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Official death toll, may have been higher 1,500–2,500 1871 Peshtigo Fire: Wildfire: Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Fatalities estimated; most deaths in one fire in U.S. history 1,500 1896 1896 Eastern North America heat wave: Heat wave: Northeastern United States, Midwestern United States: Fatalities estimated 1,173 1943 ...
General. List of accidents and disasters by death toll. List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. List of famines, not included in natural disasters as some of them are at least partially anthropogenic.
Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period ...
EventYearsLocationDisease1350 BC plague of Megiddoc. 1350 BCMegiddo, land of CanaanAmarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of ...Hittite Plague /"Hand of Nergal"c. 1330 BCNear East, Hittite Empire, Alashiya, ...Unknown, possibly Tularemia. Mentioned in ...430–426 BCGreece, Libya, Egypt, EthiopiaUnknown, possibly typhus, typhoid fever ...412 BCGreece ( Northern Greece, Roman Republic ...Unknown, possibly influenzaThere have been reported 7,049,617 (updated 6 June 2024) confirmed COVID-induced deaths worldwide. As of January 2023, taking into account likely COVID induced deaths via excess deaths, the 95% confidence interval suggests the pandemic to have caused between 16 and 28.2 million deaths.
Death toll estimates for some of the deadliest wars. This is a list of events that have caused a measurable drop in the total human population. The list covers the name of the event, location and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category.
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
In mid-October 2020, the CDC correctly projected the death toll would reach 230,000–250,000 by mid-November. In mid-February 2021, when the death toll had already reached 470,000, the IHME projected that the death toll would reach 600,000 by June 1.
