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.
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 (where known) and the cause of death.
^The exact circumstances of Allende's death were for long a subject of controversy, as it was disputed whether he had died by suicide or been assassinated by the Chilean Armed Forces while defending the presidential palace in Santiago during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. In 2011, a Chilean court authorized the exhumation and autopsy of Allende's remains. A team of international experts concluded that Allende had shot himself with an AK-47 assault rifle, which seems to have put the controversy surrounding his death to rest.
^Brewer, David (2011). The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression. New York: Abrams Press. p. 348. ISBN978-1-59020-691-1.
^Antić, Čedomir (2007). Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbia and the Crimean War. Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 43. ISBN9788671790512.
^Altermatt, Urs, ed. (2019). Das Bundesratslexikon (in German). Zürich: NZZ Libro. pp. 48–49. ISBN978-3-03810-218-2.
^Kornrumpf, Hans-Jürgen (1979). "Mustafa Reşid Pascha". In Bernath, Mathias; von Schroeder, Felix (eds.). Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas (in German). Vol. III. Munich: Oldenbourg. pp. 280–282. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
^Nicolescu, Nicolae C. (2006). Enciclopedia șefilor de guvern ai României 1862–2006 (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Meronia. pp. 97–99. ISBN973-7839-09-9.
^Woodward, Ralph Lee (4 October 2007). "CARRERA, José Rafael". Boletín de la AFEHC (in Spanish) (32). Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica. ISSN1954-3891. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
^Scholes, Walter V. (1957). Mexican Politics During the Juárez Regime, 1855–1872. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. p. 176.
^Stokes, Gale (1990). Politics as Development: The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Serbia. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 9–19. ISBN0-8223-1016-3.
^Sanjinés, Jenaro (1902). Apuntes para la historia de Bolivia bajo las administraciones de don Adolfo Ballivian i don Tomas Frias (in Spanish). La Paz: Impr. Bolivar de M. Pizarro. pp. 103–104.
^Adamopoulou, Konstantina (16 March 2012). "Κανάρης Κωνσταντίνος (περ. 1790 – 1877)". Argolikos Archival Library of History and Culture (in Greek). Retrieved 25 April 2024.
^Nieschulz de Stockhausen, Elke. "Linares Alcántara, Francisco". Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela (in Spanish). BiblioFEP. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
^Avilés Farré, Juan (2013). La daga y la dinamita: Los anarquistas y el nacimiento del terrorismo (in Spanish). Barcelona: Tusquets. pp. 324–325. ISBN978-84-8383-753-5.
^Idiarte Borda, Celia; Idiarte Borda, María Ester (1939). Juan Idiarte Borda: su vida, su obra (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Imprenta López. pp. 457–468. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
^Brooking, Tom (2014). Richard Seddon: King of God's Own. Auckland: Penguin. p. 261. ISBN9780143569671.
^Markov, Georgi (2003). Покушения, насилие и политика в България 1878-1947 (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Military Publishing House. pp. 104–116. ISBN9789545092398.
^Afary, Janet (1996). The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 112. ISBN9780231103510.
^Geifman, Anna (1995). Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 239. ISBN9780691025490.
^Moreno Luzón, Javier (2016). Modernizing the Nation: Spain During the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 67. ISBN978-1845195052.
^White, Alastair (1973). El Salvador. New York/Washington: Praeger Publishers. p. 91. ISBN9780510395230.
^Joseph, Celucien L. (2017). Thinking in Public: Faith, Secular Humanism, and Development in Jacques Roumain. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. p. 28. ISBN9781498203814.
^Wheeler, Douglas L. (1978). Republican Portugal: A Political History, 1910–1926. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 152–153. ISBN0-299-07454-4.
^Bertucci, Liane Maria (2004). Influenza, a medicina enferma: ciência e práticas de cura na época da gripe espanhola em São Paulo (in Portuguese). Campinas, SP: Editora da Unicamp. p. 352. ISBN978-8526806597.
^Quevedo, Oscar del Carmen, ed. (1998). Crónica histórica ilustrada del Paraguay: Paraguay siglo XX (in Spanish). Vol. III (2 ed.). Buenos Aires: Distribuidora Quevedo. p. 711. ISBN9789879246030.
^Richmond, Douglas W. (1983). Venustiano Carranza's Nationalist Struggle, 1893–1920. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. p. 235. ISBN9780803238633.
^O'Donoghue, Martin (2019). The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922–1949. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 21. ISBN9781789620306.
^Izaguirre, Ramón R. (2003). Historia documentada de las fuerzas armadas de Honduras: periodo 1885-1950 (in Spanish). Tegucigalpa: Multigráficos Flores. p. 287. ISBN9789992640142.
^Kitaoka, Shinichi (2018). The Political History of Modern Japan: Foreign Relations and Domestic Policies. London and New York: Routledge. p. 115. ISBN978-1-138-33767-1.
^Kinsbruner, Jay, ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 911. ISBN978-0-684-31590-4.
^Vatikiotis, P. J. (2014). Popular Autocracy in Greece, 1936-41: A Political Biography of General Ioannis Metaxas. London and New York: Routledge. p. 214. ISBN978-0-714-64445-5.
^Romsics, Ignác (2018). "Hungary". In Stahel, David (ed.). Joining Hitler's Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941. Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN978-1-316-51034-6. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^Mackenzie, Compton (1944). Wind of Freedom: The History of the Invasion of Greece by the Axis Powers, 1940-1941. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 274.
^Roszkowski, Wojciech; Kofman, Jan, eds. (2015). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Routledge. p. 560. ISBN9780765610270.
^Correa Sutil, Sofía; Figueroa Garavagno, Consuelo; Jocelyn-Holt Letelier, Alfredo; Rolle Cruz, Claudio; Vicuña Urrutia, Manuel (2005). Historia del siglo XX chileno: Balance paradojal (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). Santiago: Editorial Sudamericana. p. 129. ISBN956-262-144-8.
^Molina, Antonio M. (1960). The Philippines Through the Centuries. Vol. II. Manila: U.S.T. Cooperative. p. 342.
^Daniels, Roger. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Years, 1939–1945. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. pp. 497–498. ISBN978-0-252-03952-2.