List of paintings and drawings stolen in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft

This post is a list of paintings and drawings stolen in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft. The theft occurred in 1990 and the works have not been recovered as of 2025. In total 13 works were stolen, including 1 ancient instrument and 1 sculpture. There are 11 paintings / drawings listed below alphabetically. Source: Wikipedia

Chez Tortoni (1875) - Édouard Manet

The Concert (1664) - Johannes Vermeer

Cortege aux Environs de Florence (undated) - Edgar Degas

A Lady and Gentleman in Black (1633) - Rembrandt van Rijn

La Sortie de Pesage (undated) - Edgar Degas

Landscape with Obelisk (1638) - Govert Flinck

Program for an artistic soiree 1 (1884) - Edgar Degas

Program for an artistic soiree 2 (1884) - Edgar Degas

Self-Portrait (c. 1634) - Rembrandt van Rijn

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) - Rembrandt van Rijn

Three Mounted Jockeys (undated) - Edgar Degas

Top 20 deadliest famines

This post is a list of the top 15 deadliest famines. Source: Wikipedia

1. Great Chinese Famine: 15 - 55 million (1959-1961)
2. Chinese famine of 1906-1907: 20 - 25 million
3. Chalisa famine: 11 million (1783-1784)
4. Doji bara famine: 11 million (1789-1793)
5. Great Bengal Famine of 1770: 10 million
6. Northern Chinese famine of 1876-1879: 9 - 13 million
7. Great Famine of 1315-1317: 7.5 million
8. Deccan famine of 1630-1632: 7.4 million
9. Chinese famine of 1333-1337: 6 million
10. Great Indian Famine of 1876-1878: 5.5 million
11. Soviet famine of 1932-1933: 5 - 7 million
12. Russian famine of 1921-1922: 5 million
13. Chinese famine of 1928-1930: 3 - 10 million
14. Second Congo War: 2.7 million (1998-2004)
15. Java under Japanese occupation: 2.4 million (1944-1945)

Top 10 deadliest natural disasters (non-epidemic, non-famine)

This post is a list of the top 10 deadliest natural disasters by highest estimate (non-epidemic and non-famine). Source: Wikipedia

1. 1931 China floods: 4.0 million
2. 1887 Yellow River flood: 2.0 million
3. 1976 Tangshan earthquake: 650 thousand
4. 1970 Bhola cyclone: 500 thousand
5. 2010 Haiti earthquake: 310 thousand
6. 526 Antioch earthquake: 300 thousand
7. 1839 Coringa cyclone: 300 thousand
8. 1737 Calcutta cyclone: 300 thousand
9. 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: 273 thousand
10. 1139 Ganja earthquake: 230 thousand

Top 20 deadliest genocides

This post is a list of the top 20 deadliest genocides. Source: Wikipedia

1. The Holocaust: 5.1 - 7.0 million (1941-1945)
2. Holodomor: 3.0 - 5.0 million (1932-1933)
3. Cambodian genocide: 1.3 - 3.0 million (1975-1979)
4. Bangladesh genocide: 0.3 - 3.0 million (1971)
5. Circassian genocide: 1.0 - 2.0 million (1864-1867)
6. Armenian genocide: 0.6 - 1.5 million (1915-1917)
7. Siege of Leningrad: 1.0 million (1941-1944)
8. Albigensian Crusade: 0.2 - 1.0 million  (1209-1229)
9. Taíno genocide: 60 - 960 thousand (1492-1514)
10. Greek genocide / Pontic genocide: 300 - 900 thousand (1914-1922)
11. Rwandan genocide: 490 - 800 thousand (1994)
12. Sayfo: 200 - 750 thousand (1915-1919)
13. Genocide in Tigray: 160 - 600 thousand (2020-2022)
14. Dzungar genocide: 480 - 600 thousand (1755-1758)
15. Darfur genocide: 90 - 500 thousand (2003-2005)
16. Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush: 100 - 400 thousand (1944-1948)
17. Genocide of Acholi and Lango people: 100 - 300 thousand (1972-1978)
18. Ikiza: 80 - 300 thousand (1972)
19. Hamidian massacres: 200 - 300 thousand (1894-1896)
20. Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars: 120 - 270 thousand (1912-1913)

Top 20 wars by death toll

This post is a list of the top 20 wars by death toll. Source: Wikipedia

1. World War II: 70 - 85 million (1939-1945)
2. Mongol invasions and conquests: 20 - 60 million (1206-1368)
3. Three Kingdoms: 34 million (220 - 280 AD)
4. Taiping Rebellion: 20 - 30 million (1850-1864)
5. Manchu Conquest of China: 25 million (1618-1638)
6. World War I: 15 - 22 million (1914-1918)
7. Conquests of Timur: 7 - 20 million (1369-1405)
8. An Lushan Rebellion: 13 million (754 - 763 AD)
9. Spanish conquest of Mexico: 10 million (1519-1530)
10. Russian Civil War: 7- 10 million (1917-1922)
11. Chinese Civil War: 4 - 9 million (1927-1949)
12. Crusades: 1 - 9 million (1095-1291)
13. Thirty Years' War: 4 - 8 million (1618-1648)
14. Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: 7 million (1533-1572)
15. Reconquista: 7 million (718 - 1492 AD)
16. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 4 - 7 million (1792-1815)
17. Conquests of Menelik II: 6 million (1878-1904)
18. Second Congo War: 3 - 5 million (1998-2003)
19. Spanish conquest of New Granada: 5 million (1525-1540)
20. Deccan wars: 4 - 5 million (1680-1707)