List of assassinated serving ambassadors

This is a list of assassinated serving ambassadors.[1][2]

List
Ambassador Post Place Country Date of death Killed by
Envoys of Xerxes I Persian envoys to Sparta Sparta Sparta 481 B.C. killed by Leonidas I
Gaius Fulcinius Roman envoys to Fidenae Fidenae Roman Republic 438 B.C. killed on orders of Lars Tolumnius
Lucius Roscius
Spurius Antius
Tullus Cloelius
Ambassadors of Genghis Khan Ambassadors to the Khwarezmian Empire Otrar/Urgench Khwarezmian Empire 1218 A Mongolian trade caravan including an ambassador was massacred by Inalchuq. Later on, a Muslim ambassador was beheaded on orders of Sultan Muhammad II
Ambassadors of Hulagu Khan 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[3]
Egypt Mamluk Sultanate Sultan Qutuz put Hulagu's ambassador to death[4]
Ambassador of Timur Ambassador to the Mamluk Sultanate Damascus Mamluk Sultanate 1400 killed on orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun
Antonio Rincon French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Rivoli  Venice July 3, 1541 killed by Venetian Imperial Guard

Ange-Élisabeth-Louis-Antoine Bonnier		 French diplomat Rastatt  Hungary April 28, 1799 killed by Hungarian hussars
Thomas Edward Rowcroft British diplomat Lima  Peru December 7, 1824 killed by soldiers of Simón Bolívar (alleged)

Alexander Griboyedov		 Russian Ambassador to Persia Tehran  Persia February 11, 1829 killed by Iranian mob

Alexander Burnes		 Scottish diplomat Kabul Durrani Empire November 2, 1841 killed by Afghan mob

William Hay Macnaghten		 British diplomat Kabul Durrani Empire December 23, 1841 killed by Wazir Akbar Khan or under his orders
Walter Plowden British diplomat Gondar  Ethiopian Empire March 13, 1860 killed by a follower of Agew Niguse
Augustus Raymond Margary British diplomat Tengyue  China February 21, 1875 unknown

Clemens von Ketteler		 German Ambassador to China Beijing  China June 20, 1900 killed by Boxer rebel
Grigoriy Schterbina Russian diplomat to Turkey Mitrovica  Ottoman Empire April 10, 1903 killed by Albanian corporal
William Horwood Stuart United States Vice Consul to Georgia Batum  Russian Empire May 20, 1906 unknown

Wilhelm von Mirbach		 German Ambassador to Russia Moscow  Russian SFSR June 6, 1918 killed by Left Socialist Revolutionaries

Walther Rathenau		 German Foreign Minister Berlin  Weimar Republic June 24, 1922 killed by the Organisation Consul

Vatslav Vorovsky		 Soviet Representative to Italy Lausanne   Switzerland May 10, 1923 killed by Maurice Conradi

Rayko Daskalov		 Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia Prague  Czechoslovakia August 23, 1923 killed by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

Pyotr Voykov		 Soviet Ambassador to Poland Warsaw  Poland June 7, 1927 killed by Boris Kowerda

Ceno bej Kryeziu		 Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Prague  Czechoslovakia July 26, 1927 killed by Alkibijad Bebi

Ernst vom Rath		 Secretary of the German Embassy to France Paris  France November 9, 1938 killed by Herschel Grynszpan

Henry W. Antheil Jr.		 American diplomat Gulf of Finland  Finland June 14, 1940 airplane shot down by the Soviet Union

Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne		 British Minister-Resident for the Middle East Cairo  Egypt November 6, 1944 killed by Lehi

Thomas C. Wasson		 United States Consul General in Jerusalem Jerusalem  Israel May 23, 1948 unknown

Folke Bernadotte		 United Nations Mediator in Palestine Jerusalem  Israel September 17, 1948 killed by Lehi

Henry Gurney		 United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya Fraser's Hill  Malaya October 6, 1951 killed by 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 Mein		 United States Ambassador to Guatemala Guatemala City  Guatemala August 28, 1968 killed by Rebel Armed Forces
Karl von Spreti West German Ambassador to Guatemala Guatemala City  Guatemala May 4, 1970 killed by Rebel Armed Forces
Vladimir RolovićYugoslav Ambassador to SwedenStockholm SwedenApril 15, 1971killed by Croatian National Resistance
Joaquin Zenteno AnayaBolivian Ambassador to FranceParis FranceApril 15, 1971killed by Hugo Banzer regime
Marcel DupretBelgian Ambassador to MoroccoSkhirat MoroccoJuly 10, 1971killed by insurgents during a coup d'état attempt[5]

Germain Mba		Gabonese Ambassador to JapanLibreville GabonNovember 5, 1971killed by African mercenaries led by Bob Denard
Mehmet BaydarTurkish Consul General to the Western United States Santa Barbara  United States January 27, 1973 killed by Gourgen Yanikian
Bahadır DemirTurkish Vice Consul General to the Western United States
Guy EidBelgian Chargé d'Affaires to Sudan Khartoum  Sudan March 2, 1973 killed by Black September
George Curtis MooreInterim United States Chargé d'Affaires to Sudan
Cleo A. Noel, Jr.United States Ambassador to Sudan
Rodger DaviesUnited States Ambassador to CyprusNicosia CyprusAugust 19, 1974killed by EOKA B
Daniş TunalıgilTurkish Ambassador to AustriaVienna AustriaOctober 11, 1975killed by Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
İsmail ErezTurkish Ambassador to FranceParis FranceOctober 24, 1975killed by Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
Christopher Ewart-BiggsUnited Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of IrelandDublin IrelandJune 21, 1976killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army
Carlos AbdalaUruguayan Ambassador to ParaguayAsunción ParaguayNovember 5, 1976killed by Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood
Francis E. Meloy, Jr.United States Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon June 16, 1976 killed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Robert O. WaringAmerican diplomat
Taha CarımTurkish Ambassador to Holy SeeRome ItalyJune 9, 1977killed by Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide

Héctor Hidalgo Solá		Argentine Ambassador to VenezuelaBuenos Aires ArgentinaJuly 17, 1977 (disappearance)unknown
Said HammamiPalestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United KingdomLondon United KingdomJanuary 4, 1978killed by Abu Nidal Organization (alleged)

Elena Holmberg		Functionary of the Argentine Embassy to FranceTigre ArgentinaDecember 20, 1978 (disappearance)killed by National Reorganization Process (alleged)
Adolph DubsUnited States Ambassador to AfghanistanKabul AfghanistanFebruary 14, 1979killed by Settam-e-Melli (alleged)
Richard SykesUnited Kingdom Ambassador to the NetherlandsThe Hague NetherlandsMarch 22, 1979killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army
Gottfried LessingEast German Ambassador to UgandaKampala UgandaApril 11, 1979killed by the Uganda National Liberation Front
Archibald Gardner Dunn South African Ambassador to El Salvador San Salvador  El Salvador October 8, 1980 killed by Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí
Şarık Arıyak Turkish General Consul to Australia Dover Heights  Australia December 17, 1980 killed by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Louis Delamare French Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon September 5, 1981 killed by pro-Iranian hitmen
Abdul Razzak Lafta Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon December 15, 1981 killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party
Kemal ArıkanTurkish Consul General to the Western United StatesLos Angeles United StatesJanuary 28, 1982killed by Harry Sassounian and Krikor Saliba
Orhan GündüzTurkish Honorary ConsulSomerville United StatesMay 4, 1982killed by a gunman, claimed by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Shlomo ArgovIsraeli Ambassador to the United KingdomLondon United KingdomFebruary 24, 2003
(shot on June 3, 1982)		killed by Abu Nidal Organization
Erkut AkbayTurkish Administrative Attaché to PortugalLisbon PortugalJune 7, 1982killed by a gunman, claimed by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Galip BalkarTurkish Ambassador to YugoslaviaBelgrade YugoslaviaMarch 9, 1983killed by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Dursun AksoyTurkish Administrative Attaché to BelgiumBrussels BelgiumJuly 14, 1983killed by a gunman, claimed by both the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Lee Gye-cheol South Korean Ambassador to Burma Rangoon  Burma October 9, 1983 killed by North Korean agents
Ravindra Mhatre Indian Diplomat to the United Kingdom Birmingham  United Kingdom February 6, 1984 killed by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
Leamon Hunt Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers Rome  Italy February 15, 1984 killed by the Red Brigades
Arkady Katkov Soviet consular official to Lebanon unknown  Lebanon 1985 killed by captors
Saleh Mehdi Amash Iraqi Ambassador to Finland Helsinki  Finland January 30, 1985 killed by Baathist Iraqi agents
Gerold BraunmühlWest German AttachéBonn West GermanyOctober 10, 1986killed by the Red Army Faction (alleged)
William Nordeen American diplomat Athens  Greece June 28, 1988 killed by a car bomb claimed by the Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Pedro Manuel de Aristegui Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon April 16, 1989 killed by a rocket
Philippe Bernard French Ambassador to Zaire Kinshasa  Zaire January 28, 1993 killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers[6]
Choe Deok-geun South Korean consular official to the Russian Far East Vladivostok  Russia October 1, 1996 killed by North Korea (alleged)
Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica Kingston  Jamaica November 6, 1997 unknown[7]
Kassi Manlan World Health Organization Representative to Burundi Lake Tanganyika  Burundi November 20, 2001 killed by officials of Pierre Buyoya
Laurence Foley American diplomat Amman  Jordan October 28, 2002 killed by Salem bin Suweid and Yasser Freihat

Sérgio Vieira de Mello		 United Nations Special Representative for Iraq Baghdad  Iraq August 19, 2003 killed in the Canal Hotel bombing, claimed by Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
Roger Short British Consul General to Turkey Istanbul  Turkey November 20, 2003 killed by Al-Qaeda in a truck bombing
Michael Courtney Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi Bujumbura  Burundi December 29, 2003 killed by National Forces of Liberation
Ihab el-Sherif Egyptian ambassador to Iraq Baghdad  Egypt July 7, 2005 kidnaped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq
John Granville American diplomat Khartoum  Sudan January 1, 2008 killed by gunmen
Colonel Imam Consul-General of Pakistan Mir Ali  Pakistan January 23, 2011 killed by the Asian Tigers

J. Christopher Stevens		United States Ambassador to LibyaBenghazi LibyaSeptember 11, 2012killed by Ansar al-Sharia
Anne Smedinghoff American diplomat Qalati Ghilji  Afghanistan April 6, 2013 killed by a suicide bomber
Jamal al-Jamal Palestinian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Prague  Czech Republic January 1, 2014 killed by a bomb

Andrei Karlov		Russian Ambassador to TurkeyAnkara TurkeyDecember 19, 2016killed by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş

Kyriakos Amiridis		Greek Ambassador to BrazilNova Iguaçu BrazilDecember 26, 2016killed by Sérgio Moreira
Luca AttanasioItalian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the CongoGoma Democratic Republic of the CongoFebruary 22, 2021killed by unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt

References
  1. "US Ambassadors Killed in the Line of Duty". Associated Press. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  2. "How many U.S. Ambassadors have been killed by militants?". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State.
  3. Runciman 1987, p. 305.
  4. Runciman 1987, p. 311.
  5. "The World: Morocco: Bloody Birthday". Time. 19 July 1971. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  6. "French Envoy to Zaire Killed in a Shooting". Associated Press. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  7. "Venezuelan Ambassador Killed". Associated Press. 1997-11-06. Retrieved 2020-01-03.

Bibliography
  • Runciman, Steven (1987). A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521347723.
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