List of Heads of State and Government Who Died in Office - 1950-1999

1950-1999

• Enrico Mizzi, Prime Minister of Malta (1950)
• Karl Renner, President of Austria (1950)
• António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona, President of Portugal (1951)
• Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Mongolia (1952)
• Sveinn Björnsson, President of Iceland (1952)
• Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel (1952)
• Pierre Dupong, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1953)
• Klement Gottwald, President of Czechoslovakia (1953)
• Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1953)
• Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark (1955)
• Alexandros Papagos, Prime Minister of Greece (1955)
• Bolesław Bierut, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (1956)
• Theodor Körner, President of Austria (1957)
• Antonín Zápotocký, President of Czechoslovakia (1957)
• Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly, President of the Government Council of Upper Volta (1958)
• Georgi Purvanov Damyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1958)
• Johannes G. Strijdom, Prime Minister of South Africa (1958)
• Hans Christian Hansen, Prime Minister of Denmark (1960)
• Wilhelm Pieck, President of East Germany (1960)
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (1963)
• Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (1963)
• Dimitur Ganev, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1964)
• Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (1964)
• Sir Milton Margai, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (1964)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1964)
• Aleksander Zawadzki, Chairman of the Council of State of Poland (1964)
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, President of the State Council of Romania (1965)
• Adolf Schärf, President of Austria (1965)
• Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (1966)
• Óscar Diego Gestido, President of Uruguay (1967)
• Léon M'ba, President of Gabon (1967)
• Sir Donald Burns Sangster, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1967)
• Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (1969)
• Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (1969)
• Zakir Husain, President of India (1969)
• Bjarni Benediktsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (1970)
• Said Mohamed Cheikh, President of the Government Council of Comoros (1970)
• Yusuf bin Ishak, President of Singapore (1970)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1970)
• François Duvalier, President of Haiti (1971)
• William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia (1971)
• Erskine H. Childers, President of Ireland (1974)
• Franz Jonas, President of Austria (1974)
• Norman Eric Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1974)
• Juan Perón, President of Argentina (1974)
• Georges Pompidou, President of France (1974)
• Sir Ira Marcus Simmons, Governor of Saint Lucia (1974)
• Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (1975)
• Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1975)
• Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1976)
• Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (1976)
• Mao Zedong, President of the People's Republic of China (1976)
• Zhu De, Chairman of the Permanent Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (1976)
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (1977)
• Makarios III, President of Cyprus (1977)
• Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (1978)
• Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Premier of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1978)
• Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs, State President of South Africa (1978)
• Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (1978)
• Agostinho Neto, President of Angola (1979)
• Paul Southwell, Premier of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1979)
• Sir Seretse Khama, President of Botswana (1980)
• Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (1980)
• Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (1980)
• Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (1980)
• Benjamin Henry Sheares, President of Singapore (1981)
• Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1981)
• Mohammad-Ali Rajai, President of Iran (1981)
• Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran (1981)
• Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1982)
• Willi Ritschard, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1983)
• Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1984)
• Chan Sy, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Kampuchea (1984)
• Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, Prime Minister of Egypt (1984)
• Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (1984)
• Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados (1985)
• Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (1985)
• Konstantin Chernenko, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1985)
• Tancredo Neves, President-elect of Brazil (1985)
• Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (1986)
• Errol Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1987)
• Seyni Kountché, President of the Supreme Military Council of Niger (1987)
• Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (1988)
• Herbert A. Blaize, Prime Minister of Grenada (1989)
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (1989)
• Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (1992)
• Sir Robert Rex, Prime Minister of Niue (1992)
• József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary (1993)
• Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, President of Fiji (1993)
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (1993)
• Turgut Özal, President of Turkey (1993)
• Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (1994)
• Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands (1996)
• Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (1997)
• Sani Abacha, Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria (1998)
• Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of Comoros (1998)
• Jumabek Ibraimov, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (1999)
• Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (1999)