This is a list of assassinated serving ambassadors.[1] [2]
| Photo | 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 | 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 | 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 | On orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun | |||
| Antonio Rincon | French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire | Rivoli | Venetian Imperial Guard | ||||
| Alexander Griboyedov | Russian Ambassador to Persia | Tehran | Iranian mob | ||||
| Clemens von Ketteler | German Ambassador to China | Beijing |  China | Boxer rebel | |||
| Wilhelm von Mirbach | German Ambassador to Russia | Moscow | Left Socialist Revolutionaries | ||||
| Vatslav Vorovsky | Soviet Representative to Italy | Lausanne |  Switzerland | Maurice Conradi | |||
| Rayko Daskalov | Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia | Prague | Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization | ||||
| Pyotr Voykov | Soviet Ambassador to Poland | Warsaw |  Poland | Boris Kowerda | |||
| Ceno bej Kryeziu | Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | Prague | Alkibijad Bebi | ||||
| Henry Gurney | United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya | Fraser's Hill | Members of the Malayan Communist Party | ||||
| Kokkat Sankara Pillai | First Secretary in High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada |  Canada | April 19, 1961 | Killed by a mentally unstable Yugoslav immigrant to Canada | |||
| John Gordon Mein | United States Ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City |  Guatemala | Rebel Armed Forces | |||
| Karl von Spreti | West German Ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Rebel Armed Forces | |||
| Vladimir Rolović | Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden | Stockholm |  Sweden | Croatian National Resistance | |||
| Joaquin Zenteno Anaya | Bolivian Ambassador to France | Paris |  France | Hugo Banzer regime | |||
| Marcel Dupret | Belgian Ambassador to Morocco | Skhirat |  Morocco | Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II[3] | |||
| Germain Mba | Gabonese Ambassador to Japan | Libreville |  Gabon | African mercenaries led by Bob Denard | |||
| Cleo A. Noel, Jr. | United States Ambassador to Sudan | Khartoum |  Sudan | Black September | |||
| Rodger Davies | United States Ambassador to Cyprus | Nicosia |  Cyprus | EOKA B | |||
| Daniş Tunalıgil | Turkish Ambassador to Austria | Vienna |  Austria | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |||
| İsmail Erez | Turkish Ambassador to France | Paris | France | Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia | |||
| Christopher Ewart-Biggs | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland | Dublin |  Ireland | Provisional Irish Republican Army | |||
| Carlos Abdala | Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay | Asunción |  Paraguay | Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood | |||
| Francis E. Meloy, Jr. | United States Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut |  Lebanon | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | |||
| Taha Carım | Turkish Ambassador to Holy See | Rome |  Italy | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |||
| Héctor Hidalgo Solá | Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela | Buenos Aires |  Argentina | (disappearance) | unknown | ||
| Mario García Incháustegui | Cuban Ambassador to Japan | Kuala Lumpur |  Malaysia | ||||
| Said Hammami | Palestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United Kingdom | London |  United Kingdom | Abu Nidal Organization (alleged) | |||
| Adolph Dubs | United States Ambassador to Afghanistan | Kabul | Settam-e-Melli (alleged) | ||||
| Richard Sykes | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands | The Hague |  Netherlands | Provisional Irish Republican Army | |||
| Gottfried Lessing | East German Ambassador to Uganda | Kampala |  Uganda | Uganda National Liberation Front | |||
| Archibald Gardner Dunn | South African Ambassador to El Salvador | San Salvador |  El Salvador | Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí | |||
| Louis Delamare | French Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon | Pro-Syrian militants | |||
| Domingo Garcia Rodriguez | Cuban Ambassador to Egypt | Cairo |  Egypt | ||||
| Abdul Razzak Lafta | Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon | killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party | |||
| Shlomo Argov | Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | (shot on) | Abu Nidal Organization | ||
| Galip Balkar | Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | ||||
| Lee Gye-cheol | South Korean Ambassador to Burma | Rangoon | 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 | Abu Nidal Organization | |||
| Salih Mahdi Ammash | Iraqi Ambassador to Finland | Helsinki |  Finland | Baathist Iraqi agents | |||
| Pedro Manuel de Aristegui | Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon | killed by a rocket | |||
| Philippe Bernard | French Ambassador to Zaire | killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers[4] | |||||
| Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch | Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica | Kingston |  Jamaica | unknown[5] | |||
| Michael Courtney | Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi | Bujumbura | National Forces of Liberation | ||||
| Ihab el-Sherif | Egyptian ambassador to Iraq | kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq | |||||
| J. Christopher Stevens | United States Ambassador to Libya | Benghazi |  Libya | Ansar al-Sharia | |||
| Jamal al-Jamal | Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia | Prague | killed by a bomb | ||||
| Andrei Karlov | Russian Ambassador to Turkey | Ankara |  Turkey | Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş | |||
| Kyriakos Amiridis | Greek Ambassador to Brazil | Nova Iguaçu |  Brazil | Sérgio Moreira | |||
| Luca Attanasio | Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Goma | unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt |