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Database reports/Recent deaths. This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 19:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC). This list is automatically generated ...
Incident. 20,000. 30 May 1626. Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China, in the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory, destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people [1] 3,000. 18 August 1769. A lightning bolt caused the Brescia Explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia, Italy, destroying one-sixth of the city [2][3]
Life as the main story: For deaths where the person's life is the main story, where the news reporting of the death consists solely of obituaries, or where the update to the article in question is merely a statement of the time and cause of death, the "recent deaths" section is usually used. Death as the main story: For deaths where the cause ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hezbollah conflict. 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes. Over 492 people are killed and 1,645 others are wounded as the Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah, the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War.
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
Veshkayma, Ulyanovsk Oblast. Russia. 3. 1. F. Ruslan Akhtyamov, 26. No. Suicide. The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties).
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
This first table gives a convenient overview of the general categories and broad causes. The leading cause is cardiovascular disease at 31.59% of all deaths. Rate of death by cause. Percent of all deaths. Category. Cause. Percent. Percent. I. Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders.