List of Heads of State and Government Who Died in Office - 1900-1949

1900-1949

• Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, President of Chile (1901)
• Walter Hauser, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1902)
• Manuel Candamo, President of Peru (1904)
• Theodoros Deligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece (1905)
• Richard John Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906)
• Jules de Trooz, Cabinet Chief of Belgium (1907)
• Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, President of Brazil (1909)
• Pedro Montt, President of Chile (1910)
• Emilio Estrada, President of Ecuador (1911)
• Ernst Brenner, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1911)
• Cincinnatus Leconte, President of Haiti (1912)
• Adolf Deucher, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1912)
• Tancrède Auguste, President of Haiti (1913)
• Roque Sáenz Peña, President of Argentina (1914)
• Paul Eyschen, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1915)
• Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China (1916)
• Manuel Franco, President of Paraguay (1919)
• Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1919)
• Yakov Sverdlov, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (1919)
• Arthur Griffith, President of the Dáil of Ireland (1922)
• Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland (1922)
• Warren G. Harding, President of the United States (1923)
• Tomosaburo Kato, Prime Minister of Japan (1923)
• Vladimir Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (1924)
• Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (1925)
• William Ferguson Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925)
• Sun Yat-sen, Generalissimo of the National Government of the Republic of China (1925)
• Jón Magnússon, Prime Minister of Iceland (1926)
• Takaaki Kato, Prime Minister of Japan (1926)
• Jānis Čakste, President of Latvia (1927)
• Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany (1934)
• Juan Vicente Gómez, President of Venezuela (1935)
• Józef Piłsudski, Leader of the Second Polish Republic (1935)
• Konstantinos Demertzis, Prime Minister of Greece (1936)
• Gyula Gömbös, Prime Minister of Hungary (1936)
• Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey (1938)
• Joseph Aloysius Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (1939)
• Aurelio Mosquera Narváez, President of Ecuador (1939)
• Giuseppe Motta, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1940)
• Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado, President of the Dominican Republic (1940)
• Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940)
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (1941)
• Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece (1941)
• Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1942)
• Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China (1943)
• Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (1944)
• Wang Jingwei, Chairman of the National Government of China at Nanjing (1944)
• John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (1945)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States (1945)
• Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946)
• Juan Antonio Ríos Morales, President of Chile (1946)
• Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines (1948)
• Georgi Dimitrov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria (1949)
• Themistoklis Sophoulis, Prime Minister of Greece (1949)