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Ambassador
Post
Place
Country
Date of death
Killed by
Envoys of Xerxes I
Persian envoys to Sparta
Sparta
Sparta
481 B.C.
Leonidas I
Gaius Fulcinius
Roman envoys to Fidenae
Fidenae
Roman Republic
438 B.C.
On orders of Lars Tolumnius
Lucius Roscius
Spurius Antius
Tullus Cloelius
Ambassadors of Genghis Khan
Mongol ambassadors to the Khwarezmian Empire
Otrar /Urgench
Khwarezmian Empire
1218
A Mongolian trade caravan including ambassadors was massacred by Inalchuq . Later on, a Muslim ambassador was beheaded on orders of Sultan Muhammad II
Ambassadors of Hulagu Khan
Mongol 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
Egypt
Mamluk Sultanate
Sultan Qutuz
Ambassador of Timur
Timurid ambassador to the Mamluk Sultanate
Damascus
Mamluk Sultanate
1400
On orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun
Antonio Rincon
French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
Rivoli
Venice
July 3, 1541
Venetian Imperial Guard
Alexander Griboyedov
Russian Ambassador to Persia
Tehran
Persia
February 11, 1829
Iranian mob
Clemens von Ketteler
German Ambassador to China
Beijing
China
June 20, 1900
Boxer rebel
Wilhelm von Mirbach
German Ambassador to Russia
Moscow
Russian SFSR
June 6, 1918
Left Socialist Revolutionaries
Vatslav Vorovsky
Soviet Representative to Italy
Lausanne
Switzerland
May 10, 1923
Maurice Conradi
Rayko Daskalov
Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia
Prague
Czechoslovakia
August 23, 1923
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Pyotr Voykov
Soviet Ambassador to Poland
Warsaw
Poland
June 7, 1927
Boris Kowerda
Ceno bej Kryeziu
Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
Prague
Czechoslovakia
July 26, 1927
Alkibijad Bebi
Henry Gurney
United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya
Fraser's Hill
Malaya
October 6, 1951
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 Gordon Mein
United States Ambassador to Guatemala
Guatemala City
Guatemala
August 28, 1968
Rebel Armed Forces
Karl von Spreti
West German Ambassador to Guatemala
Guatemala City
Guatemala
May 4, 1970
Rebel Armed Forces
Vladimir Rolović
Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden
Stockholm
Sweden
April 15, 1971
Croatian National Resistance
Joaquin Zenteno Anaya
Bolivian Ambassador to France
Paris
France
April 15, 1971
Hugo Banzer regime[citation needed ]
Marcel Dupret
Belgian Ambassador to Morocco
Skhirat
Morocco
July 10, 1971
Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II [ 5]
Germain Mba
Gabonese Ambassador to Japan
Libreville
Gabon
November 5, 1971
African mercenaries led by Bob Denard [citation needed ]
Cleo A. Noel, Jr.
United States Ambassador to Sudan
Khartoum
Sudan
March 2, 1973
Black September
Rodger Davies
United States Ambassador to Cyprus
Nicosia
Cyprus
August 19, 1974
EOKA B
Daniş Tunalıgil
Turkish Ambassador to Austria
Vienna
Austria
October 11, 1975
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
İsmail Erez
Turkish Ambassador to France
Paris
France
October 24, 1975
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
Christopher Ewart-Biggs
United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
Dublin
Ireland
June 21, 1976
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Carlos Abdala
Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay
Asunción
Paraguay
November 5, 1976
Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood
Francis E. Meloy, Jr.
United States Ambassador to Lebanon
Beirut
Lebanon
June 16, 1976
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Taha Carım
Turkish Ambassador to Holy See
Rome
Italy
June 9, 1977
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Héctor Hidalgo Solá
Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela
Buenos Aires
Argentina
July 17, 1977 (disappearance)
unknown
Mario García Incháustegui
Cuban Ambassador to Japan
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
December 4, 1977
killed in the deliberate crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653
Said Hammami
Palestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United Kingdom
London
United Kingdom
January 4, 1978
Abu Nidal Organization (alleged)
Adolph Dubs
United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
Kabul
Afghanistan
February 14, 1979
Settam-e-Melli (alleged)
Richard Sykes
United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands
The Hague
Netherlands
March 22, 1979
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Gottfried Lessing
East German Ambassador to Uganda
Kampala
Uganda
April 11, 1979
Uganda National Liberation Front
Archibald Gardner Dunn
South African Ambassador to El Salvador
San Salvador
El Salvador
October 8, 1980
Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí [citation needed ]
Louis Delamare
French Ambassador to Lebanon
Beirut
Lebanon
September 5, 1981
Pro-Syrian militants[citation needed ]
Domingo Garcia Rodriguez
Cuban Ambassador to Egypt
Cairo
Egypt
October 6, 1981
Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat [citation needed ]
Abdul Razzak Lafta
Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon
Beirut
Lebanon
December 15, 1981
killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party
Shlomo Argov
Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
London
United Kingdom
February 24, 2003 (shot on June 3, 1982 )
Abu Nidal Organization
Galip Balkar
Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
March 9, 1983
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Lee Gye-cheol
South Korean Ambassador to Burma
Rangoon
Burma
October 9, 1983
North Korean agents as part of an assassination plot against visiting South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan
Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak
Emirati Ambassador to France
Paris
United Arab Emirates
February 8, 1984
Abu Nidal Organization
Salih Mahdi Ammash
Iraqi Ambassador to Finland
Helsinki
Finland
January 30, 1985
Baathist Iraqi agents[citation needed ]
Pedro Manuel de Aristegui
Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon
Beirut
Lebanon
April 16, 1989
killed by a rocket[citation needed ]
Philippe Bernard
French Ambassador to Zaire
Kinshasa
Zaire
January 28, 1993
killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers[ 6]
Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch
Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica
Kingston
Jamaica
November 6, 1997
unknown[ 7]
Michael Courtney
Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi
Bujumbura
Burundi
December 29, 2003
National Forces of Liberation
Ihab el-Sherif
Egyptian ambassador to Iraq
Baghdad
Iraq
July 7, 2005
kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq
J. Christopher Stevens
United States Ambassador to Libya
Benghazi
Libya
September 11, 2012
Ansar al-Sharia
Jamal al-Jamal
Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia
Prague
Czechia
January 1, 2014
killed by a bomb
Andrei Karlov
Russian Ambassador to Turkey
Ankara
Turkey
December 19, 2016
Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş
Kyriakos Amiridis
Greek Ambassador to Brazil
Nova Iguaçu
Brazil
December 26, 2016
Sérgio Moreira
Luca Attanasio
Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Goma
Democratic Republic of the Congo
February 22, 2021
unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt