rodriguez |
Cuban Ambassador to Egypt |
Cairo |
 Egypt |
October 6, 1981 |
Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat [citation needed] |
|
Abdul Razzak Lafta |
Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon |
Beirut |
Lebanon |
December 15, 1981 |
killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party |
|
Shlomo Argov | Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | February 24, 2003
(shot on June 3, 1982) | Abu Nidal Organization |
| Galip Balkar | Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia | Belgrade |  Yugoslavia | March 9, 1983 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
|
Lee Gye-cheol |
South Korean Ambassador to Burma |
Rangoon |
 Burma |
October 9, 1983 |
North Korean agents as part of an assassination plot against visiting South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan |
|
Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak |
Emirati Ambassador to France |
Paris |
 United Arab Emirates |
February 8, 1984 |
Abu Nidal Organization |
|
Salih Mahdi Ammash |
Iraqi Ambassador to Finland |
Helsinki |
 Finland |
January 30, 1985 |
Baathist Iraqi agents[citation needed] |
|
Pedro Manuel de Aristegui |
Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon |
Beirut |
Lebanon |
April 16, 1989 |
killed by a rocket[citation needed] |
|
Philippe Bernard |
French Ambassador to Zaire |
Kinshasa |
 Zaire |
January 28, 1993 |
killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers[6] |
|
Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch |
Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica |
Kingston |
 Jamaica |
November 6, 1997 |
unknown[7] |
|
Michael Courtney |
Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi |
Bujumbura |
 Burundi |
December 29, 2003 |
National Forces of Liberation |
|
Ihab el-Sherif |
Egyptian ambassador to Iraq |
Baghdad |
 Iraq |
July 7, 2005 |
kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq |
 |
J. Christopher Stevens |
United States Ambassador to Libya |
Benghazi |
 Libya |
September 11, 2012 |
Ansar al-Sharia |
|
Jamal al-Jamal |
Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia |
Prague |
Czechia |
January 1, 2014 |
killed by a bomb |
 |
Andrei Karlov |
Russian Ambassador to Turkey |
Ankara |
 Turkey |
December 19, 2016 |
Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş |
 |
Kyriakos Amiridis | Greek Ambassador to Brazil | Nova Iguaçu |  Brazil | December 26, 2016 | Sérgio Moreira |
|
Luca Attanasio | Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Goma |  Democratic Republic of the Congo | February 22, 2021 | unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt |
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