Ambassador Post Place Country Date of death Killed by Antonio Rincon French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Rivoli Venice July 3, 1541 killed by Venetian Imperial Guard Alexander Griboyedov Russian Ambassador to Persia Tehran Persia February 11, 1829 killed by Iranian mob Clemens von Ketteler German Ambassadors to China Beijing China June 20, 1900 killed by Boxer rebel Grigoriy Schterbina Russian diplomat to Turkey Kosovo Vilayet Ottoman Empire April 10, 1903 killed by Albanian corporal Wilhelm von Mirbach German Ambassador to Russia Moscow Russian SFSR June 6, 1918 killed by Left Socialist Revolutionaries Pyotr Voykov Soviet Ambassadors to Poland Warsaw Poland June 7, 1927 killed by Boris Kowerda Henry Gurney United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya Fraser's Hill Malaya October 6, 1951 killed by Malayan Communist Party John Mein United States Ambassador to Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemala August 28, 1968 killed by Rebel Armed Forces Karl von Spreti West German Ambassador to Guatemala May 4, 1970 Vladimir Rolović Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden Stockholm Sweden April 15, 1971 killed by Croatian National Resistance Joaquin Zenteno Anaya Bolivian Ambassador to France Paris France April 15, 1971 killed by Hugo Banzer regime Germain Mba Gabonese Ambassador to Japan Libreville Gabon November 5, 1971 killed by African mercenaries led by Bob Denard Cleo Noel United States Ambassador to Sudan Khartoum Sudan February 3, 1973 killed by Black September Rodger Davies United States Ambassador to Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus August 19, 1974 killed by EOKA B İsmail Erez Turkish Ambassador to France Paris France October 24, 1975 killed by Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia Daniş Tunalıgil Turkish Ambassador to Austria Vienna Austria October 11, 1975 killed by Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide Christopher Ewart-Biggs United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland Dublin Ireland June 21, 1976 killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army Carlos Abdala Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay Asunción Paraguay November 5, 1976 killed by Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood Francis Meloy United States Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon June 16, 1976 killed by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Taha Carım Turkish Ambassador to Holy See Rome Italy June 9, 1977 killed by Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide Adolph Dubs United States Ambassador to Afghanistan Kabul Afghanistan February 14, 1979 killed by Settam-e-Melli Richard Sykes United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands Hague Netherlands March 22, 1979 killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army Archibald Gardner Dunn South African Ambassador to El Salvador San Salvador El Salvador October 8, 1980 killed by Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí Louis Delamare French Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon September 5, 1981 killed by Pro-Iranian hitmen Shlomo Argov Israel Ambassador to the United Kingdom London United Kingdom February 24, 2003 (Assassination June 3, 1982) killed by Abu Nidal Organization Galip Balkar Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia Belgrade Yugoslavia March 9, 1983 killed by Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide Lee Gye-cheol South Korean Ambassador to Burma Rangoon Burma October 9, 1983 killed by North Korean agents Saleh Mehdi Amash Iraqi Ambassador to Finland Helsinki Finland January 30, 1985 killed by Baathist Iraqi agents Arnold Raphel United States Ambassador to Pakistan Bahawalpur Pakistan August 17, 1988 plane crash 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 February 22, 1993 killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by soldiers[3] Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica Jamaica November 6, 1997 Shot and killed in his apartment[4] Michael Courtney Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi Bujumbura Burundi December 29, 2003 killed by National Forces of Liberation J. Christopher Stevens United States Ambassador to Libya Benghazi Libya September 11, 2012 killed by Ansar al-Sharia Jamal al-Jamal Palestinian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Prague Czech Republic January 1, 2014 killed by a bomb Andrei Karlov Russian Ambassador to Turkey Ankara Turkey December 19, 2016 killed by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş Kyriakos Amiridis Greek Ambassador to Brazil Nova Iguaçu Brazil December 26, 2016 killed by Sérgio Moreira Luca Attanasio Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo February 22, 2021 killed by unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt