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. 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[3]
Egypt
Mamluk Sultanate		 Sultan Qutuz[4]
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 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 RolovićYugoslav Ambassador to SwedenStockholm SwedenApril 15, 1971Croatian National Resistance
Joaquin Zenteno AnayaBolivian Ambassador to FranceParis FranceApril 15, 1971Hugo Banzer regime
Marcel DupretBelgian Ambassador to MoroccoSkhirat MoroccoJuly 10, 1971Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II[5]

Germain Mba		Gabonese Ambassador to JapanLibreville GabonNovember 5, 1971African mercenaries led by Bob Denard
Cleo A. Noel, Jr.United States Ambassador to Sudan Khartoum  Sudan March 2, 1973 Black September
Rodger DaviesUnited States Ambassador to CyprusNicosia CyprusAugust 19, 1974EOKA B

Daniş Tunalıgil		Turkish Ambassador to AustriaVienna AustriaOctober 11, 1975Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
İsmail ErezTurkish Ambassador to FranceParis FranceOctober 24, 1975Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
Christopher Ewart-BiggsUnited Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of IrelandDublin IrelandJune 21, 1976Provisional Irish Republican Army
Carlos AbdalaUruguayan Ambassador to ParaguayAsunción ParaguayNovember 5, 1976Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood
Francis E. Meloy, Jr.United States Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon June 16, 1976 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Taha CarımTurkish Ambassador to Holy SeeRome ItalyJune 9, 1977Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide

Héctor Hidalgo Solá		Argentine Ambassador to VenezuelaBuenos Aires ArgentinaJuly 17, 1977 (disappearance)unknown
Mario García IncháusteguiCuban Ambassador to JapanKuala Lumpur MalaysiaDecember 4, 1977killed in the deliberate crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653
Said HammamiPalestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United KingdomLondon United KingdomJanuary 4, 1978Abu Nidal Organization (alleged)

Adolph Dubs		United States Ambassador to AfghanistanKabul AfghanistanFebruary 14, 1979Settam-e-Melli (alleged)
Richard SykesUnited Kingdom Ambassador to the NetherlandsThe Hague NetherlandsMarch 22, 1979Provisional Irish Republican Army
Gottfried LessingEast German Ambassador to UgandaKampala UgandaApril 11, 1979Uganda 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
Louis Delamare French Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon September 5, 1981 pro-Iranian hitmen
Domingo Garcia Rodriguez Cuban Ambassador to Egypt Cairo  Egypt October 6, 1981 Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Abdul Razzak Lafta Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut  Lebanon December 15, 1981 killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party
Shlomo ArgovIsraeli Ambassador to the United KingdomLondon United KingdomFebruary 24, 2003
(shot on June 3, 1982)		Abu Nidal Organization
Galip BalkarTurkish Ambassador to YugoslaviaBelgrade YugoslaviaMarch 9, 1983Justice 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
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]
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 kidnaped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq

J. Christopher Stevens		United States Ambassador to LibyaBenghazi LibyaSeptember 11, 2012Ansar al-Sharia
Jamal al-Jamal Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia Prague  Czechia January 1, 2014 killed by a bomb

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

Kyriakos Amiridis		Greek Ambassador to BrazilNova Iguaçu BrazilDecember 26, 2016Sérgio Moreira

Luca Attanasio		Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the CongoGoma Democratic Republic of the CongoFebruary 22, 2021unknown 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. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
  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". The New York Times. 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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